[AR] Re: This guy again.

  • From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 00:49:53 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 31 Jul 2021, roxanna Mason wrote:

Electric can't compete with chemical energy, power density of batteries has to increase by an order of magnitude which will require a fundamental breakthrough in battery or supercapacitor technology. I just can't imagine an eclectic bulldozer.

An electric heavy excavator has already been done, semi-experimentally:
<https://electrek.co/2019/01/29/caterpillar-electric-excavator-giant-battery-pack/>. Whether it'll catch on, well, wait and see.

Henry

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