I agree there Bill! I live in Canada and of course I own a Snowmobile LOL. It's a beast -250 hp turbo. On groomed trails mileage is reasonable. Off trail and in deep snow mileage drops incredibly- can go from a 110 miles on groomed trails to running out of gas in just 20 miles in the tough stuff. The electrics will do fine on the groomed trails in very local to city regions, which does apply to some areas. But a lot of areas I ride in have no cell service let alone power infrastructure. The lodges truck fuel in to run their generators and also resell fuel to the sleds at of course a much higher price than at a roadside gas station. So getting charging infrastructure out in front for EV sleds to ride all the glorious white gold highways will be the biggest challenge to adoption. Sound familiar? ;-)
Cheers Dan On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 8:21 PM Bill Dube via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Snowmobiles have power requirements similar to boats or airplanes. > Unlike cars (or trains) that draw little power once they are rolling, > snowmobiles have considerable drag while moving through the snow. Thus, > the range for a given battery capacity can be quite low, especially in > deep, wet, snow. On hard packed trails, the drag can be much less. > > Even with LiIon, range in an electric snowmobile is going to remain a > significant hurdle. > > Bill D. > > On 3/1/2022 5:35 AM, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > > Snowmobiles, and in summer noisy smelly ATVs, are a real nuisance for > > those wishing immersion in nature. Not to mention the pollution they > > leave behind. > > > > > https://www.seattletimes.com/business/the-electric-future-of-snowmobiling/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20220228/6c7f0cf7/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
