Electric truck - tow vehicle of future ?
Interesting article about an electric Class 7 truck . Begs the question, are electric powered heavy duty pickups...ready for HD towing service... far behind ? Range right now is somewhat limite...
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This one is a few years old and will only get better as battery IP gets better...
Zero to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds,fastest electric dragster in the world
YouTube Electric Car Drag Racing
Again...a good electric controller for a good electric motor (not engine) can have over 300% torque at Zero RPM while any ICE has zero torque at zero RPM...nature of it all (AKA Laws of Physics)
Plus they only use small, econo cars for electrics...better to use full sized and better yet...full sized trucks/SUVs/etc...more room for the storage device(s)
Can't wait till graphene batteries comes of age...that is moving extremely fast now that those Chinese College Kids invented a super cheap production method (and they are going to make a ton of money)
Understanding Graphene Batteries
Graphene-Based Supercapacitors Could Lead To Battery-Free Electric Cars Within 5 Years
PS...GM (Chevy) asked one of our research teams at SunLabs to help solve a problem with their EV2...they had JAVA'ized it and it was flaky at best. Turns out they did NOT understand real-time/process/system/robotic/automation controls and had a very poor master/slave architecture. Plus they did not understand that the whole vehicle's computer system needed to be architected as a 'network'...not just a bunch of 'separate' computer systems...
The story point for this thread is that the college interns asked about my background in real-time/process/system/robotic/automation background...after told them that this tiny EV2 could beat the exec's Porsche/Ferrari/Vette/etc in a 0-35 MPH drag race out in the parking lot...
Funny, as these kids first beat the lab director's Vette...then the exec's just had to show them...after they beat them all...tried to get my turn...they wouldn't let me...insurance only covered the SunLabs engineers (me, just a Program Manager & Business Exec in title...not covered)...
PPS...Noodle this...the Voyager left Earth for Pluto with less memory on board than my G-Shock wrist watch has...meaning IP moves ahead as stuff is improved over time...
Am a technologist since a kid (didn't know that then) and say stuff gets better all the time...while "The Laws of Physics" never changes...just new ones are 'discovered' all the time...
Zero to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds,fastest electric dragster in the world
YouTube Electric Car Drag Racing
John Wayland runs a political machine on 12 lithium polymer batteries.
It's a 1972 Datsun called "White Zombie," and it's one of the fastest street legal electric cars in the world.
It's been clocked doing zero to 60 mph in 2.95 seconds. It's walloped Corvettes, Camaros and 600-horsepower Vipers in quarter-mile drag races using lead-acid batteries.
Again...a good electric controller for a good electric motor (not engine) can have over 300% torque at Zero RPM while any ICE has zero torque at zero RPM...nature of it all (AKA Laws of Physics)
Plus they only use small, econo cars for electrics...better to use full sized and better yet...full sized trucks/SUVs/etc...more room for the storage device(s)
Can't wait till graphene batteries comes of age...that is moving extremely fast now that those Chinese College Kids invented a super cheap production method (and they are going to make a ton of money)
Understanding Graphene Batteries
Graphene-Based Supercapacitors Could Lead To Battery-Free Electric Cars Within 5 Years
PS...GM (Chevy) asked one of our research teams at SunLabs to help solve a problem with their EV2...they had JAVA'ized it and it was flaky at best. Turns out they did NOT understand real-time/process/system/robotic/automation controls and had a very poor master/slave architecture. Plus they did not understand that the whole vehicle's computer system needed to be architected as a 'network'...not just a bunch of 'separate' computer systems...
The story point for this thread is that the college interns asked about my background in real-time/process/system/robotic/automation background...after told them that this tiny EV2 could beat the exec's Porsche/Ferrari/Vette/etc in a 0-35 MPH drag race out in the parking lot...
Funny, as these kids first beat the lab director's Vette...then the exec's just had to show them...after they beat them all...tried to get my turn...they wouldn't let me...insurance only covered the SunLabs engineers (me, just a Program Manager & Business Exec in title...not covered)...
PPS...Noodle this...the Voyager left Earth for Pluto with less memory on board than my G-Shock wrist watch has...meaning IP moves ahead as stuff is improved over time...
Am a technologist since a kid (didn't know that then) and say stuff gets better all the time...while "The Laws of Physics" never changes...just new ones are 'discovered' all the time...
