Did you ever run out of gas before reaching a gas station?
Or did you reach a gas station just in the nick of time?
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zonavar68 · 56-60, M
My diesel 4wd has two fuel tanks - I've run out the main one several times.
Being a diesel it draws in air and the motor starts to stall. If quick enough, switching to the sub-tank keeps the motor running. If not, a little bit of manual priming of the fuel filter gets the air out of the line.
Can't do that with an EV. When the 'tank' is 'dry' the car is a dead duck, despite 60 ish percent of the 'energy' in an EV battery module being 'locked up' in the chemisty of the lithium based electrolyte in each individual EV battery cell and unavailable unless the battery module has a thermal runaway 8-)
Being a diesel it draws in air and the motor starts to stall. If quick enough, switching to the sub-tank keeps the motor running. If not, a little bit of manual priming of the fuel filter gets the air out of the line.
Can't do that with an EV. When the 'tank' is 'dry' the car is a dead duck, despite 60 ish percent of the 'energy' in an EV battery module being 'locked up' in the chemisty of the lithium based electrolyte in each individual EV battery cell and unavailable unless the battery module has a thermal runaway 8-)