Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[riptides]

There may be major battery/vehicle design changes to standardize the battery pack and installation procedure.

A process that has to come in the future to successfully operate a electric vehicle.

Or build a better battery so that the vehicle itself ends its life before the battery.

 

[Egon]

Or build a better battery so that the vehicle itself ends its life before the battery.

realistic??

 

[RoyJackson]

Or build a better battery so that the vehicle itself ends its life before the battery.

And design a battery that is recyclable

 

[riptides]

realistic??

Sure, look at transistors tech evolution.

You can hold a trillion of them in the size of a wafer now-a-days.

Look at how far batteries have evolved from the copper zinc disc days.

 

[Egon]

Sure, look at transistors tech evolution.

You can hold a trillion of them in the size of a wafer now-a-days.

Look at how far batteries have evolved from the copper zinc disc days.

Yes batteries have advanced and will keep doing so.

It may be hard to achieve the energy density required for say 100,000 miles in a package that is transportable.

 

[MossRoad]

So Lithium Borohydride is the most efficient, packing the most megajoule per weight and volume.

Yep. Hits both requirements better than the rest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_borohydride

 

[Blue Mule]

Funny it is a rocket scientist leading the path towards Full Self Driving.

Are ok with the 80K pound self driving semis on the road today?

A rocket scientist with no common sense and a desire for personal gain.

I am not a litigious person but I can promise that if a self-driving vehicle ever hits me or one of my family members I will hire the most powerful lawyer I can afford and go for every penny I can get.

It is shear stupidity that mankind is pushing as hard as they can to get rid of any purpose of our own existence. The movie WALL-e was eerily accurate in it's portrayal of future society. A bunch of fat, lazy slobs sitting around being cared for by machines. What a pathetic existence.

 

[riptides]

A rocket scientist with no common sense and a desire for personal gain.

I am not a litigious person but I can promise that if a self-driving vehicle ever hits me or one of my family members I will hire the most powerful lawyer I can afford and go for every penny I can get.

It is shear stupidity that mankind is pushing as hard as they can to get rid of any purpose of our own existence. The movie WALL-e was eerily accurate in it's portrayal of future society. A bunch of fat, lazy slobs sitting around being cared for by machines. What a pathetic existence.

I take quite the opposite approach.

Currently in the transportation side of the industry some claims of driver shortages are in the tens of thousands.

If automation can handle transportation, and it is making great strides... I am all for it.

 

[RoyJackson]

I take quite the opposite approach.

Currently in the transportation side of the industry some claims of driver shortages are in the tens of thousands.

If automation can handle transportation, and it is making great strides... I am all for it.

Until self-driving tractor-trailers can be 100% safe (that means anticipating other drivers and avoiding such situations), I don't think I'd want a truck weighing 20 tons plus on the road.
When these trucks are developed, I hope they're limited to 45-50 MPH the the slow lanes

 

[Jstpssng]

Until self-driving tractor-trailers can be 100% safe (that means anticipating other drivers and avoiding such situations), I don't think I'd want a truck weighing 20 tons plus on the road.
When these trucks are developed, I hope they're limited to 45-50 MPH the the slow lanes

They have the next best thing already... it’s called a “train”.