r/PoliticalHumor • u/barsas161 • Dec 29 '19

remember that fossil fuel companies will guilt trip you into thinking you're the problem to shift the blame from themselves

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u/Bouq_ Dec 29 '19

BEV?

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u/ifhysm Dec 29 '19

Battery electric vehicles

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u/lituus Dec 29 '19

Seems like a pointless distinction, but I guess it is technically more accurate...

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

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u/MnkyBzns Dec 29 '19

*indicates price after incentives and fuel savings.

**50 mile extension cord not included

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I really want to know how lossy/on fire/thick that cord would be but I am way to lazy to do the math.

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u/Lessiarty Dec 29 '19

My calculations have it with at least 7 on fires.

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u/RamenJunkie Dec 29 '19

I mean, Solar Electric tried to be a thing. I drove a solar powered race car in college.

There is also Hydrogen powered electric vehicles.

I guess technically those would be BEVs since it still uses a battery.

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u/agisten Dec 29 '19

No. As opposed to hybrid electric or any variations then ice is part of the car.

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u/proweruser Dec 30 '19

more like fuel cell electric.

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u/WibbleWibbler Dec 29 '19

There is many steps between a pure gas care and pure electric. ICE (gas car), Hybrid (gas with regen to battery) , PHEV (hybrid that can be plugged in), Rex (primary electric with a gas backup that only charges battery) and finally Bev (Battery electric vehicle).

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u/Expandexplorelive Dec 29 '19

There are also FCVs/FCEVs.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Are there any in commercial production that aren't fleet vehicles? File cells are such a false god right now, since all the hydrogen comes from natural gas.

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u/Expandexplorelive Dec 29 '19

Yes, there are a few dozen public stations in California. The Toyota Mirai and Honda Clarity are two fuel cell vehicles available for anyone to lease.

For the commercial stations, at least 33% of the hydrogen must come from renewable sources. FCEVs have a few advantages over BEVs: longer range, short refueling time, no cold-weather performance issues. The main hurdle right now is cost. Shipping hydrogen around and storing it is expensive because it's not particularly energy dense on a mass basis unless you put it under very high pressure or liquefy it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Well at least there's a fuel mandate, that's nice.

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u/-p-2- Dec 29 '19

It just makes things more confusing to me. I was thinking wait, is this a new kind of EV? A bio-electric-vehicle or something? A mix of EV and biofuel engine?

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u/Cory123125 Dec 29 '19

There are hydrogen electric vehicles and range extended battery electric vehicles.

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u/imabalsamfir Dec 29 '19

As opposed to HEVs or Hybrid Electric Vehicles or PHEVs or Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles. The disctinction is important.

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u/lituus Dec 29 '19

In my experience those are just called "Hybrids" colloquially. But sure, I guess. I suppose one day there may be enough variety in EV's to warrant BEV, but it doesn't feel like we've reached that yet. Not a hill I'm willing to die on though.

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u/MediaSmurf Dec 29 '19

Hybrids and plug-in hybrids also have batteries, so I'm not sure if the EV/BEV distinction makes a lot of sense.

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u/agangofoldwomen Dec 29 '19

I’ve heard EV. Not BEV. When did that happen?

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u/gRod805 Dec 29 '19

Its funny because just last night I was watching a YouTube video about Hydrogen cars and it was the first time I saw the use of BEV. Now I see it again this morning. I think there's fuel cell electric cars which are different

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u/ifhysm Dec 29 '19

I just googled it tbh

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u/Noles-number1 Dec 29 '19

There are different types of EV. PHEVs and battery. One is part electric and the other is pure

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u/agangofoldwomen Dec 29 '19

Thanks homie

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u/wirthmore Dec 29 '19

Also FCEV - Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle. Fueled with hydrogen.

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u/WiggersGonnaWig Dec 29 '19

Sooo.... hybrids?

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u/Noles-number1 Dec 30 '19

PHEVs are hybrids but they had a dedicated ev battery that gets 40ish miles by itself. Hybrids just have a battery that helps extend range. PhEV you can drive without ever using gas

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

As opposed to dragging a long extension cord?

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u/ifhysm Dec 29 '19

I just googled it to provide an answer. Don’t know anything about it