[1971-Chevelle]

It didn't do so hot.

Lordstown Motors Endurance Race Truck Called It Quits After 40 Miles of Baja’s San Felipe 250

Sandy terrain and bigger tires required more battery power than they expected.

www.thedrive.com

 

[Stokerboats]

Waiting for Biden to announce using this technology in the Military after reading this.

 

[elco68]

Why not just fuel the trucks instead of fuel the generators needed to then fuel the trucks.

 

[Richard/SIA]

Welcome to the REAL world!

 

[427L88]

Remember when gas engines had 7:1 compression and made 35 hp? Have to start somewhere. That's the real world.

 

[elco68]

Short Seller Trains Sights on EV Startup Lordstown, Prompting Share Slide - WSJ

 

[427L88]

Old news. And given the bullshit that Nikola pushed, including to GM, who can blame them for targeting all the small EVs.

My pick is simple : DANA Ya'll might know them. And they are ready for the new wave of EVs.

 

[1971-Chevelle]

Old news. And given the bullshit that Nikola pushed, including to GM, who can blame them for targeting all the small EVs.

My pick is simple : DANA Ya'll might know them. And they are ready for the new wave of EVs.

How is this old news?? The race was like 5 days ago.

 

[elco68]

All the years I have worked with engineers I would have wanted proof of it working before I spent the money to go to that race.

 

[Jim Mac]

doesn't trains run a deisle generator to power a electric motor? would something like that work in a car? I know a deisle engine to power a car makes more sense. jim

 

[Stokerboats]

Remember when gas engines had 7:1 compression and made 35 hp? Have to start somewhere. That's the real world.

They've been around for a while.

General Motors EV1 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[427L88]

How is this old news?? The race was like 5 days ago.

I thought it was last year I saw this. It must have been another "failure". Sorry.

 

[Derek69SS]

They've been around for a while.

General Motors EV1 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

120 years

STILL 120 years later... range, charge time, battery life, and battery replacement cost are the major problems that make them not viable to most people...