Electric Vehicles?

[j_garcia]

Range for common EVs in cold weather, with and without heat pumps. Looks like my observation is confirmed there too, the seat heaters are less of an impact on range vs. the cabin heater

https://insideevs.com/news/747374/ev-range-loss-cold-heat-pump-data/#:~:text=EVs%20with%20a%20heat%20pump,world%20range%20in%20the%20cold

Well at least in the railroad sector we are at least 'halfway there', our locomotives are diesel/electric !

Caltrain Commences Fully Electrified Service | Caltrain

www.caltrain.com

 

[Mikado463]

Caltrain Commences Fully Electrified Service | Caltrain

www.caltrain.com

For sure, electrification in railways here in the US has been in use for the past 100 years or so. Here in the East on the former Main Line of the PRR, Amtrak is is powered by overhead catenary up and down the NE Corridor and West out of Philly to Harrisburg, Pa.

Rode home from the Auto Show last night on a commuter train being pulled by a 'motor' ........

 

[j_garcia]

Swerd’s Volvo was much older early 2000s and had a manual tranny so no danger of unintended full throttle

This thread was started by Swerd to ask about EVs and he mentioned the older Volvo. Seems he picked up the C40 in Nov. 2022 also though. https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/electric-vehicles.124185/post-1578887

We had many discussions about that car, because I was considering an EV at that time; I got my EV last year.

 

[j_garcia]

For sure, electrification in railways here in the US has been in use for the past 100 years or so. Here in the East on the former Main Line of the PRR, Amtrak is is powered by overhead catenary up and down the NE Corridor and West out of Philly to Harrisburg, Pa.

Rode home from the Auto Show last night on a commuter train being pulled by a 'motor' ........

This is the first fully electric in our area. It was all over the news when they opened that corridor up a few months ago.

 

[Dan]

This thread was started by Swerd to ask about EVs and he mentioned the older Volvo. Seems he picked up the C40 in Nov. 2022 also though. https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/electric-vehicles.124185/post-1578887

We had many discussions about that car, because I was considering an EV at that time; I got my EV last year.

Right you are, sorry not thinking my best these days...

 

[j_garcia]

Right you are, sorry not thinking my best these days...

No worries at all. I will miss Richard's discussions. He had a LOT of knowledge about a wide range of things.

 

[Mikado463]

To further EV / Hybrid tech in my old industry ...........

Rail News - CN launches hybrid locomotive pilot project. For Railroad Career Professionals

www.progressiverailroading.com

 

[j_garcia]

Bloomberg article about carbon footprint of EVs.

Every few years, a new study pops up that makes a counter claim on this topic, stating that EVs actually have higher emissions, but these claims rarely stand up to scrutiny. They typically rely on outdated information about how fast the power sector is changing, old battery manufacturing data, or artificially low total vehicle mileage assumptions.