Given the amount of torque those motors produce I hate to think how the bus's structure will hold up unless there's been some serious strengthening.
The more they develop the cheaper they will become. Can't see anything at the minute that's going to stop 'em taking over from what we have now.
The problem is batteries. The whole of the floor pan of a tesla is battery. Where will they fit in a car not designed for them?
Battery technology is moving forward, I'm a carpenter and just about every power tool now runs on batteries. When the big petrol companies finally realise they have to change and put money into new forms of power, things will maybe start to move more quickly.
What people fail to realise is the environmental damage caused by mining lithium! Take for example the BMW e drive ...2.0turbo Petrol + electric motor + 250kg of batteries for a massive 18mile range on electric ...all the extra weight massively increases tyre wear (more environmental damage ) and you get 85mpg combined !! I’m positive they can make engines with more fuel economy than that ...plus you have higher end of life recycling impact ...cows do more damage to the environment than cars plus what about all the boats ,vans and lorries ?
The batteries only last 8-10 years and currently cost £20k-£30k to replace. Hopefully by the time they stop selling petrol, the electric option will be a whole lot cheaper and smaller. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
It is a bit of fun but I really don't think electric cars are the future any more than diesel cars were. Electric cars are a stopgap while we wait for the OPEC countries to start producing hydrogen in large quantities for erm.... internal combustion engines. All the fuel density advantages of fossil fuel with none of the environmental impacts of batteries or fossil fuel, and all you need is (say) a massive desert you can cover in solar panels for electrolysis of a vast load of water that's (say) rushed into the big space under your desert where the oil used to be that you took out. Anyone thinks this isn't the future and batteries are, doesn't understand how OPEC works
So how do you 'rush' a vast quantity of water under the desert and where do you get it from? What about the other OPEC members that don't have a convenient desert? My money's on Elon Musk.
Deserts are loaded with water, it just isn't very near the top. Oil floats, what do you think is currently happening to the gap the oil is coming out of at pressure? Tough on them, that's how OPEC really works lol He's a businessman with a knack for spotting something that means he can separate people from their money and he's got a good PR team. Don't be thinking he's some guardian angel of the environment. The man's building a rocket to go to Mars so he can exploit it for it's mineral wealth after all.
They'll be the next thing after big business has milked as much as it can out of people for the current not very green electric car fad, see above
