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Nissan says they have a solid state battery that will recharge in 5 minutes. so assuming this is true you can recharge as fast as your currently fill up.

 

They claim that they have made progress on their design. I'm not sure they are ready to debut the tech any time soon. However, that is promising.

My most recent understanding of their SSB is that they are using 1 ampere cells in a matrix. This isn't ideal, but they'll definitely streamline their design and hopefully produce something usable.

 

Any proof other than a marketing release? No? Then its vaporware.

 

Not sure what you mean by proof.
When a new iphone is being released in 2 months and is on the interwebs I am not sure i would say it is vapor until I go to the store an hold one.

 

So in 2 months?

 

Remember auto shows? I use to go to COBO center every January to see the concept cars and sit in the new models. Auto companies may not be showcasing this year however, this is the time they would have set for deadlines to showcase.

 

In its announcement, Toyota touted the success of its hybrid models, but it once again leaned on a flimsy argument as to why it’s resisted all-electric vehicles. The company says it did internal research that found total greenhouse gas emissions of all-electric and hybrid vehicles to be “roughly the same ... when factoring in pollutants created by electricity production for the average US energy grid used to charge batteries.”

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22187113/toyota-electric-vehicles-us-suv-debut-hybrids

 

All the more reason that I think they have a solid state battery tech on tap but keeping it very quiet. This will change the dynamics of the charging dilema and pollutants if the charge is coming from fossil fuel generating plant not nuclear.

 

Maybe it’s to soon for Texas to have all these electric cars.

Though you can use the vehicle battery to run your house if the power goes out. ((Shrug))

 

That was a hydrogen fuel cell car.

 

Texas has a high percentage of windmill electrical generation. The things are freezing up.

 

Seems a combination of factors...

Gov. Gregg Abbott said in a Twitter post that the state's power grid has not been compromised.
"The ability of some companies that generate the power has been frozen. This includes the natural gas & coal generators,"

 

Everyone that has made the decisions about Texas power generation and distribution should be kicked in the junk, then run out of town on a rail. Anyone supporting one more wind turbine should be immediately fired, and expelled from the state back to The People's Republk of California!

GM wants to go all electric? Guess what, we don't have the electrical generation nationwide to support it. We aren't building real power plants...we're shutting them down. You don't see the CHICOMs shutting down their coal fired plants. They're building a bunch of them. Makes one wonder what's really behind this "green energy/global warming/climate change" movement in the west?

 

Well Texas has decided to run their own power grid because of too much govt. regulation and never prepared their infrastructure for cold environment like the govt. has warned them to. Other states with renewable energy in the cold are doing just fine with distribution.

 

Nissan Leaf or Tesla both were claimed to be able to back feed from stuff I read a few years back. Does that still hold water?

Think about the stagnation of growth in the US economy. The Federal grant money that will be spent on beefing up the grid will help boost the working class and get many people working in higher paying positions.

Power generation needs to be diversified and needs back up plans which will likely be fossil fuel based. However fusion and fission are my first choice - as long as they are not near fault lines (Fukushima).

 

Why are Texas wind turbines freezing? We have them here in Northern NH on mountain tops. It gets -40F routinely and they work just fine. Texas try to save a few bucks and forgo the de-icing technology?

 

Yeh they are still doing this just not yet.

 

Are you talking about replacing all of those 6-figure incomes that were just killed under this administration. Probably 10-15K direct jobs, and 10X that many support jobs. Hate to break it to you, but the handful of government jobs isn't going to put a dent in that lost income.

Don't get me started about having to import oil again. We were a net exporter, meaning we wouldn't have to import oil from the middle east, not to mention we wouldn't have to have to maintain a huge military force there. Now we're going to import oil, and continue to be embroiled in military excursions in far away lands. But by golly we're going to throw out a few government crumbs to those formally huge earners no longer working in the petroleum industry...hey, I'm sure they can get unemployment and welfare now...right?

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-metal-in-race-to-go-fully-electric-9rmtxg0wh


Britain’s most popular motoring brand will not come with an internal combustion engine from 2030 after Ford revealed that it would go all-electric for new cars in Europe by the end of the decade.

Ford, one of America’s three big automotive manufacturers, has not made a car in Britain for two decades. It confirmed that its plant at Cologne in Germany would become the central location for its drive into electrification in a $1 billion investment programme.

While Ford has closed its petrol engine plant at Bridgend in South Wales...

The announcement was seen as a statement of intent by the American group, in contrast with the vaguer zero-emission targets of its main rivals in the European market.

 

Volvo now:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...olvo-to-go-all-electric-by-2030-idUKKBN2AU0AU

Volvo’s entire car lineup will be fully electric by 2030, the Chinese-owned company said on Tuesday, joining a growing number of carmakers planning to phase out fossil-fuel engines by the end of this decade.

“I am totally convinced there will be no customers who really want to stay with a petrol engine,” Volvo Chief Executive Håkan Samuelsson told reporters when asked about future demand for electric vehicles. “We are convinced that an electric car is more attractive for customers.”

The Swedish carmaker said 50% of its global sales should be fully-electric cars by 2025 and the other half hybrid models.