It could be it’s an overpriced POS
Driven by an over paid and over rated POS.
It could be it’s an overpriced POS
Or an underpowered POS.
Are you talking about the car or 0bama?
What? Didn’t you hear? It will go FORTY MILES between battery charges!
Battery powered electric cars will NEVER be viable because of the amount of power and time required to recharge the batteries. I don’t care if you have a battery pack that only weighs 150 lbs and will take a 3000lb car 350 miles, the amount of power required to charge the batteries will be ENORMOUS.
If a car with a 50 hp electric motor had a 350 mile range at 70 mph and you could change out your battery pack at a commercial station that could recharge 30 batteries at once in 5 hours, that service station would have a 1.125 MEGAWATT draw on the system just to service the batteries. If you speed up the charge to 2 1/2 hours, you double the power draw to 2.25 megawatts. And that is just for 30 batteries at once.
Critics may say that the batteries can be charged in off peak hours, but off peak hours are when we rely on the cheapest forms of electricity, hydroelectric and nuclear, but when you add hundreds of thousands (probably more like tens of millions) of megawatts, you have to put your coal fired plants back into production and even they won’t be able to keep up.
Perhaps if the same effing envirowhackos who want to force us into electric cars hadn’t killed the nuclear power plant program in the US we wouldn’t care because we had plenty of cheap and clean power.
I might say that stupidity and short sightedness bit them in the ass again, but their ultimate goal is to reduce the US to turd world status where only the liberal elite have vehicles to travel in.