Usually I mention Poe’s law when sarcasm isn’t indicated, but in this case it’s so obvious it isn’t necessary.
It’s really strange how hydrogen was all the rage 20 years ago, and everybody invested heavily in this new technology for the future.
All physicists I heard commenting on it, were 100% sure hydrogen is the future? Despite the obvious problems of energy loss making hydrogen, which is still only 50-70% efficiency, against 90% efficiency charging a battery. And then on top of that the fuel also loses about 50%!! Making the net efficiency of the total system only about 25%. Where batteries easily have more than twice that.
I’m guessing in the future that to cover our needs from renewable, we will need to have enormous surplus production, and at that point hydrogen will be great, because enough hydrogen can be made from energy that would otherwise be wasted, to cover our transportation needs.
So maybe another 10-20 years?

Doesn’t change the fact that they are overpriced.

Dubai is a shitty city, that doesn’t even have a proper sewage system.
The unsustainable city is running on oil money, corruption, tax evasion and other crimes.
Fuck shit city Dubai.

Yes that’s ridiculous too, the thing is kind of cute, but the price of that type of vehicle is insane.
Here that’s not called a car, but a cabin scooter. Like this:
https://lindebjerg.dk/shop/kabinescooter-country-572p.html

They are way to expensive, but can be driven legally under different laws than a real car, and that make them cheaper to have.
IDK why that type of what isn’t more than an E-Bike with a tiny cabin are so expensive? 10 years ago you could get an actual ICE car for that price, that could drive 130 km/h on Autobahn, and could take 4 passengers and drive 500 km on a tank.

Is this a joke?

Our house actually has a renewable energy surplus, including driving because we charge our EV from our own solar panels.

I have one already, but I haven’t used it for 3 years, but from what I’ve heard that built in status isn’t very precise.
At the shop they run a test that takes 2 hours to determine the battery life, and you can have a more accurate test done that takes 24 hours. But that’s a bit expensive.

Yes it’s a weird coincidence. We are so goddam lucky! 😋

I was also a bit worried about the charging on longer trips, but I don’t find it to a big issue after having tried it a couple of times. It does ad to the travel time of course, but visiting family in the other end of the country, we were told that we were not nearly as tired as we used to be. And our old car was a pretty nice and comfortable car too.
The range is clearly shorter in the winter, but the charge speed is decent IMO. We generally go for charges from 10-60% because above 60% the charge speed declines. Before going on a long trip we charge to 100% at home.
But there is no way around that on long trips, the charging does ad some extra time. On the other hand, you just plug it in, and go back to your car, or go to grab a bite of something. So the extra time is generally quite relaxing.

I know that our VW ID.4 has 12 battery modules, and a bad battery can usually be fixed by replacing a single module. If you are lucky you can even get them 2nd hand. It’s still not dirt cheap to fix, but it’s a long way from other brands where a bad battery can mean the car is essentially totaled. AFAIK it is about $ 1000 USD to have one module replaced.
The VW ID.4 is a very good car IMO, but IDK if you would consider it cheap?

When we bought our EV in the middle of winter we had the battery tested first, and we were told it was 89% of original capacity.
But inspired by my wife telling me about this article, and having to make an about 25% charge today, I thought I’d try to calculate the capacity from the information on the charger (Zaptec).
This is probably not the most accurate way to do it, but I was very surprised that the result of my calculation is that the battery still has 99% of the original capacity!! Even if that is 10% off, it means it may not have lost capacity in the 9 months we’ve had it.
Maybe it’s because conditions today are better than in the cold of winter, where a garage even though it is indoor gets a bit cold.
And today was probably near perfect conditions with 20°C.
Our car VW ID.4 77 kWh battery, is nearing 5 years old, and 130.000 km. But the battery seems to be in very good shape. 😎

Well done China! 👍
It’s an absolute disgrace the lack of help there is to Cuba from the rest of the world, with a humanitarian crisis caused by the US blockade, for absolutely no reason!! What USA is doing is a crime against humanity, And the whole world is just silent about it?! 🤮

Yes but each truck can only use 1, so it should be 10 x 4 MW. Not 10 x 0.4 MW.
Or maybe 5 x 4 MW IDK.
I looked up what these trucks can handle, and apparently most truck can only handle the 400 kW, so I guess the truck manufacturers aren’t helping themselves much.

served by 10 × 400 kW skid-mounted eLumina DS400 chargers.

That’s anemic considering BYD have normal cars can charge with up to 1.5 MW now. And CATL have batteries with similar capabilities.
For a truck it needs to MW not kW.

A 10 MW project is considerably more complex than a 1 MW project

No it’s not, it’s perfectly linear compared to what we are already doing. And is probably cheaper to install than the battery swap stations, and for sure cheaper to run once installed.
Charging stations with more than 30 400 kW chargers are already common here.
Making the chargers more powerful does not really increase power demand much, because charging is done quicker requiring fewer stations, to handle the same amount of customers. Also these fast chargers can be installed gradually, because not everybody can utilize the high power. But despite of that, we see these stations with 30+ 400 kW chargers, despite very few today can utilize 400 kW, if these were expensive to install, I think there would be a much greater mix of less powerful chargers.

We are transitioning to electricity in general, both regarding heating houses where installation of heat pump systems are currently subsidized, and electric cars that are now 80% of sales here, and finally we have a lot of Data Centers in Denmark because they want green energy that we can supply.

So the electric grid is already being heavily expanded to meet all these demands, although the heavy demand for data centers have caused the waiting time to go up.

I may be wrong, but without mandatory standardization, I don’t think battery swap is where the future is at, as cool as that might be.

Everything you write is as true for 1.5 MW compared to old 150 kW chargers.
First of all if you charge 3 stacks at a time, you can use the same cables but having 3 of them.
Second you can double the output on the same cables by going from 800 volt to 1600.
So in response I’d say that the Truck could even charge at 10 MW with higher voltage batteries, using multiple battery stacks.

Your argument is as naive as if I claimed CATL can’t switch 3 batteries simultaneously, because that would require 3 machines to perform the switch.

Yes but 1.5 MW is for normal passenger cars, as I write regarding Diesel trucks, they have special high pressure fueling, obviously they should have something similar for charging.
If the truck has 3 separate packs, I don’t see why it wouldn’t charge at 4.5 MW or even higher.

Battery swap is kind of cool because a swap is super fast with the newest swap stations.
(Disclaimer not by personal experience, only as seen in reviews.)
But it seems that for it to have any future, there needs to be strict standards bodies for it. Otherwise the logistics will never reach a point to make it feasible at scale.
With chargers getting very fast too, the advantage of swapping is diminishing while the costs are not.
This is the case for normal cars, but I guess it’s not much different for trucks.
BYD has batteries now that can charge at 1.5 MW for a normal passenger car, and CATL too is at least at 1.3 MW last I heard.
The special equipment used for trucks should be able to go way higher, like they pump diesel way faster than normal cars under high pressure.

Swapping is great because the battery can be changed quickly, without the harm of charging quickly.
But without standardization the logistics will be a nightmare, and probably prohibitively expensive.

Yes, but that’s peanuts in comparison, like maybe 10% of the cost of having the panels installed on a roof.

Annoying that the picture in the thumbnail shows as a video, but it cannot be played. Instead it plays another video?

I like the concept, if you can install it yourself it’s a huge saving compared to having a company do it, for us installation of our solar panels by an independent company was €4.600,- which is a pretty steep price IMO, and a significant part of the whole investment of getting solar panels.
But demand is simply so high that they can almost charge what they want. And despite the high price there was over a month waiting time.