Absolutely. It is why diesel locomotives use the diesels to run electric motors instead of the diesel powering the locomotive directly.
I had a Tesla pull up next to me at a light this morning, and when it turned green, that car screwed. Really took off.
Except for the battery/charging part, I see huge advantages in maintenance and performance.
Of course, that is like saying “Except for that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
Look at the advantages of jet engines over reciprocating engines. I think reciprocating engines are just great, and nothing sounds as muscular (Okay, perhaps a Tomcat taking off in full afterburner is pretty cool sounding too) but a jet engine is so much more reliable than a reciprocating engine. Granted, more expensive and more complicated in some ways, but to keep it going, you pretty much just have to keep spitting fuel into the combustion chambers and it will go on and on.
Those advanced radial engines at the peak of their development in the B-29 and B-36 were massive and powerful, but...they sure did have maintenance problems. Lots and lots of moving parts.
I’m with you on that. If not for the daunting physics problem of energy storage via a battery, EVs would be vastly superior to ICEs. Assuming they do turn out to be viable on a mass scale and become the dominant technology, we will look back and wonder how we ever put up those hot, greasy gas burners and their complexity and their lame torque curve.
And that is the winning combination. Diesel over electric and no batteries required.
” It is why diesel locomotives use the diesels to run electric motors instead of the diesel powering the locomotive directly.”
OTOH, diesel-electric locomotives have 4,000 gallon fuel tanks and are filled approximately twice a week ...
“Okay, perhaps a Tomcat taking off in full afterburner …”
Check out the sound F4 on YouTube. Wow.