28 Jun 2023 11:05 am
I used to think hybrids would be the next automotive tech and here’s why, I was wrong.ROG62 » 28 Jun 2023, 10:50 am » wrote: ↑ will we want to survive?
I'm not sold...I think hybrids are the way to go...
My father was born in 1919 and my grandfather owned a 20 horsepower Ford Model T.
It had basically the same tech as my Suburban. A four cycle Otto engine, four wheels, a transmission and a drive shaft.
A hybrid car, is required to have a four cycle gas motor transmission and driveshaft that will drive it 80 miles an hour uphill and down, all day long, and it has to climb Pike’s Peak and work in Nome Alaska and Key West Florida, or nobody will ever buy one.
Eliminate that gas engine, transmission, and drive train and the car is vastly cheaper to manufacture.
Electric cars are elegantly enginnered.
Take a hundred years of chassis and body development and build the car itself.
Add an electric motor to an axle.
Place a battery with at least 200 miles of range.
The key was, improvements in batteries and a 90% cost reduction in batteries.
The electric is as inevitable as the automatic transmission was.