Volvo to go all electric in 2019

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Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

This statement begs for a question: When batteries would be sufficiently advanced to be used in cars then?

- When you can travelk from Munich to Hamburg on an average weather day without needing to plan four ofd five stops for recharging in advance - and then getting stranded due to incompatible charging stations and messy payment models preventing you from charging your battery. Munich Hamburg with just one stop - no matter the outside temperature, passenger load, speed driven.

- When you do not end up in the middle of nirvana becasue the weatherr forecats was bad and the day you drive has temps falling to zero.

- In short: when your electric car reliably provides you with the range of any gas-driven car with small tank, no matter the weather. If I need to do preplanning as if I were to take off with a Cessna and must file a flightpan and fuel calculation, then it simply is not practical.

And all that helps nothing if there is no electrical infrastructure to support this transportation model.

We are many years away for that, still. A new battery revolution is püromsied for late htis year or early next year, for electric bicycles these will increase the range by 50-60% on average, they advertize. The pedelec batteries will be a spinoff from developments done for electric cars. For pedelecs they are expected next year.