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Old 07-27-2018, 05:10 PM
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How will the small Ecoboost drive the wheels with no transmission or driveline?
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How will the small Ecoboost drive the wheels with no transmission or driveline?
direct drive ala koeniggsegg
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Well, that should make the 1200 or so coal fired plants happy to supply the energy needed to charge them. No such thing as free energy, carbon has to be exchanged somewhere to get it.
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Well, that should make the 1200 or so coal fired plants happy to supply the energy needed to charge them. No such thing as free energy, carbon has to be exchanged somewhere to get it.
explain that to the folks full-on with this distraction joke of a thing going on with straws right now. Forget the billions of tons of hazardous radioactive water getting dumped in the ocean every day from ***ushima and reports of it showing up in California wines now (seriously)….freaking straws.
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I was thinking of the engine just being a generator for the electric wheels, like a locomotive, but that would work too.

Christian Koenigsegg makes Elon Musk look sane. I'm not sure he's even from this planet.
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explain that to the folks full-on with this distraction joke of a thing going on with straws right now. Forget the billions of tons of hazardous radioactive water getting dumped in the ocean every day from ***ushima and reports of it showing up in California wines now (seriously)….freaking straws.
You mean the super deadly plastic straws that account for .01% of all plastic waste in the Ocean? So bad that the city of Santa Barbara is going to jail people over it? Seems like that money companies are wasting on virtue signaling would be better spent helping underdeveloped nations improve their waste management practices so they could really make a dent on the plastic that ends up in the ocean. Sorry for the off-topic rant.

While I think the idea of an electric truck is cool, we are still too far away from it being a reality.
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Whether it’s electric vehicles or lids on your cups’s, it’s not about the actual impact it’s about how it makes people feel.
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I’m not on board with an electric truck unless it’s just a mall crawler. That 50 mile range would drop to 10 when using it as a truck and the generator wouldn’t have enough output to continue rolling down the road.

I like to pull up, refill my tank in 4 minutes, and have 600+ miles of range ready to run...
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Whether it’s electric vehicles or lids on your cups’s, it’s not about the actual impact it’s about how it makes people feel.
It’s like the coal power plants. They try to close them. BUT, the coal is still being mined and burned. It’s shipped to other countries where it actually creates MORE pollution because those countries don’t require all the after-treatment, like scrubbers.

So, yeah, these ding dongs feel good about shutting down a clean burning plant in the US...so the coal is sent to be burned in a very dirty plant elsewhere....they have actually increased pollution and reduced our power generating capacity in the US. But they feel good....
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Buy a C Max and fold the back down. Can't tow anything tho.
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