What a waste of "decimate", terrible editing Rcade.

"Not on an ICE chassis"

The skateboard design is not an improvement. It's just Body on Frame with a lower frame. There are huge advantages to the Unibody design and you can still mount batteries low in them.

and people aren't rushing out to buy Apteras just because they look different. The utility is basically non-existent.

#13 daily commuters do more than daily commuting. The vehicle has to also be suitable for the primary edge case, long distances or heavy daily use. People don't want to own a second car or rent one just to make a simple day trip like Austin to DFW.

For starters, that amount of energy transfer may be dangerous, depending upon the capacity of the battery in question.

#28 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2024-04-15 08:12 PM | REPLY

Assuming we are charging from a normal 50% storage charge, it's 136 amps at 220v. That's not realistic on a home charge and potentially dangerous. However, Tesla iirc uses 400v architecture, so that's only 75 amps sustained for 5 minutes. That's doable theoretically but no commercial solution exists for it. The Tesla wall connector is only rated to 32 amps @ 400V, so yuo're going to need about 12 minutes to uh.. SuperCharge it.

Absolutely terrible for battery life though. Murders it, causes puffing, drastically reduces battery life over time. If you are charging a lipo battery, the optimal charge rate is 1C, which is 1 hour to full capacity regardless of total amp/hours the battery contains.

Running that system off of solar isn't cost efficient in the least though. The good hybrid inverters can't fast charge, they are 50 amp @ 220V limited, which is good enough to only run a home air conditioner and not much in the way of other high drain appliances. So you need multiple inverters each at least $5k, then since you can't solar charge at night, when most people garage their cars and charge, you have to have racks of battery storage. You'd need $7k in batteries just to hold the 30k to put in the vehicle, and another $14k in battery racks to run your home overnight except in very favorable climates. Another $20-30k in solar panels. Ancillary charges to remove and reinstall the entire system when you do your roof every 10 years or so.

Just putting gas in a car is a hell of a lot cheaper than at home solar charging an EV.

Masterful gambit sir

#36 | POSTED BY JOE AT 2024-04-16 08:37 AM | FLAG:

and yesterday he asked shareholders to reinstate his compensation package.

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