toby10 wrote: > Until charging times are greatly improved battery fuel will remain a > niche product. Hopefully battery tech will vastly improve as drmatt > said, but that is many years down the road at best. I am very pessimistic about recharge times ever getting short enough. Not because of limitations in battery technology, but because of the practical limits of how much power you can feed in during recharging. 200 miles range requires about 50kWh - that's not going to change, because electric motors are already staggeringly efficient. If you want to charge 50kWh in, say, 5 minutes, you need to feed in power at 600kW (assuming 100% efficiency). I can't see how that can ever be viable.
toby10 wrote: > My business is industrial chemicals (specifically polymers). In that case I'd imagine you probably would agree with something I heard a long time ago: "oil is too valuable to burn". Re. your solar panel adventure. Here in the UK the government has an incentive for home owners to install them, but it's driven by EU targets on increasing renewable generation and seems to make little logical sense. Sometimes "green dogma politics" ends up causing environmental damage. I took advantage of the deal and have a 4kW system on my (thankfully unshaded) roof, and have recovered about 65% of the upfront cost in the first 4 years. But I have to admit that I did it out of economic greed rather than environmental concern. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105775 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
