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It really does not matter what opinions we have here on electric or hybrid pickup trucks.
What will matter is who can mass produce the first electric or hybrid truck that has a 50+- mpg equivalent fleet use. Corporations will jump on that, big time.
This generator will run 9+ hours on a gallon of gas. Why couldn't something like this be built into the vehicle somewhere and come on just long enough to recharge batteries as the truck is driven. If you could get 300 miles to a charge, and if it took 30 minutes to recharge while on the move you could drive 5400 miles on 1 gallon of gas.
I have two of those. At idle it will run 15 hours, at 1,500 Watts it runs 4 hours. At 380 Wh/mile that gallon of gasoline will move a Tesla Model S 16 miles. Is unrealistic to expect an F-150 EV to do better.
What you describe is known as a series hybrid where only the electric motor can drive the wheels. A smaller and lighter BMW i3 REx is as you suggest. Drive is pure electric with an auxiliary gasoline generator to charge the battery. Gets 34 MPG in a Prius size vehicle. Real world Prius MPG is over 50 MPG. Prius is a parallel hybrid where both engine and motor can drive the wheels, which is much more efficient.
So what if it is? An F-250 Powerstroke is over 8,000. What matters is total cost of operation.
so what if it is? Weight means lower battery range. Thatswhy it matters. Top that on towing a 7000 + trailer and that means a recharge every 50 miles. LOL Its laughable.
so what if it is? Weight means lower battery range. Thatswhy it matters. Top that on towing a 7000 + trailer and that means a recharge every 50 miles. LOL Its laughable.
The term is charge, not recharge. If there is already a charge in the battery then there is no point in redoing it.
What is laughable is how you know everything without ever having done anything. Certainly no reasearch. Tesla has several prototype semi tractors (that is the thing that pulls the trailer which only then becomes a “semi truck”) in service making deliveries and demo to major customers. Taking orders now. Option for 300 or 500 mile version (while carrying rated load) and stated less than 2000 W/mile energy consumption.
Ford engineers know physics and can do math. What we don’t know is what Ford management will let them build. Ford’s previous ventures have been bare minimal efforts, the kind of thing one expects from coward bureaucrats. Toy city cars. Nothing bold like a Ford Raptor.
”Everyone knew” a 200+ mile EV was impossible until Tesla did it with the original Tesla Roadster in 2007. And again in mass production with the Tesla Model S in 2012. Long ago. My Model S 85 weighs 4900 pounds. So what? It’s full charge range is an honest 265 interstate miles, more at slower speeds. Someone was bored and eked 400 miles out of his on one charge. It weighs 4900 pounds because it is carrying a 1400 pound battery. But so what if that is what it takes? Mine is the slow version which takes a 5.4 second eternity to do 0-60. The fast one was only 3.1 seconds. I hear a Raptor can do 0-60 in 5.3 seconds, my Tesla is so inferior! Many have to forget what they “know” before there is room to learn something new. Perhaps that is why Ford is not yet a serious player in the EV market?
02-25-2019, 11:37 AM
