Posted on 04/04/2024 9:43:36 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
This video reveals why EVs have become so popular with sales of electric cars growing at an ever increasing rate. It's because their chargers are fast, convenient, and very friendly to the environment. Goodbye to gasoline powered cars; hello to EVs with their clean CLEAN energy.
PING!
No kidding. It is idiocy.
The NYS police had this advice for EV owners during the eclipse...
“If from out of the area, don’t use vehicles that can’t travel for ten-plus hours without charging – stranded EVs in traffic will be towed.”
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Except for that problem of me not being able to produce my own gasoline like I can produce my own power with solar.
Safe and Effective!....................
EV’s are stupid , expensive, and economic sabotage. A fake solution to a fake issue by politicians who get into office by fake elections.
Communists hate simplicity.
I didn’t know EVs can’t be towed.
The Solyndra of the auto industry.
I need one ev and one gas. Use gas for trips and ev for about town. Only a 100k investment to save a few gasoline dollars. Hmmmmm....
I have 16kw natural gas generator. It even works at night !
Heh, Rumble exposed what those of us with actual STEM backgrounds already know...charging is iffy, slow, and involves power coming from mostly traditional (e.g., reliable) fuels. I do think that a requirement for purchasing an electric car is a “studies” (or equivalent) degree.
So 3 years ago I project engineered going solar with a small system to play with it and make sure it'd work as well as I researched (it did). So I replaced my 2 nat gas appliances with electric ones (variable speed heat pump with heat strips for the home, and hybrid water heater with a built-in heat pump to warm the 50-gal water tank). I did other, more simpler, energy improvements to the home like caulk sealing cracks, and adding insulation. Since it was time to replace my wife's gas car anyway, I replaced it with an EV. And on the 1-year anniversary of owning solar I crunched the numbers from the telemetry my inverter recorded in 5-minute candles. I then added onto my solar system to the full system I have now. ("Full system" doesn't mean it provides all of my power, but it's as much as I can have to take advantage of economies of scale, without spending on a larger system and running into the law of diminishing returns.)
Last year, 17% of all the power I needed had to be pulled from the grid (83% of my power was homemade). That includes charging the EV to drive it 16K miles on the charging done at home (not counting the other 10K miles we drove it charged away from home). No natural gas bill. Almost no gasoline cost (what little we drive the gas pickup). And small power bills. I do have a loan payment (HELOC) I pay to pay for the solar installation and EV charger installation costs. But that loan payment goes down as the balance is paid down -- unlike energy costs which go up. To date, I've saved $2,900 in my cash flow since my first solar project in May of 2021 (compared to if I was still paying a large power bill + natural gas + gasoline at the pump for all the driving we do). Next year it'll cost me less money (lower HELOC payments) to save even more money (higher energy costs that I avoid). Then the next year, and the next.
You can't replicate this unless you're in a good situation for solar and an EV. And you have to do lots of homework to tweak it for your particular needs to get a good ROI. IMHO it's worth it to wean my wife and me from most of the energy policies of the Dims.
News today:
“Electric vehicle charging station manufacturer Charge Enterprises on March 7 filed for a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, with a restructuring support agreement and plans to hand 100% ownership of the company to prepetition lender Arena Investors”.
TheStreet website.
Bull crap! As the video shows, a complete recharge can take up to an hour depending on the actual charging station. Convenient? You can hardly find one and when you do, there's almost always a line to use them and that line is slow to work down. Eco-Friendly? This is the biggest of all lies. 90% of the electric comes from coal-fired generators, depending where you are. In Australia, diesel generators supply all remote changing stations.
Also, what happens on a windless night to your home charger? Where is the power stored in such situations. We do not have batteries large enough to meet even a small fraction of the expected demand.
To determine why the gov't is so concerned, just follow the money. How much of the subsidies (e.g., Solindra) ends up in stockholder hands (Obama, Warren, Clinton, etc.) Ever wonder why Congress passed a law that exempts them from insider trading?
Simply shocking!
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