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Back to the future; with electric vehicles
Topic Started: Jun 11 2012, 05:53 AM (190 Views)
big al
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Electric Vehicle Industry Sounds a Charge.

It's interesting how some ideas are revived generation after generation, occasionally to ultimate success. Another one that comes to mind is oil shale. I've seen articles going back to the WW I era touting extraction of liquid hydrocarbons from mine oil shale and worked for a company trying to develop an extraction process in the 1980s. It's still not gotten anywhere, although tar sands extraction in Canada and deep shale extraction by fracking in the USA and elsewhere are producing substantial output now in somewhat related ways.

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Kincaid
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Eventually I believe this is where we are heading with transportation. Interesting admission that in the scheme of things we are barely ahead of the first electric cars back in the teens.

Probably a very sensible idea to use heavy platforms like city buses to go electric - and stick with tried and true battery technology. Would be a very big set back if they tried to use Li-Ion batteries in a fully loaded bus and have it go up like a roman candle.

I'd still like to see what the issues are for hydraulic and pneumatic breaking regeneration in these large vehicles. Seems to me that a start/stop cycle on a bus would be an excellent place for something like that - getting such a heavy vehicle moving again on re-gen braking. I'd think battery re-gen would pale in comparison to air tank re-gen. Wouldn't something like that be almost 100% re-capture of energy?
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Copper
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Black Powder internal combustion

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jon-nyc
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big al
Jun 11 2012, 05:53 AM
Another one that comes to mind is oil shale. ... It's still not gotten anywhere, although ...deep shale extraction by fracking in the USA and elsewhere are producing substantial output now in somewhat related ways.
I wouldnt say they're at all similar.
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It works, so why not?

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