If you have to tow a heavy travel trailer the drive range of the F-150 Lightning will drop to perhaps 100 miles. There are some videos at "youtube" of the electric F-150 towing a trailer next to an ICE truck towing another identical trailer, and the F-150 reached 94 miles. Large travel trailers weight from 4,000 to 6,000 pounds.
So literal middle of nowhere. Sometimes folks say that, but have access to 120v (or whatever the equivalent is outside the US) and could get some charge when not driving.
Similar here. The Rivian should be fine for us. Yeah, we'll have to stop to recharge slightly more often than we would have stopped with our diesel truck, and for slightly longer; but not so much so as to be a nuisance.
All depends on what you tow with your truck, or by how much you load it. For example, even your EV will discharge the battery faster if you overload it, or if you drive steadily at a very high speed. The drive range of any vehicle, EV or ICE automobile, is reduced if you overload it, drive it very fast, if the tires aren't inflated properly, if you use the AC or heat, etc. In fact, if you don't precondition your EV while it is connected to an outlet before driving it, the driving range is reduced. But ICE automobiles still reach longer driving distances that EV's. This applies to two automobiles with similar aerodynamics and weights, one EV and the other and ICE automobile.
Is that all down to gas is a great means to store energy vs battery? Most ev's have like 2 or 3 gas gallon equivalent of energy locally stored. When put into that perspective I feel like ev's do pretty well.
Ev's do quite well, specially because they don't produce emission that pollute the air like ICE vehicles. But with the present battery manufacturing technology there isn't a way to produce batteries that are extremely powerful, lightweight, and low cost. The example about the drive range I posted above relating to the "eMini Cooper and its ICE counterpart," the electric one has to have a battery powerful enough for a relatively short drive range. Otherwise this vehicle would be too heavy, and this in turn does not add any benefit to it. What automobile manufacturers can do is to use lighter materials for the chassis, body, and so on. This increases the total cost of the vehicle, but it allows for installing a denser or more powerful battery. Still, fuels allow for longer drive ranges, but the problem is that internal combustion engines emit fumes.
There are already a lot of EV SUV/CUVs and more on the way, so you will have a lot of choices when it comes time to get one.
This is true but the range is slightly deceiving. With an ICE vehicle you buy petrol at intervals (weekly?) and drive until it’s all gone (well nearly!) and you fill up again. Let’s say your range is 350 miles.
All depends on numerous conditions, including the engine's capacity of the vehicle. For example, I have a 2012 Corolla LE that consumes an average of 29 MPG (combined) and 34 MPG highway driving. The tank holds 13.5 US gallons of gasoline, so in ideal road conditions (no headwind, moderate highway speeds, not overloaded with cargo and passengers, etc.), the drive range on 13 gallons of fuel-non stop drive- equals 450 miles. Even if parked with an empty tank, the "reserve" fuel left in the tank would allow me to drive it over 34 miles to a gas station. When I was still working I drove it 50 miles to work/back per day, five times per week, so it was adding around 6 gallons of fuel every other week. I haven't driven this car more than 30 miles in the past two years since my last work retirement, but I do start the motor and let it run for 18 minutes twice per month during the summer, and every day during the winter when the temperatures are colder than -10 degrees F.
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I thought green energy was mainly (more quickly) renewable. So far we don't have a rechargeable energy storage solution with higher energy density than Lithium based batteries.
The range of as good as any model on the market is long than what my bladder has. Charging is done whilst you take that wc stop no problem.
Longer range and faster charging. I drive for my family vacations, so an EV right now is a no for my family.
The range of as good as any model on the market is long than what my bladder has. Charging is done whilst you take that wc stop no problem.
I did a 4K Km trip across 8 countries in our Polestar EV. No problems at all using it for a family holiday
The charging station situation is going to get interesting, in the states, for sure. Demand charges makes standing up fast charging stations super unprofitable.
