I Was Wrong About the Tesla Cybertruck
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Date: 2019-11-28
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Timothy Nguyen
Coming from a owners perspective, my family have a Chevy Volt (bought used, Model X (bought used) and a Model 3 (bought new) and we've been happy with all three of them and have put a lot of miles on all of them with little to no problems. We do have 4 other ICE cars for varies reason but two are usually parked (five drives in the family. IMO buying used is the best way to go other than the Model 3 since everyone wants too much money for used one right now. Most of the problem discussed aren't really a problem from my experience and from what I've seen, especially with Teslas. Most of the time the cars are ready and already charged at home and the batteries are big enough that even in the cold, the range isn't a problem. I know I'm kind of an early adopter so we'll see what happens but so far it has been nice, the Model X is really the only one that I am worried about reliability but it is too be expected.
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Coming from a owners perspective, my family have a Chevy Volt (bought used, Model X (bought used) and a Model 3 (bought new) and we've been happy with all three of them and have put a lot of miles on all of them with little to no problems. We do have 4 other ICE cars for varies reason but two are usually parked (five drives in the family. IMO buying used is the best way to go other than the Model 3 since everyone wants too much money for used one right now. Most of the problem discussed aren't really a problem from my experience and from what I've seen, especially with Teslas. Most of the time the cars are ready and already charged at home and the batteries are big enough that even in the cold, the range isn't a problem. I know I'm kind of an early adopter so we'll see what happens but so far it has been nice, the Model X is really the only one that I am worried about reliability but it is too be expected.
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Ronald Leckfor
To survive the transition to EV towing vehicles, RVs will have active towing assist. RVs will have their own batteries and motors and will take the load off of tow vehicles. So the range of the towing vehicle will not be reduced at all. They will use calibrated strain gauges in the tongue to keep the tongue stress at Zero, for both accelerating and braking. That is the only way the RV industry will survive the transition to EV tow vehicles. So instead of one vehicle to charge, there will be two mouths to simultaneously feed when recharging or the RV and the tow vehicle can be recharged at the campground via two upgraded 230 Volts outlet at the campsite
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To survive the transition to EV towing vehicles, RVs will have active towing assist. RVs will have their own batteries and motors and will take the load off of tow vehicles. So the range of the towing vehicle will not be reduced at all. They will use calibrated strain gauges in the tongue to keep the tongue stress at Zero, for both accelerating and braking. That is the only way the RV industry will survive the transition to EV tow vehicles. So instead of one vehicle to charge, there will be two mouths to simultaneously feed when recharging or the RV and the tow vehicle can be recharged at the campground via two upgraded 230 Volts outlet at the campsite
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Jeff Ruebens
Reviewers write that the new Escape hybrid does well for regenerative braking- most are not smooth to charge the battery while braking. However, they also write the regular Mazda CX-5 steers better. For me, the Prius hybrid seemed too slow. I like the longer warranty for the Kia Niro and Hyundai Ioniq hybrid big battery, and they do not have a separate smaller battery to start the gasoline engine. They are too new to know much about reliability- the Prius is known to be very reliable, and cab drivers will usually gamble with a used hybrid battery if the original fails.
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Reviewers write that the new Escape hybrid does well for regenerative braking- most are not smooth to charge the battery while braking. However, they also write the regular Mazda CX-5 steers better. For me, the Prius hybrid seemed too slow. I like the longer warranty for the Kia Niro and Hyundai Ioniq hybrid big battery, and they do not have a separate smaller battery to start the gasoline engine. They are too new to know much about reliability- the Prius is known to be very reliable, and cab drivers will usually gamble with a used hybrid battery if the original fails.
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Ian Reid
Scotty I agree with you on everything accept your assumption of lack of infrastructure for charging electric cars specifically Tesla's go and Google a map of Tesla superchargers just like gas cars have gas stations Tesla's have charging stations all over the continental United States Australia China Europe Canada and even Mexico and teslas do not go only 100 miles per charge other brands like the Nissan Leaf had early iterations like that. But Tesla's will travel at least 250. And yes their range is reduced in cold weather but as I said there is charging infrastructure
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Scotty I agree with you on everything accept your assumption of lack of infrastructure for charging electric cars specifically Tesla's go and Google a map of Tesla superchargers just like gas cars have gas stations Tesla's have charging stations all over the continental United States Australia China Europe Canada and even Mexico and teslas do not go only 100 miles per charge other brands like the Nissan Leaf had early iterations like that. But Tesla's will travel at least 250. And yes their range is reduced in cold weather but as I said there is charging infrastructure
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ET Himself
Scotty, I can not figure something out at all. That being for Hybrids: Why do not the manufactures use a system on the exhaust to generate electricity for charging the batteries? Something like a slow speed turbo with a voltage regulator like an alternator. No need for other expensive and complicated systems for recharging the batteries. If a Turbo charger can spin over at 100. 000 RPM and last 150, 000 miles a turbo style system for generating electricity spinning over at, let's say 2, 000 RPM or less would likely last forever.
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Scotty, I can not figure something out at all. That being for Hybrids: Why do not the manufactures use a system on the exhaust to generate electricity for charging the batteries? Something like a slow speed turbo with a voltage regulator like an alternator. No need for other expensive and complicated systems for recharging the batteries. If a Turbo charger can spin over at 100. 000 RPM and last 150, 000 miles a turbo style system for generating electricity spinning over at, let's say 2, 000 RPM or less would likely last forever.
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gondokist
like the bmw aproach, what if we built a super compact 50cc air cooled gasoline engine power generator to charge the battery with something like the oppo vooc supercharging stuff so you can easily charge your tesla whereever you are not dependant to the tesla supercharger or your home electricity anymore, and if that generator is bloody hell efficient it probably will charge the car on the go, so literaly you will have infinite range, as long as you have the fuel for the generator, which is super efficient how bout that elon
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like the bmw aproach, what if we built a super compact 50cc air cooled gasoline engine power generator to charge the battery with something like the oppo vooc supercharging stuff so you can easily charge your tesla whereever you are not dependant to the tesla supercharger or your home electricity anymore, and if that generator is bloody hell efficient it probably will charge the car on the go, so literaly you will have infinite range, as long as you have the fuel for the generator, which is super efficient how bout that elon
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JDoc Film’s
Right now Im working on my solar engineering degree rectifiers AC controllers and generators or in the future but its for houses so AC to DC to do the switch in your house you would need to change the wiring in your house and if you do that you need to change your lights to DC lights which are not cheap you do it LED DC which are extremely bright but the drawback is its direct current theres no sound wave its straight power and please do not do a modification AC Wave it is a pain in the butt to work with
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Right now Im working on my solar engineering degree rectifiers AC controllers and generators or in the future but its for houses so AC to DC to do the switch in your house you would need to change the wiring in your house and if you do that you need to change your lights to DC lights which are not cheap you do it LED DC which are extremely bright but the drawback is its direct current theres no sound wave its straight power and please do not do a modification AC Wave it is a pain in the butt to work with
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Tom Kitta
Prius are so well made through that they last around 1 million km as taxis here in Canada before they get replaced. So if they break they are complex to fix. IF they break down. Also weight of the large battery in the electric vehicle is greater then the weight of combined ICE system in the hybrid - energy density of our batteries is very low compared to gasoline. Certainly hybrids are in between tech - future is electric - the problem is when will that future be our everyday reality for most pp.
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Prius are so well made through that they last around 1 million km as taxis here in Canada before they get replaced. So if they break they are complex to fix. IF they break down. Also weight of the large battery in the electric vehicle is greater then the weight of combined ICE system in the hybrid - energy density of our batteries is very low compared to gasoline. Certainly hybrids are in between tech - future is electric - the problem is when will that future be our everyday reality for most pp.
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bd C
I am not buying an electric car or a hybrid. They appear to be the standard cars in my neighborhood unless the car is a Range Rover or Jaguar. Only the guy across the street and I own really old and still functioning gasoline powered Toyotas. Mine is 15 years old If I live long enough, I doubt that I will ever see any electric or hybrid cars that old. The guy at the corner owns a Fiat 500 and the discontinued Chevy Volt. I guess the power of advertising still exists - suckers
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I am not buying an electric car or a hybrid. They appear to be the standard cars in my neighborhood unless the car is a Range Rover or Jaguar. Only the guy across the street and I own really old and still functioning gasoline powered Toyotas. Mine is 15 years old If I live long enough, I doubt that I will ever see any electric or hybrid cars that old. The guy at the corner owns a Fiat 500 and the discontinued Chevy Volt. I guess the power of advertising still exists - suckers
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Jeffj
What a stupid boondoggle. Imagine making a trip to say mt rushmore. Where are thw chargers
?! You think the feds are going to alliw chargers at grand canyon yellowstone?! NO! The real goal here is to limit travel and push everbody into mass transit when they realize what a sucky really useless thing evs are. Oh and just wait till they jack up electric rates.
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What a stupid boondoggle. Imagine making a trip to say mt rushmore. Where are thw chargers
?! You think the feds are going to alliw chargers at grand canyon yellowstone?! NO! The real goal here is to limit travel and push everbody into mass transit when they realize what a sucky really useless thing evs are. Oh and just wait till they jack up electric rates.
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