The Royal Institution
The increased affordability and adoption of batteries has the potential to transform our built world. Our panel of experts takes a deep dive into the world of batteries and how they will impact us and the way we live our everyday lives.
This event is generously supported by The Faraday Institution – https://faraday.ac.uk/
How will widespread adoption of battery transport affect the built environment? How will the automotive and transport sectors have to change? Will models of ownership of vehicles have to change? Will we lease batteries? Will we use our batteries to store energy and sell it back to the national grid?
Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/RiA-l6tZI-M
The presenters in order of apperance are:
Vicky Edmonds, Joint Head of OLEV, the Office of Low Emission Vehicles
Colin Herron, MD, Zero Carbon Futures
Peter Stephens, UK Government Relations, Nissan
Jo Coleman, UK Energy Transition Manager, Shell
Alok Jha, Science and Technology Correspondent, The Economist, chaired the event.
This talk and Q&A was filmed in the Ri on 13 June 2019.
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and then we finally all have everything electric and a single solar flare will put us back into the stone age…fossil fuels anyone??
I do not want an autonomous car , get our of our lives and let us live instead of forcing us to be controlled . Why do these car need to share their charged batteries with the grid ? That is ridiculous , so if they decide you dont want to go anywhere then they discharge your battery or will not allow them to charge. Why should the government have that kind of power ? This at the root of the innocent optimism is actually more about control of the masses. Go stuff your pompous selves.
What I was expecting to hear from an RI presentation was technical battery innovations. What I heard was how much trouble and work and time and regulations are required – something that might have been scripted by the oil industry to discourage any innovation.
In the early 1900’s electric cars were actually preferred over gasoline powered cars and might have prevailed but for the poor batteries charge capacity. The issues, distilled, are these:
1st – Electric engines are 90-95% efficient, internal combustion 25-30% efficient. All that heat and noise is lost energy. All those parts, assembly and maintenance of cooling systems and muffler systems are costly;
2nd – Electric cars have fewer parts thus less initial cost and less maintenance. The building costs will drop dramatically as volumes increase;
3rd – electricity can be generated via multiple sources. And there will be more electricity innovations as the demand grows;
4th – Private industry doesn’t need governments to incentivize them. There will be money to be made and private industry will respond. How many gas stations existed when automobiles 1st came on the scene? Did governments have to pay for those gas stations to be built?; and
5th – The byproduct of all this is far fewer harmful emissions – clean air!
So, the answer is IMPROVE BATTERY CAPACITY!
didn't expect a brainwashing on the hoax of globule warming.
Which is absolutely amazing. That nobody
reports about the possible consequences of
the triggered electrofication.
Also one does not hear Think Tank
investigations about the long-term implications.
What does that mean?
I thought Steve Davis was doing a RI talk from the thumbnail.
I thought that was Steve Davis at first.
Take a drink every time they say "UK".
Feel like this is meant for elderly people with minimal comprehension of EV's
Pretty hollow on the informative front.
It is total nonsense, not only could they not increase production of clean power that fast, but the waste in li-on battery chemicals and environmental damage from their construction would be gigantic.
no substance, typical British blah blah ..meanwhile in China its all being done
I am missing NGO representatives challenging the penalists.
Nobody is talking about reducing individual vehicles.
There are some scary key words in this video such as Government intervention, taxes, CO2 regs Etc this is not something that should gain a lot of ground for the sake of the free peoples of Great Britain. Also don't miss but little paid promotion at the bottom of the start of the video. Oh yeah and probably the most frightening one to me was the government fleets; that should not happen
Techno Optimists to the left of me, Dumbo Optimists to the right.
Please don't ban diesel vehicles!!! They are simple, reliable, and can run on nearly anything. Including RENEWABLE BIOFUELS! I don't understand why there is no conversation about this.
Electric cars are only zero emissions if the electricity comes from zero emissions sources. What's the percentage of renewable electricity in the UK? Also, electric cars may reduce emissions, but they are far from being "green". Big car companies source themselves with raw materials extracted from Africa by slaves, and under poor environmental considerations. What can we do to prevent the use of products linked to human rights violations, including electric cars? And what happens with "old" cars? Will the UK ship them to poor countries, as happens with a large percentage of the waste?
Talking very very fast 😂
"The Royal Institution"
"Royal", as in "oppressive", "authoritarian" and "deceitful".
Battery power isn't clean. It's a fallacy. Where does the power to charge them come from? Power stations? What about the toxic chemicals in the batteries?
Biggest clickbait. Waste of time. Tell us something we don't know. Like listening to politicians. Reason UK is falling down – ppl like this.
Feels like ppl who don't actually understand the subject.
20 years from now we might have better batteries,,,, well 20 years from now the world might not exist anymore. Check out TED: "how to turn our world desserts green again" much better to spend our time and money there.
Forget batteries ! power everything using butane as it burns with a blue flame and as plenty of energy. The sciences tell us the BLUE FLAME is proof of full combustion and the exhaust consists of water and CO2 ! ! ! So butane must be the way to go ! There is no excuse to say the CO2 will pollute us even more as this could be stored and used in the soda industry, welding and the brewery industry ! The water which should be pure can be released into any water sauce ! OR ARE THEY LYING ABOUT ALL OF THIS ???????
Soooooo do Nissan's cars all stink now because they've put their R&D into battery tech for buildings? Because they're cars are uniformly bad. Which makes me sad….they used to build some really nice stuff.