Thread: Jaguar Land Rover goes hybrid electric

Tesla is close to being a workable replacement for a normal car - except that it is far too expensive for what it offers, and by all accounts Tesla is losing money on selling them; in other words to even keep the cost as low as it is, they need to sell a lot more.

But to achieve a workable range, they have had to make maximum use of aerodynamics to achieve low drag. As soon as you raise the ground clearance to make a usable vehicle for rough roads, the increased drag drops the range, right when you need a vehicle with longer range. Add a roo bar to the front, and you drop the range more. Add four wheel drive for the sandy or muddy bits, and the increased mass drops the range again. Up the seating capacity to seven plus several hundred kilos of luggage, and your range is down to enough to just about get you out of the city. (maybe a slight exaggeration, but you get my point, I hope.

Add to that (as per another post) you need a ratio ten times weight of batteries to fuel to get the same range as diesel. The figures quoted by Tesla are all 'best achievable' and not what you will actually get. -a bit like internet speeds quoted. I would love a fully electric car but not at the moment.

Great, I have time to crack 500,000 on my D3 before they arrive A Hybrid Deffer could be fantastic.

We will have personal jet packs by then or maybe even teleportation by then.

Hybrids still have an engine for when they can't run electric, so that solves the range issue.

Originally Posted by trog

We will have personal jet packs by then or maybe even teleportation by then.

He stands at the bottom of the highly technical ascent carefully studying the best line to take considering the size of the ruts, the position of the boulders, and the patches of slippery mud left after the recent rain...then teleports to the top in a split second.

Convenient, but would take some of the fun out of driving.

Electric motors at eac h wheel - PERFECT for off-roading esp rock climbing and such. SO much control and torque all at once.
As long as it has the ICE to get you there and back before you use said electrics - essential in Australia with our distances !

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Hybrids still have an engine for when they can't run electric, so that solves the range issue.

Simple. Cheers Mick.