Nikola Tesla was a great experimental scientist and inventor. He had several patents. However, he never successfully made large-scale practical wireless transmission of power. Yet, he delivered some power wirelessly, but we would still require tons of research to build on his work to make it practical.
Lead is dead, I use lithium batteries in my LEAF and it's 10 times better than any EV with LEAD Lithium last longer, is lighter, works in the cold and heat, non toxic and cost less in life cycle.
Buy a Tata nano, they will soon have a single cylinder diesel version engine built by Bosch and the body designed by Farrari, so it will look ace and be going a very long distance, its economical to buy whats even better your money will go to a country where it will help the developing world.
Yes, guys keep paying for gas and send your money to the Middle East where the terrosis are supported by Oil Money and to Hugo Chavez who always talks bad about Americans.
@valandsergio hugo chavez does not takl bad about americans, he criticizes the american goverment and their special interest, stop tuning to fox news....
Hugo Chavez is not the only one talking bad about Americans.
If a dog keeps biting people then there's only one thing to do with that dog, shoot the fucker! same things happening with USA now its the worlds rabid dog!
Actually, you can do this. It has worked for one or more members of the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association (VEVA). A propane generator might even have a cleaner exhaust than a gasoline genset.
This vehicle gets over 500 MPGe (MPG equivalent) according to one poster's calculation.
You can. it's called a Series Hybrid. That also allows you to run the generating engine at a constant speed in its most efficient band, and drive your accessories (heat, A/C, brake boost vacuum, etc.) off it instead of having a myriad of small electric motors providing the same and draining your batteries. It's the most viable way of having a year-round capable electric propulsion vehicle in climates with cold weather, IMHO.
@HighCardWins The generators you buy at the store are very inefficient, typically in the area of less than 15%. Typical internal combustion engine about 30% efficient, prius about 50%, Tesla roadster about 90%, just to put it in perspective.
As for the lithium batteries, they are the best batteries in terms of how long they last and yes they are expensive, all new technology is expensive but as production increases the price comes down so in 10 years time who knows what the price will be, the point is that there is real progress being made and people are trying new things, I don't think there is a country in the world that wants to be dependant on another country 4 anything... food, water and especially not Oil. so chill-out 2 of 2
JonnyTommyGuns, rustaayy - everything that is manufactured using electricity or transportation based of fossil fuel has a dependance on fossil fuel, it doesn't matter you have to start somewhere in the chain and break the links one by one. Now it also doesn't matter that the car only goes 260 miles or 100, the point is that the average range of electric cars is much lower at around 50 or 60 miles, so it is a major improvement (yes that means it comes at a price). 1of 2
I bet that NASA could design resonably priced clean energy production and consumption if they would stop focusing intellectual and financial resourses on that rediculous space program.
The DOE has codeveloped a hydraulic hybrid with Eaton and UPS that uses a deisel engine. Hydraulic pressure moves fluid through the truck's wheels to reduce engine use but I think it will work for EVs as well. It will save battery life becuse the accumilated pressure will move the car instead of draining the batteries down. Something for the EV people to think about.
Alright then what do you do if you want to travel outside of the range of the vehicle? People aren't going to wait 10 hours for their vehicle to recharge. Having two vehicles is not the solution either because most people can't afford that. The solution is renewable bio fuels that can be burned in existing vehicles.
I think it could be a permanent solution if it is done right. Like making bio-diesel from algae. It would take 1/7 of the land used to make corn to completely replace oil with algae. It's also considered one of the fastest growing plants in the world.
Agreed, algea is the best biofuel proposition, but that is still a massive amount of land use if it were to replace ALL automotive transportation, not to mention more particulate release (diesel= lower CO2 emmision, but particulates are more immediately dangerous). It will likely be the only viable alternatve for commercal and towing vehicles, but for everyday transportation electric would sufice, and be even greener with proper electrical power generation and battery recycling programs.
Well first of all people that go to college, visit family, live in rural areas, people that travel, and people that have a life would travel that far on a regular basis. Secondly the only thing that offers a 6 hour charge time is the $3,000 home charger. So when you run out of battery and you're not home I hope you have a place to stay and wait for 10 hours. Tesla IS releasing a portable charger that can charge in 6 hours this month. But still nobody is going to wait for 6 hours to use their car
6 hours charging time, 300 mile longevity. If you're one of those RVing rednecks, by all means, die. Electric cars are cleaner, faster, and more durable than internal combustion. I dont know about you,but i dont travel past 300 miles regularly
RVing redneck? Wow, what did anything I write have to do with RVing or rednecks? You seem dumber and dumber every comment you make. So tell me since you think you're so smart. Who is going to pay for this car that takes 6 hours to charge, goes 267 miles not 300 like you say, and the battery wears out after about 7 to 10 years or 100,000 miles which costs $36,000 alone to replace? If you bought one of these then you're going to end up spending more money and using the same amount of fossil fuel.
The maintenance costs are tremendously low, and in 10 years batteries will not cost 36000 like you said. Gas, on the other hand, will only skyrocket. So don't make false assumptions. You can go from LA to Frisco on one charge. In case you didn't know, things tend to break when they are exposed to explosions, and combustion engines operate on explosions in the cylinders; a lot more breakdowns. By the way, you don't get lithium batteries from fossil fuels, dumb ass, so the fossil consumption is 0.
False assumptions? You're the one that has been making false assumptions. Elon Musk the CEO of Telsa Motors said himself that a replacement battery will cost $36,000. Oh, and electricity comes from fossil fuels dumb ass. I never said that the batteries were from fossil fuel I think you need a reading lesson as well.
I am a redneck yes i burn 250 gal. a day on the farm so u can eat or die and i have 2 tomberlin lsv in oklahoma with the tax credit of 50% and federal $4500 they r free
Yes I do but what happens to them, how do they recycle them? I like the concept very much and I'd like to build one in my country when I go to university but the batteries are bothering me ;)
It's not 95% I think it's more like 50%. But you're right that is another problem with electric and hydrogen cars. There is also nuclear power that should be saved for other things like space travel.
The other issue is that an electric car will still get into traffic jams, will still take up space like a normal vehicle, and still use a lot of resources to build and run it. It's a great idea for rural area, people who need a car, but for the rest of us we need to think in terms of walking, bikes, and mass transit.
you a dreamer, for that to happen we need to basically rebuild all US city to accomodate more walking, biking and mass transit,,i can imagine you are not from LA or tri state area back east,,i like to see people walking or biking and average of 40 mile a day, 5 day a week to work, shopping, kid to school,,it just not happening. unless you move to that new city in the dessert which accomodate all that, but it has a limited population of 50000. that a problem
Hello hispanicuscorpus. You're right: I live in Germany.
A lot of cities are making it possible to live and work without a car. You need more centres so people can get to work or school without driving for miles, and good public transport connecting those centres. Public transport uses a lot less energy than private: Electric cars will make a very big burden on power grid so I'd say electric cars replacing oil powered cars 1:1 could be more of a dream than redesigning cities.
Firestorm189, you are significantly more intelligent and more sensible than wallydude03 and jigsaw1984. Wind carries carbon dioxide into the upper atmosphere, and the greenhouse effect causes it to trap heat in thr atmosphere, and inhibit the reflection of the sun's rays from being reflected back into outer space. The sun heats the earth, and air higher up in the atmosphere is much cooler, this temperature difference causes the hot air to swap places with the cool air higher up, causing wind.
Even so, have you ever seen an oil spill? It's logical to assume then, that the particulates made from THE SAME STUFF (hydrocarbons etc) that come out of the exhaust have to go somewhere. If they go somewhere, where do they go? Not space, not under the rug, but to our planet. Take into account just how many cars and power plants are pumping that out, and you have a lot of carbon flying around. Global warming MAY be a coincidence, but all that carbon that was in the ground before, has to go
somewhere. If you dig a hole, the dirt is displaced, it is not gone, simply moved. Regardless of whether global warming is caused by greenhouse gases, at the most basic level, we are still poisoning our atmosphere, our land, and ultimately ourselves. I'm not a hippie, or strong-willed conservationist, but we breathe the same air we dump things into, and unless we slow down, we aren't going to be able to breathe it for much longer. There would probably be a knock on effect, pollution->animals die
-> eco system is de-stabalised-> plant-life suffers -> bacteria suffer -> problem spreads. We as a race DO have to stop living in the ignorance that our world is constant, and start thinking about the consequences of our actions, not for a paganistic planet worship, but for ourselves.
@Firestorm189 I read & heard that we humans are putting only about 4% of "Greenhouse Gases" into the atmosphere, the other 96% comes from our own planet. When I was in the hospital in 1989 I had a "MAD" magazine, on the back cover it had a picture of a bottle of milk, bottle of pure water, and a bottle of purified clean air, and of course the morning news paper on the porch step. True these were only qt. bottles, but it's coming. The captioned read "A scene we'd hate to see".
@Firestorm189 But gas isn't as clean as electrical power generation methods, since those generate far fewer unburned hydrocarbons like methane or CO. It's much easier to make a grid cleaner than every single person's car. It's one change versus millions of changes.
Also, CO2 isn't really an enemy to anything, even if global warming were true it's by far the most easily handled of any problem, since plants have been absorbing it for millenia. Most other pollution? Couldn't agree more.
There is no point in trying to limit our carbon output. Global warming is natural and there is no way to stop it. If the government does impose a carbon tax i will buy a diesel jetta and run it with vegetable oil
@Wallydude03 And Venus isn't hotter than Mercury because of its GHG atmosphere. CO2 may not be as powerful as CH4 or as bountiful as H2O but as matter of science when you copiously convert the worlds oil reserves into trillions of pounds of atmospheric CO2 you inadvertently increase the temperature of the globe, increasing the quantity of H2O the air can hold and melt the ice that traps the CH4 in Siberia, creating a runaway chain of events that are factually underway. I believe in scientists.
@longhairedartist Wake up you are being conned. There is no such thing as man-made global warming...it is just a big scam. Go read Agenda 21, the iron mountain report and see the real agenda behind the lies.
Here in São Paulo - Brazil, you get a fine/ticket (about U$300,00 dollars) if you dont do the inspection of your car every year, IT IS JUST THE GOVERNMENTE TAKING MONEY FROM THE PEOPLE! if it is am old car, that a good idea, but new ones come on!
"Not everywhere on earth is enough free space for new power plants."
???
Look up Concentrating Solar Power plants on Wikipedia. There are about a dozen running and dozens more being built.
They use desert land we can't grow food on, make electricity from sunlight, and even run all night long by storing the sun's heat in molten salt tanks.
One day after school, A kid named Dustin Paulo was walking home from school. He got picked on by people beaCUSE HE WAS fat. One of his classmates Kevin Bourne Stabbed 13 times in the shoulder. He died right away. He told the cops that a man attacked them. They belived it. The kid who killed him was taking a shower one day and he felt a hand on his shoulder. He Screamed and his mother went up and found nothing there but peices of hair. A rumor started about Not posting this 5 times in one hour
The idea is to start making electric cars available. We have a lot of unused power now that goes to waste durning the night hours when it is not needed. We do need to build more renewable electric energy sources but we have the energy now to start.
It's far easier to regulate and clean up 1 power plant then it is to clean up and regulate 150 million gas cars. New tech. is researching cleaner and better ways to generate power (wind, solar, etc). I have an EV and charge it at night(a timer on my charger in my garage is set to start at 11pm when demand is down). We are told to start our dishwashers after 11pm. Power plants cannot shut down; they still have to generate electricity which is why they encourage you to use appliances at night.
You're certainly right... that's what I said... we need more power plants if cars run electric. And you're also right that one power plant can easier be made clean than millions of cars. But....
Not everywhere on earth is enough free space for new power plants.
My solution: Electric engine->fuel cells driven by hydrogen->hydrogen made with solar energy from the sahara desert.
This keeps the arabs busy and prevents them from getting strange ideas. What would they do if oil runs out?
electricty is the only power that can be created useing its own power. meaning you can use electricity to make more electricity. there is already technology out that accomplishs this. search "bedini" although i believe it is open loop or something so some idiots dont believe in it. but it works so what ever.
You put the plug into the outlet, draw 100 Watts out of it, do some magic and get 500 Watt at the other end of the cable. Is this what you mean?
If this would really work... why doesn't someone make an awful lot of money with it? Where I live, electric power companies are paying good money if you supply power into their grid.
In simple terms what i mean to say is. electricity can be made by useing electricity, even if you get less electricity, it can still be made useing its own power source. can you say that much for other power sources? gas can not make gas. electricty is avaliable everywhere and can be made everywhere. in a very simple way.
people have found ways to make more electricity then is used. it may seem imposable but it is not. search bedini if you want to know more.
Renewable energysources are the way to go in my opinion. Here in Denmark about 20% of our electricity comes from windmills. And even if we were to use coal fired power plants. They are far more efficient than a gasoline or diesel engine, as is an electric engine. So the overall eficiency will be far greater overall with electric vehicles than with vehicels power by combustion engines.
However, i would miss the roar of an engine in the morning.
I'd like to meet your grandma .. or sister. Thanks for the tip, but there are problems with your grandma's method: Illegal to drain hydrochloric acid and dump it down the drain in certain jurisdictions and also poisons groundwater eventturally. Also, one VEVA member is blind from a battery accident. In contrast, my method doesn't require acid replacement -- if you look at my truck, you'll notice that every battery is "sealed" - gel and AGM types, so I didn't replace any liquid.
To revive a lead acid battery first drain it, then add new electrolite to the cells, plus distilled water. The battery will be good for about a year, and that's about it. Source: grandma who grew up in the hills of West Virginia during the great Depression.
You can usually buy electrolyte at any auto parts store. I get mine, for deep cycle lead acid batts I charge with solar pv panels (modules), at the local Pep Boys.
Also, Nikolas Tesla invented wireless Electric Power transmission and he patented it. That would mean a future car would only have a receiver to absorb electricity from the air to recharge its batteries. No need to drive home to plug the car in the socket to charge overnight. But Westinghouse pulled his funding once Tesla mentioned this free electricity idea. Too bad for us.
Maybe not too late -- but, you'll hafta' make it yourself, 'cuz the giant corporations aren't interested. Read Jeane Manning's books, because there are many methods of obtaining (nearly) free energy. But, start with geoexchange (geothermal) because that's easy and is over-unity, according to government of Canada website.
@Topazman12 its not actually free you can still pay a monthly fee :) but sending free electricity in open air its not something what you want to do cuz it can affect gps-s and other stuff
it was j. p. morgan, the international banker that pulled his funding when he found out the wardenclyffe tower could transmit electricity to the world with no ability to measure who was using what amount.
I watched on the News that in Research labs people are creating batteries so small and thin as paper that it would weigh only ounces yet provide the same power output as a regular laptop battery. So in the future you would not have 100's of pounds of battery put into an electric car. But you would have a thin sheet of battery. I am waiting for updates on this.
To those who think that electric rates will sky rocket they are in a box. In the future this car will fly and electricity will be free since someone will invent an electric generator so that each of us will have one at home giving us free power. In fact, people are already working on it. Imagine a small electric generator small enough to fit inside a car.
Where to start. This car won't fly and battery power will most likely never be a viable option for flight because of their weight. We already have small generators but that does not make electricity free. You have to supply power to the generator by burring some fuel (=$+pollution). And how would you power the generator in the car? With gas? Think before you post something. Batteries may be a solution to land based travel, but thats when their cost comes down and energy density increases.
have you never heard of a permanent magnet motor ?
costs nothing to run and produces electricity indefinitely, also very easy to build its old technology now but if you look on youtube another type of free generator has already been invented and is in the final stage of manufacture it is about as big as a biscuit barrel and produces over 2Kw .... so think before you post.
hydrogen or even browns gas will run an IC / petrol engine and does burning hydrogen pollute ?
I think your the one that needs an education. I happen to be a physicist and what are you? Some fool that saw a video on the internet and believes it without any understanding of how things actually work.
The permanent magnet motor, guess what it does not work. NO one has ever produced a working model. Does burning hydrogen pollute? Yes because how do you get that hydrogen? Through electrolysis which takes electricity made from coal plants. Think before you post retard.
Honda is in LA is making hydrogen to fuel city fleet fuel cell EVs using solar photovoltaic panels (modules). Their website has pictures of the sun-run cars next to the panels. Honda has just recently announced they intend to manufacture solar panels also.
The problem with this is there is no way with our current technology to power even a fraction of the cars with solar power. I think solar power is more useful for homes at the moment (though still expensive). I think by the time we get solar cells to be cost effective and more efficient, battery technology will be a better storage option than hydrogen.
physicist, wow im impressed, that must mean that you are so much cleverer than me, oh & as for using electrolysis ...yes, but using fossil fuels to generate hydrogen NO you eejit & i did not suggest using fossil fuels, try a few poly or monosilicone solar panels, linked to batteries and an inverter if required :-)
well mr brockunk, i may be a "retard" but that surely makes you a shite physicist.
as for permanent magnet, perhaps what ive seen and read was lies, but ill see for myself thanks.
Once again you're not thinking before you post. Solar energy generates far less than 1% of our electricity output. So if you think generating the amount of hydrogen it would take to replace gas can be done with our current technology you're just wrong. I happen to think improvements in battery technology will come before any viable hydrogen technology is available. If you are going to flame someone make sure you know what your talking about.
Well, perhaps it would, but not because it just has to be this way, but government stands behind oil companies. Atm. oil and car companies hold battery patents to block electric car development.
I read u can buy x ray specs in the back of a comic book too, they dint work man neiter does the claims in that article, wanna buy sum ostrich eggs or sum snake oil i can hook u up
Why don't you take some time to research the Revived Battery Pickup a little before posting. You'll see that this was chosen by Canadian Business magazine as one of the top 3 inventions for 2008, and was a front page story in Ming Pao magazine. Also, you would have seen that Global TV brought their own battery expert before they ran the story on the evening news. -Rob
When people hear ELECTRIC VEHICLE, it sounds silly like when we watch old movies of aviation pioneers trying to fly with silly machines. But ELECTIRC POWERED VEHICLES have great future. And we are just about to find it out.
The American consumer must stop using mi. per. gal. to compare gas powered cars with EV's. That is like comparing apples to oranges. It just does not work. We need to star thanking in mi. per. dollar. An EV typically gets 10 to 20 times the distance from $1.00 worth of elec. then a gas car can get from $1.00 worth of gas. Think about it, that's a 90% to 95% savings.
The cost is 3 cents per kilometer for this "free battery" electric vehicle. Remember that for an electric vehicle, the MAIN COST is battery replacement -- not electricity. Therefore, Revived Batteries are the key to cheap driving.
The Revived Battery process was selected last week by Canadian Business magazine (July 21 issue) as one of the top three Intriguing Inventions For 2008.
This vehicle was also featured in the front page story in Ming Pao magazine.
Show me someone who isn't retired that goes just 10 kilometers(6.2 miles) per day? I like the idea of alternative energys, but when they ride the fringe of statistics to prove their point to mainstream, it is really iritating.
Drive an electric golf cart. Double the Gax tax and have the goverment pay a 1500.00 rebait to every new Golf cart purchased thats made in the USA. NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW
No, its actually the total opposite. The reason these vehicles are even being looked at is the ridiculous cost (and inevitable running out) of gasoline.
These vehicles are way cheaper then gas cars. unless your going to buy 10 year old gas vehicles for the rest of your life. brand new electric cars cost $20-40k same price as a brand new honda accord, toyota camery, list goes on... if you invest in wind mills, water mills, solar panels, parabolic trophs with steam engines, you can power your home and your car for free. now some of which were listed will cost you but some of the others you can make your self under a couple hundred $.
The real cost of gasoline is subsidized by the US gov insuring its supply using the military-industrial-congressional complex, and since all violence does is insure more violence and destruction, there is never funding left over for a transition to free electricity from the sun, no matter who wants to fund it. Private firms and a public which rely on this kind of system, Ayn Rand called "Corporate Socialists."
These vehicles are way cheaper then gas cars. unless your going to buy 10 year old gas vehicles for the rest of your life. brand new electric cars cost $20-40k same price as a brand new honda accord, toyota camery, list goes on... if you invest in wind mills, water mills, solar panels, parabolic trophs with steam engines, you can power your home and your car for free. now some of which were listed will cost you but some of the others you can make your self under a couple hundred $.
Be aware that there are only 12 licensed electric cars left in BC (British Columbia, Canada). About five years ago, there were over 40 e-cars. Gasoline cost has increased, but there are fewer electric cars. Our amateur inventors group has managed to modify one into one of the few that is driven regularly -- this is not a simple feat. The hyperlink text can be found in EV DIARY PART SEVEN.
FYI, if we had used the same batteries (LiON) as Tesla, the pack's cost would be $45,000 for this pickup. If you want the full story, Google REVIVED BATTERY PICKUP EV DIARY.
Oh, I see. Typically battery replacement is seen as a maintance not operating cost, but if you look at the every cost; initial, maintance, and operating cost, and compare both over the same time period then it can be seen as an operating cost.
Any-who, this is a sweet concept. I did not know that batteries could be pickup for free. I am an electrical engineering grad at WSU, and was waiting for the GM volt, but this sounds cooler.
If we just compare the cost to operate, recharge, this truck and the tesla, the cost should be the same, assuming the price of electricity is the same. But my bet is that tesla is more efficient hence the operating cost is less.
This pickup truck runs on FREE BATTERIES (discarded batteries - revived batteries). FYI, the biggest cost of any EV is the REPLACEMENT COST OF BATTERIES. Battery packs don't last long in some cases, despite what the manufacturer claims. Approx. 80% of EV's in BC, Canada are sidelined because of the short life (800 kms., in one case) of batteries and the REPLACEMENT COST.
Got no explanation for the 99.99% better than Tesla, that might be a bit overestimated, but hey, converting an old car to run on old batteries is still a lot cheaper than a Tesla I guess!
I got no idea to be honest, but I guess you're right. But I think that the acid they use then is recycled as well, otherwise it wouldn't be that economical.
you are all gay electric cars a re not really thay are all hydrogen not battry poweredad se my video gay prickx britney is are god of hydrogn live long hydrogen.
I'm trying to figure out why 30c/day is 99.99% cheaper than fueling a Tesla? I'd image that 3kWh of electricity in a Tesla would take you more miles than the same amount in a pickup truck (this educated guess comes from owning/driving both an EV1 and a Ford Ranger EV).
Here's the answer: The biggest cost of an EV is the battery pack's replacement cost. This pickup runs on discarded batteries -- nearly zero cost. Tom Hank's EV's battery replacement cost is $30-$40,000 -- could happen in a year, even though the manufacturer's estimate is several years. (Ask any real EV owner -- the "joker" is the bad charger -- that's what killed the Electric Car, imo.)
Hard to take your response seriously when you say that I should "ask any real EV owner) something. Did I not mention that I had an EV1, and a Ford Ranger EV? I still drive a Rav4EV. So I'll ask myself. "Self, is the bad charger what killed the Electric Car?" Answer from self, "no."
When did Tom Hanks replace the batteries in his car? Oh, I remember - he didn't.
Hi, we're two blind men trying to describe an elephant. My definition of an electric car is the "average" one in EValbum, i.e. mostly with Zivan battery chargers. Your EV's didn't use Zivan chargers, did they? My statement re Hank's eBox (great EV, Cocconi, its builder, is a hero to me) is a futuristic guess -- hasn't happened yet.
No, your EV1 wasn't killed by a bad charger, like many of the idled EV's out there. Can we move on to Chris Paine's next movie, then, "Who Saved The Electric Car?"
"Ask any real EV owner -- the "joker" is the bad charger -- that's what killed the Electric Car, imo." - I agree so I hooked up the DC batteries on my EV directly to solar photovoltaic panels (see my video) and thereby realized the 1/3 increase, from 3 to 5 years in battery life, by the high quality solar slow-charging at low amps.
I agree. But no one seems to have put different sizes/type of batteries in a licensed pickup before, an used it for daily driving. This is like having a flashlight with 30 batteries of different sizes/ages. The manufacturer's caution on the AA battery sez it shouldn't be done.
A collection of videos with no substance. too bad you don't give any actual information about how to recycle batteries... I watched all your videos for nothing. Your unwillingness to share this information here publicly seems to indicate that you are going to try to make a profit from the information.... am I wrong?
If Tom Hanks buys the batteries from Lionev, it would cost him about $10K. If he wanted the High End Battery core that does 400+ miles, it will cost a little more.
Nikola Tesla was a great experimental scientist and inventor. He had several patents. However, he never successfully made large-scale practical wireless transmission of power. Yet, he delivered some power wirelessly, but we would still require tons of research to build on his work to make it practical.
mphello 9 months ago
Lead is dead, I use lithium batteries in my LEAF and it's 10 times better than any EV with LEAD Lithium last longer, is lighter, works in the cold and heat, non toxic and cost less in life cycle.
jstack6 9 months ago
Wow, a VIDEO of someone highlighting an article in a MAGAZINE - talk about missing the point of VIDEO entirely...
2000jago 1 year ago
30cents a day vs free? hmmm...
903harman 1 year ago
wow. these are the shitty music on windows... =))
09204418448 1 year ago
Buy a Tata nano, they will soon have a single cylinder diesel version engine built by Bosch and the body designed by Farrari, so it will look ace and be going a very long distance, its economical to buy whats even better your money will go to a country where it will help the developing world.
cultofmao 1 year ago
reticulating spline
mercygrace2u 2 years ago
Yes, guys keep paying for gas and send your money to the Middle East where the terrosis are supported by Oil Money and to Hugo Chavez who always talks bad about Americans.
valandsergio 2 years ago
@valandsergio hugo chavez does not takl bad about americans, he criticizes the american goverment and their special interest, stop tuning to fox news....
liloproduction 2 years ago
@valandsergio No buy more gas! Please god let there be another oil boom I swear I wont piss away all the money I make... like the last one.
Alberta Resident.
orgwarchants 2 years ago
Hugo Chavez is not the only one talking bad about Americans.
If a dog keeps biting people then there's only one thing to do with that dog, shoot the fucker! same things happening with USA now its the worlds rabid dog!
cultofmao 1 year ago
@cultofmao
And the biggest contributer to international aid, so yeah we are SOOO evil.
Nsixtyfourlink 1 year ago
I wnat this truck, or the know-how to make it. is there a manual for sale?
wotan237 2 years ago
Why can't you just put a gas/diesel generator in the back of the truck and hook it up to the batteries to charge them?
HighCardWins 2 years ago 8
Actually, you can do this. It has worked for one or more members of the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association (VEVA). A propane generator might even have a cleaner exhaust than a gasoline genset.
This vehicle gets over 500 MPGe (MPG equivalent) according to one poster's calculation.
BatteryReviver 2 years ago 3
EVEN better insert a genorator with the paul pantone geet reactor on it!!
Zero carbon emisions from a 4 stroke enternal combustion engine. I have replicated this and it work just great
fingers1572 2 years ago
You can. it's called a Series Hybrid. That also allows you to run the generating engine at a constant speed in its most efficient band, and drive your accessories (heat, A/C, brake boost vacuum, etc.) off it instead of having a myriad of small electric motors providing the same and draining your batteries. It's the most viable way of having a year-round capable electric propulsion vehicle in climates with cold weather, IMHO.
KarmaTiger 2 years ago
@HighCardWins This was tried and nearly killed those clowns on Top Gear.
supressorgrid 1 year ago
@HighCardWins The generators you buy at the store are very inefficient, typically in the area of less than 15%. Typical internal combustion engine about 30% efficient, prius about 50%, Tesla roadster about 90%, just to put it in perspective.
connelly6375 1 year ago
El. car been made since 60's but there is still no improvement because of the batteries.
garagecrap 2 years ago
In 10 years batteries will halve in price gas will double in price. Batteries will cost $18,000.
2 people, 10000 miles per year/10 years. One electric, other gas.
Gas: 4 Gal's per 100 miles @ avg. of $7 per gal. given the price gas will increase. Total gas cost: $28,000.
Electric: Projected average cost of electricity $8 per 300 miles. Electricity costs: $2700. Battery Replacement Cost: $18000.
Electric: $20,700
Petrol: $28,000
(Not including higher maintenance costs of gas).
eggaweb 2 years ago
As for the lithium batteries, they are the best batteries in terms of how long they last and yes they are expensive, all new technology is expensive but as production increases the price comes down so in 10 years time who knows what the price will be, the point is that there is real progress being made and people are trying new things, I don't think there is a country in the world that wants to be dependant on another country 4 anything... food, water and especially not Oil. so chill-out 2 of 2
TheJenks007 2 years ago
haha so long globalisation.
Good riddance I say.
LOLDISNEYLAND 2 years ago
JonnyTommyGuns, rustaayy - everything that is manufactured using electricity or transportation based of fossil fuel has a dependance on fossil fuel, it doesn't matter you have to start somewhere in the chain and break the links one by one. Now it also doesn't matter that the car only goes 260 miles or 100, the point is that the average range of electric cars is much lower at around 50 or 60 miles, so it is a major improvement (yes that means it comes at a price). 1of 2
TheJenks007 2 years ago 2
I bet that NASA could design resonably priced clean energy production and consumption if they would stop focusing intellectual and financial resourses on that rediculous space program.
Agenteee 2 years ago
The DOE has codeveloped a hydraulic hybrid with Eaton and UPS that uses a deisel engine. Hydraulic pressure moves fluid through the truck's wheels to reduce engine use but I think it will work for EVs as well. It will save battery life becuse the accumilated pressure will move the car instead of draining the batteries down. Something for the EV people to think about.
3089280288 2 years ago
Alright then what do you do if you want to travel outside of the range of the vehicle? People aren't going to wait 10 hours for their vehicle to recharge. Having two vehicles is not the solution either because most people can't afford that. The solution is renewable bio fuels that can be burned in existing vehicles.
JonnyTommyGuns 2 years ago
To JohnnyTommyGuns: Well, at least that is likely the short term answer, until electric vehicle tech has matured considerably.
dragonamt 2 years ago
I think it could be a permanent solution if it is done right. Like making bio-diesel from algae. It would take 1/7 of the land used to make corn to completely replace oil with algae. It's also considered one of the fastest growing plants in the world.
JonnyTommyGuns 2 years ago
Agreed, algea is the best biofuel proposition, but that is still a massive amount of land use if it were to replace ALL automotive transportation, not to mention more particulate release (diesel= lower CO2 emmision, but particulates are more immediately dangerous). It will likely be the only viable alternatve for commercal and towing vehicles, but for everyday transportation electric would sufice, and be even greener with proper electrical power generation and battery recycling programs.
dragonamt 2 years ago
actually the solution is a combination of battery and permanent magnet generators.
harryfodder 2 years ago
What a dumb ass, lithium batteries have a 120 mile lifespan, when are you ever gonna travel that far? And the charging time is 6 hours.
rustaayy 2 years ago
Well first of all people that go to college, visit family, live in rural areas, people that travel, and people that have a life would travel that far on a regular basis. Secondly the only thing that offers a 6 hour charge time is the $3,000 home charger. So when you run out of battery and you're not home I hope you have a place to stay and wait for 10 hours. Tesla IS releasing a portable charger that can charge in 6 hours this month. But still nobody is going to wait for 6 hours to use their car
JonnyTommyGuns 2 years ago
6 hours charging time, 300 mile longevity. If you're one of those RVing rednecks, by all means, die. Electric cars are cleaner, faster, and more durable than internal combustion. I dont know about you,but i dont travel past 300 miles regularly
rustaayy 2 years ago
RVing redneck? Wow, what did anything I write have to do with RVing or rednecks? You seem dumber and dumber every comment you make. So tell me since you think you're so smart. Who is going to pay for this car that takes 6 hours to charge, goes 267 miles not 300 like you say, and the battery wears out after about 7 to 10 years or 100,000 miles which costs $36,000 alone to replace? If you bought one of these then you're going to end up spending more money and using the same amount of fossil fuel.
JonnyTommyGuns 2 years ago
The maintenance costs are tremendously low, and in 10 years batteries will not cost 36000 like you said. Gas, on the other hand, will only skyrocket. So don't make false assumptions. You can go from LA to Frisco on one charge. In case you didn't know, things tend to break when they are exposed to explosions, and combustion engines operate on explosions in the cylinders; a lot more breakdowns. By the way, you don't get lithium batteries from fossil fuels, dumb ass, so the fossil consumption is 0.
rustaayy 2 years ago
False assumptions? You're the one that has been making false assumptions. Elon Musk the CEO of Telsa Motors said himself that a replacement battery will cost $36,000. Oh, and electricity comes from fossil fuels dumb ass. I never said that the batteries were from fossil fuel I think you need a reading lesson as well.
JonnyTommyGuns 2 years ago
I am a redneck yes i burn 250 gal. a day on the farm so u can eat or die and i have 2 tomberlin lsv in oklahoma with the tax credit of 50% and federal $4500 they r free
okiefarmer1 2 years ago
Good, now we have established your mistakes. You therefore agree that you release carbon emissions and damage our climate.
rustaayy 2 years ago 2
@rustaayy
it depends what power station powers them
if its a coal/oil power station (which is probably going to be) its is considerably less efficient
you have to transform the energy more then send it though the pylons loosing a c considerable ammount then loose another 10%~ storing it in batteries
andyp363 2 years ago
日本企業は、特にリチウム電池の企業秘密は、特に守れ、韓国とド イツボッシュが組んだ、盗用国民に気をつけろ。
テコンドウ＝空手の盗用 lol i coped and pasted
MrTraxxasboy 2 years ago
lol thats not funny redneck
iphones4ever 2 years ago
What do you do with all the batteries? They won't go forever? What do you use in the batteries that doesn't pullute the environment?
I like the elictrical car thing but I think we'll have a problem with chemical pollution...
r3inhout 2 years ago
u do realise that gas powered cars have batteries too right?
AvtomatKoleshnikov 2 years ago
Yes I do but what happens to them, how do they recycle them? I like the concept very much and I'd like to build one in my country when I go to university but the batteries are bothering me ;)
r3inhout 2 years ago
and what about all the coal burn to makeup 95% of electricity
EdgeyForSure 2 years ago
Over here there's almost no coal burn :)
r3inhout 2 years ago
It's not 95% I think it's more like 50%. But you're right that is another problem with electric and hydrogen cars. There is also nuclear power that should be saved for other things like space travel.
JonnyTommyGuns 2 years ago
It is going to be cheaper to increase efficiency on ten thousand or so power plants than millions of cars.
rillip3 2 years ago
The other issue is that an electric car will still get into traffic jams, will still take up space like a normal vehicle, and still use a lot of resources to build and run it. It's a great idea for rural area, people who need a car, but for the rest of us we need to think in terms of walking, bikes, and mass transit.
Korschtal 2 years ago 2
you a dreamer, for that to happen we need to basically rebuild all US city to accomodate more walking, biking and mass transit,,i can imagine you are not from LA or tri state area back east,,i like to see people walking or biking and average of 40 mile a day, 5 day a week to work, shopping, kid to school,,it just not happening. unless you move to that new city in the dessert which accomodate all that, but it has a limited population of 50000. that a problem
hispanicuscorpus 2 years ago
Hello hispanicuscorpus. You're right: I live in Germany.
A lot of cities are making it possible to live and work without a car. You need more centres so people can get to work or school without driving for miles, and good public transport connecting those centres. Public transport uses a lot less energy than private: Electric cars will make a very big burden on power grid so I'd say electric cars replacing oil powered cars 1:1 could be more of a dream than redesigning cities.
Korschtal 2 years ago
Is that the Mike Nock trio at the end ?
visionmaster153 2 years ago
use electricity to make less electricity?
brent440 2 years ago
no thats not the point, use electricity to make less pollution...
AvtomatKoleshnikov 2 years ago
Yes Jkirk2179. These barren/deserted areas are spacious, and they are perfect for solar cells and wind turbines. They are very windy and sunny.
Twexcom 2 years ago
Firestorm189, you are significantly more intelligent and more sensible than wallydude03 and jigsaw1984. Wind carries carbon dioxide into the upper atmosphere, and the greenhouse effect causes it to trap heat in thr atmosphere, and inhibit the reflection of the sun's rays from being reflected back into outer space. The sun heats the earth, and air higher up in the atmosphere is much cooler, this temperature difference causes the hot air to swap places with the cool air higher up, causing wind.
Twexcom 2 years ago
Cars do not produce global warming it is just the government trying to tax our carbon output
Wallydude03 2 years ago 3
Amen brother, Amen. I'm so glad someone else out there thinks the same way as I do!
jigsaw1984 2 years ago 3
i dont like tree huggers..... i refuse to believe this whole global warming shit
i agree w/ wallydude..... government's finding new ways to tax the holy shit outta us.....
the planet might survive, but my wallet aint
if those fuckers r really concerned, then why not build engines that runs on alcohol or peanut oil?
Ford Model T could run on alcohol
if my memory serves me correctly, the very first internal combustion engine ran on peanut oil
o thats right, they cant charge us up the ass 4 fuel!
VodkaPowered 2 years ago
Even so, have you ever seen an oil spill? It's logical to assume then, that the particulates made from THE SAME STUFF (hydrocarbons etc) that come out of the exhaust have to go somewhere. If they go somewhere, where do they go? Not space, not under the rug, but to our planet. Take into account just how many cars and power plants are pumping that out, and you have a lot of carbon flying around. Global warming MAY be a coincidence, but all that carbon that was in the ground before, has to go
Firestorm189 2 years ago 3
somewhere. If you dig a hole, the dirt is displaced, it is not gone, simply moved. Regardless of whether global warming is caused by greenhouse gases, at the most basic level, we are still poisoning our atmosphere, our land, and ultimately ourselves. I'm not a hippie, or strong-willed conservationist, but we breathe the same air we dump things into, and unless we slow down, we aren't going to be able to breathe it for much longer. There would probably be a knock on effect, pollution->animals die
Firestorm189 2 years ago 5
-> eco system is de-stabalised-> plant-life suffers -> bacteria suffer -> problem spreads. We as a race DO have to stop living in the ignorance that our world is constant, and start thinking about the consequences of our actions, not for a paganistic planet worship, but for ourselves.
Firestorm189 2 years ago
@Firestorm189 I read & heard that we humans are putting only about 4% of "Greenhouse Gases" into the atmosphere, the other 96% comes from our own planet. When I was in the hospital in 1989 I had a "MAD" magazine, on the back cover it had a picture of a bottle of milk, bottle of pure water, and a bottle of purified clean air, and of course the morning news paper on the porch step. True these were only qt. bottles, but it's coming. The captioned read "A scene we'd hate to see".
lbaker3602001 7 months ago
@Firestorm189 But gas isn't as clean as electrical power generation methods, since those generate far fewer unburned hydrocarbons like methane or CO. It's much easier to make a grid cleaner than every single person's car. It's one change versus millions of changes.
Also, CO2 isn't really an enemy to anything, even if global warming were true it's by far the most easily handled of any problem, since plants have been absorbing it for millenia. Most other pollution? Couldn't agree more.
falconsbride 4 months ago
There is no point in trying to limit our carbon output. Global warming is natural and there is no way to stop it. If the government does impose a carbon tax i will buy a diesel jetta and run it with vegetable oil
Wallydude03 2 years ago
Why not buy an electric car and never pay for gas anymore? It's cheaper and they are almost as the regular cars.
The only reason I haven't changed yet, it's because we still don't have legislation to buy and drive cars like this in Portugal.
I'll be the first in line to get one of these. I'll never feed those oil fuckers again.
in5secs 2 years ago 2
@Wallydude03 ignorant asshole
Nichen 1 year ago
@Wallydude03 And Venus isn't hotter than Mercury because of its GHG atmosphere. CO2 may not be as powerful as CH4 or as bountiful as H2O but as matter of science when you copiously convert the worlds oil reserves into trillions of pounds of atmospheric CO2 you inadvertently increase the temperature of the globe, increasing the quantity of H2O the air can hold and melt the ice that traps the CH4 in Siberia, creating a runaway chain of events that are factually underway. I believe in scientists.
longhairedartist 1 year ago
@longhairedartist Wake up you are being conned. There is no such thing as man-made global warming...it is just a big scam. Go read Agenda 21, the iron mountain report and see the real agenda behind the lies.
NeilAnthony69 1 year ago
@Wallydude03 I totally agree with that.
Here in São Paulo - Brazil, you get a fine/ticket (about U$300,00 dollars) if you dont do the inspection of your car every year, IT IS JUST THE GOVERNMENTE TAKING MONEY FROM THE PEOPLE! if it is am old car, that a good idea, but new ones come on!
robertorml 1 year ago 2
"Not everywhere on earth is enough free space for new power plants."
???
Look up Concentrating Solar Power plants on Wikipedia. There are about a dozen running and dozens more being built.
They use desert land we can't grow food on, make electricity from sunlight, and even run all night long by storing the sun's heat in molten salt tanks.
Jkirk3279 2 years ago
One day after school, A kid named Dustin Paulo was walking home from school. He got picked on by people beaCUSE HE WAS fat. One of his classmates Kevin Bourne Stabbed 13 times in the shoulder. He died right away. He told the cops that a man attacked them. They belived it. The kid who killed him was taking a shower one day and he felt a hand on his shoulder. He Screamed and his mother went up and found nothing there but peices of hair. A rumor started about Not posting this 5 times in one hour
Belswa 2 years ago
Electric cars with rechargable batteries are the wrong way. Where do you think will the energy come from? How many power plants would we need?
chrigel1234 3 years ago
The idea is to start making electric cars available. We have a lot of unused power now that goes to waste durning the night hours when it is not needed. We do need to build more renewable electric energy sources but we have the energy now to start.
drdhdmd 3 years ago 3
while you're going crazy over the power company, the foot print is still 95% less than a gas car.
i don't know anyone who will scoff at that.
and not every power plant in the universe is coal burning.
cry for the car first. then go to the power plant.
shakaama 3 years ago 2
Wrong mate...electric cars are a simple way of allowing transport to be powered by re-non-renewable sources such as wind, solar, hydro etc.
sixmagpies 3 years ago
It's far easier to regulate and clean up 1 power plant then it is to clean up and regulate 150 million gas cars. New tech. is researching cleaner and better ways to generate power (wind, solar, etc). I have an EV and charge it at night(a timer on my charger in my garage is set to start at 11pm when demand is down). We are told to start our dishwashers after 11pm. Power plants cannot shut down; they still have to generate electricity which is why they encourage you to use appliances at night.
bergerri1 3 years ago 2
You're certainly right... that's what I said... we need more power plants if cars run electric. And you're also right that one power plant can easier be made clean than millions of cars. But....
Not everywhere on earth is enough free space for new power plants.
My solution: Electric engine->fuel cells driven by hydrogen->hydrogen made with solar energy from the sahara desert.
This keeps the arabs busy and prevents them from getting strange ideas. What would they do if oil runs out?
chrigel1234 3 years ago
electricty is the only power that can be created useing its own power. meaning you can use electricity to make more electricity. there is already technology out that accomplishs this. search "bedini" although i believe it is open loop or something so some idiots dont believe in it. but it works so what ever.
chrisf77 3 years ago
Oh yeah.... sure you can.
You put the plug into the outlet, draw 100 Watts out of it, do some magic and get 500 Watt at the other end of the cable. Is this what you mean?
If this would really work... why doesn't someone make an awful lot of money with it? Where I live, electric power companies are paying good money if you supply power into their grid.
You invented a money making machine eh???
chrigel1234 3 years ago
is this comment ment for me?
In simple terms what i mean to say is. electricity can be made by useing electricity, even if you get less electricity, it can still be made useing its own power source. can you say that much for other power sources? gas can not make gas. electricty is avaliable everywhere and can be made everywhere. in a very simple way.
people have found ways to make more electricity then is used. it may seem imposable but it is not. search bedini if you want to know more.
chrisf77 3 years ago
Chrisf77:
If you say that electricity can be made anytime and with relatively simple methods, you're right.
But what do you mean with "use electricity to make electricity"? What's the sense of that???
You cannot create energy, it's always a conversion from one form into another. You need light, gas, oil, water etc. to get electric power.
What is the sense of using electricity to make electricity?
chrigel1234 3 years ago
it is impossible
mageac 2 years ago
Renewable energysources are the way to go in my opinion. Here in Denmark about 20% of our electricity comes from windmills. And even if we were to use coal fired power plants. They are far more efficient than a gasoline or diesel engine, as is an electric engine. So the overall eficiency will be far greater overall with electric vehicles than with vehicels power by combustion engines.
However, i would miss the roar of an engine in the morning.
Gassig 2 years ago 2
maybe more efficient the coal powerplant but lots more of pollution i think
QuebecoisSti 2 years ago
armolite :"..physicist, wow im impressed, that must mean that you are so much cleverer than me, .."
Thats EXECTLY what it means
UnitedProvinces 3 years ago
Sorry, I'm not doubting the vehicle, I've seen it featured in several programs.
But this video is just saying, "it is written, therefore it is true."
BigglesPiP 3 years ago
Thank you for the reply.
Also the idea of car flying and not needing a heavy battery is not far fetch.
Tesla made his electric car in 1931, no battery and it works.
Look for Anti Gravity John Lear. Imagine a car like that. But the big corporation does not want this.
Topazman12 3 years ago
I'd like to meet your grandma .. or sister. Thanks for the tip, but there are problems with your grandma's method: Illegal to drain hydrochloric acid and dump it down the drain in certain jurisdictions and also poisons groundwater eventturally. Also, one VEVA member is blind from a battery accident. In contrast, my method doesn't require acid replacement -- if you look at my truck, you'll notice that every battery is "sealed" - gel and AGM types, so I didn't replace any liquid.
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
To revive a lead acid battery first drain it, then add new electrolite to the cells, plus distilled water. The battery will be good for about a year, and that's about it. Source: grandma who grew up in the hills of West Virginia during the great Depression.
pvelectric 3 years ago
how do you make the electrolyte?
hhohydrogen 3 years ago
You can usually buy electrolyte at any auto parts store. I get mine, for deep cycle lead acid batts I charge with solar pv panels (modules), at the local Pep Boys.
pvelectric 3 years ago
thank you pvelectric
hhohydrogen 3 years ago
Great idea! lame video though... Cool truck!!!
kaduisaui 3 years ago
Also, Nikolas Tesla invented wireless Electric Power transmission and he patented it. That would mean a future car would only have a receiver to absorb electricity from the air to recharge its batteries. No need to drive home to plug the car in the socket to charge overnight. But Westinghouse pulled his funding once Tesla mentioned this free electricity idea. Too bad for us.
Topazman12 3 years ago 2
Maybe not too late -- but, you'll hafta' make it yourself, 'cuz the giant corporations aren't interested. Read Jeane Manning's books, because there are many methods of obtaining (nearly) free energy. But, start with geoexchange (geothermal) because that's easy and is over-unity, according to government of Canada website.
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
@Topazman12 its not actually free you can still pay a monthly fee :) but sending free electricity in open air its not something what you want to do cuz it can affect gps-s and other stuff
Abraxas20012 1 year ago
@Topazman12
it was j. p. morgan, the international banker that pulled his funding when he found out the wardenclyffe tower could transmit electricity to the world with no ability to measure who was using what amount.
roopsingh1394 1 year ago
I watched on the News that in Research labs people are creating batteries so small and thin as paper that it would weigh only ounces yet provide the same power output as a regular laptop battery. So in the future you would not have 100's of pounds of battery put into an electric car. But you would have a thin sheet of battery. I am waiting for updates on this.
Topazman12 3 years ago
You cannot fully recharge a lead acid cell in two hours - fact!
mraprojects 3 years ago
captian planet did it.
fr3nzi 3 years ago
To those who think that electric rates will sky rocket they are in a box. In the future this car will fly and electricity will be free since someone will invent an electric generator so that each of us will have one at home giving us free power. In fact, people are already working on it. Imagine a small electric generator small enough to fit inside a car.
Topazman12 3 years ago
Where to start. This car won't fly and battery power will most likely never be a viable option for flight because of their weight. We already have small generators but that does not make electricity free. You have to supply power to the generator by burring some fuel (=$+pollution). And how would you power the generator in the car? With gas? Think before you post something. Batteries may be a solution to land based travel, but thats when their cost comes down and energy density increases.
brockunc 3 years ago
have you never heard of a permanent magnet motor ?
costs nothing to run and produces electricity indefinitely, also very easy to build its old technology now but if you look on youtube another type of free generator has already been invented and is in the final stage of manufacture it is about as big as a biscuit barrel and produces over 2Kw .... so think before you post.
hydrogen or even browns gas will run an IC / petrol engine and does burning hydrogen pollute ?
NO, now go get educated.
armolite 3 years ago
I think your the one that needs an education. I happen to be a physicist and what are you? Some fool that saw a video on the internet and believes it without any understanding of how things actually work.
The permanent magnet motor, guess what it does not work. NO one has ever produced a working model. Does burning hydrogen pollute? Yes because how do you get that hydrogen? Through electrolysis which takes electricity made from coal plants. Think before you post retard.
brockunc 3 years ago
Honda is in LA is making hydrogen to fuel city fleet fuel cell EVs using solar photovoltaic panels (modules). Their website has pictures of the sun-run cars next to the panels. Honda has just recently announced they intend to manufacture solar panels also.
pvelectric 3 years ago
link?
neuFuture 3 years ago
The problem with this is there is no way with our current technology to power even a fraction of the cars with solar power. I think solar power is more useful for homes at the moment (though still expensive). I think by the time we get solar cells to be cost effective and more efficient, battery technology will be a better storage option than hydrogen.
brockunc 3 years ago
physicist, wow im impressed, that must mean that you are so much cleverer than me, oh & as for using electrolysis ...yes, but using fossil fuels to generate hydrogen NO you eejit & i did not suggest using fossil fuels, try a few poly or monosilicone solar panels, linked to batteries and an inverter if required :-)
well mr brockunk, i may be a "retard" but that surely makes you a shite physicist.
as for permanent magnet, perhaps what ive seen and read was lies, but ill see for myself thanks.
armolite 3 years ago
Once again you're not thinking before you post. Solar energy generates far less than 1% of our electricity output. So if you think generating the amount of hydrogen it would take to replace gas can be done with our current technology you're just wrong. I happen to think improvements in battery technology will come before any viable hydrogen technology is available. If you are going to flame someone make sure you know what your talking about.
brockunc 3 years ago
LOL then you will be stopping at the Gas Station to fill up the tank of the generator.
timrocket2008 3 years ago
if every body used electic cars the price of electric would sky rocket
micheals1992 3 years ago
Well, perhaps it would, but not because it just has to be this way, but government stands behind oil companies. Atm. oil and car companies hold battery patents to block electric car development.
Joru666 3 years ago
99.99% cheaper. at 30 cents a day that makes the tesla cost $300 dollars a day. I don't think so.
abundantsnotbob 3 years ago
or maybe that would be $3,000.
abundantsnotbob 3 years ago
30 miles per 8 hour charge (thumbs up to gay) oh wait... thumbs down.
andrewbnkjv 3 years ago 2
That's in the slowest mode of charging. The charger has 3 speeds. Fastest is 2 hours. Thumbs up??
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
I read u can buy x ray specs in the back of a comic book too, they dint work man neiter does the claims in that article, wanna buy sum ostrich eggs or sum snake oil i can hook u up
buttgoblin707 3 years ago
Why don't you take some time to research the Revived Battery Pickup a little before posting. You'll see that this was chosen by Canadian Business magazine as one of the top 3 inventions for 2008, and was a front page story in Ming Pao magazine. Also, you would have seen that Global TV brought their own battery expert before they ran the story on the evening news. -Rob
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
"Gimme 99 buck and I'll tell you" is what signals total BS to me.........
UTubeGlennAR 3 years ago
This was terrible, I don't need to go to YouTube to read a damn magazine.
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BatteryReviver 3 years ago
When people hear ELECTRIC VEHICLE, it sounds silly like when we watch old movies of aviation pioneers trying to fly with silly machines. But ELECTIRC POWERED VEHICLES have great future. And we are just about to find it out.
ParaglidingManiac 3 years ago 3
funny too, because electric vehicles are as old as IC engine powered vehicles.
gumpdy 3 years ago 2
ANd how do we use this to power uor cars? How is it done?
patch011 3 years ago
Look up my classified ads listings for DIY Revived Batteries.
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
You're right. The major running (operational) cost of any EV is battery replacement cost.
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
The American consumer must stop using mi. per. gal. to compare gas powered cars with EV's. That is like comparing apples to oranges. It just does not work. We need to star thanking in mi. per. dollar. An EV typically gets 10 to 20 times the distance from $1.00 worth of elec. then a gas car can get from $1.00 worth of gas. Think about it, that's a 90% to 95% savings.
GSpotter63 3 years ago
If that's true you guys must have ridiculously cheap electricity over there
sondano 3 years ago
The cost is 3 cents per kilometer for this "free battery" electric vehicle. Remember that for an electric vehicle, the MAIN COST is battery replacement -- not electricity. Therefore, Revived Batteries are the key to cheap driving.
The Revived Battery process was selected last week by Canadian Business magazine (July 21 issue) as one of the top three Intriguing Inventions For 2008.
This vehicle was also featured in the front page story in Ming Pao magazine.
You'll find both in my other videos.
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
Show me someone who isn't retired that goes just 10 kilometers(6.2 miles) per day? I like the idea of alternative energys, but when they ride the fringe of statistics to prove their point to mainstream, it is really iritating.
ss0rca 3 years ago
Drive an electric golf cart. Double the Gax tax and have the goverment pay a 1500.00 rebait to every new Golf cart purchased thats made in the USA. NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW
ubuibiok 3 years ago
Double the gas tax?? You're nuts!
packrat76 3 years ago 2
Could these vehicles have anything to do with the sudden sharp increase in gasoline prices?
(I don't know, just wondering and speculating)
Is it big oil desperate last chance to gouge the public. Once alternative technology is mainstream for motor vehicles...bye, bye big oil profits!
ikekll 3 years ago
No, its actually the total opposite. The reason these vehicles are even being looked at is the ridiculous cost (and inevitable running out) of gasoline.
NeoNoggie 3 years ago
These vehicles are way cheaper then gas cars. unless your going to buy 10 year old gas vehicles for the rest of your life. brand new electric cars cost $20-40k same price as a brand new honda accord, toyota camery, list goes on... if you invest in wind mills, water mills, solar panels, parabolic trophs with steam engines, you can power your home and your car for free. now some of which were listed will cost you but some of the others you can make your self under a couple hundred $.
nicktumi 3 years ago
The real cost of gasoline is subsidized by the US gov insuring its supply using the military-industrial-congressional complex, and since all violence does is insure more violence and destruction, there is never funding left over for a transition to free electricity from the sun, no matter who wants to fund it. Private firms and a public which rely on this kind of system, Ayn Rand called "Corporate Socialists."
pvelectric 3 years ago
Nice point, haven't thought about it like that. They must be starting to panic.
blindman000 3 years ago
These vehicles are way cheaper then gas cars. unless your going to buy 10 year old gas vehicles for the rest of your life. brand new electric cars cost $20-40k same price as a brand new honda accord, toyota camery, list goes on... if you invest in wind mills, water mills, solar panels, parabolic trophs with steam engines, you can power your home and your car for free. now some of which were listed will cost you but some of the others you can make your self under a couple hundred $.
nicktumi 3 years ago
this was a reply to
NeoNoggie
nicktumi 3 years ago
Be aware that there are only 12 licensed electric cars left in BC (British Columbia, Canada). About five years ago, there were over 40 e-cars. Gasoline cost has increased, but there are fewer electric cars. Our amateur inventors group has managed to modify one into one of the few that is driven regularly -- this is not a simple feat. The hyperlink text can be found in EV DIARY PART SEVEN.
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
what, exactly, was the point of this video? wouldn't a simple list of hyperlinks been more effective?
eyebum 3 years ago
BTW the battery revival process is for sale at the BuySellCommunity dot com classfied ads.
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
FYI, if we had used the same batteries (LiON) as Tesla, the pack's cost would be $45,000 for this pickup. If you want the full story, Google REVIVED BATTERY PICKUP EV DIARY.
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
Oh, I see. Typically battery replacement is seen as a maintance not operating cost, but if you look at the every cost; initial, maintance, and operating cost, and compare both over the same time period then it can be seen as an operating cost.
Any-who, this is a sweet concept. I did not know that batteries could be pickup for free. I am an electrical engineering grad at WSU, and was waiting for the GM volt, but this sounds cooler.
cougnit 3 years ago
If we just compare the cost to operate, recharge, this truck and the tesla, the cost should be the same, assuming the price of electricity is the same. But my bet is that tesla is more efficient hence the operating cost is less.
snizzlemedizzle 3 years ago
Your comment isn't on the right track.
This pickup truck runs on FREE BATTERIES (discarded batteries - revived batteries). FYI, the biggest cost of any EV is the REPLACEMENT COST OF BATTERIES. Battery packs don't last long in some cases, despite what the manufacturer claims. Approx. 80% of EV's in BC, Canada are sidelined because of the short life (800 kms., in one case) of batteries and the REPLACEMENT COST.
BatteryReviver 3 years ago
Why is it 99.99% cheaper than a Tesla, and why is it the "first revived" pickup?
DeLorean4 4 years ago
it's running on revived batteries.
Got no explanation for the 99.99% better than Tesla, that might be a bit overestimated, but hey, converting an old car to run on old batteries is still a lot cheaper than a Tesla I guess!
dahuz795 3 years ago
Revived as in they filled them up with new acid?
DeLorean4 3 years ago
I got no idea to be honest, but I guess you're right. But I think that the acid they use then is recycled as well, otherwise it wouldn't be that economical.
dahuz795 3 years ago
you are all gay electric cars a re not really thay are all hydrogen not battry poweredad se my video gay prickx britney is are god of hydrogn live long hydrogen.
assman115 4 years ago
your a fucking idiot, faggot! How did you learn how to use the keyboard! Did you type this all by yourself? STFUF
carnut76 4 years ago
a tesla is lighter so it should be more efficient.
hondabait 4 years ago
I'm trying to figure out why 30c/day is 99.99% cheaper than fueling a Tesla? I'd image that 3kWh of electricity in a Tesla would take you more miles than the same amount in a pickup truck (this educated guess comes from owning/driving both an EV1 and a Ford Ranger EV).
darelldd 4 years ago
Here's the answer: The biggest cost of an EV is the battery pack's replacement cost. This pickup runs on discarded batteries -- nearly zero cost. Tom Hank's EV's battery replacement cost is $30-$40,000 -- could happen in a year, even though the manufacturer's estimate is several years. (Ask any real EV owner -- the "joker" is the bad charger -- that's what killed the Electric Car, imo.)
BatteryReviver 4 years ago
Hard to take your response seriously when you say that I should "ask any real EV owner) something. Did I not mention that I had an EV1, and a Ford Ranger EV? I still drive a Rav4EV. So I'll ask myself. "Self, is the bad charger what killed the Electric Car?" Answer from self, "no."
When did Tom Hanks replace the batteries in his car? Oh, I remember - he didn't.
darelldd 4 years ago
Hi, we're two blind men trying to describe an elephant. My definition of an electric car is the "average" one in EValbum, i.e. mostly with Zivan battery chargers. Your EV's didn't use Zivan chargers, did they? My statement re Hank's eBox (great EV, Cocconi, its builder, is a hero to me) is a futuristic guess -- hasn't happened yet.
No, your EV1 wasn't killed by a bad charger, like many of the idled EV's out there. Can we move on to Chris Paine's next movie, then, "Who Saved The Electric Car?"
BatteryReviver 4 years ago
"Ask any real EV owner -- the "joker" is the bad charger -- that's what killed the Electric Car, imo." - I agree so I hooked up the DC batteries on my EV directly to solar photovoltaic panels (see my video) and thereby realized the 1/3 increase, from 3 to 5 years in battery life, by the high quality solar slow-charging at low amps.
pvelectric 3 years ago
LIONEV IS A SCAAAAAAM!!! THEY WANT to take your MONEY via DECEPTION!! TRIBLUERED IS LIONEV - A TROLL.
1blueplanet 4 years ago
I don't know about that, I've heard good things about LionEV's batteries from someone who's using them in his EV.
cant7think7clearly 4 years ago
battery revival is nothing new.
crippled82 4 years ago
I agree. But no one seems to have put different sizes/type of batteries in a licensed pickup before, an used it for daily driving. This is like having a flashlight with 30 batteries of different sizes/ages. The manufacturer's caution on the AA battery sez it shouldn't be done.
BatteryReviver 4 years ago
A collection of videos with no substance. too bad you don't give any actual information about how to recycle batteries... I watched all your videos for nothing. Your unwillingness to share this information here publicly seems to indicate that you are going to try to make a profit from the information.... am I wrong?
stevezone 4 years ago
Check out my ebay and classified listings. Yes, this technique is available.
BatteryReviver 4 years ago
If Tom Hanks buys the batteries from Lionev, it would cost him about $10K. If he wanted the High End Battery core that does 400+ miles, it will cost a little more.
tribluered 4 years ago