Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[goeduck]

I wonder how long it will be until purchasing EVs are discouraged due to grid problems and ICE machines get tax credits as an alternate energy source. Energy that comes out of the ground !

 

[Hay Dude]

To keep the battery power tool thread more focused on hand tools this thread can be for cars, trucks, tractors, etc that are here today and new ones of the future.

Clearly Europe is ahead of the USA in battery based vehicles and for several reasons. McDonald's putting in car charging stations in 100% of their stores countries like Norway and the Netherlands helped me see this is no small thing. Tax breaks are huge in some countries.

Yesterday I read at some point in recent years the USA government funded a $118 million grant and is one reason there are free charging stations in some areas per that article.

Today there was an article claiming a 620 mile range for the very expensive Tesla Roadster to be out like next year.

I think we will see 1000 mile battery ranges within the next 10 years and at a cost more like the 100 mile range vehicles of 5 years ago. While the technology may not pan out in the article below there is too much being spent on finding more powerful and longer life rechargeable vehicle batteries for it not to bear fruit going forward.

Tech Breakthrough: Is This The End Of Lithium-Ion Batteries? | OilPrice.com

While Cracker Barrel has been installing EV chargers for the last 10 years the rumor at a local dealership is that they are putting in some EV chargers soon in Murray KY. One of the new hotels has three charging stations for guest usage. The Ford dealership has two that have been in for several years. A Walmart in Paducah even reports having a fast 50 amp EV charger.

Good to hear.
If we’re going to do this, let’s go all the way. I don’t want to only be able to charge my new electric truck at night. I want to charge it at Cracker Barrel’s in other states when I go purchase farm equipment.
Some of those Cracker Barrel customers can be pretty tough…..
don’t want to get my butt kicked in a fight over a charging station. Lol

 

[Hay Dude]

The technology on batteries is advancing very rapidly. It's not if, but when we will see more electric vehicles than internal combustion vehicles. It will be a natural for farms to have giant solar arrays on their outbuildings to charge the battery banks for their large tractors. Their will be self driving mules to deliver charged battery modules to the field tractors.

Does this render me useless as a farmer?
How will I afford the solar grid on the barn roof and the 1/4 million dollar farm tractors?
Will the tractors be made by FIAT and paid for with FIAT money?
Sorry, can’t resist, don’t mind me, just having a little fun listening to the faculty lounge tell me how I will spend the tiny bit of money I have left.

 

[sd455dan]

Does this render me useless as a farmer?
How will I afford the solar grid on the barn roof and the 1/4 million dollar farm tractors?
Will the tractors be made by FIAT and paid for with FIAT money?
Sorry, can’t resist, don’t mind me, just having a little fun listening to the faculty lounge tell me how I will spend the tiny bit of money I have left.

now That is Funny, he he

Also Agree on some nuclear replacement plants, but am Not a believer in the water cooled plants ,
The Thorium molten Salt or variant reactors are the way to go until Fusion Reactors are finally perfected

 

[Larry Caldwell]

RAM to have an electric truck- in another 3 years. Hints only

I would have expected Fiat to be more on top of the game, but y'know, Italians.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Does this render me useless as a farmer?
How will I afford the solar grid on the barn roof and the 1/4 million dollar farm tractors?
Will the tractors be made by FIAT and paid for with FIAT money?
Sorry, can’t resist, don’t mind me, just having a little fun listening to the faculty lounge tell me how I will spend the tiny bit of money I have left.

If you are a farmer, you signed up to be broke. It's a personal decision.

I think if people want to argue about taxes, they should start a tax thread.

 

[Hay Dude]

If you are a farmer, you signed up to be broke. It's a personal decision.

I think if people want to argue about taxes, they should start a tax thread.

I am by no means “broke”, but what a ungrateful thing to say about the farmers that feed this country!

 

[Hay Dude]

I would have expected Fiat to be more on top of the game, but y'know, Italians.

Whats wrong with Italian people, Larry?

 

[Hay Dude]

I would have expected Fiat to be more on top of the game, but y'know, Italians.

They don’t build RAM trucks anymore. Stellantis does and they’re Dutch.
Dutch, German, whatever, right Lar? …lol

Stellantis - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I just had a thought about tow cars for RV travel. It's not like an RV gets great mileage anyway, maybe 7 mpg with a tailwind, but with a little software tweaking it should be possible to use the regen ability to charge the battery so the EV would be full for exploration when you set up camp.