Yeah.... I want a plugin that I can drive from Seattle to Chicago without stopping, nevermind that a human can't drive that long without a few hours for recharging... :p
The price of lithium has already dropped to half of what it used to be.... I priced out a lithium bank for my truck back in 2009 and it's half what it was then, now. And probably better batteries too. Still a little much for me, but if it goes to half again, I might just replace the nicads and go lithium (and suddenly have a truck that could go to town and back, instead of just errands around the house). Z On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Bruce EVangel Parmenter < [email protected]> wrote: > [ref > > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Pack-prices-likely-to-plummet-halve-the-cost-within-6yrs-tp4665474.html > ] > > There are many of these pontificating pieces, that I usually pass on, as > they seem to all talk, talk, & talk about the future, and not much > tangible meat to make what they say viable. Six years is a bit too far > in the future for my liking. But occasionally, I like to throw one of > these out there for people to chew on. > > I was thinking, if today the price of a li-ion pack dropped to half the > cost, yes that would drop the purchase price of a 100mi plugin. > But it would make a 200mi plugin about the same price as we are paying > today. Then the media could say, well, 200 miles is nice, but people > will want a 400 mile range before they would buy one (% You can never > satisfy the media %). > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > - > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013, at 05:54 AM, tomw wrote: > > If battery costs decrease to half of present costs, say e.g. $10k down to > > $5k, the vehicle cost should decrease by $5k. Saying it won't due to > > "complex electronics" means the costs of those electronics would have to > > increase from their present cost to eat up part or all of that $5k. > > > > I think either that is a smoke screen to cover up the fact that the car > > companies plan to add most of that $5k to their margins and not pass it > > on > > to consumers, or maybe the method used to reduce costs will be to loosen > > the > > specs for cells so they are not as closely matched in capacity and ir > > (increasing manufacturing yield), and this requires a more complex bms > > than > > the big manufacturers presently use - moving more toward a Tesla type > > pack. > - > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders > wherever you are > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131002/c543fb2c/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
