Posted on 02/06/2020 10:47:00 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Andy Levin (D-Mich.) on Thursday outlined a bill that seeks to establish a nationwide electric vehicle charging network within five years.
Their Electric Vehicle Freedom Act, which was slated to be introduced Thursday, would establish the network along the nation's highway systems and also promote compatibility between chargers and cars, affordability and the creation of automotive and infrastructure jobs, Levin said at a press conference.
"We're trying to actually advance and improve our fleets and our vehicles, which means that we have to go electric and the way that we do that is with a public infrastructure," Ocasio-Cortez said.
Levin declined to give a specific cost estimate, but said that "it'll cost a lot of money to put all these chargers in place." He said "we'll see" how much will be paid for by taxpayers and how much hosts will pay.
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All the electric charging stations are going to need to be powered.
We could fill the need by building more coal-fired power plants.
This could revitalize our domestic coal industry.
For a second that headline made me think that AOC was joining forces with Mark Levin to create some weird extreme political TV network.
The cost of electric fueling stations must be funded by the manufacturers of electric vehicles - NOT the taxpayer!!!
The free Capitalist market place will provide this, thank you very much.
Back to sleep now...
First, idiots like AOC demand that we, the consumer, buy an electric vehicle.
Then, they demand that the rest of us consumers, pay via a tax, to support a federal charging station program?
I will stay with my Mopar superbird, thanks.
[For a second that headline made me think that AOC was joining forces with Mark Levin to create some weird extreme political TV network.]
The Great One and The Grating One....
Me too lol!
I thought “well that’s different!” :)
as for AOC..”We’re trying to actually advance and improve our fleets and our vehicles..
What’s with OUR?? Private companies made the vehicles and even if sold to the government, they are not YOURS, although I know you congress folks think everything in the country is.
If it can make a PROFIT ON ITS OWN, I don’t care what people make or do.
If it can’t, beat it.
[[made me think that AOC was joining forces with Mark Levin]]
LOL me too-
I can get 350-375 miles on a tank of gas...It takes about 2-3 minutes to fill the tank...
Can I get a complete recharge on an electric car in 2-3 minutes?????
“For a second that headline made me think that AOC was joining forces with Mark Levin to create some weird extreme political TV network.”
That’s what made it click-bait. Got me, too.
There is no such thing as an “electric car”.
I can see it now. Next step: The only ‘equitable’ thing is to make charging your EV free.
I travelled about 3500 miles in the last couple of weeks. Saw lots of charging stations at places I stopped.
Never once saw anyone hooked up
What really chafed me, was a rest stop that had Preferred Parking (no chargers) for EV’s, that were closer than the spots for handicapped
It would be so much cheaper to eliminate the middleman here.
GM/Ford/Honda/etc, just start producing coal-powered cars. AOC/Levin, have a 5 year plan to build a national network of Auto Coal Stations.
Actually, this would be much better, comparatively. Instead of 10 hours to fill up your battery with juice, takes 4 minutes to shovel coal into your Car’s Coal Chute.
Nah, their idiotic windmills will handle it, just fine.
LOL.
Why not just get government the hell out of the way and allow private industry to build profitable charging stations instead of setting up another subsidized cash cow for Democrat supporters and grifters like the Biden Crime Family?
It was only a few years ago when there quite a few pickups that could switch from gasoline to either diesel or propane. The truck had a diesel or propane tank mounted in the truck bed. My neighbor had one he loved, and I always wished for one.
Your warped mind read my warped mind.
Typical impractical liberal idea, here’s why:
1. Even with so-called “super charger” EV stations, ‘refilling your tank’ with charge takes about ten times LONGER than filling the tank of you economical gas burning car, for equivalent ranges.
1a. These folks are not industrial or process engineers and haven’t thought about throughput, for sure.
1b. There’s a reason why Chargepoint and Tesla charge stations are in parking places/ parking lots. You are gonna be there a while. It can’t be like a gas station along the interstate, period.
2. This is especially true for electric trucks that have HUGE (hugh?) batteries to charge. If you are running lanes at a freight company, your equipment is gonna be down, burning money, for much longer than filling up diesel tanks.
Feel good stuff, imagine that.
the RIGHT way to do this is to re-think electric over-the-road vehicle battery models. To wit:
1. Vehicles need to have removable, slide in/ slide out battery modules, built to industry standards.
1a. You pull into an EV ‘gas station’ and park in a dock.
1b. A battery unloader/loader aligns to your vehicle, confirms your eligibility, slides out your discharged battery, places it into a charging rack, and then launches a user interface asking you how much charge you want in money or mileage, based on the AI of the battery system. Payment is confirmed, and then a fully-tested, properly charged battery pack is loaded into your vehicle, and off you go, all in no more time than filling a gas tank.
1c. Vehicles could be fitted with multiple battery racks, depending on the weight/ desired range/ forecast terrain, etc etc.
1d. Over the road and LTL trucks could mount battery packs on the tractor AND on the trailer (for driving and running the reefer)
1e. Batteries placed in the rack would have diagnostics run on them, and PMs or repairs done by a technician on site, so no one gets a bad battery.
NET: drive in and park. dock and authenticate. Swap your battery and drive away when the light goes green. Zoom zoom.
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