oh well with city living and parking, I live by the "bumpers are there for a reason" rule. You better not be parking your Maserati on the street, as I will have no fucking sympathy if there's an ~inch give where I can still fit my car.
Eventually, at least one or 2 of your parking light lenses are cracked, sometimes by your own doing. That's why the garage deal was the only way to go.
In an urban setting, the idea of single occupancy vehicles taking people all over should go the way of the dinosaur. Reclaim the street space for people and mass transit, with some ancillary space for cabs for those that need/want to pay for a personalized ride.call car. car arrives, takes you to gig, drives itself to hub for charge, picks up next owner, repeat. You actually need less charging infrastructure and far, far far less parking infrastructure. This is a really huge deal. ....obviously that's two big, relatively independent paradigm shifts (electric and automation), but they are now irrevocably tied together, anyway.
In an urban setting, the idea of single occupancy vehicles taking people all over should go the way of the dinosaur. Reclaim the street space for people and mass transit, with some ancillary space for cabs for those that need/want to pay for a personalized ride.
On street parking can be eliminated now - cities can stop giving away valuable land for free/cheap car storage. If you want to store your personal property, pay for the storage.Still, virtual elimination of street parking, and of course automated cars that can drive 100% better than any human, would on their own eliminate that thing called traffic.
traffic isn't caused by "number of cars on road." It's only ever caused by stupid humans that are put in control of those cars.
I agree. so now the car subscription service is a shared vehicle subscription service! Would definitely help to cut down on all the ...activities...that would invariably occur in such automated vehicles.
Still, virtual elimination of street parking, and of course automated cars that can drive 100% better than any human, would on their own eliminate that thing called traffic.
traffic isn't caused by "number of cars on road." It's only ever caused by stupid humans that are put in control of those cars.
On street parking can be eliminated now - cities can stop giving away valuable land for free/cheap car storage. If you want to store your personal property, pay for the storage.
And it won't fix traffic, because that is completely governed by vehicles and the space they occupy. There will always be a maximum throughout based completely on max occupancy and vehicle size. You can't just keep cramming more vehicles into a fixed amount of space.
US consumes ~14 quadrillion BTU of electricity currently, (generated from total of ~39 quadrillion BTU of primary energy before losses)
US Transportation, in all forms, consumes ~28 quadrillion BTU of energy. With only about 0.2% of this currently from electricity ~ basically none.
So to replace all US forms of transportation (28 quadrillion BTU worth) with electric vehicles would require tripling the amount of power generation in the US - and also tripling transmission capabilities unless the new power was generated locally. Note this is far more than just electric cars, but assuming electrifying the entire US transportation sector.
Back of the envelope, about a $9 trillion investment (which obviously would have to be phased in over many years), note this is in addition to the normal business-as-usual investments to meet power demand growth and replacement of retiring assets - of about $130+ billion/year or so. So would need to increase investment in the power sector by a factor of 5x, over period of 15 years, to reach this target as a simplified example estimate.
Basis: current US investor-owned electric utilities hold more than $1.6 trillion in depreciated assets on their books, which makes up about 70% of US generation, so call it $2.3 trillion total current assets for the power market as a whole. With quick assumption that on average these are about half depreciated = $4.6 trillion of assets at replacement cost, or to triple the market, need to add $9.2 trillion of new investment as a very simple rough approximation.
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Some street parking in some areas should be reclaimed by cities to make available for parks, bicycles, pedestrians and plazas, but that is certainly not viable everywhere. Where is everyone going to park? There is simply not enough off street parking, even if everyone paid, to get even close.
Traffic is certainly caused by volume of cars on limited sized roads, along with humans. Automated cars are not going to solve a lot of our traffic problems in a lot of areas. There are just congestion points that exist in densely populated areas. You'd be better off really investing in mass transit in a lot of these areas. Give people a better reason to not get in any car, automated or not.
Apartments don't have gas pump either. This is also 14 years out, there will be improvements in infrastructure as the market demands it.You do realize there is going to be an infrastructure issue if they were to do that. The fact is that majority of apartment buildings in the US were built before the shift to electric vehicles started, and thus they do not have outlets at their parking. I can see this as a start to disenfranchising people who live in apartment buildings.
Don't forget about the whalers!What ever will happen to livery stables? The elevator operators? The telephone switch operators?
Luckily in America utilities aren't ran by politicians. We can build gas turbine plants in a couple years time, and they take up very little footprint.I dunno. I very much don't trust the people who make decisions that actually implement change listen to the people who know what actually needs to be done.
In short politicians think in the short term.
The time of day issues might be peak load shedding. I know most corporations have a maximum instantaneous power draw allowed during peak hours. I'd think chargers would be smart enough to balance that across the whole station, though.Having owned a Model 3 for the past 2.5 years, I don't think your number is accurate... unless we're talking about older non-Tesla vehicles that don't support DC Fast Charging. I don't drive long distances often, but I did take my car on a ~900 mile trip (each way) back in 2019. Typically, going from about 5-15% to 85-95%, it would take about 20-30 minutes. Now, there are a ton of small points to make about this...
Amusingly enough, a friend of mine that owns a Model X just bought an ICE-powered car because he's tired of range anxiety on trips. I believe he travels to see his folks often, and that trip just doesn't have great Supercharger support. I was talking to him the other day after being frustrated at it taking 10 minutes to enter the new WiFi password into my Model 3, and he told me that if he had to keep just one, he'd keep the ICE-powered car. (As a note, I had to reboot the car's system to get it to take the WiFi password. Go Tesla quality! )
- Tesla vehicles can charge very quickly under nominal circumstances; however, the chargers can be flaky at times. This is worse due to how Superchargers are generally spread out with dozens of miles in between (outside of large metro areas) as where if a gas station has pump issues, there's usually another close by. One awkward problem that I ran into is that one charger just didn't work well at certain times of the day regardless of the number of people at the station. It worked fine at 8 AM and 8 PM, but it operated at 20% of the speed at 12 PM.
- Tesla chargers are sometimes located in very odd areas. For example, when I was up in PA, one charger was literally behind a grocery store in a strip mall; I was staring at their dumpsters as I was charging. I can't imagine how you'd convince any timid individual to charge there at night. In Chattanooga, TN, the charger is located in the airport's long-term parking, and yes, you have to pull a ticket to access it.
- Tesla's navigation software doesn't allow for customizable charge-related settings. The software tries to push for the smallest amount of charges, and it will often push you to low amounts of charge (note my mention of 5% above). Keep in mind that batteries don't perform as well at a lower charge/voltage, so performance is worse as your charge drops. The car also performs its planning of when you'll need to charge based upon your prior usage rate, but this may not consider upcoming terrain changes (e.g. going from a flatter area to a more mountainous area).
OR it presents an opportunity to create the necessary infra structure and the jobs associated with that effort. Also if tenants want electric cars and that becomes a factor driving where they rent then land lords will address that need.
well, theoretically it can absolutely do that.If automatic cars can eliminate the traffic caused by multiple fast moving major highways culminating into much smaller infrastructure like the Lincoln Tunnel and spitting them out a mile later into much much slower streets I'm all ears. It will help but it's certainly not the solution. Getting individuals out of cars that take up all that space to carry one person, and into mass transit, will probably be a bigger solution.
I'd argue we've hardly been doing this. We may be telling people to do this, but we're sending the opposite message when we keep expanding highways, providing free/cheap parking, allowing commuter benefits to pay for parking, and simultaneously undercutting mass transit with poor service and (sometimes) high fares (since, for some reason, only mass transit needs to pay for itself).Also, encouraging people to use mass transit is a current and long-term thing that we have already been working on for decades.