Still mostly fossil and only about 16% “clean”
Posted on 10/06/2020 4:48:01 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Ford has patented a removable range extender for an electric pickup that sits in the bed and resembles a toolbox.
The range extender would act as a generator, recharging the battery of the vehicle using a small motor. The system could potentially make its way into the upcoming electric Ford F-150.
While automakers rush to get their electric trucks on the road, there are likely potential buyers who might still be concerned about range, especially in areas without a robust charging-station infrastructure. Ford might have a solution for those customers: a modular range extender that sits in the bed of a truck.
The Drive first spotted the patent, submitted in April 2018 and published on September 15, 2020. Its illustrations show a removable range extender that sits in the bed of a truck and looks like a toolbox. Inside the device would be a small motor, fuel tank, exhaust system, and electronics needed to hook it up to an electric truck.
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“If the six is a Cummins.”
one-tenth the torque of the Rivian.
Until someone invents a way to generate electricity from rainbows and unicorn farts these are mostly coal powered vehicles.
“Probably cheaper, more efficient and reliable to just buy one with a gasoline motor under the hood. Could probably tow those dead electrics from just about anywhere.”
But it wouldn’t have 10,000. ftlbs torque with 4-wheel vectoring and 0-60 in 3 seconds.
???
Wow. Kool-Aide.
Ya think all those extras that repurpose the already expended energy from the initial charge actually add anything back in? You know, there is a few laws, not sure who passed them or when ( I really do know, just kidding) but they state that equal and opposite, conservation of motion/energy and friction and heat waste and all sorts of other nit-picky laws. Maybe we ought to repeal them so electric vehicles can simply hook into a passing thunderhead and voila’, freee unlimited miles!
“Until someone invents a way to generate electricity from rainbows and unicorn farts these are mostly coal powered vehicles.”
You post this false stat every EV thread!
“Ya think all those extras that repurpose the already expended energy from the initial charge actually add anything back in? “
Absolutely. Obviously you are not a believer in physics.
Useful load? You don’ need no stinkin USEFUL LOAD!
What do you think this is, a pickup truck or sumpin’?
“Ya think all those extras that repurpose the already expended energy from the initial charge actually add anything back in?”
When an ICE vehicle goes downhill it uses less fuel.
When an EV goes downhill it charges the battery.
When an ICE vehicle is braking it uses less fuel.
When an EV is braking it charges the battery.
“Useful load? You don’ need no stinkin USEFUL LOAD!
What do you think this is, a pickup truck or sumpin’?”
You came here to post that!
Throw a worksite generator in the back and run a power cord to the charging port. Save a few grand.
You only loose 10% of the energy charging a battery and 10% getting it back out of the battery through a motor, Including the wall plug. Fuel mileage be damaged, but you gotta love the virtue signaling crapfest.
Soon all F-150s will be electric and their drivers will be sipping $7 pumpkin lattes from Starbucks. Just you wait and see.
Still mostly fossil and only about 16% “clean”
I had a 1997 Ford F150 that I drove for over 20 years. I replaced the battery, the tires, the brake pads and the belts. That’s about it. I lost the truck and just about everything else in a flood two years ago. I really miss that truck.
“Still mostly fossil and only about 16% “clean””
He said coal.
No, sorry, it does not charge the battery- it harvests energy previously taken from the battery to get to speed or up the hill, minus losses from heat, friction, wind resistance payload dead weight etc, so all the losses spent in that former act reduces any “gained” input from the coast or resistance braking.
You are correct about the ICE using less fuel going downhill or coasting.
Recall the first law- equal and opposite, and the second, conservation of enegry.
So, in a lab, a vehilce froma stop going 60 uses say, 100 HP worth of energy, then to stop it either coasts a long ways and WR, friction or other forces, like braking consume 100 HP to stop. Fact.
So, if an Ev uses 100 wats to go a certain speed=d, then brakes, it will use 10kw to stop, again either through fiction or braking. Any charging effect can only be less than the 10kw output, considering those same losses due to waste friction, electrical resistance, inefficiencies of the charging/battery system etc.
NO FREE LUNCHES.
I swear, you can’t make this stuff up.
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