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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #1876 on: June 12, 2024, 11:35:44 AM »
VW Is Shifting Billions From EV Plans to Gas Car Development (thedrive.com)

This EV thing isn't dead, or dying, but it's slowing down the rate of increase.  I idly wonder if at some point in say 2035, "we" end up with a market that is "EV stable", say 20% of new cars in the US are pure EVs, and the rest are not, and the EV percentage is barely growing if at all.
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« Reply #1877 on: June 13, 2024, 09:36:06 AM »
General Motors Cut Its 2024 EV Sales Goal Over Demand Concerns (insideevs.com)

I think it's more supply concerns out running demand.  By a lot.
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« Reply #1878 on: June 14, 2024, 08:25:31 PM »
What Happens When Your Ford F-150 Lightning EV Battery Runs Out of Range?

We ran our F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck’s battery to zero so you don’t have to.

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2023-ford-f-150-lightning-xlt-yearlong-review-update-8/

First Charger Fooled Us

We chose the DC fast charger nearest our office, a brand-new bank of EVgo units ranging from 100 to 350 kW. Our driver did an amazing job of dropping the truck right next to the charger, 90 degrees from the direction his truck was pointed. We plugged in, saw the communication initiate, inserted our credit card, waved goodbye to our driver, and then … nothing. We disconnected, reconnected, and reinserted the card multiple times before calling EVgo support. When I mentioned that I couldn’t move the vehicle to try another one because it was completely dead, the rep declared that the Evgo charger couldn’t charge a dead battery—I needed a Level 2 charger for that, and she provided two nearby options. We’ve never heard any such story, there’s no such warning in the owner’s manual, and in fact we have photos recharging a dead Ioniq 5 at an EVgo fast charge station in California. But we were still sitting dead with no means of resuscitation. So at 12:48, we called Ford roadside assistance, requesting a tow 1.1 miles south to our office L2 charger.
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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #1879 on: June 15, 2024, 08:39:03 AM »
The "real" range of an EV is whatever is between 20% charge and 80% charge, taking into account weather etc.  

The saw a report the "Air" claims to need only 20 kWhr per hundred miles.  It's expensive of course.  But that's a lot better than the 30 figure most EVs use.  It starts to make away from home charging palatable in some instances.  

I'd still do PHEV over EV for my personal needs were I to have to choose either.
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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #1880 on: June 16, 2024, 06:52:55 PM »
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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #1881 on: June 17, 2024, 08:02:43 PM »
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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #1882 on: June 18, 2024, 09:43:22 AM »
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-vehicle-startup-fisker-files-for-bankruptcy-0a3eb7d6?st=mwyyiy6tuz8s8j4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-vehicle-startup-fisker-files-for-bankruptcy-0a3eb7d6?st=mwyyiy6tuz8s8j4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #1883 on: June 18, 2024, 09:46:11 AM »
I think we'll see more bankruptcies of the non-"legacy" EV makers.  Maybe one will survive, maybe Lucid, I'm not sure of even that.

Air | Lucid Motors
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« Reply #1884 on: June 18, 2024, 12:52:56 PM »
What's Next for Electric Vehicles as Market Turns Murky? (caranddriver.com)
What's Next for Electric Vehicles as Market Turns Murky? (caranddriver.com)

No discussion of PHEVs, which COULD end up being the dominant form in the nearer future (by 2050).
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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #1885 on: June 19, 2024, 09:08:15 AM »
https://www.ornl.gov/news/polyphase-wireless-power-transfer-system-achieves-270-kilowatt-charge-sets-another-world

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated the first 270-kW wireless power transfer to a light-duty electric vehicle. The demonstration used a Porsche Taycan and was conducted in collaboration with Volkswagen Group of America using the ORNL-developed polyphase wireless charging system.


https://youtu.be/AQxxyDUzoZI
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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #1886 on: June 19, 2024, 09:09:35 AM »
could eliminate the issue with stolen supercharger copper cables
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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #1887 on: June 19, 2024, 09:13:28 AM »
Looks like an ad, to me, hopefully it's so, but there often are negatives in the process.  A five inch gap?  That's huge.

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« Reply #1888 on: June 19, 2024, 10:13:52 AM »
Point... This doesn't appear to be a "charging while driving" situation. This is just wireless charging of a fixed car placed over a fixed charger.

270 kW is impressive, but it doesn't fundamentally solve any issue with EV charging--it just removes the physical cable. 
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« Reply #1889 on: June 19, 2024, 10:24:52 AM »
could eliminate the issue with stolen supercharger copper cables
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