Recent content by Bilsch

Sorry if it was unclear but I wasn't referencing anything in your post. In fact I agree with everything you said. Just happened to be musing about how often I read the truck range thing around the web.

Reading the interwebs one would get the impression every pickup truck driver takes their vehicle daily to the maximum extent of the range, nonstop cannonball run style. While also towing something heavy.

Speaking of moved goal posts I feel bad for the people that bought hydrogen fuel cars hoping the infrastructure would improve. It was bad enough they had only 59 total stations in the US but Shell recently announced closing another 7 and pulling out of that business. In 2014 had briefly...

Up until a couple years ago not enough for us out here. Now though there are plenty of chargers even for early adopters with smaller batteries and less efficient motors. Tesla owners anyway.

One book? If thats the question then without a doubt.. Technology Brewing and Malting by Wolfgang Kunze. Books written by homebrewers are often wrong. Better to get your information from where the degreed professionals learn.

Yea what kind of crazy car company would include a disable button to stop the rain sensing wipers in a car wash.

A couple turns of electrical tape before clamping will protect silicone hoses from clamp damage.

I keep my car in chill mode specifically to discourage myself from doing dumb things.

The problem for hydrogen is that you will always be able to drive at least twice as far on a kilowatt of electricity directly in an EV then you could on the hydrogen made from that same kilowatt of power. Sadly there is no way around that.

The price of hydrogen would have to be $3/kg to reach price parity with electric vehicles. It's currently over $30 in California where all the H2 filling stations are. In comparison it's about 15 euro/kg in Europe.

Yep.. that happened. Oh well. I guess I really didn't need to know.

You mentioned your reason was the difference in price was 10 years of gas. I'm wondering what the calculation would be taking into account the savings in fuel cost and maintenance. That's it. Usually when all is considered the EV comes out less especially over 10 years time. Unless of course...

I guess I was interested in the full calculation including savings in the differences in fuel vs electric cost per mile and maintenance savings. Over time these generally save more then the vehicle cost difference.

Even if you take into account the cost savings on fuel and maintenance?

If you are into the engineering of it all Munro Live on youtube has teardown videos of most all electric vehicles and then they comment on the design and quality. I know they have done quite a few on the MachE.