The potential to significantly reduce pollution could be huge.

Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption::The potential to significantly reduce pollution could be huge.

  • @jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    Really feeling like “new battery technology” is the vehicular equivalent of “holographic storage” for computers.

    People have been talking about it for decades, there have been promising demos and absolutely no commercial application. :(

    Meanwhile:

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-aren-t-buying-evs-122809686.html

    "among those respondents who did purchase a car or truck in the last 12 months, only 3.71% bought a new fully electric model, compared to 27.32% who got a gas combustion vehicle and 13.53% who opted for a new hybrid.

    Used vehicle buyers chose to buy gas-fueled cars, per the study. According to response rates, 41.91% preferred to buy a car or truck with an internal combustion engine, whereas 4.51% and 9.02% went for used fully electric and hybrid varieties, respectively."

    • @Cavemanfreak@lemm.eeEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      “among those respondents who did purchase a car or truck in the last 12 months, only 3.71% bought a new fully electric model, compared to 27.32% who got a gas combustion vehicle and 13.53% who opted for a new hybrid.”

      Where are the missing 55%? And only 27.32% went for an ICE?? Something doesn’t add up.

      “Used vehicle buyers chose to buy gas-fueled cars, per the study. According to response rates, 41.91% preferred to buy a car or truck with an internal combustion engine, whereas 4.51% and 9.02% went for used fully electric and hybrid varieties, respectively.”

      Does this take into account how the market for used cars looks like? It seems like there would be tons of more ICE cars than electric varieties, since they’ve been even more popular in the past.

      Edit: At least the EU is stepping up https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/eu-october-car-sales-up-146-ev-sales-jump-more-than-36-2023-11-21/

      Almost 50% of new passenger car registrations Jan-Oct were fullt electric or hybrid.

      • @jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9•1 year ago

        “Where are the missing 55%?”

        Diesel? Stat specifically says gas combustion. But that doesn’t make ANY sense unless they ran the poll somewhere outside the US.

        Oho… I think I have it figured out…

        Follow the logic:

        “Among those who purchased a car or truck in the last 12 months…”

        3.71% - New Electric
        27.32% - Gas Combustion
        13.53% - New Hybrid

        So of the people buying a car or truck in the past 12 months, 44.56% bought NEW vehicles. The remaining 55.44% bought USED.

        The failing is excluding the word “new” from the gas purchases while it’s included in the other two.

        Then they relay the used statistics.

        41.91% - Used ICE
        9.02% - Used Hybrid
        4.51% - Used Electric

        55.44%