Posted on 03/04/2023 10:24:31 AM PST by aimhigh
On the bright side, maybe Buc-ee’s will expand nationwide, now...
A girl can dream.
>fly ash (solid waste)
Use in concrete formulations.
Good to know.
I wont ever stop at any pilot truck stop again.
There are a few companies looking into that. I was involved with one seventeen years ago. To transfer the electric power, you need to either uses brushes or similar for DC, or coils for AC. Brushes get dirty too easily in a driving environment. So you can transfer with AC, but the problem lies in the coupling of the AC. If you use say 60 Hz, like your electric tooth brush charger does, then you need to be near stationary. If you are moving at highway speeds, the change in the electric field at 60 Hz is too slow. You’ll be long gone before you get any useful power transmitted.
You then have a choice, go to higher frequencies (MHz), or have the coils travel along side your car at your speed while you charge. Higher frequencies work, but high power transmission at MHz is expensive (think radio tower transmitters). Having the excitation coil travel along your car is physically possible, but mechanically complex. It needs to sync to your speed, it needs to be returned, and the wires powering it need to move as well. Not feasible.
Sending power by microwaves (GHz frequencies) has been demonstrated say to power airplanes from the ground, but it is quite inefficient. But I think that would be the most likely to work of all electrical options of the style you suggest.
I won’t be going to Pilot’s or Flying J anymore. Frankly Love’s has way better coffee.
Knoxville is the corporate headquarters of Pilot, or at least it was. Most of the Pilots around here have become Casey’s or Good Stop.
I thought it was because the Haslam family has lost money lately - on the Cleveland Browns maybe that lawsuit too.
ABSOLUTELY!!! My first thought when I read the title!!!
I misread the the title as “Jimmy Buffet Buys Pilot Truck Stops....”
Hmmm... I thought he wanted to make money.
There must be a LOT of subsidy involved.
Begs the question:
Who is REALLY paying for this ‘electrification’???
Well...as long as he doesn’t get rid of those little pecan roll candies.
This sh!t is getting out of control.
I wonder if that had anything to do with the increase in the price of diesel fuel?
Diesel in 2017 $2.65 per gallon.
Diesel in 2021 $4.98 per gallon.
Of course you can just cover the top of the truck with solar cells and reduce its cargo capacity to something like 100 pounds, and make sure it has a coefficient of drag of something like 0.2, and only a few wheels for less rolling friction, and a driver that weighs less than 150 pounds and the whole thing can just roll along on solar power on a clear day.
At this point in time, I want nothing to do with EVs. The ecology attendant to battery manufacturing, and the uncertainty of sufficient range depending on heat or cold conditions, is too shaky. But things progress inexorably. And one of these days somebody, possibly named Musk, is going to come up with a cheaper, long life, mega powerful new battery, and the lid will be off. Buffet does not spend billion$ willy-nilly. He sees a future for EVs.
It will be interesting to see how they react when someone blows their horn screaming at them while flipping them the bird with a case of "road rage"......run that by the IA people when you get a chance... Im sure they are working on it ........./s
” But apparently it’s no problem to have self-driving 40-ton vehicles on the road.”
The AI devices controlling the self driving 40 ton vehicles won’t be high on drugs or dead tired from piloting the truck down the highway for 8 hours without a break.
It's not going to be like his Occidental deal.
-PJ
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