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easternjets said:Interesting article in the Mail today about the future of Electric Vehicles, I know it's the Mail but it seems to back up what a lot of people have been saying for a long time.
It's no surprise that the Chinese market in Rare Earth Metals, which they control 80%, will leave the E/V market held to ransom by them.
Article: https://mol.im/a/7968085
Hope the link works, if it doesn't it's on the Mail web site.
Alex said:There's no reason why we can't make a car do 100mpg and thus half consumer transport CO2 if we wanted to.
Rhodris-dad said:Without writing an essay..........I had this conversation with my brother-in-law on Sunday night in the pub about the practical issues.
He is a manager, at the electric motor plant, of a well known motoring manufacturer in the midlands ( i won't mention who, just I get him into bother).
He was saying they were having all sorts of QA issues with the manufacturing.
He said it was an extremely dangerous process and 1 employee has already had a finger totally burnt off.
The batteries are a series of cells that need there terminals welded together, which due to amount of cells/welds, is a nightmare as the weld has to be at the perfect depth, not deep enough and the weld won't take, too deep and the cell explodes making the whole battery useless. Samsung make the cells by the way.
At the moment, if, a vehicle was to go on fire, the fire brigade could not extinguish the blaze with water as it would electrocute the fireman.
He said that Nissan use a pouch for their cells, which is far inferior and has a life of 6 years. Battery degradation is also high and after a couple of years the maximum range drops to 80 miles.
So it looks like we will all be leasing our cars in the future as residuals will be pants.
As far as charging needs, the paper article says 4,000 but I read a more accurate sounding figure of 2,700 charging points need to be built per day.
North Wales is well on the way to achieving this..........6 months ago there were 2 chargers in the whole area.........now there are 3.
I expect that that is better than the rail electrification N. Wales was promised 40 plus years ago. (don't get me started on H2)
We also discussed tax revenue.......the government would not be in a position to forego all that tax from petrol/diesel and would have to recoup it somehow.
Was it Mark Twain that said..."Lies, damned lies, and statistics"
It has turned into a bit of an essay, sorry.