This a proposal for making a substantial change to how the game handles storage batteries and electric motors. I’m soliciting feedback, and won’t implement this before October. Background: Weak storage batteries A vehicle power unit is 373 watts over 6 seconds. A storage battery contains 40,000 ve…

Sounds okay to me, I know many people will like the mini-fridge part.

I do not think there’s a problem with solar panels and batteries and engines being superior to modern versions. Also, I think you’re making a mistake in balancing purely around what players will do(making a wondrous frankencar), versus the extant designs in-game. For verisimilitude, you should con…

[image] JENTHULHU: many people in this theoretical future time are using solar vehicles as their main mode of transit. Those would be plug-in solar, it would be absolutely nuts to try to do a pure solar car.

Then charged(and uncharged) storage batteries should be generally more common /outside/ of solar vehicles. They might be useful, but they’re also very heavy, and thus would likely be deprioritized by looters(which I assume is the general explanation for a lot of scarcity)

Storage batteries are common outside of solar vehicles: electric car, electric SUV, atomic sports car, RVs, and luxury RVs all have them off the top of my head. Solar vehicles are still viable for short-range commutes, though less than they used to be.

It all seems legit. I am all for it.

Try it first and see who and how many of us get pissed off lol That aside. Trying it out seems more legit than just assuming it would make everyone happy. I for one would be happy being able to have my flippin battery not scale in weight with the charge…this is ridiculous to say the least. I canno…

Looks at code. Huh, that’s weird. So currently electricity is handled internally as batteries, and a storage battery is just a very large magazine filled with batteries. Which is silly. I could change it to be actual electric charge with weight 0, volume 0, but that’d be a huge change and would ne…

Batteries actually do increase in weight when charged. But the change is so small it can’t really be measured with present technology. [Petr Pudlák] Does the mass of a battery change when charged/discharged? mass, mass-energy, batteries asked by Petr Pu…

I understand reality on the topic of batteries. But not 400lbs bro lol

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Requesting feedback for a big change in storage batteries and electric motors

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