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Me searching for the electric tanks. ¯ \ _ ༼ •́ ͜ ʖ •̀ ༽ _ / ¯ Edit: I found them :D
by kelseyfrog 7mo ago
Me searching for the electric tanks. ¯ \ _ ༼ •́ ͜ ʖ •̀ ༽ _ / ¯
Edit: I found them :D
- ThatMedicIsASpy 7mo agoand I wonder which blown up tank would pollute the environment more
- kelseyfrog 7mo agoI don't really think that's really high up on military priorities list. But happy to be proven wrong on that.
- triceratops 7mo agoIf you're worried about the environment don't get into wars. If you're in a war, worry about winning. Wars of the future will make heavy use of drones. They don't run on hydrocarbons.
- kayodelycaon 7mo agoThey didn’t make it past the drones.
- make3 7mo agotanks must represent like 0.001% of fuel consumption lol Road uses like cars, trucks and buses is 47% of all oil, and clearly an enormous fraction of that can be converted to use electricity instead
- adrian_b 7mo agoI do not know if any such tanks are in production, but there where experimental electric tanks, just not with batteries, but with turbogenerators.
- kelseyfrog 7mo agoGreat question! Turns out there are. The U.S. Military's Abrams Tank Is Going Hybrid [1]. I'm sure we'll get some comments saying why it's a terrible idea[2]. 1. https://insideevs.com/news/784805/abrams-m1e3-hybrid-tank-video-specs-power/ https://insideevs.com/news/784805/abrams-m1e3-hybrid-tank-vi... 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484044