Iffen batteries could be cheaper or hydrogen fuel cells could get a grip and nuclear could make a comeback much to the sharin of oil...
Iffen batteries could be cheaper or hydrogen fuel cells could get a grip and nuclear could make a comeback much to the sharin of oil...
Iffen batteries could be cheaper or hydrogen fuel cells could get a grip and nuclear could make a comeback much to the sharin of oil...
I LOVE the idea of 100% Torque available from a dead stop. Electric motors are fairly simple and do what they do with mind-numbing reliability. Look @ electric trolling motors. Shove 'em in the water and they spin along wherever you set them for years on end. Batteries and control units are the weak link. The motor itself almost never fails.
I'm not however going to turn a 2.5hr trip from Fargo to Bismarck with the boat in tow for an early Mo river spring bite, into a 5hr trip because I gotta charge the truck 2x on the way. Not happinin'.
I wonder if one could use a small turbine engine to run essentially an alternator like they use a diesel motor on a train? IIRC turbine engines are significantly more efficient than an internal combustion 4-stroke with much lower maint' as well?
trains are run with a diesel internal combustion engine. Yes it’s a generator running 4400hp but it’s still using fuel. Lots of it!
The good thing is if the battery takes a crap it’s only $15000 to replace.
Hey DC! You've been gone for awhile! Did that soap trick work?
We'll see,GM boasts a 10 year warrenty on they're vehicle batt's
So when that car is 10yrs old with 185K Mi like my current pickup, who's going to spend $15K on a new battery?
First off. Let's be respectful and have a good informative conversation.
Electric cars? Everyone wants em. Look like a great idea. Let's look at the process of building an electric car. Batteries? Where do they come from- an open pit lithium mine. One of the ugliest things you will ever see. Lithium is a fossil fuel. It will run out as well.
The key to a electric car is its weight and the power needed to propel it. What do you use for that. Plastic and carbon fibre- both derived from oil.
The tires-oil
How do you keep it charged up. Where's the power come from? Natural Gas,oil(pipelines),hydro electric(dams),solar,wind(battaries) it just doesn't come from an outlet.
The electricity comes from a fossil fuel in all cases. Either in its flammability or storage in a battery.
An electric car is a farce and it only serves the purchaser a badge to think there doing the right thing when they are actually doubling down.
Even that plastic pen to sign the back of that unemployment check is made of oil
I don’t know about the carbon fiber itself. But making it uses petroleum products. And carbon fiber in and of itself won’t do anything without the resin that completes the process. Without petroleum products you have no resinnot that i completely disagree but...
1. lithium isn't a fossil fuel
2. hyrdo, solar, wind, and nuclear are not fossil fuels... they obviously use fossil fuels to develop, build, operate, etc... but, they aren't, by their nature, "fossil fuels".
3. i could be wrong. but, i thought i read most carbon fiber is not oil based anymore. still pretty wasteful to manufacture. but, if am remembering right, carbon fiber isn't necessarily derived from oil (fossil fuel) anymore.
If these new batteries last so long how come your lucky to get three years out of a phone without walking around with a chord?