If all cars in Germany would be EV, Germany could store 2 days of electric energy usage.
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I think you are trying to insinuate that electric cars are decades away from today. The first electric car was built decades _ago_. Electric cars are mainstream today. So I suppose you can argue that it is a similar timeline, we are just decades after Bertha Benz' famous drive.
> Globally, around 1-in-4 new cars sold were electric in 2023. In Norway, this share was over 90%, and in China, it was almost 40%.
Well over a century ago, in fact. For quite a while early on, they were more popular than internal combustion cars.
Unlike North America, most people in Europe live in apartment buildings not single family homes. The streets sides in my city are full of parked ICE cars like in most of Europe, but very few EVs, and even those are either company cars with chargers at the office or wealthy people from the suburbs with chargers at home. Where are the plebs without a house charger supposed to charge while at home? Via Starlink?
In my area with a lot of 4 story buildings every one of them has one.
And yes it's not just the laws it's often also old people being against it like in my case. What helped were laws.
Also, does really every single 4-story building in Munich have charring spots for every parking spot in the basement meaning every car owner has a parking spot with charging? Even the older buildings?
Plenty of capable people haven't done it yet at all.
My garage holds probably 60 cars and I'm the only electric
Alternative take: "If I wanted a giant, irreparable, disposable, spyware-ridden smartphone on wheels, ..."
The onboard computer on my ev is the same system as on non ev fords
Now contrast that with basically any non-EV car whose tank capacity in average is 50-55 litres which is 10x less weight than the battery pack of the EV car. With pessimistic consumption of 7l per 100km you will have almost double the range of the 90th percentile EV vehicle or ~700 km. You will have none of the attached risks of the battery management (catching fire, deteriorating the capacity, replacing the pack in a few years) and you can top your fuel within minutes and literally anywhere.
I talked about that person who is afraid of ev being a 'smartphone'
First of my assumption is that solid state will win out. No burning (it's already not really an issue, millions of evs are driving around), fast charging also in winter, cheaper.
A ev is only an electric engine (closed off) and a battery also closed off.
The media have done a great job at convincing people of these myths.
* EVs are much less likely to catch fire than ICE cars: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/how-much-fi...
* Deteriorating capacity and replacing the battery after a few years? Most batteries have long warranties. 8 years is standard here. If we look at NMC batteries lasting 1,000 cycles then that would be 400,000 km in your example. LFP is 2 - 3x this.
* Filling up in a few minutes? I don’t miss that at all. I charge at home. Time spent: 0 minutes.
Not that we’re there now, most places, but I think not requiring cars is a better goal than requiring them and putting a million chargers all over every city.
So "if you live in an apartment, you're in a city" is an incorrect statement.
If there’s an apartment in the middle of a field… well, then there’s lots of room for chargers, I guess.