There is so much discussion about charging stations and batteries being barriers to producing economical, practical electric cars that can travel long distances without charging. (I live in Australia where distance is a real ‘thing’)
Am I missing something?
Why can’t such a vehicle use a “dynamo” system to produce its own energy once in motion?
In: Engineering
The contiguous 48 states of the US (excludes Alaska and Hawaii) is around 20% bigger than Australia and has about 7.5 times more roadways. That being the case, Australia should be an easier candidate for electric vehicles. It’s a smaller country, with fewer roadways, and a smaller and more separated population so that charge stations could be relatively concentrated and serve a large number of vehicles.
That said, the materials to manufacture batteries of that size are the real discussion in economic feasibility. It basically boils down to whether or not we want to strip mine all of Bolivia and Australia for lithium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for cobalt.
Latest Answers