Boy do I want one...
Yup.
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Posted on 10/02/2022 10:17:48 AM PDT by qaz123
Congratulations. You’ve just purchased one of the most expensive high-performance electric trucks on the market.
You’ve gone green and you’ve done it in style with the GMC Hummer, starting at $86,645. That’s right — the Hummer’s now a green vehicle! What was once the biggest villain in the left’s war on fossil fuels is now the poster child for responsible off-roading....
The video begins with standard 120V charging — or Level 1 charging, to use official jargon. This is the standard current your home already offers.
“Right now it’s about 6 p.m. on Tuesday,” the man says. “And it says it will be full by Saturday at 10:55 [p.m.], which is four-plus days of charging. Wow.”
However, our intrepid Hummer owner had one of those — the JuiceBox, a 240v charger, installed in his garage.
How much difference did that make? Not as much as you might think. “Now it says it will be done tomorrow by 6:30 [p.m.],” the video narrator says. “So about 24 hours of charging from four percent to 100 percent.”.......
Car and Driver went to an Electrify America charging station, where it cost over $100 to “fill up” the Hummer at 43 cents per kilowatt hour....
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
I don’t know what the cost is to install a 220 into his garage but GEEZE he needs to get on it!! Some garages have them already for dryers!!
Oh so, you can’t fully charge a battery so it doesn’t degrade faster. So, if you do charge to 100%, you’ll have to drop 10s of thousands on a new battery, sooner rather than later? Hmmmm
But I can fill my tank FULL, in about 2 minutes. I’ll take filling my tank in 2 minutes.
“ Green, the biggest worldwide scam in history.”
One of many scams the U.S. government and our political elite are foisting upon the peasants of America (everyone not in their class).
In fact, literally everything done by the U.S. government under our elite leadership is a scam. Everything. No exceptions. America is a nation of lies.
That’s ok.
I’ve always been a bit of a homebody.
Wait till he gets his electrics bill which has damn near tripled for EVERYONE-!!
He had one. Some type of 240v device for charging.
He plugged it in to the 120 to show how long it would take.
240 was 24hrs to 100%.
Did you buy this? ROFL
How much did it cost for the 120v hookup and then to the upgrade to the 240v hookup?
The article states and video shows that he used 240. The 120 was for demonstration purposes.
The cost of the additional 240 device is about $500, according to the article.
Still took him 24hrs for 100%
“the biggest worldwide scam in history.”
Absolutely right. It is going to bankrupt entire nations. It will make producing basic materials like metals prohibitively expensive. The price of EVERYTHING is going to soar.
The irony is that the past 60 years we have made great strides in cleaning up our air and water. Power plants, refineries, waterways, cars, manufacturing, trucks, busses, home and office heating and cooling...you name it, it is a LOT more efficient and clean. We are obviously at the point of diminishing returns where you spend more and more to get less and less improvement.
Forty years ago, there were maybe 15 or 20 days a year when you could not look across the San Francisco South Bay because of the horrible brown cloud over the bay. Today, you never see that. It’s a testament to our environment investment and technological success.
But there is no end to the money the green kooks will extract from us, no matter how small the returns.
EVs, windmills, and solar cells are clearly a perfect example of the law of diminishing returns. The are going to cost us a huge fortune and do very little to nothing clean the environment.
Of course, it’s only about the environment for the green kooks and the gullible citizenry and rubes. The ultimate objective in government is POWER over us.
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What if you only want to drive 300 miles, and you stay over at a most fashionable AirBnB. Wouldn't that mean the battery going down, where one would have to recharge again, unlike having a 1/2 tank of gas, the car starts right up and you can fill up in ten minutes with a full tank of gas.
Then cities will enforce “deli counter service” whereas you plug in car at home and “get in line” behind others in your area that plugged in first, to charge the battery.
Ha ha ha ha ha.....don’t forget about the $7500 tax break he got, that you and I helped pay for, without our consent.
“And I’m betting, if he had one, was using his gas powered car all day, during the recharging.”
I saw a study on why people had dumped their EV’s and gone back to gas. Number one on the list was people who only owned the one car. The next correlation on the list was people who were in the modest middle-income class. (Those two are probably related.) The next, if recall correctly, was people who had long commutes.
The article took this to mean that EV’s were only for people who live close to where they work, had higher than average incomes and owned more than one car, the other of which was gas powered.
Henry Ford put America on wheels because he serviced the low end of the economic spectrum. He did it affordably and he, as much as the Conestoga wagon, opened up America to live anywhere they pleased and commute to the job that paid the most. This is the opposite of what the EV does.
EV’s are a passing fad. The ore needed for the batteries comes at a high human and ecological cost. And disposing of said batteries in a safe manner is not going to ever be cost effective.
The article mentions the Ford Lightning.
Long ago when I was young, we had a competitor in the heavy equipment business who nicknamed his line of equipment “lightning”.
Everyone else in the industry joked that it was well named because like lightning, it never struck twice in the same place.
I predict the Ford Lightning is well named for the same reason.
Being struck: one in ten million. But never struck again.
Buy two. Use one while the other is charging. Easy.
She needs to put him on a charging deadline and stick to it.
“No Hummer? No hummer.”
Of course it would take days to charge a large battery on 120v. Jesus who is surprised by this are fools.
The typical 12v car battery in your combustion engine cat will take 2-4 hours to
Charge with a 120v 20amp charger
Why would you think that a 120v current trying to charge
A large electric vehicle battery bank from empty to full wouldn’t take days?!?
yep, more and more are starting to see that the technology is crap, there is no infrastructure and given what it takes to make a battery, IT AINT GREEN!
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