My only comment is a call back to your last video. People's biggest complaint of an electric motorcycle is range BUT how many riders actually do iron butts, or extensive travel. Majority of those who complain about the range only go to bike nights, bars, and the occasional weekend trip. I'm surprised no one came up with the subscription model yet like software. Big ride on mowers have banks of batteries. They could sell you an electric Goldwing for $20,000 than a battery service for $20 bucks a month. Five minutes express service they pop off the battery bank and install the charged one. Temporary solution, sure but if engineering and sales get together, it could be profitable.
Removable batteries would work, but I think battery tech is improving so quickly that it won't even be necessary a few years from now. Especially with EV chargers being built like crazy too, soon they'll be at most gas stations and shopping malls.
You and me, both waiting on the same thing - touring bike with 300 miles of range. I read up on hydrogen cars, and you're not supposed to garage them because of the leaks... something something, physics over my head, yeah, hydrogen isn't viable. You mentioned solid state batteries - there are companies working on them, and they're figuring out how to jump the hurdles they've found, but there are cells in the works which are the size of a deck of playing cards, but have much more energy density, and they figured out how to line up the innards to when they expand due to heat, they expand in the same direction and upward, filling in a gap built into the cell's case. THAT, I think, is going to change the face of EVs. Plus, 350kw charging being readily available and able to be used by EVs.
A few companies make viable SS batteries now, but they are terribly expensive and don't last near as long as standard batteries. SS gets better every year though, eventually the tech will become mainstream, and when it does its going to change EVERYTHING.
From what I can find online, there are no current Hydrogen Fuel Cells and/or engine combinations which can generate their own hydrogen versus requiring the energy intensive operations to create hydrogen and the heavy containers required to carry the high pressure gas which is less efficient than gasoline. Can this be overcome? Don't know, but as you mentioned, they have been working on hydrogen powered engines for a long time. Do I think all electric lithium battery based is great? No, not really. There are climate issues such as cold weather which is a problem, and the concern about how to deal with all the battery chemical waste they have to dispose of when bad, as no current way to refresh. I'm a fan of hybrid solutions to give the other technologies time to resolve their challenges. There is no silver bullet, all solutions have issues and need to be addressed. Getting zero emission engines would be great if we aren't creating a downstream environmental crisis when having to deal with the ultimate waste products, similar to nuclear fuel. I hope the total life cycle solutions are in work, bit not confident they are. In the end, the initial and long term costs will be higher for the everyday users. A combination of efficient energy sources needs to be assessed and implemented by region, as there is no single answer that will work. All the solutions will vary by climate, population size, and distance. Fingers crossed that we get past the current political climate and work towards rationale, long term solutions in a bipartisan manner as we are all impacted.
Even my Tesla gets reduced range in very cold temps, but it's not too bad. Other EV's though get much worse range degradation in the cold. Battery temp management is the key, eventually the whole EV industry will progress and figure it out, but it will take time.
That's a big point that very few seem to talk about. Very little of the material in batteries can be recycled. It will be like CFL's. Persuade us to use them, later complain about the toxins in the landfill.
That’s not true. Lithium batteries are recyclable. It’s currently not done because it’s currently still cheaper to build a new one. But recycling is getting cheaper and will take over. They are also not nearly as polluting as burning gallons over gallons of fossil fuels.
@@axelotl86 If it's not being done, than it's true. There is currently no cost effective or environmentally feasible way to do so. How long till there is? Will there be? What impact until then? The mining of such materials have no environmental impact? Our current state of energy storage is only temporary and creating more problems we will deal with later until much better solutions are developed.
@@axelotl86 We have big government money being thrown at it. In the next five years I believe we will be blown away by the advancements in the industry. I just don't believe we have arrived yet and our current storage solutions will be used in five years.
@@N3PRO-Dave oh come on. At this point EV batteries of the first generation are still in use or in a secondary function active. You are talking about environmental problems of batteries? Yes they are existence but not even close to the environmental damage the extraction and burning of fossil fuels create. And don’t let me start with the damage those tankers and oil rigs did in the past. The usage of fossil fuels in magnitudes higher then every ev car and the resources that are needed here. In Europe we currently start to recycle those batteries, Kobalt wich isn’t as problematic as its often stated, is less and less in theirs batteries and NaION batteries are in their way to the marked. So shut up and inform yourself on this topic before you start parroting some oil-lobby nonsense.
