Comments on: Nanoengineered EV Batteries Zap Range Anxiety

By: Clean Tech News Briefs November 11, 2011 | EarthTechling

Clean Tech News Briefs November 11, 2011 | EarthTechling — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:02:58 +0000

[…] there were decent savings in fuel and electrical expenses after energy efficiency retrofits.Vanquishing range anxiety. Range anxiety is the worry faced by many consumers over the distance an electric car can travel on […]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:56:00 +0000

Electric cars can be used right now. Today.

We can power them with wind and solar, making it cheaper to drive per mile, and freeing us from purchasing foreign oil.

Focus your energy. Work to get representatives and senators elected who will help implement the transition away from fossil fuels. We have the technology. We need to remove the political barrier to making the changes that need making.

By: Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:59:00 +0000

America’s reactors now store up to four times their design capacity of spent fuel. no realistic solution in sight! before electric cars can be used, this problem must be resolved. http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4971 tells of China’s thrust towards better Thorium fueled reactors. Will Americans be forced to buy these from China? Can China develop a ‘Super-Battery” before the U.S.? Will it matter? America goes through a deliberate, economic “controlled crash” as we speak. Israel plans more ‘War Debt” more dead Americans, even conscription for U.S. citizens, and China backs away from a collapsing Europe as we speak. In a Very frightening world, batteries that would make even Solar, Wind, for Off-Gird folks more convenient, would be a boon, and to expand that, put them in electric cycles, even electric Tuck-Tucks for rural Americans in the aftermath of the economic Apocalypse bearing down on the Western World as we speak. Cars? Who will pay the taxes that build the roads? Even now roadways deteriorate, need replacement and governments cannot oblige.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:15:00 +0000

Costs will come down. There are no expensive “ingredients” – no pounds of platinum, hours of highly skilled labor, immense amounts of energy. Machines will crank these things out at bargain prices as the process gets underway.

Charging time is not a real issue. Level 3 chargers are already under 20 minutes for an 80% charge. That will improve some. With a 200 mile range you would need only two short stops to complete a 500 mile driving day. That’s only one more that with a liquid fuel car and most people are going to stop at least a couple of times during an all day drive as it is.

By: Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:27:00 +0000

The problem isn’t just range but cost and charging times.