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Climate Change / Re: Ford “Drastically” Cutting EV Lightning Workforce Hours
« Last post by DB on Today at 12:04:23 am »My BIL is a retired 3 tar general and is now VP of a major defense contactor. All future military vehicles. is going EV because the advantages are superior over diesel on the battlefield. He cannot tell me what they are working on but he did say current batteries are 3rd generations and they are working on 12 the generation batteries.
He did say they are perfecting batteries that can be changed out on the battlefield in 2 minutes. The zero turn commercial grade mowers a I saw on youtube are like this. Individual batteries with handles that pull out and replaced in seconds.
He was at one of the largest defense trade shows in the world in Qatar. Every defense contractor is moving forward with EV's.
I never did say this would happen overnight. ..but ev's are here to stay.
Again if you drove one you would see why. The ride/response etc is incredible.
So the short answer is you have no idea regarding the question I asked you. It will just be magic that charges those batteries in 6 minutes...
And it just might be that all those defense contractors see dollar bills in replacing massive amounts of fully functional infrastructure regardless of the pros and cons. The military has become very politicized and is chasing goals that have little to do with actually fighting and winning wars.