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Exodus commented Jul 7, 2017Siemes has a 200kW motor (~265bhp) which would power a truck. Also it is easy to put 2 electric motors into a truck. The problem is the energy storage required. The good news with a truck is that adding 5 tonnes of battery is a small thing....... ...
Volvo will go all electric by 2019, drop traditional engines
- Exodus commented Jul 7, 2017
The same thing killed the UK cars industry. Lack of vision by the people at the top of the relevant companies combined with being hamstrung by Unions meant that adopting new technology and manufacturing methods was impossible. So all the 'British' ...
Volvo will go all electric by 2019, drop traditional engines
- Exodus commented Jul 7, 2017
It is being done. Check out..... url url
Volvo will go all electric by 2019, drop traditional engines
- Exodus commented Jul 7, 2017
Bro, a pear is a fruit that grows on a tree. In the case of a Nigerian pear, the tree is in Nigeria. Just sayin.... Peace bro
Volvo will go all electric by 2019, drop traditional engines
- Exodus replied Jul 6, 2017
These days, every time that I see that man TB's face, I feel sick.
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- Exodus replied Jul 6, 2017
Those of us with long-enough memories remember the final weeks before the commencement of Iraq-2 Saddam Hussein gradually shifted from "I have no WMDs" through " I absolutely have no WMDs", fleetingly "really! there are no WMDs" In the final days it ...
The Rabbit Hole
- Exodus replied Jul 6, 2017
A talking head was expounding the virtues of: rescue, feed, rest re-patriate (rinse and repeat) The thinking being that they would eventually desist. ...and I had thought about going to Poland. I wonder which language is easiest to master.....
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- Exodus commented Jul 6, 2017
...and if they move production to Sunderland UK, the could become .... "eeee-Volvo"
Volvo will go all electric by 2019, drop traditional engines
- Exodus commented Jul 6, 2017
Hydrogen can be electrolysed out of water, the other by-product being Oxygen. Hydrogen can be liquified, but it needs to be rather cold. 33K seems to be the critical temperature, and even colder if the pressure is normal atmospheric.
Volvo will go all electric by 2019, drop traditional engines
- Exodus replied Jul 6, 2017
Close to my heart, alternative energy. Nice to see a British company doing good stuff. Especially like the domestic generation system. In for 10,000 shares. url
(binned per thread starter's request) The big... IF
- Exodus commented Jul 6, 2017
They need to ditch that 'CVT' handle. There have been some CVT transmissions which are notoriously unreliable. Even those true CVT transmissions that seem to work reliably have to have their drive belts changed every 50,000km (or whatever) at great ...
Volvo will go all electric by 2019, drop traditional engines
- Exodus commented Jul 6, 2017
What Volvo said yesterday (according to MSM
) is that in 2 years time none of their cars will be hydrocarbon fuel only vehicles. So hybrid or full electric.Volvo will go all electric by 2019, drop traditional engines
- Exodus replied Jul 6, 2017
Here you are Stu, this should see you right... image
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- Exodus commented Jul 5, 2017
Hydrogen engines are here already. 'Engines' might not be the correct word since I have not researched the technology, it might be fuel cell; however I do know that Toyota (?) has made available for free a large number of patents for use by ...
Volvo will go all electric by 2019, drop traditional engines
- Exodus replied Jul 5, 2017
In the UK we are not allowed to defend ourselves. Carrying knives, crowbars or baseball bats is considered to be carrying an offensive weapon. You can't buy a sledge hammer or pick-axe without ID. Even having a bat in your trunk is deemed to be ...
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- Exodus replied Jul 5, 2017
When the civil war starts we all lose. The army will be of no use.
The Rabbit Hole
- Exodus commented Jul 5, 2017
I never did like Nigerian pears
Volvo will go all electric by 2019, drop traditional engines