Will Electric Driver less cars need larger batteries to cope with all the added technology to keep the occupants amused.?

Hi so the technology is totally different to what you have now. the lithium ion battery as part of the floor of the car. the system will have cables in the road surface which allows this cable to put power in and also provide guidance and control to the traffic systems.

similar technology to the bullet train in japan so no need for wheels even floating on a cushion of air. in a vertical rail a lot like a monorail.

Larger than what ? Industry is now putting billions into battery research so they can make a battery which is

A. Smaller B. Lighter. C. Higher capacity. D Quicker to charge.

One advantage of a combustion engine is that you can plug appliances into the lighter socket so the car alternator supplies the energy using petrol/diesel which can be replaced at a filling station.

I'm sure it is possible to power a phone/laptop etc in an electric vehicle, but it will reduce the vehicle's range esp if 4 or 5 people are all plugged in at the same time. People may have to discipline them selves to make sure their appliances are fully charged before they travel. You can already buy relatively small power packs which can charge a mobile device a no, of times. As battery technology improves these power packs will also have a higher capacity.

Yes, more energy will be needed to operate an automatic car, but combustion cars already have radios, computers, ABS, power steering, airbags, electric windows etc and these don't hugely increase the energy demand.

I disagree with those who have a horror of automatic vehicles. It seems to me we already have a high number of drivers who think it's OK to break the speed limit, tailgate and generally drive recklessly. They won't want a car that removes their (lack of) control. I reckon that if we all had automatic cars, the roads would be safer and insurance premiums would be a lot cheaper. Of course there would be occasional disasters, but fewer than we have now, and we'd save a huge amount on court cases for driving offences.

Power consumption of the entertainment is negligible compared to the power consumption of the drive and environmental (heating, A/C, lights).

And if you run out of power in a pure electric car, you won't call the power company - or do you call the refinery if you run out of petrol? You'd call roadside assistance, and depending on the circumstances, they might either give you a quick recharge so you can reach the next charging point, or tow your car. Probably the latter - faster in the end, and more profit for them.

But recharging, as it stands now, will need to be differently planned than refuelling an ICE vehicle. Range is shorter and refuelling time much longer than currently. There woud be ways to mitigate that, but industry, politics (and consumers) seem to be decided to go for the (technically) worst possible approach, in the old and tried engineering approach of "we can't do it right, so let's at least look like we are doing something".

Of course.

I don't want to Ever see a driverless car.

Bad, Bad, BAD idea!

What's your logic there? The cellphones will still have their own batteries, so they don't draw from the car engine.

> What happens when the battery dies with no charging points around, do you call the electricity company

There are still too few electric cars around to tell how this will actually work out, but I guess, like I have a 5 liter can of petrol on my car, there will be a way how drivers can help each other out. Like yesterday's "hey, dude, can you spare some petrol?" it will maybe be "hey, dude, can you spare some amps?" and everyone has a cable ready. That's how I imagine it in the future.

Nice thing on the side: You could smoke a cigarette while the other car is charging, which I'd avoid at all cost while refueling with petrol.

Probably not! If you look at how much energy modern devices use compared to old ones you'll find that the energy use if falling dramatically!