Rick, So you are saying not for families? What about the otherwise, and adanced light travellers of the future without all the added Garbage of the present of course , including the lightspeed families? Millenniums 3000, Thoughts? Luggage is way ahead of that curve. Plus are you Kidding? All these EV guys on the same page Including Musky? Bottom line people dont travel with luggage in the future Its already there way ahead of arrival, or else " replicate " ---- Inductive charging roadways, Yah a few minutes down the road. The " Thought Experiment " helps us envision a concept thats all, but when, & if enough people thinks about it It Manifests! Its a nature of light, called Collective Observation/Manifestation , so be careful what you think, or imagine for it will appear right before your very eyes. Plus as you know even now each family member could grab a backpack/suitcase and be out in a second, rather than waiting what 6 hours for a recharge. I guess the real question is how bad do people want to get off fossil fuels for transportation because nothing is really holding them back. Plan ahead be prepared.
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Timothy Mcbride
CEO/Owner
Sol-Era R & D
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-06-2023 12:39 PM
From: Roderick Gregory
Subject: PV powered EV cross-country transit networks
For a single commuter this probably works. I'm not so sure that a car
packed with suitcases and a family would regard it as an improvement.
Rather than a complete vehicle change, being able to have a standard
battery (which of course doesn't exist at this time) swap-out would be
much preferred. Whether vehicle and battery manufacturers would
cooperate on such a venture is a major question.
Inductive charging roadways is another option....
-- Rick Gregory, SLC
rickg916@gmail.com
Original Message:
Sent: 9/5/2023 1:20:00 PM
From: Timothy Mcbride
Subject: PV powered EV cross-country transit networks
The concept of an endless range electric vehicle has been on our radar for a long time now, but this achievement seems pretty far into the future technologically speaking, for single vehicles but there is a way to do this now with multiple vehicles in a tag relay system that can be easily created. The concept would be to create swap points along a route in which a commuter would simply change out a vehicle for a waiting fully charged vehicle therefore no wait times at all. Of course these lots of EV's would be in constant communication with all other EVs in the system and thus be activated when called upon with a code sent to the commuter's account. The rested EV would be cleaned and set to charge for another traveler in the system. The longest range vehicles would be chosen for longer trips, or to ensure distance to next exchange. The whole lot would be covered in PV arrays, or combinations of any local renewable source such as wind, or hydro to keep EVs topped off. This pony express type hand off would continue until the journey is complete. Once at one's destination one could opt to continue to use the EV for local commuting or just leave it at the PV station. There could be tens of thousands of EVs in the network, and exchanges located at existing rest areas, or road side parks, shopping centers, or newly built sites where needed. Also privately owned EV owners could also join networks where they can simply loan out a spare EV to a network. These type PV/EV networks could grow exponentially rapidly across the country, and the world until it could become a time when no one actually owns a car anymore, like nobody owns the bus, trains, ships, or airplanes but one can go basically anywhere on them.
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Timothy Mcbride
CEO/Owner
Sol-Era R & D
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