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Will Electric Cars be good for pinball?

By sliprose

2 years ago


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    #24 2 years ago
    Quoted from Neal_W:

    4/19/21 A driverless Tesla crashed and BURNED FOR FOUR HOURS, police said, killing two passengers in Texas. Just before midnight Saturday, a Tesla drove swiftly around a curve, veered off the road, struck a tree and burst into flames in The Woodlands, Tex., a suburb north of Houston, police said.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/19/tesla-texas-driverless-crash/
    Moral of the story.. Tesla is only 'virtually' driverless, and you can't easily extinguish a lithium-ion or lithium-metal battery fire with water. (Houston fire dept. used 32,000 gallons of water and 4hrs to put the car out in this case)

    The key is to perfect the dielectric batteries that will not burn when damaged.

    I do have concerns about condo living and battery charging. Most condos do not have the power service capacity to add car chargers for every resident, so to add such infrastructure would be very expensive and likely require an additional service line to the building and more meters. It would not likely be financially practical unless it were subsidized.

    #26 2 years ago
    Quoted from pinzrfun:

    What if the recharging stations ran on solar power...
    or make the entire skin of the car out of solar material and trickle charge it all day, even while it's being used.

    It would be expensive initially to set up solar charging and then the question is whether it is enough power for the demand.

    The condo I plan on living in eventually has about 130 units in a moderately sized lot. I am not sure it is big enough in area to get that much solar power. Plus the cars are in covered parking spots. Half have carports that could theoretically have solar panels on them but that would require stronger hurricane strength carports.

    Regarding the car having a solar skin, how much would it cost for body work when there is an accident to the car? Also, car prices need to stay near the present average cost plus inflation.

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