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To: Gay State Conservative
The range of my diesel,when fully “charged”,is about 750 miles on the highway.

And your diesel gets a 100% recharge in less than 10 minutes.

And your diesel doesn't eat up prime motive power running heat or air conditioning.

Jus' sayin' ...

48 posted on 02/17/2015 8:38:56 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

I also do not have $135,000 to buy a car with nor the patience to charge the battery for 40 minutes or more.
I would like to see these electric car drivers go across Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah then Nevada to California like I did in the summertime. Sea level to 8,000ft


52 posted on 02/17/2015 9:00:10 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: NorthMountain; RegulatorCountry

“eat up prime motive power running heat or air conditioning.”

So does the gas engine- but the energy in gas is so concentrated/lb (over 50 times the energy density of a lithium battery) that it can be efficiently carried.
And that’s why ‘all-electric’ cars are just not inherently practical. They’re “concept cars”.

At best a fuel based climate system is needed even if the electric motor is to provide the motive power, and since the fuel is there anyway it’s reasonable to also have a gas engine for power when needed.
Though it may sometimes be efficient to have only the energy for climate control provided by fuel. If a small propane heater would extend the range dramatically it seems a responsible ecar builder should integrate one safely- and PR fantasies be damned.


55 posted on 02/17/2015 9:08:09 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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