Posted on 02/12/2020 4:06:47 PM PST by NRx
Keeping electric cars charged seems like such an easy process: plug the car into power and wait a while. But in reality keeping cars like our Tesla Model X fully charged can actually be quite the challenge. In this video we take a look at the different charging options to learn which is the easiest, the most intuitive and the fastest way to keep your electric vehicle car charged. This applies to all new and used electric vehicles. From the Nissan Leaf, to the Tesla Model 3 to even the Fiat 500e if you are thinking of owning or own one of these full electrics, this video is for you!
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As with all "new" technologies, there are cycles to the madness. The electric car industry is way out over it's skis today. The technology is not where it needs to be to compete without subsidies and incentives doled out by gubmnt. The pure electric car industry is a mess and NOBODY is actually making a profit. They are all trying to keep up and have a foot in the market for when they anticipate the industry will normalize and then standardize to some degree. The major manufacturers are simply "investing" in the industry. The start ups are collecting investment capital and rolling the dice.
Put simply, the market will soon push back to a hybrid heavy line of vehicles. Then, when we figure out how to safely store hydrogen in fuel cells, the typical car will be hydrogen/electric hybrid.
I predict in 50 years, we will be able to fill a car with water and it will run a hydrogen powered motor to charge batteries that drive the wheels.
Whaddy mean....electric cars run on free energy and are great for the environment...especially when they start tossing all those batteries!
Is the sarcasm coming through ok??
Electricity comes out of the wall. You don’t pay for it. There’s no credit card slot or anything.
Be careful about keeping a tank full of 20 gallons of highly flammable petrochemicals there, then.
Anything you plug to a wall and requires a socket is an appliance...and not a car.
And what about the pollution caused by all those dead discarded batteries? They’re filled with acid and other nasty stuff!
Imagine thousands of them all over the place.
All Electric vehicles cannot be disposed of. They can’t be recycled for free. Not joking. A used car market for all electric is going to be a problem pretty soon. You do not want to be the last owner of an all electric car. There is no place to get rid of the used up electric car for free. Owners will have to pay to have them disassembled and recycled. And I mean thousands. The body of the car has to be removed JUST TO ACCESS the batteries.
The battery packs in electric vehicles are built of hundreds/thousands of connected small batteries, like the size of AA batteries wired in packs. Those packs are wired into larger packs. Then the packs are wired together. Over time, individual little (AA sized) batteries go bad. The electrical system balances the power among the other batteries. So it will always be unlikely that “a car battery” will cause it not to run. Instead, over time, the car performance, distance and charging time will degrade. At some point the owner will not want to drive it.
Those TDIs are just marvelous, are they not? Last year left Mom’s house with a non-full tank about 25 miles east of Columbus OH, then stopped to fuel at Lexington KY for a confident top-off to get me home in a town southeast of Atlanta. The car computer said I got 63.8 on that run to Lexington.
Love how the TDI doesn’t even think about downshifting on I-75 through the mountains.
There is no hope for the ‘greenies’ until that 1.21 gigawatt Mr Fusion converter gets perfected
Last winter in similar cold temperatures I saw a Chevy Volt barely able to maintain 45mph going down the highway. Its small gasoline charging motor was screaming to maintain enough battery power to propell the vehicle and presumably heat the interior.
Googling “Codswallop”.
I just did the math based on my electric rate v. time basis compared to diesel fuel. $55.00 in electricity v. $32.00 diesel. I wont be buying an EV anytime soon.
My wife’s hybrid Camry has been running solid and it’s a 2011.
Mines a “row your own” manual, millennial anti theft. I can put four adults and luggage in it and once it’s “on the turbo” I don’t need to downshift.
“When there is no electricity like we had recently in N. Ca.”
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Good thing you didn’t have to take a sick kid to the ER On a, “low wattage day”. How about driving out of the path of a hurricane on a crowded highway? Maybe a winter storm where you can’t get to the next hotel?
I will never buy an EV.
‘zackly.
You aren't a Joe Biden supporter?
So 75 hours to fill it up from empty?
I think these will be worth $0 in ten years.
3 days to charge for a 5 hour drive.
That means it would take me a week to get to my sister’s place plus 2 hotel stays, rather than 12 hours in my ICE vehicle.
Electric is awesome for in-town, but for any distance driving, not so much.
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