Electric Propulsion Reality Check
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_naDg-guomA
Forum Discussion
So you think the gasoline appears by "magic" at the gas station, or that it is "efficient" to get it there?
Hmmmmm drilling a shale oil well is 143 per foot. Or at the lowest estimated average price about 6,600,000.00 to "bring in" a well.
Only about 10% of the gasoline we prefer to use "occurs" naturally. The rest has to be "cracked" or "extracted" from the crude oil. That is energy intensive.
The biggest reason to not burn oil is once it is gone it is gone. It is far to valuable to be being burned.
Why do you believe that solar generated power has to include hundreds of miles of transmission lines?
Hmmmmm drilling a shale oil well is 143 per foot. Or at the lowest estimated average price about 6,600,000.00 to "bring in" a well.
Only about 10% of the gasoline we prefer to use "occurs" naturally. The rest has to be "cracked" or "extracted" from the crude oil. That is energy intensive.
The biggest reason to not burn oil is once it is gone it is gone. It is far to valuable to be being burned.
Why do you believe that solar generated power has to include hundreds of miles of transmission lines?
Bobbo wrote:
The EV Social Warriors who actually believe that EV is more efficient do not understand physics. It is impossible to be more efficient. It takes a certain amount of energy to move your car from here to there. An ICE generates that energy right there, with no losses. An EV has to use electricity. That electricity is generated far, far away, then sent to your location. That sending has power losses that the EV Social Warriors ignore. That power loss is called voltage drop from resistance. Then that energy has to be stored again, this time in the EV's battery. As everyone knows, there is power loss in the charging of the battery. Ever felt a battery getting charged? It is hot. That is loss of power. Again, EV Social Warriors ignore that power loss. I have played with a few numbers and estimate that an electrical power plant has to provide about 125% of the power needed to move the car from here to there that an ICE car has to use, because of those losses. But, the EV Social Warriors don't consider that the extra 25% power generated exists.free radical wrote:
ice vehicles will die,give it 10 years at the most..
Remember when they said that computers would create a paperless office? We use more paper now than ever because computers generate it faster. This prediction is just as wrong. EV's will never replace the ICE. They will reduce them, but there are things that an EV will never be able to accomplish.
