{"id":9105,"date":"2016-06-22T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T11:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2016-06-22T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T11:57:07","slug":"battery-vehicle-now-viable-for-very-long-distances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/battery-vehicle-now-viable-for-very-long-distances\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery Vehicle Now Viable for Very Long Distances"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tesla 3 gets nearly double the range of the Nissan Leaf by\u00a0using\u00a0nearly double the amount of battery but engineers\u00a0are using\u00a0a multitude of work rounds\u00a0to\u00a0do better:\u00a0aerodynamics,\u00a0lightweighting\u00a0even including structural electronics where dumb structure is replaced by supercapacitors or solid state batteries. Add\u00a0more efficient motors and powertrain. Fuel cell hybrids\u00a0retain the cachet of most expensive solution with a long on-road charging time if you factor in the time to find that rarity, the hydrogen charger.\u00a0Very long distance with large hydrogen tanks is impracticable.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, at\u00a0IDTechEx<\/span><\/a>\u00a0we believe that there is an excellent solution being proved for the long distance\u00a0battery\u00a0vehicle, starting with trucks.\u00a0The battery does not expand to an unwieldy 400kWh. A new dynamic charging approach\u00a0was presented\u00a0at EVS29 Canada\u00a0byPatrik\u00a0Akerman\u00a0of\u00a0Siemens. Dynamic charging is a term most often applied to coils in the road that charge the vehicle as it goes along but, as he pointed out, this has severe difficulties with roads wearing out early, safety and damage from vehicles and roadworks. Height variations, snow, dirt, cost\u00a0and other problems have been cited by others.\u00a0Following a study,\u00a0Siemens has decided not to work on this.\u00a0Akerman\u00a0favours the elegant,\u00a0affordable solution of\u00a0intermittent\u00a0overhead catenary at a mere Euros 2.2\u00a0million\u00a0per kilometre for charging trucks on the move which means that they can still overtake (the old trolley buses could not).<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole of Germany could be served in this way with only 400 km of catenary.\u00a0The\u00a0German\u00a0authorities\u00a0find\u00a0it feasible and\u00a0desirable. There are trials now in several other countries.\u00a0Cost is a fraction of fuel cell and other alternatives:\u00a0installation is easy.\u00a0IDTechEx finds that inductive charging is great for the car at home and premium cars are adopting it.\u00a0We believe that fuel cell vehicles will succeed in niche markets when attractive unique selling propositions are identified.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fuel cell hybrids retain the cachet of most expensive solution with a long on-road charging time if you factor in the time to find that rarity, the hydrogen charger. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","category-techbiz"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",840,485,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169-300x173.png",300,173,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",750,433,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",750,433,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",840,485,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",840,485,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",840,485,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",840,485,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",600,346,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",600,346,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",760,439,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",550,318,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",95,55,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",640,370,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",96,55,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/render-completo-169.png",150,87,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"Other<\/a> Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}