BYD beats Toyota? Twingo reveal! Heat Bricks!?

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Join Robert for June's Almost Breaking News! This episode highlights how BYD is overtaking Toyota, another affordable is incoming and many more topical stories .Get ready for a rapid fire run-through of all the essential news from the world of EVs and clean energy from the past month, with Robert resisting expletives at every turn!
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@markthomasson5077 4 месяца назад

Just back from Tromso, north Norway, took a large roll on roll off ferry, 20 minute journey, it was electric! So quiet and vibration free!

@petermuller5275 4 месяца назад

Yes... And no stink of diesel...

@frankyboy1131 4 месяца назад

The point is that a ferry making 20 minute trips forth and back spends a good portion of its service time at the harbour for boarding and unboarding and has plenty of time for recharging. And the UK isn't really famous for its fjords, is it?!

@bimblinghill 3 месяца назад

@@frankyboy1131 Dover-Calais is 35min

@BrackenDog10 4 месяца назад

So glad London is getting quiet, pollution free buses. Out in the wilds, we still have to put up with the second- and third-hand smelly diesels.

@davidlazarus67 4 месяца назад

Not for long. The market for those buses will die first and so even the rural areas will get electric buses.

@johnfrancis4401 4 месяца назад

Cities have air pollution problems. They are the priority. It makes sense for cities with congested roads to have EVs

@chrislong6818 4 месяца назад

I live in Harrogate and a few electric buses were introduced there at the end of 2018. I believe they've now done some 400,00 miles. More EBs (?) are coming as I write. I visited London quite recently, and the improvement in air quality is definitely noticeable. It used to be truly horrible. I do wonder, though, how many drivers in their huge diesel SUVs actually notice the change?

@gazza595 4 месяца назад

@@davidlazarus67 Hope you're right, we live in a village served by a poor bus service and many of their vehicles are as old as twenty years.

@davidlazarus67 4 месяца назад

@@gazza595 There are other advantages, regenerative braking which boosts performance and efficiency of the vehicle overall. Add in lower maintenance and running costs and EV buses pay for themselves very quickly. Bus companies will introduce electric buses on the busiest routes first and within town centres as they can clearly improve local air quality. For councils wanting clean air they could ban ICE vehicles from town centres and with only electric buses and cars including taxis they can get the same benefits without having to impose a ULEZ zone. There are increasing numbers of electric trucks for deliveries as well.

@speakatron5634 4 месяца назад

00:15 = Intro 00:52 = BESS > Hydro? Global rise 03:40 = What The Ship?! Chinese electric boat 05:54 = SUVs Are Bad. Who knew?!? 07:47 = What The Truck?! AA to the rescue 08:43 = Cheap EVs! Finally! 10:38 = New electric Twingo 11:32 = Robert Bricks It! Hot thermal bricks! 13:38 = To-go-ta! BYD doubles Toyota! 14:53 = Megawhat?! Huge heat-pump! 16:24 = Great Scott! Vermont goes after big oil 17:41 = Robert The Builder! Electric diggers 19:40 = GoodBYD Driver... More electric buses! 21:57 = Outro

@vajiraperera1570 2 месяца назад

@EverythingElectricShow please add the index to your video. Thanks. 🙂

@jeffreyherba8435 4 месяца назад

Champion job. Just the right amount of rant and sarcasm ♥

@MrKOenigma 4 месяца назад

I feel the same way😂❤❤

@alexiz689 4 месяца назад

Cycling behind anything that burns diesel is awful. Great to see the new electric buses in London. More please!

@Ben31337l 2 месяца назад

Apart from when they catch fire. I prefer trolley buses.

@alexiz689 2 месяца назад

@@Ben31337l LFP doesn't catch fire.

@theunknownunknowns5168 4 месяца назад

Over 10 years ago Tony Seba was bang on with when price parity would happen.

@Skylancer727 3 месяца назад

I mean it's still not price parity, it's not even close. EVs still tend to be a third to double the price of petrol vehicles. The Chinese vehicles also aren't a great defense as they also have dirt cheap petrol that we just don't talk about. And looking at things like the cargo ship, yeah we're not even close. Not to mention we most certainly do not have the infrastructure to charge 50Mwh at every dock in the world. Not to mention improvements in batteries means it will make it farther, but that power demand will just be higher. Like yes we will be able to make an EV that goes 600 miles. But it will then have a 200kwh battery instead of an 80kwh battery which means it needs more power faster, which means even more expensive fast chargers, and many places already struggle to install the existing chargers. It's not just the batteries that need to be better, how exactly is the infrastructure supposed to work out? That one ferry uses nearly 30 windmills just to power it exclusively. Even if the power is clean, it's not if we just waste it.

@passby8070 3 месяца назад

Thanks to China for all of its innovative battery tech, cheap solar panels and EVs, otherwise we would have no option other than continue to dream at the mercy of lagacy auto and big oil companies. Humanity will be like a frog in a slowly warming up pot.

@Skylancer727 3 месяца назад

@@passby8070 I mean I'm not gonna praise them much. The reason their costs are lower are mainly lower wages which I'll never respect. Things being cheap is always great, but there's always a price to pay. Not to mention China does use indentured servitude to further bring down costs; a concept that here in the west died at the same time slavery did. And in many cases the Chinese option is the cheapest but the worst value. China can make good things just like the rest of the world, but they have a huge market of total junk quality. Like yeah you can get a portable solar panel off China for $15, but it's so cheap it feels like paper. You get what you pay for and you end up with more waste from it. Is it really good for the environment if it just ends up in a trash pit in a fourth the time with all the heavy metals?

@timsmith5339 2 месяца назад

@@Skylancer727 It is these facts that could be used to properly and fairly regulate imports from China. Instead of just slapping tariffs on things, to the detriment of your indigenous industry, if the exporter cannot prove that it's products are made to certain minimum ethical standards, they cannot get an import permit! The electric car done good again, as in the case of raising standards in such industries as cobalt mining.

@niklaswejedal463 4 месяца назад

I'm with you Robert - Let's see the end of SUVs now!

@francisa751 4 месяца назад

That BYD London bus, converted to permanent living, what a mobile house.

@johnhornblow4347 4 месяца назад

7 kwh in the roof and you have a mobile off grid home

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

@@johnhornblow4347 Will take a bit more than 7kW of solar to charge that 500+kWh battery :D but yes, would help offset the daily energy usage (at least for ~9 months of the year, in the UK).

@John-FourteenSix 4 месяца назад

10:45 New Electric Twingo. Bring it on!

@MarkAtkin 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the time link. Saved me having to search for it.

@TheTriumfAnt 4 месяца назад

Those thermal bricks sound like a better version of the Economy 7 radiators that used to be common in the UK.

@t1n4444 4 месяца назад

😂😂😂😂 Hmm ... not a scientist then. Heating stones to that temperature is one thing but how simple would it be to extract the heat energy back out of the stones. If as we were informed there's a fair bit of metal involved in their construction then can we speculate they are heated using conduction? There's a lot of technology involved and it would have been interesting to learn how the idea would work in practice. I can't see the quoted temperatures being used in a home, say. Still there's always Google to fill in the gaps.

@0ooTheMAXXoo0 4 месяца назад

It was not easy to convince people to buy SUVs back in the 1990s when laws made them extra profitable for car companies... It took hundreds of films and music videos and tons of advertisements to slowly make them popular...

@DArk-qx3du 4 месяца назад

To look at pumped storage in another light. In 4 years batteries have caught up to pumped storage that took 40+years to create. Also the time it takes to pump water up and release takes way longer than batteries that are charging and discharging as needed throughout the day.

@MrAdopado 4 месяца назад

Batteries are best for short term storage but pumped hydro is way way better for medium to long term storage if the geography of the locations can work.

@williamarmstrong7199 4 месяца назад

@@MrAdopadothe problem is they are far more costly to run than batteries. Large batteries run on a duty cycle cost of about 2 to 4% against 20+% for pumped hydro.

@Nikoo033 4 месяца назад

However these batteries can only provide electricity for 4hours on average, versus 10hours for pumped hydro and storage. Things will improve.

@DArk-qx3du 4 месяца назад

@@Nikoo033 True, but I think they recharge quicker might be useful with fluctuations.

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

@@DArk-qx3du Yup - or to put it another way, both are important, because they provide different functions... batteries are rapid-response short-duration, and pumped-hydro has slower response but far better duration (usually)

@jonasheggli3893 4 месяца назад

Almost Breaking News is the highlight for me on youtube. Thank you very much for an excellent show!

@RedRouge-j4j 4 месяца назад

SUVs are big & heavy, and often heavier than electric vehicles of similar utility. Not that people driving Chelsea Tractors (utility?) in the narrow roads of UK care about the pot holes we have. Except to complain abut them, oblivious of what causes there to be so so so many! We brits do irony so well, but only when we compare ourselves with the US. Now that IS irony.

@paulgoodridge2494 4 месяца назад

As a small correction on the video, the pumped hydro/battery story was about power, not energy. Still very impressive!! (The old GW vs GWh issue). I checked the LinkedIn article where it is clearer. Thanks for bringing this amazing stuff to a wider audience

@colinmcconnell827 4 месяца назад

I thought that must be the case. (queried it in a previous comment). It seems to me that the invention of the KWh as a unit of energy has done more harm than good in the world, with the constant confusion it seems to cause. It might be simpler if we just stuck to using Joules.

@MrAdopado 4 месяца назад

In Scotland for the past few years there have been electric inter-city buses between Edinburgh/Dundee and Glasgow/Dundee and all points between. The company is called Ember and I'm surprised they haven't had a mention (unless I missed it) on the EES channel.

@mjp0815 4 месяца назад

Robert, remember the smoking ban? How the pubs were suddenly smelling of BO. Now that the busses in London stop smoking, what will London smell of?

@ratbert1 4 месяца назад

Political BS

@jantjarks7946 4 месяца назад

@@ratbert1🤣😂😅

@HairyCheese 4 месяца назад

Pee pee 😂

@chriswilks303 4 месяца назад

Raw sewage from the Thames!

@BalmforthGG 4 месяца назад

The sweet smell of the third world

@markthomasson5077 4 месяца назад

I definitely noticed that drivers of big 4x4 in cities collect parking tickets like confetti, with out a worry.

@PaulMansfield 4 месяца назад

If you're wealthy, a parking ticket is just expensive parking. Though here in Cambridge, it can cost several pounds an hour to park, park somewhere for a few days and a ticket might be cheaper!

@MichaelBen-f2b 4 месяца назад

Always look forward to the almost breaking news!

@rp9674 4 месяца назад

Me2

@Jaw0lf 4 месяца назад

This is all fantastic news and I loved your delivery Robert. Amazing how fast things are now moving towards the battery.

@t1n4444 4 месяца назад

Area storage, yes Indeed. In EVs, no. Battery EVs are in decline in UK. Sales are limping along and the people who will suffer the most are the dealers. If QW is still attached to a car sales outlet then you can only feel sorry for him. It wouldn't surprise any of us to learn he's digging up his allotment looking for the mother lode of gold/white hydrogen. Agriculturally speaking QW is most likely to find only nitrogen ... and we've got quite a lot of that already ... in fact our lungs are almost full of it, 24/7. For those who remain puzzled you'll always have Google.

@Jaw0lf 4 месяца назад

@@t1n4444 EV's are not slowing down, numbers sold are up this month from last year, more and more are visible on our roads.

@kalebdaark100 4 месяца назад

17:18 I now have the image of great nets full of lawyers being delivered by trebuchet. Thankyou. 😁

@colinmcconnell827 4 месяца назад

2:19 The text you are highlighting says GW, not GWh. Are you sure these figures aren't describing the instantaneous power that can be delivered, rather than the total amount of energy storage?

@andrewlarner6190 3 месяца назад

So sad that our own electric bus production in Northern Ireland has lost out to BYD

@daviddunmore8415 4 месяца назад

Regarding the Dacia Spring - Just don't look at EuroNCAP if you really want one - 1 star and 49% occupant protection. Still, that's better than the Zoe no stars and 43% occupant protection. Still, I do like the new Twingo, subject to a good EuroNCAP rating.

@Popdog76 4 месяца назад

That's the 2021 spring new one hasn't been tested....

@chrisjeanneret5091 4 месяца назад

There is a proposal for a pumped storage facility on the Niagara escarpment along Georgian Bay. There is a large nuclear power plant about 100 km away, so I assume the idea is to divert some of that energy at night and return it to the grid during the day. There is the usual opposition, but since it would be located on part of a military training range which needs cleanup eventually that may help.

@pfunk768 4 месяца назад

It seems like you and the cited article are not being clear about whether it's power rating (GW) or energy capacity (GWh) for which batteries are overtaking pumped hydro. The article is using GW while you're saying GWh. Given that pumped hydro is typically designed for longer duration than lithium ion batteries (which by their nature are power dense), the energy storage capacity of pumped hydro could very well be much greater than batteries. It's not clear from this data. Unfortunately convenient units (GW and GWh, vs horsepower and gallons) make them more easily mixed up.

@ratbert1 4 месяца назад

Calmer and all the better for it, well done.

@xxwookey 4 месяца назад

2:21 The text says GW. You said GWh. So has BESS energy storage really overtaken pumped hydro, or has BESS _generation_ _capacity_ overtaken PH? It's not the same thing. I presume that PH tends to have a much higher energy:power ratio than BESS. So if BESS has more power next year it would need to grow quite a lot more (factor of 5 maybe?) to have more energy storage. Anyone got the actual _energy_ numbers?

@derloos 4 месяца назад

Yes please to the bus episode, I hope you succeed in making it!

@ArturFlies 4 месяца назад

Pumped storage vs batterry storage part. I am not sure if you are not mixing its capacity (GWh) with available power (GW) or power-capacity. You are saying GWh but on the screen number with GW are shown. I would expect power to getting equal very soon but capacity GWh lagging behing a few years. Could you check it?

@urbanstrencan 4 месяца назад

New electric Twingo is supposedly being built here in Slovenia at Revoz Renault plant, in partnership with Geely ❤❤❤

@jantjarks7946 4 месяца назад

The moment the majority of trucks, vans, construction machinery and buses are switching to electric drive trains it's game over for fossils. As they are the largest consumers of fuel. Economies of scale will be thrown out of the window. It's far more important to switch them to electric drive trains than cars.

@badbasic 4 месяца назад

I would argue it's also easier and less invasive to make that switch than ban ICE cars for regular people. The way psychology works, it's much better for people to realize how good EVs are than to force them upon them. I come from a country that just started adopting EVs a bit, voluntarily, and let me tell you, nothing gives someone an EV itch like when someone they know buys one and uses it freely, no pressure. Sure, there's always that group that will hate on it, but normal people will make the jump if they figure it makes sense.

@jantjarks7946 4 месяца назад

Especially when women figure out how comfortable driving EVs actually is. They suddenly switch in droves. But they are very hesitant and risk averse. It takes some trust to build up first.

@williamarmstrong7199 4 месяца назад

@jantjarks7946 a few cockups like trying g to get a charge from a broken charger (SWARCO Charge Place Scotland) will put someone off for life! Also many chargers are not women frendly being in dark areas with no toilets or coffee close by. That also go's for the over 50's who find toilets very much more needed than when younger.

@jantjarks7946 4 месяца назад

@@williamarmstrong7199 All the developments are in vain, because no one thought about a fail safe, a toilet and a lantern. Yeah, let's call off the EV revolution. 😂😉

@badbasic 4 месяца назад

@@jantjarks7946 He does have a point though, while my wife loves the simplicity of driving our Model 3, she doesn't want anything to do with charging it, and said she is quite happy to leave planning longer trips to me and would never do it, even though the bloody car does it for her🥺 Sure, I do plan it better than the car does, but the built-in logic is perfectly fine for everyone, I just like to do it as a side quest 😁

@barney2001 4 месяца назад

Jule, a Toronto-based sustainable energy provider provides DC chargers with batteries. They don’t require any electrical grid upgrades to provide DCFC. Being used in Ontario for adding level 3 chargers to grocery stores. Added benefit is if the store loses hydro, it can call on these batteries to keep the frozen and chilled food safe.

@jordanrobertson1711 4 месяца назад

Sadly, the advert I got during this episode was for how Shell are keeping Gas going to your homes🙈🙈🙈🙈 Keep up the good work!

@rappermusician 4 месяца назад

Thankyou Robert - thoroughly entertaining and informative - a classic example of your perfect denigration of the oil lot

@jimhood1202 3 месяца назад

Nice update on progress. Thanks.

@peterjol 4 месяца назад

I find the transition to clean and renewable energy for everything is such a wonderful and exciting transition to be making...everything about it will make our world and life better than the fossil fuel powered world...the only thing I wish, was that we weren't in so much danger of it all happening much too late to solve the climate change nightmare. I get so mad at the fossil fuel industry or anyone trying to slow the transition down. I almost believe they should be put in prison.

@JohnMcAfee-se9ms 4 месяца назад

What nightmare? Most of earth's history with life, there were no polar ice caps. We are coming out of an ice age.

@geraldbutler5484 4 месяца назад

@@JohnMcAfee-se9msIt’s not so much the climate changing, it’s the speed of the change.

@williamarmstrong7199 4 месяца назад

@JohnMcAfee-se9ms wrong actually, we should be entering one about now. However, we are getting hotter bh the day.

@syncrosimon 4 месяца назад

You are the problem.

@JohnMcAfee-se9ms 4 месяца назад

@@geraldbutler5484 How many degrees did the climate change between 2000 and 2020? Are you aware of how fast the climate and sea levels changed right when this last ice age started to end?

@simhedgesrex7097 4 месяца назад

Good episode - still enthusiastic and informative, but less ranty than usual. Good balance.

@NorburyNewlywed 4 месяца назад

First story: the figures were GW not GWh as stated! Massive difference. The energy stored by pumped hydro is still massively more than BESS, the power output is approaching parity.

@juliandavies7890 4 месяца назад

Why are we not utilising the flow of our rivers by means of leets fed off the rivers to a small hydro plant and then back into the flow of the river. How many rivers do we have and how many brownfield sites where we could situate these hydro plants.

@hellcat1988 4 месяца назад

The fact that there is now a truck branded with "double A", a common term for a size of battery here in the US, is HILARIOUS to me.

@andrewcarter1771 4 месяца назад

Yeah we use the term here in GB too. I wonder how far it goes on a charge, 6 inches?

@hellcat1988 4 месяца назад

@@andrewcarter1771 Bold of you to assume that a double a could actually get the motor to turn in the first place...lol

@the_lost_navigator7266 3 месяца назад

So you have road trains? The irony is that they will definitely be run on diesel.

@hellcat1988 3 месяца назад

@@the_lost_navigator7266 This isn't australia. We don't allow semis to pull more than 3 short trailers or 2 midsized ones.

@the_lost_navigator7266 3 месяца назад

@@hellcat1988 yes, a double A would be two normal semi trailers, the second riding on a bogey.

@andrewmacnaughton7944 4 месяца назад

London busses - chunky evs, yes - please show us more!

@philiptaylor7902 4 месяца назад

Great news on battery storage, but to put it in context, 156GW (hours?) is about 5 hours of demand on the UK grid. Some ways to go yet.

@NorburyNewlywed 4 месяца назад

Not GWh sadly

@chlistens7742 4 месяца назад

was wondering if you would cover that a giga-texas the proffrock- 3 has completed its first tunnel (all electric boring machine (grid tied) So they are making tunnels under giga texas with an all electric vehicle

@changeofseason8054 4 месяца назад

Meanwhile in Australia the latest crazy is big American twin cab utes that are to big for the majority of parking spaces. No issues with filling these vehicles even with fuel at $2 plus a litre.

@Dwil9057 4 месяца назад

Will be interesting to see how the BYD Shark goes. Looks pretty good, even if it's starting as a PHEV. Should get a few nibbles if they price it well

@victorsvoice7978 4 месяца назад

SUVs and pickup trucks are not suitable for big cities. They take up too much space in the overcrowded city streets. Where parking is limited. Car manufacturers forced these monstrous vehicles on the world. They did this by removing small, affordable city cars for sale. Because big vehicle means big profits.

@Pottery4Life 4 месяца назад

Thank you, Robert.

@MMiniprize 4 месяца назад

You can’t just criticise ice SUVs, the only saving grace about electric SUVs is the power train. But SUVs being by the go to design just shows that the car industry just doesn’t care about the environment at all, merely fulfilling quaotas given by governments. They’re pumping out execessively sized products that all require more materials than something smaller. Materials that are being burned through at an insane rate, selling to people on finance deals that they can barely afford - that then feel compelled to buy into ‘upgrade cycles’, for cars that don’t fit on peoples driveways - let alone on the streets they live on. I genuinely hate it and them and nothing is done to try and disincentivise them (or car use in general)

@pete_dl1585 4 месяца назад

great news about the london busses

@EugeneLambert 4 месяца назад

Wish we had electric buses and boats up here in the Lake District

@georgewhitney4428 4 месяца назад

Try getting Go-Ahead London on the show, their ev centre of excellence in Northumberland Park is cutting edge.

@andywen638 4 месяца назад

Anyone got idea that the battery storage in Melbourne burst in fire before the day of completion. The fire had been put out after a number of days, started from Friday.

@eabellamy1 4 месяца назад

I never understood why container ships do not install batteries, windsails and liftable/displaceable solar panels on top of cargo containers. Should be able to reduce fuel consumption significantly.

@tyskigolf 4 месяца назад

SUVs are a problem not just if they use gas or diesel though. The increase use of SUVs results in more space used on streets resulting in less passing distances to people cycling, increased injuries and fatalities to people walking and cycling due to larger size and higher bonnets resulting in hits to vital organs and heads and rolling over people instead of people getting hit at the legs and going onto the hood or windshield. That all results in more severe injuries.

@gregzeng 4 месяца назад

The last story on London electric busses? No mention of the quietness, quick acceleration, battery charging deceleration, and lack of engine vibration. Why not mention this?

@Guitar6ty 4 месяца назад

Well done on the folly of driving the ego 4x4s they are difficult to park and are next to useless on country lanes. They can also turn over at low speed. Excellent presentation.

@keithwilson1554 4 месяца назад

SUV's made every Car on Earth more Expensive. more Sheetmetal on the sides to stop them going into the passenger area. Most cars were even raised up so goodbye Aerodynamics and better handling. An example i give is the Honda odyssey a low sleek people mover than changed into a raised up slab sided vehicle. I would like to see a Gloves Off Documentary highlighting what current Fossil Fuels are doing to our Environment and Health. And the Wars we have to fight to keep supply going.

@WM12329 4 месяца назад

Will any new BYD built buses be subject to future tariffs on Chinese imports??????

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

Will depend on whether they're imported from China, or built in the UK/EU, I think

@knowledgebyte 4 месяца назад

Yes, I’m seeing one or two electric buses show up in the local towns and cities. Cheltenham could do with a few, especially route 51 as they’re still using old chuffers. Great show.

@usaverageguy 4 месяца назад

Does that 156.6 GW of battery storage include EVs? Or is it only megapacks for grid backup?

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

Given there are no EVs sold with V2G currently (only V2L or a couple with V2H), then it's almost certainly grid-storage. It probably doesn't include home-storage batteries either.

@jamesgilbart2672 4 месяца назад

It's great that London is getting more electric buses with clean air benefits. It's also great that London's smelly diesel taxis appear to be going the same way!

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

Iirc the 'new' Black Cabs have been PHEV (with significant EV-only range) for years - Robert covered them on an early episode of Fully Charged, ~10 years ago? The only issue is that it takes time for the older smokers to reach end-of-life and be taken off the road... which we're starting to see happen in larger numbers now

@placeholdername0000 4 месяца назад

The difference is that BESS is overtaking pumped hydro in terms of power, not energy capacity. kW, not kWh. Those are two very different roles. Also, Esbjerg still has their waste incinerator. There is still trash that needs to be disposed of somehow.

@dirkp9999 4 месяца назад

Thank you for the video! Really good to see a great summary of what is being done and what the near future holds.

@joenavarro2973 4 месяца назад

Floating wind/solar charging stations, along ocean route's would be great, but 200 miles is really good

@greggrant4614 3 месяца назад

Pumped storage is storage for seasonal peaks, while batteries are for shorter duration peaks (like daily peaks, or night-time loads complementing solar's availability during the day, voltage and frequency regulation for power quality stability, etc.) largely met with gas turbine peaker plants. Please don't conflate these totally different power needs that battery systems are providing compared to pumped storage. In other words, battery energy storage capacity and energy should be compared with turbine peaker plant capacity/energy, not with pumped storage capacity/energy.

@joehopfield 3 месяца назад

If part of the heat for those hot bricks could be heat-pump, mind blowing efficiency.

@showme360 4 месяца назад

There was a time Robert, which I most loved about your channel, when you would go visit the bus depo or see the new grid coonection being built under the streets of London, but it seems those days are over!

@undisclosedthai 4 месяца назад

I see the "Horse" joint venture, then I guess Renault is working with Geely to create the new Twingo EV. I even think Geely universe and Renault universe will be merge someday.

@Walterp60 4 месяца назад

My Tesla Model Y SUV is using 267w per mile. My old 2019 Model 3 used 315 w per mile. Better efficiency in new a SUV vs an older Sedan. Heat pumps and more efficient motor?

@mrrolandlawrence 2 месяца назад

yeh we have loads of scooters over here in asia. Petrol scooters get around 1.9L per 100km and electric scooters are around 130kg. Going green was never buying a 500kw 2.5ton monster truck. At the same time there are harsh regulations for having an electric bicycle in the UK and the mini scooter is outright banned. I love being able to park right next to where i want to go in town. Lets have a tiered tax code. Cars under 1 ton. Cars between 1 & 2... Cars over 2 tons.

@ChitFromChinola 4 месяца назад

For ordinary home heating, an American company, Steffes, builds ceramic brick heaters that are heated up at night using off-peak electricity. Already commercialized and works great.

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

If we're talking home-heating and prior-art, then the UK had the same system (called 'Economy 7 heaters' as they charged/heated up overnight on the national 'Economy 7' tariff) since the '70s iirc... and they kinda worked ok, but not really (they heated up at night, when you want the house to be cooler... and by the end of the day had usually lost most of their heat - when you wanted the house to be warmer).

@ChitFromChinola 4 месяца назад

Steffes has been making these units for a long time and continue to improve and add models. They work extremely well in the northern US. None of the downsides that you describe.

@eamonquinn5188 2 месяца назад

Please have a look at Tokamak Energy, in Oxfordshire

@neatodd 4 месяца назад

I remember seeing a video about JCB where they are going with hydrogen for their big diggers. They argue that recharge times are quicker, which makes sense if the equipment is working for long periods. Interesting to see that Volvo are going with batteries.

@hellcat1988 4 месяца назад

If those thermal bricks are half as good as I'm assuming from the story, they could vary well replace external wood burning boilers here in the US.

@martinutr 4 месяца назад

Where is "Everything Electric South" going to be held?

@DeadManWalking4574 4 месяца назад

In North

@frejaresund3770 4 месяца назад

I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.

@robsta1000 4 месяца назад

Great episode, as always! ✌️⚡️⚡️⚡️

@Nikoo033 4 месяца назад

We have to be cautious with these promising results. The batteries currently installed seem to be able to deliver power for 4 hours. Average pumped hydro storage seem to be able to deliver power for 10 hours on average apparently. So not yet the same end use for both.

@johnfrancis4401 4 месяца назад

There are lots of disused mines in the UK. The mines used to have cages to raise and lower the coal miners. If those cages are filled with sand containers - a lot of potential gravitational energy can be stored and used raising and lowering these cages.

@RichardFraser-y9t 4 месяца назад

Can you do maths?

@johnfrancis4401 4 месяца назад

@@RichardFraser-y9t Can you read?

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

Not really - friction losses would be significant, mass per lift would be limited, and it typically only took a few minutes (5-10, perhaps?) for the lift to reach bottom (which would be the limit of the output-duration)... A chap called Michael Bernard (iirc) has done a number of articles looking at the efficiency and viability of most proposed 'gravity storage', and typically only Pumped Hydro actually pencils out as viable once the numbers are processed.

@johnfrancis4401 4 месяца назад

@@logicalChimp Friction? Nowadays they have ball bearings which reduce the friction to negligible proportions. Suppose the cage could have a mass of 10,000 kg and suppose the drop is 1,000 metres This would give you a PE of 100,000,000 Joules. So if you assume the mass takes 100 seconds to fall the height it would produce a million watts as it fell or 10,000 kW sufficient for about 1,000 homes during that 100 seconds. But of course there are thousands of disused mine shafts and the mass put in the cage could be increased. This is not insignificant.

@flotsamike 2 месяца назад

I would like to get my hands on one of the electric ships containers sized batteries. I think each one is 1.6 megawatt hours so one or two of them could be used to make an electricity Coop that just buys electricity when it's cheap and then uses it all day long. Of course in Houston you could have just parked the whole ship somewhere along the ship channel after hurricane barrel to provide emergency power to some neighborhood. They would need to tolerate an outage when the ship had to go somewhere to recharge but it's better than nothing.

@lookoutleo 4 месяца назад

Love my leaf 30 , it's great , more storage means more cheap electric to charge leafykins, thankyou for sharing :)

@jamespkinsella5018 4 месяца назад

Thermal heat pumps in Norway, just WOW. That's the way.

@trevorwhalley7466 2 месяца назад

Sir, an interesting video,with LOTS of info, its encouraging but not rocket science to hear London buses ( and other cities) using electric, yes, there are a few problems, but this industry is only a few years old, the ICE industry is over 100, both are still learning!. I watched the full video on the Denmark heatpump installation, this is an experimental plant, built to produce, test and monitor equipment, exactly what is needed.

@williamlawrenson8345 4 месяца назад

At any temperature, water per kg, has 4 times the energy stored than air, so great as a source for heat pumps.

@fomalhaut9 4 месяца назад

Marvellous stuff. Keep it up lads

@simonpaine2347 4 месяца назад

I think that it's past time to redefine SUV! There are now so many smaller "sensible" cars that are defined as SUV, that are obviously skewing that number.

@DArk-qx3du 4 месяца назад

Thermal bricks 1800 Celsius makes me think of sterling engines which operate on temp differences. Could be a way to use the heat to make mechanical energy with having reconvert heat back into electricity (somehow) or steam.

@UberSprite 4 месяца назад

I'm no expert on the subject or this new ceramic+steel brick composition technology. It sounds to me the bricks are more like Piezoelectricity (which I had to look up on Wikipedia to make sure I have the right word) and the electricity can be drawn directly out of the hot bricks like a battery. Much like they use electricity to directly heat up (charge) the bricks.

@Peter-hg2oc 4 месяца назад

Question. How will you convert people who tow to an EV when they find out they have to unhitch to charge?

@francesconicoletti2547 4 месяца назад

Did someone write a global law about EV charger configurations ? Truck are surely going to have the same problem. Charger companies , if EV towing becomes a thing will , just put in some towing bays.

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

drive-through charger bays (suitable for use when towing) do exist, and will likely become more prevalent once we start getting more EVs with sufficient range when towing that people use them for more than trips to the dump

@allandnc4402 2 месяца назад

Dacia Spring is actually a Chinese build car and DACIA/Renault branded and imported to Europe

@stefanweilhartner4415 4 месяца назад

it will be interesting, if someone starts to make bigger jellyrolls like the 4890 battery with about 500Wh per cell. it would make home and grid storage batteries cheaper. with new sodium ion chemistry that would be great and we could get below 100€ per kWh end costumer price.

@junkerzn7312 4 месяца назад

I don't know about all of you, but I came for the heat bricks!

@dorsai 4 месяца назад

Loved the content.

@mystisith3984 4 месяца назад

Slowly then suddenly. We didn't have a single genuinely cheap EV 5 years ago & in 2025 it's going to be a stampede. With the recession going on, I'm betting those 🥜 will convince at least a few SUV drivers to shift.

@pauldenney7908 4 месяца назад

It's worth noting that almost all hand power tools on building sites are battery electric too.

@barriewilliams4526 4 месяца назад

It's worth noting that all the excavation machines on building sites are diesel🙃

@Crazydiamond_1974 4 месяца назад

That massive heat pump… I think it’s brilliant that they’re just shifting heat instead of creating new heat for all those houses

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

And - in a very *very* small way, helping to 'cool down' the overheated oceans :D

@tarant315 4 месяца назад

back of the napkin math = 380 watts per household @ a SCOP of 3

@MartinBeck-vq5lp 4 месяца назад

Thank you for a fabulous session. So much positive news and I would like to make lots of comments but will restrain myself to one question - what are JCB doing with the adoption of electric power???

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

I think JCB have been showcased on the Fully Charged show previously, both with BEV units, HFC units, and even an experiment hydrogen-burning (diesel retrofit) unit, iirc... but it was mostly smaller stuff

@LarryRichelli 4 месяца назад

The US putting that 100% tariff on Chinese EVs is doing nothing but allowing the American auto makers to languish in their furthering EV technology and they are languishing in this area!

@jimgraham6722 4 месяца назад

In Australia: Snowy Hydro 2.0 pumped storage system will provide 2.2 gigaWatts of dispatchable capacity with approximately 350 gigawatt hours of storage (enough for one hundred and sixty hours). It will cost $12 billion and have an operating life of at least fifty years. By comparison, the Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub (MREH -the biggest battery in the southern hemisphere) will have 1.2 gigaWatts of dispatchable capacity and 2.4GigaWatt hours of storage (enough for two hours). It will cost $1.9 billion and have a life of about 15 years. On this basis pumped hydro, provided you have the terrain and water, is more than fifty times more cost effective store of energy. To meet its renewables objectives Australia needs around ten times the energy storage of Snowy Hydro 2.

@francesconicoletti2547 4 месяца назад

Snowy Hydro 2.0 has the economics of Hinkley Point C . Every time there is an engineering problem the costs go up. And the engineering problems keep coming. Meanwhile modular mass produced storage does that economy of scale thing and competition and the price keeps dropping. Maybe even one of those perpetually in development mass storage batteries might actually take off and bend the cost curve further downward, before Snowy Hydro 2.0 stores anything.

@jimgraham6722 4 месяца назад

@@francesconicoletti2547 The energy storage needed to support renewables is extremely expensive, and large chemical batteries are wildly expensive for the amount of storage you get. That is just the way it is. Chemical batteries would have to come down by a factor of thirty in cost to come within cooee of matching Snowy Hydro2 for cost effectiveness and more importantly needed capacity. The engineering issues they have encountered are routine for tunnelling projects and entirely solvable. Once complete I have no doubt it will work very well. More importantly it will help free us from the dubious supply chain and environmental issues of big batteries. In the event there are not enough large hydro sites (there are about five not yet earmarked) non hydro solutions that might also come close to pumped hydro are solutions involving liquid air. They appear to be scaleable and engineering solutions are on offer to address efficiency issues. However, I have not heard much on that front recently.

@michaelaultman5190 4 месяца назад

As I have always said you can do anything with electricity.

@youxkio 4 месяца назад

Hello Robert. Reality check: numbers in GWs are not mind-boggling. TWs are. Long way to go. Hopefully, those numbers in 2030 will multiply by 100x compared to this year's numbers.