Al Gore

[MoCarp]

 

[MoCarp]

And the sound of that hemi v8 is well... awesome, the car handles great and is comfortable on a trip but hey haters gonna hate

[Terrierman]

26 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

I know less than nothing about electric cars, but always wondered why you couldn't have what I would call gas over electric, basically a hybrid.  If charge drops too low either have it start automatically or get out and pull start a small Honda type generator, and charge it up.  Maybe I have just described 15 models already in production, I simply don't know.

You just described every hybrid on the road today.  You are a genius!

 

[Terrierman]

I want to give my sincere thanks to the software developers of this site for the ignore function.  No .  No .  No .  Just pure .

[Flysmallie]

Lots of DIY info on converting an old outboard to electric. I need to find an old blown one and convert it for fun. 

[tjm]

Looks like all the environmentalist anglers would be using wind power. 

[Devan S.]

2 hours ago, MoCarp said:

 

I call BS...here is a stripped  down Tesla losing to a hellcat/demon only advantage it has is off the line and that’s with a full charge, at from 90 to 100 up testa fades quick, 

 

Bone stock sure. The motor windings in the Tesla are designed for maximum efficiency at a cruising speed of roughly 45 mph to increase overall battery life. As you drive those to faster speeds of 90 to 100 mph you begin saturating the rotor/stator iron to the point that bumping frequency or current does nothing for you. Change the windings/rotor/number of poles so your not trying to optimize for 45-55 mph and closer to that 80-90 mph and it will still absolutely destroy those cars off the line and at the higher speed. 

The Tesla wasn't designed to be a street legal race car. Its quick off the line as a simple matter of physics and using electric motors. To compare it against cars that may be bone stock but were clearly designed to be high output street cars is foolish but that fact of the matter is you line it up and it holds its own. 

The only reason combustion engines achieve the speed they do is due to a multi-speed transmission that acts to transmit power from a very narrow band. The electric motor doesn't need that. Its effective torque can be had at zero RPM all the way to the point that you saturate the rotor/stator. Couple the electric motor to a multi-speed transmission and once again it wouldn't be close (although you would probably be shelling transmissions left and right).
 

[MOPanfisher]

2 hours ago, Terrierman said:

You just described every hybrid on the road today.  You are a genius!

 

Like I said I know nothing of electric vehicles, and don't plan to own one for a while.  Honestly if the prices weren't so high the vast majority of what I do could be covered by a electric pickup. Heck if it had a solar panel on it, it could charge up while I fish.

[Deadstream]

4 hours ago, MoCarp said:

sound of that hemi v8 is well... awesome, the car handles great and is comfortable on a trip

I call BS.  Doubt you have ever seen one much less crawled in one.   

[Al Agnew]

If you aren't an arrested development adult or a teenager, why do you care how fast you can go from point A to point B?  You're only going to get speeding tickets.  I've owned two Priuses (Priui?).  I've never felt underpowered in them.  They'll cruise at 80 MPH when I'm driving the interstate in Montana and still give you 50 mpg, they'll pass the guy going 75 mph with no problem whatsoever, and they are reasonably comfortable to drive and ride in (except that my wife complains that because it's so long between fill-ups that we have to make ourselves stop so she can pee even when we don't have to get gas).  If I lived in the city, I'd for sure be interested in a plug-in hybrid or an all-electric vehicle.