eXodus
Solar Addict
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you need to look at Total CO2 over the lifetime of the vehicle.You are back to generating CO2... one of the pushes to ev is to cut CO2 go green. I realize most green folk don't realize we may go green but others are not. They have picked up supplying us and producing now what we once did. A wash.
It will be a couple of years for the grid completely go green. A heavy long range EV needs more kWh of not green electric then a light weight EV with less range. When a small generator saves CO2 by not running most days (just for that piece of mind that people apparently need) the total math is better for the climate.
We are talking pickup owners which think their once towing in a blue moon is the deciding metric if they buy EV or ICE. So you need change a lot of peoples mind just to switch to EV. A serial hybrid with a decent battery is a important stepping stone, most regular hybrids which drive the wheels are just disguised ICE cars with greenwashing. A serial Hybrid will produce about 95% less CO2 then a ICE truck. So big win for the climate.
And when you don't belief in that - it's much cheaper to run. Better for you wallet. A generator has much less maintenance then ICE powerplant since it only operates at one speed and is decoupled from the transmission shocks.
yeah charging at very high current is hard on current batteries. But there are slowly chemistries and super capacitors coming along which could do just that.What would have been idea was couple diesel electric to battery ev locomotive and use braking forces to recharge ev loco. It is extremely hard to harness the dynamic braking energy from a loco.