Trust me I know the feeling. I hated filling a Cat 245D and a 973C with that tank. When they loaded trucks all day those 2 machines would burn around 270 gallons of fuel a day.
what's your opinion on auxiliary fuel tanks that go in the bed of a truck?
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Don't worry, Corn Pop assures me it can just go all electric. And he knows what he's talking about. Pretty soon....no more worries of filling diesel tanks on heavy equipment. It'll be great
Do those cross feed like aviation tanks? Or does it feed fuel from both tanks at the same time? My middle school teacher had an F-150 that had two tanks and a selector switch. Does Ford offer that now?
Me too in my 85 C10 (Silverado trim level) doesn't really give much additional range as the main tank is only 15gal but back then it was a big deal.
Don't worry, Corn Pop assures me it can just go all electric. And he knows what he's talking about. Pretty soon....no more worries of filling diesel tanks on heavy equipment. It'll be great
I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of battery technology it would take to run a full size excavator ( think something like a Cat 349, or a Hitachi ZX450)
I have seen some mid size Komatsu excavators that said “ hybrid” in huge letters on the side, but I’m not sure if that was in reference to the engine or something completely different.
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It only has to be tilted slightly the wrong way. I have the same issue on my boat. Holds 120 gallons. Finally figured out wht the vent was whistling the other day. Oh, it's submerged in fuel, but yet I still fit 15 more gallons in. Took a while, and had to go slow, but it did it. The bow points downwards slightly and the tank is like 6ft long 1ft deep and 2ft wide and the vent and tank fill is at the very front
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I don't know, but I see this lithium ion stuff being obsolete in another 10-15 years. It's not the answer. They need to come up with something a little more stable that doesn't catch fire so easily
Had them on my '86
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Oh, so they used to just be steel tanks?
