So who will be first with an electric pickup. And when.
Ford plans US$11 billion investment for 40 electrified vehicles by 2022. Link below. https://www.bnn.ca/ford-plans-us-11-billion-investment-for-40-electrified-vehicles-by-2022-1.968176
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BenK wrote:
Find your choice of fuel source in this Wikipedia chart...
Notice Lithium is around 4.32 (experimental) vs regular lithium 0.9 to 2.63 vs gasoline 34.2 vs diesel 35.8...
Then the losses in how it is designed, packaged, etc, etc...to what/how/etc the electrodes are designed/made of/etc, etc
since IC thermal efficiency is around 25 percent, cut the gas/diesel energy density by 4. so figure 9 for gas, maybe 10 for diesel. so batteries are about a factor of 4 from being equal to gas/diesel on a volume basis. so the diffence is significant but not as significant as it first appears.
by comparison electric motor efficiency is in the high 90 percent range.
then there is the "replenish" time. again gas/diesel wins hands down.
