Eric, I know you think that's a winning argument,
It already is a winning argument.
Proven by what has been deployed over the last ten years.
Even if they were, it might be better to wait until there is a very large market of electric cars with their owners increasingly frustrated by queuing for "free" superchargers for an hour or two, or five hours, or a couple of days on Thanksgiving weekends.
Virtually no backups at all, Many of my Tesla friends have never experienced one.
Tesla has even increased their number of Superchargers at a few old locations to handle increased traffic over the years and will continue to do so into the future.
Like CDMA, which was not only not wanted but supposedly breached the laws of physics, but now not only does everybody want it, but they are wanting OFDM for even more turbocharged mobile Cyberspace.
There was no breach of physics, LOL! There are hundreds of modulation standards in the RF wireless world that have been patented and many more will ultimately succeed the older, inefficient ones going forward.
People will definitely want a cheap little lightweight battery which enables even higher performance and energy efficiency at lower cost per kilometre when they can recharge in 7 seconds instead of 7 hours or even 70 minutes.
Well battery development is still in it's infancy and we will see vastly improved versions in the near future.
Tesla has a long term plan to offer much improved optional upgrades for folks with older versions of their earlier cars.
Improvements that the conventional car manufacturers don't offer for their customers.
Even if you can get capacitors with good capacity, the wiring to dump the electrons into a haystack of electrons in the car will be heavy and hot, though maybe there will be 500,000 volt superconductors sending lightning strike amounts of electricity into the car in 7 seconds. As you can imagine, that would have potential for some serious accidents. But pouring billions of gallons of gasoline with high flammability into cars is done with nearly zero accidents these days, so it might be doable to pour petaquadrillion electron volts into a car in seconds might be doable.
Yup capacitors will eventually replace batteries just as they do on the U.S. Navy's latest destroyer. They are used in it's new magnetic rail gun that launches projectiles up to 100 miles with no gunpowder.
Impossible to do just with batteries. |
