EV Roadtrip by the 8 Bit Guy.
EV Roadtrip by the 8 Bit Guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BfxUiF58Co
I know that stretch of road and that could be deadly if there was a winter storm.
I know that stretch of road and that could be deadly if there was a winter storm.
From Wiki
The Leaf's range on a full charge has been increased gradually from 117 km (73 miles) to 364 km (226 miles) (EPA rated), due to the use of a larger battery pack along with several minor improvements.
And per the story.
Then there is the fact that hilly roads sapped his power faster than level roads, so going through hilly territory could cut his battery life by as much as half.
Based on those two statements, idk why he even tried this trip.
From Wiki
>The Leaf's range on a full charge has been increased gradually from 117 km (73 miles) to 364 km (226 miles) (EPA rated), due to the use of a larger battery pack along with several minor improvements.
And per the story.
>Then there is the fact that hilly roads sapped his power faster than level roads, so going through hilly territory could cut his battery life by as much as half.
Based on those two statements, idk why he even tried this trip.
Imagine buying a scooter, then driving into the middle of no where. When you run out of gas, say to yourself this is the scooter manufactures fault I ran out of gas, they should pay for the tow. Then instead of, you know going to the gas station, you decide to go to a shitty motel and beg people all day for fuel. Write a book on why scooters are kind of shitty for road trips, and that should get you roughly near what this guy is attempting.
He bought the shittiest, early model of ev, and he doesn't charge it at good chargers. Then he proceeds to write an entire book based on why driving his shitty city ev sucks to drive on long road trips across remote stretches of highway.
Imagine buying a scooter, then driving into the middle of no where. When you run out of gas, say to yourself this is the scooter manufactures fault I ran out of gas, they should pay for the tow. Then instead of, you know going to the gas station, you decide to go to a shitty motel and beg people all day for fuel. Write a book on why scooters are kind of shitty for road trips, and that should get you roughly near what this guy is attempting.
He bought the shittiest, early model of ev, and he doesn't charge it at good chargers. Then he proceeds to write an entire book based on why driving his shitty city ev sucks to drive on long road trips across remote stretches of highway.
*note. Lived in Wyoming. Not From Wyoming. If he was from Wyoming he would only think like this after some extensive brain damage.
*note. Lived in Wyoming. Not From Wyoming. If he was from Wyoming he would only think like this after some extensive brain damage.
At around 180 miles, this is a trip that only takes about three hours in a gas-powered vehicle ... since EVs only travel a few hundred miles between charges, that meant he was stuck trying to find places to charge
Uh, guys. There's a hole in your story here.
so he drove 30 miles to Cheyenne, where he could pull into a Nissan dealership to charge up with its Level 2 charger. At that level, he would get about 10 miles worth of juice for every hour he was hooked up.
Yeah, no. The Nissan Leaf charges at 6.6kW from a Level 2 charger. That's 26 miles of range per hour.
> At around 180 miles, this is a trip that only takes about three hours in a gas-powered vehicle ... since EVs only travel a few hundred miles between charges, that meant he was stuck trying to find places to charge
Uh, guys. There's a hole in your story here.
> so he drove 30 miles to Cheyenne, where he could pull into a Nissan dealership to charge up with its Level 2 charger. At that level, he would get about 10 miles worth of juice for every hour he was hooked up.
Yeah, no. The Nissan Leaf charges at 6.6kW from a Level 2 charger. That's 26 miles of range per hour.
Then there is the serious mental aspect about driving an EV. The phenomenon is called “range anxiety,” as drivers find themselves in anguish over whether or not they will make it to the next charging station before their EV conks out.
But yeah the whole story did feel like an advertisement for the guys book.
Long story short it sounds like the guy just can't plan ahead.
>Then there is the serious mental aspect about driving an EV. The phenomenon is called “range anxiety,” as drivers find themselves in anguish over whether or not they will make it to the next charging station before their EV conks out.
But yeah the whole story did feel like an advertisement for the guys book.
Long story short it sounds like the guy just can't plan ahead.
How’s Biden and the liberals going to get all the lithium needed to keep making these vehicles (batteries)?
How’s Biden and the liberals going to get all the lithium needed to keep making these vehicles (batteries)?
This is Li from only a small region of Germany. There's bound to be large deposits in a country as huge as the US. Also, it's not set in stone that all future battery tech is going to depend solely on Lithium.
Geologists have estimated that an area in the Upper Rhine Valley, in the Black Forest area of southwestern Germany, holds enough lithium for more than 400 million electric cars, making it one of the world’s biggest deposits.
The trove could reduce the reliance of the German car industry on imported lithium. The European Commission estimates that Europe will need to increase its supply of lithium by a factor of 18 by 2030, and by a factor of 60 by 2050. To date, Europe has been importing the bulk of its lithium from the “lithium triangle” in South America, and from Australia. Both sources have substantial local environmental impacts, in addition to the carbon cost of shipping the lithium around the world.
German-Australian startup Vulcan Energy Resources says it can deliver carbon-neutral lithium, extracted at geothermal power stations. “The lithium deposit we’re talking about here is gigantic, and its properties are ideal for our goal of producing high-quality lithium on a large industrial scale in Germany,” Vulcan Energy Resources co-founder Horst Kreuter told Reuters.
The company plans to invest 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion) to build up to five geothermal power stations and facilities to extract the lithium. It says it could be producing 15,000 tons of lithium hydroxide per year at two sites by 2024, and an additional 40,000 tons per year in a second phase beginning in 2025.
This is Li from only a small region of Germany. There's bound to be large deposits in a country as huge as the US.
Also, it's not set in stone that all future battery tech is going to depend solely on Lithium.
https://chargedevs.com/newswire/german-firms-plan-to-exploit-massive-lithium-deposits-beneath-the-rhine/
>Geologists have estimated that an area in the Upper Rhine Valley, in the Black Forest area of southwestern Germany, holds enough lithium for more than 400 million electric cars, making it one of the world’s biggest deposits.
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The trove could reduce the reliance of the German car industry on imported lithium. The European Commission estimates that Europe will need to increase its supply of lithium by a factor of 18 by 2030, and by a factor of 60 by 2050. To date, Europe has been importing the bulk of its lithium from the “lithium triangle” in South America, and from Australia. Both sources have substantial local environmental impacts, in addition to the carbon cost of shipping the lithium around the world.
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German-Australian startup Vulcan Energy Resources says it can deliver carbon-neutral lithium, extracted at geothermal power stations. “The lithium deposit we’re talking about here is gigantic, and its properties are ideal for our goal of producing high-quality lithium on a large industrial scale in Germany,” Vulcan Energy Resources co-founder Horst Kreuter told Reuters.
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The company plans to invest 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion) to build up to five geothermal power stations and facilities to extract the lithium. It says it could be producing 15,000 tons of lithium hydroxide per year at two sites by 2024, and an additional 40,000 tons per year in a second phase beginning in 2025.
There's tons of lithium. We just stopped mining it here because the Chinese were doing it so cheaply that it wasn't economical.
There's tons of lithium. We just stopped mining it here because the Chinese were doing it so cheaply that it wasn't economical.
At around 180 miles, this is a trip that only takes about three hours..
3 hours
...
180 miles
long trip
All so he can pollute more and beg smug about it.
Level 3 chargers, for instance, can give a full charge in around three to four hours. But charging on a home-based, level 1 charger can entail a two or three day wait for a full charge.
ROFL is that real? People put up with that?
>At around 180 miles, this is a trip that only takes about three hours..
>>3 hours
...
>180 miles
>>long trip
All so he can pollute more and beg smug about it.
>Level 3 chargers, for instance, can give a full charge in around three to four hours. But charging on a home-based, level 1 charger can entail a two or three day wait for a full charge.
ROFL is that real? People put up with that?
All he had to do was tow a gas generator behind him.
All he had to do was tow a gas generator behind him.
Impossible, Wyoming doesn't exist.
Impossible, Wyoming doesn't exist.
You keep telling that to Everyone you can find! Petition to have maps "corrected", report news agencies for false information when they try to push a narrative where a state named "Wyoming" exists.
Please.
You keep telling that to Everyone you can find! Petition to have maps "corrected", report news agencies for false information when they try to push a narrative where a state named "Wyoming" exists.
Please.
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