Could someone make an electric vehicle that never has to plug into an outlet?

[Wattser93 10+ year member]

I like the Lupo. But thats also because I don't like american cars...or suv's. I had to borrow a suburban for the last 8 weeks. I hated every mile I had to drive it. I am glad I am back in my jetta.
I like reading through the comments being made on the electic/hybrid vehicle. I find the ideas/opinions being made really interesting.

VWs are for chicks. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

There's more to life than gas milage. I'd take a CTS-V with it's 18mpg highway before I'd take a crappy european econobox getting 50mpg. I currently get 12.7mpg. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

i'd rather be in my 78 malibu than a 2012 anyfukinthang

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

VWs are for chicks. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif
There's more to life than gas milage. I'd take a CTS-V with it's 18mpg highway before I'd take a crappy european econobox getting 50mpg. I currently get 12.7mpg. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

its all opinion. Thats why there are so many car companies.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

If AGM cells come down in price, I'd consider building an EV conversion of something like a Porsche 944 or 928. Would be a perfect commuting vehicle if I can get 60 miles of range out of a charge.

Just not a fan of replacing that battery pack every few years at the current price, though...

 

[Scratchy 10+ year member]

Got to drive a Tesla a few years ago on a closed course mountain pass.

Ridiculously fun, 0-60 in ~ 7 on a 10 uphill grade.

Top speed at 120.

Look at the new Fisker as well, incredible for a 2cnd year rollout.

If I had a wind turbine and one of these, I could walk the smug walk.

And drive fast, too

Supposedly lifetime battery replacement on some newer models as well.

 

[skylineTT 10+ year member]

efficient brushless motors + lithium polymer batteries + regenerative braking + solar panels = perhaps?

Not even close my friend. Not being rude at all. Just with the certain parasitic losses of energy listed in this thread already (mostly due to friction), a lot of energy that is used to move any sort of mass will be released to the environment due to heat loss. friction causes heat loss. this is why alternators take more energy to turn than they output. brushless motors are efficient but as long as one part of the system is less than 100% efficient, it can't be done.

 

[Scratchy 10+ year member]

The only thing perpetual about perpetual motion is the search for it.

 

[skylineTT 10+ year member]

I believe that nuclear is the best alternative so far. With the amount of energy we can harness through different levels of decay, we get a tremendous amount of energy with barely any radioactive waste anymore. Nuclear submarines can last 30 years on one "fill-up" with the reactors we have now. the amount of energy from a small amount of uranium (I believe it is uranium although i am not 100%sure), something around the ballpark of a few pounds, can release as much usable energy as millions of tons of coal that is burnt.

 

[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

Nerds.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I believe that nuclear is the best alternative so far. With the amount of energy we can harness through different levels of decay, we get a tremendous amount of energy with barely any radioactive waste anymore.

Military reactors for propulsion still create waste. It's just not as noticeable because it's not a 2-year refueling cycle like a commercial power reactor.

Waste will continue to be a problem unless we get a political consensus to do what France does and reprocess, or build reactors that use spent assemblies as fuel.

 

[jockhater2 10+ year member]

Military reactors for propulsion still create waste. It's just not as noticeable because it's not a 2-year refueling cycle like a commercial power reactor.
Waste will continue to be a problem unless we get a political consensus to do what France does and reprocess, or build reactors that use spent assemblies as fuel.

France re-uses there spent fuel rods?

 

[skylineTT 10+ year member]

Military reactors for propulsion still create waste. It's just not as noticeable because it's not a 2-year refueling cycle like a commercial power reactor.
Waste will continue to be a problem unless we get a political consensus to do what France does and reprocess, or build reactors that use spent assemblies as fuel.

Yeah the tech has been out, I thought we were utilizing it already though. meh

 

[angelinwilliams]

Hi,

Electric vehicles of such sort can be built only with sufficient renewable energy resources. so we have to maintain renewable resources effectively to bring up new ideas in technologies.

 

[murph 10+ year member]

Brave noob above ^

he gown

 

[groundpound4200 5,000+ posts]

Idiots.

FTFY

Do you guys think that you are really the only people to every sit down and ponder this? CA.com is not going to solve the world's energy issues //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif