Posted on 10/18/2021 12:46:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
“And they drove with pride...”
They should make electric cars using lots of magnesium. It’s light weight.
That would certainly solve the hazardous waste clean up problem following a fiery collision. A shop vac and dustpan are all that's needed. Saves on cremation expenses too!
You have to love the arrogance...of course they’re heavy, it’s the state-of-the-art respective to battery technology. So of course every single engineer understands the benefit of reducing the weight - which, overwhelmingly, means the batteries! Doh!
...we can also make aircraft more efficient if they were lighter. ;p
I saw a pickup truck do similar damage here in SoCal.
Speeding, clipped a curb just right and launched into the air. It demolished the house that it landed on and killed two in the pickup. No one was home in the house.
Thanks. I assumed that if a couple college “economists” just figured it out, engineers already knew it like forty years ago.
Just eliminate the batteries. That is where much of the weight comes from. Put in two AA batteries.
Stick those electric cars where the sun don’t shine.
Skip the batteries and plug in extension cords.
Not to mention insurance rates...
Because:
You can fool some of the people all of the time
You can fool all of the people some of the time
BUT - you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Thanks to Dr Obvious and Professor WeAlreadyKnewThat. Jeez, where do they get these people?
Here is a example result of a lighter less rigid frame after a crash...
https://atlas-content1-cdn.pixelsquid.com/assets_v2/139/1396417224482231526/jpeg-600/G08.jpg
[snip] The 4680 battery cell was unveiled at Tesla’s Battery Day in September 2020.
The automaker presented several new pieces of technology that combined together result in a more energy-dense cell that could reduce costs by 50%.
One of the most significant improvements that 4680 cells bring to the table is the ability to build a structural battery pack that makes the pack part of the vehicle structure – reducing parts, weight, and cost. [/snip]
https://electrek.co/2021/07/26/tesla-update-4680-battery-cell-production/
> They point out that heavier EVs, in addition to being less efficient because of their weight, pose a danger in collisions with gasoline powered cars due to the weight differential.
Because, y’know, there have never before been a large range of different vehicle sizes on the road.
I hear that's mined in wakanda.
oh...and the unobtanium....that's good.
An interesting thing... no one examines the "green" cost of building the roads for EVs to drive on.
The other day at a box store there was lady standing in the parking lot trying to get in her car. She could not get the door to unlock. VW with No place to put a key and turn it. She was on her cell phone and kept playing with the key fob, but could not get in. In bad weather or if her life was in danger from thugs then she could really be in trouble.
What a wonderful world we have now.
“more people could be working at home.”
that’s one way to improve electric vehicle safety
hey, i know, maybe they could start making ‘em out of Papier-mâché ... that would be lighter ... of course, passenger protection in a collision would be nil, but hey, everyone needs to make a little sacrifice to the gods of climate change, right?
True.
Can’t repeal the laws of physics.......................
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