2040 car ban

[Rogerborg]

[B5234FT]

40-50% is for long term storage, not a couple of days.

Lithium goes bad when its fully discharged, so the vehicle has a battery management system to prevent you ever doing this (just like lots of modern vehicles don't take well to being run out of fuel, some transits for instance will cough and splutter and then die artificially with fuel still in the tank to avoid owners running them dry)

It also doesnt like being repeatedly fully charged, which is why most chargers go to 80-85% by default.

A lot of the issues with fast charging I believe are temperature related and most of these cars have battery cooling systems.

It's funny when you get into it, that power/speed is a byproduct of charging. Electric car performance isnt driven by the motor specs, its driven by the maximum discharge rate of the battery. This in turn is driven by the number of cells, so the teslas with greater range have more performance and take less time to charge per kWh

[Codezombie]

[chickenstrip]

Batteries? Hydrogen? Myself, I'm waiting for the quantum transport system

Sorry, been watching too much BBC4
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[M.C]

Solar roads? https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b090f9df/click-what-happens-in-vegas Didn't we do this (solar roadways)?

Edit: on topic as they go onto driverless cars.

[ThatDippyTwat]

EEVblog on Youtube happily debunks several Solar Roadways, and the marketing wank they come out with.
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[thx1138]

We might all end up owning what are basically slot cars on a giant Scalextric set with little input into what happens.

[Ste]

Why would you want to own one when there'll be Uber self driving cars? They could operate in a way similar to Boris Bikes; when book an Uber one will arrive from the nearest charging point and once it's delivered to you your destination then it'll calculate which charging point it should go and wait at.

You could get a discounted price if you're happy for the car to be picking up and delivering other people on a similar route.

Reducing the number of vehicles on the roads would have the largest impact on pollutions. It's about efficiency. For loads of people their car is just for the simplest way of getting from A to B so people don't need to own the car used for those journeys.

People driving their own cars would know that every single self driving Uber car has the same 'driver' as they'd use exactly the same calculations / algorithms / Skynet.

[M.C]

[linuxyeti]

[Rogerborg]

[linuxyeti]

[Rogerborg]

Recycling, very ecomental.
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