this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
14 points (69.4% liked)

Electric Vehicles

3217 readers
81 users here now

A community for the sharing of links, news, and discussion related to Electric Vehicles.

Rules

  1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
  2. Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No self-promotion
  4. No irrelevant content. All posts must be relevant and related to plug-in electric vehicles — BEVs or PHEVs.
  5. No trolling
  6. Policy, not politics. Submissions and comments about effective policymaking are allowed and encouraged in the community, however conversations and submissions about parties, politicians, and those devolving into general tribalism will be removed.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Sunshine@lemmy.ca
14
A New Wave of Electric Vehicles Are Ready to Charge at 70 MPH (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 3 months ago by Beaver@lemmy.ca to c/evs@lemmy.world
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Make no mistake, a miniature, portable power plant is nowhere near as efficient as a utility version. An industrial power plant burns less than a tenth of a gallon of natural gas to generate a kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity. Once the battery goes dry on the nascent Ramcharger, the burly truck will slurp 27 gallons of gas to travel an additional 545 miles, which works out to a relatively anemic 20 miles of range per gallon of gas.

It's really pathetic that the journalist didn't put these into directly comparable terms.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm just wondering if it is truly less efficient than a traditional plug-in hybrid system. The example they use is a huge truck which will be inefficient no matter what.

Also, does it really matter for someone who commutes short distances daily and will maybe need to use gas for long range once a year?

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

It should be comparable in efficiency to Honda's hybrids, which operate on a similar principle where the gas motor mostly just acts as a generator. They're more efficient than a pure gas vehicle, but are the least efficient hybrids on the market by a pretty wide margin