Posted on 12/02/2021 4:14:47 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Democrats are doing everything they can to get Americans into electric cars. However, those cars come with the risk of a serious loss of power—not just for the car but for those who buy those cars.
We have to begin with asking why is the governing pushing electric vehicles? And it’s not just cars, it’s also trucks. Why are they ignoring hybrid vehicles? If something happens to the electric guts of a properly designed hybrid car, the vehicle can limp along with its smaller gas engine until it reaches safety. What happens to a fully electric vehicle if its electrical system fails? Nothing, of course! You’re stuck. All you have is a hunk of metal and plastic. And if you run out of electricity while driving, you can’t just get a gallon gas can to fill the tank until you get to the nearest service station. Again, you’re stuck.
The next question is, “Are electric cars cheaper than gas cars?” No, they cannot be cheaper, and that’s even if you run them on renewables. Take solar energy, for example. Even if sunlight is free, the laws of thermodynamics still control.
Every time energy changes form, there is a loss factor. Sunlight impinging on solar cells only changes 14-47% of the energy to electricity. The forty-seven percent figure is state-of-the-art, so it is not available for everyday use.
Electricity is then stored in chemical-based car batteries (with a loss). And then chemical energy is reconverted back to electricity (with a loss) and finally to mechanical energy where the tire rubber meets the road (with a loss). At a guess, not more than 5% of the original sun power turns the wheels of an EV car. That’s awful. What this means is that it is more efficient to run a gas-powered...
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Electric cars are probably only economical with coal or nuclear-based electricity at the present time. Green energy will have to be heavily rationed. I think that is the goal.
Electric cars can be shut off by the computer at will, geofenced, auto controlled, tracked, and other innovative things.
I trust Ercot a lot more than Opec.
who doesn’t get that?
they have programs that can turn the electric cars off
and change their steering.
life, death, FF, your life all under THEIR CONTROL (SSDD)
Making the masses walk is a major goal.
Of course the local party boss will have an official equivalent of a Trabant.
Diesel over electric hybrids. We have had the tech for over half a century and it works great.
But “Compromise” is never an option with these fools. It is always radical extreme all or none.
How long would it take to charge some of the leading electric cars on the road fully?
Use these approximate calculations based on a 240V Level 2 power source and charging capacity, according to the manufacturers’ websites for the following 2021 cars:
Chevrolet Volt EV: 10 hours
Nissan Leaf: Up to 11 hours
Tesla Model S: 12 hours
Karma GS-6: 4 hours
Tesla Model 3: 12 hours
Porsche Taycan: Up to 10.5 hours
Mini SE Hardtop: 4 hours
Audi E-Tron: 10 hours
Polestar 2: 8 hours
BMW i3: 7 hours
Yes you can charge them faster depending on the charger and what level the battery is at. At a minimum 30 minutes to top off a partially used battery.
How would gas stations look on major highways that fuel hundreds of cars each day. You’d need hundreds of charge stations as people hang around waiting for there car to charge. Asinine at best.
Electric cars may work for daily city commuters but for real world America there useless in their current technology.
How long would it take to charge some of the leading electric cars on the road fully?
Use these approximate calculations based on a 240V Level 2 power source and charging capacity, according to the manufacturers’ websites for the following 2021 cars:
Chevrolet Volt EV: 10 hours
Nissan Leaf: Up to 11 hours
Tesla Model S: 12 hours
Karma GS-6: 4 hours
Tesla Model 3: 12 hours
Porsche Taycan: Up to 10.5 hours
Mini SE Hardtop: 4 hours
Audi E-Tron: 10 hours
Polestar 2: 8 hours
BMW i3: 7 hours
Yes you can charge them faster depending on the charger and what level the battery is at. At a minimum 30 minutes to top off a partially used battery.
How would gas stations look on major highways that fuel hundreds of cars each day. You’d need hundreds of charge stations as people hang around waiting for there car to charge. Asinine at best.
Electric cars may work for daily city commuters but for real world America there useless in their current technology.
How long would it take to charge some of the leading electric cars on the road fully?
Use these approximate calculations based on a 240V Level 2 power source and charging capacity, according to the manufacturers’ websites for the following 2021 cars:
Chevrolet Volt EV: 10 hours
Nissan Leaf: Up to 11 hours
Tesla Model S: 12 hours
Karma GS-6: 4 hours
Tesla Model 3: 12 hours
Porsche Taycan: Up to 10.5 hours
Mini SE Hardtop: 4 hours
Audi E-Tron: 10 hours
Polestar 2: 8 hours
BMW i3: 7 hours
Yes you can charge them faster depending on the charger and what level the battery is at. At a minimum 30 minutes to top off a partially used battery.
How would gas stations look on major highways that fuel hundreds of cars each day. You’d need hundreds of charge stations as people hang around waiting for there car to charge. Asinine at best.
Electric cars may work for daily city commuters but for real world America there useless in their current technology.
Same can be done with all computerized cars even gas cars.
Even Elon Musk has said you can’t replace all ICE cars with electrics without a massive upgrade in generation capacity and to the transmission and distribution grid. And none of the people pushing electrics are talking about that.
It's not like fleet beta testing hasn't offered up the necessary data to prove the performance? It's just data that runs contrary to political winds.
free gas powered generator with every purchase
As far as I know, if you run out of gas you’re stuck, too. Just a hunk of metal and plastic. If electric cars prove to be largely unreliable, people will get a horse.
“At a guess, not more than 5% of the original sun power turns the wheels of an EV car. That’s awful.”
But the original sun power is free. So you waste 95% of something that is free (and clean).
The author doesn’t mention the cost of building and maintaining the conversion an storage equipment, nor the cost of disposing of that equipment when it’s worn out.
Electric cars limit your personal range of travel
Scotty Kilmer had a great vid on recharging electric cars.
Ford is working on a liquid cooled charging cable so you can pump more current, faster, into your car.
Problem #1> current cars have current wires. Therefore you will melt your car while charging.
Problem #2> moar tech that fails that is expensive to fix. See BMW and Merceedes
Electric golf carts struggle to compete against propane powered carts
It’s estimated that there are 39 million Americans living in apartments. How are they going to charge their vehicles? but more importantly, how are apartment complexes going to accommodate each car owning tenant with their own charger?
It’s worked darn well in the mining industry
But the Lunatic Left wants no fossil fuels involved with automobiles
Except for those 500 ton haul trucks and the huge generators it takes to power the 2000 ton shovels they use to mine the minerals to make batteries and wiring
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