In later generations, when it comes to electric vehicles, it is tall, new energy, in fact, when the car just began to appear, the power system has a steam engine, an internal combustion engine, and a battery to drive the electric motor, this is the electric car, but in the end, it was eliminated, only the internal combustion engine developed.

As for the tank, in the early days of its appearance, the technical aspect was also a hundred flowers, as early as the appearance of the tank, the electric tank also appeared, the first was the French "Saint-Chamont" tank developed in 1917. This tank uses a gasoline engine to drive a DC generator, and then drives two DC motors on the left and right to drive the track to rotate.

Moreover, this is not a test car, and about 400 units were produced after the finalization.

At the end of World War I, the French developed a 2C heavy tank with electric transmission, which weighed 70 tons, but the war ended before it could be put into production.

Why did electrically driven tanks begin to appear in the early days? This is, of course, because of a problem with the drivetrain.

Driving a tank is more complicated than driving a car, not only to have a clutch, but also to hang the gear, at the same time, when steering, you also need to change the speed difference of the tracks on both sides, so it is quite difficult, the difficulty of mechanical transmission is too great, and if you change to an electric motor, it is much easier, how fast or slow is the motor speed? Adjustment is far more convenient than the adjustment of the clutch and gearbox.

By the time of World War II, there were more tanks with an electric drivetrain, and the famous Tiger tank of the Germans at the time? Was there a scheme to use electric transmission at the time of design? It's just that it didn't put into real combat in the end? But by the time of the 188-ton Mouse tank, the electric drivetrain was finally adopted, and at the same time? In this period? Great Britain, the United States, all have models of electrically driven tanks?

The British trial-produced a heavy tank with TOG electric transmission. The T1E1 heavy tank and the T23 medium tank in the United States? Both use General Electric's electric drives.

Arguably? In those days? Electric drivetrains are beginning to be practically available.

But? After the end of World War II? With the advancement of technology, the transmission system of the tank, began to take the conventional route, after all, the electric transmission sounds good, but? Is there a big problem in it? Is it the loss of energy? Drive a tank directly with a gasoline engine? And first use a gasoline engine to generate electricity, and then use electricity to drive the tank, which has gone through a process of secondary conversion? This conversion is not very efficient. (I remembered the video I watched recently, some people began to promote electric vehicles without charging, unlimited battery life, the method is very simple, on electric vehicles, bring a gasoline generator to charge the electric car, as long as you keep refueling, you can have unlimited battery life.) This is simply farting and taking off your pants, if you burn oil, why don't you just drive a motorcycle, is it because motorcycles are forbidden? ）

For example, in 1960, the American Armored Vehicle Transmission Manufacturing Company (that is, FMC, a company that cooperated with a machine factory) began to replace the transmission device of the M113 car with an electric drive system, and the generator has been replaced with an alternator, which is supplied to the DC motor through a silicon rectifier.

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The Europeans are also engaged in it, and in 1986, Germany installed an electric drive system of permanent magnet motors on the "Weasel" infantry fighting vehicle. These systems can improve performance and reduce the loss of intermediate transmission.

All the technologies are in pre-research and are not really used in the existing equipment, but it can also be seen that electric transmission still has a promising future, especially in this current meeting, which is discussing the future of tank technology.

With 2,000 horsepower, what kind of drivetrain is needed to withstand the strong power output? Convert to electric drive, and naturally it is the best! In particular, at present, this technical route is already used in large mining vehicles, and those vehicles with a cargo capacity of several hundred tons, even diesel locomotives, are driven by electricity.

"The gas turbine is small in size, has the highest thermal efficiency, but the fuel consumption is also high, so if the electric drive system is used in the future, the use of gas turbines to drive the generator should be more volume-saving than that of the diesel engine to drive the generator." Qin Zhenhua said: "We believe that the future form of power is likely to adopt this technical route. ”

Gas turbines are still useful, and there will be opportunities in the future, so don't worry, Qin Zhenhua's words naturally mean this.

Hearing Qin Zhenhua's words, Nikolai nodded, the other party did not deny the gas turbine, but also said that it was the trend in the future, and the final conclusion of this meeting was that there must be a conclusion that the gas turbine is the power of the future tank! As long as that's the case, they can continue their research. After all, in recent years, the prospects for gas turbine tanks have been somewhat unfavorable, and they are also in a hurry.

"So why do we have to use an electric drive?" Nikolai opened his mouth and said: "At the beginning, when the power of the tank was only five or six hundred horsepower, I felt that the normal transmission system was unbearable, and it was necessary to have an electric transmission, and the result? Now the power of the tank has reached 1,500 horsepower, and the conventional transmission system is still used, strengthened to 2,000 horsepower, and the conventional system can also be used. ”

It's not that he's in a quandary with the Kirov plant, it's just that he's just a little curious, and if he continues to strengthen the drivetrain, it should be fine.

"That's right, of course you can do that, so we use electric transmission to simplify our transmission system, just one of the benefits, and the other is more important, that is, it can provide a strong power supply to the tank, so that the tank has a deeper modification potential, for example, our tank guns, now still use normal chemical energy cannons, in the future, it may be electromagnetic guns, or laser cannons, in short, these are all that require strong electrical energy as energy."

Ordinary tanks, the electrical energy is provided by a small generator driven by an engine, the electrical energy is not strong enough, only to meet the ordinary needs, if it is used on weapons, the required power supply, will increase thousands of times, only all the power is used to generate electricity, this is enough.

"Laser tanks? You guys are too imaginative, how is that possible? Suddenly, someone laughed.

"Could it be that there are really no laser tanks in this world?" Qin Zhenhua asked rhetorically.

As soon as these words came out, many people frowned.