Not another made-up EV fire story, surely?
Really?
It might be an EV with an electric motor but it is not like the motor on your woodworking machinery where you just turn the power on/off . These motors are three phase and driven by complex invertors using forms of vector control. You need to know the position of the rotor so you have position sensors, you need to know the stator currents so that you can control the torque as part of a three term control loop and will be monitoring temperature as a protective measure. You will also have a pedal sensor so the control system knows what speed you are requesting, sensors for battery management and charging, sensors that monitor the temperature of power switches in the drive controler, others to monitor transmission temperature and then you will have others that work in the regenerative braking system in conjunction with the ABS. You will also have sensors carried over from the ICE vehicle such as impact sensors to trigger airbags.
But it doesn't have a knock sensor or a MAF, MAP or Lambda sensors or fuel rail pressure sensors or oil temperature or oil pressure sensor so that makes better.
Absolutely. So bloody easy and quick to refuel.You stick to the steam power, dont blame you
Not for me. Soulless is one foot in the grave
Remind me...that fire that gutted a car park at that airport....
No idea and TBH didn't care if it was EV or hybrid...I just was intrigued by the tech
The sensors are the easy part, it is the control system where it gets complex and having worked on ICE ECU software and motor control software for Ac & BLDC then there is not a lot of difference in complexity. Where the EV wins on both time and cost is in the calibration stage, with ICE you have very expensive powertrain test cells for calibration, durability testing and legal certification but the EV is essentially just lots of electrical parameters.
Luton Airport diesel Land Rover, that one?
Yup. And all those lithium batteries surrounding it made it virtually impossible to put out.
Depends on your destinations and charging options. Nothing easier than plugging in at home and charging up on dirt cheap electricity. Yes charging out on the road is not as simple but for us only had to do that once in over a year.
think you'll find they actually said it was the running flaming fuels that made it impossible to put out as they just ensured it spread from one vehicle to the next...not much of that in an ev
I think this is part of the problem with EVs they are trying to make them do too much. I don't want some internet linked self driving whatever, I just want a car that I am in control of both physically and software wise.
Temperature and pressure is a good indicator of things going wrong, packs swell up before thermal runaway and temperature rapidly increases. LifeP04 is much more stable and less likely to combust than earlier LiPo batteries.
It's what the cops said on the programme. Incorrect apparently.
Just to be clear, I wasn't accusing you of making it up.
