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Old 10-02-2020, 04:02 PM   #35
RACarvalho
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For an Axis like yours, you need an average of around 100 HP to cruise down the road at highway speeds, so you’d need close to 100 kW-hour of battery for every hour of driving. As we’ve discussed in other threads, cost is probably no longer the main challenge, but weight of +/- 500 kW-hour of batteries could weigh down a compact motorhome the size of Axis. Not that cost isn’t an issue still.
Cost and C rate (rate of charge) continue to be the two main technical challenges that electrical drivetrains face today.
Cost is the reason we don't see anyone offering the electrical version at a lower cost than the gas version, even after they have artificially inflated the cost of the gas versions with emissions stuff.
You take all the emissions stuff from the gas cars and the cost issue become even more difficult to overcome...
Then you need to add the geopolitical problems on moving from a energy source that we have control to materials that China control and then there is inflation for the cost of electric energy will increase meaning all your meals, just to give an example, will become more expensive, etc...


The reality is that electrification is bringing nothing to the consumer but is an offer to pay more to receive less...
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