SRT is DEAD!

[Stormtrooper1320]

Watch out you live in Marylandistan, better not have any high capacity rubber band holders...

I know.....a full plastic bag of 100 would probably land me in prison or on a watchlist. I make sure to only keep 10 with me at a time

 

[DGatzby]

When I redid my roof I decided to go solar. My panels are North America. I will say WITHOUT the Federal Tax Credit of 36% it would not be cost effective from a break even perspective. My Solar portion was $24,000 (panels, electricity wiring, etc.), but really cost around $10,000 (was able to design it to also capture most of the roof cost towards 36%. Just recently completed my first full year of solar. My energy bill averages $10-$13 a month and I paid my annual overuse fee of $400. Solar works for my area climate wise. My breakeven is probably 4.5 years. Would not have been cost effective without Federal Tax credits. Did not do a house battery myself as I need 2-3. Batteries are also eligible for the 36% Federal credit, but still too damn expensive at these prices. Here is my energy production.

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Those are good numbers.

I got some real, real bad facts on batteries, solar and wind equipment today. I’ll consolidate it and get it posted up. Petroleum is going no where until after we die and that is not certain.

 

[TrackDay]

Those are good numbers.

I got some real, real bad facts on batteries, solar and wind equipment today. I’ll consolidate it and get it posted up. Petroleum is going no where until after we die and that is not certain.

Noone is saying it makes sense right now to be an early adopter of some of these ideas but alternative energy will be mainstream at some point in the future. It doesn't matter if it takes 20 or 50 years. It's good that some people are able to help develop and test the different technologies now.
We all know we can't all drive electric cars in 2030 without something of the scale of the Eisenhower interstate mandate happening for our electrical grid and its power sources. Our government isn't functional enough to get anything like that done.
Even though my career is based on internal combustion engines I'm not emotional about it. I'll be retired before my job is severely impacted and my son is choosing another career at my urging.

 

[coolblue]

Those are good numbers.

I got some real, real bad facts on batteries, solar and wind equipment today. I’ll consolidate it and get it posted up. Petroleum is going no where until after we die and that is not certain.

Considering your more on the "inside" than anyone else on this forum, I'll take that as a positive for ICE vehicles relative longevity. BUT, getting back to cost effectiveness, does that mean "yeah, you can drive your ICE vehicle as long as you want but now it'll cost you $4.50 or $7 or whatever a gallon to do it (Plus maybe DMV reg. fees as penalty for even having one).
New administration is in 10 minutes and WTI crude's gone to $63 a barrel from under $50 before,... way under (below 40) at some points. Cost me $31 to put 10 gals high test in my truck just last week.

 

[ACMAVRO]

1000+ HP
Get Ready For More Powerful Mopars (yahoo.com)

 

[Speedy!]

A 300hp 4cyl turbo with two 300hp electric motors won't quite do it for me.

 

[BULL]

A 300hp 4cyl turbo with two 300hp electric motors won't quite do it for me.

700-900hp I.C. w/ 200-300hp Elec it if means the continuation of our vehicle...


(Am I being greedy?)





Seriously though, our powerplant with a elec pancake motor on the backside of it?

 

[Speedy!]

I'd think motors on the front wheels for awd.

 

[BULL]

I'd think motors on the front wheels for awd.

Pro/Cons to each without doubt. If I contemplate the two against each other, the pancake seems to be the least invasive to the overall design, push the motor forward a tiny bit, pull the trans back, find some magic place (trunk?) for the battery pack. (You'd have to get a trailer 'cause you're not putting your DR in the truck/backseat anymore)

Maybe the wheel option is smaller than I'm envisioning and they'd fit quite easily up there???

Anything to keep the Hellcat motor.

 

[Speedy!]

Need to look at how the Porche 918 did it

 

[1971demon]

700-900hp I.C. w/ 200-300hp Elec it if means the continuation of our vehicle...


(Am I being greedy?)





Seriously though, our powerplant with a elec pancake motor on the backside of it?

 

[1971demon]

It wont be our powerplant....it will be the dodge omni power plant..and the energizer bunny...in perfect harmony...

 

[Magnified]

I'd think motors on the front wheels for awd.

My wish for this car from day one

 

[Ralph]

SRT will not be dissolved but instead integrated into the corporation! Yeah! This of course is in the same vein as:
There is a challenge on the border not a crisis, kids are not in cages but are in supervised play-pens, Biden's job performance poll shows a 69% approval, ANTIFA is not a terrorist group, we are honestly trying to get kids back in school, the #1 priority of the teacher's union is the kids, the Supreme Court is honestly trying to protect the nation and not the court itself, and the constitution is alive and well! (Okay, I'll get off my soap box now)

 

[EricG]

My wish for this car from day one

Dude, yeah I was thinking that. With the ZF transmission able to house an electric motor and if it could power the front wheels/AWD still with a Hellcat engine...all they need to do is really beef up a drivetrain to take it! Tesla would get a run for its money in a race for sure!

 

[BULL]

With the ZF transmission able to house an electric motor...

Fact or speculation?

External makes perfect sense, turn the output of the AWD version into an input, but that doesn't work well on a Challenger/Charger. But if they could magically stuff one into the internals (longer length?), then that becomes a viable scenario...

 

[EricG]

Fact or speculation?

External makes perfect sense, turn the output of the AWD version into an input, but that doesn't work well on a Challenger/Charger. But if they could magically stuff one into the internals (longer length?), then that becomes a viable scenario...

I just read an article this weekend about it, gotta go pick up my daughter so give me a moment to find the link.

 

[EricG]

Good thing I drive a fast car, volleyball practice is not exactly around the corner:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/...-are-coming-suggests-ralph-gilles-156862.html

 

[BULL]

Good thing I drive a fast car, volleyball practice is not exactly around the corner:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/...-are-coming-suggests-ralph-gilles-156862.html

Interesting!

However I'm pretty sure the author misspoke in the last two paragraphs, he states the transmission will only support 215hp from the I.C., but then implies that if you add that to the RE, then you're at ~1000.

the eight-speed gearbox can support the internal combustion engine with up to 160 kW and 450 Nm

That’s 215 horsepower and 332 pound-feet (450 Nm) of torque, if you were wondering. The Hellcat Redeye, for reference, produces 797 horsepower and 707 pound-feet (959 Nm) of torque. Add those numbers up, and you will understand why Ralph Gilles said that 1,000-hp cars are in the offing.

 

[BULL]