I would agree this is the biggest smoke & mirror of the entire idea.Pulling power from the grid is less green than many want to think.
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I would agree this is the biggest smoke & mirror of the entire idea.Pulling power from the grid is less green than many want to think.
Dunno. Might be the batteries and the current means of constructing them.I would agree this is the biggest smoke & mirror of the entire idea.
A generator on wheels! What a concept!
"F-150 Lightning can power your home during an outage; it’s even quicker than the original F-150 Lightning performance truck; and it will constantly improve through over-the-air updates.”
I'm just a free market capitalistThat’s just ONE problem. They’ve become very polarized as political talking points. Both sides of the extremes are fairly uninformed
So am I. I squeezed a shitload of money out of the market. Even just this morning.I'm just a free market capitalist
So am I. I squeezed a shitload of money out of the market. Even just this morning.
I am also an environmentalist. Just not the stereotypical type.
Believe it or not.
*looks at all the computers and phones that receive "over-the-air updates," shudders at dealing with that with my vehicle*That’s just the ‘we can do what Tesla does’ marketing and salesman crap. In reality, that’s little more than a UPS backup for your computer. BFD.
Unless you are part of that one percent, right?It is all free right? That’s what I’ve been hearing.
so is everyone else, no one wants to live in a dirty world
*looks at all the computers and phones that receive "over-the-air updates," shudders at dealing with that with my vehicle*
blacksheep-1 said:
I can completely see the hybrid, but as for electrics, I only can picture them as commuter cars of less than about 300 miles, in an urban environment.
Yes, a 1/2- or 3/4-ton pickup can carry more battery weight than a small car if you're looking at percentage of vehicle weight, and that helps range. But I think the sweet spot is a PHEV that uses an engine as a generator to add range. By using it as a generator instead of driving vehicle motion directly, it can be run in a tight rpm range where it's most efficient. The battery is still needed as storage for regenerative braking. And why not make it a turbine instead of a piston engine, while we're at it? FedEx is giving it a try.And that is the problem with today's public opinion of the electric cars. An electric car carries a lot of weight due to the batteries, and you need a lot of batteries to have a lot of range, which adds more weight as range goes up...
On the other hand, large vehicles that are anyway heavy because of towing requirements (brakes, suspensions, tires and wheels, plus big torquey diesel engines) don't suffer as much from the extra weight a battery brings into the equation, and those vehicles are the ones that benefit from all that torque all the time... So fitting a battery under the [pickup truck] does not reduce the ground clearance much, nor does it raise the driving position, two massive problems you encounter on a normal passenger electric vehicle with the batteries in the floor.
Yes, a 1/2- or 3/4-ton pickup can carry more battery weight than a small car if you're looking at percentage of vehicle weight, and that helps range. But I think the sweet spot is a PHEV that uses an engine as a generator to add range. By using it as a generator instead of driving vehicle motion directly, it can be run in a tight rpm range where it's most efficient. The battery is still needed as storage for regenerative braking. And why not make it a turbine instead of a piston engine, while we're at it? FedEx is giving it a try.FedEx's New Electric Trucks Get a Boost From Diesel Turbines
FedEx is testing a new powertrain that makes its trucks into electric vehicles with onboard diesel generators.www.wired.com