Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[grsthegreat]

My work truck is a 1994 Dodge DIESEL Ram. Still looks good but I had it repainted about 8 years ago. Gets used a lot, and long day of driving some days. Also gets 24-27 MPG.
my horse trailer towing rig is a 2004 F350 in great shape. Clean. Looks great and runs great. only has 100,000 miles. Lucky to get 15 mpg, but can tow a house. Need this to tow 30 ft 5th wheel horse trailer. Gets same mileage towing or not towing. Also a diesel.

my last truck is a 2017 Toyota Tundra. Very low mileage truck for the wife. Being retired it does not get much use. Not great on mpg, but unbelievable power. 5.7L and a light truck. Amazing power.

 

[bearthebruce]

One more question - in a ICE vehicle, if, for some reason, you run out of gas, you borrow/buy a gallon and off you go. What happens to an electric vehicle if you run out of battery? What's the procedure to get going again? I'm serious, not poking fun. I'd like to know how that's handled.

There are services forming that load up a truck with charging equip.. They come and get you enough charge to make it to a full charging station.

Then there are the funny solutions. Saw a picture of an EV towing a small diesel generator so they could keep going wherever they wanted to go without a worry.. (Provided they carried enough diesel!) If I find the pic, I'll post here.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

People with electric cars will be like the Amish, they pull hay balers with a horse, baler ran from a gas engine. People with electric cars will be traveling with a backup generator and cans of gas to recharge their vehicles.

Moss, no birds got in here.

Lol, but we used this truck till the whole frame rusted in half.

 

[airbiscuit]

As the market grows, the solutions will follow - More charging stations, boost packs that will get you a ways in limp mode, fast chargers on service trucks, etc. My old motorcycle had a reserve selector on my fuel shut off, to get me home when fuel was low.

If all the issues being raised by the skeptics were deal beakers, Auto Manufacturers wouldn't be designing EVs. I expect that one of my children will own an EV within 5 years. I can see myself owning an EV as a second car at some point in my future. I'm not racing to get there, but I don't mind getting there.

The future sounds impossible until you get there.

 

[MossRoad]

Another thing. When you go to visit someone out of town you don't ask them if they can give you some gasoline when you get there. Now, "Can I plug my car in while we visit?" If they only have 110V outlets, it could take hours to days, at 2 miles per charging hour. You live 100 miles away? That's 50 hours of charging at 110V. Yikes!

It ads pre-planning to any trip where you might not make it to a faster charging location. I don't want to do logistics to go visit Aunt Mildred.

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[lman]

People with electric cars will be like the Amish, they pull hay balers with a horse, baler ran from a gas engine. People with electric cars will be traveling with a backup generator and cans of gas to recharge their vehicles.

Moss, no birds got in here. View attachment 700077
Lol, but we used this truck till the whole frame rusted in half.

My Amish neighbor drives a diesel tractor pulling a trailer down the road. Are you saying we are going to get rid of our cars and trucks and just drive tractors down the road.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I would love to have a 2025 Tesla out Tx. They are leap frogging themselves year after year. BYD and others coming out of China have a good shot. I love the looks of the BYD blade battery technology. VW is the only old line I see meaningful making the transition to EV's in the next 10 years. Today Tesla still leads all others on price, performance and total cost of ownership.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My Amish neighbor drives a diesel tractor pulling a trailer down the road. Are you saying we are going to get rid of our cars and trucks and just drive tractors down the road.

Some Mennonite drive vehicles, some don’t. Never known any Amish that drive vehicles or tractors, but don’t doubt some do. Why are you saying we need to get rid of our cars and drive tractors?

 

[airbiscuit]

From the Washington Post:

"ExxonMobil shareholders voted Wednesday to install at least two new independent directors to the company’s board, a resounding defeat for chief executive Darren Woods and a ratification of shareholders’ unhappiness with the way the company had been addressing climate change and its lagging financial performance.

The votes were part of a trying day for the oil industry. In Europe, a Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to make deeper-than-planned cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, and in the United States Chevron lost a shareholder vote directing the company to take into account its customers’ emissions when planning reductions.
The vote at the storied oil giant ExxonMobil “sends an unmistakable signal that climate action is a financial imperative and leading investors know it and are demanding change,” Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, said. “This is a watershed moment for the oil and gas industry. It’s no longer tenable for companies like ExxonMobil to defy calls to align their businesses with decarbonizing the economy.”"

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Iran bans cryptocurrency mining for four months to stave off blackouts

Until last week when Elon Musk stated Tesla decided to stop accepting Bit Coin for payment I didn't how dirty it could be.