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Emissions and the future of motorcycles
- Thread starter bigpoppa
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It is now but I would like to see fusion development asap
that chronological value is about twice as long as homosapien has been around.
we are worried about what language or symbols will be used thousands of years from now to warn people about the deadly hazard.
both options are from
We must adopt fussion in lieu of fission.
Batteries needed to power modern EVs weigh 100s of lbs. You would need an engine hoist or forklift to swap most.
If you go with multiple modular batteries then you have to worry about theft. You can't make it too easy for thieves to walk off with the most expensive part of your vehicle. I remember when the local Hyundai dealer had to remove all of the catalytic converters from the lot until cars were sold because they were too easy to remove and very valuable.
It appears that every manufacturer is moving more in the other direction even integrating the battery into the frame for weight savings. Swappable would be great but I just don't think it's in the cards with so many companies working on EVs and no one working on a universal battery.
It's pretty simple to design some type of tool to assist a battery exchange.
All that needs to be done is orchestrate a standardized size and coupling connection.
This happens all the time. Gas holes were all different sizes for a while.
Motorcycles had shifters and levers and shift patterns depending on how the manufacturer decided was better until standardization came along
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Someday they will miniaturize this...maybe
Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million degrees
The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), a superconducting fusion device also known as the Korean artificial sun, set the new world record as it succeeded in maintaining the high temperature plasma for 20 seconds with an ion temperature over 100 million degrees (Celsius).
to get to this
Maybe way down the road when the technology development slows down. You can't develop a standard until you have a best practice. Right now the focus of designers is performance and getting everything they can out of the batteries. It took decades to nail down gas holes and levers and they are much more simple then batteries. The industry is getting close to agreeing on a charging connector but even Tesla is still proprietary.
I'm sure if the will was there it COULD be done. I think that it is more likely that the focus will continue to be on battery and charging performance for the foreseeable future until one company becomes big enough/advanced enough that the others have no choice but to follow their lead.
I'm surprised it wasn't red flagged
There is no way battery assemblies would be sufficiently standardised between manufacturers and models. The same battery pack could be undersized for the future equivalent of a Gold Wing (weight and size hardly matter) and overweight for the future equivalent of an urban scooter, nevermind the packaging. Even if you bring it down to three or four different sizes, the need for the battery assembly to be easily removed and installed imposes severe constraints on the design of the vehicles that use it. Battery-exchange might be possible for some models but I wouldn't count on it going across the board. Cars are not going in that direction, bikes won't, either.
Lithium-metal batteries of some sort are expected to be the next generation of vehicle-propulsion batteries, with roughly double the energy storage per unit of volume and weight as lithium-ion, and allow faster charging. It will work out okay.
Lithium-metal batteries of some sort are expected to be the next generation of vehicle-propulsion batteries, with roughly double the energy storage per unit of volume and weight as lithium-ion, and allow faster charging. It will work out okay.
I agree with your examples...but they aren't the market for the EVs. Again what percentage of households have only one vehicle? Eliminate those and you still have somewhere north of 70% of the market.
Always remember to factor in pettiness. A lot of people want to find the car the way they left it. Clean, no smells, no garbage, radio settings, seat settings etc.
We've been one car for two years and I get tired of my wife's collection of serviettes and shopping bags and she probably gets tired of my empty coffee cups and donut wrappers. However we're saving thousands of dollars a year so not going to make a fuss.
For the foreseeable future EVs will require a bit more thought and planning. Probably the biggest hurdle after price. You have to keep charge in mind. Any airhead can pop into a gas station and five minutes later be ready for another 400 Kms.
The only way battery exchange will happen is if the batteries are tiny relative to what they are now. Not only are they heavy, large, completely proprietary, and difficult to remove/install, where are 'gas stations' going to store them? Any given gas station in an urban environment probably sees 480 cars per day (car every 3 min - just a guess). If the battery goes on a charger as soon as it's removed and it takes 4 hours to fully charge it then you would need at least 80 batteries if the cars came perfectly spaced out during the day. Places like Costco would need to have probably 800 batteries on site to meet demand. Not happening.
Mark my words
This is how I foresee the future of vehicles: the general public will not buy or own cars. They will be electric, self driving taxis. You will have a monthly plan with a certain grade of car and amount of allowable km's. Much like cell phone plans. Nicer phone = nicer car, more data = more mileage.
You tell the car where and when to grab you, and where to take you and it complies. Then drives off to the next customer. Like a vacuum it will park/charge itself when it knows it's dead.
The only people that will own vehicles will be track drivers and construction or other related companies that haul tools/materials with them daily (or often).
This is just my thought, and truthfully, I think it can't come soon enough. All the space wasted on parking lots, fixed. The congestion due to on street parking, fixed. The garage space used to hold a car rather than a bunch of useless crap you don't need, fixed. Soccer moms merging onto a 400 series highway doing 60km/h, abolished.
You tell the car where and when to grab you, and where to take you and it complies. Then drives off to the next customer. Like a vacuum it will park/charge itself when it knows it's dead.
The only people that will own vehicles will be track drivers and construction or other related companies that haul tools/materials with them daily (or often).
This is just my thought, and truthfully, I think it can't come soon enough. All the space wasted on parking lots, fixed. The congestion due to on street parking, fixed. The garage space used to hold a car rather than a bunch of useless crap you don't need, fixed. Soccer moms merging onto a 400 series highway doing 60km/h, abolished.
To bring this somewhat back on topic, regarding bikes, electric are cheaper and cleaner to run than ice counterparts. The countries that buy the vast majority of motorcycles are poorer countries where savings are highly valued, and as such dictate global markets. Honda isn't going to make a bike with an ice just for Canada and the States.
Likely but not sure it'll be in our generation.
Pretty unlikely. People in the city seem to forget that there is a massive part of the population who never see traffic congestion, parking lots, 400 series hwys. etc. There are literally communities all over Canada that still burn diesel for electricity and have extremely poor road infrastructure.
There aren't even normal human driven taxis in 99% of Canada. 100s of self driving taxis would be needed to get all of the workers to and from a mill or factory in a rural community. Then what would all of those cars do while everyone is at work/sleeping? There are only so many old ladies that need to go grocery shopping during the day. I'd guess go and park somewhere.
Furthermore Elon Musk has even stated that self driving vehicles is never going to happen. The software can never be perfect and someone has to be liable when it kills. My Nissan Altima has gone the entire length of the 115 without me putting in any steering, braking input in the summer, it's amazing. Put a little snow on the road and it loses track of the lines. Crest a steep hill with a corner and it loses track of where the road is going. Cruise is set too high for a corner, and it overshoots it.
That's a fair point, but everything has exceptions, and this would be no different. There are also people that don't have running water at home in Canada, don't have electricity, and don't use or own cell phones. The vast majority does though, and like virtually any other business, the vast majority is the target. Furthermore, Canada's realistic population density is quite high and could support the model if/when it arrives. I somewhat remember reading that something like 90% of our population lives within 200kms of the US border. There's a reason that the 401 is one of the most travelled highways in the world.
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