Posted on 06/05/2022 8:19:50 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
I thought it would be fun.
That’s what I told my friend Mack when I asked her to drive with me from New Orleans to Chicago and back in an electric car.
I’d made long road trips before, surviving popped tires, blown headlights and shredded wheel-well liners in my 2008 Volkswagen Jetta. I figured driving the brand-new Kia EV6 I’d rented would be a piece of cake.
If, that is, the public-charging infrastructure cooperated. We wouldn’t be the first to test it. Sales of pure and hybrid plug-ins doubled in the U.S. last year to 656,866—over 4% of the total market, according to database EV-volumes. More than half of car buyers say they want their next car to be an EV, according to recent Ernst & Young Global Ltd. data.
By the Numbers
Our reporter’s four-day, three-night EV road trip included many charging stops, little sleep—and less junk food than you might expect
• Miles driven: 2,013
• Number of charges: 14
• Total charging cost: $175
• Hours spent waiting to charge:18
• Hours of sleep:16
• Calories of junk food consumed (estimated): 1,465
• Giant chicken statues passed: 1
Oh—and we aimed to make the 2,000-mile trip in just under four days so Mack could make her Thursday-afternoon shift as a restaurant server.
Less money, more time
Given our battery range of up to 310 miles, I plotted a meticulous route, splitting our days into four chunks of roughly 7½-hours each. We’d need to charge once or twice each day and plug in near our hotel overnight.
The PlugShare app—a user-generated map of public chargers—showed thousands of charging options between New Orleans and Chicago. But most were classified as Level 2, requiring around 8 hours for a full charge.
(Excerpt) Read more at vigourtimes.com ...
That’s crazy you can get panels for 25 cents per watt of capacity when ordered by the pallet. This is up from 15 cents for 25 yr rated panels before the supply crisis. This is without a wholesale TIN you can still get wholesale prices with a TIN in the 18 cent range per watt of capacity.
https://m.alibaba.com/product/60792369301/product.html
My panels were 15 cents per watt with a 25 yr lifetime guarantee. I love them when I leased my Model S it was 100% solar powered from my panels unless I took it for a road trip then it was supercharger and destination charged.
“”once everyone has a digital passport you will not be allowed out of your local area without permission anyway””
If they taught actual history in the government schools, one would know that the statement above is not a joke, is not hyperbole. In the good ‘ol USSR, one needed’ papers’ to travel outside of one’s local county. The dirty little secret is they did not issue ‘papers’ to most of the populace. If, by some chance, you were issued your ‘papers’ you had to be a good little commie morning, noon, and night. If you stated, or thought, anything contrary to the Party line, your ‘papers’ were revoked (and you were probably sent to Siberia).
When the liberal creepozoids talk about Socialism and Communism ‘not being done right’ that the system works, it is just the people who screw it up, implement it wrongly, they are the same creeps that praised the Soviet Union, the same creeps that envy and praise China for their ‘wonderful’ system that ‘gets things done.’ No matter that they ‘get things done’ with MASSIVE slave labor camps. Google and company are now assisting the Chicoms with maintaining individual, personal social scores. If one does not actively praise and support the Party line, your social score will shrink, and one could lose much more than just one’s papers. You, your family, friends, ANYONE exposed to your ‘incorrect’ thinking would have to be taken away to a re-education camp, to get your mind right. Right now the democRATS are constructing a way to classify anyone who spouts, say, quotes from the Founding Fathers, as ‘radicals’ and ‘terrorists.’ It was Billboy Clinton who openly edited the phrase ‘rugged individualism’ into RADICAL individualism. To support the essence of America’s founding, that it is the individual that has rights from God, that no matter your race, creed, color, etc., the fact of your birth conveyed upon you those rights... (instead of eternally dividing us into groups of victims) The intrinsic fact of your birth granted all the rights, whether you were born into wealth, or born in a manger, that unique spark of life is protected by the fact of its creation.
Only by destroying individualism can the left attempt to create their ‘utopia’ of terror.
Simmer down Francis, a couple of pints with a burger ortacos is not going to put a guy who is 6 foot and athletic over the legal limit let alone impaired. I would bet good money half the people here drive “buzzed” on the regular.
Preaching to the choir, but I was referencing forced ‘electrification’...which is what they’re calling it here.
Death by 1000 cuts, and with the trend of the people in charge we’re on a race to the bottom.
The meaning is similar to that of the French expression “et voilà!” or the American “easy as pie” or “piece of cake”.
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Years ago, I was working on a project in southern Alberta and one day when something went right and was completed, I said “Bob’s your uncle’.” Almost in unison, the whole crowd of other workers on the project shouted out “yup... and Fanny’s your aunt!”
[[The future is EVs there is no way to stop it now. ]]
Rolling blackouts- California is already experiencing them and it’s not even summer yet-
Another one that gets the yanks good is “The dogs bollocks”
California is also shutting down its nuclear plants which is crazy. They should be building dozens of SMR plants along the coast and using the waste heat off the turbine condensers for desalination. I don’t worry about the Texas grid or ERCOT I have two sets of panels bought before the supply crisis and the unions strangling the port of L.A.. I export power every month as my homes use less than what the panels create. If the grid goes down I have the autotransfer switch kick off and go into island mode. A good friend of mine owns a off grid install company I am testing two power banks for him they hold a couple days worth of power but I have a genrac as well with propane or natural gas as it’s fuel source. Theoretically I could run it off liquid fuels with a injector adapter but since atmos ran gas lines into our exurb I switched it from propane to NG and kept the 500 gal original propane tank that came with the property as a back up. I am giving thought to also installing a couple wind turbines they come way down in price and This far north of DFW it’s windy all the time. 20,000 watts of turbines with controllers is under a grand on Amazon. They would plug directly to my existing inverters and battery packs which sadly I will have to give back or buy in November. Grid paper is cheap at night so I probably will turn back in the packs and if the grid goes down at night I’ll fire up my genrac or just wait for the sun to come up thing is when it’s cloudy here it’s storming and windy so having turbines would fill in the gaps from rainy days. We already get 220 days of sun here. With wind the other days would fill in quite a few. It’s rarely overcast and still here.
https://www.amazon.com/Turbine-Generator-Windmill-Controller-Outdoor/dp/B09FT5PXZ8/
“I’ve never had an electric car or hybrid break down on the road.”
I haven’t had a gas powered car fail me on the road since 1980. That was a carburetor issue. I did need to have a ball joint replaced in a 16 year old Camry once while on vacation although I could have gotten away with driving it home like it was. But ball joints have nothing to do with the engine.
So unless your experience with electric vehicles dates back before 1980....
Makes sense. The government doesn’t want people going across the country without being subjected to a security check on airlines, bus train. Long distance car travel still largely avoids checkpoints.
I think people are also more inclined to drive as airlines become more unreliable because of pilot shortages.
I love the Tesla’s as well, but the government is pushing electric way beyond the ability of our society to keep up. Left to its own, the infrastructure would build to meet the demand. I can not believe that people can’t see where this is going and how it’s going to end.
Premeditated drivel
“There will not be a used market. More like computers. Use and pitch”
A friend of mine is on his 2nd Tesla Model S. His first one was a 2014, the new one is either a 2021 or 2022
When he sold the 2014 last year it was still charging at 80% of original capacity. The going price for a used 2014 Model S is $40,000.
I like the comment there at the link:
Hubert Sashegyi
3 weeks ago
Very good Scotty, superbly explained. Here’s my math: I drive a $12,000 Honda Civic. If I now spend $40,000 on an EV, I have to come up with another $28,000. If I normally expect to pay $3 a gallon for gas and it’s now $5, that 28K would buy me a staggering, long lasting 14,000 gallons of gas.
It’s a nobrainer that I’m keeping the Civic
So true. Microsoft and Blackberry openly mocked the iPhone. Then they came out with a me-too phone, and failed, and both are now dead in the phone biz (for all practical purposes).
Why don’t you compare apples to apples? You drive a 12K used honda?
it’s a 12,988$ Nissan Leaf with 58k miles. Now do the fuel comparison calculations, don’t forget to factor in oil changes, etc for your Honda.
Why are you comparing a used Honda to a brand new BEV that can go 0-60 3 times faster than a honda? The LEAF is about equal to the Honda in performance, not a Tesla.
New gasoline-powered Ford Mustang confirmed with this old-school feature
June 2, 2022 11:27am EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/gasoline-ford-mustang?intcmp=tw_fnc
How Dare Them!
I have had hybrid and electric cars since 2000…as well as many, many ICE vehicles before and since.
Sounds horrible. Won’t it be grand when we’re all stuck with EVs that are dependent on the electrical grid that is totally regulated by government utilities czars and we will be required to have a good ESG score to be able to drive a few miles to the government approved food collectives??
Dang - you must be rolling in dough. That costs $100,000
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