Posted on 08/17/2023 6:11:57 PM PDT by jfd1776
Wherever we drive nowadays, we see electric vehicles (EVs) amid the normal internal combustion cars and hybrids.
Maybe one in ten, maybe one in twenty, maybe one in a hundred. It all depends on where we live and where we go.
They are no longer the noticeable rarity they were just a few years ago; you no longer turn your head in surprise when you see that Tesla logo beside you.
The modern Left has a dream – that soon, very soon, every vehicle in the world will be electric, running on a heavy, cobalt-laden, lithium battery that needs to be charged up somewhere with electricity derived from an out-of-sight coal plant.
Every few trips, we old-fashioned ICE-drivers stop at a gas station for a quick fill-up. It takes two or three minutes, maybe five or six if we need to go into the store for a soda or a coffee; then we’re back on the road.
We rarely see the EVs charging up while we fill our normal cars with fuel. It takes too long, so they don’t usually do it at the gas station.
The EV’s current average, we are told, is eight hours to a “full charge,” whatever that means. It might be a couple hundred miles, maybe less, maybe more. Some chargers charge faster, some vehicles take longer. If it’s like any other kind of rechargeable battery (and they’re too new to be sure, but it makes sense), then as each battery ages, it will take longer and longer to charge up, and the mileage per charge will slowly decrease. That’s just how batteries work...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Not to mention how many of those chargers will be undisturbed for more than a week?”
This is hexagonal wiring from a charger. We’re not allowed to buy it.
You’ll get paid on your Paypal account for this copper in about a week, unless the people I resell it to find it has blank in it. What happens then? They won’t pay you or me. Who do I complain to? The police, who will do nothing normally, unless they feel like arresting you.
via Google”
“In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › ... › Energy & Environment
Norway Electric cars from www.nytimes.com
May 10, 2023 — Last year, 80 percent of new-car sales in Norway were electric, putting the country at the vanguard of the shift to battery-powered mobility.”
“The country produces over 90% of its electricity from hydroelectric power. Nearly all of the rest comes from wind power.”
https://electrek.co/2023/01/03/norway-electric-car-utopia-sustainable-transportation/
EV charging stations are for civilized societies with the rule of law.
OK John F. Di Leo, I’m impressed.
OR.....we can say “screw you” and continue to have and drive internal combustion engine cars.
I think I know which route I’ll take. That’s the kind of issue it is worth moving to another state for.
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