this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
15 points (89.5% liked)
Electric Vehicles
1548 readers
113 users here now
Overview:
Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.
Related communities:
- !automotive@discuss.tchncs.de
- !avs@futurology.today
- !byd@lemmy.world
- !ebike@lemm.ee
- !energy@slrpnk.net
- !geely@lemmy.world
- !micromobility@lemmy.world
- !polestar@lemmy.ca
- !rivian@lemmy.zip
- !teslamotors@lemmy.zip
- !xiaomi@lemdro.id
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's ironic that the article gives the perfect argument against itself:
Which means that EREVs are, in fact, used as electric vehicles for "nearly all driving trips".
It's as if the article is ignoring that EREVs run off the battery first and have a (fairly efficient) gas generator as backup. Plus China-blaming, plus saying "the Ukraine" (by now, you should know better).
Yeah but the case with EREVs is that you have introduced a fundamentally different system into your powertrain. That adds an additional point of failure for the critical high voltage electrical system which is a stupid tradeoff to make when the system will almost never be used