Well you can get 7 day test drives of EV's without too much of a problem ... I await your blog post
There will be some edge cases today where EV use is not the most practical option , but for me I think they have hit the maturity where going 100% EV is now a viable option for my household ( instead of the 33% currently ) The driving force for me isn't about Saving the Planet or even Saving money ( which I could conceivably do by running my existing fleet into the ground ) , its because I love the technology and enjoy driving them.
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The wife's leaf is already owned Savings in parking alone covered the monthlies and Nissan offered me a good final payment, which I took. Not sure what I'll go for when it comes to replacing the Elgrand & R32 - at the moment , the Kona EV looks pretty capable, but there are some quite handy deals on the Jag iPace too!
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Of course, hyundai come along and actually start offering something sensible..
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review...2018-uk-review
I've seen a few very encouraging reviews on it - sensible price too.
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ok now THIS is sensible..
when a car's battery comes to the end of it's life, is could be repurposed to store electricity for the grid.
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/fin...n-and-bmw-grid
and it will be
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
I've editted the title of this thread, because as itr grows, it will become more useful to know the lifecycle of the battery.. not just it's source/origin
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
Apparently Tesla recycle old car batteries into new car batteries. Interesting comment in this article that Tesla are really a battery company, they just happen to put some into cars.
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/07...in-the-future/
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I was quite tempted to get one of the nissan powerwall equivalents for home battery use - Eaton offer them with new packs or recycled cells. Sadly the cost just wasn't efficient ( even though it would allow me power the house with either Solar, or off peak cost energy - the ROI just wasn't there today ) - not to mention having to tidy the garage to make space for it ;-)
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As an engineer that feels a better way, to recycle the old cells into battery making components, make new cells, put them in things properly designed to do the job.
The whole "how would MacGuyver power the grid" cobbling stuff together doesn't feel like the way we want to be feeding clean reliable power into our hospitals etc. Could make for an amusing episode of Scrapheap Challenge though.
I looked at this too, but the RoI was 12 years - about the life time of two LiFe batteries at around £1K each!
Sorry, I meant recycling in general, not just recyclig for alternative use. Effectivly re-manufacturing a car traction battery from the materials from an old one.
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And don’t forget the catalytic converter, full of precious and rare metals, platinum, palladium, and rhodium.
Those are recycled at the end of vehicles life, so there is a recycling path. Lead in lead acid cells is recycled. The same will be true for lithium in traction batteries.
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