Posted on 08/05/2022 5:02:36 AM PDT by DFG
I’m not opposed to electric vehicles per second if they are used for what they are good for. (Quick acceleration and short distance.) For long trips and travel away from population centers petrol fuels are needed. I am convinced the push to EVs is an attempt to tie the population to those population centers
Maybe if the RV had a diesel genset running and you plugged the truck in..?
This is why Tesla won’t release the data on their touted electric semi. They can’t overcome the weight vs. range problem. The batteries would be so large the cargo weight drops to a quarter of the diesels.
Their answer will be Americans don’t need RVs anyway. What difference does it make?
Good little Communists will stay in their compounds.
I’ve got an EcoDiesel truck that makes it over 400 miles pulling a 7,200 pound trailer. It goes over 850 miles without the trailer.
The new f-150s have up to 10,000 pounds of towing capacity.
I agree on that count. I am not anti-electric. Just like I am not anti-wind or anti-solar.
I am anti-”being forced to accept inferior technology for all the wrong reasons”.
“7,200 lb trailer is a little heavy for an F-150. I’d want at least an F-250 and would prefer F-350.(with a turbo diesel)”
You’re right. I have a 6800 pounder. I first pulled it with a 150 (5.0). It worked on level roads but was not comfortable. I bought an F-250 (turbo diesel) and didn’t even know the trailer was back there.
Ran my 13 5.0 f150 pulling the same loads to 190k. Then it started to miss at idle and found #4 exhaust valve burnt.
Sent it off to auction where it hammered for 7500 bucks (paid 23k when it had 65k)
All in all it was a great truck and I was not nice to it. It worked for my money.
Yup,
More Truck than trailer!
I laugh when I see a Jeep Wrangler towing a 20ft Camper!
Death Wish in Motion.
So you do that and some genius will come up with the idea of hooking the engine to the wheels instead of a generator hooked to the batteries....and voila you get the modern car or truck.
Dateline 2075: “I’ve got an idea! Why don’t we start hooking the engine to the wheels instead of a generator hooked to the batteries??”
So what’s your point? That electric cars weigh more? That it takes up more space to power them? That “physics” means we won’t ever have smaller, lighter, longer-range batteries?
All of those implications are false.
I would agree with the claim that “gas engines are far from dead” in that there are niche applications for which gasoline will probably long remain best-suited. This presents one: Yes, an electric motor that allows you to drive on a highway for 5 hours at a time for the typical “road trip” is plenty... but if an enormously heavy load means you’re burning through your energy supply at a fantastic rate, multiple charges is going to take way longer than multiple fill-ups. If you’re dragging around a $100,000 camper, you probably also want to drag around an auxhiliary gas-burning generator, at which time you’ll also hear people saying, “hahahah! What an idiot! He’s powering an electric truck with a gas generator” as if you bought the truck exclusively for pulling that camper.
They also conducted the test using a much lighter one and only got 115 miles when towing a 3,140-pound trailer
With the available 775 ft-lbs of torque available off the line, Motortrend found it was a joy to pull the trailer and keep up with traffic, but of course there’s no practical range.
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Nothing produces torque like an electric motor. The trick is the supply of electricity. That’s why modern locomotives use electric motors to drive the wheels, but power comes from a massive diesel generator.
Evil hydrocarbons...OMG!!! /s
They figured that out after the Baker Electric was in fashion.
When an EV runs out between charging stations, it’s screwed.
During a blizzard in VA last winter, 100s of cars were stranded overnight in the snow.
No problem for ICE cars with half-full tanks.
EVs using electric power for heat went dead. Their drivers and passengers had to seek refuge inside ICE cars and trucks that were still running and warm.
Next morning, everybody who could, just drove on. Some ICE cars ran out of gas. An emergency truck with gas cans easily and quickly got the ICE cars that ran out of gas on their way.
The dead-battery EVs were still screwed. A diesel-powered charging station truck, running a diesel-powered generator, had to charge each EV slowly, one at a time.
If the mild and temporary Virginia blizzard had occurred with 90% EVs instead of 2 or 3%, it would have been much worse. In northern states where blizzards can go on for days, people could have frozen to death, or National Guard helicopters would have been required to rescue them.
This is physics. This will not change. What happens with EVs that run out of juice between charging stations is a BIG problem that will only get worse.
See 39.
That problem will only get worse if and when we have 95% EVs instead of 5%.
Tell me how you’ll solve it.
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