Army combat vehicles to be electric
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Thought this might be of interest in here.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/13/army-c...
It is behind paywall, but you can register to read it for free.
Anyway the headline is "Army Combat vehicles could be electric in 3 years" but when you dig down beyond the comment current fleet could be the last to be fossil fuelled, it's more like we hope to have a prototype in 3 years, and the current fleet development programme maybe the last to be universally fossil fuelled. Which is quite different from the headline.
They haven't figured out how to provide power to drive a main battle tank yet, unsurprisingly. However the way I look at it, is that when the military want to utilise and develop a technology, things happen, nothing like defence spending to put a rocket under something, which would be for general benefit of electric vehicle technology generally.
Anyway some other stuff linked below, if it's all old hat to you guys, apologies, will crawl back into my old fashioned trench.
https://www.qinetiq.com/insights/how-electric-prop...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/13/army-c...
It is behind paywall, but you can register to read it for free.
Anyway the headline is "Army Combat vehicles could be electric in 3 years" but when you dig down beyond the comment current fleet could be the last to be fossil fuelled, it's more like we hope to have a prototype in 3 years, and the current fleet development programme maybe the last to be universally fossil fuelled. Which is quite different from the headline.
They haven't figured out how to provide power to drive a main battle tank yet, unsurprisingly. However the way I look at it, is that when the military want to utilise and develop a technology, things happen, nothing like defence spending to put a rocket under something, which would be for general benefit of electric vehicle technology generally.
Anyway some other stuff linked below, if it's all old hat to you guys, apologies, will crawl back into my old fashioned trench.
https://www.qinetiq.com/insights/how-electric-prop...
Teddy Lop said:
maybe if the septics felt there was a need, but I can't see a British MoD side project surpassing the behemoths currently behind battery and electric vehicle development.
Americans are looking at it apparently, yet only publicly open information is related to non tactical vehicles.Gassing Station | EV and Alternative Fuels | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff