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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Ductape wrote:
Funny how easy it is to see the future requirements for electrical infrastructure costs as a disincentive, while forgetting all the sunk costs in petroleum distribution. Pipelines, refineries, tanker ships and trucks... gas stations, all that didn't appear overnight.
Thing is, the technology now allows distributed electrical consumption and production. That's huge, as transmission systems can be optimized to be load balancing rather than all one way. And the end user has control of what level of self sufficiency they desire to invest in.
Not many of us can afford to own our own petro sources. And the neighbors complain if you operate your own refinery.
the electrical system in the U.S. is actually 3 distinct systems, not inter tied. easy distribution and load sharing within each system. Not so easy between systems.
The Western interconnect, the Eastern interconnect, and then of course there is the One state solution, Texas which is yet a third.
Each can operate independently AFAIK, but load sharing between them is not easy if even possible. they are not directly connected to each other nor synchronized. that last one is a VERY big issue to inter tie. Grids must be synchronized to interconnect.
Also the eastern grid has a much looser tolerance on maintaing 60 Hz or short term periods.
