Bottom line: EV's aren't ready for prime time.
Just wait for winter weather blizzards, like the one last Jan or Feb in NC and VA, where a thousand or so cars were stuck for about 24 hours in freezing temps.
The EVs had to bail out and take refuge inside of big gas guzzlers. EVs on using the heater take down the battery fast.
What happens in winter if instead of 5% EVs, you have 50% or more EVs? People will freeze to death.
"Disappointing" doesn't even *begin* to describe the experience.
Debbie Dipsh!t Stabenow didn’t say anything about charging, she just drove on past...
“I rented an electric car for a 4-day road trip. I spent more time charging it than I did sleeping”
She just HATES technology. If she had her way, she’d still be riding horse and buggy. The world is moving to electric cars and she needs to GROW UP. Look at Europe, they want electric cars so bad that they are OUTLAWING gasoline/diesel cars starting in 2035. People here may not want to save the world, but they will have to participate anyway. Or else we all BURN UP!
...and I’ll personally attack anyone who disagrees with me.
(now off to the gas station in my F150, as I’ll never buy electric crap unless I have something else that’s decent to drive)
Next time go to Harbor Freight first and pick up a 3500 watt super quiet generator/inverter for $900 and Put it in the Trunk
If eCars came into use before ICE cars then ICE cars would be heralded as the replacement for the inconvenient eCar.
This is dumb. I’ve been on road trips in a Tesla, in both winter and summer; the superchargers were fast, and there were plenty of them.
EVs are great. Just don’t take some glorified golf cart that’s only intended for light commuting on a long trip.
How do you respond to Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow boasting about how she was able to breeze past gas stations en route to Washington, DC. with her EV?
She said:
“I drove it from Michigan to here this last weekend and went by every single gas station and it didn’t matter how high it was,” she said.
New Orleans to Chicago by way of Nashville???
spent hundreds on a rental to save 100 bucks lol
This story reminds me of something similar in real life.
A friend for decades and her husband are two of the smartest and real world people we have ever known.
She was an English teacher at an excellent private school. Her husband was a chief pilot for a major west coast airline. He reached colonel in the Air National guard and flies a rebuilt WWI airplane with his twin brother. They do all the upkeep and take turns flying it and chartering flights.
One of their daughters is a blend of her mother and father. She teaches English and foreign languages at a good private school. She has a good handle grip on reality 24/7.
Her older sister has been labeled by the family as An Idiot Savant in Life. She is married to a male counterpart. Their only steady income was playing instruments in a part time symphony and giving instrument lessons.
These idiot savants in real life bought a small electric car to drive to the balloon races in New Mexico. They got about 120 miles out of Gay Friso, where they live, and their magic car ran out of charge. Her dad had to charge a small fortune on his credit card to get the pos towed to a charging station.
Next, they were driving in hot desert areas and barely got 120 miles per charge with the AC going. The Dad got them airline tickets home from New Mexico and had this POS loaded on a semi and brought back from New Mexico.
These idiot savants in real life still drive it around in SF and no more long trips.
Other than that, I have no strong opinions on the subject.
Three things to make EV’s more probable.
1. Build a couple hundred house-size nucular power plants.
2. Limit the boundaries of the EV usage to city limits of cities over 500,000.
3. Get rid of the collectivists pushing the Green New Deal.
No way would I get one of these things after reading the whole article.
I’m old and I don’t need problems
I’ve done the math on the power requirements. Scientifically illiterate people have no clue how much power is in fossil fuel.
You will know they are serious about electric vehicles when they start building nuclear power plants instead of shutting them down.
Well duh
The other bottom line: Deep State doesn’t want us driving.
“That $100 savings cost us many hours in waiting time.”
Unless you are retired, time is money.
Wonder how bad it would have been if you were towing a camper 2000 miles.
From the article:
“Not many people use the charger, the mechanic tells us when we return. We soon see why. Once up and running, our dashboard tells us a full charge, from 18% to 100%, will take 3-plus hours.”
I posted on this forum a few months ago about my interest in an electric motorcycle. I thought, “wow, would that be a great thing for a long trip?” (Because they have electric outlets at rest stops, so I thought you could charge the bike at a rest stop and get back on the road. So I thought.)
So I read the specs on some of the bikes: One I read up on a lot had a range on one charge of about 120 miles - about the same as I got on a tank of gas on my poor old Honda, which at the time cost about $10 - so I thought that was cool, and you could also buy an extra battery so you could go another 100 or so miles before having to stop and charge.
And then I read that the battery(s) took 8 hours to charge. If I sit at a rest stop for 8 hours charging my bike, I thought, I will get arrested or perhaps worse because where would I sleep securely? Upon doing the logistics, the thing seemed really undoable unless you only wanted the bike to ride around town or to work or - I don’t know, really what you would use it for. Perhaps a planter.
I think electric cars and bikes are a great idea. But as someone else who posted here observed, it seems certain that lots of people are going to die because of these things not delivering the goods.
“Worse, it is a 30-minute walk to downtown restaurants. We set off on foot, passing warehouses with shattered windows and an overgrown lot filled with rusted fuel pumps and gas-station signs. Clambering over a flatcar of a stalled freight train, we half-wish we could hop a boxcar to Chicago.”
Haha, yeah.
‘”My daughter was like, ‘You’ve lost it mom; just fly,’ “ the retired hairdresser says. She says she felt safer in a car during the pandemic — but also vulnerable when waiting at remote charging stations alone late at night. “But if someone is going to get me, they’re going to have to really fight me,” she says, wielding her key between her fingers like a weapon.’
We were, like, so totally, totally surprised to find out that electric cars are a life-threatening scam.
And guess what? They aren’t good for the environment, either!
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I Rented An Electric Car For A Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.
06/05/2022 8:19:50 AM PDT · by American Number 181269513 · 162 replies
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