Posted on 07/17/2022 9:31:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Yes you are correct. FPL has no coal units and is 78% natural gas. FPL covers the bulk of Florida. Gulf power which powers the panhandle still has mostly coal units. Coal is still cheaper than natural gas but is more expensive than hydro or nuclear. The problem is that the transportation sector of the us economy uses approximately 11 times the amount of energy produced by every nuclear plant in the country. So where is the energy (not to mention batteries) going to come from? Wind and solar are expensive fantasies and will never produce enough energy. so lots more nucs?
Utter insanity
lol
We’d have to refine the mechanics with gearing and pulleys to maximize distance and minimize rewind effort. We have many household appliances where the dangerous elements are inaccessible, or difficult to reach by the foolhardy.
That’s great, are you saving up for that $14,000 battery change?
There are not unlimited supplies of rare earth metals for magnets, lithium and cobalt either
One of the defining characteristics of Democrats/liberals/greenieweenies is that THEY DO NOT LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES.
Our economy is currently in a tailspin wholly due to the idiot policies coming out of washington. My neighbors three houses down were big Biden/Ho supporters. Now they are touting their mindless loyalty to the Demoshit party by plastering their lawn with signs for all of the Democrat candidates. Liberalism is a religion that worships big government. And for true believers nothing will share their faith.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.H. L. Mencken
Ah following time honored tradition at FR... ;)
First sentence of article:
Avery Siwinski is a 17-year-old who’s parents spent $11,000 on a used Ford Focus Electric car, which is a 2014 model and had about 60,000 miles when it was bought, according to KVUE.
I did not have that problem on this site (tho I have on others).
I think there are some free popup blockers out there...
There will be driveways with dead electric cars filling them up and lots and lots of them driven into the woods and abandoned.
IF I keep the vehicle past the “Ford Option” 3 year financing plan, IF I don’t follow proper charging practices, IF the battery goes before the rest of the car does, IF the (inflation adjusted) cost of a new battery is that high and IF the free market has not come up with an affordable alternative then yes, I will be prepared.
Geesh, whoever sold her that thing is probably LTAO.
nothing new here. When I buy a 20 volt battery, I get a free electric drill with it.
A regular car battery for my 2016 Honda Accord Sport is now $200 and up with tax!!
All because of the shortages of materials being used by the electric car.
Great that you can afford that, but like I said in my original post it’s not affordable for the average American, it’s a “look at me I can afford to pay off a $48,000 plus vehicle in 3 years and trade it in on a new one so some poor sucker who doesn’t know any better gets stuck with the battery replacement costs” and if you are prepared to pay the $14,000 noted in the article adjusted by inflation then you can afford a status symbol.
The average American buying a new car pays $32,000 and is financed over 5 years. A $14,000 cost would throw most people living from paycheck to paycheck into bankruptcy.
“However, the family found out that there weren’t any batteries of that type available anymore because the Ford model is discontinued.”
Easy solution: go to AUTOZONE, since they have the common parts for all models of cars.
“An electric vehicle? The Second Law of Thermodynamics would like to have a word with you.”
You obviously are ignorant of Clean Energy Production. We produce the electricity from Unicorn Farts. But, there is an acute shortage of Unicorns. LOL
Entropy rules forever and thus in the end it will be a cold dark universe if it expands forever. If it is not forever expansive it will eventually collapse and enthalpy will rule for one instant of time and then entropy takes over for billions of years.
Used electric cars have a value of 0$.
Or until it catches unquenchable fire and burns down their house and possibly the ones next to it.
That happened during the "Cash for Clunkers" program that Democrats did. Took cheap cars off the market. People recovered from that.
As for EV's, until recently this year, used Nissan Leaf cars were available for between $4,000 to $10,000. They still had enough battery strength to be useful, although between 50 to 80 miles of range before recharge. There are also companies that swap battery packs for old Leafs for about $5,000. Currently, these companies also do swaps of longer range systems into old Leafs (150-mile range 40KWH packs). The newer Leafs are 226-mile range with 60KWH packs. As the Leaf is the oldest production EV, more of those are available but other used EV's are available also.
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