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Old 02-01-2019, 07:48 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ldjessee00 View Post
It is funny, that this idea that electrically driven vehicles will not work for every situation. There were similar arguments made about fuel powered vehicles over horses 100 years ago. And seemed to hold true until WW2.

In the span of 50 years, the ICE was developed until it was far superior in all most all metrics that it was silly to think that a horse would out perform any ICE truck or other vehicle. Farm equipment, transportation, even logging switched over from horses (where you would think the remoteness, the removal from readily available fuel source, etc would have kept horses as a much better means of transportation).
While a horse can eat grass, and eventually its manure can become a feedstock for biogas to feed an ICE, other options which can still be used to power a vehicle depending on engine tech are brewing oneself's own moonshine or rely on straight vegetable oil as fuel. Eventually for a rural operator it might be more justifiable than blowing money on electric agricultural machinery, for example.
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