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Discussion in 'Electric Vehicles (EVs)' started by khaki2020offroad, Jan 29, 2021.

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  1. Apr 3, 2022 at 8:39 AM
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    You can't plug it in. :D

    Yes the battery will eventuall no longer hold or take a charge.
     
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  2. Apr 3, 2022 at 8:45 AM
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    Yes.

    And the transportation required to move the EV from final production to the end user. Along with what ever support the vehicle needs to remain operable, for the rest of it's life cycle.
     
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  3. Apr 3, 2022 at 8:45 AM
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    It wouldn’t need plugged in as it would get constant magnetic wave exposure in a perfect vacuum. Battery replacement for a vapor ware product is a problem for the future.
     
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  4. Apr 3, 2022 at 8:47 AM
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    That’s like saying we would always be reliant on horse carriages because we’d never have enough ICEs in the world to replacement them. It’s short sighted.
     
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  5. Apr 3, 2022 at 8:58 AM
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    I wonder how much energy is used to facilitate a used vehicle sale, from dealership to auction to dealership and so on?


    How much energy is used annually on April fools joke? :duh:
     
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  6. Apr 3, 2022 at 9:06 AM
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    Thirty years ago I thought cordless tools on the job site were a novelty, now the norm. I see myself in an electric truck someday.
     
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  7. Apr 4, 2022 at 8:50 AM
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    Sneak peek by DeLorean of their upcoming EV...

    [​IMG]
     
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    is it stainless?
     
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  9. Apr 4, 2022 at 8:59 AM
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    Dunno. Hope so. Stainless can be formed more easily now than in the 80's.
     
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    Be cool for nostalgic purposes, however aluminum would be better to save weight where ever they can, given how heavy batteries are.
     
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    True. Probably would be Aluminum. On the CyberTruck the stainless is for a purpose, not weight savings. On a sports car weight is everything.
     
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    What was the reasoning for stainless on the CyberTruck?
     
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    Musk says, corrosion resistance, strength, durability, cost.
     
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    Re: road trips - does going a thousand miles from the PNW to Socal count? Do that most winter holidays. I can't really say the cost difference between 40mpg on the Rav (2000 miles/40mpg*$5gal=$250) vs the 20mpg Taco (2000 miles/20mpg*$5gal=$500) is that significant once a year. The Rivian (74MPGe, or 2.19552 mi/kWh) would cost (2000/2.2*$.40) $363 to fast charge at the typical fast charger rate. But it costs twice the taco, $35k will buy a ton of gas.

    Re: spaceships ... ion drives use electricity to accelerate propellant mass. The starlink satellites (a spaceX prodcut) use those types of drives. The electricity comes from solar, of course.
     
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    Taking a generator kind of defeats the purpose of having an EV though, and it's unnecessary weight on a vehicle with hundreds of pounds of batteries.
     
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    We need some turbine auxiliary power units in the bed. Light weight and more compact than some heavy generators and makes the truck sound badass when running.

    In reality the generator isn't a terrible idea and not all that inefficient compared to a normal gas Tacoma offroad. I don't remember which one of these EV related threads it was in but I did the math and posted it. With the various unit of measure conversions it ends up at about 11mpg.
     
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    New pics of the Cyber Truck. As much as I like the artwork of Syd Mead, not diggin it. That wiper tho’, they couldn’t come up with a more elegant solution?

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