Fred, I think Elon has mentioned platooning in his trucking benefits under potential automation. Benefits up to 35% increased efficiency??
Regards On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 09:13, fred via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The post about drafting a semi-trailer rig to make range hit home for > me. When I was a young foolish motorcyclist in New England, during the > winter, doing just that made temperatures more tolerable. Later years, > pedaling a velomobile behind a construction crane at 35 mph was a real > blast. What better draft could a human powered vehicle ask for than an > eight foot wide, ten foot tall rolling air dam? > For the EV world, I'm surprised Mr. Musk hasn't come up with EV programmed > platooning. Put a Tesla semi on the road to make money, then link a convoy > of other Tesla vehicles with V2V networking and let the lead monster triple > the range of the conga line. > I'd thought about this in years long past that manufacturers should have > put railway type couplings at a uniform height, with data communications. > Get on the highway, ease up behind a train of ICEs (back then) and clunk > into the coupling. Additional dashboard devices would warn the next in line > if a middle car wanted to pull off on a siding, waking up the driver in > time to rejoin to the lead rigs. > Elon, are you listening? > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200302/a9d88ca2/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- *Regards* *Glenn Van Vlemen* Tel: +61 419 919 536 Email: *[email protected] <[email protected]>* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200302/42d856db/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
