Electric Vehicles
 

Electric vehicles have been around a long time, cars in the late 1800s and everything from locomotives to golf carts ever since. Now it appears electric propulsion is returning to the roads there will be plenty of good, bad and ugly. It's a given there will be schemers and scammers too.

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I'm sure the Mustang is legit but I don't see a mileage between charges number. I suspect it's a fraction of 1. :haha:

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Early electric shoots at the flying mile...

60 would be pretty scary in that rig.

GM announced a bunch of new electrics from every division, many to be sold in China and Europe.
One of the currently hot click-bait headlines is China's building a million mile battery.

A small 4wd pickup would be cool. I bought an 80v electric mower, the thing works well so far and not having another can of gas around is a plus.

Says it all:

"Tesla tops Toyota to become largest automaker by market value. Tesla just became the world's most valuable automaker, after the electric vehicle company's market value surpassed Toyota's...'

Tesla has no intention of being the biggest car company, Musk just wants to move the ball forward on electric vehicles, robotics, and humanity's space faring future, no big deal. ;)

Unlike that doorstop Musk built, this truck take advantage that slab & cab to put together what you need.

This is the way of the future, but its harsh edges create drag and thus reduce range. In particular, the overhang on top of the windshield has to go.

Closest thing I've seen to a micro bus. Those tan ones look really cool. I vote to keep the brim spoiler. Looks right.

I vote yes.

Yes, the 'jelly mould' look and trying to make the car invisible to the air is old thinking aerodynamics-wise. Look at some of the current cars with the lowest cD figures. Nowadays, thanks at least in part to a better understanding of the coanda effect, it's all about controlling the airflow. I'd guess that the roof level splitter on the van above is to help deflect air around the vehicle rather than over it.

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Now that everyone will not be buying gas I'm interested to see how they'll make up the lost tax revenue?

Traffic citations?

That's pretty much maxed out buying armored vehicles and weapons.

Earlier battery shortcomings was the bugaboo, that's why the electrics faded 120 or so years ago.
They have up till now been hard to handle.
A couple of half hearted attempts ...

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But it always came down to the batteries.
Even the golf cart I used everyday at work would drive me nuts sometimes...
and sometimes me nuts would have to walk.

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Then Tesla (Inc as opposed to Nikola) took better materials, found the best way to assemble them,
and most importantly developed computer controls to fine tune everything.
Remember they went to the moon and back on less computing power than your phone has?
Now computing power is plentiful and cheap.

If you could go ahead and electrify a CJ that'd be ok by me.

How long, do you think, before the Indy500 goes electric - or is motorsport destined to just peter out and die?

Motorsport won't die, there are examples of crazy competitions right now that aren't the fastest or the newest of all. All the competitions have arbitrary rules, even Indy cars. There's already a Formula E, but it hasn't caused the extinction of Formula 1 etc.

Electrics are not a replacement, they're an addon.

Speaking of electric vehicles...

hybrid ;)

Truth.

Got something against mixed race vehicles?
Oh, just reminding them they're not pure like the white ones eh.
Make sure they stay in their separate but equal (except not paved) parking lot. http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif

Remember electricity is dangerous...

Where da white submarines at?[/BlazingSaddles]

In the Arctic, got a dime for the toll booth?

Somebody go back to Murmansk and bring a shitload o'dimes![/Taggart]

Coming in the spring. Methinks that glass roof will cut the mileage a bit.

Seen in Aberdeen:
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That's a pretty big transformer to the left of the red Tesla.

Is that a blue port-a-potty on the right?

You don't miss *shit*, do you xoB?

It is, I'd cropped the picture a little, I'd taken it while underway and didn't think it helped the composition.

Excellent catch.

It makes sense, a charging station should have the same facilities as a gas station. Presumably since the charging takes longer than a fill up the people who have nowhere to go need a place to go.

Electric UPS trucks 70 or 80 years apart.

There's idiots everywhere...

Why on earth would he do that? For some reason, it must have been too much trouble to turn the car around the other way. Maybe there was a long line and he didn't want somebody else to pull in and take the pump while he was maneuvering. But there is no indication of a long line, that we can see.

People can be stupid, sure, but there has to be a reason he did that. think of how much trouble he went through to climb through the back seat, roll down the windows and push the hose out the other side to reach, walk around and begin fueling.

Were drugs involved? Is there a drug out there that could make your brain that creative at problem solving, but impair your judgement that much?

Is it possible he is unexperienced at pumping gas? He looks old enough to have pumped gas hundreds of times.

He might genuinely be out of gas. That exact situation happened once when I was a kid, my dad's girlfriend at the time was running low all afternoon and ignoring it, and when we finally pulled into the gas station her car died at the pump--and we were facing backwards. (As to why she faced the wrong direction with a car she'd owned for years, well...) She first tried to start the engine up again to turn around, but when she couldn't, I had to get out and help her yank the pump cable tightly over the trunk so she could get it to to the opposite side.

Oh, is that a gas pump? My bad, thought it was a charge cord.
No problem, applies to both. I've seen that at gas stations so many times, especially on divided highways where the cars coming in are all going the same way. Just pull to the right or left depending on which side your filler is on. Not your car? It shows right on the gas gage.
It seem more cars have the filler on the left because places like the Jersey Pike the cars pulling to the right of the pumps are about three to one. But there's inevitably somebody sees the other side is open and tries to drag the hose over the car. :facepalm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09PAohrbMKM

I saw this a few weeks ago. May or may not be for real.

She's hot enough, she should get a pass.

The Nerds and their Robots are taking over, so get ready to bow down to your Electrical Overlord Masters...