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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BenK wrote:
Hmmm...telling that you don't know much or enough of how they work...
An electric motor has one rotating part...the rotor.
Yes, I already said that it has fewer moving parts. Did you even read my post? Your statements match up with exactly what I was saying I don't trust. You assume that because there are more parts that IC Engines are significantly less reliable but fail to provide any performance figure to back up the assertion, just a list of parts.
For example: If you compare the modern IC engine with a model T engine, the model T engine has far fewer parts but the modern engine is far more reliable, so simply having fewer parts does not equate to more reliable.
Also, I don't assume that electric motors are unreliable just that IC engines are also very reliable...to the point that claims of reliability advantage for EV are (I strongly suspect but no one is able to provide data) do not have a basis in reality.
Once again, I'm looking for is actual field results not platitudes about how many parts IC engines have so they must be less reliable.
