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Forum: Towing and Hitching 10-12-2022, 01:19 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
The difference is that a hybrid has a battery,...

The difference is that a hybrid has a battery, which means that the engine does not need to follow the drive power requirements, so it can run more efficiently. Diesel-electric drives are used in...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 10-10-2022, 06:40 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
Nice. A generator driven by a gas engine,...

Nice.
A generator driven by a gas engine, charging the battery of an EV is - as I suggested earlier - a bad series hybrid. The efficiency of any series hybrid suffers from energy losses in the...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 10-08-2022, 05:10 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
Given a 240 VAC source, all that's needed is a...

Given a 240 VAC source, all that's needed is a portable EVSE, which is the adapter that makes the EV work with an AC power source. EVs normally come with one of these, and the people who made the...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 10-07-2022, 07:13 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
In other news... Stupid "journalists" Buy...

In other news...
Stupid "journalists" Buy Gasoline In Bucket, Start Filling Gasoline Truck With Turkey Baster, Find Out It Will Take Days To Fill Tank
Forum: Towing and Hitching 02-24-2019, 02:11 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
Nader was associated with the Corvair, but the...

Nader was associated with the Corvair, but the section about the Corvair was only a small part of the book. The original Corvair was no worse than a Porsche or VW or any other rear-engine cars and...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 02-24-2019, 02:08 AM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
We had one of those (a 1980 Chev C10 Silverado)....

We had one of those (a 1980 Chev C10 Silverado). The saddle tanks look like a stupid idea (in case of a side impact), but that's the standard configuration for heavy trucks, and no worse than the...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 02-24-2019, 01:58 AM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
I agree. I participated in a training session,...

I agree. I participated in a training session, learning to put out a car fire, and the biggest problem was getting the scrap car to burn... even liberally splashed with gasoline.

I think the point...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 02-23-2019, 07:43 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
I get the logic, but the DOE's statement is based...

I get the logic, but the DOE's statement is based on decades of actual experience with many thousands of CNG vehicles. They're a tiny fraction of the vehicles on the road, but there are still enough...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 02-23-2019, 02:48 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
I don't think they're deliberately protected so...

I don't think they're deliberately protected so much as they are stacked where they can be fit in. Since about four times as much tank volume is needed as compared to diesel, and the tanks are...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 02-22-2019, 04:17 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
It seems to me that natural gas (piped in to a...

It seems to me that natural gas (piped in to a stationary location, or carried in compressed cylinders) is only an explosion hazard in a confined space. Occasionally a house blows up, but it's hard...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-27-2019, 03:57 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
Exactly. Electric vehicles are only desirable...

Exactly. Electric vehicles are only desirable because they consume electricity instead of fuel, so where we get electricity and fuel is very relevant to choosing an electric vehicle or not. The...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-26-2019, 04:38 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
This description of a uranium fusion reactor...

This description of a uranium fusion reactor matches some of designs used in the U.S., which were derived from the reactors designed to power submarines; I think they're fundamentally scary, and much...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-26-2019, 12:41 AM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
Assuming that's nuclear fission, then I suppose...

Assuming that's nuclear fission, then I suppose the reasoning is that uranium mining is very bad but you don't have to do a great deal of it, and nuclear waste is horrible but the amount is small,...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-24-2019, 02:08 AM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
The idea of battery swapping has probably been...

The idea of battery swapping has probably been around as long as battery-powered vehicles. After all, we swap battery packs in our power tools, right? There are several problems applying this to...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-23-2019, 09:46 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
Harley-Davidson has been teasing the LiveWire for...

Harley-Davidson has been teasing the LiveWire for years, but other companies have actually been selling electric motorcycles of various styles - that's one vehicle market segment that has been...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-23-2019, 08:02 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
Manitoba (and Newfoundland & Labrador) are in the...

Manitoba (and Newfoundland & Labrador) are in the "rest of" category: ;D



It does make sense (from an energy source standpoint), as long as owners don't charge at peak times, when those gas...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-23-2019, 02:45 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
If the source of electricity is a concern (as it...

If the source of electricity is a concern (as it often is for those considering electric vehicles), it's easy to check. There is a pretty good set of Wikipedia pages on this, including Electricity...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-20-2019, 03:16 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
The situation for a heavy highway tractor is very...

The situation for a heavy highway tractor is very different from a pickup truck. The heavy trucks will be used on specific routes to consistent locations with dedicated charging facilities, so range...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-19-2019, 10:36 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
Other electric pickups

The electric F-150 is almost a certainty, as Ford has announced it and is quite capable (especially with the recent partnership with VW) of building it. Whether it will useful for a travel trailer is...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-19-2019, 08:00 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
I agree, except that I think that just routine...

I agree, except that I think that just routine advancement in fundamentally the same battery technology, combined with changing conditions (including costs and availability of charging), will likely...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-19-2019, 05:55 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
It was deliberately massively biased the day it...

It was deliberately massively biased the day it was made and conflicted with the reality of the time, but yes, the ways in which the basis of the analysis were wrong then are more wrong now. ;)

I...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-19-2019, 12:50 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
It is interesting, but consider the source (a...

It is interesting, but consider the source (a politically motivated and blatantly biased communications media organization called PragerU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU)) and look at the...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-18-2019, 10:16 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
That's the challenge. Take a typical long-range...

That's the challenge. Take a typical long-range electric car, double the energy requirement to make it a larger pickup truck, and double it again to maintain the range while towing... and you have...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-18-2019, 10:16 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
If only it were that warm... two digits are...

If only it were that warm... two digits are reversed: the temperature of liquid hydrogen is about -420 °F.

I noticed an interesting tidbit on a website: a given volume of gasoline (molecules...
Forum: Towing and Hitching 01-18-2019, 07:06 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 15,862
Posted By Brian B-P
Just to clarify... the Silverado ZH2 and various...

Just to clarify... the Silverado ZH2 and various Toyota concept vehicles are hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, but Tesla has no fuel cell plans at all. Elon Musk has been a vocal opponent of hydrogen fuel...
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