Redd

I think what struck me the most, was that they were getting 1700 mile plus fuel ranges on those cars. That could mean 70 gallons of fuel, maybe 50 gallons would have to be carried in jerry cans or a fuel cell. 400 extra pounds of fuel, yikes. Anyone want to install a spare 55 gallon fuel drum in their back seat?

Wait, aren't there Level 2 Supercharging stations every 150 miles along that route?

I think we need to point out to Audi, they ought to organize a TWO THOUSAND MILE winter cross-country rallye, all expenses paid, so we can validate the brand for them.(VBG)

KevinGary

Redd

No, since you can't post any comments to the Mazda *ad*, I'm commenting on it as a comment thread.

billm0066

I have a hard time following most of his posts tbh. Super random.

Anomious

Keep them coming Redd, breaks up the boredom! 'LK'

MurrayA4

Cheers to that we need some variety here.The short term winner of this war is whoever can come up with a very high density energy source that costs very little.Diesel comes to mind (ducking !) The Ev market will be dominated by whoever can produce reasonable range ( my personal "buy-in" is 500Km.@-20C.) in a respectable machine.Hope it'll be an Audi ?

KevinGary

Steam powered turbine hybrid

Redd

Actually "steam turbine" is not all that crazy. The Stanley Steamer was driven off the market by folks like Oldsmobile and Ford, who loudly suggested the steam cars were blowing up and killing people. (Never happened.) And the Steamers were the fastest cars in their day, with a range equal or better than anything else.

Same thing happened in the rail industry. GE sold the railroads on their diesel-electric locomotives, which were clean and low maintenance--to the casual user. Certainly good for getting trains into places like Grand Central or Penn Station, where trains chuffing any kind of smoke could not be tolerated. But triple and quadruple expansion steam turbines were *just* coming onto the market at the time, and GE kept saying "Yeah, but you still have to shovel out all that ash every day..." and killed the steam trains. Steam turbines powered all large shipping for a long time despite that.

And, the largest, fastest, longest-range, most heavily armed warships today are STILL powered by steam turbines. The steam is produced by nuclear reactors, sure...but those submarines and carriers are still STEAM powered.

IIRC there were some attempts to build steam powered cars with some of the newer steam designs, but they didn't work out. Folks just don't want to wait for that initial warm-up period. Which is only a problem if you're too cheap or impulsive to give the chauffeur a half hour's warning to get the car ready...