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General Category => POLITICS (IF YOU DO NOT LIKE POLITICS, THEN DON'T GO IN HERE! => Topic started by: TexasT on October 13, 2022, 05:01:31 PM

Title: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: TexasT on October 13, 2022, 05:01:31 PM: https://www.theautopian.com/the-chrysler-aspen-hybrid-was-a-hemi-v8-powered-towing-beast-that-got-over-20-mpg-cold-start/
Now this is something I could see myself owning. Has the engine and can run with that. Has some batteries and 87hp electric motors(2) that can do it or just provide assistance at cruising speeds . A battery that is charged with the braking forces. Why is there such a wild swing for the fences jump trying to shoot the gap into ALL electric, ALL the time? Especially when the charging is such an issue. And the battery tech for a large truck or SUV just isn't on the table and might not be for a while.

For now I'm pretty happy with the Cummins and the big block Chevy and their appetite for liquid fuels. And their ability to tow what I want, when I want for as long as I want.
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: slip knot on October 13, 2022, 06:15:38 PM: Does anything this administration is forcing on us make sense? :017:
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: Lookin4_67GalaxieConv on October 13, 2022, 06:52:45 PM: Quote from: slip knot on October 13, 2022, 06:15:38 PM
Does anything this administration is forcing on us make sense? :017:

About as much sense as someone with dementia in the White House who trades on the deaths of his own family members.
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: wantedabiggergarage on October 13, 2022, 08:54:55 PM: Quote from: slip knot on October 13, 2022, 06:15:38 PM
Does anything this administration is forcing on us make sense? :017:

If they are exempt from insider trading, such as Congress, then yes..........
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: walrus on October 15, 2022, 06:31:38 AM: Aren't you free to buy whatever you want? I'm not buying an electric car. When the Model T came out all the horse lovers said they wouldn't buy a Model T, looked what happened. :93: Without more Nukes electric cars are a pipedream. I think before its over(not in my lifetime though) hydrogen will power vehicles.
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: slip knot on October 15, 2022, 08:21:11 AM: I think Cali is pushing ICEs out in a few more years so you will at some point be forced into electrical. But I agree hydrogen is the next viable vehicle power plant
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: fatfillup on October 17, 2022, 08:39:59 AM: gotta agree with Walrus

Nobody says you have to buy and electric car. Makes sense for some, others not.

I do like the idea of hybrid.
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: wantedabiggergarage on October 17, 2022, 08:55:13 PM: Quote from: slip knot on October 15, 2022, 08:21:11 AM
I think Cali is pushing ICEs out in a few more years so you will at some point be forced into electrical. But I agree hydrogen is the next viable vehicle power plant

Took me a few trys. I was trying to figure out if there was a bunch of illegal electricians, or what Immigration and Customs Enforcement had to do with electrical.
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: slip knot on October 18, 2022, 01:14:47 PM: ICE. Internal Combustion Engine

Some of the other sites I frequent use this acronym. Sorry for the confusion
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: wantedabiggergarage on October 19, 2022, 08:34:01 PM: Quote from: slip knot on October 18, 2022, 01:14:47 PM
ICE. Internal Combustion Engine

Some of the other sites I frequent use this acronym. Sorry for the confusion

I think it was more due to this being the politics section, that that, was where my mind was.
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: TexasT on April 26, 2023, 09:08:39 AM: https://www.westernjournal.com/californian-learns-brutal-lesson-evs-stranded-truck-hauled-away-wyoming-report/?utm_source=RSSfeed&utm_medium=RSSfeed&utm_campaign=RSSfeed&utm_content=2023-04-26

Got him a snoot full. Didn't work out so weel, and he called it disappointing.
Title: Re: Hybrid seems way more attainable.
Post by: Lookin4_67GalaxieConv on April 26, 2023, 09:47:50 AM: Quote from: walrus on October 15, 2022, 06:31:38 AM
Aren't you free to buy whatever you want?

Not for much longer, especially in California.