Posted on 12/12/2022 6:49:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The lower range and long charging times are a feature, not a bug. EVs are intended to limit your mobility as your future is to be a serf to the landed gentry. It’s for the ert you see.
Yeah, try being in an electric car when you’re sitting in traffic to escape the coming hurricane.
Or going to get groceries when the power’s out in your area after a hurricane.
You know what the solution to these is?? An electric generator...powered by...gasoline.
EV’s are a commuter/fleet vehicle niche... There are use cases they make sense, and can even be economically advantageous. However, they are not a General Case solution and are NOWHERE near being it at the moment.
Will they be someday? Maybe, but they aren’t there yet.
Even once they solve the charging time issues, you still need an infrastructure and power generation upgrades to handle huge numbers of electric vehicles... which will cost TRILLIONS in infrastructure upgrades, completely unrelated to the actual manufacture and sale of the actual electric vehicles.
Going by the ‘headline’ but not reading the article, the short answer is NO...from someone in a red state.
Stupid headline. In urban or even suburban settings EVs can make sense. Even up in here in our rural area I’d be ok with an EV for most or our day to day driving. As long as we had a comfortable gas powered vehicle for long distance, things would work out. Unfortunately, finances not going to allow getting a new EV.
So red-staters ‘hate’ california.
Isn’t california the state that has passed all kinds of travel restrictions to those red states whose policies they ‘hate?’
When you’re used to making up stories about hate by conservatives it comes pretty naturally, I suppose.
Yet the forced conversion policies of California and Team Biden is not the way to do it. Unless of course you are on the receiving end of redistribution of wealth like Solyndra.
There are more than 100,000 commercial gas stations in the US, last I saw.. so the charging infrastructure needs built out, but more importantly the entire electrical grid needs to be upgraded in order to provide the power for a majorly electric vehicle base...
Electric is not a general case solution.. . there are use cases it fits in well and is even financially beneficial, but it is not remotely a replacement for combustion driven transportation in the general case and won’t be anytime soon.
If you need to FORCE it upon people, it’s not a better solution.
Because it is.
Similar to every chick psych major is cray cray.
Journalists want to influence you.
Cray cray wants to influence you.
Guys, what happened was 2 developments.
1) Neodynium magnets — that made electric motors stronger for the same amount of current.
2) Lithium batteries, that were an improvement over NiCad.
The problem is that is english, not math. The improvements were not X10. They were X3. That’s not enough to change society.
So gov’t got involved.
Kia is building a new plant to build evs in Georgia.
EV could be a nice fair weather second cars at best.
Please define that term. Please give examples.
You and I are in 100% agreement. I posted on if EV's can become popular in a red state (here in Alabama they might can from a sense of "we built that"). But as far as it actually working well if it becomes popular, you're correct. The electrical infrastructure would need to improve.
In fact, we've had to shut down coal plants and we're in the middle of replacing them with natural gas plants. We're currently using natural gas plants originally meant for reserve power only in higher use to give us sustained power (to offset what coal was doing for us). So we haven't had the blackouts ... yet, but we have little in way of reserve power. And power costs are going up (by all the demolition and construction costs being passed onto consumers, and by the high cost per cubic ft of natural gas the power company pays being passed onto consumers).
Me personally. My wife and I own an EV car and an ICE pickup, do most of our driving in the EV, and have 85% of our power supplied by our home solar (basically the solar provides way more than what the EV demands, so we're pulling less from the grid than we did before). But we're weird. We're not trying to save the world from cow farts or such. We're trying to make ourselves mainly energy independent so that we avoid most of the high energy costs the Dims keep throwing onto us. Plus our driving dependencies are now diversified: if the Dims mess up power we have an ICE pickup and solar, or if the Dims mess up gasoline we have an EV to depend on.
Yes. Childish self-absorption of the Left.
The problem is the “one size fits all approach” to all of this.
The left doesn’t want to understand that not everyone lives in urban areas where car chargers are more present, people like to travel or might have very long commutes or live in an house that require a basic rewire to accommodate a 60 amp charger.
Do electric cars have their place? Sure why not? I have no problem with a new technology competing with an older technology. That is fine with me. But the left isn’t about letting the best ideas float to the top, they are about control or mandates, force people to change even if they don’t see the need or already have investments in gasoline or diesel engine technology. We are suppose to stop, scrap our current vehicles and go out and buy what the left orders us to buy or else.
That is the problem, not the electric cars.
But they're too short for us. We're in our 50's and tall. So if we were to drive it 20 years we'd be in our 70's trying to squat into a clown car. LOL
Electric cars are STUPID.
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