AAA - At 20F an electric vehicle loses over 40% of it's range.

Anti Federalist said:
You'd get a kick out of the diesel electric system on my new vessel.

10 megawatts of usable power across four gensets.

A really cool system of variable engine speed - variable frequency AC output rectified to DC and then switched sine wave conversion back to 690VAC for main propulsion/480VAC for standard US electrics for the house load.

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I'll bet.. but more than need.
https://www.evwest.com/catalog/prod...ucts_id=384&osCsid=5rfc8iv7bdc6i8e6ko1uh1u8s2
The Marine version makes a good Conversion.. Batteries and Supercondencer... with a small genset for Extended long range.

I am rather thinking of the Genset on a small trailer,, so it can be left when not needed (commuting)
 
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Chester Copperpot said:
i wasnt even taking all that into account.. I was simply going by the premise that those car batteries are like 500lbs or more so the car has to propel that weight in addition to the normal weight of the car. most of the people dont even understand that the consumption of the electricity is irrelevant to the global pollution problem.. its the generation of the electricity which is the concern. some place burning coal 1000 miles away to produce electricity is still polluting the air...
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That's the part that I can never seem to get people to understand;
I love electric motors to be sure, but I like reality too.
Most people think Electric is totally green, they don't take into acct that that power comes from
Deadly and totally irresponsible Nuclear power plants, or Coal plants which aren't that bad
today imv, but they themselves shudder at the mention of coal.
They also don't consider the disposal impact, the development impact, the
manufacturing environmental impact.
A myriad of associated aspects completely ignored.
 
Stratovarious said:
That's the part that I can never seem to get people to understand;
I love electric motors to be sure, but I like reality too.
Most people think Electric is totally green, they don't take into acct that that power comes from
Deadly and totally irresponsible Nuclear power plants, or Coal plants which aren't that bad
today imv, but they themselves shudder at the mention of coal.
They also don't consider the disposal impact, the development impact, the
manufacturing environmental impact.
A myriad of associated aspects completely ignored.
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They don't even like hydro, they want the rivers to be free and unrestrained.
 
Swordsmyth said:
They don't even like hydro, they want the rivers to be free and unrestrained.
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Damn , that's hilarious isn't it, and then we have wind power --------- kills birds.lol
I'm an animal lover, but I don't see how that is even happening period,
those blades move like a snail, any bird that can't see that coming is on
his way out anyway.
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Side note;
We only get about 7 % power from hydro last time I checked, but it is
efficient and we could explore 'tidal' more.
 
Stratovarious said:
Damn , that's hilarious isn't it, and then we have wind power --------- kills birds.lol
I'm an animal lover, but I don't see how that is even happening period,
those blades move like a snail, any bird that can't see that coming is on
his way out anyway.
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Side note;
We only get about 7 % power from hydro last time I checked, but it is
efficient and we could explore 'tidal' more.
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And some kinds of solar fry the birds.
The others cause pollution from Rare Earth mining.
 
Swordsmyth said:
:check:
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I actually literally made a micro power plant using parabolic mirrors,
got 450 f without much trouble, concentrated it on some
bi metallic gizmos that I 'made' and actually got the results
I had intended , sadly and I had guessed ahead of time that
there would be close to zero efficiency, but I had to do it, to prove
to myself it was feasible.
The result was mechanical action , a wheel that would continually
rotate , never even nearly efficient enough to try to interface it with
any kind of magneto to produce any practical power.
 
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Stratovarious said:
I actually literally made a micro power plant using parabolic mirrors,
got 450 f without much trouble, concentrated it on some
bi metallic gizmos that I 'made' and actually got the results
I had intended , sadly and I had guessed ahead of time that
there would be close to zero efficiency, but I had to do it, to prove
to myself it was feasible.
The result was mechanical action , a wheel that would continually
rotate , never even nearly efficient enough to try to interface it with
any kind of magneto to produce any practical power.
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Cool.:up:
 
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Stratovarious said:
That's the part that I can never seem to get people to understand;
I love electric motors to be sure, but I like reality too.
Most people think Electric is totally green, they don't take into acct that that power comes from
Deadly and totally irresponsible Nuclear power plants, or Coal plants which aren't that bad
today imv, but they themselves shudder at the mention of coal.
They also don't consider the disposal impact, the development impact, the
manufacturing environmental impact.
A myriad of associated aspects completely ignored.
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I grew up with coal.. I like coal.. and it is a plentiful fuel..
I like wind and water and sun too,, and that is just harvesting..

If you could ever collect the power of Lightning you could power the whole world.
 
pcosmar said:
I grew up with coal.. I like coal.. and it is a plentiful fuel..
I like wind and water and sun too,, and that is just harvesting..

If you could ever collect the power of Lightning you could power the whole world.
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Yes , if I remember , people have worked on this, it could be done, makes a hell of
a lot more sense that Nuclear Power, maybe radiation poisoning and
layers of skin melting is sexy to Globalists.
 
Suzu said:
Recently I read about this truck with up to a 400-mile range (depending on battery size) on a single charge. They say it can be fully charged in under ten minutes and goes from 0-60mph in as little as 3 seconds.
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The usual bait and switch. Range up to and charge in as little as depending on battery size (and weather and usage and...)

In other words, you don't get both top quoted range and low quoted charge time. Good luck finding out in the article how many miles a ten minute charge gets you.
 
acptulsa said:
The usual bait and switch. Range up to and charge in as little as depending on battery size (and weather and usage and...)

In other words, you don't get both top quoted range and low quoted charge time. Good luck finding out in the article how many miles a ten minute charge gets you.
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Items no 'Designer' cares to discuss or 'reveal' ;

-What 10 minutes means ( the battery still has 88% charge? / The battery is fully discharged..)
-Charge Rate; A rate that no one has the capacity 'of' ?
-Battery is 4800lbs ?
-Test road is flat/level , no stop/start ?
-How long a battery lasts under 'US' average driving conditions , Desert/ Cold Climates?
-What the replacement battery cost is?
-What the environmental impact of development, recycling, waste ?
-What powers the grid? Nuclear , Coal , or AOC thin air ?
 
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