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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
I wasn't talking about efficiency I was talking about power.
Now that you bring it up say a 2,000 gallon fuel tank could be replaced with a battery that holds the equivalent of 500 gallons. That would be 18.5 mega watt hours.
But then you problem only want to charge and run it between 20% and 80%. So would need more like 22mwh.
The power connection to recharge would need to be running like 2mw minimum.so you could recharge it in about 10 hours.
A power sub station for a 20mw is pretty substantial. That's what we have where I work. It cost millions of dollars and millions more to run the power for 20 miles.
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The efficiency makes all the difference in how much electric energy it would take to supplant the internal combustion engine.Convert the 2,000 gallons of diesel to kw/hr equivalent to see what size of 'battery' the engine is consuming.