EV battery with 700 mile range 100 year life 15 min charge

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Fri. Jul. 29, 2022 11:09 am

coaledsweat wrote: ↑
Fri. Jul. 29, 2022 9:01 am
Another gift from electric cars.
https://www.carscoops.com/2022/07/tesla-remotely- ... the-web-fi

That's like, I buy a 12 foot ladder, but next week the hardware store guy realizes he only charged me for an 8 foot, so he comes to the house with a saw ....

Post by **coaledsweat** » Mon. Sep. 12, 2022 2:42 pm

Looks like the miracle has some problems, stay tuned.

https://chof360.com/electric-vehicles-will-have-t ... ry-game-ch

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Mon. Sep. 12, 2022 3:21 pm

coaledsweat wrote: ↑
Mon. Sep. 12, 2022 2:42 pm
Looks like the miracle has some problems, stay tuned.

Pilot plant for the batteries in two years, projected installation in cars in three years. That's not bad -- probably an optimistic target, but I'm surprised they are projecting availability that soon. Of course, I want them yesterday.

k-2 · Post by **k-2** » Mon. Sep. 12, 2022 4:20 pm

coaledsweat wrote: ↑
Fri. Jul. 29, 2022 9:01 am
Another gift from electric cars.
https://www.carscoops.com/2022/07/tesla-remotely- ... the-web-fi

Just another of the many reasons to avoid tesla altogether.

BigBarney · Post by **BigBarney** » Mon. Sep. 12, 2022 5:26 pm

Toyota is not the one to ask about EV's , they are well behind and only have hybrids.

BigBarney

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Mon. Sep. 12, 2022 5:39 pm

Translation,... Toyota owners don't sit around waiting for their car's battery to recharge while they dream of unicorns dancing beneath windmills.

Paul

k-2 · Post by **k-2** » Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 10:41 am

Car prices are said to be up 15% so why is the same car 100% higher then it was 2 yrs ago. My wife paid 10k for a 2 yr old cruze in 2020 ,now that same 2018 car with the same mileage is over 20 k at the same dealer. Is that the new math? OR is it just that the money is only worth half as much.

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 12:14 pm

Couldn't of put it better Paul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunny Boy wrote: ↑
Mon. Sep. 12, 2022 5:39 pm
Translation,... Toyota owners don't sit around waiting for their car's battery to recharge while they dream of unicorns dancing beneath windmills.

Paul

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 1:14 pm

k-2 wrote: ↑
Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 10:41 am
Car prices are said to be up 15% so why is the same car 100% higher then it was 2 yrs ago. My wife paid 10k for a 2 yr old cruze in 2020 ,now that same 2018 car with the same mileage is over 20 k at the same dealer. Is that the new math? OR is it just that the money is only worth half as much.

I have seen the same thing here for over a year -- two- to four-year-old cars priced higher than when they were new. The problem is supply, not enough new ones available. So that trickles down to used ones. Partly due to worldwide computer chip shortages, probably other shortages as well. Congress recently passed appropriations trying to kick-start chip manufacturing in this country. It's about time.

The biggest dealer in my area has literally ZERO new cars on the lot for many models (Subaru, Honda, Toyota, and a few others). And the only ones in transit to the dealer are top-of-the-line top-dollar models. You can deposit $500 and they will put you on the list in case what you want becomes available.

Even a Craigslist search finds nothing in some popular models. Everyone is trying to make their old ones last until supply improves and the dealers can't screw us so badly.

k-2 · Post by **k-2** » Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 1:40 pm

rberq wrote: ↑
Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 1:14 pm
I have seen the same thing here for over a year -- two- to four-year-old cars priced higher than when they were new. The problem is supply, not enough new ones available. So that trickles down to used ones. Partly due to worldwide computer chip shortages, probably other shortages as well. Congress recently passed appropriations trying to kick-start chip manufacturing in this country. It's about time.

The biggest dealer in my area has literally ZERO new cars on the lot for many models (Subaru, Honda, Toyota, and a few others). And the only ones in transit to the dealer are top-of-the-line top-dollar models. You can deposit $500 and they will put you on the list in case what you want becomes available.

Even a Craigslist search finds nothing in some popular models. Everyone is trying to make their old ones last until supply improves and the dealers can't screw us so badly.

My point is why the fake numbers. Just tell us prices are up 100% not 14% or 15%. Is it just to make the Govt look not as incompetent? Too late for that.

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 3:43 pm

k-2 wrote: ↑
Wed. Sep. 21, 2022 1:40 pm
My point is why the fake numbers. Just tell us prices are up 100% not 14% or 15%. Is it just to make the Govt look not as incompetent? Too late for that.

Yes, I thought that was your point. Grocery prices seem to be up about 15%, from what I see. Fortunately wine is up less than that.

Gas prices, down. Real estate prices were up a huge amount, here, and now have dropped a lot. Good news for those who locked in 30-year mortgages when they bought high, as long as they stay in the house, but there is trouble coming if they need to sell. New car prices up 8% or 10%, except you can't hardly buy one. Used car prices, as you point out, are up hugely. Both Trump and Biden administrations sent out too much pandemic money, often to people who didn't need it, and nobody was spending, so now the *censored* hits the fan, people are swimming in cash but products are in short supply, the classic economics case for price increases and profiteering. The government has very few tools -- basically the big hammer of interest rates. But lots of things can't be fixed with a hammer, If they don't use the hammer inflation gets worse, if they do then other stuff gets hit and broken.

Post by **coaledsweat** » Mon. Sep. 26, 2022 12:38 pm

Not so cheap now Barney.

https://news.sky.com/story/cost-of-charging-an-el ... s-12705528

BigBarney · Post by **BigBarney** » Mon. Sep. 26, 2022 1:33 pm

These are European prices .... I live in the USA... Where prices are set years ahead...

National Grid agreed to a yearly increase for 2022-2024 at a set rate for DELIVERY,

the SUPPLY price changes with the market cost of electric,so it will go up and down

to adjust to market forces.

BigBarney

Post by **coaledsweat** » Mon. Sep. 26, 2022 2:24 pm

And which way are those "market forces" going?

BigBarney · Post by **BigBarney** » Mon. Sep. 26, 2022 3:07 pm

Up and Down daily in no particular order..

If this didn't happen gasoline would be $10.00 a gallon by now...

BigBarney