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“Unless you want to be confined to a 75 mile radius, you’re gonna want to charge those things somewhere else from time to time”

That’s only 150 miles range. My Model 3 has a 340 mile range and one of my lawyers model S has a 400 mile range. So double that 75 miles to 150 or 200 out and back. Plus dotgov cannot turn off the Sun so my Model 3 will always have a 150 mile radius of freedom regardless of what dotgov does to limit gas pumps which is coming bank on that. I own a EV because it can be charged off the panels on the steel building above it every day we get Sun it can add all 340 miles to the pack in 8 hours. We get 220 days of Sun here in North Texas.

You can’t drain the Great Lakes the outlet river beds are shallower in depth by hundreds of feet vs the deep center water bodies. Those are glacial lakes where the water is melt water from the miles thick ice that used to be filling those holes. The rivers between them are modern overflow features made by natural overflow on the last 12,000 years. In theory you could sink submersible pumps into the deeps and pump water out but even ten meter diameter pipes about the largest that can be made would only flow 6 million acrefeet per year and you would need a half dozen nuclear reactors running 24/7/365 at max output to pump the water up hill out of the glacial basins. So no it’s not possible to drain the lakes sleep well. You could at most take the top 100 feet then you have to pump against gravity the other 1800+ feet of water depth. The flow of the saint Laurence River is outflow and overflow from the lakes think about the size and volume of that flow that’s how much surplus water those lakes get every year via rainfall and snowmelt in the HUGE capture area of the Great Lakes region.

You could take 10 million acrefeet per year and send it down the Chicago River to the Mississippi River system and not make a dent in the st Laurence River outflows most years. Capture that extra flow at Cairo Ohio and send it via two ten meter wide pipes up hill to Denver 860 miles away and 5200 feet up hill. You need six 1000 megawatt reactors to move that much water uphill. It would cost 400 billion and solve the water crisis in the southwest forever. Denver already has tunnels through the continental divide reverse the flow and the water hits the Colorado basin and flows downhill via gravity all the way to Mexico. Yes I am a hydro geologist and have done the math and used ARCGIS to model this very project for the USGS. For less than what we are giving to the corrupt Ukes we could double the average flow of the Colorado River forever.

Grrr typo the lightest class 8 tractors no sleeper cab are 10,000lbs most are in the 15-20 range so not 55,000 lbs net 45,000lbs net.

If you want pistons the absolute most efficient is a free piston engine be it opposed or double ended with a linear alternator as the power take off point. Livermore labs has one that hits a record high 65% BSFC to electrons and can burn anything flammable. That’s fuel cell good but no platinum catalysts. There is no more efficient way to convert chemical energy into electrons. A couple of companies have commercialized linear piston engines one runs on natural gas and is used for on-site cogen the other is looking to use theirs to power a class 8 truck as the range extender like a diesel locomotive only sending DC current to the electric motors. They tested it and it doubles the class 8 tonnes per mile of fuel burnt. Still not as good as a locomotive which is one tonne moved over a distance of 400+ miles per gallon of diesel. Ship’s are 1200 btw trucks are in the double digits all long distance freight should be moved by rail or ship’s period full stop. Look at it this way a truck tops out at 80,000lbs gross , 15,000 of that is the trailer and 20,000 is the tractor for a net of 55,000lbs, at full load your class 8 is getting 7 mpg of diesel....Do the math it’s pitiful compared to rail or ship’s which includes inland barges.

The first step to secession is having your own stable currency. It’s what brought the Confederate States down they didn’t have a stable to trade on the world stage with. States that have their own gold of silver backed banking system can cut ties with the criminal Fed when the time comes. This a huge win for state sovereignty.

I’ll take how to push people who can afford it off the grid for five hundred Alex.

If Texas did this dumb s**t I would just flip the master breaker and tell Oncor to pound sand. My solar plus second life battery banks more than cover my daily uses. I’ll have to give back the battery banks either when they fail which could be spectacular or at the end of my testing period. I have been cycling them at 2C or more daily trying to get them to fail. The company I am testing them for is a friend of mine’s so far so good for NMC cells in one bank and LFP in the others. I gave up solar charge them too slow for torture testing so they now do charge at off peak at what the main breakers will take and dump 2C+ at peak times. They would last three times longer on slow solar charging but that’s not the point of the testing.

Cali can shove off. I used to live in Socal never again they lost their minds shame that weather is soooooooo much better than Texas.

“We are Americans. We are SUPPOSED to beat the system.

It’ a National Pastime.”

^^^^^this

It’s not a fair system when the only people profiting are the bloodsucker tow truck goons giving kick backs to the land lord of the leased strip center. If there was giant signs right out front so it’s clear that the strip center are crooked people would see them and not park. More importantly they would also avoid giving them.business at all for not being good for the neighborhood. F them F them hard.

No rational. I hate people who profit off unsuspecting people. The strip center is closed by 6pm and the pizza joint and dive next door only have four spots. There is probably 100 spots sitting empty all night because some towing company convinced the strip center to give them the contract to tow tourists who don’t know not to park in the giant open lot next to a popular place. The signs marking it for towing are tiny, not visible from the street and faded so as the be barely readable. It’s a total scam and I take great satisfaction in helping screw over people who profit on screwing over others. No apologise will ever be given. Flat out don’t care.

Same a good friend of mine lives in the M streets not close but not outside uber eats or door dash range. We get Hattie or Gus dashed or Pecan Lodge no need to go let the door dasher deal with the crowd. Vietnam restaurant in Bryan st is also epic win.

It’s got a healthy dose of diversity, it’s been through at least two cycles of diversity then , cleaned up now it’s back to being culturally enriched again.

China’s BYD has a Toyota Camry sized hybrid that’s a plug in and consumers tested it in a city of 7 million in real world traffic they got the equivalent of 108mpg over a 100km test run. Oh and it retails for $13,000 American that alone would bankrupt every American automaker. You couldn’t keep a full sized sedan on a dealer lot selling for $13k new hybrid or not. Check my past posts I have the links to the real world testing. China is going to sell them in Mexico I am probably going to use a Mexican address to buy and register one down there via an LLC then just cross the border by lamd. Texas doesn’t blink at Mexican plates anymore they are everywhere. With a plug in 50 mile range that’s 95% or more of my daily driving. I’ll return the Tesla since it is on lease and keep the plug in while also selling the S60 who’s only purpose is 600+ mile one way trips the BYD does 1300+ miles to a tank so double the S60

China BYD has a Toyota Camry sized hybrid that just demonstrated 108mpg and it is $13,000 in China. It also has the most advanced and efficient gasoline engine in production anywhere at any price. It’s a plug in hybrid as well goes 50 miles on a charge then 1300 more on 17 gallons of gasoline. The pack in it is the LFP blade pack which cannot burn it has been shown live video to have a steel spike completely through it and it just sits there. We will never see it here because of the UAW goons. You couldn’t keep a $13,000 full sized sedan let alone one that gets over 100mpg in the city while only needing it’s engine after 50 miles of travel which for Americans covers 99% of all trips per the DOT. I have links to the real world testing of that car in China in a city of 7 million so not on a track but in real world traffic over 100km year run. Impressive tech to say the least.

Normal people don’t go to Deep Ellum during the day let alone after dark. It’s too bad there is a Hattie B’s and Gus’s both are great fried chicken. Same for Pecan Lodge BBQ or Adiars for great greasy spoon burgers but don’t go unarmed for sure.

Tungsten carbide drill bit from the side it’s vacuum sealed even the thinnest leak will break that vacuum seal.

I keep a 500w inverter and a 120V 3 amp sawzall and diamond cutting wheels in the tool box in the trunk no parking boot has ever withstood the sawzall. I loan it out at my favorite little dive bar in Austin on the regular the closed shopping center next door at night boots and the regulars such as myself help the tourists shoot the finger at the parkingnazis. The look is priceless when the come back later and there is just boot pieces in the lot we sit on the patio and have a good laugh.

First question is have you ever been to state jail or prison? If the answer is no then you have no idea what you are talking about leave it to people who have been there. If you have been to state jail or prison was it for longer than 6 months which is real time a short termer also can’t speak to sitting on a nickel in college. I am a betting man and my bet is you have never spent more than a night in city holding. Johnny is spot on you might not like it but I am sure you wouldn’t know how it is on the inside so your words are not valid at all.

China has a Toyota Camry sized hybrid that just demonstrated 108 mpg in urban driving over 100+km in real world streets in a city of 7 million. The tech is there the will is not. Oh and that plug in hybrid goes 50 miles all electric at one fifth the cost of gasoline in a 30mpg car and $3 a gallon fuel. How much does this wonder car cost it’s on sale right now so not a concept car it’s $13,000 American yeah the tech is there.

Toyota just signed a JV to use this tech since it’s kicking there butts in mpg.

This also has the LFP blade packs the ones you can drive a steel spike completely through and they won’t burn nor vent toxic gas so that skree is moot. Given that LFP packs can do 20000 cycles to 50% DOD and 6000 to 100% a 50 mile plug in even drained to zero before the ICE kicks in hint it’s not would still be 300,000 miles to 80% SOH which is not dead it still hold 80% of its new capacity at that point.

https://www.electrive.com/2024/06/01/new-byd-phev-2100-km-range/

How about a plug in hybrid the size of a Toyota Camry that went 1400 miles on a single charge and 17 gallons of gasoline? Oh and it sells for $13,000 American urban testing with the gas only hybrid mode returned 108 miles per gallon at 46% thermal efficiency.

Americans will never get this car because of the UAW goons but Mexico is and so are a slew of Caribbean and Latin American countries. I am seriously debating using a Mexican address to get one and just keep Mexican plates on it here. Texas doesn’t even blink at Mexican plates anymore.

https://insideevs.com/news/721577/byd-qin-test-range-china/

China just released a Toyota Camry sized car that has been tested in real roads to go 1400 miles on a single charge and 17.2 gallons of gas. They also did a real world urban test and got 108mpg starting the test with 11% state of charge so it was gas hybrid mode only. This is why China is kicking the world’s butt in the EV and hybrid market that car has a real world 46% thermal eff beating even Toyota by a large margin in mpg. Oh and that plug in hybrid tested is $13,000 American not 35,000 for a Prius which is smaller and less mpg with no plug in range either. The PNLY thing keeping BYD from decimating the U.S. Auto industry is tarrifs , BYD is going to sell these cars in Mexico and people with dual addresses or.citizenship can and will import them as Mexican cars not Chinese cars.

The tech is impressive it’s both a series and parallel hybrid using a dual clutch and a single set of planetary gears the best of both hybrid systems. This is ideal for suburbanites use the pack for 90% of all trips and have a 1000+ mile range on tap at any given time. That engine has 16:1 compression so it has to be VVT and variable effective compression.

https://insideevs.com/news/721577/byd-qin-test-range-china/

Translated:

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1d3duyj/byd_dmi_50_city_driving_efficiency_test_empty/

You don’t need diesels which make NOx and particulates by the very combustion processes physics, then you need three stage SCR , OXY and PPM cats to make it not as clean as a gasoline motor with a normal three way cat. Those are real pollutants and diesels will always be dirtier due to the NOx Soot trade off that is part of the MCCI combustion process of.12 to 20 chain carbon molecules it’s unavoidable.

The better option is to use soot free fuels if you want to go the MCCI.combustion route which all diesels are. Clearflame has MCCI.class 8 engines that are cleaner than the 2027 standards and the 2030 standards today with only.three way cats because they ditched diesel fuel that will never be clean via the laws of physics for shorter chain oxygenated fuels. They even got higher power per cubic inch and lower BSFC due to higher temp and more complete combustion vs diesel fuel. Ethanol was the fuel of choice,natural,.gas works too.

For LDV the obvious choice is electric drive trains the full sized 2024 Camry hybrid will return 58 city and 52 on the motorways in real-world driving. The smaller Corolla or Prius both get in the 60s on the motorways and I have seen a legit 75mpg over ten miles of bumper to bumper in DFW gridlock so the tech is already in production with the world’s largest car maker to easily hit 39 mpg. Toyota is not even selling the Camry as anything but a hybrid in 2025 that’s how strong they know their two motor system is. The Camry is one of the best selling cars in the world only the Tesla Model Y sells more units of a single car type worldwide. Every manufacture is going to move to electric drive systems the P&E is to great not too. Modern silicon carbide electronics are significantly cheaper than gears and fluids and actuators. Two motor/gen EDUs will be the standard by 2027 if not sooner not just to meet CAFE but because it allows multiple primary power sources and only one drivetrain to build and support.

The ideal suburban/urban car would be a 5 pass sedan with a LFP pack sized at 100 miles EV range with a tiny 60% eff burn anything ICE with VVT so you can shift the compression ratio on the fly. Have a 18:1 mechanical compression/expansion ratio and use late intake valve closing to vary the effective comp from 12-18:1 with direct liquid injection GDI class injectors you can then run any liquid fuel from low octane diesel to very high octane alcohols and anything between using VVT on the exhaust side to control internal EGR the temp on compression will always after the first few combustion cycles be hot enough to MCCI combust any fuel. This is what Clearflame does to burn low alcohols in a diesel using MCCI combustion. 50+% eff is possible at 18:1 you need two cyl for 100kw its peak eff is 75kw and that’s a 3C charge on a 100 mile pack aka 20 minutes run time every three hours drive time at 35mph avg speed typical of urban cycles. On the motorway you run it once an hour from 40% to 90% then shut down. The choice is go with a smaller one cyl at 50kw now it’s a 1.5C charge rate or you load follow at 12-18kw at speed this drops your eff into the 30s but keeps the cycles on the pack lower for LFP cells or better yet Ai-grp cells shallow cycles to 50% or less DOD re irrelevant as LFP will do 20,000 or more and at 50 miles per cycle that’s a million miles well past the life of a car.

So the ideal car for most suburbanites is a plug in with 100 miles off the plug. That’s 99% of all drives on cheap plug power that’s one fifth as expensive per mile vs $3 a gallon fuel. 93% of all trips are 30 miles or less that’s only 30% DOD on a 100 mile pack which for a sedan would be 25kwh in size. At 300wh/kg that’s 84
Kg or less than the average weight of the American male. Tesla has LFP cells down to $90 kWh that’s $2250 for the pack cells. Remember those cells are taking the place of 99% of all miles the average American drives per year. We are an urban nation 75
% of us live in dense urban counties or suburbs. Over 100,000 miles of use @30mpg and $3 per gallon is $10,000 in fuel costs. 100,000 miles at 4 miles per kWh which is a typical 5 pass EV is 25,000 kwh and at 8 cents per kWh is only $2000 in fuel costs. That’s $8000 cheaper. Mind you the electric drive train was already cheaper for the manufacturer to make vs a 8 to 12 speed automatic transmission. A one or two cyl engine is also cheaper for them vs a 4 to 8 cyl. So they can either take the difference in profit or pass the savings on as a cheaper MSRP.

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10318