Dino juice v Electrons....
Towing just got longer....A LOT LONGER...(and harder) Well....I guess it would work.....if you're retired....and like to wait around at charging stations half of your life.....and like to play soli...
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BB_TX wrote:Turtle n Peeps wrote:BB_TX wrote:
A completely pointless video. No one with any towing knowledge expects current EVs to come even close to towing with an ICE engine. Video hints at being anti EV and leans toward being a GM promotional video.
I don't know about that? :? There are several people on this very forum that think there will be a Semi out any day that will haul 80 thousand lbs and go 621 mile on some sort of magical pixie dust LI battery.
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And some day they will. But not today or tomorrow or in the near future. Probably not in my lifetime. But the day will come.
Not likely, except for a specialty situation in Michigan, Your average enclosed semi trailer maxes out around 45k lbs of cargo. 80k lb is the gross weight limit which includes the weight of the truck and trailer. Cargo capacity is whatever is left.
To get 621mile range, they are likely eating up a few tons of cargo with larger battery packs, effectively reducing cargo capacity by the same amount.
It's very simple:
- Until the battery runs out of juice, an EV will blow away an equivalent ICE in terms of power and performance.
- Batteries run out of juice far quicker than ICE and take a lot longer to refill, so other than short range local work, they won't be taking over the truck market any time soon.
