Posted on 06/04/2022 5:54:35 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
Are there enough charging stations in Fresno to keep your electric vehicle juiced?
With more than 400 charging units there shouldn't be a problem.
In a FOX26 special investigation, we uncovered what thieves are stealing that could leave you stranded.
Electric vehicles have become a familiar sight on California roadways. The state now accounts for more than 40% of all zero-emission cars in the country.
With that many E-V's rolling down city streets and highways does Fresno have the infrastructure to keep these cars moving? There are 408 public charging stations scattered across town.
The City of Fresno operates 135. Vandalism is a huge problem at a downtown city lot on Tulare Street and also at the water tower.
Miguel Arias is a Fresno city councilman. "What we're seeing is some folks who go around cities and just take hoses cause there's other valuable minerals besides copper in them."
Cable cutting doesn't just happen downtown. In mid-May Fresno Police caught a homeless man who cut a line at a charging station near the Vallarta supermarket at Clinton and Weber.
Are things different in the Bay Area? U.C. Berkeley professor Dr. David Rempel wanted to know if drivers with E-V's were finding what they needed to keep their cars running.
A team of volunteers checked to see the reliability of charging stations in 12 northern California countries.
The team discovered only 73% of the charging equipment worked. Problems included non-working screens, payment system failures, network failures and broken connectors. Surprisingly they didn't find any cut cables.
In February the Biden Administration unveiled its plan to award nearly $5 billion to build thousands of electric vehicle charging stations along the interstate highway system.
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Watch for illegals stealing and selling hoses to pay for gas for their stolen internal combustion vehicles.
LOL!!!
Why not make it where you get a fully charged battery pack interchanged in seconds at a battery station? It would turn into a logistical nightmare I guess. But it would be the fastest way.
Just wait until all the mysterious fires at said charging stations...
What needs to be invented/developed is a portable or in vehicle
charging device. Now sure of the entire process but maybe at
some point a device that charges as the vehicle is running.
Is there enough power in the grid to handle a few million 50,000 watt home chargers?
No
That’s exactly what they do in China.
Think it’s about a 5-10 minute turnaround.
I doubt there is enough power for a 1% EV saturation in CA.
Its a charade.
Like your propane tank for the BBQ? Drop one off, pick up a full one.
They're only about 800 pounds....
“What needs to be invented/developed is a portable or in vehicle
charging device. Now sure of the entire process but maybe at
some point a device that charges as the vehicle is running.”
Yea, they’ve got that already. It’s called gasoline!
zero-emission cars , that’s a huge lie right there
May be possible to charge another battery unit while driving, but I think it would reduce power quite a bit.
“The state now accounts for more than 40% of all zero-emission cars in the country.”
There is no such thing as a “zero emissions vehicle”.
Yes, a battery-swapping station would make sense — like swapping propane canisters — if not for the very serious fire hazard posed by lithium batteries. And our criminal class, both imported and domestic, would still find a way to ply their trade.
Google Toyota Prius, they’ve been around for over twenty years.
It seems like it would make sense for the cable to come with the car instead of being attached to the charging unit. Have a simple, standardized wall-like “receptacle” in the charger. The driver then pulls the cable out of the car and hooks up. When finished, the cable could “self-wind”, or get rolled up and stored back in the car.
Then, all you have to worry about are the EV haters squirting Great Stuff (expanding polyurethane) into the charger receptacles...LOL.
Zero emission cars? LOL Sure, electricity comes magically out of the charging station.
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