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Comment Re:Shortage of building permits (Score 1) 98

Right now, I can not, because the parking garage is below the flooding zone of a nearby river, and the circuitry in that specific building is designed to have all wires above that level - the parking garage does not even have normal wall sockets. I don't know when the company owning the building will redesign the electricity. But I have several chargers less than 300 yards away.

Comment Re:Tesla was a leader (Score 1) 55

My impression is that EV technology is maturing and stabilizing somewhat. e.g. near 400V-800V battery packs, Heat-pump based cooling and heating of cabin and battery. battery preconditioning for fast-charge... 15%-80% in 20-30min for roadtrips...

The formula and main approaches have been identified. Whatever battery improvements happen will just get incorporated as they come.

No, it is not. It's just the current crop of cars, e.g. the 2025 model year. Now you get similar technology that had costed 50,000 EUR or more a few years ago, in 25,000 EUR cars. But if you look into the 50,000 EUR range, it's different. Take the Xpeng g7+ for example, which offers 20-80% charging in 10 mins at a price point of 53,000 EUR! Or the Mercedes CLA 250+ with a 500 mile range costing 58,000 EUR!

Charging technology is currently switching from 400 V DC to 800 V DC - but that's not just the cars, it's also the charging infrastructure, which has to be improved. First cars with 1000 V DC charging are already presented, and more importantly, 4C or 6C charging is possible now in some models (which means 4 times battery capacity in one hour, or 6 times capacity in an hour). And on the engineering side: ONE Cabot R&D in the U.S. has shown that you can fit more than 200 kWh with current cells into the battery compartment of current cars.

What might be true is that the current offerings on the BEV side are good enough for 96% of Norwegians, 68% of all Danes, 40% of Dutch people and 37% of all Finns.

Comment Re:Shortage of building permits (Score 4, Insightful) 98

This is plain ideological nonsense. I know, because I live in a multi-unit rental, and each apartment has its own parking space. And so do all the neighboring multi-story multi-unit rentals. Within 15 min walking, I have five super markets, three home centers, a hardware store and a lot of other stores. Additionally, within 15 min walking, there are a train station with services every 30 min in each direction, two streetcar lines, and five bus lines.

Ah yes, also a sports field, an indoor swimming pool and an artificial lake with a swimming bath. And a golf course.

Comment Re:Donâ(TM)t fear the batteries! (Score 1) 122

Lets put it like this: The whole announced capacity for e-fuels right now is somewhat close to 40 TWh per year, of which only about 5% are backed by investments. The fuel consumption of the world right now is more than 100,000 TWh per year. Norway has already finished its conversion to BEVs as of 2025, and gasoline cars, given an average live span of 20 years, will be a thing of the past in 2045. Most of Europe is at 20% BEVs right now, and given the example of Norway, will not sell many gasoline cars after 2035, with the gasoline cars disappearing from the roads until 2055.

You have to be really fast to get enough e-fuels manufactured to get a return on your investment, and at the same time scale up e-fuel commission 250times and financing 5000 times to make economic sense of e-fuels in the meantime.

Comment Re:Should all gas stations have an array of these? (Score 5, Insightful) 122

No, unless and until they can produce a gallon of gasoline chaper than pumping oil out of the ground, refininging it, and shipping it to the gas station -- an economic miracle if you think about it

This makes sense for remote, off-the-grid locations where you have access to renewable power like solar that you don't pay for by the kilowatt hour. You could make enough gas from a modest setup to meet an inidvidual's needs.

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