Electric Vehicles, Hybrids...Battery tech... Land Air and Sea. Let's See 'em.

Is the internal combustion engine doomed to history

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 25.6%

  • No

    Votes: 21 53.8%

  • Not sure

    Votes: 5 12.8%

  • Don't care

    Votes: 2 5.1%

  • ...er... what was the question again?

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • Total voters
    39

USPS already testing mail delivery by electric bike with these neat little US-built mail bikes​




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gggGary said:
https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/st...of-reach?mid=808d1e59330ce9908081bf128e3d48fb
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From here...


The challenges are daunting, but all the panelists cautioned against giving in to what Mann terms climate "doom-ism." There's a very real risk that people will simply start to assume that it's too late and there's nothing we can do—and that this resignation to our collective fate will be weaponized politically to hamper any further progress. It's not a succeed-or-fail binary scenario.

Mann drew a highway analogy to illustrate this point. "It's possible we'll miss the 1.5 degrees Celsius exit," he said. "That doesn't mean we sail hundreds of miles down the highway to the 3, 4, or 5 degrees Celsius exit. It means we get off at the next possible exit." And the role of developing a diverse portfolio of clean energy technologies is to ensure we have plenty of additional exit ramps to take us on our journey toward net-zero energy.
 
Italian motorcycle maker Energica is releasing The Experia , it sounds interesting.
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What makes this especially intriguing is the way Energica’s engineering has made this motorcycle’s battery lighter while also packing more capacity. Depending on where you’re taking the Experia, you can expect to get a range of between 130 miles (for highway riding) to 260 miles (for city drives). While that’s certainly impressive (for comparison, Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire touts just 146 miles of city range), the charging time is still on slower than gas fill-ups: up to 80% charge from empty in 40 minutes with a DC fast-charging station.


https://www.energicamotor.com/us/models/energica-experia/
 
At 0:15... is that a fingerprint iggy switch?

I want one...
 
Jim said:
At 0:15... is that a fingerprint iggy switch?

I want one...
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Ha! I didn’t notice that , the first time. That’s pretty cool. I also can’t tell if the bike really sounds like that or not, they had a lot of sound track going in the background. It had a turbine whine sound.
 

Electric Fiat 500 Drives At Highway Speeds Without Running Down The Battery Thanks to Inductive Charging​

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Jim said:
That's weird.... the address won't work as a link.
Here's the address:

https://www-carscoops-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.carscoops.com/2022/06/electric-fiat-500-drives-at-highway-speeds-without-running-down-the-battery-thanks-to-inductive-charging/amp/?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM=#amp_tf=From %1$s&aoh=16552204049550&csi=0&referrer=https://www.google.com&ampshare=https://www.carscoops.com/2022/06/electric-fiat-500-drives-at-highway-speeds-without-running-down-the-battery-thanks-to-inductive-charging/
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That technology could work as charging stations but never for open road motoring. I have experience with it. We used it to power transfer cars. It's 2 cables buried 1/2 to 1 inch underground circulating DC. Collectors in the vehicle convert the magnetic field to DC. Lay a piece of metal across the cables and it will get extremely hot, left their long enough and the cables will burn up. Think induction bearing heater. Also very inefficient.
The collectors in our cars put out 500VDC. Scared the crap out of me whenever I had to troubleshoot them. High voltage DC is not forgiving. Working on 480 or 600 VAC never bothered me. AC will throw you backwards, DC grabs ahold and doesn't let go.
 
You say "..... but never for open road motoring" but that's exactly what they are doing, albeit on a test track, but highway speeds none the less. So yeah, it appears to be doable.
As for the safety of such a system, guess we'll need to wait and see if it's feasible and safe. Technology has come a long way from the early days of inductive power transfer. It looks to me like they've sunk millions into this.... hard to believe they'd sink that much into a fools errand.
 
Jim said:
You say "..... but never for open road motoring" but that's exactly what they are doing, albeit on a test track, but highway speeds none the less. So yeah, it appears to be doable.
As for the safety of such a system, guess we'll need to wait and see if it's feasible and safe. Technology has come a long way from the early days of inductive power transfer. It looks to me like they've sunk millions into this.... hard to believe they'd sink that much into a fools errand.
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As you said a test track, controlled environment. Real world is a lot different.
Have you any experience with induction systems of that size and power?
They may have got what they wanted "headlines".
In the northern states a frost heave will break the cables plus how will they be able to do road repair?
The technology works no doubt just a lot of little and big problems with it.
 
@Jim I totally agree with you that electric power is the future for all modes of transportation. Just a lot of things need worked out.
How many times in your lifetime have you heard a "new" cancer drug was in the pipeline that was going to be a wonder cure? We have made great advances in the cancer front but not a full cure. EV's will be the same as time goes on they will get better and better.
Myself I'm more worried about how we will produce all the electricity needed for the EVs that are coming.
 
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