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29 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

The internal combustion engine will be the next horse and buggy. The human race is just a few advances away from a viable battery source to power a vehicle. 

 

Inevitably yup. It’s still the best we have though 

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21 minutes ago, Rod Johnson said:

Inevitably yup. It’s still the best we have though 

Internal combustion engines are 100 year old technology. It's pretty reasonable to assume that more advanced technology has been available in that time and has been suppressed for one reason or another. Lots of powerful entities don't want people like musk to succeed. 

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1 hour ago, spin_dry said:

The internal combustion engine will be the next horse and buggy. The human race is just a few advances away from a viable battery source to power a vehicle. 

 

Not in your lifetime or the lifetime of any person you know. 

The IC engine is one of the least efficient devices man has or will ever create. Nearly 50% of the energy input into the engine is wasted as heat and parasitic loss.

On the other hand, gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbons are plentiful, reasonably cheap and pack a huge amount of energy into a very small package.

 

Electrics will continue to improve. The day they replace the IC is still a long way off.  

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1 hour ago, AKIQPilot said:

Not in your lifetime or the lifetime of any person you know. 

The IC engine is one of the least efficient devices man has or will ever create. Nearly 50% of the energy input into the engine is wasted as heat and parasitic loss.

On the other hand, gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbons are plentiful, reasonably cheap and pack a huge amount of energy into a very small package.

 

Electrics will continue to improve. The day they replace the IC is still a long way off.  

I couldn’t disagree more. The energy density of LIB has more than doubled since 2013. That’s an amazing increase when compared to all the preceding years. A lot of that advancement is because of Tesla and it’s lab and work with vendors. The LIB is termed to max out on energy denisity in 2 years. Panasonic predicts another 30% before the maximum safe level of energy density is reached. There’s some work on lithium air batteries that blows away LI. But the life expectancy isn’t there yet. Point being, battery technology is advancing rapidly at the moment and there’s a lot of financial incentive to do so. 

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22 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

I couldn’t disagree more. The energy density of LIB has more than doubled since 2013. That’s an amazing increase when compared to all the preceding years. A lot of that advancement is because of Tesla and it’s lab and work with vendors. The LIB is termed to max out on energy denisity in 2 years. Panasonic predicts another 30% before the maximum safe level of energy density is reached. There’s some work on lithium air batteries that blows away LI. But the life expectancy isn’t there yet. Point being, battery technology is advancing rapidly at the moment and there’s a lot of financial incentive to do so. 

It’s energy density is still way too low, and the transfer of energy still way too slow 

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3 minutes ago, NaturallyAspirated said:

Hell with that, they are wicked awesome.  Adapt to the technology of the times.

Neal

And sound like ????? Road noise??? No thanks .  V8 growl ,v10 hum or v12 scream please.  . Even a v6 turbo ffs lol

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10 hours ago, f7ben said:

Musk is an absolute genius. 

Yup.  When was the last time anyone started a new car company and succeeded?

There are bound to be some issues but he's doing some amazing things. 

 

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To each their own.   To me speed is only a part of the equation.   Sound is another significant part of the equation for me.  I'll take a sweet sounding slower vehicle over a faster electric one every single time.   One can only go so fast on the roads anyway.  

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