Hybrid truck recharges from overhead wires in Germany - GIF

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Hybrid truck recharges from overhead wires in Germany.




Previously:

1898 Henri Fournier hybrid motorcycle - photo
1901 Lohner-Porsche hybrid automobile - photo
HAV 304/Airlander 10 hybrid airship - photo and video
Hybrid combine animation - GIF

[Frank S]

we were doing the calculations on the upfront cost to charge an electric car that runs 100 miles every day by solar only.
First it takes 3 power walls then $12,000.00 for the solar panels plus installation and the converter. By the time all costs were figured in even an AI program on Bing said the upfront cost was $36,000.00 Factor in the price of the vehicle in my case it would have to be a pickup so say 65,000.00
Now were are at 101,000.00 if you paid cash for everything. The power walls figure to have a use life at the discharge rate required to recharge the truck after 100 miles every day of 5 years solar panel 10 years except we have large damaging hail every year so being conservative say five years the truck 36,000 per year 180,000 is not unreasonable but the battery will be shot the only thing left with use life after 5 years is the converter 100,000 miles would cost 56 cents per mile driven not including insurance registrations tires brakes and other incidentals.

Now look at a gas powered same class truck $40,000.00 , 5 years 180,000 miles driven 18MPG gas cost average $4.00 per gallon 10,000 gallons used $40,000.00
24 oil changes @7500 mile intervals $100.00 per change $2400.00 total $82,400.00 in 5 years and the truck will still be going again excluding tires brakes insurance registration I would expect I would average closer to 22 MPG with a 5-year average gas price of $3.50
But I'm still sticking with my 33 year old F350 diesel that still averages 18 MPG and it is enough truck to do something with even better you can't dent it with a marshmallow A base ball hit with a Louisville slugger maybe