Its the front end from a mobility scooter , the motor is the same one that i use to drive my wood shredder for crunching up my charcoal 24 volt dc
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Now I became curious again, what are you going to do this time? 
I’ve always looked for trasures from time to time. The paper mill is shutting down in September. Who knows, I may have more time (or less) for tinkering then.
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This is not a post. My phone wont let me get rid of a draft…
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That’s why I always rode Harley’s, Marcus. All I had to carry to keep it running was a hammer.
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Hi All,
I’m not cooped-up, in lock-down anymore . . .
But kicked out of bed to take care of our coyote barking dog.
So after midnight Net video surfing I found this. Then went on to in three different independent sources proving/fact checking this guys statements.
The lead-in photo doesn’t say the topic is “Why Internal Combustion Engines Are Not Dead”.
Easy watch at under 15 minutes.
Now to proof-check his statements; about 2 hours.
My point is you leap into a stream of thought; throw a big rock out to make a splash; you’d better be willing to swim your way out and expect to get splash wettened.
Steve unruh
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Executive summary maybe?
Sure DavidB,
He LIKES home lithium ion battery banks. At 5:40
And his Four Factors approach of: Environment; Science; Consumer; and Cost reflects the reality of how/why adopted Technology changing actually occurs. 1:19 thru to the finish.
S.U.
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David, when I do that with the draft. There is a sort of arrow in the top right outside the dialog box. When I select it my draft goes away.
I had a draft on my dow site for a couple of days til I just started pushing buttons! It’s hilarious I can build a factory, and run my tractor on wood, but motorola an android can completely baffle me sometimes…
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I’ll have to watch it. My personal view is electric vehicles are for urban commuters. Electrics would shine in long idling situations. Of course the real problem is a society built around cities and urban sprawl but we wont touch that…
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Well I can’t offer advice on the wife. But if you can find a local farmers market you can solve most of the food packaging. Including local meat products. When I send my beef and pork to the local butchers they simply bag it in one plastic bag no tampon and foam below the meat. You would be shocked how much packaging that saves. The farmers markets around here also let you put the vegetables in your own container but I like to grow my own and can or freeze them.
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Tom I got Guinea fowl to get rid of the ticks. Best investment I have made except that the traffic is really hard on Guinea fowl.
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I probably posted this before but its still interesting.
Based on fuel consumption assume it takes about 100hp to push that truck down the highway. That works out of around 75 to 100 amps on a 1000v trolley system according to some back of the cocktail napkin math with room to charge the batteries for when the machine is not near a trolley line. I think this is the future. ( your millage may vary according to hills and head winds obviously )
This is a K1050E, the neanderthal of electric trucks with all analog electronics primitive 80s technology. But it worked… Seems to me a fully loaded K1050 drew between 600 and 1000 amps from a 1000v three phase line climbing a 20% grade lifting 100 tones gross weight or truck + ore at 30 kph.
I have actual wrench time on these old girls. I prefer the third option these people did not opt for Conveyors belts. But conveyors cost more initially than truck, less than shaft sinking. The electric truck is the most expensive way to haul muck and least efficient. A shaft with skips and a pocket is cheapest but the up front costs are higer.
Question is do you want to mine for 10 to 15 years or 50 or more. Most people will not plan more than 5 years so you get the cheapest initial option.
This was 910 the oldest highest hour Kiruna truck in the world with 70,000 hours on her at retirement ( thats like 4 million miles )
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Yes, the wife saw online that the mill would be closed, pity all the jobs that disappear.
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This was an old vid and he is pro EV and owns a Tesla. But anyways I think he did a follow up video addressing efficiencies of the EV verses the ICE (the other side of that coin)
Why do you think this? Battery tech is only going to get better. If you drive 400 miles to wipe out your battery you should get a bit to eat while the car charges and this will not take very long in the future. 400 miles at highway speeds is a 6 hour drive. If you are not on a road trip you will never use a charging station, your home plug in will keep you fully charged for daily commuting so you will never have to wait for it to charge as it will be charging while you sleep. Battery tech is really only in its infancy, there is a lot of new tech that will be coming here very shortly. I watch this with a very close eye. Carbon based tech is coming. Not to mention in ten years I think most EV’s will have range well beyond the tech today. We will probably see range of 600 to 1000 miles pr single charge.
The EV will be a booming industry, there is a ton of room for new innovation.
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My sympathy:
I spent my life working in paper, steel mining and its a familiar pattern now.
What do we do?
I have no idea, but its seems to have come to the point where you can not plan on a job to last long enough to plant any roots.
They are funny birds to watch. My uncle had a farm and his “general purpose” chickens used to keep the insects down. I wonder if they also eat ticks?
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I agree with most everything you said with one exception. My suspicion is we will see a spell where range goes crazy high only for sanity to return and we end up with lower cost EV with 300 mile range out selling the 600 mile range versions. Same as today you can buy a pickup truck with dual tanks but seldom do you see people willing to make the investment. I don’t own an EV myself but I know several people who do and they tell me that after owning one for a while the range concerns just fade away. To me the breaking point was 200 miles. At that point even when I drove 45 miles one way to work I would have felt confident I could do it in the dead of winter. But now I work at my farm so I don’t need to drive to work just step out the door. But yes batteries are rapidly changing and probably will for the next decade.
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Sorry matt… I should have added right now. The price point for me is not there yet unless I was to have the high income worth commuting for.
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Registered vehicles…registered, not parked or stored.
The scale of the ICE vehicle to EV replacement is beyond my comprehension. I can only think of it in terms of years.
It would be really sweet if we could have some standardization.
