| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:16 - Apr 13 with 3438 views | Clapham_Junction |
South Korea built something like this about five years ago, but the charging was done wirelessly via a magnetic field. |  | |  |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:18 - Apr 13 with 3432 views | No9 |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:16 - Apr 13 by Clapham_Junction |
South Korea built something like this about five years ago, but the charging was done wirelessly via a magnetic field. |
As does this one which the Swedes clainms is a world first & supersedes the overhead version which you may be referring to? |  | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:58 - Apr 13 with 3388 views | No9 |
That report is dated 2015 so there could be significant improvements? | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:14 - Apr 13 with 3379 views | Pendejo |
Where did they get that idea from?
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| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:15 - Apr 13 with 3375 views | No9 |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:14 - Apr 13 by Pendejo |
Where did they get that idea from?
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The clue is - No Overtaking | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:23 - Apr 13 with 3364 views | tcblue |
It's a cool concept but it isn't really needed with the way battery tech and charging ultracapacitors are coming on.
What IS needed, certainly in this country, is a decent charging network infrastructure. | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:24 - Apr 13 with 3359 views | No9 |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:23 - Apr 13 by tcblue |
It's a cool concept but it isn't really needed with the way battery tech and charging ultracapacitors are coming on.
What IS needed, certainly in this country, is a decent charging network infrastructure. |
& roads that don't shake lightweight vehicles to bits | | | |
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| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:27 - Apr 13 with 3355 views | BloomBlue |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:14 - Apr 13 by Pendejo |
Where did they get that idea from?
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That will be dangerous at the next corner you'll see one of those cars flying off into the air |  | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:41 - Apr 13 with 3345 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:23 - Apr 13 by tcblue |
It's a cool concept but it isn't really needed with the way battery tech and charging ultracapacitors are coming on.
What IS needed, certainly in this country, is a decent charging network infrastructure. |
Still need more range. We very briefly looked at the Passat estate recently. Fine for running round town, but you buy a big car for family runs to relatives, holidays etc. A 50 mile limit is pretty useless then and the underpowered petrol engine has crap economy. For us it would have been useless. Got a big diesel A6 instead. 50+ mpg compared to mid 30s. |  |
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| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:51 - Apr 13 with 3336 views | No9 |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:41 - Apr 13 by Swansea_Blue |
Still need more range. We very briefly looked at the Passat estate recently. Fine for running round town, but you buy a big car for family runs to relatives, holidays etc. A 50 mile limit is pretty useless then and the underpowered petrol engine has crap economy. For us it would have been useless. Got a big diesel A6 instead. 50+ mpg compared to mid 30s. |
If you do a lot of miles a diesel is still the best option. | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:55 - Apr 13 with 3323 views | tcblue |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:41 - Apr 13 by Swansea_Blue |
Still need more range. We very briefly looked at the Passat estate recently. Fine for running round town, but you buy a big car for family runs to relatives, holidays etc. A 50 mile limit is pretty useless then and the underpowered petrol engine has crap economy. For us it would have been useless. Got a big diesel A6 instead. 50+ mpg compared to mid 30s. |
Yeah, that's got maybe 5 year old battery tech in it, I'm afraid. Even the new ones. | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 19:46 - Apr 13 with 3268 views | No9 |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:55 - Apr 13 by tcblue |
Yeah, that's got maybe 5 year old battery tech in it, I'm afraid. Even the new ones. |
What about the claims being made by Teslar?
And how would the new energy systems being developed by Merc fit into the equation? | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 15:35 - Apr 15 with 3122 views | tcblue |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 19:46 - Apr 13 by No9 |
What about the claims being made by Teslar?
And how would the new energy systems being developed by Merc fit into the equation? |
Which claims? The one which I've seen - and it's an important one - is the battery efficiency at only 10% loss after 160,000 miles. | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 15:44 - Apr 15 with 3106 views | FrowsyArmLarry |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:51 - Apr 13 by No9 |
If you do a lot of miles a diesel is still the best option. |
I only do lots of short journeys now so switched from a diesel that did 50 real world mpg to a petrol that does 45 theoretical. Turns out that means 31 mpg in the real world.
The real reason for saying you need to do long runs in a diesel is that you need them to recycle the DPF. In reality the occasional motorway run sorts that out |  | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 15:50 - Apr 15 with 3096 views | FrowsyArmLarry |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 15:35 - Apr 15 by tcblue |
Which claims? The one which I've seen - and it's an important one - is the battery efficiency at only 10% loss after 160,000 miles. |
Is that at peak operating potential though I.e not letting the charge drop below 40%, not leaving the car unused for more than a couple of days, etc? | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:13 - Apr 15 with 3072 views | Clapham_Junction |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:18 - Apr 13 by No9 |
As does this one which the Swedes clainms is a world first & supersedes the overhead version which you may be referring to? |
That's not what the article implies from what I can work out. It reads as if it's a physical connection to an underground rail - ie how London trams used to be powered.
The S Korean version was not overhead wires (although that has been done in Sweden). It was a strip in the road that vehicles drove over to charge.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23603751 | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:20 - Apr 15 with 3059 views | Clapham_Junction |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:41 - Apr 13 by Swansea_Blue |
Still need more range. We very briefly looked at the Passat estate recently. Fine for running round town, but you buy a big car for family runs to relatives, holidays etc. A 50 mile limit is pretty useless then and the underpowered petrol engine has crap economy. For us it would have been useless. Got a big diesel A6 instead. 50+ mpg compared to mid 30s. |
The biggest flaw in the rollout of EVs was going down the recharging route, which cripples range in most cases. Had the battery replacement option been used, I think takeup would have been much faster, as (as long as enough replacement stations are built) range is effectively unlimited. | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:27 - Apr 15 with 3047 views | tcblue |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 15:50 - Apr 15 by FrowsyArmLarry |
Is that at peak operating potential though I.e not letting the charge drop below 40%, not leaving the car unused for more than a couple of days, etc? |
Both of those sound unlikely, although there's clearly optimal ways to extend battery life during charging cycles over time.
Source? | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:30 - Apr 15 with 3044 views | FrowsyArmLarry |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:27 - Apr 15 by tcblue |
Both of those sound unlikely, although there's clearly optimal ways to extend battery life during charging cycles over time.
Source? |
It was a question. That’s how it is for phones, but the technology in cars may now be more advanced than Lion. That’s what I was asking (yes I know I could google it but can’t be arsed) | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:58 - Apr 15 with 3009 views | tcblue |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:30 - Apr 15 by FrowsyArmLarry |
It was a question. That’s how it is for phones, but the technology in cars may now be more advanced than Lion. That’s what I was asking (yes I know I could google it but can’t be arsed) |
I lost my reply, I wrote a load of stuff but TL;DR version is, broadly yes, charging regularly and only up to 80% (unless you have a very long journey, so for normal daily use) is good for your EV batteries. | | | |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 17:15 - Apr 15 with 2991 views | FrowsyArmLarry |
| Swedens new 'electric' road on 16:58 - Apr 15 by tcblue |
I lost my reply, I wrote a load of stuff but TL;DR version is, broadly yes, charging regularly and only up to 80% (unless you have a very long journey, so for normal daily use) is good for your EV batteries. |
Lol, it’s bloody annoying when that happens. Keep meaning to do some reading about it as we only have 12 years of proper car sales left (which is just crazy IMO) | | | |
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