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This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on August 16th, 2017 in the Automotive News category.
I was talking to Tesla for this week's review and the rep said it had recorded no worse than a 1% loss of battery capacity per year so far.Whats the average lifespan for the batteries.
Whats the average lifespan for the batteries. The batteries in my smartphone dont hold a charge very well after a couple years of everyday use.
I bet buying a new bank of batteries is ten fold the cost of a service on the combustion engined equivalent.
If only there was a way to make a powerful efficient green energy ICE engines with a good exhaust volume out there - it'll be the best for cars enthusiasts
We're facing a future where all cars make no sound at all. All you're gonna hear next to a motorway is a slight electric hum and tyre noise.
Noise pollution will be down at least...
I think we can agree most of us here grew up loving the sound of engines and so did millions of other people, it's gonna be a weird transition. I guess it won't matter when we've all died off, the generations to come won't know any different. Future quote: "They used to power cars with FIRE?!"
I don't think it's wrong to wishYou're not asking for much, are you?
I guess they'll just pipe the sound in if they want. The rest of the Germans have apparently done it in some fashion.So we're facing a future with AMG cars that make no sound at all? Awesome!
Last month says hello.What if @McLaren's next?
As long as they don't completely kill off their V8s and V12s i'll be happy.
Not sure how old you are and how much you commute, but when driving on the street or freeway/expressway how often do you here an engine? I drive nearly every day and most of the time I hear the noise of the car on the road, and not the engine or other cars around me. Sure once in a while you'll get a loud vehicle but it's not all that often even in the U.S. where people love noisy vehicles it seems.
It should be noted though that there are people in this industry who say they don't see electric vehicles being a conventional replacement to gas powered vehicles. However, there is a market, and demand and so obviously automakers all want in on it. This AMG move while surprising shouldn't be (haven't read the article Famine wrote), considering they just packed up from DTM and were moved to Formula E. What better way to give a "parallel" marketing wise than this? Which is what FE is for at this point in time to market a brand in cleaner energy.
If people want to solve this then hope someone comes up with a better way to combustion engines that run on hydrogen safely, or for the younger, go to school get into the industry and hope you make gains.
It's often flagged as a potential concern, but here in the UK we have enough regular generation surplus to accommodate every single ICE car becoming an EV car overnight right now. At 3 miles per kWh, the entire UK vehicle parc becoming electric overnight would require an additional 8TWh of electricity annually (average annual mileage is 8,000 miles, UK vehicle parc is 30 million cars; 30,000,000 cars x [8,000 miles/3,000 Wh] = 8,000,000,000,000Wh = 8TWh). We produce an annual surplus of 34TWh.Not being a big fan of stuff I can't fix with a hammer and a 1/2inch spanner , I can honestly say I'm not looking forward to the future of the car , but that aside its gonna happen .
My big question though is where is all the power to charge these batteries going to come from ? Most countries are already running at or close to their output potential and the timescale for updating or increasing output is huge .
We're facing a future where all cars make no sound at all. All you're gonna hear next to a motorway is a slight electric hum and tyre noise.
Noise pollution will be down at least...
I think we can agree most of us here grew up loving the sound of engines and so did millions of other people, it's gonna be a weird transition. I guess it won't matter when we've all died off, the generations to come won't know any different. Future quote: "They used to power cars with FIRE?!"
Pedestrian safety laws require electric street cars to emit some sort of noise so that you know they are coming. EV's will never be totally silent.Most of them make a high-pitched shrieking noise akin to a bus with overheated brakes. The onboard videos of Formula E cars are awful to watch with the sound on. When it comes to EVs, I'd prefer them to be literally silent.
I guess they'll just pipe the sound in if they want. The rest of the Germans have apparently done it in some fashion.
Not electric, actual petrol cars. I think BMW has done it but they say it's more of a backtrack and the car is still heard easily. But I've seen enthusiasts not thrilled about it.I didn't even know that was a thing. Perhaps because every fully electric car I frequently see and hear in traffic is a Tesla. So you're saying that some manufacturers are forcing artificial sound into their electric cars? I cannot imagine that's rewarding like listening to a good old ICE.
Not electric, actual petrol cars. I think BMW has done it but they say it's more of a backtrack and the car is still heard easily. But I've seen enthusiasts not thrilled about it.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/faking-it-engine-sound-enhancement-explained-tech-dept
As for motorway sounds, isn't it mostly tyre and wind noise anyway?
Serious (pun intended) performance cars will need a gearbox though, since electric engines drop in power at higher revs. I'm sure they could make them straight cut for some epic transmission noise.
As for motorway sounds, isn't it mostly tyre and wind noise anyway?