I own Duke Energy stock. Maybe I need to take a hard look at that outfit.
So electric cars increase global warming?
Another green idea that goes belly up.
I always laugh about the liberals embrace of electric cars.
The car batteries need to be re-charged, and the electricity to re-charge these batteries often comes from coal fired power plants. So arguably, if we had millions of electric cars on the road, we would need to sharply increase generation from fossil fuel power plants.
Have any liberals calculated the carbon footprint of re-charging electric cars???
Or do liberals think we can generate enough power from solar, windmills, and ocean waves????
Do liberals know where electricity comes from? I think they over simplify this issue. Yes, an electric car itself operates pollution free, but its power has to be generated somehow.
I heard this on Rush’s show yesterday and laughed my butt off when I heard it...
So, If you can’t recharge your electric car, what you have is an expensive paperweight!
The Leaf has a 80-kW motor and 24-kwh battery. The voltage is 440V.
It’s supposed to be just a couple of bucks.
It’s supposed to be just a couple of bucks.
Duke Energy in Charlotte is largely nuclear powered. Green energy!
It’s likely that simple economics, and free markets, will eventually lead to widespread use of electric vehicles.
But not now. The batteries are too inefficient. Too heavy. Too expensive, and the cost of charging them is not low enough to overcome consumer inertia.
A while back I did see online where a guy in a sunny part of the country in fact drives an electric SUV (An Escape, or some such) he charges from a solar array on his roof. In effect he drives free.
If one disregards the $40,000 or so he paid for all that solar panel hardware. And the cost of the battery-powered SUV.
Fact is, it’s a large array of solar panels, for a pretty small job. He can’t take the Array with him obviously, so he’s trapped within the radius of 1/2 his battery capacity.
Not to mention, unless he works graveyard shift, he needs to drive his car, during the time of day, it would most efficiently recharge from the solar panels. Most solar systems use panels to charge batteries during the day, which then run lights and appliances round the clock.
With an electric car, what’s the approach? Solar panel array charges a battery, which then ... charges another battery? Not very efficient.
It’s not so much that it doesn’t make sense to use electric power. It’s just that the technology is still in its infancy.
The market will drive all alternative sources of power, as the sources of power are ready.
example: Nissan.Leaf, 24kWhr battery, @10¢/kWhr = $2.40 which is good for 100 mi. = 2.4¢ per mile, but it takes 8 hours to recharge, which is why you need a home charger.
The burning of a modest size American single family home releases the equivalent of an acre of trees. Better buy some offsets along with your Chevy Volt.
I’m hoping there’ll be lot’sa charging units installed in and around the 2012 DNC Convention being held in Charlotte.
Saving the planet by burning it down.
It's like it's being kept secret.
Now these people own an overprices POS electirc car, and they can't use the necessary technology to charge it...
I love it..