I’ve yet to see a situation even in AZ where soar power makes

Feb 26, 2020
9:28:16am

kotacoug All-American

Financial sense. Still far too expensive compared to electricity rates. Even with credits I don’t think it’s viable. If someone can show me the sound finances behind it I’m all ears because I’d really want it to work out.

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POLL: Future of electric cars

IntelCougar

2/26/20 9:05am

Should be the norm in large cities, but not practical

Mister P

2/26/20 9:06am

That's too much common sense.

IBe_WhyYou

2/26/20 9:07am

Lots of them are now coming out with 300-400 range in a charge

Schultz is back

2/27/20 6:34pm

Not sure - but I really hope they get it figured out.

crack

2/26/20 9:09am

The real question is how long it takes to essentially eliminate ICE.

Yohy

2/26/20 9:11am

Electric or something else will. With how far we have come, there is no reason

Baron

2/26/20 9:16am

At first I thought you meant immigration ICE.

Florwood

2/26/20 9:30am

A very in the know electrical engineer told that

BYURider

2/26/20 9:14am

Then it's a good thing that scenario isn't anywhere close to plausible

CommodoreCoug

2/26/20 9:15am

My neighbor (in AZ) has a bunch of solar panels on his house. My understanding

crack

2/26/20 9:17am

I’ve yet to see a situation even in AZ where soar power makes

kotacoug

2/26/20 9:28am

My neighbor is a smart guy. So, he had a bunch of people come over and explain

crack

2/26/20 9:33am

It's not just the US...

ChiefBeef

2/26/20 10:56am

The 2 things that are still problematic for all cars being electric (outside of

cougarfan84

2/26/20 9:20am

We’ll be burning a whole lot of coal to get those ‘electric’ cars going.

kotacoug

2/26/20 9:29am

Coal fired generation is rapidly being replaced by natural gas fired generation.

CanuckUte

2/26/20 9:56am

Luckily you can burn it away from the air we breathe in Utah's wasatch front

inertiaman

2/26/20 9:59am

There is still some benefit due to the relative efficiencies of utility scale

Defenestrator

2/26/20 11:25am

Yep. Just can’t imagine stopping for 30 minutes to an hour to

The Dude Abides

2/26/20 9:30am

Reason to worry if you had child in diesel mechanics school?

bluelands

2/26/20 9:32am

Electric cars will be surpassed by a better technology.

ClackamasCoug

2/26/20 9:35am

What technology do you see surpassing them? Fuel cells? Something different?

Defenestrator

2/26/20 11:23am

I'll describe below.

ClackamasCoug

2/28/20 1:10am

Thanks for your reply. Here is where I am not understanding the vision:

Defenestrator

2/28/20 7:59am

No - only the tail gate has an internal pressure of 4 psi.

ClackamasCoug

2/28/20 9:14am

Ok, so is this more or less the idea:

Defenestrator

2/28/20 12:44pm

Here are four drawings to exemplify. Sorry for the photo bucket logos.

ClackamasCoug

2/28/20 1:36pm

So if I understand correctly, the second image is showing the same kind of thing

Defenestrator

2/28/20 1:56pm

Which is the same thing as airplane lift - except horizontal.

ClackamasCoug

2/28/20 5:27pm

Thanks. Now let's consider the work required to decrease the pressure in front

Defenestrator

2/28/20 5:58pm

What's a distortion field? I don't remember that from my physics class at BYU?

joelvandyne

2/28/20 8:12am

The distortion field "you make" blocking a pressure reaction.

ClackamasCoug

2/28/20 9:32am

I wasn't trying to say that about the class I took. I just don't remember ever

joelvandyne

2/28/20 9:42am

Thus the vacuum and distortion are created at the same time from fuel.

ClackamasCoug

2/28/20 1:30pm

I would absolutely never want one. I take long road trips and it’s just not

ByuImaginesDragons

2/27/20 3:05am

the range is getting better all the time. Maybe 5 yrs from now much longer

IntelCougar

2/27/20 1:48pm

But you might still have to take forever to charge it, and what if you’re going

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