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Originally Posted by freebeard
The story is anecdotal, I don't have a second source and I was just a kid but... I heard once about an old couple that had a 1910s vintage car up on blocks in the barn because when they bought it they didn't know they would have to keep buying it gas. They were going to never have to buy oats again.
And I've drafted trucks on dark mountain roads (years past) due to gas range anxiety. Now I've got two 20-liter gas cans under the hood.
I figure a 20-liter can stuffed with Lithium cells, at the same weight, would hold the electric equivalent of one gallon of gas. The bottom would have batteries and the top would have retractable power cord. |
I'm not sure how many liters it is, but the 24kW battery in the Leaf that weighs 600lbs (that's about 250kg) holds less than a gallon of gasoline of energy.