Think how bright a battery powered ship would burn.
"Watch this y'all."
And Rivian’s 100 mile range towing a lightweight 5,000 trailer shows NONE of these Eco warriors understand what trucks are for.
Diesel electric Hybrid, morons.
I do not think they are going to make a lot of them.
How many Cadillac ELR were sold ?
As the article states, it is a Halo car.
a few rappers, some famous actors, some drug dealers, and a few people who have a small appendages will buy these
A 3,000 pound battery has a usable capacity of 212.7 kWh.
A gallon of low sulphur diesel fuel has 137,381 BTU which is equivalent to 40.2 kWh. A 30 gallon tank of diesel has 1,200 kWh.
Diesel fuel weighs 7 pounds per gallon, so that 30 gallon tank weighs 210 pounds for the fuel. Assume the tank weighs 50 pounds. That 30 gallons of diesel and tank weight about 9% of the weight of the battery pack and has six times the energy content.
F=MA is still a valid law, so the energy cost to accelerate that 3,000 pound battery and electric motors is probably a lot more than the energy to accelerate the diesel engine, transmission, and fuel. Of course, you have regenerative braking in the electric truck which you don’t get in the ICE truck.
It makes more sense to liquify coal and deliver those liquid hydrocarbons than it does to convert to electric vehicles.
The battery pack alone weighs 2,923 lb
Good grief!
With the exception of the new ‘Vette, GM cannot even spell “point”.
F = M x A
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.
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
None of this retarded EV nonsense will end well.
I can’t imagine what this would do on ice in winter as it hits other vehicles because it couldn’t stop.
9,000 lbs would crush nearly everything in its path.
Of course. The whole point behind green cars is to make cars so expensive that everyone but wealthy, left-wing urbanites rides buses or drives teensy-tiny plastic cars.
Making a macho EV truck causes hideous cognitive dissonance.
Missing the point?
Here’s the point: EVs are about the environment the same way mandatory CoupFlu vaxxes are about public health.
I wonder what the cost to replace the battery would be.
The worst thing about internal combustion engines used in cars is that they have to work at all speeds, to allow them to accelerate from 0 to whatever. There are compromises that must be made for that.
But for any design there is an ‘optimum’ efficiency.
If you were to design an engine to run ONLY at that speed, and its one job was to recharge the batteries, you could improve MPG significantly, with much smaller engines, and then improve electrical and battery technology.
We’d probably get to room temperature superconductivity faster too