On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:57 PM, Robert Bruninga <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure, different strokes for different folks, but EV enthusiasts are shooting > us in the foot when they claim that EV's are no viable until they have 200 > mile batteries! That's not at all what I and others are doing. If you re-read my note, you'll see that I wrote, "Today's EV fleet makes all kinds of sense for significant numbers of people, including many who might initially dismiss them out of hand." That's not even remotely close to claiming that EVs are only viable if they have a 200 mile range. The point I'm trying to make is that most people's perception is such that a 200 mile range crosses a threshold past which an EV becomes a general-purpose no-restrictions vehicle, as opposed to a specialty / niche / limited vehicle as it is today. That perception is largely valid, even if a sizable fraction of the driving public are perfectly suited for that niche. It's the difference between an EV being an ideal commuter car for one of the two people in a two- or three-car household, and an EV being an ideal car, period, full stop. We need to be realistic about this, or else people will think we're just blowing electric smoke up their tailpipes. Sell the EVs for what they're great at, which is quite significant. But don't try to tell people that they're wasteful or being uneconomical or whatever just because they're part of that sizable population for which today's EVs are a bad fit -- and _especially- not when general-purpose EVs are right around the corner. > At $300/kWh by 2020, that's $20,000 for a 200 mile battery. For an EV that > should only cost about $20k, then why pay DOUBLE for a battery that 66% of us > don't need. That's the kind of thing I mean. Tell people that they don't need a 200-mile vehicle when they're used to doing 400-mile road trips without a second thought, and they'll think you're some sort of tree-hugging Luddite ascetic who doesn't understand why anybody would waste money on two-ply toilet paper or name-brand boxed Mac & Cheese. Instead, tell people that EVs beat the pants off gassers when it comes to commuter vehicles and city cars. Tell them that full-range EVs are here if you've got the dough for a Tesla, and will soon be here if you've got the dough for a midrange non-luxury non-econobox sedan. But _don't_ tell them that they don't actually need a 200 mile range and that they're idiots for even thinking about spending that kind of money on such waste. Cheers, b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150306/99ec976c/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ 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)
