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Electric Spyders on the way

Bob Denman said:
Until there's an established infrastructure that allows for swapping out standardized batteries for fresh ones: these critters will be useful for short trips around Town, and the odd 100 mile round trip to nowhere... nojoke
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Not if they have fast recharge times, like 1 hour or less. Charge it up while taking a lunch break. Problem solved. Can go cross-country that way.
 
How long will it take you to cross the County; with a one-hour stop every 100 miles or so... :banghead:
They don't have this yet, and there's no infrastructure in place.

Having said this: it will eventually get here: I'm certain of that.
But for now: I'll take a gas engine, and cover over 600 miles a day... :thumbup:

"Not if they have fast recharge times, like 1 hour or less. Charge it up while taking a lunch break. Problem solved. Can go cross-country that way."
We have a saying about stuff like this:
"Try wishing in one hand, and crapping in the other. See which on fills up first." :roflblack:
 
Every man and his dog is working on or is about to release an ev of some sort.It's almost as if it's a statement by the manufacturers of their engineering and green credibility yet so far consumers haven't swallowed the kool-aid to any great extent.
Tesla Roadster has it all but at $250K if you work out how much of the planets resources has to be consumed to cough up that sort of money in the first place it turns out it is about a green as the surface of Mars.:banghead:
 
Agree Idaho, now and for as far the eye can see, this is on some drawing board somewhere. As for the word 'hybrid', is that meaning some combination of gas and electric? I don't see anyway that could work on a m/c.
 
bikerbillone said:
Agree Idaho, now and for as far the eye can see, this is on some drawing board somewhere. As for the word 'hybrid', is that meaning some combination of gas and electric? I don't see anyway that could work on a m/c.
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Yes. This article mentions the use of the Rotax ACE engine that was used in snowmobiles.

https://newatlas.com/can-am-spyder-roadster-hybrid-to-make-public-debut/17650/

The hybrid prototype was on display during the BRP Homecoming in 2017. It never made it past the prototype stage.
 
RICZ said:
Nothing wrong with that. But if BRP asked me to be a Beta Tester of an electric, I'd jump at the chance. However, I envision an electric vehicle of any kind to be an errand runner or commuter, not a cross country tourer.
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Unless its a plugin hybrid. Then it can do both. Until the charge rates and infrastructure catches up, this would be the best bet. I would be interested in one if they built it.
 
bikerbillone said:
Agree Idaho, now and for as far the eye can see, this is on some drawing board somewhere. As for the word 'hybrid', is that meaning some combination of gas and electric? I don't see anyway that could work on a m/c.
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Why do you think it could not work on a MC? Weight and size or some other technical reason? I thing plug in hybrid makes the most practical sense of the current available options. A pure electric is not capable of a full day ride and recharge times are too long and too distant to be practical.
 
jcthorne said:
Why do you think it could not work on a MC? Weight and size or some other technical reason? I thing plug in hybrid makes the most practical sense of the current available options. A pure electric is not capable of a full day ride and recharge times are too long and too distant to be practical.
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That's what they said about cars and trucks. That was then. This is now and near future. Long-range all-electric vehicles are in the future. Detroit is banking on it.
 
Its not practical except for city commuters that never leave town even for cars and trucks. Will not be for many years. Build all the electric vehicles you want, once you leave home or home base, there is no infrastructure to support them. It will take many years to build that out. It will happen I agree but its not this year. Until then, plug in hybrid is the only version that makes sense other than for a city commuter that returns home every evening and needs no more than 200 miles total daily range.
 
Tesla is actively working on their PowerStations.
While that grid of charging stations has a long way to go: it's at least a decent start..
If they can reach some sort of agreement with them... :dontknow:

AND if they can sort out any incompatibility issues... :opps:
 
jcthorne said:
Its not practical except for city commuters that never leave town even for cars and trucks. Will not be for many years. Build all the electric vehicles you want, once you leave home or home base, there is no infrastructure to support them. It will take many years to build that out. It will happen I agree but its not this year. Until then, plug in hybrid is the only version that makes sense other than for a city commuter that returns home every evening and needs no more than 200 miles total daily range.
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One more way that China is way ahead of us in infrastructure.

Nobody could imagine space travel before the Russians showed it is possible.
 
Technically speaking: you're wrong...
The USSR only showed that they could orbit the earth...
The United States had folks walk on the Moon, and has sent R.O.V.s to Mars!
 
Discussion of subject GOOD:

Let's not get into any tit for tat kind of arguments. And no disrespectful replies to other posters. :bowdown:

And now....back to the program.
 
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