No more GM diesels?!
GM goes 100% electric And Ford has made similar announcements. Is this the end of pickups? I haven't seen a glimmer of a electric p/u with 500 mile range and 3500 pound carry capacity have you?
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Groover wrote:wilber1 wrote:SidecarFlip wrote:noteven wrote:
I suppose the next thing will be hybrid railroad locomotives. That’ll never work.
They already are 'hybrids'. Diesel electric. Diesel engine drives an alternator, alternator powers the traction motors.
Not really, no battery to store recovered energy. Wouldn’t be surprised to see batteries added in future to make them hybrids.
The nation's largest builder of train locomotives seems to be working on it and we might see results withing a year.
GE battery electric train development
And the next application will be some well intentioned, but misguided soul demanding that they install solar panels on all the subway cars.
And then complaining that they dont work, so we need to install electric lights in the tunnels to feed the solar cells.
