Electric Tow Vehicle (Tesla)

Wait a tick guys... that locomotive is right hand drive?! Is it a Import vs a Domestic ?!?! Oh no!

Me Again wrote:

Wes Tausend wrote:

Wes
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Wes, is that Warren in the cab? Chris

Could be. :B

Buffett is a pretty sly fox and I've heard he is a model railroad fan.

And we might expect gas to go up again because he does. Warren just bought
40 million shares of Exxon. And he already owns the railroad (BNSF) that is hauling
all ND oil patch Exxon crude. ND soon expects to pass Texas in production. :R

Of all the bosses I've had, I liked Warren best. He not only admits his
secretary pays more taxes than he does but offers a reprieve.

P.S.
Notice I reduced the size of the picture even smaller? It makes easier forum reading.
Course it ain't easy to recognize Warren without your close-up. ;)

Wes
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Wes Tausend wrote:

Wes
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Wes, is that Warren in the cab? Chris

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First of all, I think this is article someones idea of either typical negative propoganda or a joke. There are not batteries available, of high enough capacity, to tow a significant load very far. It would be like having a 3 gallon diesel fuel tank. But daily driver, sure.
Off hand, electric motors have way more low end torque than direct gas or diesel, so they are a good match for towing otherwise.

smkettner wrote:

I would be looking for a truck that could do 50 to 100 electric miles before the gas kicks on. Also have the electric to help get up the hills and recapture energy on the way down. Around town as a grocery getter it could be all electric. Unfortunately I don't think that is what Tesla will build but maybe inspire Toyota/Ford/GM. And of course recharging at a campsite would be sweet

I think you just missed it: Hybrid Silverado

Of course there were a couple of things not to your spec. It would have needed a huge bed-mounted "fuel tank" on the order of a more massive battery (lithium) to go very far on electric alone. And the Silverado above was overpriced by the board-room, as per usual GM "electrics policy"...
Note, the $40k+ Volt is not anything more than a $23k Prius with a bigger, apparently very expensive, battery. ;)

I think all vehicle manufacturers, including Toyota, are now in mortal fear of ultra-simple electric cars. After all, the only technical auto component not built by outside vendors is the proprietary internal combustion engine. Sales are typically damned by faint praise and overpricing to purposely create low sales. "You want an electric? Sure, we'll do it!, snicker, snicker."

Hammerhead wrote:

To support the weight of all the batteries stuffed under the box. ???

Like the Electric Ranger. :)

dbear wrote:

06Fargo wrote:
Electric tow vehicles of any kind will never work, due to SRW:

Electric tow vehicles

That'll pull any 5er for sure, but how many cup holders does it have?

They have two cup-holders, one on the left for the brakeman/conductor, and one on the right for the driver. They are merely depressions in the top of the plastic desk, and/or flat operating console. The diesel driven generator supplies power to "brushless" AC motors, all possible because of huge solid state current devices that have only become generally available since the mid 90's. Prior to that, all DC locomotives used high maintenance brushes and suffered frequent traction-motor breakdowns because of their failure. Brush maintenance is one of the reasons high current DC electric autos lost out to gas engines long ago. The cooling fan in the computer you are using now, has a solid state brushless AC electric motor.

The Prius, and all other hybrids, use brushless motors and operate nearly identically to the AC locomotives that preceeded them. The brush type locomotives, themselves, were preceeded by the technology of stealthy, battery driven WWII submarines.

Wes
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06Fargo wrote:
Electric tow vehicles of any kind will never work, due to SRW:

Electric tow vehicles

That'll pull any 5er for sure, but how many cup holders does it have?

atvanish wrote:
That was just a photo chop on a Chevy - the editor admitted his skills weren't good... Lol

Ya he neglected to remove the Chevy Bowtie from the front wheel.:S

Electric tow vehicles of any kind will never work, due to SRW:

Electric tow vehicles

12thgenusa wrote:
Does the hood open so you can have a wienie roast?

Oh, come now. So negative. Why, there's only been a few documented fires in a Tesla so far :R

Surely not enough to warrant the wienie roast option on every vehicle.

It is an option, isn't it????????????? :B

Does the hood open so you can have a wienie roast?

That was just a photo chop on a Chevy - the editor admitted his skills weren't good... Lol