Discover how EV dominance between 40–80% triggers rapid system change: fuel closures, mechanic job losses, and skyrocketing maintenance for combustion cars.
Solid state batteries, hopefully soon we will have electric breaks. I hear it’s a challenge, which is why it hasn’t happened yet. But my ignorant self feels that a well shielded wire will hold up better to wear and tear than a pressurised hydraulic hose. Radiators are still a thing, but smaller. Maybe they’ll come up with a pure air-cooled system, or use a heat pump and dump the heat either in the cabin or off the battery/motor.
I think it’s possible to eventually get rid of all the fluids except for the housing/lube around moving parts like the u-joint. But then again maybe those in-wheel electric motors don’t need u-joints?
I’d also like the electrical and a/c to run off the main battery not the 12v car battery left over from ice.
Solid state batteries, hopefully soon we will have electric breaks. I hear it’s a challenge, which is why it hasn’t happened yet. But my ignorant self feels that a well shielded wire will hold up better to wear and tear than a pressurised hydraulic hose. Radiators are still a thing, but smaller. Maybe they’ll come up with a pure air-cooled system, or use a heat pump and dump the heat either in the cabin or off the battery/motor.
I think it’s possible to eventually get rid of all the fluids except for the housing/lube around moving parts like the u-joint. But then again maybe those in-wheel electric motors don’t need u-joints?
I’d also like the electrical and a/c to run off the main battery not the 12v car battery left over from ice.