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The battery as the new frontier

Ryeman
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    Hydrogen will be the leap forward. Infrastructure, battery technology, and insufficient lithium reserves mean battery power will never become mainstream

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    VAG will find a way to fit complex drive belts that need changing every 4 years and DSG that will be ultra reliable.....

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Good stuff in the article there.

 

Who reckons human knowledge is doubling that fast and by what calculation? Sounds quite a lot like a mis-quantification based on something easily counted like number of published papers or something?

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Good stuff in the article there.

 

Who reckons human knowledge is doubling that fast and by what calculation? Sounds quite a lot like a mis-quantification based on something easily counted like number of published papers or something?

Brian Cox for one and numerous articles available online.......it's now down to 12 apparently but decreasing all the time........is that depressing?.

Not sure

 

Could be for Renault as Samsung and Renault have a long history of collaboration or to supply e-Audis or both these and BMWs as mentioned.  

Renault Samsung Motors Co., Ltd. 200px-Logo_of_Renault_Samsung_Motors.svg

Native name
르노삼성자동차 주식회사 Subsidiary Industry Automotive Founded 1994[1] Headquarters Busan, South Korea
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Dong Hoon Park (CEO)[2] Products Cars, luxury cars
Production output
11px-Decrease2.svg.png 132,541 (2013)[3][4][note 1] Revenue 11px-Increase2.svg.png ₩5.02 trillion (2015)[5] 11px-Increase2.svg.png ₩326.2 billion (2015)[5] 11px-Increase2.svg.png ₩251.2 billion (2015)[5] Owner Renault (80.1% )

Samsung (19.9% )

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4,387 (December 2013)[3]Parent Renault Website renaultsamsungm.com

Driving to the airport, sadly in one of my little petrol engined cars and not an electric one, and there was a BBC radio program largely about our lecky cars in Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Indianapolis, Turin, Singapore, London etc.  Some interesting facts I did not know...  (Podcast called "cities without cars" but actually about different cars and planning etc)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4wn/episodes/downloads

  • Air pollution in Paris is 30% less when the have there once a month days without cars (Auto-Lib still allowed to travel although Champs-Élysées etc restricted to all but service vehicles)
  • Paris scheme has taken 35,000 other cars off the roads
  • Paris has now banned diesels before 2000 or so being used in the city, all cars classified into 6 pollution bands and must displace rating sticker.
  • Batteries used in storage banks once 5 years is up, can take 3,000 charges in the cars before then.
  • Cars average ten hires per day averaging 37 minutes, one car was used 40 times in a day.
  • Cars use LMP batteries rather than Lithium-ion 

 

Good little program, and the Barcelona super-block idea restricting cars to just one in three streets to reduce pollution and open up urban space to other uses than roads.

 

For a minute I got excited.

 

When many other manufacturers have had EVs for years VAG have a lot to catch up.  

 

When they have lost a third of its value in the last 12 months and nowe have another 10B of lawsuits queued up will they be around long enough, in its present form, to be a force in EVs.

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^^^^too big to fail!

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Apologies, here we go....

 

Cannot seem to make it work.

 

It is on the RAC news pages, second lot.

 

http://www.rac.co.uk/

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Samsung & Vauxhall should be able to set the world on fire if they get together to build a EV.

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    Watch out for the world's most advanced motor manufacturing nation if they take alternative energy seriously by banning carbon based fuels in their cities.

    They'll see it as an opportunity

    Watch out for the world's most advanced motor manufacturing nation if they take alternative energy seriously by banning carbon based fuels in their cities.  They'll see it as an opportunity

     

    Not sure who you mean there.  

     

    US tends to mass produce cheap and crude cars, Germany is years behind on EV vehicles, presume you mean the French/Japanese (LEAF/ZOE) companies who produce the most numerous EVs or perhaps the Chinese?

     

    Over 200K Leafs sold. of the over 1M EVs....

     

    http://gas2.org/2015/09/22/1-million-electric-cars-now-in-the-world/  

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