Army Says It Will Transition to Electric Vehicles by 2050
So who thinks this is actually going to happen?
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The U.S. Army plans to install a microgrid on all its installations by 2035, field fully electric tactical vehicles by 2050, and ensure all operational and strategic exercises and simulations consider climate change risks and threats by 2028.
These are just a few of the goals the service outlined in its new climate strategy, published Feb. 8.
“The climate strategy is important to address the changing climate and the threats that are coming from climate change — both how our forces operate in a climate-altered world, but what the Army can do to influence this and to mitigate our greenhouse gases and to reduce the effects of climate change,” Paul Farnan, the Army’s acting assistant secretary for installations, energy and environment, told Defense News in a Feb. 7 interview.
Army Times
You can read more at the link, but notice how these initiatives are always pushed out to some far off date like 2050.
But will they be 508 compliant, LGBTQ+ approved, and pre-programmed to stop at every college campus crying room to allow the non-binary, pronoun appropriate, non-extremist occupants to express obvious and pent-up emotions over the lack of a truly global commitment to climate change? … and Trump.
I revised a famous song in honor of this EV news:
Setnaffa, will that car drive in the snow if you put chains on those tires?
In the last 30 years of five-year tipping points being barked at me by scolds, the sea level has gone up exactly… uh… an unnoticeable amount.
There is still snow. Hurricanes have done absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Forests have burned due to poor management. The Maldives still exist. Etc.
Can anyone thing of how global warming has affected their lives? Global greening and longer growing seasons are the only effects actually being claimed.
Obama owns two seaside mansions. Two.
If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about global warming and melting glaciers and sea level rise, you are too self-cucked to be helped.
Go get your booster.
Can’t happen without Korean batteries.
Korean batteries? https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/01/17/news/tesla-battery-components-china
Look a little closer at the cartoon. You can’t have progressive socialism without enslaving people of color… who are mining the materials and manufacturing the virtuemobiles bought by effete slobs of pallor?
That’s right cancereous throat man. I don’t think the US would want Chinese batteries in their military vehicles, right? I mean, I know Tesla wouldn’t mind selling out their country to fatten up their own bottom line and all. But Tesla has nothing to do with the US miltiary. So that leaves the Koreans. You got no choice.
LG battery division seeks global dominance after blockbuster IPO
Well, the tencent army is out in force…
This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. How do you refuel on the move? Going to stop fighting to recharge you batteries. America is lost.
Has everyone agreed not to use EMP’s?
You know, because them and electrical grids.
@64 Cardinals, no. No one has taken anything off the table–though an EMP attack against the Norkistani regime would likely be ineffective.
Nice group of players you got there, though. 93-69 and 1st Place!! Even with Bob Uecker as a starter! /jk
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/schedule.php?y=1964&t=SLN
As I understand EMP, it really doesn’t do much to individual devices… despite the theories-as-fact on the internet presented by basement dwellers hooking up batteries and light bulbs while playing Warhammer 40K.
It seems it works well on big things like power grids that can receive a great deal of power like a transformer secondary. And things that are connected to this might wish they had a better lightening arrestor.
But small things don’t really receive much power because of the inverse square law and no real structures to act as an antenna/secondary. We can actually calculate this based on EMP power output, distance, and geometry of receiving antenna. My in-head calculations say we are gonna need a bigger EMP to kill your control module.
Then, I presume, an electric military vehicle would shield all of its important parts in a couple of concentric containers of mu-metal screen… and you could detonate a pinch next door and the electric vehicle wouldn’t even notice.
Protip: don’t forget electricity and magnetism are kinda the same thing in a way… just at different angles… and combined… they… are… the electromagnetic spectrum… different faucets of the same crystal… which we call “light”. Da fuq?
History Lesson: back in the 1800s, when the first underwater telegraph cables were laid around the world, conductive saltwater caused such capacitance that telegraph operators couldn’t go full speed. The solution was mu-metal cladding around the conductors. The inductance countered the capacitance… or something… it has been a couple of years since I studied this.
I’m not really up on EMP so feel free to look it up and tell me where I am wrong.
So let’s look at electric vehicles.
If EMP isn’t an issue, there are lots of other things from range to power we can consider.
These are real considerations… as the energy density of batteries just doesn’t compare to hydrocarbons… fine if your are driving across town to an avocado toast party with your gay purple-haired friends… not so good if you have to patrol the grid square for 24 hours.
Tentatively supporting electric vehicles in the military here… let’s see.
We had problems with gasoline and politics in WW2. We can assume EVs will be the same, with less-portable fuel sources.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN1oTf7Lsl0