Posted on 04/15/2023 9:07:38 AM PDT by devane617
Electric cars are quick, quiet, and kind to the planet, but limited range and lengthy charging times mean road trips aren't exactly their strong suit.
That's what I learned when I took Toyota's new bZ4X SUV from New York to Washington D.C. one weekend in early April. The 500-mile journey wasn't some epic coast-to-coast adventure, but rather the kind of long-haul drive someone might casually take a few times per year and not think twice about — if they're behind the wheel of a regular gas car.
Let's nerd out for just one moment to establish some basic concepts.
Every EV has a maximum charging rate, expressed in kilowatts (kW), that governs the amount of power it can accept from roadside fast chargers. For the bZ4X AWD I tested, that's an uncompetitive 100 kW. The higher an EV's rating, the faster you can hypothetically charge — so long as you find a charging plug whose rating is equal or greater.
But you don't always achieve that max charge rate due to the charger, the temperature of the battery, or, in my case, settings built into the vehicle itself. During my trip, the car never got close to 100 kW, leading to some excruciating charging times.
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Dumb or EVIL??? they want us OUT of ALL CARS!!
“... kind to the planet...”. Someone put the “D” in delusional! Say we remove anything and everything on this suv associated in anyway with petro byproducts. Resulting in pretty much a blank picture. Fidiots!
How are EV’s kind to the planet when the electricity to charge batteries comes from mostly same power plants now in existence which burn lots of oil, gas and coal.
China is building NEW COAL FIRED power plants one every week!
India is not far behind. Coal power plants are cheaper than any other power source except hydro. USA is moving towards most expensive source of energy...green power. Great for manufacturing to be exported abroad.
“I’m betting that TRUMP has NO EV’s!!”
I bet that President Trump has a lot of them on his golf courses.
The entire purpose of this krap is not tosave the environment but to limit travel by the peasants
Construction and waste disposal of electric vehicles is not “Earth Friendly”.
Good Point
and that just adds to the list.
My driving record was 920 miles in one day solo.
It wasn’t in an EV.
Toyota’s new RAV4 EV-hybrid is, IMHO, an ideal solution
It has a small electric engine with about 40 mile range, perfect for driving around town.
But then it has a standard hybrid-gasoline drive for long-distances.
So “regular” drivers, it gets close to 95 mpg
I expect that for extreme climate-cultist ideologues and government, any such smart, incremental solution to their fascist utopia will not be welcomed.
I drove by a gas station the other day, its lighted pole sign-board was advertising - "50% Discount on Tuna Salad"
I wanted to stop and take a photo, but I was in the middle lane....
$40 cents for a kilowatt-hour?
40 cents?
Fuel-cost-wise, that would break even with a Prius (55 mpg),
if the gas for the Prius were $9 a gallon.
Imagine a car that can only hold 2 gallons of gas in the tank, and then it must be refilled with an eyedropper, so that it takes 3 hours to put 2 more gallons in.
Nobody would buy such a vehicle.
So what is the plan when they end internal combustion engines and if electric vehicles have the same performance as today to address people who lived in rural areas, on farms, ranches, etc.? And really anywhere, except in a large city, where they only travel around town? What about people with travel trailers, boats, etc.?
Yep, and most of the electricity we use to recharge them is coming from “fossil fuels” anyway, so it’s all just a giant scam to charge idiots a lot more for a crappier car that benefits nobody.
There is nothing an EV contributes better than a gas car. Nothing. Not a single thing, and they are expensive.
One of my buddies said, you just plan a nice sit-down meal while it charges, to which I replied, “After you find a restaurant within walking distance of the charging station, a nice 3-hour sit-down meal at McDonalds would drive me nuts.”
Yes, smaller hybrids makes sense. I have a 2022 Corolla hybrid, 60 miles a gallon when I drive like an old person, 52 to 54 otherwise. But it cannot go where my hummer H3 can go.
You use the wrong tool for the job, things happen. I remember when the Top Gun trio took super cars (really high performance, high price, borderline race cars) on a road trip. They were all miserable. Those cars have no amenities, they’ve tossed every extra pound. Those are for track days, and looking at in your garage. EVs are for around town and no more than one charge’s worth of distance in a day.
Here is the solution, you get a trailer for the EV, on the trailer you have either a diesel or gasoline powered generator. You hook up the charger to the car and have it being charged all the time. That way you don’t have to stop and recharge and you can go as far as you want.
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