"e-Jeepney" - The electric powered jeepney

[ghosthunter]

Have engineers come up with a battery design that isn't as polluting to build and maintain?

Nope. Choose your poison:

Lead acid
nickle carbide
nickle metal hydride
lithium ion or lithium polymer

Actually the last choice is less polluting but super expensive.

[roberto_minosa]

Nope. Choose your poison:

Lead acid
nickle carbide
nickle metal hydride
lithium ion or lithium polymer

Actually the last choice is less polluting but super expensive.

Yeah, only the Tesla deserves a whole bank of those. Now we're stuck with disposable Eveready's.
This sucks. I thought there was sensible progress on battery tech.

[niky]

Yeah, only the Tesla deserves a whole bank of those. Now we're stuck with disposable Eveready's.
This sucks. I thought there was sensible progress on battery tech.

Nope.

The only progress being made in battery-powered gadgets is that the gadgets are getting more energy-efficient. Li-Ion batteries are still expensive.

A couple of groups are working on ways to mass-produce Li-Ion for cheaper, but no luck yet.

[roberto_minosa]

I also heard about that. My lolo is very well-versed on electronics and pretty much anything electrical, and he told me that electric motors are highly inefficient devices as of now.

[romski123]

We are talking to motolite so that they may come up with a battery leasing program so that the consumer does not have to worry about replacing dead batteries. They can just lease and not own the batteries

[niky]

And the big problem is, to make them energy efficient, you need to use a lot of rare earths for the permanent magnets in the motors... which will make them more expensive...

We'll see how things go now that more companies are researching these vehicles... but so far, I'm not impressed by what I see being offered right now. The Tesla Model S might change my mind, but that car is still going to be way beyond the budget of the "ordinary" motorist... without tax breaks, it's likely to cost 6+ million pesos if brought in here.

[romski123]

check this out:
http://www.matternetwork.com/2009/10...tter-place.cfm

GM and Better Place are positioning for Electric Car Services. I think e-vihecles will be mainstream very very soon.

[roberto_minosa]

And the big problem is, to make them energy efficient, you need to use a lot of rare earths for the permanent magnets in the motors... which will make them more expensive...

We'll see how things go now that more companies are researching these vehicles... but so far, I'm not impressed by what I see being offered right now. The Tesla Model S might change my mind, but that car is still going to be way beyond the budget of the "ordinary" motorist... without tax breaks, it's likely to cost 6+ million pesos if brought in here.

Yeah, the Tesla will probably be impractical even for the filthy rich since home electricity cost here is just ludicrous.

But the 150+ mile range of that car is undoubtedly impressive.

[ghosthunter]

We are talking to motolite so that they may come up with a battery leasing program so that the consumer does not have to worry about replacing dead batteries. They can just lease and not own the batteries

So instead of paying P160,000 every 18 months, the e-jeepney owner have to pay a monthly "lease" of P8,900?

So what is the difference with that and paying for diesel fuel?

Where is the savings in operating cost then? Since the operator would be ending up having to pay P8,900/month plus the daily recharging cost.

Solve one problem, make a new one.

[ghosthunter]

check this out:
http://www.matternetwork.com/2009/10...tter-place.cfm

GM and Better Place are positioning for Electric Car Services. I think e-vihecles will be mainstream very very soon.

Better not believe all the PR BS you hear from the news. "Positioning" doesn't mean it has happened already.