Mine does. I frequently add a mile or two going down this long hill on my
commute.
From: Steve Jones
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2019 11:21 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cybertruck
Out of curiosity, when going downhill or coasting, can these motors act as an
alternator and charge the batteries?
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 10:18 AM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:
4mpg would still be 16 miles, not 8
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 10:01 AM Robert Andrews <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote:
I so beg to differ!!! You take a _very_ high performance Police engine
and put in the 4 gallons of gas to get a normal 50 mile range and then
go start driving it at max performance and it will go to 4 MPG so fast
your head will spin. I drive a power wagon to get to mountain tops and
it regularly goes from 100 miles range to 30 miles when I go offroad.
The FIRST think I do when I need to do a serious day is make sure it is
FULL. It would be actually easier if I was able to leave it on the
charger every night and know that I started out _every_ day with 500
miles on the estimated range. Knowing that if I went to an offroad
site I would actually only get 200 miles with heavy load ( and would
actually be adding to the range going back downhill. You _aren't_
going to get stuck at the TOP of a hill with an EV..
On 11/30/2019 07:34 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
> There is no instance where simple increase in speed will take you from
> 50 miles range to 8 in a gas vehicle. Even heavy braking and hard
> acceleration. Maybe an 8 mile burn out would consume 50 miles worth of
> fuel, but then that's not a simple increase in speed.
>
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 9:22 AM Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com
> <mailto:darin.ste...@mnwifi.com>> wrote:
>
> Matt,
>
> I don't believe you've ever actually given any attention to your gas
> vehicle while driving it. Look at your mpg during normal driving
> with no load and temps about 65. Then check mpg when it's below 30,
> then again when you have a trailer attached, then again by
> pretending you're in a police chase and accelerating heavily.
>
> Your mpg will change at nearly equal percentage to electric vehicles.
>
> Don't knock it until you try it. I've got 35,000 miles on my Tesla
> so far and made it through a Minnesota winter already and just going
> into our second winter. I've learned a lot but at the end of the
> day, I've never ran out of juice and my car is no less efficient
> than a gas car in the same driving conditions.
>
> You've obviously never heard of all the police chases where their
> gas vehicles run out of gas during a chase either. It happens all
> the time actually, it just doesn't make the news because it's not a
> Tesla. I've talked with state troopers and our sheriff's department
> and they all have stories of cars running out of gas during
> highspeed chases because they're putting way more load on their cars.
>
> So instead of being a hater just because you can, why don't you
> schedule a test drive of a Tesla or other EV's and you can learn
> something. I'll say it again, EV's today work for 99% of drivers in
> the US. In another 2 years with more charging infrastructure,
> they'll work for 100% of drivers all the time and there will be zero
> chance of running out of juice.
>
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 9:06 AM Matt Hoppes
> <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net
> <mailto:mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>> wrote:
>
> That’s a fan boy answer. Yes it is the cars fault. The car said
> 50 miles of range. Which then dropped to 8 because electric
> motors aren’t efficient at high speeds.
>
> On Nov 30, 2019, at 9:47 AM, Darin Steffl
> <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com <mailto:darin.ste...@mnwifi.com>> wrote:
>
>> For that police chase article, the department actually updated
>> and said the car wasn't fully charged the night before from
>> the officer who used it last. He forgot to plug it in so the
>> car never started the shift with a full charge. Not the Teslas
>> fault.
>>
>>
https://electrek.co/2019/09/25/tesla-police-cruiser-runs-out-battery-chase-user-error/
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 8:43 AM Darin Steffl
>> <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com <mailto:darin.ste...@mnwifi.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Matt,
>>
>> You said gas is the same no matter what. That's totally
>> false. Mpg gets worse in every gad vehicle with cold temps
>> and higher loads as well.
>>
>> In the cold, I've always lost 4 to 8 mpg in my truck or
>> Honda accord in the winter. With the snowmobile trailer
>> pulling behind our chevy, we get about 10mpg compared to
>> our 19mpg without it.
>>
>> I'm not sure why you would say gas vehicles are immune to
>> the same things that affect battery range.
>>
>> Anyway, plugging in every night pretty much handles 99% of
>> most peoples daily miles. I can day our work vans
>> definitely don't drive more than the 300 to 500 mile range
>> the truck will have. My model 3 is 310 miles with normal
>> weather and in the winter, about 250 miles which always
>> takes care of my daily drive. Roadtrips have superchargers
>> all over except in north Dakota. It's on their to do list.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 8:22 AM Matt Hoppes
>> <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net
>> <mailto:mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for bringing that up, Chuck.
>>
>> This is exactly what scares me about electric vehicles
>> and an electric
>> truck:
>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/tesla-police-car-chase.html
>>
>> “We think it started the pursuit with about 50 miles
>> left on the charge,
>> but when cars accelerate at speeds such as the
>> situation, going over 110
>> miles per hour, the car charge starts to drain down
>> faster,” Ms. Bosques
>> said.
>>
>> The officer had "50 miles" left on the charge, but as
>> soon as he started
>> the chase the range dropped to 8 miles and he had to
>> call off the chase.
>>
>> Imagine having your truck say you have 100 miles to
>> go, and you start up
>> a steep mountain incline to get to a tower site and
>> suddenly get
>> stranded because it dropped to 10 miles of range from
>> the load of
>> pulling up the hill.
>>
>> Gas - I always know what I have and in general it's
>> the same no matter what.
>> Electric - Huge variations depending on temperature
>> and usage.
>>
>> On 11/30/19 8:56 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
>> > Depends on distance. My car is always charged. So
>> I always have 200 miles on the tank. At the end of a
>> full day of driving yes it needs to be charged. Local
>> police departments are making Teslas work. Just takes
>> a different mindset. No maintenance and a truck good
>> for a half million miles with no fuel costs is pretty
>> attractive to me (I charge with solar).
>>
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