electric catamaran boat to set world record

[David - WI]

Putting lipstick on a pig...

https://www.thedrive.com/news/real-w...nd-its-not-bad

"The third truck achieved an impressive 377 miles on a single charge in seven hours of driving. At the end, the battery meter read just 1.6%, indicating it was run right to the limit of its capability. " so, it managed to average 54 mph before charging for a few hours... include 3 hours of charging and it's down to under 38mph average speed (compared to 59 mph average for diesels that can go 1,500+ miles before refueling).

Day 2: Truck 3 ran 411 miles in total across the day, with a top-up charge in the middle to boost its range.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5-vlD2_z-Y

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5-vlD2_z-Y

Why ???

[Chaz]

Why ???

Because showing pictures and video' of gas powered boats puts a little distance between all the stupid stuff they said about electric powered cars, trucks and boats.

Sorry lefties .. your scared for life ....

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[David - WI]

So, it's an amphibious golf cart with a ProXS Mercury outboard?

[Chaz]

So, it's an amphibious golf cart with a ProXS Mercury outboard?

Yes ... and just when I thought it couldn't get any more limp wristed .. they come out with the Dylen Mulvaney model. noli you + CRAB enjoy .. you both will look simply divine squealing for someone to stop and give you a "jump" ...

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[Chaz]

I gotz a bunch of these .. and spare batteries. But I'm not trying to drive them across the state.

[FUJIMO]

...thanx for sharing the hotel california street guitarist noli. the kid's pretty good. i enjoyed it...

[CUDA]

Many new ideas are coming to fruition.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/superc...eory-discovery


https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-sc...storing-energy

[CUDA]

https://electrek.co/2024/06/10/donal...ious-nonsense/

Sounds just like
CHAZ


Donald Trump went on a rant about electric vehicles during a rally this weekend, and it was full of lies and hilarious nonsense.

Note: I don’t like to get too political at Electrek. Those who know me personally know I’m as apolitical as it gets. I don’t believe the biggest changes come from politics. I’m not biased toward any side in politics, but I am biased toward electric vehicles and I do like policies that encourage them, especially those that incentivize them in a way that represents their benefits for the environment. Since Trump has a real chance of becoming president again, it’s important to cover his views and policies on electric vehicles.

The former president has been all over the place with his comments on electric vehicles.

Most of the time, in his rallies, he has brought them up as a talking point to ridicule them – focusing on the premise that “don’t go far” and “charging is a pain”. He went as far as calling them a “hoax”.


But he has also claimed that he is “all for electric cars” and during his 2020 campaign, he tried to take credit for incentives put in place during the Obama administration.

In practice, the former president was trying to put in place policies to slow down electric car adoption – at the request of some automakers, to be fair. The Trump administration attempted to eliminate the tax credit for electric vehicles in the original version of their 2020 budget, though the provision never passed.

Furthermore, Trump was actively seeking to roll back vehicle emission standards that were encouraging automakers to produce more electric cars.

With this new 2024 campaign, the former president has been clearer about the fact that he is against any initiatives that would accelerate the rollout of electric vehicles.

President Biden did make electric vehicles an important part of his administration and therefore, it’s not surprising to see Trump taking a more consistent negative stance on them.

At a new rally in Las Vegas over the weekend, the former president talked about electric vehicles for a minute:


Trump made several false or misleading statements about electric vehicles in his speech:

There are no chargers.
Electric trucks weigh more than twice – triple as much as gasoline and diesel trucks
“they have to fix every bridge in the US to handle the weight”
Insinuates that electric boats would “sink because of their weight”
Implies that electric boats are a serious electrocution risk in the open ocean
Forget about the ridiculous hypothetical choice between electrocution and a shark attack, there are a lot of misleading statements in there.

There are definitely a lot of charging stations in the US. There are over 168,000 EV chargers in the US, including over 37,000 fast-chargers.


However, it’s true that the US needs to continue the build out of charging infrastructure to continue supporting the growing fleet of electric vehicles.

Electric trucks don’t weigh “twice” and certainly not “three times” as much as diesel trucks.

If we are talking about pickup trucks, it’s true that battery-powered pickup trucks generally weigh more, but it’s closer to 20% more rather than 100 or 200%, as Trump is claiming. For example, the Ford F150 Lightning is about 1,000 lbs heavier than its fossil-fuel-powered counterpart, depending on the trim.

However, it’s more likely that Trump was referring to class 8 trucks since he was talking about the effect on the infrastructure, and semi-trucks account for the vast majority of the impact on infrastructure.

This is where his argument completely falls apart since class 8 trucks have an overall 80,000 limits of tractor, trailer, and load combined, which has been raised by 2,000 lbs for electric trucks. Therefore, they can only be 2.5% heavier overall.

In short, there’s zero evidence that electric trucks are destroying infrastructure. Bridges are indeed being replaced in the US right now, but that’s because the current administration recently passed a massive bi-partisan infrastructure bill.

Top comment by European Bob Liked by 14 people
The USA may vote itself back to the dark ages next November.

A substantial amount of US Military power is focussed on protecting oil producing nations, it may be better for the USA and the rest of the world if say 10% of that $800 billion was spent removing the US need for foreign oil, I don't know, maybe EVs and solar panels?

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Finally, no, electric boats don’t “sink because they are heavy,” and electrocution is not a major concern of electric boats because batteries are well sealed and isolated, and also electricity dissipates quite fast in any significant body of water, like an ocean since Trump was talking about sharks being present.

Electrek’s Take
That was a lot of nonsense. If you found the above interesting, I would ask you to do a quick exercise and this is not particularly about Trump. It applies to any public figure.

When a public figure talks about something you are well versed in, in this case, for me, electric vehicles, it often exposes that they talk confidently about subjects they have little to no knowledge about.

Then, you have to ask yourself, do they do the same about every other subject, but I don’t realize it because I’m not as well versed in those?

[Chaz]

Yesterday in Kookafornia .. Martin Truex Jr. switch's from gas to electrik on the last lap and goes from second to twenty seventh. Results only a village idiot could love ...

[David]

Mr Trump did talk about electric boats and sharks on the weekend. He said he would rather be electrocuted by a boat battery than eaten by a shark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMNMt5FdVwg