Electric vehicles are currently best for stuff closer to home, with a PHEV or regular gas vehicle for longer distances. Hopefully that changes soon, with more manufactures using fast chargers or doing like Nio does with the ES8 battery swap (5 minutes).
May 22, 2021Liked by Steve Berman, Chris J. Karr, David Thornton
Couple of common misconceptions about electric vehicles here.
Firstly, the Tesla model S can charge much faster than you listed. What you listed was what's called L2 charging in the EV world. It's slower than Tesla's Super charger that can charge 200miles in 15min. Nissan has a similar technology with ChaDeMo. I'm not going to argue that it's equivalent to filling up with gas however my brother-in-law who frequently travels between western states here for work owns a model 3 with 300+miles range and has never been stranded even when going into the boonies. EV chargers are getting much more popular and tend to be at food places etc. so, what he does is just plan his trips in advance and takes breaks every 200-300 miles or so to eat/bathroom breaks etc. which really isn't as inconvenient as it seems.
So my point is the technology is here to charge these much faster. I'm not sure if Ford is going to have any sort of fast charging tech for the F-150 but it exists.
Second is the battery life. Usually what that 10years 100,000 miles means is 80% of its originally capacity. Not that the car/truck is going to be useless in 10 years. Depending on the cooling technology and battery chemistry and how aggressively and often they are charged they could last much longer. Estimates on water cooled batteries with current technology have them lasting 150,000 to 200,000 miles with Tesla shooting for a million mile battery in the coming years.
I'm not going to argue that electric is ready to replace all of our cars yet but I think we are very close and the F-150 is a really exciting step in the right direction and shows that with the right charging and battery tech (which again is pretty much here already even if Ford chose not to use it) EVs can have superior specs to the Gas equivalents not to mention how much cheaper they are to drive with less brake maintenance (they use engine breaking to generate power), no oil changes, and much cheaper than gas to drive.
Good article overall just some clarifying points I feel are important.
Electric vehicles are currently best for stuff closer to home, with a PHEV or regular gas vehicle for longer distances. Hopefully that changes soon, with more manufactures using fast chargers or doing like Nio does with the ES8 battery swap (5 minutes).
Couple of common misconceptions about electric vehicles here.
Firstly, the Tesla model S can charge much faster than you listed. What you listed was what's called L2 charging in the EV world. It's slower than Tesla's Super charger that can charge 200miles in 15min. Nissan has a similar technology with ChaDeMo. I'm not going to argue that it's equivalent to filling up with gas however my brother-in-law who frequently travels between western states here for work owns a model 3 with 300+miles range and has never been stranded even when going into the boonies. EV chargers are getting much more popular and tend to be at food places etc. so, what he does is just plan his trips in advance and takes breaks every 200-300 miles or so to eat/bathroom breaks etc. which really isn't as inconvenient as it seems.
So my point is the technology is here to charge these much faster. I'm not sure if Ford is going to have any sort of fast charging tech for the F-150 but it exists.
Second is the battery life. Usually what that 10years 100,000 miles means is 80% of its originally capacity. Not that the car/truck is going to be useless in 10 years. Depending on the cooling technology and battery chemistry and how aggressively and often they are charged they could last much longer. Estimates on water cooled batteries with current technology have them lasting 150,000 to 200,000 miles with Tesla shooting for a million mile battery in the coming years.
I'm not going to argue that electric is ready to replace all of our cars yet but I think we are very close and the F-150 is a really exciting step in the right direction and shows that with the right charging and battery tech (which again is pretty much here already even if Ford chose not to use it) EVs can have superior specs to the Gas equivalents not to mention how much cheaper they are to drive with less brake maintenance (they use engine breaking to generate power), no oil changes, and much cheaper than gas to drive.
Good article overall just some clarifying points I feel are important.
"It should be, but will it?"
Of course not.