k0ua
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I wonder how many months that would take.
Snow Forecast For Virginia
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k0ua
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According to some stats I just read, an Compact car uses up to .16 gallons per hour idling. With a 4 to 5 liter car will use twice that. If you have a small car with a lets say 12 gallon tank and it was about full when you started, you could idle for about 75 hours. With a larger car with say a 20 gallon tank you might be able to idle for nearly 60 hours. BUT it would be foolish to idle the entire time. A better strategy would be to idle for no more than 15 minutes with the heater on full blast and then shut it off for at least 15 minutes before restarting. Don't let the car get too cold or it will be hard to heat up again. This should about double your survival time with what ever fuel you have onboard.
If you have electric car the protocol is simple, you are going to freeze to death in a few hours. You best be making friends with someone with a an ICE engine and full tank to share their car. You might be able to convince them that your body heat could be a help.
Don't run the battery down trying to heat the car, you are going to need the reserve battery power to drive the thing off if and when the road is clear. Otherwise you are going to be in for a big tow bill.
If you have electric car the protocol is simple, you are going to freeze to death in a few hours. You best be making friends with someone with a an ICE engine and full tank to share their car. You might be able to convince them that your body heat could be a help.
Don't run the battery down trying to heat the car, you are going to need the reserve battery power to drive the thing off if and when the road is clear. Otherwise you are going to be in for a big tow bill.CADplans
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As far as idling,, an ABHRAMS TANK consumes 10 gallons per hour, idling,,
It probably consumed half of its fuel getting in trouble,, so there will be only 250 gallons left.
It either can idle for 25 hours,, or crush everything in its way, and go on about its business,,
It probably consumed half of its fuel getting in trouble,, so there will be only 250 gallons left.
It either can idle for 25 hours,, or crush everything in its way, and go on about its business,,
k0ua
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Some reports on the Tesla are that the cabin heater can use up to 20% of its battery power per HOUR!. That sounds bad. BUT there are some other strategies you can do. One is to make sure the heater is on recirculate. This is just common sense, AND you can do the same strategy as an ICE car of running the heater only 1/2 of the time to extend your heat time. One other idea is to NOT run the cabin heat at all, but only use the seat heaters to keep warm. They use much less power than heating up the whole cabin. One downside is that the car itself will try to keep its own batteries warm with its battery heaters if the temp is really cold. There is not much you can do about that.
Bottom line is you are probably better off to being stranded in the Internal Combustion Engine car than the electric car. But you can survive for some time in the Electric car if you use your head. Of course keeping a couple of blankets in either type is a good idea. Not to mention toilet paper, some extra water and a few snack bars could go a long way to making your life more comfortable. Using snow for toilet paper does not sound like much fun to me.
Bottom line is you are probably better off to being stranded in the Internal Combustion Engine car than the electric car. But you can survive for some time in the Electric car if you use your head. Of course keeping a couple of blankets in either type is a good idea. Not to mention toilet paper, some extra water and a few snack bars could go a long way to making your life more comfortable. Using snow for toilet paper does not sound like much fun to me.
TMGT
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riptides
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Sounds like a market opportunity for body panels to collect energy for electrics. And I thinks some are already looking at that.
Not sure what happens at night. LOL.
Not sure what happens at night. LOL.
Yeah that one is on me! We lost power Tuesday morning along with internet and cell service. The stand by generator kicked on and ran for about 22 hours and then died due to an overspeed condition. So, no water or lights, but the wood stove kept the house at a reasonable temp, I fetched water from the pool to flush the toilets, and a neighbor brought a generator over for a couple of hours to keep the freezers cold. We still do not have power, but at least we got cell service back. All in all a significant inconvenience, but not a tragedy.
We got over 13 inches of wet heavy snow in about 6 hours time. My first push on the road was tough even though we only had about 5 inches at that point, but I got through and after that it was easy to keep up. Our road is just under a mile long and we had more than 30 trees down and blocking or partially blocking it, Fortunately the neighbors came out in force to clear them.
When it comes to snow Virginia's state motto is "God put it there and he will take it away." For the first 24 hours the state roads leading to our subdivision were totally unplowed or treated. After that there was one lane and it was rough as a cob from folks driving on it before it was plowed.
buckeyefarmer
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The trick to getting roads cleared in a big snow is for people to stay off the roads. Once they’re full of cars, you can’t plow. And you surely can’t plow everywhere at once.
coldsteelva
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I wonder if the roads are as bad as they say...let's load up and head on out there to check.