Who is/will be the 1st TTR member to drive Electric Semi-Truck?

Multiple Points of Failure and spectacular fireworks.
Expensive and unreliable equipment.
Environment damaged beyond repair.
Human operators replacement.
This is what electric trucks will get you.

 

It is all about the engineering. Combustion engines can run on a wide number of fuels. The problem faced most often is adapting an existing design to use the alternative fuel, instead of designing for the fuel it will use.

 

There is another expensive product that nobody mentions.
The tires needed to move a high torque/zero RPM vehicle.
They are special and costly.
You can't use normal tires on a Tesla.
They'll wear prematurely and fail.

 

Only if they dont get torque to wheels smooth and not 0-1500 in less tham a second, soft starting the wheel motors is how to mitigate it.

Imagine if you dumped 0 to 1500 torque and hp to your trans, driveshaft, diffs etc, thats just where drivers need to be responsible

for electric, thatll be the same plus motor control to ramp torque and horses up slower


Dont pretend that i cant destroy tires in my auto bmw (330ci) by mistreating them, if i want to burnout even though its an auto, i can

 

I certainly plan to have batteries for overnight house hold compacity and charging cars when both come down, its getting here.

Currently under the old grid and supply, we have diesel generators positioned amongst house holds in neighbourhoods, so if there is grid failure at the station level the generators keep the lights.
For my money I can't see why a battery could replace those diesel generators and every house have solar. They all contribute to charging it during the day, and they all draw X % at night. Go over your % and user pays. Maybe pie in the sky but that is how I'd like my world to work. It utilised existing hard surfaces, but its not that simple and profits for ? will be compromised. Plus the grid is so out of date as renewables have been ignored for 20+ years, the grid largely only works on one way supply so the whole show has to be reworked.

In saying that Australia ran completely on renewable the other day, it was only for a couple hours but the whole county was on wind, solar, hydro. So its as start, and its possible. Well until the next government comes in and the tide changes.

I agree I too am not a fan of solar farms on good land. they should only on crap land or old dumps, contaminated industrial and the like, and certainly not on cleared land to make way for them. We have a good habit down here of building neighbourhoods on quality farming land. It seems we have learnt little from that.

 

Our Prius has a 1.5lt and those type of gear boxes that have one gear that does all. It can easily do 450 mile on $30, at 60mph with 4 occupants and hiking gear on the roof. I'm not sure how it tows but it carries itself well.

 

you're right

 

Renewable is the wrong term.

See Oil is a renewable, it just takes a few million years to renew it.

Which is a blip on the earths timeline.

There was talk about tapping into heat in the earth's mantle, but that was apparently fought against by the Mother Earth clowns who say we are harming earth by drilling into her crust to get to the mantle. There is 400 degrees to 7500 degrees so that's a lot of energy.

 

Geothermal is one of those things that fascinates people. I’m sitting 40 mile south from one and 80 miles east of another geo thermal designated area, and even there, where the crust is but a small fraction of average, nobody can seem to make geothermal work economically.

Electricity keeps getting cheaper, and it’s solar and wind that are driving the prices down. A recent large wind development south of I84 near Twin Falls just contacted its electricity production to Idaho Power for…..2.2 c/KWH.

Combined cycle gas plants are coming it at 6 c/KWH, everything else is higher than that, including coal. As these costs for wind and solar keep dropping, the cost for generation plus battery storage is starting to beat every other electric generation option, and electricity prices will keep edging lower.