Electric cars don't make any more sense than Biden's presidency.
What do you mean by "sense"? They're far less cost per mile to operate than gas cars. Maybe you mean something else?
I wouldn't actually mind a car that ran on electricity, but was powered by a diesel generator inside the car. Not like hybrids, where you switch to the engine, but a more efficient mains generator.
This is a good idea, I like it. A lot of race cars are going to electric in 2022, so I have decided not to follow them anymore (FWIW I followed the real racing that sweeds and norwegians domainated, sprinkled with some germans and brits). I can see it coming, all these electric cars whizzing around the track for 40 mins to return to the pits and get charged back up by diesel generators. I was at a race in December and there were already diesel generators everywhere to power the paddocks for the crews, the cameras, and the announcers booths, food vendors etc. This electric push is just all part of the clown world. How normies can't see through it makes me think of the original matrix movie... they either cant see through it or don't want to, or are part of the system to enforce the blindness.
Little known fact: Charging and running an EV from a Diesel genny, the bigger the better, is still more efficient than burning said fuel in an ICE car.
The genny can always run at it's most effiecient while the car cannot, due to its changing load profile and gets worse for short drives. Might be different for a long haul 40 ton truck.
You lose energy when charging (converting into stored energy). It would be more efficient to use a hybrid then a all electric.
Don't think so. Watched a good video on the subject a while ago, but it's in German. Looked it up: https://youtu.be/5V7DvFFBLJg
Electric cars are more energy efficient by a factor of 2.5 to 5.9. Even today's best diesel engines only manage overall efficiencies of around 15%. The rest is lost as heat. An electric car charged with electricity from a remote oil-fired power plant still achieves an efficiency of 35%. This takes into account power plant efficiency, power transmission and battery charging losses. Even today's best combustion engines cannot keep up. Their potential has been exhausted for years. The exhaust gas balance of the diesel car is also significantly worse than that of a modern oil-fired power plant.
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There are 2 types hybrids. This one i believe is what is known as a parallel design much like diesel electric trains. The train has a highly efficient diesel generator that runs electricity to the wheels. Im not aure why it didnt catch on for vehicles but it may have something to do about the engine having to be running so the car can move.
Most hybrids are exactly what you proposed
The best part is that car is like the Volt - there's a small engine to charge the battery.
As an engineer i cannot argue with hybrid technology. It can be practical if you think about it. But just electric only cars. I think are very impractical in some situations.
Hybridization of larger vehicles is more practical. The way it was introduced was by squeezing another 5 mpg out of a car that was designed to get 40 mpg. We'd get better results from making larger vehicles (SUVs, and trucks) hybrids because they have worse mileage than the car.
The REX range extender was (is?) an optional accessory. Still idiotic.
Was it an option? I thought it was default.
In Germany it was. Not sure about other parts of the world. Test drove one without the thing in circa 2017. It was in a compartment under the trunk. Even if you didn't order the REX, you didn't get more trunk space, just an inaccessible empty compartment. That's what the dealer told me back then.
That's pretty much how Diesel train locomotives work. The Diesel engine is just generating power for the electric traction motors than turn the wheels.
They had to get someone with a working car to drive that generator out to them too
electric cars are hypocritical by nature, as most of the energy they run on comes from coal plants. its just a virtue signal, with no substance.
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