Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[Grumpycat]

There is/was a kook in France promoting compressed air powered automobiles. Totally ignores the huge energy loss of compressing air (which gets hot) then expanding (gets cold). All that "hot air" is lost energy. Plus compressed gasses are very dangerous especially at the pressures necessary to extract useful work.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I have an old DEMAG book of the 60s and it shows compressed air run locomotives for mines. Just one BIG air Pig on steel wheels!

 

[i7win7]

I have an old DEMAG book of the 60s and it shows compressed air run locomotives for mines. Just one BIG air Pig on steel wheels!

Dust in mines can be very explosive, extra fresh always a good thing below ground.

 

[/pine]

Detroit Three have a new competitor in the electric pickup war it's called Endurance

Lordstown Motors' all-electric Endurance will intensify the truck war

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Detroit Three have a new competitor in the electric pickup war it's called Endurance

Lordstown Motors' all-electric Endurance will intensify the truck war

That sounds interesting.

 

[/pine]

Electric truck start-up Nikola takes on car giants - BBC News

Watch out, Tesla. Nikola is the hot new electric truck stock - CNN

 

[Industrial Toys]

Has Musk left California yet?

 

[cqaigy2]

8 UPCOMING ELECTRIC TRUCKS 2020

 

[/pine]

There has not been any real breakthroughs in battery technology in over 18 months...what makes the Nikola a breed apart from battery vehicles is their hydrogen fuel cell vehicles...

this and other non battery vehicles are the future of electric vehicles...battery powered vehicles (with current (NPI) battery technology) are just a flash in the pan and have no real future...

 

[cqaigy2]

A Million-Mile Battery From China Could Power Your Electric Car