Posted on 06/08/2022 2:33:06 PM PDT by CedarDave
Other than that, I have no strong opinions on the subject.
A 3500 watt generator is at best 3000 watts continuous.
It would take at least four hours to put any significant watt hours into the vehicle.🤔
Ouch. Takes like two or three days to charge at a 110 outlet, eh?
“.... and no more long trips....”
They did learn that much from the experience.
Three things to make EV’s more probable.
1. Build a couple hundred house-size nucular power plants.
2. Limit the boundaries of the EV usage to city limits of cities over 500,000.
3. Get rid of the collectivists pushing the Green New Deal.
No way would I get one of these things after reading the whole article.
I’m old and I don’t need problems
Which is actually what happened...
I’ve done the math on the power requirements. Scientifically illiterate people have no clue how much power is in fossil fuel.
You will know they are serious about electric vehicles when they start building nuclear power plants instead of shutting them down.
Well duh
Reading your post… I could hear the soundtrack - Rush’s Paul Shanklin…
“In a Yugo..”
EV’s are only good for short trips. They can make a nice second car for urban dwellers, but that’s about it.
The other bottom line: Deep State doesn’t want us driving.
No,IIRC the official maximum range was something like 110 miles.
Electric powered cars predated ICE powered cars. See how the electrics fared thee last 100 years?
without government subsidies and support, they would still be nothing but a bump in the automotive road.
“That $100 savings cost us many hours in waiting time.”
Unless you are retired, time is money.
Wonder how bad it would have been if you were towing a camper 2000 miles.
From the article:
“Not many people use the charger, the mechanic tells us when we return. We soon see why. Once up and running, our dashboard tells us a full charge, from 18% to 100%, will take 3-plus hours.”
I posted on this forum a few months ago about my interest in an electric motorcycle. I thought, “wow, would that be a great thing for a long trip?” (Because they have electric outlets at rest stops, so I thought you could charge the bike at a rest stop and get back on the road. So I thought.)
So I read the specs on some of the bikes: One I read up on a lot had a range on one charge of about 120 miles - about the same as I got on a tank of gas on my poor old Honda, which at the time cost about $10 - so I thought that was cool, and you could also buy an extra battery so you could go another 100 or so miles before having to stop and charge.
And then I read that the battery(s) took 8 hours to charge. If I sit at a rest stop for 8 hours charging my bike, I thought, I will get arrested or perhaps worse because where would I sleep securely? Upon doing the logistics, the thing seemed really undoable unless you only wanted the bike to ride around town or to work or - I don’t know, really what you would use it for. Perhaps a planter.
I think electric cars and bikes are a great idea. But as someone else who posted here observed, it seems certain that lots of people are going to die because of these things not delivering the goods.
“Worse, it is a 30-minute walk to downtown restaurants. We set off on foot, passing warehouses with shattered windows and an overgrown lot filled with rusted fuel pumps and gas-station signs. Clambering over a flatcar of a stalled freight train, we half-wish we could hop a boxcar to Chicago.”
Haha, yeah.
‘”My daughter was like, ‘You’ve lost it mom; just fly,’ “ the retired hairdresser says. She says she felt safer in a car during the pandemic — but also vulnerable when waiting at remote charging stations alone late at night. “But if someone is going to get me, they’re going to have to really fight me,” she says, wielding her key between her fingers like a weapon.’
We were, like, so totally, totally surprised to find out that electric cars are a life-threatening scam.
And guess what? They aren’t good for the environment, either!
They did and they were.
The first automobiles were battery-electric.
Duplicate (3 days ago).
I Rented An Electric Car For A Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.
06/05/2022 8:19:50 AM PDT · by American Number 181269513 · 162 replies
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4068793/posts
Search button is your friend.
Or just get a hybrid ... that’s exactly what they are ... an electric car with a gasoline generator enclosed. What a concept to save the planet. /s/s/s/s/
BOL!
It wouldn’t surprise me if they tried to drive it back to DC to protest something.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.