Posted on 12/14/2013 3:59:04 PM PST by chiller
Engineering breakthroughs like the Tesla Model S may be burning up the electric car market (figuratively and literally), but they’re leaving drivers cold and under-powered in the face of Old Man Winter.
Cold temperatures have adverse effects on batteries, slowing down the incoming and outgoing flow of energy and inevitably losing some in the process. The 250-mile average range of an electric car in normal climate conditions can see its performance reduced by 70-miles on a single charge in average winter conditions. The colder it gets, the shorter than range.
Not only that, the average winter driver tends to turn up the heat — a function that also puts a draw on the battery uncommon during other seasons.
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Good luck with that charging station if the reason for the grid down is EMP!
Gas pumps in most stations can run on backup generators. Lots of them have them now.
If the power is off for a week, pretty much every car will be unusable.
No juice for the batteries, nor fuel for the tanks.
Of course after a week, nearly every grocery store will have long since run out of its 3 day supply of food...
>> “Good luck with that charging station if the reason for the grid down is EMP!” <<
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null and void knows that he is being facetious.
>> “If the power is off for a week, pretty much every car will be unusable.
No juice for the batteries, nor fuel for the tanks.
Of course after a week, nearly every grocery store will have long since run out of its 3 day supply of food...” <<
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All of which is exacerbated exponentially by electric cars.
I suspect the motor would have a fluid based cooling system so a heater core system would work would it not?
With the power grid down, your local gas station won't be pumping Ethyl into your tank, either.
>> “With the power grid down, your local gas station won’t be pumping Ethyl into your tank, either.” <<
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Not true at all. There are several stations near me that have full service back-up generators.
For starters, your modern gasoline or diesel powered car won't run without its computer.
Your grocery store won't be able to place orders on line.
The warehouses won't be able to find anything, let alone ship it, even if they knew what to ship and to whom.
Your nat gas supplier won't be able to pump or route gas to your house.
Your municipal water system will be down.
So will sewage treatment.
No garbage trucks.
No medicines that require refrigeration.
For that matter, no hospital will be running after the emergency generators run dry.
Yes, it would work to some extent, but the available heat is too minimal to justify the cost.
Name one.
Most of the stations built in the last ten years near major highways have some level of backup.
How?
Do electric vehicles magically keep the power from being turned back on, or do they create an energy vacuum, a negative energy pit, that must be refilled before power can be restored?
I do have a mechanical injection diesel and a magneto-ignition motorcycle and a bunch of bicycles. Hell, even the old Sears outboard has good chance of running!
Trifle.
If the motor were located front and center, that would be no biggie.
Wheel mounted motors would be impossible. The vent would need to be large, like 4”.
windshield wiper fluid via spare tire...kewl...
I had a 71 super beetle...auto stick back then.
battery under the back seat
heater was actually pretty decent as long as you were doing 45 mph or greater.
got about 25 mpg kicking around.
damn car just wouldn’t quit
How?
BY increasing the stress on the grid.
Normal cars only need power for two minutes to fill the tank.
Good to know.
With the grid down, what happens when the underground tank goes dry?
How do they order more fuel? How does it get loaded into the delivery truck?
Under normal circumstances they need to restock at least weekly, and any station that had emergency power would be sucked dry in a matter of days.
and You live in Kalifornia,,,
It looks like the AC would be even worse.
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