Electric car drives for 100 hours non-stop. MAGAs panties getting moist.

[Into the Night]

T.A, any comment on Toyota pursuing innovation in battery development without knowing if they will actually get any break throughs or not?

Toyota out wish casting about advancement that could come up empty and result in nothing.

As a conservatard you have taken the position that wishcasting such as this is wrong and bad to do. That attempts to advance technology, without proof it will succeed are wrong to do. So is your position Toyota is wrong to do this?

It is not a plant. It is a lab, moron. It will not be manufacturing batteries.

 

[Into the Night]

PostModernIdiot continually proves he is completely ignorant of almost every topic he jumps in to with his conservatard views.

To his credit, he does seem to google after i educate him and then he pretends his prior position was not in fact his position. Very Trumpian.

In this case he was so eager to try and discredit this story that he jumped on the 'herr derr, a circular track is not the same as a straight road' that other conservatards were saying in the thread, that he got caught along with them making a stupid point.

But it is all they could try to make an argument with.

A circular track is not tens of thousands of interstate freeway.
Who's going to pay for it?

 

[Into the Night]

It is not even that though to be honest.

Conservatards do not understand that science like this

No science here...move along...move along...
Engineering is not science.

that is Proof of Concept, seeks to push the limits and show what could be possible at the extremes of the technology and its application. It is about possibility not probability.

Okay. Proof of concept. A close track has demonstrated this technology. Who's going to pay for putting it into tens of thousands of miles of freeway?

It is entirely possible that this technology may not be practical to put under every highway and road for many generations (maybe never) but it could make total sense to put it in certain economic zones where you may have somewhat of a closed loop of business. For example think of any area around a major airport and how that area serves as Logistics hubs for dozens, if not hundreds of trucking companies taking Air Freight to various warehouses and consolidating it to then ship out to customers once they can group the freight by geography.

Moving slowly does not charge anything. There are no practical electric trucks. The batteries are too heavy, reducing payload. The larger the vehicle, the worse the problem becomes.

The roads in this area are being constantly resurfaced to high mileage use. If this tech is put in the roads as each is resurfaced, and these companies are using electric vehicles to move the freight from Airport to warehouse and back, it could provide for continual operation without downtime for refueling (or reduced downtime).

Who's going to pay for the electric trucks, and all that roadway to be electrified? Who's going to pay to power it?

Especially when you consider many of these kind of closed loop areas are being targeted as the first adopters of autonomous trucks with no human drives, as the trucks just drive the same loop from point A to B, and get loaded and unloaded.

There are no autonomous trucks.

Does the cost/benefit make sense today??? Don't know. Could it make sense today or in the future? Absolutely.

Who's going to pay for it?

BUt still conservatards like T.A Gardner will mock the pursuit of this as simply wishcasting, because it is not proven TODAY.

It is wishcasting. You still have to answer who's going to pay for it.

His view being humans should not push the envelop on advancement

Inductive charging is not pushing any envelope. It's been around since Michael Faraday. Who's going to pay for it?

unless its proven which by default it never is proven until it is tested.

Faraday's and Maxwell's laws of induction have not changed. These theories have not been falsified. Who's going to pay for electrifying roads? Who's going to foot the power bill?

That is the loop of stupidity conservatards push and how they MAGA the county. Which is keep the country stucki in the past since they think the past was the best the US can ever be.

MAGA does not mean 'stuck in the past'. TDS. Answer the question. Who's going to pay for electrifying tens of thousands of miles of freeway? Who's going to foot the power bill for it?

 

[Saint Guinefort]

So, how many megawatts would this highway have to be fitted for to charge all the cars if they were electric?

Who pays for the electricity?

I wonder how many gigatons of CO2 are pumped into the atmosphere in that picture alone. Who pays for the gasoline????

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I wonder how many gigatons of CO2 are pumped into the atmosphere in that picture alone. Who pays for the gasoline????

"Gigatons of CO2?" About .00000003629 or thereabouts... As for who pays for the gasoline, that would be each individual owner / driver of those vehicles as the gas and vehicle are discrete units of measure whereas a common conductor inductively charging the vehicles isn't.

(calculated as about 100 vehicles emitting 400 g per mile on average)

 

[Into the Night]

Says the conservatards who end mankind's progress from horse buggy to automobiles and ends the pursuit of the airplane, because protypes and engineering drawings are not 'tangible' until they are.

Chanting.

Conservatards have been a drag on humanity since humanity organized into advancing civilizations.
They tend to fight all human based advancement based on the principle of 'if i cannot as real and operating today, i do not support pursuing it', while at the same time saying 'ya nothing in the bible or our religion is proven but we believe it all'.
When mankind advances and the world becomes a better place it is DESPITE conservatards. Conserrvatards are to be overcome.

Communism and fascism isn't advancement.

Both Orville and Wilbur Wright were conservatives. They also supported the military.
Ford was a conservative. So were most other founders of automotive companies.
Edison was a conservative.
Lord Kelvin was a conservative.

It is DEMOCRATS and liberals that try to stop progress.
It is DEMOCRATS that try to ban the gasoline engine, despite the continuing advance in technology these engines experience.
It is DEMOCRATS that want to bring back the past. Electric cars were around BEFORE gasoline cars were!
It is DEMOCRATS that want to return to fascism and communism, despite the history of how these forms of economy fail.

Stop with the 'horse and buggy days' bullshit.

Now, answer the question: Who's going to pay to electrify tens of thousands of miles of freeway? Who's going to pay for build it, to maintain it, and to power it? For that matter, who's going to build the cars to use it?

 

[Into the Night]

Matt Dildo thinks EVs aren't doable in the real world as tens of millions of them are currently being driven around the world.
Republiclowns are so freaking silly.

Less than 1% of the cars on the road are EVs, dumbass.

 

[Into the Night]

I wonder how many gigatons of CO2 are pumped into the atmosphere in that picture alone. Who pays for the gasoline????

I wonder how many megatons of CO2 are pumped into the atmosphere by power stations that would be necessary to electrify this roadway? BTW, traffic jams mean the cars won't be charged. They have to be moving at a decent speed to be charged.

Don't try for the CO2 bullshit. No gas or vapor has the capability to warm the Earth. You cannot create energy out of nothing.

 

[Lionfish]

 

[Matt Dillon]

Says the conservatards who end mankind's progress from horse buggy to automobiles and ends the pursuit of the airplane, because protypes and engineering drawings are not 'tangible' until they are.


Conservatards have been a drag on humanity since humanity organized into advancing civilizations. They tend to fight all human based advancement based on the principle of 'if i cannot as real and operating today, i do not support pursuing it', while at the same time saying 'ya nothing in the bible or our religion is proven but we believe it all'.

When mankind advances and the world becomes a better place it is DESPITE conservatards. Conserrvatards are to be overcome.

You couldn't overcome a wet box.

 

[Matt Dillon]

 

[Matt Dillon]

I wonder how many megatons of CO2 are pumped into the atmosphere by power stations that would be necessary to electrify this roadway? BTW, traffic jams mean the cars won't be charged. They have to be moving at a decent speed to be charged.

Don't try for the CO2 bullshit. No gas or vapor has the capability to warm the Earth. You cannot create energy out of nothing.

More light rail makes better sense, but then there's the crime factor.

 

[Into the Night]

More light rail makes better sense, but then there's the crime factor.

Light rail is fine for heavily traveled corridors for commuting or shuttle purposes, but it's very poor in adjusting for changes in traffic flow. Cars adjust simply by turning a different direction at any intersection. Even buses have that advantage.

Light rail is quieter and provides a smoother ride than buses. It is best run on an elevated roadbed, since surface tracks in roads interfere with traffic (typically heavy along the same corridor).

Now don't get me wrong. I like light rail. I'm an old train buff myself, having once worked on a railroad. But, it has it's place and it doesn't adjust well to changes.

Government built and run light rail tends to suck. Government doesn't know how to run a railroad. One particularly horrible example is BART, in the San Francisco area. Rail ring is a real problem due to poor maintenance. The automation system it touted doesn't work that well, necessitating a 'driver' to sit in the cab and watch the robot and to override it when it fucks up. At least BART has good density of coverage.

Seattle light rail is taking forever to build out. I figure it's about a 50/50 chance the line out to the Eastside will be done before the 2nd coming of Jesus.

Some cities have done better, such as MARTA in Atlanta, GA., but crime is becoming more of a problem on it.
Vancouver BC has a system they call Skytrain, and it works quite well. Crime is not particularly a problem on it either.

None of them are profitable.

 

[Lionfish]

More light rail makes better sense, but then there's the crime factor.

Minneapolis put in light rail back a decade and it has been losing over $20 million per year not counting the billions it cost to build. So they are building more in an effort to make crime go away.

 

[Nordberg]

Toyota claims they will soon get over 900 miles on a full charge and recharging would take as long as a gas fillup. As I pointed out numerous times, the technology is moving rapidly on EVs.

 

[Lionfish]

Joey wets panties