Germans Once again pull apart a Tesla

Originally posted by mudguts ↑

No , not self interested, we need the power delivery infrastructure in place first to power these vehicles & the batteries (even by Elons reckoning need to be better before he delivers his next gen of cars & trucks).

We are pushing the CO2 production form the tail pipe to the power station & the only way to deliver on the demand is to build nuclear power stations (ie Just China). Not to mention the not too distant furture am ecological disaster as billions or solar panel are no longer efficient & we have a recycling (read high energy demand) to pull them done & return to a depot for (if possible) recycling if the energy cost do not exceed the benefit.

More & more articles being published on the cradle to grave of green energy & it's hardly a compelling story.

As tech improves then maybe so, but along way from the holy grail.

(interesting advances on Thorium & Fusion - but won;t see in my life time) - Right here- right now its Nuclear

BY the way, by that same reasoning we should pay homage to Reynold B Jonnson or Lance Hill?

Don't tell me you are shocked that in the corporate world companies buy & reverse engineer 'things"..

I'm sure the Japanese/ Chinese or Koreans have NEVER done such a thing.

All fall to your knees & pay homage to the Master that is Elon for he is our saviour the light & the way

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I would agree that there is investment in energy infrastructure that is required . But , that is already happening due to the inclusion of renewable energy and home storage anyway . The amount required for the personal ev it is not that great .
Almost all residences have the capacity to charge an electric car . It would require the addition of the charging point but that's about it .
The problem of stopping everyone charging their cars at once and overloading the grid has already been solved .
Smart chargers are available that monitor grid conditions and can be controlled by distribution companies . They can also monitor the input from your solar panels and only charge your car when you have excess power at your property if that's your preference .
Charging systems are ultimately configureable so for the vast majority of personal transport charging will be a non issue .

Then there's the fact that all these cars that are plugged in will be able to export power to where it is needed . If anything it will compliment the intermittence of renewables .
Most personal vehicles are idle 90% of the time . That means that they have the potential to be a massive distributed power station .
We are all familiar with cueing at the service station . That is because we have to manually fill cars and we can't do it at home . That's why servos have massive peak demand problems . A huge amount of those servo customers at peak times are commuters as opposed to distance travellers so they don't really need to be there at that moment .
So imagine a circumstance where the majority if cars are full or almost full all of the time because they are plugged in most of the time .

Nuclear . It's missed it's opportunity . Too expensive . Takes too long to build . Location issues . Waste issues .

Unless they can come come up with a new type of reactor that produces no waste , can be built quicky and for reasonable cost I think it's chance of a baseload power role in Australia is over .

Here's a video about a study of evs impact on the grid in NZ . While NZ and Australia are vastly different power wise , it does provide some interesting information .