It seems that the country is finally becoming aware that the electric vehicle is here to stay. More and more car manufacturing companies are building and promoting hybrid cars. The ”all electric” car is now being also considered for local production by the big 3. However there are major problems. The batteries. 1. WEIGHT. Lead acid and Lithium-ion weigh about 1,300 lbs.
2. DISTANCE. you can get only about 40 miles from a home charge.
3. PRICE. You can pay big bucks for batteries that will last only a short recharge time before they start to go bad (2 to 3 years).
4. CHARGE TIME. The average full charge time is 8 hours
WHAT WE NEED IS A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN BATTERY TECHNOLEDGY.
NEWS FLASH: Maybe its here.
A company in Texas called EEStor has received a patent in December 2008 on for an ultracapacitor that is not a battery but is more efficient.
1. WEIGHT: Just 282 pounds.
2. DISTANCE: It will take you 5 to 10 times further.
3. PRICE: Has not been established but there is no chemicals involved and lower priced materials, also easier to manufacturer and will last the life of the car.
4. CHARGE TIME: The company claims that it take 10 minutes for a full charge.
The Zenn Automobile Company from Canada has invested into this company and say they will have the device in there all electric vehicles in the fall of 2009.
LETS ALL HOPE A PRAY THAT THIS COMES TO PASS.
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March 19th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
good job forest. i would be interested in hearing more.
March 25th, 2009 at 5:22 am
I believe converting a car to electricity is a great idea. It’s important to take a variety of sources in order to come up with best practice techniques. I would do a little more research on the author before buying the book. Changing to an electric car is a great way to save money and help the environment at the same time. In order to save even more money, consider making your home more efficient and changing electricity suppliers
.Everything we can do to lower our bills can help us survive during difficult times, plus everything we can do to lower our usage can help our planet survive as well.
March 25th, 2009 at 5:24 am
I believe converting a car to electricity is a great idea. It’s important to take a variety of sources in order to come up with best practice techniques. I would do a little more research on the author before buying the book. Changing to an electric car is a great way to save money and help the environment at the same time. In order to save even more money, consider making your home more efficient and changing electricity suppliers .Everything we can do to lower our bills can help us survive during difficult times, plus everything we can do to lower our usage can help our planet survive as well.
May 17th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I totally disagree wiht this because on the long term, batteries will pollute more than gasoline bacause of the chemicals used to make batteries, specially whe you have around 10 batteries on each car and if you multiply this by the number of cars already running, the you’ll have a few million dead batteries which will represent a bigger problem.
I believe that we have to look for a better way to power an electric car, for example, solar panels are a good way, but first we need to turn them to 100% eficiency.
In the youtube site there are many permanent magnet generators which can be a better solution to power electric cars, the problem i see here is the interest of oil industries have on keep the sales level of the primary product that brings them a lot of money: gasoline.
So don’t let them down, make you car electric, but instead of batteries, install a honda electricity generator that runs on diesel, this way you’ll have great range, faster refuel time than batteries, and low carbon emisions thanks to the diesel generator!!
That’s my summer proyect, but i’m VERY short on cash, so charity is very welcome!
October 4th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
I Agree to what you are saying about old batteries but keep in mine that most batteries are 100% recyclable unlike fossil fuels
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
We have the technology for recyclable batteries but we aren’t allowed to use it! Yes, the lithium ion battery is being touted as the next saviour but the truth behind that battery is it is very difficult to recycle and lithium is pretty dangerous stuff. Half the lithium in the owrld comes from Bolivia, too making it long-term use rather limited. Nickel, however, is abundant, cheap and easily recycled. We had it! The NiMH was the most effective electric car battery ever made but it got snatched up by Chevron Oil about a decade ago. The NiMH powered the Saturn EV1s and the Toyota RAV4-EVs and was getting 200 miles per charge in some cases. Read more about how the NiMH was nixed and how we can get it back in Cefo’s Two Cent Per Mile. It’s on Amazon and they have their own website too.
April 29th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
I don’t want to judge so earlier. I like to hear soon. Of cause anything have pro and con..
June 28th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
When it comes to batteries, yes, better batteries make a difference, however, the elephant in the room is that nobody wants to address the weight of the vehicle it’s going in, big problem! Batteries automatically do better with lighter weight vehicles! Instead of making batteries fit these heavyweight dinasour gas vehicle conversions, how about making a ground up lightweight vehicle to fit the batteries? Then no matter what battery you use, you’ll get more out of them!! That was our plan when we made our electricevette prototype. We need to think outside the box and stop blaming the batteries!