Posted on 02/19/2022 3:25:07 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Except for the “hybrid” part.
This. Would be the best if both worlds. Diesel generator tuned for efficiency and electric motors at all four corners.
Agreed, worthless for me. I’d have to strip my camper bare - like it came off the lot - to get down to 5000. Then to get to a favorite campground in the mountains I’d have to stop 3 time for a nearly 0% to 100% charge. A half day run would turn into an all day ordeal. Maybe even a two day run. Then there would be one more charge when I got there, so I could run to the grocery store to lay in provisions. Of course anything unused at the end of the trip would have to be thrown out to save weight.
You have to allow for the vastly greater efficiency of an electric motor compared to ICE. Most of your liquid fuel turns into waste heat, but the vast majority of your battery charge turns into go.
I remain more & more convinced that pure electric vehicles will never be the norm. Too limiting. What is wrong with a Hybrid vehicle? I think hybrid electrics, particularly plug in hybrid electrics are the answer u to bridge us to a time when battery technology increases t o the point a battery is smaller & charges in less than 15 minutes.
Yup!
Been doing it with trains for decades
So if the nut case tree huggers were to get their way all cars would run on batteries. Fast forward ten years. Where do we dispose of the batteries? Pluto?
There were state laws on the books for decades that the newfangled horseless carriage automobiles had to have a person go ahead of them as they entered any town or village and wave a warning flag in the street following by the arrival. Horses and people still were afraid of them.
Crash mayhem ....
You can admit one thing; pretty good quality dash cam for the video.
In all of the decades and hundreds of thousands of miles 4 wheeling across Nevada, Utah, and Arizona in my ‘66 landcruiser, I have only seen one dude tooling around in a Humvee
Sorry, that argument doesn’t wash. Auto ICE are 35% efficient. The best coal plants are 40% efficient. Gas turbine combined cycles are 65% efficient. Electricity transmission and distribution losses are 10% to 15%. If you are making electricity by burning fuel, you have to take the thermal efficiency losses in the ICE or in the power plant providing the electricity to the EV.
There are two ways to avoid that. Number one is the impossible solar / wind scenario that will never, ever power a reliable power system. Number two is large scale nuclear power. If you want EVs, you need massive nuclear plant construction. There are no two ways about it.
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Try imagining driving your EV home on a rainy night, you put in the garage attached to your house, plug in the recharger, tuck your kids in their beds and then go to sleep.
I’ve seen papers with estimates of transmission and distribution losses as high as 25%.
None of this retarded EV nonsense will end well.
If one of those catch fire in your garage, they’ll need a squadron of Borade bombers to put it out.
About 68% of nickel is recyclable.
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