EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
So much wheel spinning on EVs, what if they are not the right path forward? The biggest problem with renewable power and EVs is storage, the second is storage, and the third is storage. Another pat...
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mkirsch wrote:blt2ski wrote:
One thing I've noticed. It takes many versions, ea getting things better to realize true progress.
Saw a comparison to Wright brothers plane, to walking in the moon. Took 66 years.
We have a few more years/decades for EV or hydrogen power to be truly usable etc like ICE rigs. I'm positive things will get there. When, not if.
The Wright Brothers had pencils and rulers. We have much more advanced technology that can do the design, analysis and calculations much more quickly.
Had the Wrights had current computer technology at their disposal, they could have made their first flight from Kitty Hawk to LaGuardia in a Boeing 707 in a week, instead of taking years to figure out how to make their contraption fly 120 feet.
In other words it should not take us nearly 66 years to perfect an alternative. We can make advancements much more quickly now.
Moving from the Wright Bros to a 707 involved several huge technological leaps:
- ICE turning a prop to Jet Engines
- Wood & fabric wings to advance aluminum alloys.
- Visual flight rules to Instrument flight rules.
- Etc...
The last big advance for EVs was moving from Lead Acid to Lithium batteries. That was 30-40 yrs ago. Range has mostly been increased by simply using more and more batteries. The small remaining gains are mostly minor refinements.
The EV1 was back in the 90s and got 100mile range out of 19kwh with lead acid batteries.
The Telsa M3 needs 24kwh to go the same distance.
