You also can’t just walk down the road and get a container of electrons when the battery dies. That’s going to be an unfixable problem for EVs. It’s dead simple to pour a can of gas into a car that runs out if it, and the gas in that small can contains a lot of energy to get the car back on the road. It also only take a few seconds to pour it into the tank and get going.
The EV, though, is dead in the water in that scenario. Even if you had some kind of emergency battery to bring to the scene, it’s not going to be able to do anything. It takes high voltage to recharge EVs, and requires very high voltage in the 240 to 900 volt range to charge them in a halfway reasonable timeframe. You could use 120 volts, easily obtained from a common generator or an inverter on a vehicle, but that low voltage will take hours even to generate a partial charge, and gee, what fuels those generators or a vehicle engine driving an inverter?…GASOLINE! Among all the other problems with EVs, the impracticality of quickly “refueling” a dead EV out in the middle of nowhere is a fatal (maybe literally) flaw. Every EV with a dead battery will have to be towed.
“Every EV with a dead battery will have to be towed”
There are some specially equipped tow trucks with onboard fast chargers — not much total charging capacity but enough to get the EV to the next charger, hopefully, like a gallon of gas.
I’ve read that you run an EV out of power, it Bricks. Need to go to the dealer….. I can’t remember that happening when I ran out of gas…. 🧐
Worse than that- many won’t be able to afford a battery and if it gets wet, look out.
Here is how China deals with dead battery vehicles:
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