Why? Haven’t electric augers taught us anything? By then, instead of not being able to sell your gas auger it will be a vehicle nobody wants or can’t use then you’re stuck with worthless nostalgic scrap. Embrace electric now so it will all just happen quicker!
Sure, combustion engines will have their place for a long while, just like augers. But, for the vast vast majority of consumers, gas is definitely showing it’s age and it has been for the better portion of the current century, just like augers. In 30 years we will wonder why we didn’t adopt electric sooner.
I can only imagine what the vehicles of the not-so-distant future will be like. Especially once we perfect electric motors for consumer vehicles.
Sorry but Electric augers are a far cry from electric vehicles. In a gas powered anything you only carry 10% of the fuel needed to operate the device at it’s full potential. With electric one has to carry 100% of the fuel needed. Yes, Lithium Ion battery technology has carried over to another electric tool, the auger. I have 3 of them, they are slick however not infallible. One better have an ability to keep the battery warm or it’s pretty well worthless. Nice for the ice house, no smoke but there I can keep the battery charged. So I have a spare battery for the 40V Strikemaster, $129. I doubt I have gone through that much gas in my 20 year old Strikemaster Laser, and I still take it because when all else fails pull the recoil and voila. We are on a fast track to EV’s with little idea as to it’s impact. Unlike the auger you simply can’t pop out the battery and insert a new one, maybe that will be available at some point. Most people simply see it as you plug it in, wait and go. A new Tesla S has a 84KW battery. Most newer houses have 240VAC @ 200Amp service. That is only 48KW. No wonder they recommend you charge at normal 120VAC 15 amp outlet, it doesn’t overload the grid. It also takes about 85 hours to fully charge a depleted battery. All of these vehicles will be connected to 5G. The the promise of 5G, if people knew how much energy it takes to push the new speeds at that frequency, no one talks about that as from a power standpoint it’s less than 3% efficient by the time it gets to the user. I can just see it on Red. We are letting out 1/2 ton’s with single axle, Next week it will be 3/4 ton with dual axle houses, no diesel’s. Next week Diesels. And finally by Jan 31st we are letting out electric trucks. Yep it’s -20 on Red, lucky I have my second Honda 2200i to keep my truck plugged in and ready to go. I am sure in the future things will be far advanced, I see Ford is now offering a generator option in their pickups. Looks pretty innocent today but one never knows the long term intent. I probably will be dead by the time all this happens so good luck to the Millennials. And it’s not the electric motors that need improving, it’s the energy storage means.
