P. A. Schilke
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- First Name
- Phil
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- Apr 3, 2019
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- GV Arizona
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- 2019 Ranger FX4 Lariat 4x4, 2020 Lincoln Nautilus, 2005 Alfa Motorhome
- Occupation
- Engineer Retired
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Hi Alex,We all know this is coming for every car company. Is electric the answer, Im not convinced, but it seems the direction everyone wants to go. The amount of energy it takes to produce our current electrical needs is unreal. Then you add every vehicle using that same grid. We need a new fuel that can be man made and friendly. Maybe they can figure hydrogen out, but if you have all those vehicles spitting out water how will that effect the environment? Maybe underground Nuclear Plants, but that still sounds unsafe. I think technology will save the energy ideas as we continue to make things require less energy to work. I can see our future of running house hold lights and things like that through wireless current.
I absolutely will miss the gas engine and pushing them as far as we have. The sounds, the smells,the challenge, but I cant be naive and think this is not changing. Every generation is guided to electric more and more, the interest in vehicles is not the same for us as the future. Indeed we will lose some history with the future, but this will also get us closer to space. That is our destination IMO.
If we have three Tesla electric vehicle on our street, plugged in to charge our underground wiring to all the houses cannot withstand the current needed and cause power failure. We simply do not have the local infrastructure to support electric vehicles nor do we have the power plants to supply the energy. Our neighbor, snotty as he is with his Tesla, faced a power failure of our whole area. He could not move his vehicle so I told him I would be happy to take him to the electrical station to fill his bucket with electrons to dump into his Tesla.... Silence.... As I said Snotty Neighbor...AMF!
best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired
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