Posted on 12/12/2022 6:49:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
I drive to Kansas from Texas a couple of times a year. 14 hour drive. It takes 1 and 3/4 tanks of gas. An EV just wouldn’t work especially pulling a 4,000 lb trailer.
Oh, look ... another article stoking the party versus party flames.
In fact, I don't want solar implemented at the utility level, not even here where it'd work better. Because solar is not 100% guaranteed power. Solar is great from my home, but only because I have guaranteed power I can depend on from the grid when my solar isn't enough. Year round, that comes out to about 10% of the power I need having to be pulled from the grid (more in the winter, less in the summer). So solar works amazingly well for me -- but even I still need the utility power to be dependable power.
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Not when a replacement battery costs ten grand.
Is this a plan for success of failure? Is there sufficient power supply to power all the elector cars they want? Are there sufficient power stations along highways? Is electric transportation cheaper than other sources. This is designed to fail not succeed!
...and part of the plan for the Democommies is to force everyone into increasingly large urban settings where they (already) control the local governments.
Meanwhile, they couldn't care less about anybody living outside the city limits.
Journalists are dumber than me, so why waste time reading their material? How do we dispose of 350 million EV batteries? What is the total carbon footprint of an EV car vs a regular car? No effing journalist ever bothers to even ask these question!
No, they cannot, nor should they.
“Can red states overcome their hatred of California and embrace electric cars?”
Let’s see how successful California is making the charging stations readily available and how efficient they are and whether all that power being sucked out of the power grid leads to rolling back outs.
An oped piece off the cover of the “National Enquirer”.
No.
Get wrecked.
Signed,
Texas.
“EVs are not yet ready for prime-time. That fact has nothing to do with California.”
I recently bought a third ICE vehicle that I drive just enough to keep from deteriorating. If they stop selling ICE vehicles I’m good for the rest of my driving life. They won’t be able to outlaw ICE vehicles completely anytime soon because most people can’t afford EVs. I see a Cuban look on our roads in the future.
Yep!
Yes...diesels are designed for highways,not city/suburban driving. But the funny thing is that 95% of my miles in this vehicle are on Interstates. I’m lucky enough to live across the street from a train station and within walking distance of a supermarket,etc.
Quick answer: NO!
Yup...EV are completely unfit for many different tasks. I just saw something recently about EV trucks.An 18 wheeler on I-70 in Colorado would get 10 miles on a charge...and then spend 12 hours + recharging.
“Consider a Ford Mach e…as a commuter car only”
That raises another point. A lot of people don’t commute these days. Buying, insuring and maintaining a car just for short trips is a money loser overall. A hybrid or econobox ICE car makes much more sense as a “short trip” car at this time.
Indiana can feel like a tough place to own an electric car.
The elephant in the EV room is the current (heh heh) state of batteries. Taking a half-hour to ‘fill-er-up’ doesn’t work for most people. The batteries themselves occasionally have a penchant for catching on fires that are very difficult to put out.
Perhaps even a bigger elephant is where does the electricity to charge the batteries come from? The only sources of energy that has the blessings of the enlightened California environmentalists are solar and wind. Even geo-thermal is bad because it endangers toads and hydroelectric is bad because of Indians and salmon.
My hubby is pretty handy at repairing the basic older vehicles, but not so much the new computerized ones. We have a 1986 Chevy Suburban that was originally a state-owned vehicle. It has only the basics, not even an AC, so is easier to maintain. We are also lucky to have a family of good shade-tree mechanics just down the road from us. They will keep the local's vehicles in drivable condition should the need arise.
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