Posted on 01/20/2024 8:22:12 AM PST by Kaiser8408a
Al Gore, former Clinton VP and Senator from Tennessee, has made millions of dollars from his hysterical film about global warning called “An Inconvenient Truth.” For that, Gore (undeservedly) won a Nobel Prize. Then again, Obama won a Nobel Prize for Peace then proceeded bombing people. You can’t make this stuff up.
Well, here are 8 inconvenient truths about electric vehicles that Globalist Democrats like Obama, Biden, Gore and Kerry have been hawking like carnival barkers.
EVs are more expensive EVs are inconvenient for anyone who needs a public charger EVs are inconvenient for anyone who drives long distances Insurance costs are higher Maintenance costs are higher Repairs take longer and parts are in short supply Minor accidents can be very costly requiring a new battery Consumers don’t want the damn things and rightfully so Then we find out that Ford loses $36,000 on each EV, and announced cuts in production of the Electric F-150 pickup trucks. Only government would try to force car manufacturers into producing a product that loses so much money per unit.
Remember, Obama and his aging, demented sock puppet Joe Biden are profoundly pro-union and pro-idiotic woke policies. The EV push is mading made by the World Economic Formum who don’t even want you to own your own car and take mass transit (electric no doubt).
Why is the US government funding the anti-US WEF?? Why was SecState Antony Blinken attending the WEF in Davos where his plane broke down in the cold??
And the scariest thing about EVs is that Biden apppointed a small town Mayor from South Bend Indiana to be Secretary of Transportation. Pete Buttigieg. Here is Mayor Pete in Ukraine visiting with Zelenskyy. WHY is our Transportation Secretarty in Ukraine?? Bagman for Biden’s Boodle??
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Not suitable for purpose won’t slow the progressives. They will push this stuff whenever, wherever they have access to power.
Guess the AirheadOCommie market is saturated.
Right. They will just make it more difficult to get a ICE by upping the mileage requirements or the pollution standards to unworkable levels. Or require that all new buys be EVs.
Unfortunately I believe my tagline is right.
The author does not mention that you have to scrap the car at 100,000 miles (MAYBE 150,000) because nobody will pay for a replacement battery pack. The battery is the energy storage device. Nobody scraps a liquid fuel vehicle because the gas/diesel tank wore out.
Nor does the author mention that the neighborhood electrical distribution system in the USA can handle at most FOUR to SIX EV chargers without massive capital cost upgrades. That same transformer serves 10 to 15 houses. So, if this were to take off, either lots of people would be told “Sorry, you’re too late — your neighborhood can’t handle any more chargers. You have to wait until we upgrade your neighborhood.”
All that electrical upgrade cost will be borne by ALL rate-payers, not just the EV owners. So your electrical rates will skyrocket.
(BTW, how did you manage to delete all the periods in all the sentences and turn a bulleted series into a run-on mess?)
“They will push this stuff whenever, wherever they have access to power.”
I think you are referring to “political power”? Right?
They don’t care one whit if electrical power is not available. The live in a pie-in-the-sky world where they don’t have to finance, build, operate, or maintain anything to satisfy consumer demand.
I had to bring it into the house to warm it up first.
One MSN piece of propaganda intended to counter EV criticisms cites Norway that is usually exremely cold yet has more EVs than anywhere else.
Bottom line: almost everyone has their own charger installed at home, most in a garage.
Also mentioned was “pre-conditioning before charging”. What is pre-conditioning ?
When making most choices, I weigh on the side that runs contrary the government narrative. It usually works out to be the better choice, and if not so, I eat my peas.
So in the new battery powered consumer market, lawyers have design authority over the engineers. "Smart" before any noun, is really announcing a device design meant to thwart stupid users. There is nothing smart about it.
I enjoyed your comments on EVs, but your criticism of the appearance of the post was not necessary or relevant to the conversation. It is often very tedious to try to reformat cut and pasted text into proper HTML to get it to look good. I am happy when OPs spend the time to make sure that at least the paragraphs are preserved which sometimes does not happen. Anyone who wanted to see the original formatting can click on the link which was included.
Hey. Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Infrastructure to extract hydrogen by electrolysis of water, or reformed from methyl alcohol, the necessary electricity generation and distribution networks, the wholesale conversion of power generation stations to the much more modern designs of Small Modular Atomic Reactor units. And most important of all, the will to actually establish and use this system.
Nirvana within the next couple of decades or sooner. Using electricity to drive traction motors on vehicles is highly efficient, it is the electric supply itself that is the choke point. Hydrogen fuel cells, which could be swapped out at specially engineered refueling stations, the fully charged cell for the depleted cell (which is then recharged and recycled, much like a propane tank), are the means by which this portable power may be placed on individual and independent motor vehicles.
Battery-powered electric vehicles are a technological dead end, suitable only for certain niche applications.
You are fortunate that the charger and possibly the batteries have circuitry to prevent charging in the cold. If they didn't... it is likely that your expensive batteries would have been damaged.
I did click to see the original story when I realized it was an unreadable mess.
I see LOTS of butchering of articles. It’s especially annoying when people don’t take a few extra seconds to remove ad text, improve readability. It doesn’t take much effort and makes FR a lot more valuable.
I always appreciate your insightful comments, too. Sorry you don’t agree about readability.
If you going to reference your tag line, it ought to make some kind of discernable sense.
“150MTs in the right location will not solve are problems now.”
What is/are “150MTs”?
“will not solve ARE problems”???
“ Unfortunately I believe my tagline is right.”
Unfortunately, I believe your tagline has a typo!
I thought about purchasing a Ural with a sidecar but then thought, aw hell no. Looked like the engines were forged in sand and finished with a rusty hatchet.
I hate the government interference in the free market.
That said, I charge my EV at home on what is basically a glorified electric dryer outlet. It eats about $50/m of AC and saves me about $75/week of gasoline compared to what I’d spend on commuter driving with my ICE vehicle.
I almost never use a public charger. I have never used a supercharger.
Typing is cheap.
When you’re embarking to do all that, let us know when you’re asking for capital investment, please.
Personally, I think it is pie in sky. jmo
“Why is the US government funding the anti-US WEF??”
Simple...the US government is also anti-US.
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