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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by mojomark on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:22PM (#21447220)
This!!! I've told everyone who'd listen for years that an electric motor is the better option for a pickup trucks due to the more appropriate matching of the torque curve to the hauling load demands.

When my beloved '00 Ram 1500 died about 5 years ago I decided to hold out for an electric truck that I assumed would be coming to market. Looks like I may finally get my chance shortly. I honestly don't know if the cumulative environmental footprint is better, but I do know an electric motor will be superior.

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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by war1025 on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:37PM (#21447392)
Trains are electric motors powered by diesel generators. Seems like it should be an easy sell for people that whatever trains do is an effective way to handle heavy loads.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by steve19 on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:09PM (#21448215)
Submarines too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine#Diesel-electric

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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by noipv4 on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:45PM (#21448841)
The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV can do this too (replace diesel with gasoline)
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by slowhand09 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:11AM (#21453631)
Trains don't do hills very well. Train tracks are always mostly straight and level. They do that extremely well.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by war1025 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:31PM (#21454524)
And freeways have regulations about what the maximum road grade can be to prevent trucks from slowing down too significantly on hills.

That's just a law of converting massive amounts of kinetic energy into potential energy as the weight goes up hill.

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