Fully Electric Vehicles

[Simiyu22]

@Azor Ahai

I think the main bottleneck for electric vehicles is the charging time.

Inventors na wajuaji kazi kwenyu sasa. If you can invent a charger that can do the job in less than five minutes you will be the next birrionea.

Companies have already solved the range problem with some Teslas poised to do 500 miles on a single charge. If that customer could recharge his vehicle in less than 5 minutes, Exxon, Total and other oil drillers would feel the thunder.

Until they solve that charging time problem, hybrids will always have the upper hand.

A charger that will work 5 minutes ( or short periods), will require a change in battery design. Its going to happen but we are 30 years away, when EVs become mainstream.

[Salman_Brown]

@Simiyu22

Do you know that Kenya used to use miles ( feet, inches)until the 1980s. Meters and kilometers are German things. Miles, feet, inches, yards are more practical in real life. If I tell someone walk 200 feet to your house, ni easy kupima with foot steps. If I say 125m, wheres the ruler. SI Should be left to laboratories. In fact if you hire laborers in shags, they charge you by the foot kulima.

We modernised, as did the rest of the world… That’s why they are called international units

[Simiyu22]

@Salman Brown

We modernised, as did the rest of the world… That’s why they are called international units

If you are standing at a kiosk, and I ask you the length of a packet of milk, you will have to look for a ruler to give me the measurement in centimeters. Yet someone using inches will give you the measurement right there. An inch is (approx) the length of your thumb to the first bend.
Talk about modernization. It was never meant to impede practicality.

[MTINGIZA_KITANDA]

@Ndindu

Battery swap solves the problem

Good luck swapping Tesla batteries that are under the seats and sealed for leakage

[Simiyu22]

@MTINGIZA KITANDA!!!

Good luck swapping Tesla batteries that are under the seats and sealed for leakage

Don’t forget the weight. 600kg+ total weight.

[Salman_Brown]

@Simiyu22

If you are standing at a kiosk, and I ask you the length of a packet of milk, you will have to look for a ruler to give me the measurement in centimeters. Yet someone using inches will give you the measurement right there. An inch is (approx) the length of your thumb to the first bend.
Talk about modernization. It was never meant to impede practicality.

No I find it hard to use inches and feet, hiyo ni mazoea yako tu …

[Simiyu22]

@Salman Brown

No I find it hard to use inches and feet, hiyo ni mazoea yako tu …

Of course if you have never trained on it, you can’t use it.

[Longpole]

@MTINGIZA KITANDA!!!

Good luck swapping Tesla batteries that are under the seats and sealed for leakage

That’s now, sooner or later some bright chap will make a compact batteries that can be swapped na ikue na terminals kama za simu. Even Tesla might have working models on this but because they want more money, they might unveil it later ndio watu wanunue magari zingine. Happens in all technology fields… withholding tech so that later people can upgrade

[Mombasa]

@Longpole

Top Gear (when Clarkson, Richard and Captain Slow were still in it) tried to fix this by putting a generator in the car, I think this would work for now. You charge your car, normally then when the batteries are low, the generator kicks in and recharges on the move, this means you’ll still depend on fuel but it removes the need to stop. Guess it’s still a hybrid but it’s more efficient

2017 Nissan Note E power…uses this technology

[Bullet_farmer]

Ironical how lithium mining causes more environmental degradation than petroleum fumes…

[Slim_fit]

Petrol is here to stay. Even 1 drop of petrol is maaaagically powerful. Can’t say so for batteries.

[snapdragon]

Of course fosil fuels are here to stay , but stop comparing charging time with fueling at a petrol station. Its one of the disadvantages of EVs but that problem can be solved by swapable batteries and having a dedicated ev charnging lanes along the highway and long range batteries. If i get an ev that can go for 1000km then I don’t mind charging it for 12hrs or more while resting

[johnpombe]

To charge a tesla you need a 5kw charger for 5hrs. That is 25kWh of power. Hio ni token ya pesa ngapi?

[patohazard]

Are electric vehicles really environmentally friendly. The mining for lithium and other minerals leaves deep craters in the earth which is a form of degredation in itself.