Posted on 06/08/2022 2:33:06 PM PDT by CedarDave
Can’t be true. Stabmenow said she drove from Hawaii to New York on her electric broom and never charged up.
There are electric dirt bikes. They average about 1 maybe 1 1/2 hours of performance. They take hours to charge with a gas generator in the back of your truck. Or you can buy a spare battery, at 1/2 the cost of the bike = several thousand dollars. Or you can get a gas powered bike and ride all day. Tough choice.
Of course most the bike sites are heavily pushing electrics. Most bike sites are owned by VerticalScope, which is pushing this nonsense. No dissent is allowed and as I’ve learned critical posts get deleted and the posters banned.
We are getting electric vehicles and the powers that be do not care one bit about the inconvenience and loss of prosperity and even the loss of life. They are on a mission from Gaia and no amount of lives are too much for other people besides them to pay. You are all scum and riff-raff anyhow. Starving in the dark is too good for you.
I was stuck in the Virginia traffic jam for about 15 hours.
When I hit the traffic I was down to about 1/4 tank. Running out of fuel was turkey the least of my concerns. I couldn’t imagine being in a silly EV
Know what’s really cool about every car I’ve ever owned, I can pull in to any gas station on any corner, sometimes I can choose which way I want to turn and pick the easiest one.
They all have gas. I don’t have to search for the right kind of charger.
Oh, and if you see my previous post, in Virginia, in addition to snow, the power was out for 50 miles.
I also recently read about some people who did a study of chargers in California. They found 30% were inoperable.
Not interested in Tesla virtue signaling.
I think that's the plan.
So, that is why they spent more time charging than sleeping?
Its one reason hybrids may be a better choice for many people, if they are wanting something other than a straight gas-only vehicle.
Multiple energy sources give you a safety net.
The charging problem may get better, but do not expect to be solved fully for a very long time.
With the 5 billion of our tax money spend, we can expect more charging stations, so the problem of looking for the station may be somewhat solved.
However there are physical limits of charging energy delivered in given time.
So the long charging times will not really be solved for a long time.
I think one efficient and practical use of an electric bicycle would be one of those fold-up electrics stashed in the trunk of your car. Then if you run out of gas you won’t have to hitchhike to the gas station.
BTW, with Gas car, I would make the trip one way in a day, not two. And I would get a full night sleep in Chicago!
I heard that during the CA fires, folks had to be rescued with gasoline vehicles because their EV batteries were dead since the power lines were down.
Only if the titles are identical. I searched the whole title and then the first sentence and neither showed up as previously posted. Please note that your title has “Four-Day Road Trip” where as mine has “4-Day Road Trip.” Also, besides the difference in the title, the article has a different source, different author and different publication date. Someone illegally copied the story and published it as their own. My story identifies the author as being with the Wall Street Journal. I don’t propose to research it to find out the back story, but your charge has no merit.
FTA: .....our dashboard tells us a full charge, from 18% to 100%, will take 3-plus hours.
We pull into Chicago at 9 p.m., having made the planned 7½-hour trip in 12 hours. Not bad, we agree. <— almost double their planned time and they are happy....!
He should have tried one of those newfangled gasoline powered cars.... 😁
Here is the reason gas prices are going up. Electric cannot compete. Also note that your electric price has gone way up and is double or tripled here in California to pay for the solar power which cannot compete against natural gas, coal, nuclear power so the democrats ban every other power source but electric. Electric is 20 to 30 cents a kw while most other places in the USA it is much much less.
“Los Angeles area households paid an average of 25.1 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity in April 2022”
“Louisiana has the lowest electricity rate (7.51 cents).Jan 26, 2022”
“The most expensive of the Asian countries is Japan (USD 0.211)” <-— WOW! are we being ripped off!
How come it is almost 4 times cheaper in Louisiana then Los Angeles let alone the Japan price?!
The number of charges were many compared to filling up a gas car. My Honda Accord Sport would have needed 5 stops or less and only 5 minutes filling up. Plus I would not need to worry about where to charge and how long it will take.
Gas was under $2.00 in most places outside of California when Donald Trump was president.
My Honda gets 26 city / 35 highway.
At $2 dollars that would be $34.40 a fill up a 17.2 gallon tank = 447 mile range at 26/mpg then 5 stops = $172 for the trip.
If I use 35/mpg = 602 mile range then 4 stops (3.34) the cost is just over $137 (114.90)
The owners also are subsidized by the state and federal gov’t. We all pay higher prices for everything because of this.
BTW the electricity for the electric car comes from a power plant that uses natural gas or coal or nuclear.....
With 300 mile range and 1000 charging cycle, that's 300,000 miles. From the story posted that range won't happen, so no.
About once every three years I have a very long trip across country.
Personal record is a 900 miles/day driving solo back in 2017.
I could never have done it using an electric car.
“How do you respond to Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow boasting about how she was able to breeze past gas stations en route to Washington, DC. with her EV?”
She lives in Lansing MI. It is 600 miles to DC. For one I doubt she drove and if she had the skank failed to mention the multiple charging stops she had to make.
You EV lovers won’t quit. EVs suck.
You can pry my V8 form my cold dead fingers.
RE: she had the skank failed to mention the multiple charging stops she had to make.
I’ve never driven an EV. I have these questions:
1. How prevalent are these charging stations in the country today?
2. How long does it take to fully charge an EV ?
3. On average, how many miles must one drive before the next charge?
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