Posted on 04/28/2021 7:42:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
I’ve seen more gas outages than blackouts in the last 20 years.
Yes, latest EVs are being built to million-mile specs … battery included.
I can install sufficient solar harvesting at home for most car use.
I can’t make my own gasoline, period.
Let the market decide. If EVs get to that point, ICE cars will rapidly go extinct.
But you know damn well the market won’t decide. It will be shoved down our throats.
Just about any car can do 1 million miles easy. Not so sure they have batteries that can last that long though.
“Yes, latest EVs are being built to million-mile specs … battery included.”
Any of them actually done that yet?
2/3rds fewer parts in electric vehicles vs. gas powered autos. So I’m told.
So where exactly is all of this electricity going to come from? How are the parts and vehicles going to be made? According to the asinine plan, wind and solar but that is absolutely ludicrous.
If the rank & file of those unions pull their collective heads out, the market can and will decide.
Interesting point
I know many many Freepers have many doubts about EV’s. I suggest that most of the folks on this board would like EV’s if they give it a try. Not for everyone, but for more than you think. They drive great and the technology is amazing.
I have every confidence EV’s will outsell combustion in a handful of years. 2027 or so.
I just don’t think the infrastructure will be able to handle everyone driving an EV. But then again one of the Liberals’ goals is to destroy personal transportation.
They’ll have to compete with millions more of illegals aliens Biden and the Democrats are bringing in.
I was just thinking that, what happens in a hurricane when the power is out? What about seniors who only drive every week or so? How long does it hold a charge sitting in the driveway? Where do you store the can of spare electricity if you run out of charge in the middle of the desert?
In big energy states like Texas, their energy choked when it was really needed. The grid in CA is a joke etc. So where are they going to get the power to charge tens of millions of vehicles daily?
BTW, since I once worked in Marketing, we heard rumors that Tesla Corp had identified a sub-market where they would buy EVs and plug them in to their landlords’ electrical outlets overnight for charging. Basically electric golf carts used for short distance commutes and trips.
So they developed a circuit similar to a Kill-a-Watt that could be bought aftermarket, installed onto the outlet with tamper proofing. In this way the landlords could still allow overnight recharging without getting ripped off and the drivers keep their vehicles.
It still hasn’t been rolled out,presumably because landlords haven’t caught on yet.
Oh, no problem- just look at all of the wind turbines that the feds are financing with taxpayer debt to Chyna.
There was an interesting article here on FR about the massive amount of land area necessary to support “green energy “. The current demand would require the total land mass of California, Oregon and Idaho. That doesn’t count the increased demand for a national mandate for EVs.
You’re right. I stand corrected.
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