Electric F-150 loses 25% of range with full payload, AAA study finds, gas version can drive 200 miles farther
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True, but the main flaw of the electric car or truck is that the battery powers everything while a conventional car or truck only has the battery power the starter, lights, computer, and radio while gas takes care of the engine.
Also the battery is as high as $20,000.
You could have a nice used gas guzzler sedan, for that amount, right off the rental lot.
It still requires more fuel to move loads than when it is "empty". A hill adds load when uphill and lessens it downhill. Against the wind or with it. When it runs out of whatever fuel you have to add more. The electrical parts of the car facilitate the engines to run efficiently. Safely. The same principle applies to every system. Including you, me and everyone else. That the range of a combustion system requires X amount of fuel to travel the same distance, the difference is in the efficiency gap between hrdro-carbons and current battery tech. The hybrid system is far superior to both alone. I would still prefer that energy was transmitted just as other wavelengths of frequency waves are for everything wireless. "Tooling" around in my flying car has been sort of a dream since I first watched the Jetsons.
That is true, but in most conventional vehicles, the battery is separate from the engine while a electric car has the battery power the engine.
and the battery recharges from the alternator as you drive.
Plus there is no need to seek out a charger like on an electric car or truck. Of course, you do need a gas station now and then, but I could fill 100 gas guzzlers for the time it takes me to charge one electric car.