Posted on 12/29/2023 9:31:29 AM PST by Signalman
There are a lot of reasons to buy an electric car, but there are also many reasons not to. Today I'm going to explain why it's not quite the time to buy an electric car. When you compare electric vs petrol or ICE cars (internal combustion engine) then you might think you're getting a big improvement when you go electric, but you might just regret buying that car.
> Roads are failing faster due to excess loads. <
There is also concern that parking garages cannot handle the extra weight.
It’s just one more thing liberals don’t think about. They live in the moment, period.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/electric-vehicles-heavy-parking-garages-report
Too big of a uncontrollable fire risk. My risk levels are already at their max with lithium tool batteries.
The EV market has been a huge scam since the beginning. The EV vs ICE issue was settled in the early 1920’s.
Because they are economically unfeasible pieces of crap. I love my Hemi Ram pickup. I can drive 500 miles and fill it up in 5 minutes. Try that with an electric Ford Lightning.
The test version of the F-150 Lightning has an EPA-rated range of 300 miles — but that didn’t quite measure up to AAA testing. With no payload, AAA found the driving range to be 278 miles (7.3 percent less). With 1,400 pounds of sandbags added, the group found the range to be 210 miles, a 24.5 percent reduction compared to the unloaded test condition and a 30.0 percent reduction compared to the EPA estimate. Note: The above numbers do not factor in air conditioning in summer and heating in winter and the fact battery efficiency goes down greatly in severe cold weather. It is an economically unfeasible piece of crap. I would spend about 3 hours of time charging a Ford Lightning on a 500 mile trip if I can find a high output charging station on the road. Did I mention it is an “economically unfeasible piece of crap?”
Oddly an electric vehicle is okay for short commutes into town for work or shopping and recharge that night. However, without the federal subsidy they become economically unfeasible pieces of crap.
A Hybrid Diesel Electric Semi, on the other hand, can make a great deal of sense.
Hybrid Diesel Electric Trucks and conversions by Truckers, for Truckers.
Meet “Topsy”:
https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-extra/article/15637084/meet-topsy-edison-motors-dieselelectric-vocational-prototype
With Sandy Munro:
https://youtu.be/VR6Az1wfTI8?si=HYDcUyspxKObjohx
Detailed Tour:
https://youtu.be/an6e2Lh9u58?si=gZUvZ7yykapnkmPn
First Load (a Sherman Tank, putting the gross vehicle weight over 100,700 lbs):
https://youtu.be/KGN7rjZGjMQ?si=N0kibfRlUZ9zWWOK
(Note: the Canadian (and later on, the American...) trucker Resistance and
convoys were, and are, absolutely critical to the liberties we are still hanging
on to, so far.)
~Easy
Well don’t go overboard. Lithium ion is superior to lead acid in energy density.
Don’t pretend nothing changed from 1920s.
You don’t have to pretend that. Lithium Ion still requires the same ampere hours to move or haul things. And you have to replace those ampere hours. This will never change. It is physics, not engineering.
Lithium Ion vs Lead Acid is engineering. That is why that changed.
30 Gs plus to replace a battery. Limited miles on a charge. No charging stations etc. It is a pig in a poke, a liberal fiasco.
EV advocates always talk about fast charging the EV battery as the solution. That means the same amount of energy has to be delivered in a shorter period of time. That means more current which means there is greater stress on the grid that delivers the power, and it also negatively affects the life of the battery. To "fuel" an EV for a certain number of miles will take roughly the same amount of energy regardless of whether the charge is done in 5 minutes or 5 hours. New battery technologies won't change that fundamental fact.
Until the power generation and distribution issues are solved, which will take time and lots of money, the EV won't be a practical replacement for the ICE vehicle. And the problems will be more and more evident as more people voluntarily buy EVs to "save the planet" or are forced to do that by government mandates.
Technology just isn’t there yet.
Politics of Democrats pushed this crap on everyone.
Realistically electric motors are far better for transportation.
But batteries aren’t there yet.
Examples of success
a Diesel electric locomotive,
Nuke electric ship(USS Gerald Ford)
Virgina class submarines,
et al
are fantastical efficient.
Batteries just aren’t there yet.
I’m not sure they will ever be useful other than small scale power sources.
I don’t consider a personal vehicle small scale.
Tesla's PR department claimed in 2021 that by the end of the year all power delivered through the Supercharger network would be from "renewable" sources.
Tesla says it will power all Superchargers with renewable energy this year
This was a lie, and they knew it was a lie.
Correct except you have to put more current through the battery than you get out of it to fully recharge it. There are always losses in the process.
EVs are a super-expensive, unworkable SCAM, promoted by fanatics!!!
#1 - The government is telling me to do it and it is safe and effective.
“ safe and effective “
Just like a certain vaccine….
Interesting, so that works out to about an 850 lb battery to have the same energy as 1 gallon of gasoline.
Never, for the same reason I will never buy an Apple product.
“Lithium Ion vs Lead Acid is engineering. That is why that changed.”
I know that. What hasn’t changed is the physics. We aren’t driving the same ICE cars of the 1920’s either.
Why You Should NOT Buy an Electric Car!
They won’t give you a free fire suite or money back.
Hell you’d be better off with a Pinto.
4 gallons of gas have more energy the the entire battery pack of the electric Ford F-150
4 gallons of gas!
Where cobalt for electric batteries come from.
Joe Rogan has a guest on and shows video.
The batteries cost is very high in human life.
15,000 people working by hand digging for cobalt in one mining pit... <-—!!!
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1729917081255067832
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