Posted on 11/28/2010 5:18:31 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Edited on 11/28/2010 6:07:20 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Getting your home ready to charge an electric car will either require little time or money ---- or a couple of months and thousands of dollars. It depends on what kind of electric car you buy, the wiring in your home and how quickly you want to juice your ride.
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The fact that he is stupid enough to buy an electric car irritates me.
What is the advantage of electric cars?
“What is the advantage of electric cars?”
You save a lot of money on gas.
But you spend more on the car, on electricity, on disposal of the batteries.
How ‘bout a Honda generator with enough power output to charge the electric cars? :)
"How to prep your home for higher electric bills"
If you are already blowing $30k on $20k of performance, why not blow another $2k so you can actually use the thing?
He just better not forget his lunch when he goes out to the farm, or hope he doesn't have to leave for an emergency. At 8 hours charge per 40 miles drive, that's an awful long time to wait for the car to be usable again, if he needs it in a hurry.
Also, I wonder how people think these things are going to save energy? Electricity doesn't just magically appear in the wall socket. And enviro-whackos are dead set against building new power plants, making it anyone's bet where all the electricity is going to come from if significant numbers of people start buying electric cars.
““What is the advantage of electric cars?”
“You save a lot of money on gas.
But you spend more on the car, on electricity, on disposal of the batteries.”
Sounds like a another bad idea whose time has come.
So, you put freaking electric motor in between your IC engine and your drive drain, and you use more energy, not less.
So your car isn't buring gas? Well, the power grid is (or something else), if you're plugging your car into it.
I know it's naive, and it's only Physics 101, but it is what it is.
Windmills, electric cars...healthcare...Fortheluvofpete I'm getting sick of all these fairy tales.
This is plain BS. The thing requires a 30A circuit. No more than a dryer.
Even if everyone on the block turned it on at the same time it wouldn't hurt the x-former.
I find it funny that the greenies actually think this crap is going to save the planet.
The only thing it is going to do is drain wallets.
Stupid fools. All of them.
"220...221....Whatever it takes"
Anybody know if home owners policies cover fires due to wiring your own electric car charging station? :)
Rush said it best — electric cars coal-driven. They are not NON-polluting. They merely shift the pollution from the car exhaust pipe to the electric generator smokestack (most electricity in the USA continues to be generated from coal).
It just delivers more misplaced liberal smugs.
If most of the charging is done at night (which seems likely) the added loads shouldn’t be much of an issue for many years to come.
I worked at a large mfg plant that used a lot of juice. We were one of the loads that the power company had to monitor closely. Our most important time was 2-5 pm on hot summer days. That’s when the power company was stretched tightest.
Over night we could do anything without load issues.
Kind of irks me that we are going to subsidize wealthy college professors..
only 45% of US juice is from coal
How is all of this electricity demand supposed to help the environment? I thought generating electricity was supposed to be a bad thing.
They're going to make a lot of "green" commie libs (Government Motors and their union thugs) very rich?
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