Posted on 04/24/2021 3:53:39 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Don't rush to buy an electric vehicle.
Can we show a little forethought and practicality?
Has anyone thought about it? If all cars were electric ... and were caught up in a three hour traffic jam with dead batteries! Not to mention, that there is virtually no heating in an electric vehicle.
And if you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no heating !!!
You can try calling 911 to bring women and children to safety! But they can not even come to help you since all roads are blocked! And when the roads become unblocked no one can move! How do you charge the thousands of cars from the traffic jam?
Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of traffic jams. This will make cars run out of "fuel" and cause never ending traffic jams.
But that, nobody talks about, of course!
Talk to Californians that wouldn’t start, because they didn’t have a way to charge their cars during the forest fires.
Formula One is already using capacitive braking. Only problem is the car cannot be touched for .5-4 hr after it comes in to the pit or else the first person to touch it is electrocuted.
There’s a number of drawbacks to electric vehicles, but people who will drive them do so either as a status symbol or virtue signal. It never ceases to amaze me that they don’t consider from where the electricity originates to charge said vehicle in the first place.
As a rural Floridian, electric cars are impractical and will serve no purpose in the event of a long term loss of power such as what happened back in 2017 when Hurricane Irma went right up the middle of the state and knocked out utilities for over a week in some areas. You’re not charging an electric car off of a gas powered generator, and even if you would, the irony would not be lost.
I’ll stick to my fossil fueled vehicles, thanks.
Oh wow, man. You’re like, a buzzkill, with all that reality stuff.
You probly downered hydrogen powered cars, too, cuz it takes electricity from power plants to make hydrogen.
People like you keep us from being progressive, man.
Just another virtue signal vehicle.
The problem there is that Rat Party Headquarters has vowed to outlaw coal fired,oil fired,gas fired and nuclear plants. And given that the Rats have now gone full Maoist we know that they'll keep that promise.Even today Kalifornia routinely has huge blackouts due to inadequate capacity.Last winter Texas,during a cold snap,had blackouts.
The West's "environmentalists" are Maoists who have even frankly observed that the earth would be much cleaner,much happier if humans were to disappear. That Swedish little twerp is what human civilization has to look forward to.
LOL
Now, cut that out. You are using common sense. Can’t have that. /S
What are they going to do with the billions of batteries that can’t be recycled?
I have put 40,000 miles on a Tesla Model S.
Charge at home most of the time. I travel a large territory so I occasionally have to stop at a super charger. Fifteen minutes gets 180 miles in battery. Charging slows down after that. Car finds super charger for you and adds to route.
I bought the car for safety(best self driving car I could find) but was amazed how well everything worked.
Much of the Green deal is BS but at least Tesla can make the car work and will be making 18 Wheeler work shortly.
“ Oh wow, man. You’re like, a buzzkill, with all that reality stuff.”
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I recall watching on tv Florida folks driving north on US 91 and I-95 to escape oncoming hurricanes. Traffic was backed up all the way to Georgia. Can only image what that would look like with a bunch of EV’s in the mix....
That’s a really stupid post, honestly. Whomever wrote that should be ashamed.
That is both revolting and shocking.
Unless you have accessories on an electric car doesn’t use much juice if it is stuck in a traffic jam.
Now if it’s 10 degrees outside...
Invest in diesel powered tow trucks.
They can pry my V8 from my cold dead fingers.
You are right, but those massive breakdowns are part of the plan. Make the folks suffer, then propose a “solution” that isn’t a solution but takes away more of their rights.
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