I’m for more people simply driving EVs. The efficiency will come when markets
strengthen from people converting. Not providing a truck like the Lightening
will prevent truck lovers from converting. Not to mention the hauling industry
converting semis. The conversion must be holistic, i.e we transform the
transportation industry to electric while transforming the power generation and
grid system, and the charging infrastructure. Better battery technologies,
like radioactive diamond (which needs no electricity), sulfur, graphene, etc.
will improve the emerging EV industry. The next 5-10 years will see amazing
achievements in battery technologies that completely integrate with our homes,
vehicles( Including recreational) and other power needs. The main thing is to
get people to actually buy and drive EVs while working to eliminate fossil
fuels from generating the electricity.
Chet
On May 13, 2022, at 3:51 PM, Brady Watson <brady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do y'all see any issues with swapping out one massive energy consuming
vehicle for another? I completely understand the EV is a net positive with
zero emissions and we need to electrify transportation, but this continues
our uniquely American problem of massive inefficient vehicles (even if this
one doesn't happen to burn gas). We should be aiming for LESS energy use, not
more, as we electrify everything. These massive and heavy EVs will require
more power on the grid, and for most of the country, that's going to be
mostly fossil fueled, at least in the near term. What I'd like to see is more
smaller, efficient EVs rather than all these big heavy ones that still
require a ton of energy to operate. After all, the cleanest electron is the
one you don't have to generate at all...
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:52 PM Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
<markus.iturriaga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You may also want to check out JerryRigEverything's video on the Lightning.
He's been converting a military Humvee to electric (great video series) and
currently drives a Rivian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_-xcaI0yYk
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:15 AM Jack Goodwin <rjgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
https://electrek.co/2022/05/11/ford-f-150-lightning-big/
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