Mercedes ditching diesels in North America
Here is a blurb about this. Is this meaning that Sprinters will be made with gasoline engines, or pulled out of the market completely?
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ctilsie242 wrote:
I recall seeing a battery that did actually use Li-air as its battery chemistry a few years back... but I wonder if the research didn't pan out. If done right, it would mean the battery only would need 1/2 to 1/3 the mass for electrolyte as a sealed system.
I do hope for better hybrid systems and infrastructure. As it stands right now, it takes me 5-10 minutes to fill up my vehicle's tank. A charging system may take hours, even at 440VAC, and enough amps to light up an army of Frankenstein's monsters, to get near 95-100 percent SoC.
I wonder if the answer would be a "renewable" fuel, like Audi's synthetic diesel, propane, or perhaps ethanol. At the power plant, put energy to suck CO2 from the air and process it into a liquid, use that liquid at the fuel pumps. This is what people envision with hydrogen, but H2 is too expensive to store to be useful, while an alcohol like ethanol or a fuel like propane is relatively safe and idiot resistant.
today many of the hearing aid batteries are something/air batteries. zinc air and some others. energy density is very high. rechargeable not, at least currently.
not that long ago people were saying that the energy density of batteries would never ever ever equal what we are actually seeing today. And they said the same thing about charging times.
and that wind power/solar power would never amount to anything.
about few years ago I told our kids that in 10 years every car sold and most pickups would be a electric or a hybrid of some sort. anything from all electric to mild hybrid with start stop and a battery large enough to capture braking from 50mph or so and anything in between.
I suspect that I won't be far off. the number of hybrids of some form is rising rapidly.
