Electric Cars are the Norm

Has anyone figured out how to heat up the interior of an electric car on those 35 below mornings? Glass defrosters and heated seats are plausible, but heavy users of battery power. Making the interior actually comfortable is another thing again. Perhaps an auxilliary gas heater?
 

Hendryk

Banned
Yean, for electric cars to stay competitive you'll need a decent amount of regulation, else Steam or internal combustion designs will take over every segment of the market.
How about this: electric cars become the norm for intra-city travel, which preempts the take-off of internal combustion engines vehicles just long enough for country-dwellers to start using steam-powered cars, which don't require any new infrastructure since the fuel source is coal, charcoal or even wood. So by 1920 or so city-dwellers have their electric cars, country-dwellers have their steam cars, and there's no longer enough of a market for gas-powered cars to justify the expense of opening gas stations. How does that sound?
 
How about this: electric cars become the norm for intra-city travel, which preempts the take-off of internal combustion engines vehicles just long enough for country-dwellers to start using steam-powered cars, which don't require any new infrastructure since the fuel source is coal, charcoal or even wood. So by 1920 or so city-dwellers have their electric cars, country-dwellers have their steam cars, and there's no longer enough of a market for gas-powered cars to justify the expense of opening gas stations. How does that sound?


Coal-burning steam cars sound like a great idea.

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For longer distances you could have embedded tracks like the old electric trolley cars complete with the either wires overhead or thru a shoe like the old slot cars. When in town you use the batteries. As you cruise down the road on the electric highway you charge your batteries. My phone charges without touching metal on metal as does my toothbrush.

To change from fossil fueled cars to electric cars would be the easiest exchange ever in the history of major transportation conversions. Compared to the switch from man/animal power to fossil fuels it would be a cake walk. The infrastructure is basically there. Roads, bridges even filling stations. How we generate the electricity is the only real kicker.

Just food for thought…every car in the US could be powered from electricity generated by 92x92 miles of sunlight in the Mojave desert. If someone tells you it can’t be done they are wrong. It can be done and hopefully will be done.


How much land is needed for solar.
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Anderman

Donor
Just food for thought…every car in the US could be powered from electricity generated by 92x92 miles of sunlight in the Mojave desert. If someone tells you it can’t be done they are wrong. It can be done and hopefully will be done.




Well does the sun shines at night in the Mojave because that´s the time when most of the cars will charge their batteries.
 
Just food for thought…every car in the US could be powered from electricity generated by 92x92 miles of sunlight in the Mojave desert. If someone tells you it can’t be done they are wrong. It can be done and hopefully will be done.




Well does the sun shines at night in the Mojave because that´s the time when most of the cars will charge their batteries.

also will have to solve the issue of transmission losses
 
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