Tesla Driving Gloves...
Posted on 02/09/2019 12:16:08 PM PST by Hojczyk
Are electric vehicles the wave of the future, or expensive toys? This shocking news story–shocking if you live in the North, anyway–suggests the latter *** Many owners discovered the range limitations last week when much of the country was in the grips of a polar vortex. Owners of vehicles made by manufacturers including Tesla, the top-selling electric vehicle company in the U.S., complained on social media about reduced range and frozen door handles during the cold snap.
Frozen door handles are an annoyance not unique to electric cars, but reduced range can be life-threatening.
At 20 degrees, the average driving range fell by 12 percent when the car’s cabin heater was not used. When the heater was turned on, the range dropped by 41 percent, AAA said.
Of course, at 20 degrees you pretty much have to turn the heater on. T
Also, AAA tested the vehicles at 20 degrees above zero, a balmy temperature that we haven’t seen for a while here in the Twin Cities. What happens at 20 below, a temperature we have seen several times in the last week or two? Or eleven below, which it is at this moment where I live? A car whose range is severely compromised at such temperatures could be a death trap.
Advocates of “green” energy say that giant batteries will overcome the intractable problem of the intermittency–i.e., unreliability–of wind and solar energy. Of course, while batteries can power my laptop for six or eight hours, or a vehicle for a relatively short distance, no batteries exist that can power a city for six months, nor is any such technology on the horizon. But I wonder whether green energy advocates who toss around the word “batteries” much as they might say “magic” have considered the impact of cold weather.
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Tesla Driving Gloves...
It’s OK, because where Elon Musk lives, it doesn’t get cold.
If it comes with a 6,000 mile extension cord, I might take one if they gave it to me.
People shouldn’t be allowed to live where it is cold.
And a parade of gasoline powered tow trucks following behind.
41% decreased range is downright dangerous.
Big sale on exploding golf carts...only 50K!
It costs more to produce green energy than it saves; an example would be: it takes about eight or nine gallons of fossil fuel (running the manufacturing process) to make five gallons of biofuel.
Arctic level cold is no piece of cake for internal combustion engines either.
In the 1960s my uncle and aunt were stationed at the SAC base in Minot, ND.
When they came to visit I was surprised to see that their car had an electric plug dangling in front of the radiator.
It gets so cold up there that they had a block heater to help warm up the engine.
Two days ago I went skiing. At 9 in the morning the temperature was 12 degrees. My iPhone was in my jacket’s pocket charged at about 75%. An 1.5 hour later when I went in the lodge for a break, the battery charge was at 1%.
Also a couple winters worth of salt will do wonders on those virtue signaling toys.
Facts are troublesome things.
Oil is a renewable resource. I am sticking with my V8 engine.
Do you know why electric cars have such luxurious interiors??
So they have a comfortable place to wait for the tow truck.
Should also ask AOC is how all this green stuff you want to be made without fossil fuel.
Or, probably wet is not good?
The purpose of the block heater on your relatives’ ep the oil warm, and, therefore, liquid. Engine oil congeals , making the battery’s job all the more difficult. I was stationed guys who had done duty in Alaska. One of them told at 55 below, you could put a quart can of engine oil outside and, in an hour, the oil was so thick that you could put a screwdriver in the oil and it would stay standing up.
Don’t get ‘em too hot, either.
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