I can’t believe a railroad locomotive manufacturer, Tesla or any vehicle manufacturer hasn’t jumped all over a product diversification market that also bypasses the emissions standards with questionable legalese doubletalk, copy the structure of a railroad locomotive.
A small diesel (or gasoline) engine drives a generator that supplies electricity to the electric motors of the drive train. Install a bank of high capacity capacitors to permit high, instant current for acceleration would be to only change.
No lithium batteries. Regular lead acid to start the deiseal engine to drive the generator(s). If the diesel powered generator isn’t running, you don’t drive.
Unmatched torque in electric motors.
Then get copyright logo use permission from Union Pacific, BNSF and other railroad companies to use their logo as that “edition” (purely a sales pitch to males)
I’d buy a truck like that in a heartbeat if it was reasonably priced.
Diesel-electric is usually reserved for those giant dumptrucks that are used in strip mining.
One more commercial use of the technology for on-road use is the New Bus for London aka “Borismaster”, in the UK.
I suspect the cost of replacing a blown-out traction motor might be a factor. Also, they are no good for driving through even the most shallow of floods.
You would still need better energy storage to do the longer and tougher shaving of peak power. Conservation of momentum energy is a plus (but not at the cost of payload robbing (Heavy/Dangerous) batteries).
As power requirement increases the need for an engine to match becomes imperative to get over the next upgrade.
This is where the huge train engines come in.
And on grades the engines are running the train almost entirely.
Diesel electric trains uses the electric part as a transmission just as large haul trucks do.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a train backed up to a drop cord.
I have to go back to my locomotive mechanic buddy. I forget if there is an issue scaling down that design to fit a car.
Next, the whole point of the green crazy cult is to stop using oil and nucular to impoverish everyone
“Install a bank of high capacity capacitor”
Kaboom if it shorts out.
Presenting . . . The Ford BNSF-150!
I agree on hybrids, as you suggest. I, too, would have liked to see a hybrid diesel, as it would have been pushing 60 to 80 mpg, and would be as easy to drive as a gasoline car. But diesels are pretty much through, sadly.
There was a hybrid humvee in the 90’s built like that. very quiet in electric mode as a scout. one 75hp motor on each wheel. don’t know what the army did with it. They were also doing things like the humraam, an amraam launched from a humvee, and losat, a kinetic impact missile launched from a humvee.
Honda Two-Motor Hybrid System
It works like a diesel electric, except it does use a battery, rather than capacitors.
The BMW I3 has an optional ‘range extender’ generator as an option...
Yes...the diesel electric drive train would work well, especially the way you described. I’d add optimizing the diesel by tuning it to run at peak efficiency at one speed. Another thought would be to put the power for the EV on the street. Print continuous segmented sheets of thin tough plastic containing induction coils that can be cut to length, like a strip of LEDs, and adhered to the road. The EV would have an induction coil to pickup that power in the road. This would eliminate the large battery bank or diesel motor. One would still need a small battery to get from the electrified road and to one’s house or store etc.
Greenies don’t care that it’s fuel efficient and reliable and mileage is unlimited. In fact, they WANT you to be limited in your movements so they can herd us all into ghettos.
Ah yes, and now we come to the real root of the problem.... Even nickle candy bars cost a buck and a half... (sigh)
they have been around for a LONG time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_locomotive#Diesel–electric
“A small diesel (or gasoline) engine drives a generator that supplies electricity to the electric motors of the drive train.”
I think you just described Hybrids.
Here's a little on the quest. It seems there is partly developed tech ready to go for an enterprising individual to build on.