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Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agoThe point would not be to never plug in, but instead extend the drive time of an EV by using certain roads.
If on a full charge you get 250miles, but if you take a slightly alternative route and get 500 miles, you’re going to have much less resistance to EVs in any community that would be likely to use these roads.
cosmic_slate@dmv.social 9 months ago
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I actually make a yearly pilgrimage of 500 miles and apart from gas stops I go nonstop, no breaks. I find that making numerous stops wears me out and I start to fall asleep in the last couple hours. Could easily be because I’m adding hours to my drive if that’s the case though.
cosmic_slate@dmv.social 9 months ago
[deleted]KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Truck drivers do it all the time, I’m just doing it to visit family. 😜
The wasted energy isn’t inherently a problem. If it is 100% renewable, for instance, it would be more environmentally friendly to have no battery with 99% wasted energy.
So moving forward as we move more and more to a green grid, the concern of wasted energy becomes less and less.
Zeoic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ehh, i dont really see a problem driving that long as long as you start it when you first get up for the day. I do 8 hour drives multiple times a year to go see family and only stop after 6 hours to gas up, then continue on. With how quick gasing up is with paying at the pump these days, 3 minutes of stop doesn’t sound to far fetched.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You missed the 50% loss. Wasted energy. Means you have more infrastructure delivering electricity that isn’t utilized. Means you have more production that isn’t utilized.
And batteries already have a loss of up to 20% during charge from heating.
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 9 months ago
Sounds like the next step is to power it using renewables so that we reduce that inefficiency as low as possible
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It didn’t reduce the inefficiency though. You still have 50% of that power being lost, which means you need 50% more renewable generation. It’s wasteful.
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 9 months ago
That’s the good thing about renewable energy, we can waste some without it being a big deal.
Efficiency was the wrong word, but I can’t find the right one.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yeah and who uses the energy that is lost? Nobody. It’s not a 50% loss to a driver, it’s all gain over the last charge stop.
As someone who did 500 miles this last week in an EV with 2 little kids, let me tell you it would be fucking worth it not to interrupt my sleeping children even if it’s not 100% efficient.
anubis119@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Electricity isn’t free. Convenience doesn’t make things a good idea nor economically viable. Need to charge on the go? Overhead catenary charging is a technology that’s already developed for use on vehicles and solves the efficiency issue.