Originally Posted by E365
Originally Posted by Jmoney7269
They had electric car technology in the early 1900s........ if people wanted electric cars, we would have had electric cars!
We haven't had electric cars because the battery technology was never good enough - and now it is and it's getting better by the day.
I want an electric car because an electric motor is a vastly superior way to power a car vs. internal combustion. The silence, smoothness, torque, throttle response, acceleration, low maintenance, etc. can't be matched by gas or diesel.
Lmao except that a diesel or gas engine can drive continuously........ and hundreds of thousands of miles .
A battery car still has to be charged with power that a overwhelming majority is produced with hydrocarbons. All of the machines that built that car are powered by electricity made by hydrocarbons.... I agree that they may be quieter and smooth but eventually that battery will have to be replaced and I'm sure well before 100k miles or less than 10 years, if they are still around..... what you will have to spend in the long run for upkeep on electric is just not worth it to me....
Prime example of what I'm talking about is my buddy has a prevost bus that has two 4000 watt trace 24volt inverters with 4 huge lifeline AGM batteries per inverter (8 total)and he can run his heaters or A/Cs, residential fridge, all of his lights for about 4-8 hours. Then he has to fire up his 20kw power tech diesel generator to charge them all back up or if the demand is enough he will just run the generator full time to and the inverters supplement the generator. That fancy system of inverters, huge battery banks, huge generator, etc is about $50k worth of nonsense. My coach has a 10kw generator and a small golf cart battery bank that can run a microwave or coffee maker and the aquahot heater...... and all of that machinery cost less than $15k. Granted it's no prevost, but his junk is always in the shop at the cost of $4k-$20k to fix..... and I'm always on the road and can fix dang near anything that breaks on my zephyr myself. Point is that batteries are cool, but in no way can sustain the simple fact that batteries just cant do what a combustion engine does. Shoot even a train that is moved by huge electrical motors still needs a huge diesel engine to give them power.....