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RE: Electric/hybrid vehicles - CharlesHarris - 14 February 2017
Recently visited Toyota dealership and they had a small 1/2 ton gas-electric hybrid pickup, but a Ford F150 is $10k less than the hybrid rice truck.
RE: Electric/hybrid vehicles - Mortblanc - 14 February 2017
At the price of gas right now the $10k price difference would buy fuel for the first 110k miles you put on that F150!
RE: Electric/hybrid vehicles - Lightspeed - 14 February 2017
I don't know th numbers but for a shortish grid down situation, maybe electric powered vehicles could pull charge from PV arrays.... this could keep their owners moving if conventional liquid fuels were unavailable. ( Not pumpable due to no electricity for example)
I say shortish as the battery banks on these cars are consumable items with a certain life-span, so not good as a long term solution. I think that Mary's horses win-out on that front:-)
RE: Electric/hybrid vehicles - CharlesHarris - 14 February 2017
And their advantage is that in REALLY bad times you can always eat the horse!
RE: Electric/hybrid vehicles - CharlesHarris - 14 February 2017
RE: Electric/hybrid vehicles - MaryN - 14 February 2017
(14 February 2017, 17:26)CharlesHarris Wrote: And their advantage is that in REALLY bad times you can always eat the horse!
Wash your mouth out!
RE: Electric/hybrid vehicles - CharlesHarris - 14 February 2017
RE: Electric/hybrid vehicles - MaryN - 15 February 2017
Yes, thank you, I am quite aware of the horse-eating predilections of the French. I lived there for over 8 years. Lovely country. Horsemeat eating now is thankfully becoming rather "uncool". The Belgians still seem to have the taste for it, but then, they are Belgians. Enough said.
RE: Electric/hybrid vehicles - Barneyboy - 15 February 2017
I would eat and do eat pretty much everything,but I think I would draw the line at horses,and donkeys
RE: Electric/hybrid vehicles - CharlesHarris - 15 February 2017
As my Vietnamese neighbor would say, "young dog, old cat..."