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Off-peak charging is a very good point. I hadn't considered that. But do we have sufficient off-peak energy available? I mean, are we not already offsetting peak usage to some degree with things like 'pumped hydroelectric energy storage'. And incentives such as 'Economy 7', for electricity consumers to use off-peak electricity for storage heaters, etc, must go some way towards balancing the demand. No doubt smart charging systems could take advantage of any remaining dips in demand and store the energy for later use, but will that really be enough? There's also storage efficiency to bear in mind. I don't know how efficient the latest energy storage systems are, but there will always be energy losses in the charging/discharging stages. I would be surprised if they manage any better than around 60-80% efficiency. The BBC news article about the National Grid capacity is the newest info I could find (with just a quick search) but has the notable downward trend really been reversed in recent years? I suppose the switch to technologies such as LED lighting, for example, will have had some positive effects, but is that enough to offset our increasing use of technology and the energy needed to power it? I'm very much pro-EV and I really do hope that we can 'make room' for EV charging by making use of off-peak electricity and reducing energy demands in other areas but how do the figures stack up? It would certainly be interesting to see a 5/10 year projection, comparing EV growth and energy requirements vs the available/surplus electrical energy capacity. I'm confident we can solve all the technical challenges over time, I'm just not sure we can solve them quickly enough to make the leap from ICE to EV as quickly as we perhaps need to, but I remain open to persuasion if there's good evidence to indicate that we have sufficient surplus electrical energy to accommodate the huge demand of charging millions of EVs. In the absence of such evidence my money would still be on hybrid vehicles continuing to bridge the gap in the short-term. I think one way forward might be hybrid vehicles that use small combustion engines purely to charge the batteries. I drove a brand new Prius recently and I was actually quite surprised how good they are. Ugliness and mini-cab associations aside, they do drive well and, with the help of regenerative braking, they're extremely efficient. The Prius of course sits half way between being an ICE car and and EV, with a small engine supplementing the electric motor and making up for the lack of battery range. They have some of the advantages of both ICE cars and EVs but most of the disadvantages too. I think it would be better to go full-EV (like the Teslas) but provide a small on-board generator for charging the batteries instead of an engine. Such a generator could run on fuels that are much more environmentally-friendly and it could even be made removable/optional. One way to give the vehicle wider appeal would be to use a removable, modular battery section. If you had say 20% of the battery that was removable, which could be replaced with a generator for those that need/want to be able to charge their batteries on the move. Anyone who doesn't need/want the generator could instead remove it and plug in the battery extension for a greater range.
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I hadn't actually done the maths and I was thinking 450KW would probably be enough to charge many cars simultaneously. Still, it should be sufficient to charge a few cars simultaneously at slower charging rates. I don't know what the charging rate of a typical EV is but, if we take a Tesla P100D, for example, which I believe has a 100kWh battery pack, it would take 100kW of energy for one hour to fully recharge it. Assuming a 400 volt battery pack, that's a 'mere' 250 amps! Of course if you want to charge the same battery in 15 minutes (do any EVs charge that fast yet?) that would be 400kW @ 1000 amps! At the other end of the scale, if my maths is correct, you could charge the same battery pack overnight (say 10 hours) using 10kW @ 25 amps, which would theoretically allow simultaneous charging of 45 cars from a 450kW supply.
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Mark ------------------------------------------------------ 2002 FE S8 Ebony Black Pearl ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Cars Owned: The Tesla Era: 2020 Model S Performance Ludicrous+ (present) (Black, with all black premium interior and carbon fibre décor, 21" sonic carbon twin turbine wheels and FSD capability) The Audi Era: '97 A8 4.2 (Ming Blue) --> '96 A8 4.2 QS (Dark Green) --> '02 FE S8 (present) The Citroen Era: '84 BX 1.6 RS --> '89 BX 1.9 DTR Turbo --> '94 XM 2.0L Turbo --> '96 XM 2.0L Turbo Exclusive --> '00 Xantia Activa 2.0L Turbo The Banger Era: '76 1.2L Lada VAZ-2101 (Ruski Fiat 124) --> '80 1.7L Morris Ital HL, finished in Ermine White and Rust Last edited by moltuae; 12th February 2019 at 04:55 PM. |
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I know I am a Luddite when it comes to EVs, and this kinda sums it up for me
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/ele...wkaAomfvkplIBU How can they build something as lovely as that and ruin it by not fitting the V8 in it..we live in sad times indeed IMHO. If I ever have grandkids (unlikely really) they will never experience the raw noise of a V12, V10 or V8 and I think that's rather sad. (just away to find my flameproof suit)
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That doesn't make me particularly happy either as an individual who loves his V8 (more than steam trains ) but progress is progress, and I love my Tesla just as much as my stunningly lovely S8, and - on balance - it is better at what it's supposed to do.
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The 450KW is a single charger for a single vehicle https://www.electrive.com/2018/12/13...ing-at-450-kw/
At 450KW they can give 60 miles range in 3 minutes, which is a game changer for long journeys. Stop for a coffee for ten minutes and you have another 200 miles of range. Given the infrastructure required to do this I expect we will see a hybrid approach where these things only exist at motorway services where there is room for the kit, and charging at home is done overnight at lower rates. |
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ah that's where we disagree, it's not quite there yet
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That vill no safe you. Ve knowing whoe the Manchester Bunker ist!!
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For me it's not just the sound. It's the power, the science, the engineering achievement and the thought of all those precisely machined parts moving in perfect harmony, at an incredible rate. And it's the awe I feel from seeing all of that in an engine large enough to accelerate a great deal of weight very quickly. But I get all of that by experiencing a powerful EV too, just in a very different way. As the electricity rushes into those powerful motors and they urgently whir into life, rapidly accelerating the car with such force, it's still a thrilling sound to hear. The moving parts are fewer but I feel a similar sense of awe and achievement thinking about the electronics and computations that are making it all happen (but I'm an electronics engineer so maybe that's just me). What I'm trying to say is that one does not replace the other for me. I like big engines and fast EVs for similar, yet quite different, reasons. And I don't think your grandkids or mine (even less likely since I don't even kids!) wouldn't really need to miss out on the V8/10/12 experience. They may never know what it's like to drive one on a daily basis but I suspect there will always be plenty of combustion-engined vehicles preserved for posterity. As Stephen implies, our V8/10/12s are the steam trains of the future, and steam trains have never really gone away (not for me anyway; I live less than a mile from the East Lancs steam railway so I hear them most days!). And personally, in much the same way, I find a modern high-speed train just as thrilling to watch as an old powerful steam locomotive.
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Mark ------------------------------------------------------ 2002 FE S8 Ebony Black Pearl ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Cars Owned: The Tesla Era: 2020 Model S Performance Ludicrous+ (present) (Black, with all black premium interior and carbon fibre décor, 21" sonic carbon twin turbine wheels and FSD capability) The Audi Era: '97 A8 4.2 (Ming Blue) --> '96 A8 4.2 QS (Dark Green) --> '02 FE S8 (present) The Citroen Era: '84 BX 1.6 RS --> '89 BX 1.9 DTR Turbo --> '94 XM 2.0L Turbo --> '96 XM 2.0L Turbo Exclusive --> '00 Xantia Activa 2.0L Turbo The Banger Era: '76 1.2L Lada VAZ-2101 (Ruski Fiat 124) --> '80 1.7L Morris Ital HL, finished in Ermine White and Rust Last edited by moltuae; 12th February 2019 at 09:22 PM. |
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Tesla might need to put longer cords on their chargers
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Does anyone know if the cable is giving out DC or AC?
Is the charger (AC-DC) in the car itself or in the lectern box? It doesn't matter if there is not enough wind or sun, there is an acre of row upon row of diesel generators at a secret location near me run by https://www.greenfrogpower.co.uk/maintenance powering the EV hargers. |
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