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Hear me out: instead of faster chargers, we should lobby for SLOWER gas pumps
electrek.co ^ | 10/11/2025 | Jo Borras

Posted on 10/14/2025 10:04:42 AM PDT by Signalman

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1 posted on 10/14/2025 10:04:42 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Can’t compete? Get the government to limit the competition.


2 posted on 10/14/2025 10:07:43 AM PDT by fluffy
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To: Signalman

Is this from Babylon Bee?


3 posted on 10/14/2025 10:09:00 AM PDT by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)
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To: Signalman

Libs will think this has potential. If we just slow gas pumps down to the point at which it will take four hours to fill the tank, EVs will start to look much more attractive.

And libs will think this is a solution.

Just like they think the solution to closing racial gaps in academic achievement is to abandon standards and socially promote everyone to Ph.Ds.


4 posted on 10/14/2025 10:09:46 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Signalman

A democrat wasn’t a law specifically intended to make things run less efficiently.

Not a surprise!
That’s all they ever do!

The only difference is, democrats used to cause waste, fraud and inefficiency by accident. IE: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

These days, there is no good intention.
It’s all just pure contempt and need to control everything, right out in the open.


5 posted on 10/14/2025 10:10:01 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Signalman

How about we make batteries that can be recycled as easily as ICE cars so we don’t end up with an environmental disaster before too long.


6 posted on 10/14/2025 10:11:14 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Signalman
With this plan, ICE-holes and Hemi zealots can continue to have their gas (if they decide it’s worth the wait, so be it). Meanwhile, the well-adjusted normals figure out real quick that it’s better, cheaper, and easier to charge at home.

ICE-holes? Nothing like a little class warfare to advance the revolution, Comrade. The smug is strong in this one.

7 posted on 10/14/2025 10:12:00 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Signalman

Fast charging damages overall battery health and shortens battery life. To this day, the battery manuals state that to maximize battery life, only charge up to 80%, and do not let the charge go below 20%.


8 posted on 10/14/2025 10:13:17 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: Signalman

“We can’t win with technology, so let’s win with inconvenience!”

(To match routine EV charging rates, I’d need a teaspoon to transfer the gas to my V8’s tank).


9 posted on 10/14/2025 10:14:30 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: Signalman

Joe Boras writes “ICE-holes and Hemi zealots can continue to have their gas”. I’m sorry but this guy is the most arrogant prick on the planet. The environmental authoritarians think they control everyone, e.g. shutting down hydro power, stopping timber harvesting because a SPECIFIC TYPE of spotted owl might be threatened, although the other types are thriving, 2 inch long fish causing reservoirs to be shut down so California communities and people burn... In reality these monsters want to eliminate 7 billion people from the planet because it would make them feel empowered and give their lives meaning. Put another way, they want Liebensraum, you can look up what that means and who said it.


10 posted on 10/14/2025 10:14:33 AM PDT by brookwood (If you don't support abortion rights for trans women you are a Nazi. )
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To: Signalman

>>At the same time, automakers and tech giants across the globe are pouring billions into R&D to develop batteries that can take ever-higher levels of power.

The solution, obviously, is to limit EV chargers to 1 AMP max.


11 posted on 10/14/2025 10:14:46 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Signalman

Refueling equity?


12 posted on 10/14/2025 10:14:53 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: Signalman

Dude’s a nutter.


13 posted on 10/14/2025 10:15:56 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Hoboto

It’s hard to tell these days.


14 posted on 10/14/2025 10:17:03 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Signalman
It doesn't look like a satire site.

How quickly before someone invents a double nozzle funnel so you can fill from your pump and the one next to it or on its reverse side?

15 posted on 10/14/2025 10:17:04 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Lots of us still remember that Leaded Gas nozzles were larger and flow rate lost with the lead free crap


16 posted on 10/14/2025 10:19:27 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: Signalman

Seems to me that this screed is a tacit admission that, outside of a very narrow use case, electric vehicles are an abject failure and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.


17 posted on 10/14/2025 10:19:36 AM PDT by chrisser (I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident. )
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Seriously. The Bee’s got stiff competition from real life. Isn’t this textbook communism? Bring everyone down to the lowest level.


18 posted on 10/14/2025 10:20:03 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: Signalman
Back in 1993, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule that limited the rate that gas service stations could pump fuel to a maximum of 10 gallons per minute (gpm), with the stated goals of reducing evaporative emissions and promoting safety by ensuring the integrity of the nation’s refueling infrastructure.

Gee Clinton.

Again.

19 posted on 10/14/2025 10:20:12 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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HEAR ME OUT:

We get bicycles to pedal a fuel pump, and the EV people get bicycles to charge a battery.

We’re done in 10 minutes and they’re done in 10 months.

that’s equity, baby.


20 posted on 10/14/2025 10:20:16 AM PDT by Celerity
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