Oh you mean the original Nicola Tesla stuff, like wireless transmission of electricity?
Not just electricity.
All sorts of energies.
There is also something called āTesla coilsā capable of transmitting strong energy or frequency.
One solution to the quick charge problem might be a quick change station. When a car arrives in need of charging, exchange its battery with one that is fully charged and put the discharged battery on a slow chargerā¦like the stagecoach routes used to do with horses.
Something tells me that would need a fork lift
Oh, it would need more than that. It would require trained personnel to be present when batteries need exchanging. For a scheduled electric transport system, this would not be a problem. For a randomly accessible public system, it would require only raising the cost of services.
Yes, you could mechanize it, I suppose, then bubba will drive in carelessly and the plan gets blown up
All these things take time to implement. Even a system perfected now would take several years before these stations were in enough places
With current robot technology, it would be simple to have the driver park the car in a cubic space, have the robotics identify the car and reorient it into an exact position, remove the existing battery and install a fresh one. Then the driver can reenter the car and leave the premises.
I envision that someday battery replacement will as simple as removing an SD card and inserting another. The battery will be much larger and much heavier, but the shape and the position of the contacts will be similar. The methods of handling the battery and the vehicle will be automated.
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The advent of developing batteries using graphene shows a lot of promise that could eventually replace the current Lithium ones. IMO this is where itās headed and could be the answer to solving a lot of problems that using lithium presents currently.
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It has already been done by Tesla.
Couldnāt find the video link within 5 seconds, so here is the web page.
https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/videos/battery-swap-event
You need to take your āoutside the boxā thinking up a level. Battery changing will be like changing a wheel. You drive into a service location, the ārobotā finds the battery and swaps it. I donāt see it being any more difficult than driving into a car-wash. In fact with Teslaās autopilot all you may need to do is simply turn-up at the right building.
Hat to tell you this, pigs do not shit where they eat. Cows do, but not pigs.
Mike
ā¦and Iāve not yet seen a cow eat shit.
Maybe - but capacity isnāt .
When everyone gets home from work and plugs into their charge point the grid will collapse.
That may be true, Aseratis knows more about that than me. However, it wonāt happen overnight. Right now weāve got zillions of gasoline cars and a filling station at every corner. Changing that, even if a perfect battery powered car and battery charger were available today, would take several years or even longer.
I think not. The energy required to recharge a battery depends upon the amp/hour rating of the battery. For a vehicle designed to have a reasonable range of travel between charges, this may be significant, but likely not equal to the energy required to heat or cool the home itās parked at while being slow charged overnight. The grid capacity may need to be increased, but it can be supplemented by customer owned solar power chargers that work during daylight hours to charge stationary batteries that can be utilized either to charge the vehicle batteries at night or sell energy back to the grid (or perform both of those functions).
Exactly so. There is a tremendous amount of energy involved in personal automobile and commercial vehicle traffic. A full transition to electric replacement of all fossil fuel powered highway vehicles is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN EVER! Also bear in mind that the figures presented below are for highway vehicles only. They do not include aircraft, ships & boats, or trains.
This interactive graph shows the barrels of fuel consumed each DAY. Full transition to electric transportation would require equivalent energy stored in batteries (each day).
ā¦and do note that the numbers shown on the vertical scale are THOUSANDS OF BARRELS PER DAY. In other words, the consumption shown for 2018 for Motor Gasoline is 8980.57 meaning 8.98+ MILLION BARRELS of gasoline PER DAY. Each barrel is 44 gallons. So thatās a bit more than 395 MILLION GALLONS of gasoline PER DAY.
ā¦AND the electric energy input required to recharge all the batteries would be greater than the energy taken out of the batteries by operation of the vehicles.
This second graph shows the difference between the annual fuel consumption of various vehicles. Since it is a per vehicle rate and I have no earthly idea how many of each vehicle type is used per day, it demonstrates only the extremely poor efficiency of the vehicles that would be the most difficult to change over to electric only.
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10308
I think that making significant headway in replacing just the private vehicles with electric versions would take several decades, perhaps even a hundred years.
What I donāt understand is why no-one has invested in the technology to run I.C. vehicles on hydrogen which I understand is already possible by extracting the hydrogen from water
By the same token couldnāt we also run power plants that way?
I think the technology already exists but not something I know much abt
But there isnāt much money to make
LOL
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Years ago I read of an invention that provided gas mileage approaching 60 mpg from standard auto engines. It was supposedly bought by the oil companies for millions of dollars and then suppressed.
It is possible to run cars on hydrogen but extreme caution is required. (Do remember the Hindenburgā¦)
It is also possible to extract hydrogen from water. Methods may be expensive and slow to yield enough fuel to power a car without being massive.
Thereās a motorcycle that runs on water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV8rpumumxo&feature=emb_logo
So why not a car?
(Maybe the secret is polluted water. LOL)
All I see here is a motorcycle that is claimed to be running on water. With all the crap on that bike, thereās bound to be a way to hide the gasoline.
The only vehicles I know of that truly run on the power derived from water use steam engines, all of which require some other form of energy to make the steam.
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