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JUST IN: Army Taking Steps Toward Electric Vehicle Technology
3/4/2021
By Yasmin Tadjdeh
 

The Army is investing in electrification technologies that could soon be integrated into its fleet of tactical wheeled vehicles, officials said March 4.

The service has a total of 200,000 tactical wheeled vehicles that are valued at $3 billion, said Tim Goddette, program executive officer at the Army’s PEO for combat support and combat service support.

While the office expects that it is entering a period of lower budgets, there are new technology opportunities for industry to explore, including electric vehicle development, he said during a panel discussion at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Tactical Wheeled Vehicles webinar.

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/3/4/just-in-army-all-in-on-electric-vehicle-technology

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Re: JUST IN: Army Taking Steps Toward Electric Vehicle Technology
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2021, 11:51:18 am »
Have African nations agreed to put charging stations throughout the deserts, or Russia in the Steppes, or Europe in the mountains?  And lots of them since their will be lots of electric vehicles.  Have they all agreed not to cut the stations from the power sources so the US can feed it's ecofriendly military vehicles? :whistle:

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Re: JUST IN: Army Taking Steps Toward Electric Vehicle Technology
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2021, 03:45:05 pm »
Limited range, few charging stations, batteries that go pyrotechnic when exposed to "too much" shock and vibration ...... what's not to love?

This will prove to be a very expensive boondoggle-symbol, if not cancelled.
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Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: JUST IN: Army Taking Steps Toward Electric Vehicle Technology
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2021, 10:15:33 pm »
Any army that relies on electricity and batteries to power its vehicles isn't gonna be going too far or winning many wars.

But "winning wars" has absolutely nothing to do with what this is all about, anyway...

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Re: JUST IN: Army Taking Steps Toward Electric Vehicle Technology
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2021, 08:12:09 am »
Buy up the diesels. They'll run on fuel that can be distilled from crude oil. It won't be perfect or fancy or 'clean', but it'll work. Americans might need them later....
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Re: JUST IN: Army Taking Steps Toward Electric Vehicle Technology
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2021, 10:18:20 pm »
Buy up the diesels. They'll run on fuel that can be distilled from crude oil. It won't be perfect or fancy or 'clean', but it'll work. Americans might need them later....
If you steal the used cooking oil from fast food restaurants you might get lucky and have exhaust that smells like french fries, but you might also have the homeless following you.

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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2021, 11:00:05 am »
If you steal the used cooking oil from fast food restaurants you might get lucky and have exhaust that smells like french fries, but you might also have the homeless following you.
Not just the homeless, dogs like french fries, too...

But seriously, this state can produce 1.5 million barrels of oil a day at capacity, just with the wells we have.

For each barrel, roughly 10 gallons of diesel can be distilled. The rest is basicaly feedstocks for other things...If it could all be 'topped', that's be 15 million gallons of diesel...per day.
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Re: JUST IN: Army Taking Steps Toward Electric Vehicle Technology
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2021, 11:43:50 am »
Distilling doesn't sound very eco friendly and PC clean air is the goal of the military these days.  After all, this is the goal not, as Fisherman said, winning wars. :nono:

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« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2021, 08:19:28 am »
Distilling doesn't sound very eco friendly and PC clean air is the goal of the military these days.  After all, this is the goal not, as Fisherman said, winning wars. :nono:
It depends on how it is done. Here, in a modern distillation unit, the fractionated portions, separated by condensation are recovered and sent their separate ways as byproducts or diesel fuel feedstock.

In the third world, the apparatus is more primitive, and may consist of a drum in the ground, with a fire pit underneath and a hole in the top where the vapors are collected at the right smell/feel and condensed for fuel and the leftovers either vented to atmosphere or even dumped down the hill before the next batch. Needless to say, that process does not render as high quality a fuel as we are accustomed to, but it runs parts of the world well enough.

Properly conducted, the basic, pre-additive fuel is one of the simplest to make.

Our enemies won't be worried about using surplus fryer oil or green tech, they will be focused on winning the war, a process which isn't eco-friendly by its very nature.
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