A call for car 2.0
I just watched the TED talk, Shai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars, and I became very excited with his proposal.
He says car 2.0 needs to be about infrastructure coherence and separating the battery from the car. So what does he need:
- Charging stations where you normally park your cars. He states that Scandinavia already have this many places, and we do.
- Battery swapping stations. This we do not have, so let’s start building.
Earlier i wrote about BYD and Tesla, now he tells that the Renault-Nissan alliance is committed to make his dream a reality. That is great news and it seems like most auto manufacturers are really starting to get around!
He also introduve the term eMile (should have been eKM I think), currently priced at 8 cents. Remarkable! Does anyone care to do the math and make comparable tables with gasoline?
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Tags: Car 2.0, electric cars, Nissan-Renault, Shai agassi
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Anyways, electric motors are great, but the energy density of batteries are . Mechanical swaps of the whole storage medium, at ‘gas stations’ along the way, will refill vehicles quicker & cheaper than the same amount of energy can be pumped as gasoline. Such a structure can be set up extremely cheaply, everywhere you can hook it up to the electrical grid.
No significant storage / transport cotst to keep such a place running, except for the initial investments, wich enables an increase in the frequency of energy stations along the roads.
Business opportunities of the day: Geo-localized tweets for people running out of gas at inopportune moments, subsidized energy deals for plug-in service at tourist spots & roadside restaurants?
A standard ought to be worked out ASAP, to prevent misdirected investments, and get this thing going, the costs will be the best sales pitch of this technology.