deafsmogtech
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deafsmogtech loves diesel smoke in LA.
deafsmogtech loves diesel smoke in LA.
he does need gas to recharge his batteryThis is about gas and electric....should I start a hybrid thread?
Anyway, yesterday we went to a deaf event. A christmas party...one of the guys have a Chevy Volt, he lives in Cedar Rapids. He says he commutes to work and doesn't use a drop of gas because he doesn't live far from work. If he wants to go far, he can use some gas if he goes out of electric range of 35-40 miles.
he does need gas to recharge his battery
Actually, he charges the battery overnight to commute on electric mode before running out of electric miles then switches to gasoline mode.
Jiro said:Actually, he charges the battery overnight to commute on electric mode before running out of electric miles then switches to gasoline mode.
I wonder which one he pays more.... electric bill or gas
IBM expects to reveal a working prototype of the lithium air battery in 2013. If all goes according to plan, IBM expects full commercial production of their technology in 2020.
IBM researchers at four of the technology giant's laboratories are testing a lithium air battery. Dubbed the Battery500 Project, the lithium air batteries swap heavy-metal oxides for carbon, which reacts with oxygen to create an electrical charge. It's considered the holy grail of electric vehicle technology because it offers a theoretical energy density more than 1,000 times greater than the typical lithium ion battery.
Make the batteries weigh less and take less space so you can have a 5-passenger car that goes 500 miles on charge and costs $20K to $30K.
IBM - The Battery500 Project - United States
Maybe soon battery will be the same size as 24v cordless drill battery strong enuf to run electric car for 500 miles. I ever wonder if car weighted less than 3000 lbs and how it would handle gusty wind j/k
Cattt
I read a while ago, can't remember the website....read on an owner of a 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car, he put about 80,000 miles on it and haven't had any mechanical problems. He did run out of electricity power once since he went a little too far. He said the mantience with his car was pretty cheap. Let's wait few more years to see how the battery health is doing. It only lost about 3% of the capacity of the original.
I had driven my sister's Chevrolet Volt. both of electric and gas. Save lots of gas.
http://www.alldeaf.com/2207570-post1.html
What do you think about Volt? Pro and Con?
Not going to happen anytime soon, probably not even under our generation or even next few generations.
I read a while ago, can't remember the website....read on an owner of a 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car, he put about 80,000 miles on it and haven't had any mechanical problems. He did run out of electricity power once since he went a little too far. He said the mantience with his car was pretty cheap. Let's wait few more years to see how the battery health is doing. It only lost about 3% of the capacity of the original.