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Jan 18, 2017Explorer II
The green agenda is a net loss. Sure they have made batteries with more capacity and efficient and Expensive.
Energy is not free and each exchange cycle adds a lot of loss.
Producing electricity is not cheap and eventually you will pay big bucks for electricity or for miles traveled.
then there is range. There are road in Ark, that its is over one hundred miles of hills and valleys, that will cut range of a light weight, small car in half.
Heavy RVs will require half the basement as battery storage. I'm not much of fan for storing high amounts of energy in small packages, liek lithium ion bombs. Impractibilty and ultimately cost. Cost in batteries, cost in energy, cost in replacement and limited capacity as compared to diesel or gasoline, or propane will not fit the requirements or pocketbooks of most people.
I cited Arkansas. How about West Texas and miles and miles without stations and electricity and when you find one stand quarter mile away as you charge 6,000lbs of batteries for hours or maybe an hour which really scares me. Lots of energy transfere in short time into batteries means lots and lots of heat.
Not to mention 100 degree heat on a massive battery pack.
Perhaps in the future I will buy a small electric for close to home, here in the hills which will cut range by half.
Energy is not free and each exchange cycle adds a lot of loss.
Producing electricity is not cheap and eventually you will pay big bucks for electricity or for miles traveled.
then there is range. There are road in Ark, that its is over one hundred miles of hills and valleys, that will cut range of a light weight, small car in half.
Heavy RVs will require half the basement as battery storage. I'm not much of fan for storing high amounts of energy in small packages, liek lithium ion bombs. Impractibilty and ultimately cost. Cost in batteries, cost in energy, cost in replacement and limited capacity as compared to diesel or gasoline, or propane will not fit the requirements or pocketbooks of most people.
I cited Arkansas. How about West Texas and miles and miles without stations and electricity and when you find one stand quarter mile away as you charge 6,000lbs of batteries for hours or maybe an hour which really scares me. Lots of energy transfere in short time into batteries means lots and lots of heat.
Not to mention 100 degree heat on a massive battery pack.
Perhaps in the future I will buy a small electric for close to home, here in the hills which will cut range by half.
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