BobsYourUncle wrote:
time2roll wrote:
Actually I hope to skip the diesel phase and go right to the top with electric. All good. Whatever gets you down the road is what you need ;)
I wonder if there will be add-on battery packs available for the bed like diesels :B
That could work: :)
Fill the bed with a big bank of extra batteries in addition to the onboard ones. Dragging a big TT or 5ver is gonna suck hard on them, but if you overcome that with quantity, limit yourself to say 400 miles in a day and pull into a full hookup CG for the night, you've got all night to bring them back to 100% for the next days travels.
Go another 400 miles and do it again!
Hey, I like it! Whisper quiet, just like a Tesla.... yeah!
But of course, I know zip nada zilch about EVs and I'm assuming a bed full of batteries will give you that range.
Might cost a few bucks for all that extra juice, but you could always collect pop bottles and sell pencils on the street corners to pay for it all! :B
Time2roll, you got a plan here. :)
Based on what little I have been reading about batteries. if you can get and use lithium ion bats, they can be discharged 100% and broght back up to 100%, so you 'should' be able to get away with fewer, less lbs of batter than say a lead acid, that can or should only be discharged too 25-30% of capacity. THIS issue is what is the real issue today. Future we should be able to get to the point, that the battery pack should not weigh a ton per say! Not that some of our ICE rigs motors are near there, especially some of the diesels depending upon size etc.
Nice thing about lithium and AGM, is you can charge them at much higher rates than lead acid bats.
Then again, who would have thought everyone on this planet would have a phone in there pocket, no landline per say at home! I'm sure we can all come up with other things we thought would be farther down the road than it came up to be.......with this thought, time to go to bed.....ooops, better not say that, the trolls will be out! LOLOL
marty
