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Old 02-06-2021, 10:58 AM   #11
Jeff Niceswanger
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Default Re: Dodge going Electric

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Originally Posted by Eddies66 View Post
My daughter bought the extended range, 322 mile. The S model gets 402 mile range. Was reading an article where Tesla service stations are planned. In 15 minutes, you will drive in and the battery in automatically exchanged...plug and play.
I was a fork lift mechanic for 25 years. We had a fleet of 60 trucks, half gas and half electric. The gas (propane) trucks took about ten minutes to fill. The operators did it their selves. Had to take the tank off the truck, fill it, then replace the same tank they took off. The battery powered trucks were charged two ways. The drivers scheduled the recharge's around their break times and lunch, or between shifts. Or, if they ran out of electric during peak demands, they drove their trucks into our battery shop and we swapped out battery's. Took ten minutes. Sounds awful similar to me Eddie. Even with all the modern emission controls and management, those electric trucks were 10 times harder to work on than the gas powered ones. Their a complicated SOB. Your run of the mill mechanic is going to struggle. They rarely have issues and are quite trouble free, but finding intermittent drivability issues is a real challenge. I'm sure the factory's will get a handle on it, but there is most certainly going to be a learning curve, and the American public is going to be the lab rats ...
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