Looks like the government will force electric cars on us. If the grid is out then we are ****ed.
They will be as revolutionary as they were in 1913.
If thus were true governments wouldn’t need to mandate them and outlaw their competition.
Do they come with the diesel generator standard in the trunk...(you know, for those California road trips during brown-out season)?
Most people don’t need Range in their daily life.
With Agenda 21 implemented and urban travel “perfected” autonomous vehicles, even more people aren’t going to need their own car to leave town.
With a larger fraction of the population not interested in achieving as much personal freedom as possible, the automotive market may quickly transform.
Things will get fun when the charging systems for electric cars start behaving like nest thermostats in Texas, where they ‘automatically’ raise their setting to 80 degrees during ‘power emergencies’ (i.e., when the wind don’t blow or the sun don’t shine). In the case of electric cars, people may just wake up in the morning and find their car didn’t charge...but then again, who buys an electric car to drive it?
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The demand on the electrical grid is an unknown factor. Wind and solar power just won’t cut it.
Some people will have to replace their electric panel to meet the requirements of several cars being charged at the same time.
You can have my supercharged gas guzzler when you can pry me from the hot smoking wreckage....
There’s no substitute for cubic inches
so the saying goes.
I dare any EV to keep up with me
(while I’m driving my 5.0), from
Houston to Albuquerque, at night,
during a rain storm, at an average
speed of 70 mph. 699 miles.
It’ll take me 10 minutes to fill
up, also ordering a couple gut
grenades. I’ll punch the pedal
not having to worry if I’m going
to run out of juice. Ozona is
close to half way. They do
have comfortable hotel rooms.
By the way, where are you going
to plug in?
Don’t hold your breath on this one.
Just one MI winter will tell them how useful the elec POS will be.
When you have to run the headlights, whipers, heat, and defrost ALL the time, your exploding golf cart will have a trip range of 10 miles or less.
Maybe in the urban density areas but the vast majority of the country is ‘rural’....not happening any time soon.
1913 was just about when electric cars started losing out in popularity to the gas engine. There are still too many deficiencies to call electric vehicles practical yet. If they can bring the price point down on hydrogen fuel cell cars that might be do-able. Fuel cells offer comparable range and usefulness to gas vehicles. Refilling a fuel cell is a little more difficult than gas, but offers a signifigant time advantage to waiting around while your car charges.
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imagine the endless possibilities of a covid powered vehicle...
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...and totality useless for trips longer than 300 miles.
It’s not a battle between electric and fossil. Electric vehicles will be advantageous in certain applications but not all.