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SCE At The Forefont Of Electric Energy Efficiency
Southern California Edison, SCE is at the forefront of electric energy efficiency and management. We met with them and will post our full interview soon.
The gist is that SCE is far along in the research and application of tomorrow’s energy needs. The company has a dedicated team of professionals working on anything from electric vehicles, EV to lithium batteries to how we will manage it all. SCE’s research into electric storage systems is impressive and surely brings new light into what naysayers have criticized EVs and affordability.
Lithium Batteries Are Getting Better. OK, now that we have written this understatement, SCE’s research has shown some lithium configurations are good for 200,000 miles, more than sufficient for our daily drive use and certainly a head and shoulder above modern internal combustion engine, ICE technology.
Saft Lithium. The Saft lithium batteries have proven to meet and even excel expectations. According to our friends at Gas2, SCE has concluded that even though critics say the death and replacement of batteries nullifies savings at the pump, that their limited lifespan and high prices is high a deterrent, SCE’s recent tests prove otherwise.
Ultimately what this boils down to is the very simple question of whether you want to pay upfront for a technology or pay as you go with a lesser one. Lithium batteries might come at a price, but their recent improvements makes it harder to dismiss them. If at one point, buying lower energy yield batteries made financial sense, the line becomes blurry now. Since lithium battery’s Achilles heel is its price, one way to look at it is to see it as Apple computer products. Prices don’t come down, they remain stable but the newer versions always offer more than the last. In this economy, this point will attract those that value long life quality over recurrent changes that add up, if we are to consider how well Apple is doing compared to its PC brethren.
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