What do you all think is the key to achieving efficient electric transportation now?

[udythinc]

The core of the current urban transportation revolution is technology-driven electric mobility (e-mobility), which not only includes light electric vehicles such as e-bikes and e-scooters, but also electric vehicles that rely on charging infrastructure to stay in motion. Driven by intelligent connection solutions. The development of the micro-transportation industry is still in its infancy, but various signs indicate that it will achieve sustained growth and exciting development. What do you all think is the key to achieving efficient electric transportation now?

 

[Alec_t]

What do you all think is the key to achieving efficient electric transportation now?

Development of new batteries which don't require exotic materials in their manufacture and which aren't toxic or likely to catch fire/explode.

 

[poormystic]

Lowering the risk of injury.
Not really that that has much to do with efficiency but you can't expect to be safe while going around at high speeds with your body unprotected.
A 300 mph skateboard just ain't useful- no matter how cheaply you can run it.

 

[Delta Prime]

In development as we speak, betavoltaic batteries with radioactive isotope, carbon-14, an unstable radioactive form of carbon, called radiocarbon that emits only beta radiation the byproduct of nuclear power plants… sustainable is it not.
They don’t need recharging & they last longer than your lifetime.
Easy Peezy Nuclear Squeezy.

 

[crutschow]

In development as we speak, betavoltaic batteries with radioactive isotope, carbon-14, an unstable radioactive form of carbon, called radiocarbon that emits only beta radiation the byproduct of nuclear power plants… sustainable is it not.
They don’t need recharging & they last longer than your lifetime.
Easy Peezy Nuclear Squeezy.

Should be great for powering my pacemaker.
Not so much my EV.

 

[Delta Prime]

Should be great for powering my pacemaker.
Not so much my EV

True, may help with your pacemaker.
Not so much with your EV or
Esophageal Varices…
Thank you for the correction.
A team of researchers at Texas A&M University, including Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Dr. Karen Wooley and Professor of Chemical Engineering Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus, has developed a biodegradable battery using natural polymers. Its findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Soo. you can eat it; the battery that is…non-toxic.

 

[poormystic]

True, may help with your pacemaker.
Not so much with your EV or
Esophageal Varices…
Thank you for the correction.
A team of researchers at Texas A&M University, including Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Dr. Karen Wooley and Professor of Chemical Engineering Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus, has developed a biodegradable battery using natural polymers. Its findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Soo. you can eat it; the battery that is…non-toxic.

 

[poormystic]

(~ no ExaVolts, too...)

New Suggestion
... but what about billions of ultratiny robotic ants, all marching at the same speed and in the same direction, down a deep, vee-sided ditch. Say they fill up the ditch...
The surface of ants at the edge of the ditch might be hardly moving, while the middle of the ditch might move at 100kph, because that's the deepest part of the flow.

Is that a good future for transportation?

 

[Harald Kapp]

If this continues, it's time to move this thread to the woowoo section ...

 

[poormystic]

If this continues, it's time to move this thread to the woowoo section ...

I agree, it is hard to see it working in practice.
I blame DP, with his "Esophageal Varices"

 

[Delta Prime]

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[Delta Prime]

I agree, it is hard to see it working in practice.
I blame DP, with his "Esophageal Varices"

Forgive me, English is my third language.
I’m typing this with my middle finger. I speak fluent ironic with a solid sarcastic accent.

 

[poormystic]

I like the idea of narrow, high-speed "packet rail". The rail would be confined to tunnels and tubes, and go twice as fast to carry twice as much (freight).