• wagoner
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    10 months ago

    Your second point is basically agreeing that electric cars are better at starting in the cold, where all you’re doing is explaining why. Maybe I missed what your second point of disagreement was.

    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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      10 months ago

      Because the problem with ev is that the battery drains charge faster in the cold, charges slower in the cold, and struggles to charge at all if its too cold.

      So if you have juice, starting is fine. But the cold problems for ev is that the cold is functionally drinking your gas for you, not that the engine cant turn over.

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        10 months ago

        Fair points. I heard somewhere (probably here) that they were working on sodium solid state batteries or something. I look forward to new developments.

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          10 months ago

          There’s been “new” battery technology in the works since we starting using lithium ion and nothing so far has come anywhere near close enough to replace it. Sodium just like all the other “exciting” failed ideas in the past decade isn’t gonna go anywhere either.

          Sodium batteries on the infrastructure level would work wonderfully but you’ll never see them in your phone or even a car. The energy density just is shit. There would need to be some unexpected advance in the technology to gain ~50% energy density just to meet lower end lithium ion.

          But really electric cars aren’t the future anyway what we need to invest in is public transportation. Electric busses, trains, trams, hell why not self driving scooters that’s way more practical than a whole ass car.

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        10 months ago

        not that the engine cant turn over.

        Funny you use this phrase, when the actual action of “turning over” isn’t something electric vehicles can even do :D