EV 914 Options

[raynekat]

Looks a bit "Rube Goldberg-ish" to me, but creative for sure.

starting at 4:07 on the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY2RPSUyIrc

The guy on the EV skateboard is nuts!

[Spoke]

Interesting conversion. I thought he said it cost $20k with the batteries at $7300 were the most expensive. He mentioned the batteries are losing their capacity thus range is reduced from the initial range.

Electric vehicles will continue to grow in popularity especially when the price comes down closer to gas cars. The demand for EV will also increase if the price of gas goes up for a long period of time.

[Superhawk996]

Interesting conversion. I thought he said it cost $20k with the batteries at $7300 were the most expensive. He mentioned the batteries are losing their capacity thus range is reduced from the initial range.

Electric vehicles will continue to grow in popularity especially when the price comes down closer to gas cars. The demand for EV will also increase if the price of gas goes up for a long period of time.

All batteries will lose range as they age. No one has found the miracle chemistry yet.

However, very few are talking facts about what happens as the grid increasingly get loaded with EV's simultaneously as we move toward green energy grid that is not very good at producing energy during non day-light hours. Supply & demand curve applies to electricity as well.

There is speculation that the parked, charged EV's will serve as the load leveling mechanism. Modeling on the subject is incomplete at best. Consider the possibility that you wake in the morning to find EV has not fully charged due to load leveling. Then what? It's the EV equivalent of having had your gas tank siphoned. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)

We are already starting to see EV's get hammered with road use taxes since they are currently escaping gas taxes. To date that has been a free ride for EV owners but it is going to have to come to an end if EV's become the norm.

It will take EV's to do more than just come down to the price of conventional cars to increase demand. Consumers currently demand range and ease of topping off to a full charge in approximately 5 minutes. Fast Chargers can't even come close with current battery technology. Battery swaps are interesting but consumers are not accepting of this at the moment.

It's all very interesting with lots of cards in play for sure.

The market will decide in the end.