Posted on 01/21/2022 1:10:37 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
BY ALEX LAUER @ALEXLAUER After a winter storm left hundreds of motorists stranded on Interstate 95 in Virginia earlier this month, many for over 24 hours, we were left with plenty of questions. What went wrong on a governmental level that led to this? How could similar traffic shutdowns be avoided in the future? What should we be carrying in our cars in case of an emergency like this?
The most perplexing question of the bunch was a hypothetical one: what would have happened if all of these cars — stuck on icy roads in the snow in temperatures that dropped down to the teens — were electric? Well, it was posed as a hypothetical question, but most of the people who asked it perceived it as a rhetorical one; the implication was that if I-95 was full of EVs, the outcome would have been a catastrophe of dead batteries, stalled vehicles and frozen occupants.
It’s easy to make an argument against electric cars in extreme cases like these, partially because the technology is so new and thus easily misunderstood, and partially because, as we have previously discussed, EVs do indeed fare worse in freezing temperatures than in warmer weather (as do internal combustion engine cars). But to see whether there was an argument to be made in defense of our supposed electrified future, I did something a little more difficult: I idled in an electric car for 12 hours to see what would happen.
(Excerpt) Read more at insidehook.com ...
—”You are referring to manufacturers accepting metric, not the public.”
“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these the moving impulses of our life.”
Said Cal
—”Reading comprehension is a skill. “
Yes, clearly my mental faculties are not what I would prefer and declining.
But, not to worry!
They allow anyone to post here at FR! No literacy test!
That said, could you pls tell me the color of the sky wherever it is you are at?
—” One of those metrics is fuel burn directly from each injector”
Thank you!
For answering a question I forgot to ask.
How is the MPG display determined on my wife’s Prius V and many others?
And how is it there can be a variance between the display and miles/gas pumped?
Prius drivers are often maniacal about milage and have records to show.
I fell into this rabbit hole while looking at the difference between “winter gas” and summer gas. ~50 summer/~43 winter; and winter is not a static formulation even for one location.
Thank you!
That’s apparent.
Just keep shilling for EVs and the NWO.
—”Just keep shilling for EVs and the NWO.”
Could you pls show me where I have had any discussion of the “NWO”? You dreamed that one.
Yes, I like EVs.
That said you just keep up your stream of consciousness dribble...
Yes, I’m getting old and losing some of my once solid brute strength and ignorance, but my increasing ignorance more than compensates!
So please continue posting, because in comparison my posts appear almost normal.
Thank you.
So if you aren't shilling for the NWO you are just an unwitting dupe for them.
So please continue posting, because in comparison my posts appear almost normal. Thank you.
My original post was calling attention to the fact that internal combustion won out over steam and electric during the infancy of the automobile. Your reply was some smart ass comment about dragging a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park and some other drivel about angels dancing in the head of a pin. Nothing to counter my statement, only insults. You may think you are funny and educated, but by your reactions you reveal otherwise. You need to grow some thick skin.
Just keep posting!
Recall the ditty of the infinite number of posters on an infinite number of typewriters...
Should work!
You can’t even defend your position on EVs properly so you muddy the waters with nonsensical babble and insults. Hooray for you.
—”You can’t even defend your position on EVs properly ...”
Pls, cite chapter and verse in the place of wild suppositions?
Show me the error of my ways, if they actually exist?
The evidence is preserved in the above posts, just read over them again. Seems the majority of responses were against EVs, and a good portion of those negative posts you never replied to. It seems my first post regarding internal combustion winning out over electric, and steam powered early automobiles touched a nerve with you and you responded with insults instead of addressing my position. Learn how to defend your position without lashing out with ad hominem attacks.
Dream on...
I’m not sure about that.....I carry my furry friend in summer in the south and leave car running locked with AC on at times 30 min or more
V-8 truck.....V6 motors rarely do much better I’ve found
You can see the needle has moved ....around half gallon or more an hour I’m told
Smaller displacement vehicles like four cylinders burn around .35-.5 per hour at 700 rpm which is on the low end of normal
I do think you could get 30 hours at least on a reasonable four banger
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