Posted on 09/12/2023 5:51:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“Folks in The Villages use modded Golf Carts (low-end EV’s) to get around.”
That is not an EV as discussed, so your comments are retarded since you cannot keep focus on the subject matter.
Interesting (and useful) anecdotal info - one quick question:
You said “I charged my car from 45% to 80% in 7 minutes . . .”, so I’m figuring that’s about a third of the energy storage available, which I’m guessing is about 100 to 125 miles worth of juice? Is that about reasonable? And if so, does that mean if you followed that pattern on a long trip you’d be recharging (roughly) ever couple of hours?
Now I know you can run the battery down below 45% (and recharge it above 85%), but if 45% to 80% is one’s ‘comfort zone’, is what I’ve described above the kind of recharging pattern one could expect?
The EPA may mandate it since it would just run forever.
Depends on where you are, familiarity with area, am I in a rush/deadline.
For instance, my neighbor and my brother commonly run the charge down to 15-20% if they are local, because they can charge at home.
It really comes down to personal comfort levels with a given scenario.
I will say every EV owner I know charges to recommended full every night at home. My across the street retired neighbor charges every day so he can charge off his solar system for ‘free.’
Net: EV charging frequency is a combo of what’s your scenario and what’s your anxiety. (Note well anxiety is like the amber light coming on the dash in your ICE vehicle.)
The infrastructure is centered around cities and major highways, especially interstates. That’s great until you have to get off of the major highways and drive through a charger dead zone. If I had to drive a Tesla from where I am right now to where one of my kids goes to college with a charge similar to how much gas I have in my tank, I would be in trouble because there are no chargers for about 100 miles. The only option would be to take a lengthy detour to find a place to plug in, and that is still about 70 miles to the nearest charger. There are gas stations all over the same routes, so the choice is clear.
I trade...but rarely short.
Nothing says “I’m virtue signalling flamming libtard” like solar panels on the rooftop and a EV or two in the garage.
Well the sissies are all taking Lithium anyway.
I want my 1950 Ford Falcon back. Stick shift so hard to steal. 29 miles per gallon. Easy to fix anything.
Not even second place in the contest.
Consider:
War on Poverty
Obamacare
Cash for Clunkers (not sure that qualifies as policy, though)
Winter is not a climatic change. Winter is a seasonal change.
I'm sure you're smart enough to understand that important distinction.
ROFL!!!
Your sarcasm detector needs to have its batteries recharged.
I think you mean 1960
That is really not the goal.
The government is destroying our infrastructure, especially the power grid, and is intent on forcing everyone they don't kill into the 15 minute cities. The only people allowed any form of transportation will be the uber-wealthy and politicians. They will have ICE vehicles since the actual technology for reliable EVs is 50 to 100 years away, and by then they will have decimated mankind so bad there will be no technology left.
Probably 1960. Exactly what my grandfather had. Light blue.
I bet with no regulations to worry about that car companies can design a great engine for trucks and cars that gets 30mpg and 350hp.
Ill-conceived for all but the politicians who made millions off the scam. Insider trading. Kickbacks. It’s the deals behind the deal.
I think I’ll wait until Dewalt
produces their version of an
EV.
Cash for Clunkers nearly destroyed the used car market...............
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