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Do you even know how long ago electric cars were Built? People talk about it like they never had electric cars in our history. There are reasons that fuel won out.

 

Ask any maintenence dependent about lift break downs, repairs, maintenence requirements and you will soon realize just how off the no maintenence theory Is! These people will buy into almost anything thats fed to them.

 

The trains are diesel/electric. They run on electricity produced on the train by a diesel engine. Movement is due to the electric motor. I'm not sure they have any clutch.

 

Yep

As an invention that never took off.
At a time before gas.

They were practical then. So why not now. 180 years later?

 

Electric cars were produced and sold at the same time as steam and gasoline cars. Before WWI there were 15,000 electric cars in NYC alone. A gasoline car like a Model T were much cheaper and people were comfortable with gasoline while electricity was newish and infrastructure was not widely distributed yet. Gasoline was available in places that wouldn't get electricity for years to come.

 

They weren’t practical that’s why we have gas.

 

Yes, it's called energy density. Batteries are orders of magnitude more energy dense now than even 20 years ago, much less 100 years ago.

 

I’m headed to Vegas in two weeks to see some of his tunnels first hand.

The best route for a tunnel there is from the airport to the strip but since it would crush the taxis it will never be built.

 

In recent times; lead acid batteries, had a sort of 24 hour span. 8 hours of working (at full work level) , 8 hours of charging (with matched rate charger), then 8 hours of cooling. I am sure there has been improvements in all 3 facets, but wonder how the charging/cool down is being handled. Possibly the newer batteries do not generate the heat during a charging cycle.
As memory serves, the old L/A batteries were warrented for 5 years, based on a then 1500 per year work shifts. Is there any available data on any matched set; a time period in service, to compare? Just not up on what is available.