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The part that really bothers me is Dumb & Dumber here never bother to research anything on their own. Some idiot on Facebook posts shit and Harry or Lloyd immediately log in to post it and say, "see?! Elon traded Teslas for the presidency."
I know it's low hanging fruit but my God... these idiots vote.
Trump owns them. Probably banged the welder's mom and forgot to leave a $20 on the nightstand.
Hüsker Dü
DA
How Does the U.S. Military Rely on Renewable Energy?
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is one of the world's largest ? if not the largest ? single energy consumers. Its use of oil and gas for heating, lighting and transportation co...
www.renewableenergymagazine.com
The curse of social media. You don't have to form your own opinions, you can just thoughtlessly parrot someone else's opinion. There is also the desperation for confirmation bias.
Dumb goes with, "our local news sources on the grown with 80 MPH Hurricane winds said local teens were out lighting fireworks." I ask for source and IT ignores me.
Mahatma rarely blamed anybody. He took all blame on himself so that others might act without guilt.
whatithink
GOLD
Some knowns on this from 2003 only - and I've no doubt there is a plethora of unknowns (and btw electric vehicles are awesome from a stealth perspective as they are silent ...). It all the Dems fault though ... you couldn't make it up!!!
- 2003 – The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC, now GVSC) begins exploring hybrid-electric propulsion for combat vehicles.
- 2007 – DARPA launches the Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program, focusing on modular vehicle design, which includes electrification as a potential technology.
- 2011 – The Army and Marine Corps start evaluating hybrid-electric tactical vehicles to improve fuel efficiency in battlefield conditions.
- 2016 – The Army tests a diesel-electric hybrid variant of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle to assess fuel savings and operational benefits.
- 2017 – The U.S. military’s Operational Energy Strategy highlights the need to reduce fuel consumption and explore alternative power sources.
- 2018 – General Motors (GM) Defense unveils a concept for a military hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, the ZH2, based on the Chevrolet Colorado pickup.
- 2019 – The Army forms the Electrification and Mobility Working Group to accelerate electric and hybrid vehicle development.
- 2020 – GM Defense delivers the first prototype of the Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV), a light military vehicle based on the Chevrolet Colorado ZR2, with potential for an electric variant.
- 2021 – The Army’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) partners with industry to develop hybrid and fully electric tactical vehicle prototypes.
- 2022 – The Army announces plans to develop a fully electric light reconnaissance vehicle (eLRV) as part of its electrification roadmap.
- 2023 – GM Defense unveils an all-electric Light Tactical Concept Vehicle (eLTTV) based on the Hummer EV platform.
- 2023 – The Department of Defense (DoD) begins funding research into solid-state batteries and wireless charging for battlefield electrification.
- 2024 – The U.S. Army tests its first hybrid-electric Stryker combat vehicle, designed to reduce fuel consumption by 20-25%.
- 2025+ – The DoD aims to start transitioning select non-combat vehicles to full electric and hybrid models for improved efficiency and lower logistics costs.
- 2030 – The Army targets deploying hybrid-electric or fully electric tactical vehicles as part of a broader sustainability strategy.
Hüsker Dü
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Gee, it’s almost like in the past the military operated without running everything through the president and a political test. It’s as if they simply did what’s best to properly and efficiently execute their mission? I’m sure in the future president Putin will want more control over our military wokeness!
kickingandscreaming
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Sadly, that's what happened to legacy media as well.
Coo Coo with TDS and MDS
This is a great start. Rumor Mill is saying folks over 55 like crush will get $5,500.00 a month for life. Free healthcare for life and for playing the game fare & square, free acre anywhere in the North and Central America, free tiny house, a cow, chickens, free satellite, free water and energy forever and on top of all that, a free flying car. All I have to is give away my time four hours a day, with weekends off.
Biden and other Dems want (or wanted) an all electric military fleet by 2030. Electric vehicles have significant limitations for tactical purposes. It's the typical Progressive mentality to take a good idea and attempt to apply it way beyond it's logical conclusion, defying common sense.
Most of what you listed is hybrid and not full electric. More importantly, how many of the items you noted that are older than a few years have actually come to functional fruition and are in material military use? The DOD is well known for wasting money on dead end projects. I believe the ISV is in use, but as a turbo-diesel, and not as an electric or hybrid. (I really like the ZR2 and was going to buy one until my wife but the kiabash on a truck). An armored Tesla is going to have next to zero practical use as a tactical vehicle. Maybe to drive the President and other dignitaries around DC, but that's about it.
You know what is also pretty silent, a long range missile until it explodes on its target.
Sorry, I just saw this response. We're on the same page of limited use for tactical purposes, but Biden and other Dems don't seem to share that opinion. Electric can be a supplement, but not much more.It actually makes sense for the military to investigate the usage of electric vehicles, e.g. if they only used them for non fighting vehicles domestically, they could probably save millions in gas costs. Likewise with the evolution of hybrid tech, that may have legs as a fallback solution for fighting vehicles in a worse case scenario. Either way, I doubt the DoD is constrained by petty things such as cost when it comes to range for example, so they could be looking at electric vehicles with a range of 1000 miles which is achievable in concept.
I doubt its happening soon for fighting vehicles, but the DoD would be remiss in their job by acting like Ostriches when planning for the next 10-30 years by ignoring the potential.
1000 Miles Per Charge – What’s ‘Under The Hood’ Of The Longest Range Electric Cars?
Newcomers are leading the way in terms of efficiency and range. How so? There is one often overlooked component, which, quite literally, drives not only their performance but has a huge impact on the entire car design.www.forbes.com
Biden was Putin's little bitch. You remember he invaded Ukraine on Pedo Joe's watch, right?
Yeah, Trump really hasn't handled Russia and Ukraine the way that badass, Pedo Joe Briben, did, right?
