Posted on 10/21/2020 4:22:00 PM PDT by karpov
“0 to 60 in 3 seconds...however that drains the battery in those 3 seconds, letting you driving no where.”
Actually, uses less than 0.5% of battery capacity.
“Son, you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’ if you don’t stop driving that hot-rod Lincoln!”
“I foresee mountains of dead batteries polluting the water with acid.
1. Dead batteries don’t have acid.
2. Batteries are recycled.
3. (censored)
“Which takes hours to charge.”
100 miles in ten minutes.
Shoot I love my electric car, and I don’t want everybody to have one. There aren’t any lines at the chargers, so I never have to wait except for the car to charge which can take a really long time. But the car is fun to drive and it suits my OCD nature about charging it.
Congress doesn’t have to mandate anything. The whole industry is moving toward electric—and as the batteries get better, people will want them. By 2035, most cars will be electric. The marketplace is an amazing thing when it’s left alone.
“When my parents were living, I frequently made the trip between Chicago and St. Louis: 300 miles, 5-6 hours. Not a long drive. If I had an electric, I could go only 5/6 of the way before I would run low on juice and have to look for a charging station in the middle of nowhere, and then sit for several hours while it charged. “
Most. have a range of 300 miles. Then you could plug in at their house and. get a free charge!
But Tesla has a super-station in Springfield where you could top-off in ten minutes.
Same idiots promoting this as those promoting renewable energy. Imagine a country full of electric cars when we already don’t have enough power generation. If brains were dynamite, these people planning this stuff couldn’t blow their noses.
“People will want them”.
Only the same posers and nit wits who want them now. In short about 2% electric vehicles serve the very important (to Democrats and other tyrants) function of limiting travel and keeping the peasants near where they live.
I live in a rural area and frequently have 400 round trip drives to medical appointments in the nearest city. Done in less than a day with my gas powered vehicle, with an electric car, I would have to spend the night in a Covid motel while the electric car charges.
“I live in a rural area and frequently have 400 round trip drives to medical appointments in the nearest city.”
I guess that rules out a Model-T.
A Willys jeep with a few extra jerry cans maybe?
” Imagine a country full of electric cars when we already don’t have enough power generation. “
The Model-T was on the road for five years before the first gas station!
The price tag: $112,595. Folks in middle America can buy a home for less.
Not in California they can’t.
As of May 2019, more than 99% of the US population is covered by the Supercharger network. Tesla is hoping this ever-expanding network helps ease range anxiety, or the fear of losing charge and being nowhere near a charger, which was an issue often discussed by Tesla enthusiasts early on.
“Range anxiety was introduced by petrol vehicles. Every time the red light comes on in a vehicle, that is range anxiety. Owning an electric car is like owning a mobile phone, you get home, charge, and wake up with the equivalent of a full tank of petrol every morning. And nobody fills up twice in a day unless driving long distances, which is where Superchargers come into play.”
In fact, Tesla recently unveiled a faster V3 Supercharger that will begin popping up around the US in the next few months. This advanced Supercharger will allow a Model 3 Long Range operating at peak efficiency to recover up to 75 miles of charge in just five minutes — putting charge rates at up to 1,000 miles per hour. According to Tesla, this should help Tesla owners decrease their time spent charging by an average of 50%. And hopefully put an end to range anxiety once and for all.
they do not care if our lives our made miserable....they do not care...
Keep dreaming my friend. Keep dreaming
“A Willys jeep with a few extra jerry cans maybe?”
I left WA state in 73 pulling my motorcycle and three five-gallon gas containers.
I think it took five trips to the station before I left.
“Keep dreaming my friend. Keep dreaming”
“Keep dreaming my friend. Keep dreaming”
In all ways but range EV’s are superior and that gap is closing.
500 miles and ten minutes charging for 150 miles is already here.
Let me guess...when one car plugs in, the street lights dim.
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