An average full charge can get you around 400 km, so 80 km per day during the working week without recharging (although that would be the absolute limit). But if you have a charger you only have to plug it in when you come home each night - since you will only have driven a short distance it will only require a short charge. It switches itself off once charged. So perhaps an hour - I don't see that as a problem in itself.
That would be like 1000 KwH compared with the best EV such as 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup, which is 200 KwH, which would be 560 km range. If you started with a full charge you would have to charge twice more to get from Melbourne to Sydney, which would add a couple of hours to your trip. The major problem - long trips - especially in remote areas. Pretty useless.Imagine observing what it would be like setting fire to 100 liters of petrol and stuffing that much power into a battery.
The battery would have to be 4 or 5 times the size of the ones that are on offer.
Try and charge that one overnight.
Shell and BP cannot charge more than other suppliers, so they can't really hold people to ransom. Only 45% of UK gas comes from its North Sea and Irish Sea, 33% is from Norway and 22% from Russia, Belgium and the Netherlands (some from Asia and USA at times). Which is why the price has shot up - places like Germany have had their huge Russian supply cut off, so are competing with the UK for gas from those other localities.
Yeah I use to buy those .227g cans by the case of 28 cans for around 20/£21.00 now they are £38.95 for 24 or £47.95 for 28 cans, And those little 465g / 1Lb Coleman bottle are over $87.00 for 2, yet I can buy a 11kg Bottle for around £38.00, Even the little Heaters that use those .227g cans were £19.95 when I bought them and now some places are charging over £117.95 for them, any thing to do with heating has gone nuts, I am alright coz I've been stock pileing Propane and Butane/LPG,
The problem with that comparison is that the fuel efficiency of petrol vehicles is below 40%, so more than 60 litres of your 100 litres of petrol gets wasted on heat and smoke and noise! Electric vehicles don't waste energy like that, so their present battery sizes are actually pretty realistic.Imagine observing what it would be like setting fire to 100 liters of petrol and stuffing that much power into a battery.
The battery would have to be 4 or 5 times the size of the ones that are on offer.
Try and charge that one overnight.
Ouch! pricey, Come to sunny oz (perhaps to the hum of air conditioners, but not gas at least)
No new cars with an LPG option now local Ford and Holden are gone and overall lack of demand, which isn't a recent thing - this article is from 2017:
Yep that would get the power cables glowing,Imagine observing what it would be like setting fire to 100 liters of petrol and stuffing that much power into a battery.
The battery would have to be 4 or 5 times the size of the ones that are on offer.
Try and charge that one overnight.
I find the press talks as if Australia is going to stop mining coal. About 70% of coal mined in Australia is exported, and demand overall for Australian coal is expected to grow at more than 1.4% per annum over the next 4 years or so.Yeah, a new coal fired power station.
There's still hope.
It might - but I suspect I will not see it while still driving....
