Electric Vehicles

[Barbecueboy]

Now isn’t the time for that cw…..it isn’t really about joe anymore, it’s about the dems stepping up and acting like they have some em effing sense.

Some of em actually have it, it just doesn’t get reported on a lot….you know, Pelosi and all.

[bethany948]

I need to take advantage of what we have here in North America to fuel the vehicles used to pull our golf carts to the track.

[Barbecueboy]

There is no I in We

[ZERO25]

When the new electric Air Force one needs a re-charge midair, whats Sleepy Joe gonna do then?

[Barbecueboy]

End up at the crash scene?

[ZERO25]

He's well practiced at falling up the stairs, maybe he should practice falling down them!

He should beware of Trump practicing with his driver though!......

[Buford.Justice]

BBQ Are you sure there is a real Democrat left in Congress? Not a single one voted against Ketanji Brown Jackson...

[Buford.Justice]

When the new electric Air Force one needs a re-charge midair, whats Sleepy Joe gonna do then?

He'll just fire the pilots!!!!

[TwistedNate01]

we could had electric cars years ago, but things like that GET HELD BACK!!!!!

[dirtMAN007]

we could had electric cars years ago, but things like that GET HELD BACK!!!!!

Kinda like you in kindergarten !

[Stefan2k20]

The problem is that batteries are a very poor way of storing energy, but right now they are the best way we've got. Still, they kinda suck. Super capacitors would be better but that technology isn't matured yet. Anyway, mother nature has a much better way of storing energy. That is photosynthesis, which captures energy from sunlight and uses it to build carbon chains. This happens in plants, which then die, get buried and eventually turn into fossil fuels. So, when you pump gas into your car, you're really running on solar energy as that's where the energy in those gasoline molecules originally came from millions of years ago. Anyway, mother nature can store that energy much more densely than we can with any battery technology we currently have.So, until battery technology or super capacitors get much better, plug in electric cars are not ideal. Now, a hybrid or an electric drive train car with an ICE driving a generator could be an ideal combination right now. There are many advantages a configuration like this could have, like the ability to instantaneously deliver high torque from a stand still and low RPMs, traction control by having a motor driving each wheel and a computer to monitor wheel spin and deliver just the right amount of power to each wheel, regenerative braking to recapture wasted energy to charge banks of super capacitors, and the ability to run the ICE at a specific RPM for which it is tuned for maximum efficiency all the time. I could easily see a high performance sports cars designed like this that could outperform most cars today with a much smaller and more fuel efficient engine, but it would not really be an "electric" car as it would still be powered by fossil fuels and an ICE. Basically, you'd just be replacing the traditional mechanical drivetrain with an electrical drivetrain . I suspect we'll see this in racing long before we see a switch to all electric. It has all the advantages I already mentioned plus the ability to eliminate things like mechanical clutches, transmissions, rear end differentials, CV joints, etc.

[racerx99]

thats what I was after, Thanx dude..........So its sounds like a better idea why it happening? you gotta have oil and gas to build whatever so dont go there...........

[Raceready]

Near every circular in our paper is now only showing electric mowers and no gas jobs.I do see where they may be an advantage in parts of West Virginia where the houses are half built on stilts and you have to run the mower up and down the hills in the hollers on the end of a rope. Most used the good old green Lawnboy 2 cycle mowers because they would keep running where as the 4 strokes would starve for oil and lock up eventually. My friend still has 1 of those 2 cycle Lawn boy he uses for trimming. Its about 40 years old an still runs like a charm ! !

[Barbecueboy]

My dad had me mowing with one of those lawn boys back in the late 70s early 80s…..that thing wouldn’t quit running, I hated it.

[Raceready]

The old pre-mix Lawnboys were a good American product that would run and run decades just like Wheel Horse lawn tractors. I have a collection of them that I fiddle around with.