Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[mknight]

Currently the electric cars are a big bubble because the infrastructure is nowhere close to what is needed for large scale use of them. Actually when I read every day bullshit like charging a 1200kWh truck battery in half an hour... of course You can if you have a power supply of 800+ kW... (and Your batteries won't last long if you always charge them like that).

That is true, currently in most countries there are not enough chargers. In some countries there are however already quite a lot of chargers.

Will there be enough for all cars to be electric, hard to say, but it is technically possible.

Since I mentioned smartphones earlier I have another example from that industry. In the begging on 1992 lots of technical people didn't believe this "cellphones" will ever be used on large scale cause you would need a LOT of basestations. They though satphones would be the future ... didn't quite work out that way.

@above
As also written here I mostly agree, the biggest difference is probably the timescale. I'd say even highway traffic is possible in as little as 10-20 years if there is enough pressure from 1. and 2. towards it.

Personally if I could choose, I'd choose petrol cars for longer distance and introduce some self-driving shared electric pods for individual ( <6) driving in cities.