Anyone seen the Rivian vehicles?
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MJE2083
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To each his own, but some of the Tesla cars will beat virtually any internal combustion car out there in both speed and stability.
Yep. To each his own. mtmuley
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rwc101
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Gonna need some gas stations in the mountains I guess. It's gonna be easier on city folk. *rides horse into sunset*
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Uranium Seawater Extraction Makes Nuclear Power Completely Renewable
New technological breakthroughs from U.S. Department of Energy laboratories have put removing uranium from seawater within economic reach. Nuclear fuel made with uranium extracted from seawater would make nuclear power as renewable as solar, hydro and wind.
www.forbes.com
How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power
As the world shifts from fossil fuels, a new way of extracting uranium from seawater could help countries without uranium mines harness nuclear power in our energy future.
The biggest problems with nuclear are economic because it is forced to compete with fossil fuels and the overkill safety regulations have hamstrung it. It's waste byproducts are probably no more toxic than coal or oil but people are afraid of the word "radioactive".
If you want put the tinfoil hat on there are some who believe Big Oil is promoting Solar/Wind at the expense of nuclear because they KNOW the limitations of Solar/Wind necessitates a baseload power source. They want you to believe we are replacing oil/gas, and nuclear with solar/wind when they really intend to replace nuclear with solar/wind and keep the fossil fuels burning indefinitely. So far this plan has worked really well in Germany.
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range of 230 to 400 really means 80 to 120 in the elk mountains. need really long winch cable.
rideold
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Same conversation going around our household too. I already drive a beater so it would just be swapping out my wife's 4Runner for the plug-in hybrid.
grizzly_
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Where I live, an electric truck is just a coal-powered truck. The tailpipe is just somewhere else.
I was pretty impressed with the All-Electric F-150 pulling 1,250,000 pounds from a standing start though. That's pretty dang impressive!
I was pretty impressed with the All-Electric F-150 pulling 1,250,000 pounds from a standing start though. That's pretty dang impressive!
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If you want put the tinfoil hat on there are some who believe Big Oil is promoting Solar/Wind at the expense of nuclear because they KNOW the limitations of Solar/Wind necessitates a baseload power source. They want you to believe we are replacing oil/gas said:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/ent...r-for-dollar349000/ar-AAFH4AR#image=AAFH4AI|5 Electric sucks. mtmuley
http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/auto...nd-more/ar-AAFKINi?li=BBnb4R5#image=AAFKINb|7 No room for a Vortex Nation emblem. mtmuley
New Battery Design Can Charge an Electric Car in 10 Minutes
The design, described in a new study, could get drivers on the road in the time it takes to brew a morning coffee.
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Technology is amazing.
Irrelevant
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The wife and I just bought her a Rav4 hybid and holy cow. 40-45 mpg 4x4, with decent clearance and better traction control than anything I've ever been in. City tires and it still handled an unexpected hillclimb up a super muddy two track. And when we run over to the wetside and have to sit in traffic, turning on the lane assist and adaptive cruise and it freakin' drives itself! I'm not always the biggest proponent of technology but I'm damn sure loving that car.
rideold
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I didn't realize they got that good of mileage. That's great. I've been eyeing the Rav4's for some time as a possible replacement for my truck when the kids are gone to college.
Irrelevant
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Tesla Cybertruck: Here's how to order Elon's crazy new truck
Elon Musk's insane-looking electric pickup can be reserved for $100 and production is promised in late 2021. Are you in?
www.cnet.com
The introduction video is ridiculous... as in WTF, did you do a dry run first! Apparently not, and their stock reflects it today, down 6% when I looked.
rideold
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I saw that too. Not only does the video look amateurish but the "truck" kind of does too. Not sure why someone can't just make a truck instead of making a car and calling it a truck. It looks like something out of "Logan's Run".
noharleyyet
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noharleyyet
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ran across this...
Gotta give them props for being bold. I think the design could grow on me, although I'm not wild about the hard angles.
I'll bet @jryoung would like the hardened body skins.
