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Go look at the Chevy Bolt if you want to look at one. That is a pretty well vetted setup for city use. I dont know if your area will have any. Boise is the only dealer that has them near you. Hybrid setups are dumb and put forth for tree huggers haha.

every one of the ones I listed is purely electric and for sale in the USA

@KATOOMI agree, thats why I said within the next decade I think we will be ready. It takes a lot of failures to get things worked out. however the VW peak car blowing the peak record out of the water is impressive. 16 seconds faster than the previous record. @mopar1973man Tesla s has 300 + mile range Base Tesla 3 has a 220 mile range Mitsibish i-meiv has a 100 mile range Kia soul has a 111 mile range BMW i3 has a 114 mile range Hyundai Ioniq has a 124 mile range ford focus 115 mile chevy bolt 237 mile range Currently allows for 30 minute DC fast charge of 90 miles. golf e range 125 miles nissain leaf 125 mile range For %90 of the population that is more than they drive daily. again not a 1 size fits all, not claiming it is. but 11 mile range is not the norm for a pure electric. The prius is a gas / electric so they are not worried about pure EV range. Applies to oranges.

I promise Electric is fun

if you want 400-500 hp you need much bigger injectors than rv275's 7 x .010s are the min that will get you to 400 hp without wiretap. 7 x .011's will get you more and 7 x .012's willg et you to 500. There is no reason any of those setups will run bad or hot, assuming you choose the correct turbo. If you want more than 350 hp the hx35 is out of air.

Yep they don't but their load is very static. You need batteries in a truck because load is always changing and the generator couldn't keep up all the time. Volvo is interoducing electric trash trucks right now. It is going to save a ton of money over paying for fuel. Internal combustion is going to loose. I read some more articles on the peak car that stomped the record this year. Apparently they went up slow because the road was wet, they said they could have shaved 30 seconds off the run.

Battery density wasnt high enough to give enough reserve without increasing weight beyond the point of it.

That would be pretty cool, however there is some pretty cool technology that looks like it might solve the long charge time issue. We are alreadying seeing 30 min %80 charge times and it is only going to get better. I just droll at the thought of regen brakes while towing. I could likely get a full charge coming down i70 into denver lol I read it is ~%75 efficent in the current technologies. Brake pad life would be extended by 5x.

Hopefully I move out of F'd status and into G status soon lol..

Finally out of D status and F status today.

if the ats controller needs the input ( which it looks like it does) then snipping wont work.

Cut the orange and black wire in the pcm loom above where the ats taps the wire

Agree on all points, my only point was when it comes to the cost per gallon vs mpg of the focus ( which is only to and from work use) vs the cost per kwh and range per charge the electric car is significantly better during day to day use. The electric car would not fill the role of the 4th gen that we ordered. I am not saying it would. I am not going to run out and buy a electric car, because the upfront cost vs the cheap ford focus does not make sense. When the ford finally dies and I am forced to replace it I will be looking for a purely electric car to take it's place.

personally I do not care about the "Environmentalism" side of it. I care about how it will operate on the road. Just looking at how an electric motor works it is clear to see, IF battery density increases and charge times decrease, that a electric truck would tow circles around the diesel version. No gears, broad rpm band, beautiful torque at idle, regen braking, far better efficency ratio due to heat loss, better output per fuel energy density. I did the math on a elecrtic car to go to and from work. It would cost me ~1/6 what it does with by ford focus to drive to and from work if I charge at my house. as for solar roof, it would not be something everyone just jumps to out of the blue. If the roof needs replacing then you pony up the %50 difference and do it. Point being is it just makes sense to generate power on the roofs of houses.

Li-Ion is a very unfriendly battery technology. Li-Ion will not be the future of electric auto's energry density is to low and issues with combusting makes a new version of the ford pinto.

No different than a beer shop and a gas station. Lol

Unlike Coal power it does not make sense to do large solar arrays in my mind, Telsa is on the right track with their solar singels to be mounted on the roof of houses. If every house had a small array of panels we would be set. Then put into place a high density energy storage setup and there you go.

Solar starts to make sense when you have a car to charge. Give me a hd truck with 500 mile range unloaded and sub 30 minute charge stations and I will throw the keys to the 4th gen to a bum on the corner lol.

I found a truck bed camper to be great in theory bad in practice. It was a pita to load unless the ground was %100 flat, still scary. Truck drove pretty bad in the passes You really can't find a good place for wood etc as the truck bed is full Climbing up into the bed got old. There are fixes for most of those, but we bought a horse trailer and are updating the living quarters

Again battery density is holding things up. Battery tech is catching up. Various high voltage charge solutions are in testing to give that 300 mile range in 15-30 minutes. Not a perfect solution yet, but it is coming.

Dunno if anyone else has been watching the trends as of late with the technology going into cars and trucks, but I find it very interesting. I myself am nearly %100 positive that we will see a over take of gas/diesel in the next 10 years by Electric. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180702005572/en/Cummins-Announces-Acquisition-Electric-Hybrid-Powertrain-Provider Cummins is moving a large section of their operations to it. VW built a Electric Peak car that stomped the old records https://mashable.com/2018/06/25/volkswagen-pikes-peak-car/#FGXNO2fxQaqw %25 of the power it took to go up the hill was generated by the brakes going up the pass. Demon vs Tesla P100D Dyno No gears, no turbo lag and %100 torque at idle. In wheel motor 100 hp each 700+ ft/lb %85 efficency of energy recoup during braking. https://www.nanalyze.com/2014/03/proteans-unique-100hp-in-wheel-electric-motor/ They are a complete package in 1, feed it power and a command for how much output and that's it. the only thing we are lacking at this point is a way to store the energy with a high enough energy density to replace fossil fuels. Multiple recharge techonologies have proven 30 minute %80 charge possiblity. I did take note of BP buying Londons largest electric vehicle charging firm Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/energy-giant-bp-bets-on-electric-car-boom-10481430 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/energy-giant-bp-bets-on-electric-car-boom-10481430 Pretty cool stuff.

Save yourself the hassle and get the right engine.

Well Ship date is tomorrow and I am still at D1 status, ugh. FCA says it is getting "built this week" but no more info beyond that.

the hx35 is good to ~35 psi before it is out of it's map

Lockup switch to control the locked state of the tc