and what happens to all the people that work at Gas Stations ?
Most suburbanites will charge their car in their garage overnight from about 11pm to 5am in the near future.
In the distant future, most cars will get recharged during the daytime (when the sun shines) at workplaces or while shopping.
When traveling, cars will get recharged at meal stops and overnight at motels.
Recharging speed really isn’t going to be important generally.
Talk about a prey-rich environment!
I refer to them as, “Coal-Powered Cars.”
Really cheeses off the leftists.
At first glance I thought those were headstones.
A. According to GMC, it'll take about 10 minutes to restore 100 miles of range when the truck goes on sale in 2022.
Complete, marketing BS.
If the range of a Hummer is 300 miles, they are implying to stupid people it would only take 30 minutes to fully charge the battery.
1) No lithium Ion battery can go from zero to full charge in 30 minutes, without severely limiting the life of the battery.
2) the KW's required would require special chargers that currently don't exist. The most you'll get out of a home charger is 10-20 miles/hour.
It's weird they would publish such BS without question/caveats.
The faster you charge your battery, the shorter its life will be. Factor that into your charging decisions.
The infrastructure is not there and will not be there for a long time. The push for electric cars is not about the environment but control.
Better to buy a small trailer, equipped with a generator, and the charger, and hitch it to your car.
This is your Tess-laaa speaking:
My batteries are at less than half capacity.
Your best price recharging rates are at the Denny’s 65 miles down the road at exit 173.
You can recharge at the McDonald’s 58 miles down the road at exit 180 for one cent per kilowatt hour more.
The Burger King 96 miles down the road at exit 142 currently wants three cents per kilowatt more, but expect a price rise of one cent per kilowatt hour based on the electricity futures market.
Our electrical grid cannot handle charging everyone’s car. Its not happening. There will always be electrical cars but they will not be the main form of transport. Likely at some point hydrogen will be the new fuel.
The estimates they give you are meaningless since they don't tell you specifically how all the "variables" affect the charge time.
Sorry, boss, I couldn’t come to work yesterday because I was charging my car.
Just in time for Kalifornica’s next wildfire season. These people won’t be able to evacuate. No electricity and dead batteries.
A pig in a poke! No thank you. Forget long distance travel. Seems like we’re going back to the horse and buggy.
$70,000 car??? Not many of us on fixed income can afford that price.
How long to recharge if you and your neighbours plug in super fast units and melt your overhead wires?
Will your non-EV neighbours be pissed at the smug self righteous EV owners every time the EV owners bring down the grid?
....average annual cost is 13 cents a kwh....
Where I live the charge is 9 cents at night and 18 cents daytime.
Here’s the kicker, the “delivery charge” always exceeds the per kwh expense.
Just wait for that EMI pulse followed by a solar flare.
For me this is the money line:
“Considering the average American’s commute is 16 miles, any of the current EVs offer more than enough range. Charging stations are also becoming more common along highways making long-distance road trips achievable.”
EV’s are not much more than scaled up retirement community golf carts. Bigger, more capable, more expensive and the community or range they work in scales up about proportionally.
Consider the “charge hours” necessary for these vehicles compared to pumping fuel. You pump fuel in 10 minutes or less. At best you charge in 40 minutes. For comparable load and availability to service as compared to IC it would take at least 4 times as many charge locations as fuel pumps we have now so that everyone could charge without waiting an obscene amount of time for access to a charge station.
OK, I’ll give you that the commuter will probably charge at home but still:
No sale.