Dodge EV Day 2021
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patrick66
Old Man with a Hat
At least the car incorporates the cool fratzog.
71Polara383
Kid with ballcap
Fratzog is back!
Mike66Chryslers
Senior Member
Judging from the ad at the end of the video, Dodge is bringing back the Fratzog logo.
EDIT: Oops, 2 people beat me to it. LOL
EDIT: Oops, 2 people beat me to it. LOL
I think Dodge is bringing back more of the 1970 Challenger body styling too with the eMuscle 2024 car.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
So..... you're gonna illuminate your Fratzog in your bumper?
71Polara383
Kid with ballcap
No. Thats a cool idea though. Maybe if I ever get around to building the 29 roof 2dr.
Electric Ram pickup to take on Cybertruck, Hummer and F-150 Lightning in 2024
Electric Ram pickup to take on Cybertruck, Hummer and F-150 Lightning in 2024
Electric Ram pickup to take on Cybertruck, Hummer and F-150 Lightning in 2024
The Dodge hash marks changed from 2 red stripes to one red and one blue to signify EV status.
Mike66Chryslers
Senior Member
Well, blue IS the new green!
The technology exists to build 1000hp+ electric cars, but the question is and has always been, where is all the additional load to charge these cars going to come from on our creaking power grid? The greenies want to remove the existing hydro projects and ban future construction of coal, natural gas and nuclear power plants. All of this is going to hit the wall sooner than a lot of people think because wind and solar can not make up the difference if even 50% of all new vehicles are EV.
Dave
Dave
Mike66Chryslers
Senior Member
For starters, you basically have separate east-coast and west-coast power grids in the US. You need to invest in high-capacity links between them, to get electricity from where it's being generated to where it's needed presently. There was a recent study that showed this infrastructure would pay for itself; jurisdictions presently have to give away their excess electricity generated from wind and solar during off-peak times, whereas they could charge decent rates for it if they could get it to where there was demand. The report got buried because politics.
This will take us off-the-rails a bit, but that doesn't quite sound correct. Since solar is only produced during day time hours, which is peak demand (on-peak time is defined as 7am-11pm in USA), there cannot be any true off-peak production of solar energy. With the inconsistency of wind and the ebb and flow nature of windmills, I'm betting any actual energy production one day is cancelled out by down-time and no production the next. Just some thoughts.
Here's a question for anyone who knows. As the batteries in an EV degrade and weaken over time does the power output from the motor also weaken accordingly? Lets say a 3 year old battery in a 1,000 hp EV is only capable of 80% of it's original capacity, will the EV now be limited to 80% of its original 1,000 hp figure? Or will it simply be 80% of the original run time/range? Or a combo of both?
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Mike66Chryslers
Senior Member
Look up the study. Obviously they explain it a lot better than I have.
77newyorker440
Well-Known Member
It is good to see them bringing the classic styling back, but I fear this electric trend will spread to other cars such as the Challenger and Charger. Hopefully not though, will be cool if limited to one/two models.
Would it happen to be this one? U.S. Electricity Grid & Markets | US EPA
If so I'll take a look at it when I can.
Mike66Chryslers
Senior Member
Here is an article from 2018 discussing the key points of the NREL study. It contains a link to the actual study PDF which no longer works, but I'm sure the document is still floating around on the internet somewhere.
Full Page Reload
EDIT: Found a page with lots more detail about it on the NREL webpage. It was called the "Interconnections Seam Study".
Interconnections Seam Study
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