BYD showing off its new fast charging tech

It's a big step forward if this is all it seems.

I do wonder if it has an impact on the overall ability of the batteries though.

I wonder if charging them that quickly does any dame to the battery.

Harm*

comment by Szoboss (U6997)
posted 1 day, 4 hours ago
comment by Calum Ferrie (U1734)
posted 5 hours, 20 minutes ago
the vast, vast majority of the population are not environmentally conscious. They are stupid and selfish. An uplift in electric vehicles would not be to do with people being environmentally conscious.What is fashionable/trendy is far more important.
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I know you're taking the p*ss to a certain extent but actually, I'd amend your comment to the vast majority of middle and old aged people aren't environmentally conscious. Because the younger generation absolutely are. My children, my nieces and nephews - all absolutely on it environmentally. Before we got our EVs I actually had my kids badgering me about when we'd switch.

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Yeah but you just wrote a whole paragraph. So you and your family do not represent the stupid majority.

electricity blowed up 2day n black out all of London innit

very dangerus stuff

What are people's thoughts on the resale value in relation to exponential advancements in tech? It's very similar to smart phones. Who is buying a ten year old iPhone cos the tech/battery is so out of date. However, a 2015 normal car is perfectly fine. Will there be a lot of waste because of this? I often look for electric cars on auto trader and there is a 70 mile range Nissan Leaf or whatever that comes up as the only affordable option.

It will mimic the smartphone market where no one actually owns anything but you get a new car every 24 months whilst paying monthly.

Not massively sustainable

comment by Calum Ferrie (U1734)
posted 17 hours, 53 minutes ago
What are people's thoughts on the resale value in relation to exponential advancements in tech? It's very similar to smart phones. Who is buying a ten year old iPhone cos the tech/battery is so out of date. However, a 2015 normal car is perfectly fine. Will there be a lot of waste because of this? I often look for electric cars on auto trader and there is a 70 mile range Nissan Leaf or whatever that comes up as the only affordable option.

It will mimic the smartphone market where no one actually owns anything but you get a new car every 24 months whilst paying monthly.

Not massively sustainable
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The advancement in technology is rapid, but it will get to a point where even the old technology will be good enough, like we saw with PCs. If you had a 10-year-old PC in 2000, you had a paperweight, even a four-year-old PC was pretty worthless. But if you have a 10-year-old PC today, it still functions adequately as a PC.

The energy density of the battery pack in a modern EV is more than double what they were back in 2012, which means in 10 years time, a used EV will be twice as good as a used EV today. The price new has also come down, significantly.

comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by Calum Ferrie (U1734)
posted 17 hours, 53 minutes ago
What are people's thoughts on the resale value in relation to exponential advancements in tech? It's very similar to smart phones. Who is buying a ten year old iPhone cos the tech/battery is so out of date. However, a 2015 normal car is perfectly fine. Will there be a lot of waste because of this? I often look for electric cars on auto trader and there is a 70 mile range Nissan Leaf or whatever that comes up as the only affordable option.

It will mimic the smartphone market where no one actually owns anything but you get a new car every 24 months whilst paying monthly.

Not massively sustainable
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The advancement in technology is rapid, but it will get to a point where even the old technology will be good enough, like we saw with PCs. If you had a 10-year-old PC in 2000, you had a paperweight, even a four-year-old PC was pretty worthless. But if you have a 10-year-old PC today, it still functions adequately as a PC.

The energy density of the battery pack in a modern EV is more than double what they were back in 2012, which means in 10 years time, a used EV will be twice as good as a used EV today. The price new has also come down, significantly.
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I'm just waiting for a decent ex council electric van to come up so I can turn it into a campervan. But might be 10 years before a second hand one would do the job for me at a decent price and the infrastructure will be there. I can't drive 200 miles to somewhere in the middle of nowhere and get home again with the current EV infrastructure.

comment by Drunken Hobo (U7360)
posted 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
comment by Calum Ferrie (U1734)
posted 17 hours, 53 minutes ago
What are people's thoughts on the resale value in relation to exponential advancements in tech? It's very similar to smart phones. Who is buying a ten year old iPhone cos the tech/battery is so out of date. However, a 2015 normal car is perfectly fine. Will there be a lot of waste because of this? I often look for electric cars on auto trader and there is a 70 mile range Nissan Leaf or whatever that comes up as the only affordable option.

It will mimic the smartphone market where no one actually owns anything but you get a new car every 24 months whilst paying monthly.

Not massively sustainable
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The advancement in technology is rapid, but it will get to a point where even the old technology will be good enough, like we saw with PCs. If you had a 10-year-old PC in 2000, you had a paperweight, even a four-year-old PC was pretty worthless. But if you have a 10-year-old PC today, it still functions adequately as a PC.

The energy density of the battery pack in a modern EV is more than double what they were back in 2012, which means in 10 years time, a used EV will be twice as good as a used EV today. The price new has also come down, significantly.
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I think at some point in the near future you will some standardisation when it comes to cat batteries.

Not across all vehicles but across similar function vehicles. The shape of minis for example ain't ever going to change so having a situation where after ten years you can just replace the battery instead of buying a new car or

Tesla's are ugly , agree?

I know it’s all a plot for Chinese world domination, but those BYDs are super nice cars.