Posted on 02/07/2018 2:26:51 PM PST by Red Badger
Edited on 02/07/2018 2:46:18 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Electric cars have a lot of perks: zero emissions, a quiet ride and instant acceleration. But can they save you money? Probably not.
Electric car prices are falling, but they still cost more than equivalent gas models because of their expensive batteries. A $7,500 federal tax credit
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It isn’t quite true to say that electric cars are zero emission.
In many places, the electricity used to recharge is generated in a coal fired power plant. The kind of power plant which the enviro extremists claim are emitting hte dreaded greenhouse gases.
So even by the extremists own criteria, more electric cars equals greater emission from power plants.
An Inconvenient Truth......................
I used to worry about the range, but Tesla seems to have a model that can go 34 million miles on one charge.
Electric vehicles belong on other planets and on golf courses. OK, marinas, auto race tracks and I’ll give you some villages mostly in Florida where the average age of residents is higher than the yearly mean in coastal Bangladesh—in Fahrenheit.
Death trap.
1. Everyone agrees on a single standard for DC fast charging and AC slow charging, including charging voltages and especially plug design.
2. The range per charge has to reach around 500 km (310 miles).
3. A battery can be full-charged from essentially no change within 7-10 minutes.
2 out of 3 ain’t bad...................
friend of mine has lifetime free charging on his tesla at supercharger stations, so he never charges at home.
He charges it while he goes to starbucks.
The problem is that the model 3 is selling so well that his stations are going to be overfull a lot of the time soon
4. Agrees to a fair road tax.
5. Goes up and down mountains like a gas powered car
6. Car heater works as good (warm) as gas powered and lasts as long.
I like how quiet they are which makes it much easier to bugger unsuspecting pedestrians.
It isn’t quite true to say that electric cars are zero emission.
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And if you count the manufacturing process for the batteries, it is likely a bigger polluter than gas powered.
They think that they’re saving the planet, so it’s worth the expense.
Electric cars are a dud... They were when they were introduced to the public back in the 19th century... Now that it’s the 21st century, the improvements are vast and the result is essentially the same... You can fill a car with gas, drive 350 to 400 miles, stop for 10 minutes and drive another 350 to 400 miles. If you have the very best electric car, you can drive for 200 to 250 miles... You can then spend anywhere from 30 minutes to 12 hours recharging your car and drive another 200 or so miles.
Even if electric car makers someday attain the ability to go farther and be charged in less time... That ‘someday’ is many decades away and frankly... There is no need to be bothered. Gas engines are more efficient with each passing year, more reliable and more enjoyable to drive which makes the likelihood of Electric car sales ever rising above single digit percentage mark less and less likely in our lifetime and even in the lifetime of our children.
Every nickle in in taxpayer subsidies paid out to support the electric car market for the rich and famous, is a nickle wasted. Trump should end all subsidies toward this failed and foolish notion of electric cars actually becoming an alternative to the internal combustion engine.
Driving a car is much more than driving from point ‘a’ to point ‘b’... It’s about the roar of an engine, the smell of oil and gas, the feel of raw power, torque and gravity being controlled by your foot pushing a gas peddle.
The electric vehicle experience will never compare.
Good point about the batteries.
Another issue is the capacity of the electrical grid. I’ve heard that if we suddenly had tens of millions of electric vehicles on the road, that our grid couldn’t support that many vehicles recharging.
It's hard to imagine an electric car matching that in my lifetime...particularly with Obola having basically bankrupted the coal industry.
electric cars are Zero-OPEC,
not zero emission.
everybody wins
i agree, most loaded down diesels get about 5 mpg now if they were electric they’d have to charge every hour. The HP just is’t there.
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