Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[lman]

That’s the great thing about EVs - when you’re stuck in traffic it uses no battery. Whether it takes you an hour to go 50 miles or it takes you two days, it’s all pretty much the same.

That would be the same with a car using auto-start. It uses no fuel when the car is stopped.

 

[3930dave]

That would be the same with a car using auto-start. It uses no fuel when the car is stopped.

Perhaps if today's screen-locked driver is dead-stuck in traffic long enough, they could hop on their $2k cell phone, and cruise the Internet long enough to find an App to Download.

Said App could monitor the cell-phones GPS, and then signal the driver to turn-off the vehicle, when not moving for more than a few minutes....

I should know better, than to joke about ____ like this......

Rgds, D.

 

[PuffyC]

Ever deal with multi-hour ice-storms ?

That’s all you see in North Texas and SE Oklahoma. What you don’t get much of is snow. I’ll take a snow storm any day over ice.

 

[lman]

Perhaps if today's screen-locked driver is dead-stuck in traffic long enough, they could hop on their $2k cell phone, and cruise the Internet long enough to find an App to Download.

Said App could monitor the cell-phones GPS, and then signal the driver to turn-off the vehicle, when not moving for more than a few minutes....

I should know better, than to joke about ____ like this......

Rgds, D.

You apparently aren't familiar with newer vehicles that automatically shut the engine off when you release the accelerator pedal. No app is necessary. My hybrid does that.

 

[PuffyC]

That would be the same with a car using auto-start. It uses no fuel when the car is stopped.

Except the AC and heater wouldn’t work which they would in an EV. I turn my auto start/stop off in the summer because it’ll be 95 degrees and you get to a light and everything turns off. In the south you can never not have AC if you want to be remotely comfortable - it runs 100% of the time in summer - although in an emergency situation you can make do without it.

 

[lman]

Except the AC and heater wouldn’t work which they would in an EV. I turn my auto start/stop off in the summer because it’ll be 95 degrees and you get to a light and everything turns off. In the south you can never not have AC if you want to be remotely comfortable - it runs 100% of the time in summer - although in an emergency situation you can make do without it.

So it sounds like the EV would use more energy in a traffic jam.

 

[txdon]

What is the brand of your EV that does that?

E-Z-GO

 

[PuffyC]

So it sounds like the EV would use more energy in a traffic jam.

Don’t really see how you came to that conclusion but that’s OK.

 

[cqaigy2]

Has anyone seen a mandatory hurricane evacuation from a major population center along the Gulf coast? Houston was ordered to evacuate, because of my job I was considered essential and stayed. This was after Katrina and people thought Houston would be underwater. My boss evacuated and it took 7 hours to go 50 miles he was just outside Houston city limits when he realized he was running low on fuel in his ICE vehicle and traffic was still bareley moving so he made a major decision to turn around and head back home toward the hurricane. He got home in 30 minutes and had a drink and waited out the storm. Just think if the majority of those vehicles were EV, where would the hundreds of thousands be able to charge up all about the same distance from the city?

Just think what would have happened if they were ICE vehicles and sat there idling there engines, not moving. They would have had to turn around and go back into the city, and hope they could get to a gas station to fill back up. Or, like one would assume most people would understand about their EV is they would be full charged at that house, and when sitting in traffic, using very little energy. I sat in a Nero EV, with the owner in the middle of summer, with the AC going and watched the mile to go meter, and it sat at 120 mile the whole time we were talking about the vehicle. Twenty minutes later, she let me drive it, it still said 120 miles. It was obviously using power with the AC on, but not very much.

 

[3930dave]

That’s all you see in North Texas and SE Oklahoma. What you don’t get much of is snow. I’ll take a snow storm any day over ice.

At a glance, you may be far enough "north" that we are talking about the same thing - falling rain that instantly freezes on everything.

I had to go to Houston on business one Winter.... Learned that locally, "ice-storm" just meant that it had gotten cold enough for an occasional puddle to freeze over.

In heavy-traffic areas just 1/2" of snow can be worse than some ice-storms. All but the worst drivers will clue in to ice building up on a windshield, but heavy traffic can glaze-pack 1/2" of snow @ certain temperatures into basically ice.

Atlanta snow made the News up here, recent Winters. Whether it's the occasional major blizzard we get, or relatively light snow you just aren't prepared for, it makes for some extra long drives...

Back to the heat issue, next, as it relates to a later post too...

Rgds, D.