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agesilaus
Dec 16, 2020Explorer III
A key difference is your average UPS truck spends most of it's time at relatively low speeds with lots of stop and go...that's great for electric where regenerative braking can cancel out the extra power used in acceleration and at low speed, wind resistance is minimal. At freeway speeds, wind resistance is a primary control 95% of the time.
The same with that Rivan p/u, great for local use not so great cross country. I've read some accounts by a couple of Tesla drivers who tried to cross the country. They had a heck of a time finding charging stations, one of them flatlined the battery trying to find one. And that seemly calls for a tow to the dealer for Teslas to recover from a dead battery.
Also more than half the electric vehicles are now located in Cali and a large chunk of the others are in OR and WA. Even there they make up less than 2% of the total vehicles. Does not sound like a revolution to me.
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