That makes sense I hadn’t thought about the added weight and cost for higher speed crashes and such. I wonder if the law could be changed since it is a government backed product just to slightly increase the speed since I think that’s a hard sell since it would greatly reduce the amount of routes you could take. The range I think is also a huge disadvantage since most people only want their car battery to go between 10-90% at the most really 20-80% is most people.

It looks like the article you linked discussing the potential effect aerosols have on storms and the heat gradients don’t really change in the northern hemisphere with or without the aerosols. The southern there is a slight change but I’m not sure what conclusions can be made from that. They also are assuming either quadrupling or doubling of current CO2 levels which doesn’t sound realistic considering renewables and batteries are either cheaper or at price parity in many situations and only getting cheaper by comparison. With most of transportation, energy generation, industrial heat, and space heating greatly reducing their carbon footprint in the next 5-10 years I don’t see us doubling our CO2 concentration. Does SO2 cause problems yeah, but in the low concentrations that it would be at and in the upper atmosphere where it would spend less time raining down to earth it’s better than the alternative. Are there possible strategies of releasing aerosols in certain locations to minimize the negative externalities idk but that’s why the research needs to be done.

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Yeah I think the range and top speed need to be upped a little bit. 77miles is more like 50 if you don’t want to charge to 100 or leave it to 0 every time you drive. 50mph is probably closer to a real city speed yeah it prolly doesn’t need to go that fast 80% of the time but sometimes you need to be able to go faster or else you can only travel around on very limited roads.

Solar costs about 40c/watt installed at large scale and the grid on average uses 2 GW. Cuba gets on average 4.4 solar hours a day let’s use 4. So that means you need to install 12 GW of capacity plus batteries. Let’s make it 24gw so there’s power on cloudy days. That means for solar it would cost roughly 10 billion. Battery storage somewhere around 20 gwh would cost another 4billion. So for 14 billion you could get almost the entire grid off oil and onto solar. For perspective at 100$/ barrel it would only be 3 -4 yrs of oil consumption. It sounds like China could easily make an investment like that especially since it would stimulate chinas economy since they would be making and selling the panels+batteries. I know I simplified a ton but with that much battery storage you could distribute them to maximize the grid. Effectively distributing power more evenly throughout the day. Also the grid is already used to blackouts brown outs so worst case you black some sections out of its been too many cloudy days in a row.

What insanity is this, have you ever been in a parking garage where most are like 8ft ceilings. Most solar car parks are well over 12ft and no issue with building them. Yeah it’s more expensive to build solar car ports vs ground based but you don’t need to build big transmission lines which delay or prevent many large solar fields. Then hopefully you can have EV charging stations right there power cars off the sun.