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NekuraHitokage t1_ittnroc wrote

Reply to comment by Wacky_Eyes in Move over, diesel: Ohio gets ‘first of its kind’ renewable gas station by redingerforcongress

Indeed, it's a little out of realm for now... But should a breakthrough hit I'm immediately inboard. The most viable stopgap seems to be EV.

I'd love to just see a drop in EV engines. Maybe offer scrap discounts for trading the motor. I think a few are out there, but if it takes off... Hoo!

We need battery exchange stations and easily exchanged batteries at that. Why spend a year charging when you can have 100 in the back and hot-swap them for an exchange and charge a differential fee? If the battery is bad, maybe have a battery recycling fee. There are ways to do it that make sense in the interim!

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RDMvb6 t1_itukd2b wrote

Drop in EV batteries have been thoroughly explored and the industry has not found them to be viable yet. They are massively heavy and swapping something that weighs well over 1,000lbs cannot be done as quickly as just charging the battery from a fast 480V charger.

Similar for dropping in an EV motor into an existing gas vehicle. That is a massive structural change and by the time you get into replacing the frame, it’s cheaper to get a new vehicle. Sure it can be done in a lab but it is not large scale commercially feasible.

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NekuraHitokage t1_ituz450 wrote

My point was more that we make it feasible. It doesn't have to be all profit all the time when the planet is, in some places, literally on fire because of the changes being brought on.

Indeed it has its barriers and I never said it was a perfect solution either... But if we can find ways to build skyscrapers in weeks, we can find ways to do these things. The problem, as ever, is "profit."

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