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| Ev Archive for November 1998 |
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| 1519 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:43:37 2001 |
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Re: Transmissions
Bob MacDowell writes:
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> I think a faulty paradigm gets used in contemplating EV conversions.
> People say "the battery is the fuel tank and the electric motor is the
> engine". No. Fact is, the motor is the *transmission*. The engine is
> the batteries - or, closer to the truth - the engine is at Three Mile
> Island or Hetch Hetchy, and all the stuff that moves the power here is
> the transmission too.
According to Webster:
"engine - a machine for converting any of various forms of energy into
mechanical force and motion".
In EVs, the fuel is electricity. The fuel storage medium is the battery.
The engine/motor converts electricity into motion.
Power plants merely convert one form of energy into another.
Ralph
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