Electric Truck charging site:
This Commerce.Cal. site has 450 KW in its 21 stalls and a driver amenities
building. Expanding to LAX, Rancho Dominguez, and Rialto by the end of 2024.
Cotton-picking electric robot:
Arc Sport electric Wake boat:
Brave new world, eh?
The cotton-picker is painted white?
Bwahahahaha Don you win innerwebz comment of the day.
No no no we need more electric car idiots. Supply and demand people gasoline should get cheaper unless they raise the taxes on it
Did you see the name” Afara…short for Afara-can”
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
I’m gonna pick up a can of Afra and burn down the CVS this weekend!
Afrosheen, who remembers that.
Yeah, de blaqs will be crying cultural appropriation cause it be stealin de job that they never had , but they want money for.
Those trucks only have 1/3 the range as a full tank of diesel and those boats don’t come with the toxic redhead. Lose/lose.
Now if those charging stations can just keep the meth-heads from stealing the charging cables…
That is one boat you hope doesn’t sink. Water and lithium batteries don’t mix well.
Thoroughly and completely impractical and ridiculous.
Like at the Miami boat show last week, Yamaha showed off the first engineering model of a hydrogen powered outboard.
Oh…kaaay…..
How does one get hydrogen to fuel it? Since hydrogen is notoriously hard to store and handle, how does that work? I mean, In Real Life.
Stop being racist.
Toyota and GM just this week announced a new process that recovers hydrogen from tap water married to a hydrogen powered IC engine that recovers more end unit power than required to generate the hydrogen. Commercialization to field an IC automobile powered by hydrogen expected in five years or less.
There’s also bee a discovery of hydrogen buried in earth’s crust that is recoverable by drilling, just like for oil, that will yield “clean” hydrogen that can be used in al kinds of power applications.
This, sports fans, is the way forward to unlimited, cheap, personal transportation and scaled up can probably be used to generate electricity.
All that investment in “green power” applications using solar panels and wind mills is now squandered. It also kills the climate change debate.
Hydrogen?
One word: “Hindenburg”.
Nothing new Nemo. I helped my son in elementary school science project doing that. It was fun igniting the captured hydrogen at home. Could not do it at school.
To answer my question below, from hydro carbons.
What ever process you used to release the hydrogen used more power than what could be generated from the hydrogen.
This new process from Toyota is billed as making the net hydrogen power recovered from the process equal to or greater than the power used to make the hydrogen. That’s what has been the limiting factor in using hydrogen as fuel for transportation or electric power generation.
I still don’t quite understand how they’re getting net zero energy, as the bond between hydrogen and oxygen in water is one of the strongest in nature, as I’m sure you know.
@ricknator Remember that the Hindenburg was a fabric gas bag containing 7 million cubic feet of hydrogen AND that the passengers were allowed to smoke on board.
The new process developed by Toyota uses the hydrogen as it’s being generated so minimal fire danger equivalent to what there is in a conventional ICE vehicle.
Does it go boom? Asking for a friend.
I always laugh when a tree huggin weenie talks about hydrogen power. I always ask them where can I get bulk hydrogen and leave them to their devices.
Only good thing about hydrogen, it burns upward… I hauled a few tankers of that stuff at my tenure as Airgas.
EV buyers are parasites on all the ICE owners, their heavy cars cause more stress and wear on the bitumen road networks than even big pickups do.
The dangers of the lithium battery bursting into flames is real, the resulting pollution from the fire a true toxic hazard that you don’t want anywhere near your home, especially if the car is in a basement car park!
Only the fire brigades in big cities can afford the sort of units needed to fight the fire for hours, the energy cell never really safe as they can spontaneously reignite many times over a period of some hours. Surely an EV fire in a basement car park of a tower block residence, spreading to nearby EVs and conventional cars is a tragedy bound to happen?
The EVs are rolling toxic waste dumps, the new car buyers should be forced to pay upfront into a trust for the safe disposal or recycling of the energy cell, the viable technology for which doesn’t yet exist!
“forced to pay upfront into a trust for the safe disposal or recycling of the energy cell”
^ This! Make them pay, upfront. Maybe it’ll make them think twice about “saving the world” with an EV.
Electric trucks shuttling between Port of Long Beach and the railroad marshalling yards in Commerce makes sense, especially with CARB’s rules about diesels idling… Short runs over flat terrain with no (or rare) cold enough weather to cut range by 50% at a minimum is a good use of the technology.
Well, the “free” labor to pick the cotton in the day, was ABSOLUTELY too expensive in the long run.
Did any of you dudes happen to notice the snug fit of the wakeboarding chick’s wetsuit?
Ah yes, The Electric Front. Ready, willing, and able to give it to the consumer in The Eclectic Rear… In spades.