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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