I'm a Model 3 reservation holder and finally drove a Model S. OMG EVs are so much more powerful. This whole range anxiety is poppycock. You wouldn't let your car run out of gas. I am just plugging my loaner in at night, like my cellphone. Way more convenient than trip to has station.
I have a bit of inside information for you Robert, Scandlines had a presentation about it at my school (studying to be a nautical officer in Sweden). The charging connection is made by a robotic arm that can compensate for any movement of the ship due to manoeuvring or seas and it makes the connection while the ship is still moving into position for mooring, they only have 5-9 minutes to charge so every second makes a difference, and if I remember correctly it was something like a 10-11kV but can't remember what amps it could pull. I have no memory of shore batteries being mentioned in the presentation I think it's just directly connected to the grid but I may be wrong. Here's a link to the project website sailwiththecurrent.com it got a bit of information on it (most of it in English as well) and you got two videos of the connection, one presentation and one of the actual thing being built and installed. Also the g at the end of Helsingborg is pronounced like J in Jake
Also Robert, the English name for Helsingör is Elsinore. Yes, the same Elsinore where Shakespeare's Hamlet lived, at Kronborg Castle. www.visitdenmark.com/north-zealand/attractions/kronborg-castle-home-shakespeares-hamlet
its not uncommon for large users to have their own substation. My friend works for a wind tunnel and they have their own substation and can use up to 1MW.
Not to blow smoke up anyone's a-hole but this show has gradually become my favourite on TH-cam. It is consistantly relevant, informative, well written and well presented. This sort of programme is exactly what TH-cam is all about. Keep up the good work!
I have been watching this show for over a year now and I am loving it. I subscribed when you had 65k... This episode was informative and very funny. Thank you Robert and team for this. Keep up the great work :)
I've been hearing about rechargeable Zinc air batteries for well over 20 years. The problem as always for Zinc has been its propensity to grow dendrites that disrupt the cell structure. NASA used Silver Zinc batteries on the Apollo program. The high energy density was essential because of the vast cost of getting mass into orbit, but the cycle life could be as low as 30 full cycles. The Lunar Rover used rechargable Silver Zinc cells, but there was no means of recharging them (becuase there was no need). Mike Corbin set a land speed record of 165mph in 1974 with a motorcycle powered by Silver Zinc batteries. The record stood for over 30 years. Silver Zinc is still used for space applications, like the Curiosity rover.
Paul Compton there is a bit of exploration into these again using a coat of graphene on the zinc plates to reduce the dendrites and increase surface area
Your welcome. I've been watching fully charged for a week now, snd I love it. I have subscribed and I am trying to watch the back episodes as much as possible. Great show, very informative, and energetic in presentation.
Alishah Noor you’re referring to the use of cobalt in batteries leading to wars and exploitation of children in the congo? I’d say that the replacement of cobalt with LiFePO4 has taken that out of the equation. Now how about the exploitation of Bangladeshi workers in sweat shops, also in China to bring ultra cheap goods to western countries? Will they thank us too?
Alishah Noor I realise now (after looking up current battery chemistry) that cobalt was to be removed, but unfortunately Tesla appears have this in new batteries. Their new patent for pouch cells includes NMC, which, as you point out is mined in countries with unconscionable methods like child labour. I’m not sure if removing the minerals would help the lot of the people in those countries. What’s more likely to help is dialogue between all nations to eliminate the practice, rather than destroying their livelihoods by stopping the mining. Unfortunately, the wars get in the way of dialogue.
Funny funny funny and informative. Please keep up the great work!! I genuinely laughed several times at this presentation. The adlib stuff is brilliant.... BRILLIANT!
Great organic sound effects! I'm thinking you actually started a caffeine IV prior to recording. Keep up the great work! I never miss an episode. Thanks!
I just lurve watching your videos Robert. I find them fascinating, enlightening and most importantly optimistic for our future. (Some of them are very funny also) The really big internal picture of energy production/storage/use is just astonishing and yet completely logical to me. Keep on letting us know what is going on, please.
Batteries are getting better every other year. The petrol is staying the same. This is the reason, why any investment into the petrol is a very risky one at this stage of development. The batteries will take over the market by math and logic alone, apart from being superior in maintenance and operation.
Helsingør in "The Denmark" is aka Elsinore, known from Hamlet. Btw, I love how they painted big, green batteries on the ferries months ahead of actually starting to operate on electricity.
As I can see the ferries from Helsingør from my apartment window I'm very excited to get a much cleaner ferry service going. Would love for you guys to come and film it!
Just made my small part by converting my bike to electric. Bloody amazing. Done 50 miles in a week and that's about the same as I cycled in the last 10 yrs. So convenient
Looks like you're in Exmouth? How does it do on our local hills? Cycled to Sidmouth and back over on the bank holiday Monday and and was thinking about adding an electric motor as I pushed the bike up that evil 30% hill. What motor did you choose and how did it cost you?
I got the bafang BPM rear hub 36v . Not tackled peak hill yet but riding from exmouth-yettington-otterton-budleigh and home was a joy. Been to Exeter a few times too.
These Helsingborg-Helsingor ferries looked quite big to me when sailing in/out of the Oresund on a 27 feet sail boat. Didn't know they went electric, good for them.
and why not a hydrogen aircraft?? batteries need to be more energy dense than current jet fuel to work... it would be impractical/ near impossible to have a commercial battery airliner...
Hi Just wondering if you ever considered to upload your news to Podcasts or itunes? Your news and stories are perfect for audio only files and I would love to listen to it when I am driving.
Regarding the petroleum brine... it has to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way here in the US. It pumped back down into a nearby drill hole.
I would love if you guys would set up a website with links and references to all the suppliers and vendors of electric systems, be it solar panels, electric vehicles, home batteries, electric tools (like the gras mower), etc...
Lived in Helsingborg for 6-7 months, very nice place.. If you ever find yourself there, head for a restaurant called Brooklyn, and tell them Pinky sent you.
@dunhillsupramk3, I think it is dangerous if you consider not just 1 car but thousand of car on the road each minute. The microscopic tiny amount of pollutant a petrol/diesel car produce become a huge toxic pollutant when there're many car doing the same thing! For example, there are study linking Dementia (memory loss) with living near busy road, and there are other study linking driving in a traffic jam with having heart attack. There're scientist in France that found tiny soot in people's brain, and there're scientist in US that found brake-dust can enter our bloodstream thru our lung.
CalMac Ferries in the Hebrides are doing hybrid ferries where they charge overnight and run off electric motors with a generator recharging the batteries
Subscribed at the 6000 years ago when men and dinosaurs roamed the earth comment;) Nice vids and great info! Looking forward to seeing and learning more.
I don't know if you accept ideas for episodes from youtube comments, but I got one. You've made several videos about solar panel installations on various houses. Would it be possible to do it for wind turbine, and I don't mean the larger ones that youäve covered, the smaller ones (250W- 1KW). It would be interesting to see how such a wind turbine supports the need for renewable energy in areas/houses/companies that lack suitable conditions for solar panels. Just a thought... Thank you for your videos. It's always nice to hear someone being passionate about renewable energy.
For those who worry that come 2040, their 2017 Focus diesel will become obsolete. Well, if they still have their 23 year old car at that time, it's not like they have to take it to the scrap yard. The law is that no new petrol/diesel cars can be sold. Those who still own them can continue to use them.
Steve Huddart, yes unless there is no petrol station on 2040, cause no demand on petrol.. or less demand so the petrol station is not profitable anymore.. its just like ev car today, less charger station..
In the case of the Bolt EVs in question, the cell itself is faulty, so it does require a hardware replacement even if they were to use OTA updates. The Bolt EV does support OTA updates, but GM hasn't elected to use it yet.
I don't know why people are making such a big thing about the 2040 announcement. It's 23 years away, which by way of comparison I remember talking to a friend of mine (in 1994) about how he'd just been on something called the 'internet', and I was like "yes, I think I read something about that"! So 2040 could be quite a different place.
Uh, just looks at cars. We are still driving the same cars. Same 4 wheels, same fuels as 20, 30, 40 years ago. 23 years is a VERY short time, considering we DO NOT!!! have a sensible solution for storing energy yet. Considering design and production cycle, we would need to solve this within decade or so. What if we are not able to find a good solution to the problem within the next decade? Are you going to force people into buying cars that have a maximum distance of 200-300km?
Well the range for the Tesla model S is already around 500km and the charging network is expanding significantly on a weekly basis. The likelihood is that if we get to 2035 and it looks unfeasible, the target will simply be pushed back - but at the moment things look ok.
So what, everyone just buys Tesla? All the other manufacturers have much lower range vehicles. Not to mention, that those vehicles are extremely expensive if bought without some sort of subsidies or grants. In the UK it is up to 4.5k GBP at the moment. And you know what Reagan said "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it". So yeah, without subsidies... it wouldn't move. If it was such a good idea, it wouldn't need subsidizing. I am not against EV, I can't wait until they become mainstream. But this is not the time. We just don't have the technology for storing energy yet. Those tiny steps and evolution of lithium based cells doesn't really count.
"If it was such a good idea, it wouldn't need subsidizing." Awesome, that should kill off the oil business then. They get subsidies equal to 6% of global GDP.
ForSea operates a sustainable ferry route so how much energy is charged at each opportunity? Each trip consumes approximately 1,175 kWh, which is nearly the same amount a residential home consumes in a month. In each port is a tower with a robot arm that connects the charging cable automatically every time the ship comes to the dock. The system charges 10.5 kV, 600Amp and 10.5MW. The batteries have a total capacity of 4,160 kWh, which means that we always have a surplus of electricity if for some reason we cannot load during a stop or if the transit takes more time than usual.
this would explain why oil companies is the biggest investors in lithium battery tech R&D and why they lobby for BEV's and against hydrogen (also ethanol is now bad after the EPA said it was good, because the oil companies wasn't making money of it, IDIOTS!!).... now in addition to selling fuel to power powerplants to charge your EVs they also going to sell you the waste product to make more batteries.... while everyone including Elon Musk is all like green energy!! and we need lithium battery cars... all this time you was playing right into the oil company hands.... what a sad, gullible bunch of idiots... smh
Re: Bolt - Robert, you can rest assured that Europe is still united. At least in the sense that we can't buy a Bolt either... I suspect they don't really want to sell it. I always enjoy your show, please keep up the good work! Regards from Germany, Klaus
You are right about the name, but you still can't get it. There is a possibility to lease it but only for fleet customers and with serious restrictions mileagewise. All of Germany got, what, 80 Ampere-E's allocated for this year (might have been 100). Trying to sell something is different.
10/10 Never change you attitude when making these :D half fun/half sustainability is why we're here for :D I have an important question: Is there an adapter in the market, so you could plug a CCS equipped car in a Chademo station? If not, is it the problem that it's technically difficult, or do the big backers of both standards prevent it through patents or similar obstacles?
I expect such a boat connector to work with magnets, perhaps the batteries will be splitted while charging so you can do it with several cables spreaded over the ship instead of one big one. This is also why I would advice a swappeble batterysystem in trucktrailers, then you can charge the truckbattery while driving and possibly also have a firm battery in the back of the trailer just behind the 6 wheels. After the swappeble battery charged the truck and trailer battery, you can swap it again so all 3 are full and you can achieve a 1000 mile range. Also, you don't need to supercharge, or ultracharge the truck if you want to continue driving as fast as possible, which would destroy the grid. With a swappeble battery, you can keep the trucks driving forever, keep the grid stable forever and even the coal powerstations can make far bigger mistakes as ever before without throwing away energy, also, coal powerstations, or solar panels/wind energy doesn't need to be turned off if nobody uses the electricity they create, the batteries in the swapsystem can simply be charged.
Thanks for the shout out! That made my day :-) And congratulations on passing 200k!
You do realize that the oil industries won't take you seriously because of your username, but you'll still win anyway ;)
Great news update, very funny bits and as always, thank you for making it.
Wha wha whaaaaaaaat
I'm a Model 3 reservation holder and finally drove a Model S. OMG EVs are so much more powerful. This whole range anxiety is poppycock. You wouldn't let your car run out of gas. I am just plugging my loaner in at night, like my cellphone. Way more convenient than trip to has station.
I have a bit of inside information for you Robert, Scandlines had a presentation about it at my school (studying to be a nautical officer in Sweden).
The charging connection is made by a robotic arm that can compensate for any movement of the ship due to manoeuvring or seas and it makes the connection while the ship is still moving into position for mooring, they only have 5-9 minutes to charge so every second makes a difference, and if I remember correctly it was something like a 10-11kV but can't remember what amps it could pull. I have no memory of shore batteries being mentioned in the presentation I think it's just directly connected to the grid but I may be wrong.
Here's a link to the project website sailwiththecurrent.com it got a bit of information on it (most of it in English as well) and you got two videos of the connection, one presentation and one of the actual thing being built and installed.
Also the g at the end of Helsingborg is pronounced like J in Jake
Also Robert, the English name for Helsingör is Elsinore. Yes, the same Elsinore where Shakespeare's Hamlet lived, at Kronborg Castle.
www.visitdenmark.com/north-zealand/attractions/kronborg-castle-home-shakespeares-hamlet
If it's 4MWh that's 4000 KWh. (4000/7)/24= about 24 days not a year
No shore batteries, instead a huge dedicated high voltage cable which required digging up streets in Helsingborg this winter to install.
Numbers aren't Robert's strong suit. :-) :-)
its not uncommon for large users to have their own substation. My friend works for a wind tunnel and they have their own substation and can use up to 1MW.
Thank you for making these Robert and thank you to the patrons who make it possible for us less well off folks to be kept in the loop!
Better than top gear news episode!
Better then NEW Top Gear yes...
Mind you, even Jake Paul is better then the new Top Gear xD
whats topgear ? ;)
What's Topgear? It was a show about dinosaur cars... presented by dinosaurs.
Top Gear? Haven't they given up trying to reanimate that carcass of a show yet? Does anyone actually watch it?
Martin J I watch American top gear, they are funnier.
200k - bonkers. Well done team!
I love those pointed snarky comments in full Kryton "smug mode" :)
Adam Poll Kryten mask lite needed.
Actually, I think it was probably Kryten in 'BobbyLlew mode' all this time. Who knew?!
Not to blow smoke up anyone's a-hole but this show has gradually become my favourite on TH-cam. It is consistantly relevant, informative, well written and well presented. This sort of programme is exactly what TH-cam is all about. Keep up the good work!
I have been watching this show for over a year now and I am loving it. I subscribed when you had 65k... This episode was informative and very funny. Thank you Robert and team for this. Keep up the great work :)
Absolutely the best episode ever, so animated,so professional.. Robert is an artist at his craft.
This show just gets better and better - thank you Fully Charged (Robert. You're awesome.) XD
Love this style of energetically charged video. Very watchable :-)
Hello Robert, thank you for another great episode. I am very glad that the number of subscribers to this channel is going up steadily :)
I've been hearing about rechargeable Zinc air batteries for well over 20 years. The problem as always for Zinc has been its propensity to grow dendrites that disrupt the cell structure. NASA used Silver Zinc batteries on the Apollo program. The high energy density was essential because of the vast cost of getting mass into orbit, but the cycle life could be as low as 30 full cycles. The Lunar Rover used rechargable Silver Zinc cells, but there was no means of recharging them (becuase there was no need). Mike Corbin set a land speed record of 165mph in 1974 with a motorcycle powered by Silver Zinc batteries. The record stood for over 30 years. Silver Zinc is still used for space applications, like the Curiosity rover.
Paul Compton there is a bit of exploration into these again using a coat of graphene on the zinc plates to reduce the dendrites and increase surface area
The Canadian petrolithium firm mentioned in the video, also have a spin off firm with a Zinc Air battery system.
To charge that 4MWh ferry with your 7kW charger it'd have take 571h 24m or nearly 24 days, so not quite a year but wow that's still a while!!!
CCcrafted brilliant! Thank you for working that out! Love things like that.
He would be on cheap electricity so its not 24 hours charging, the ship would have to wait maybe 2 and a half months.
Your welcome. I've been watching fully charged for a week now, snd I love it. I have subscribed and I am trying to watch the back episodes as much as possible. Great show, very informative, and energetic in presentation.
snd should have been and. Sorry
204k subscribers. Wow. It was 140k some months back. Channel is growing.. Amazing. A very good work done here.
Brake fumes more dangerous than diesel fumes?
Good thing EVs barely need to use their brakes :P
Shows how totally lacking in information these people really are.
Alishah Noor you’re referring to the use of cobalt in batteries leading to wars and exploitation of children in the congo? I’d say that the replacement of cobalt with LiFePO4 has taken that out of the equation. Now how about the exploitation of Bangladeshi workers in sweat shops, also in China to bring ultra cheap goods to western countries? Will they thank us too?
Alishah Noor I realise now (after looking up current battery chemistry) that cobalt was to be removed, but unfortunately Tesla appears have this in new batteries. Their new patent for pouch cells includes NMC, which, as you point out is mined in countries with unconscionable methods like child labour. I’m not sure if removing the minerals would help the lot of the people in those countries. What’s more likely to help is dialogue between all nations to eliminate the practice, rather than destroying their livelihoods by stopping the mining. Unfortunately, the wars get in the way of dialogue.
Really enjoying these news segments, keep it up!!
Funny funny funny and informative. Please keep up the great work!! I genuinely laughed several times at this presentation. The adlib stuff is brilliant.... BRILLIANT!
“...and I really appreciate them..thank you...”. That’s why we love you Robert!!! 😆😆😆
SIR, love your channel and your content. Saving the world together, one step at a time!
"What the Whaaaaaat!!!" - literally spit my drink all over the room. A+
I've never laughed so much whilst being informed about the future of energy - I love this channel!
Brilliant episode! Really, really enjoyed it. Thank you and congratulations for nailing it over and over again.
Great episode again Rob, thanks!!
This was a great episode Robert. Funny and informative, and the previous sound issues have gone. Top banana.
Love the new TH-cam layout, full size windowed videos, yes!
You have become one of my favorite people in the world! It should be mandatory that the world's population watch your videos.
I do like your sense of humour, Robert. Love the channel. :)
Great episode Robert, thanks so much.
Great news, Brilliant editing, Fantastic face pulling :)
Brilliant & Breathless newsround...
Great organic sound effects! I'm thinking you actually started a caffeine IV prior to recording. Keep up the great work! I never miss an episode. Thanks!
Another fantastic show! Keep it up, Rob!
I just lurve watching your videos Robert. I find them fascinating, enlightening and most importantly optimistic for our future. (Some of them are very funny also) The really big internal picture of energy production/storage/use is just astonishing and yet completely logical to me.
Keep on letting us know what is going on, please.
This episode brought to you by... Robert's sound effects.
Robert seems really excited today!
Batteries are getting better every other year. The petrol is staying the same. This is the reason, why any investment into the petrol is a very risky one at this stage of development.
The batteries will take over the market by math and logic alone, apart from being superior in maintenance and operation.
The comedy in this is golden! The info is good as well. :P
Helsingør in "The Denmark" is aka Elsinore, known from Hamlet. Btw, I love how they painted big, green batteries on the ferries months ahead of actually starting to operate on electricity.
Very informative (and entertaining) Robert.
Brilliant show. Thank you
5:56 LOL this has to be the next big meme.. can see robert's head wiggling blowing up the internets
seriously, someone make a gif out of this asap
Because off your review off the ioniq i now owne one! Keep up the good work and be victorius!
200k ! congrats! It'll be over 500k by this time next year...
such a fully charged content! congrats...
As I can see the ferries from Helsingør from my apartment window I'm very excited to get a much cleaner ferry service going. Would love for you guys to come and film it!
I don't really have much interest in cars, electric or otherwise, but I enjoy this channel weirdly. Thank you guys.
I mean it's weird that I enjoy this channel, not that I enjoy it in a weird way 😊
Just made my small part by converting my bike to electric. Bloody amazing. Done 50 miles in a week and that's about the same as I cycled in the last 10 yrs. So convenient
How much did that cost?
Looks like you're in Exmouth? How does it do on our local hills? Cycled to Sidmouth and back over on the bank holiday Monday and and was thinking about adding an electric motor as I pushed the bike up that evil 30% hill.
What motor did you choose and how did it cost you?
I got the bafang BPM rear hub 36v . Not tackled peak hill yet but riding from exmouth-yettington-otterton-budleigh and home was a joy. Been to Exeter a few times too.
Robert is on fire today!!!
Thank you for a good laugh ;) and lots of good news top bloke!
congrats on the 200k subscriber number.
I would love to know the content of the cabinet behind you
These Helsingborg-Helsingor ferries looked quite big to me when sailing in/out of the Oresund on a 27 feet sail boat. Didn't know they went electric, good for them.
I can't remember the last time you posted video and i haven't seen it within 24h :D
Another great video thanks Robert :)
This is exciting stuff! Better batteries brings electric aviation closer!
and why not a hydrogen aircraft?? batteries need to be more energy dense than current jet fuel to work... it would be impractical/ near impossible to have a commercial battery airliner...
Indeed why not?
Hi Just wondering if you ever considered to upload your news to Podcasts or itunes? Your news and stories are perfect for audio only files and I would love to listen to it when I am driving.
The bit about the plug on the ship got me laughing
Another super episode cheers 👍
Colour Grading on your videos are getting really good.
Production look good sharp. Keep it up Robert
Well and the person/s doing the actual production 😊
But, Robert, How will the lobbyistes survive without the backhanders? ehh!
I like your Franglais, Robert. Please keep it up!
Regarding the petroleum brine... it has to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way here in the US. It pumped back down into a nearby drill hole.
Thanks Robert ;0) Really informative and entertaining :0)
I would love if you guys would set up a website with links and references to all the suppliers and vendors of electric systems, be it solar panels, electric vehicles, home batteries, electric tools (like the gras mower), etc...
Quoting Ghandi always works lol
first you quote Adam Smith, then you quote Karl Marx, then you quote Ghandi, then you quote Churchill
Lived in Helsingborg for 6-7 months, very nice place.. If you ever find yourself there, head for a restaurant called Brooklyn, and tell them Pinky sent you.
Great episode! Some proper funny facial expressions too :D
I love the show. I think it will be the Top Gear of the 21st Century. I love your style Robert (have done since Red Dwarf).
Nearly wet myself with the reference to men and dinosaurs 6000 years ago 😆 I love your humour 👍
Hey, if brake-dust is dangerous, then it meant diesel car is actually more dangerous, because diesel car didn't have regenerative braking.
regenerative braking does work but you still use the normal brake as well... and brake dust isn't really a concern nor is current diesel emissions...
@dunhillsupramk3, I think it is dangerous if you consider not just 1 car but thousand of car on the road each minute. The microscopic tiny amount of pollutant a petrol/diesel car produce become a huge toxic pollutant when there're many car doing the same thing! For example, there are study linking Dementia (memory loss) with living near busy road, and there are other study linking driving in a traffic jam with having heart attack. There're scientist in France that found tiny soot in people's brain, and there're scientist in US that found brake-dust can enter our bloodstream thru our lung.
238m long ferries? Do you mean feet?
I forgot to add, have you had the chance to check out the arcimoto 8 yet?
CalMac Ferries in the Hebrides are doing hybrid ferries where they charge overnight and run off electric motors with a generator recharging the batteries
Subscribed at the 6000 years ago when men and dinosaurs roamed the earth comment;)
Nice vids and great info! Looking forward to seeing and learning more.
I don't know if you accept ideas for episodes from youtube comments, but I got one. You've made several videos about solar panel installations on various houses. Would it be possible to do it for wind turbine, and I don't mean the larger ones that youäve covered, the smaller ones (250W- 1KW). It would be interesting to see how such a wind turbine supports the need for renewable energy in areas/houses/companies that lack suitable conditions for solar panels. Just a thought... Thank you for your videos. It's always nice to hear someone being passionate about renewable energy.
For those who worry that come 2040, their 2017 Focus diesel will become obsolete. Well, if they still have their 23 year old car at that time, it's not like they have to take it to the scrap yard. The law is that no new petrol/diesel cars can be sold. Those who still own them can continue to use them.
Steve Huddart, yes unless there is no petrol station on 2040, cause no demand on petrol.. or less demand so the petrol station is not profitable anymore.. its just like ev car today, less charger station..
Almost impossible to get an Ampera-e in Germany too. If you can get one, its only on lease.
Some old tin mines have lithium as a by-product and 20 years ago they had no use for it so look at old tin areas
"I know there have been lots of Dong jokes... and i really appreciate them, thank you"
one sub for you good sir
Charging those ferries is a perfect case of having huge banks of super-capacitors at each end of the journey :)
I'd love to see someone hook 'em up the wrong way xD
I own a Chevy Volt and yes, I have some software updates pending that I have to leave the car at the dealership for half a day for.
excellent news broadcast try for the beeb keep it going
In the case of the Bolt EVs in question, the cell itself is faulty, so it does require a hardware replacement even if they were to use OTA updates. The Bolt EV does support OTA updates, but GM hasn't elected to use it yet.
Weird. I get no pictures
*Renno Renault batteries?*
I don't know why people are making such a big thing about the 2040 announcement. It's 23 years away, which by way of comparison I remember talking to a friend of mine (in 1994) about how he'd just been on something called the 'internet', and I was like "yes, I think I read something about that"! So 2040 could be quite a different place.
RickP2012 exactly. People are stupid. 2040 is ages away
Uh, just looks at cars. We are still driving the same cars. Same 4 wheels, same fuels as 20, 30, 40 years ago. 23 years is a VERY short time, considering we DO NOT!!! have a sensible solution for storing energy yet. Considering design and production cycle, we would need to solve this within decade or so. What if we are not able to find a good solution to the problem within the next decade? Are you going to force people into buying cars that have a maximum distance of 200-300km?
Well the range for the Tesla model S is already around 500km and the charging network is expanding significantly on a weekly basis. The likelihood is that if we get to 2035 and it looks unfeasible, the target will simply be pushed back - but at the moment things look ok.
So what, everyone just buys Tesla? All the other manufacturers have much lower range vehicles. Not to mention, that those vehicles are extremely expensive if bought without some sort of subsidies or grants. In the UK it is up to 4.5k GBP at the moment. And you know what Reagan said "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it". So yeah, without subsidies... it wouldn't move. If it was such a good idea, it wouldn't need subsidizing.
I am not against EV, I can't wait until they become mainstream. But this is not the time. We just don't have the technology for storing energy yet. Those tiny steps and evolution of lithium based cells doesn't really count.
"If it was such a good idea, it wouldn't need subsidizing."
Awesome, that should kill off the oil business then. They get subsidies equal to 6% of global GDP.
ForSea operates a sustainable ferry route so how much energy is charged at each opportunity?
Each trip consumes approximately 1,175 kWh, which is nearly the same amount a residential home consumes in a month. In each port is a tower with a robot arm that connects the charging cable automatically every time the ship comes to the dock. The system charges 10.5 kV, 600Amp and 10.5MW. The batteries have a total capacity of 4,160 kWh, which means that we always have a surplus of electricity if for some reason we cannot load during a stop or if the transit takes more time than usual.
MV HALLAIG, MV LOCHINVAR and MV CATRIONA Calmac ferry company run Hybrid ferries on some of the routes to the Islands.
could u plz consider doning a review on RIMAC
8:30 norway has ferries like that, Tesla bjorn has made video on it a while back
About the ferries, the smart solution would be to have a bank of chargers by the batteries,and just plug 3 phase 440-1000v cable into the ship.
The irony if lithium from petrol catches on. The oil industry cutting its own throat.
What's next? Extracting Lithium from oil and throwing away the hydrocarbons?
What do you mean?
There is no "Iron" in Lithium?
Oil is not just fuel for cars you know. It is used for so many other things, that we still need it. And now we can get lithium out of it.
Heinocraft and tyres for them. And all the plastic bits
this would explain why oil companies is the biggest investors in lithium battery tech R&D and why they lobby for BEV's and against hydrogen (also ethanol is now bad after the EPA said it was good, because the oil companies wasn't making money of it, IDIOTS!!).... now in addition to selling fuel to power powerplants to charge your EVs they also going to sell you the waste product to make more batteries....
while everyone including Elon Musk is all like green energy!! and we need lithium battery cars... all this time you was playing right into the oil company hands.... what a sad, gullible bunch of idiots... smh
Re: Bolt - Robert, you can rest assured that Europe is still united. At least in the sense that we can't buy a Bolt either... I suspect they don't really want to sell it. I always enjoy your show, please keep up the good work!
Regards from Germany,
Klaus
In Continental Europe there is it's twin-brother - Opel Ampera E (not to be confused with Opel Ampera). But not in UK.
You are right about the name, but you still can't get it. There is a possibility to lease it but only for fleet customers and with serious restrictions mileagewise. All of Germany got, what, 80 Ampere-E's allocated for this year (might have been 100). Trying to sell something is different.
10/10
Never change you attitude when making these :D half fun/half sustainability is why we're here for :D
I have an important question: Is there an adapter in the market, so you could plug a CCS equipped car in a Chademo station?
If not, is it the problem that it's technically difficult, or do the big backers of both standards prevent it through patents or similar obstacles?
I expect such a boat connector to work with magnets, perhaps the batteries will be splitted while charging so you can do it with several cables spreaded over the ship instead of one big one.
This is also why I would advice a swappeble batterysystem in trucktrailers, then you can charge the truckbattery while driving and possibly also have a firm battery in the back of the trailer just behind the 6 wheels. After the swappeble battery charged the truck and trailer battery, you can swap it again so all 3 are full and you can achieve a 1000 mile range.
Also, you don't need to supercharge, or ultracharge the truck if you want to continue driving as fast as possible, which would destroy the grid.
With a swappeble battery, you can keep the trucks driving forever, keep the grid stable forever and even the coal powerstations can make far bigger mistakes as ever before without throwing away energy, also, coal powerstations, or solar panels/wind energy doesn't need to be turned off if nobody uses the electricity they create, the batteries in the swapsystem can simply be charged.