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Gas is good 'til the very last drop. Your last gallon makes as much power as your first. Fill-ups take 60 seconds.
Now, if you've ever seen a gas station during rush hour. Lines can form. Imagine if all these cars were electric and took 30 MINUTES to Level-3 charge???
That's what I keep telling people, but they hear what they want to .
I have an alternative idea how to solve the reach/recharging problem of electric cars: developing a global modular battery format (similar to the way PC components have standardized formats) so that people simply exchange one or more battery modules at the "gas station" (e-station?), which stores hundreds of fully charged batteries. So a car x comes in and replaces, say, 5 modules for a recharge fee. The e-station then recharges them (ideally via solar panels) and a few hours later car z gets, say 3, of those modules.
Of course this requires car makers to place batteries at an easily accessible location of the car.
I wouldn't write the epitaph for the German car manufactures yet.
The big 3 in Germany will be working together to switch over from ICE to EV.
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The auto industry saw something historic happen this past week in Germany. In a rare act of unity, the leaders of the country’s big three Automakers; Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, and BMW CEO Harald Krüger, all agreed that the future of German auto is the electric car. Over the next decade, each CEO would be pushing their respective companies to shift and embrace the idea of an electrified fleet
Interesting, every other electric car is sold in China. More than 90% of those electric cars are from Chinese manufacturers, most of which I had never even heard of before ^^
If electric vehicles are the future, I wonder what that will mean for oil exporting countries like SA. In the West about 60-70% of the oil is used for transportation. Those countries could soon be in for some serious trouble, like within 15-20 years. They might literally be left sitting on their oil reserves. There is also an increasing war on plastics in some countries, like here in Portugal, not to mention increased and new types of recycling.
If electric vehicles are the future, I wonder what that will mean for oil exporting countries like SA. In the West about 60-70% of the oil is used for transportation. Those countries could soon be in for some serious trouble, like within 15-20 years. They might literally be left sitting on their oil reserves. There is also an increasing war on plastics in some countries, like here in Portugal, not to mention increased and new types of recycling.
That's when China swoops in and tries to steal SA's oil reserves, and US/Russia have to whoop ass.
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