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.
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.
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
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.
It's hard to imagine an electric car matching that in my lifetime...particularly with Obola having basically bankrupted the coal industry.
Taking an EV out when it is 3 deg F out side is risking your life unnecessarily.
Widespread adoption of EVs isnt going to happen. The electrical grid cant handle it.
Ironically there is a low emissions vehicle that works, has been around for decades and the fuel can be had for less than gasoline: CNG vehicles. But theyre not sexy and companies cant milk tax breaks so theyre relatively unheard of.
You can get a very decent serviceable electric car for a reasonable price by buying a late model off lease vehicle, the battery life is still very good and they’re not selling at much if any premium over gasoline powered cars.
If you just use it to drive around town, have a fairly short commute and park it at home at night, that’s when you charge it and that’s when the electricity is cheapest. It’s a very economical thing for people in the right circumstance.
It’s also not stupid to have a vehicle that does not rely upon the primary infrastructure for fueling transportation. Set up a solar carport for it, use the panels for the roof of a simple lean-to structure oriented south, in an emergency the car will be charged in a day or so. Better than walking.
Ask all those green weenies during the hurricane that fled the keys and Miami how far they got! Traffic...heat.......an electric car is a death sentence if it is your bug out vehicle.
So, if you needed to carry around energy to use at some point in the future, of equal weight, which would you choose:
1. a battery;
or
2. a gallon of gasoline ?
No. 2 is far more stable, portable, and energy-dense than no. 1.
It’s too bad electric cars only come in “fun size” (Tesla excepted). In 8 or so years, when the batteries are too expensive to replace, I wager you’ll be able to pick them up for pennies on the dollar. Swap in a gas engine and away you go...
That $7,500 tax credit comes out of all our pockets.