Electric Vehicles? Towing? Hauling?
There seems to be quite a push lately for zero emission vehicles and electric only vehicles. How on Earth would these ever work for us? You can't go cross country in an electric vehicle in a pra...
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valhalla360 wrote:
EVs work as commuter cars... you can do a 60mile round trip and plug it in once you get home and let it charge for the next 10hr...and repeat.
For trucks (not being used as grocery getters), you need hundreds of miles on a fairly regular basis.
Unless there is an incredible breakthru in battery technology (and vaporware doesn't count), nothing will change. A gallon of gas has a couple orders of magnitude more energy than the equivalent weight and volume of battery.
Once you get a battery that can have even 25% of the energy density of gasoline, EV's will rule. The motors and controllers were far better 50yr ago...you just couldn't supply the juice to make them work.
Your 60 mile trip would be closer to 2 hours of charging at home not 10 hours. Then again, even if you are just connected to a 120 outlet and it takes that long who would care. It charges while you sleep.
If someone needs or wants a gas car there is nothing wrong with that. But they have a lot of things to improve before they have the convenience and features of a present day electric. If the features of a gasser better suit your lifestyle that’s what you should buy. But the “energy density of gasoline” doesn’t provide any advantage for me so I’ll stick with electric.
