For many people, EV’s will simply be impractical for much of anything except for maybe local secondary commuting.
The ability of people to move around is what makes government anxious.
EVs nor is the country ready for prime time. Whenever government tries to force market and economic forces to go its way, its always a failure and chaos.
Perfectly suited for Dems, dinks and woke greenies, especially CA dwellers, who work from home, don’t need AC or heat, only go out for mid-morning lattes and never travel more than 50 miles from home. To the rest of us, those who understand the real environmental and economic cost of lithium, batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, no thanks.
Perhaps our overlords don’t like seeing us driving all over North America, so they force us to drive short-range vehicles.
Yes, the EV experience is what will kill it.
rely on the heated steering wheel and seats.
Gee, I wonder how those were heated?
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My wife and I made that trip once, traveling from Carson City to Ely - 320 miles. Once you leave Fallon, there are only 2 towns for the 250 mile remainder, Austin and Eureka.
They tell you to make damn sure your car's tank is full before taking the trek. Trying it with an EV? No thanks.
a cross-country trip from Michigan to Florida.
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Michigan to Florida is not cross country (after all it is all down hill ;-)
San Francisco to New York would be cross country. Going over the Sierra Nevada Mountain range (in the winter) would be a real test (just don’t stop at Donner Pass).
I fail to see any advantage to owning an electric car other than it being a virtue signal for leftards.
I see the future ad campaign.... “you meet the nicest people at a super charger location”.
Of course the ad was in a Colliers magazine from 1902
Can hardly wait for the EV remake of “The Cannonball Run” - will make the feminist remake of “Ghostbusters” look like high art.
The DIMs want us riding bicycles, wearing masks and eating bugs.
They didn’t check to see that both were open.
They made it to the second one, but thought they’d be stranded.
...We were constantly thinking...
Should’ve done that before buying an EV
“They stopped 12 times to recharge the car, which has an estimated battery range of 274 miles, over the course of the 1,500 mile, four-day journey, and that charging times were between 20 to 55 minutes.”
Let’s see, with my car I get about 350 miles between gasoline stops during highway driving - can’t say that I’ve worried about no gas being available, at least for the past 40+ years. So, my stops would have been at 350, 700, 1050, and 1400 miles - so 4 stops, each being 10 minutes, so 40 minutes of down-time. Maybe another 30 minutes for rest areas if I bring others, so 70 minutes total...just over an hour.
For the above, figure 35 minutes each stop, and 12 stops - so 420 minutes - 7 hours*.
Yea, I know, I can’t Virtue Signal with my gasoline car, though.
*try the same on a holiday travel day, and you’ll be waiting 2 hours just to get started with the charging, so figure 31 hours for holidays.
It took four days from Michigan to Florida? I think I could do it in 1 day (with Mrs Deplorable and my driving legal age kids). My brother and his wife took their Corvette from Hartford to Ft Myers in 27 hours, stopping for gas and restrooms.
The deep state does not want common people to be able to take extended trips via private transport. The government wants the people dependent on public transportation which it can control.
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