Posted on 11/05/2022 4:53:48 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Until we truly have a viable solution to replace fossil fuels, electric vehicles are more of a problem then most people realize.
Subject: Just wondering - Hurricane season with Electric Vehicles
Imagine Florida with a hurricane coming toward Miami.
The governor orders an evacuation. All cars head north.
They all need to be charged in Jacksonville.
How does that work? Has anyone thought about this?
If all cars were electric and were caught up in a three-hour traffic jam with dead batteries,
then what?
Not to mention that there's virtually no heating or air conditioning in an electric vehicle because of high battery consumption.
If you get stuck on the road all night, with no battery, no heating, no windshield wipers, no radio,
and no GPS (all these drain the batteries), all you can do is try calling 911 to take women and children to safety.
But they cannot come to help you because all roads are blocked, and they will probably require all police cars to be electric also. When the roads become unblocked no one can move! Their batteries are dead.
How do you charge the thousands of cars in the traffic jam? Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of traffic jams. Yes, AAA is starting to prepare tow trucks to charge electric vehicles. How many can they charge before returning to the home base and recharging the trucks?
There would be virtually no air conditioning in an electric vehicle.
It would drain the batteries quickly. Where is this electricity going to come from?
Today's grid barely handles users' needs.
Can't use nuclear, natural gas is quickly running out.
Oil fired is out of the question, then where?
What will be done with billions of dead batteries, can’t bury them in the soil,
can’t go to landfills.
The cart is way ahead of the horse.
No thought whatsoever to handle any of the problems that batteries can cause.
The press doesn't want to talk or report on any of this.
Never happening.
Perhaps (note the word) EV’s would have had time to evolve along with the supporting infrastructure if the federal government didn’t have it’s thumb on the economic & regulatory scales. But what they have chosen to do, in effect, is to shovel trillions of dollars at an immature technology that requires scares materials and can not be supported by the electric infrastructure now or even a generation into the future.
When the automobile was developing there were steam, electric and internal combustion models. The ICE won out. There are reasons why that happened if anybody cared to look.
Also how do you drive an EV AFTER the hurricane hits when electric power is down, sometimes for a couple of weeks or more?
Biden says I can use my EV to power my house.
That dude is one dim bulb!
Is that even 100 of them? I bet most of those are Tesla chargers.
‘Fossil fuels’...LOLOL!
I suspect your educated in-laws don’t know that the nascent ICE aced out EVs and steam-driven autos over a hundred years ago.
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a39493654/can-your-ev-power-your-house
Ford has something in the works. It is not clear if it has gone live or is still vaporware. If it hasn’t gone live, it appears to be close to doing so..
If you have a lot of chargers, you have to have an electric grid that will handle it. I don’t think ours will, nor would more so called “green energy”. So it all goes right back to the most practical form of energy, plus a lot more than just energy. I guess that lack of a college education makes it easier to understand this.
Why in the world would you want to replace fossil fuels? They are a gift from God, and allowed mankind to accelerate his development, address starvation, allow us to travel wherever and whenever we want, etc. EV’s will eliminate ALL of that.
No kidding. These are the same people who think electricity comes from that cream colored thing in the wall with the vertical slots in it.
Or steaks are birthed in styrofoam trays in stores and covered with shrink wrap.
Easy solution for you gasoline-addicts: Bring a spare battery, just like what I do with my electric bike on long trips.
I look at EV zealots the same as I look at Covidiots and a lot of them are the same people. Laugh at me, call me a polluter, say I’m stupid, but when I roar by you in my gas guzzling machine as you sit stranded on the road, don’t forget to look up to see me throwing you the finger and laughing.
You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
Consider traveling in your EV during the winter in the Great Plains. With temperatures hovering at -10 and snow driven by high winds your defroster, wipers, headlights and vehicle heating are critical. Cold temperatures seriously diminish you battery capacity and with the added load of the heater,defroster, wipers and lights you chances of making it to a charging station are slim. At least with an ICE car and a full tank of gas if you are stranded in a snowstorm you could survive a couple of days. If your EV is stuck in the snow your survival might be only an hour or two before you die of hypothermia.
Why do hate the environment by driving a coal fired strip mined EV?
this is silly
dont you see?
personal transportation will only be for the rich and powerful
everyone else will be on a bus
that is why the cart is being put before the horse
to destroy personal transportation
shut up and get on the bus
Those are for non-Tesla chargers. By default plugshare.com shows only the chargers my EV can use.
LOL I didn't get an EV to save the world from cow fart warmageddon. Save that for the Dims (who I meet many of at the chargers when my wife and I take the EV on a road trip).
I got an EV as a hedge of protection from energy inflation. My solar provides over 90% of all the power we need in our all-electric home, including charging the EV (which is done mainly at home). So when the Dims keep making energy more expensive, it hurts me only 10% as much.
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