Girl's Electric Car Needs New Battery but It's More Expensive Than Vehicle Itself - Then She Gets Even Worse News...The Siwinskis were told the battery pack was at the end of its life and needed to be replaced, and the bill was going to be $14,000...The dealer said it couldn’t even get a battery.
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Hybrid is currently a much more effective concept. I hate ford, but they have something called the powerboost. Its the 3.5 ecoboost with a hybrid system attached to it. I believe that should be the next step before ALL electric.
Cars should be like trains... But with a small turbo diesel generator, some big capacitors / high discharge batters and powerful motor...
The tech to advance ICE to tremendously efficient is out there. Koenigsegg had some brilliant advancement with freevalve, but sold it to chynah...
That was how the Chevy Volt was set up but with a standard gasoline NA engine.
It worked so well that Chevy killed it.
they were told to kill it .../!
GM
Government Motors
Hybrid is the best. Our Honda, zero problems and 50mpg because my wife drives gently
Volkswagen had a 3cyl with 90mpg in Europe. Problem with US is people drive like assholes. Not to mention 100 pound women driving 3 row SUVs for their 1 kid and small dog or twinks compensating with their lifted extended cab or douchebags with their Mustangs
We had a Toyota Prius that got 45-50 mpg if you drove it like a golf cart and filled it up with ethanol free gas. It was more like 35-42 mpg with standard ethanol and driven normally.
My wife has had multiple back surgeries so we ended up replacing it with a used SUV because it had much more comfortable seats and was easier to get in. Our SUV gets anywhere from 24-27 MPG with ethanol free gas and from 18-22 with standard ethanol.
I spend more on the ethanol free so my lines and engine doesn't get clogged up with corn residue.
My thoughts as well. The math is pretty simple if anyone bothers to do it. Going after the stop / start and hill climbing inefficiencies makes the biggest overall difference.
Except the Ecoboost is a pile of crap.
I had a 2013 Ford F150 FX2 with the V6 twin turbo 3.5L Eco in it. First problem was a leaking Rear Diff Pinion Seal at 47k miles; like WTF. At 85K it began cascading failures: transmission Lead Frame, Throttle body, Turbos, and finally I got rid of it due to a head gasket fail (oil looked like creamed mocha coffee). I babied that thing, never drove it hard and never towed a single trailer but did use the bed to help move a few people to new houses and my own home projects.
Did a lot of research into those engines once things began failing and they're just crap, many failing before 100k miles. Never again. Traded in for a RAM Laramie 4x4 with the 5.7 Hemi. Couldnt be happier. Missed that V8 rumble.
Real talk. All these normies creaming over turbo cars haven't been around a truck shop when the turbo goes out and the bill is in the thousands.
Naturally aspirated for me thanks.
Oh i totally agree. I drive my 08 sierra like a 2 dollar whore and only have put front bearings and axles in it. Other than that, it takes whatever i give it. Those ecoboosts are fun while they last but you just cant throw twin turbos on anything you want and expect it to last. Almost every truck that came in at 120k either needed turbos, or had just got them and the timing chain and solenoids were going out. Thats the next thing to go bad.
The hemi V8s are outstanding but like with any motor that has displacement on demand (4 cyl shut off mode) i would either have it tuned to have that shit shut off, deleted all together, or an aftermarket obd2 plug that can keep it from switching to that mode. When these newer vehicles shut those 4 cyls down, its hard as FUCK on the motor. If you turn that mode off, theyll run and last like any other old school motor. Engineers could learn a thing or two from us rednecks about how to make a motor run right because ive made a pretty good living fixing their bullshit lmao.
Ford was pushing lots of money into the anti-family activists about that time (~2008-2015). They lost my business with that BS and I never looked back.