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The Army will brief interested companies Oct. 20 on an electric-drive version of the long-delayed Light Reconnaissance Vehicle and the service’s emerging strategy to convert its gas-guzzling formations to electric power.
Army Seeks Electric Scout By 2025
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Battery charge & length of power before recharging might be a drawback...even if solar cells were employed... Doesn't sound practical to me...
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
I think what they like is the much lower volume of sound but there is a lot of work before this is practical.
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MSG Felipe De Leon Brown
Somebody has to throw the box away. Quieter, faster and more eco-friendly vehicles' time has come. You can smell diesel vehicles a mile away. The challenge is being met with breakthroughs every day in the technology. (play on two of our latest topics, LOL)
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SMSgt David A Asbury
Of course there will be a charger every 2 miles in the combat zone and the enemy has agreed for a time out to recharge!!!!!!!!!
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