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1 posted on 10/07/2022 10:50:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
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And 5 days to put it out if it catches on fire. kekw /s


2 posted on 10/07/2022 10:50:46 AM PDT by cranked
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Well, EVs are clearly a newish technology and no doubt things will continue to improve.

Yeah, they'll improve 0.1% per year for a few years and hit the inevitable battery plateau. The billions of R&D yielding 0.1% annual improvement used to be called the "law of diminishing returns." But Biden is going to sign an EO outlawing that primitive concept.

3 posted on 10/07/2022 10:52:58 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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Let’s add to that. They won’t have any power to their RV for 5 days either.


4 posted on 10/07/2022 10:54:31 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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Yep.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4098954/posts


5 posted on 10/07/2022 10:55:18 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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“Having made that drive from Pennsylvania to Fairbanks in 2013”

That’s the point. You wandered off the manor without your lord’s permission (lord in small letters, not as in God).

The mobility of the peasantry must be ensured to achieve our neo-feudalistic society, the only way possible to ensure the planet doesn’t reach auto-ignition temperature (sarcasm).


6 posted on 10/07/2022 10:55:21 AM PDT by packagingguy
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Hoovies vid has gone vital.
Good for him.


7 posted on 10/07/2022 10:59:33 AM PDT by mowowie
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Bet them folks in FLA are wishing they had a Ford lightening to power up their house like the ads show. For how long? When will the AAA battery charging truck be stopping by? Oh, right before the fire trucks?


8 posted on 10/07/2022 11:04:03 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Journalists find out that there is no short cut to the laws of physics. That gasoline they saved was replaced largely by coal that produced the electricity to charge their battery...with inefficiency at every power transfer step (coal burning, steam generation, electricity generation, electricity distribution, battery charging. battery gradual charge leakage, battery power delivered to electric motor, electric motor inefficiency.

Maybe we can add some more power loss steps to make it look more magic.

9 posted on 10/07/2022 11:10:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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this is all moot

once they go all “green energy” electricity will be so expensive

only the rich and powerful will be able to afford personal transportation

the masses will be on the bus worried about whether they can afford to heat their home


10 posted on 10/07/2022 11:13:22 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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IMO EVs are generally a bad idea. In some uses, an EV is not as bad an idea (urban commuting) than in others but EV trucks don’t make sense to me at all. An fully-changed EV truck can handle a huge load because of the massive torque the electric engine produces but the massive energy draw will so quickly deplete the battery that the truck is not feasible for moderate or long hauls. Kind of kills the utility of a work truck when one its primary purposes is so compromised.


11 posted on 10/07/2022 11:20:47 AM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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And the brain-dead libs in my family would say “That’s why the feds need to build more charging stations.”

A simple solution for maroons.

Facepalm....


12 posted on 10/07/2022 11:24:51 AM PDT by TMD (Behind Enemy Lines but, no longer in the SF bay area....)
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Look at the bright side, you get 5 days to show off your truck to everyone at the campground.


13 posted on 10/07/2022 11:29:31 AM PDT by BobL
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Speaking of "journalist's" and EV road trip experiments...

I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.
Our writer drove from New Orleans to Chicago and back to test the feasibility of taking a road trip in an EV. She wouldn’t soon do it again.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-rented-an-electric-car-for-a-four-day-road-trip-i-spent-more-time-charging-it-than-i-did-sleeping-11654268401?mod=djemalertNEWS

17 posted on 10/07/2022 11:55:09 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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Using lib logic the answer is simple, we need a bigger sun.


19 posted on 10/07/2022 12:15:20 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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current electric cars are dead end Technolgy...I have hope for the future, but it won’t be with current battery technology. I envision someday the road system will deliver the electricity to the car and the battery might carry a charge that’s good for 30 miles when not connected to the road electrical grid...the 30 miles is just an arbitrary number....for the foreseeable future we need gas powered vehicles and only idiots are pushing for the current electrical cars being standard in 10 years.


23 posted on 10/07/2022 1:13:06 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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Well, the obvious fix for the advantage of gas will be to outlaw gas stations.
California is showing the way.

27 posted on 10/07/2022 2:42:08 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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On a related note, say goodbye to the Ford Transit Connect...

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/van-fans-shed-a-tear-city-vans-are-now-dead-in-the-u-s/


28 posted on 10/07/2022 3:45:53 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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Ford lies. I would think a big lawsuit will be happening.
No defense for Ford. Use the electric vehicle and you will be stranded for hours somewhere.


30 posted on 10/07/2022 8:05:23 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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