Sometimes I think this is what the left expects life on Earth to look like when they get done making things their way
Posted on 12/12/2021 5:43:31 AM PST by rktman
of course gas-powered cars are also racist
of course
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/fossil-fuel-racism/
“mandatory evacuation for hurricanes”
Houses have been specifically built for category 5 storms for over 25 years here in Florida.
We now have lots of them, and more are sprouting up almost as fast as weeds.
Make White people pay for Black EV’s, eh?
In the city i have a house. I must park my car blocks away from my house. I’ll buy a 2000 ft extension cord and plug my new ev car into it.
My two Honda Crvs are paid for and are trouble free, they get great das mileage and are comfortable and carry a nice sized load, so why in the heck would I want an overpriced science experiment? No thanks.
So you think there will be no more mandatory evacuations then? Good luck. What I believe is that people will be more likely to find their houses intact when they return. If they delay & then flee in electric cars they will be fortunate to return.
“The wires will be stolen and sold.”
A company could coat the wires of the cable certain colors that legally can’t be sold, or put an oddball number of wires in a cable that legally can’t be sold.
The cables could also be customer-owned and self-retracting when the charge is done.
Relatively cheap steel has about 45% of the conductivity of aluminum and about 25% of the conductivity of copper:
https://www.thoughtco.com/table-of-electrical-resistivity-conductivity-608499
Apparently older homes (50+ years old) would need major electrical system overhauls to be able to handle home vehicle chargers.
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Indeed. As a young lad, I did summer work as an electrician’s helper on many residential jobs in a major Northeastern city. Most of the houses we worked on were built between 1890 and 1930.
Many of those houses even in the 1980’s were still running with their original 30 or 60 Amp main panel with screw-in fuses. I remember working in one old victorian house which was still running its original knob-and-tube wiring installed in the the 1890’s. Wiring so old Thomas Edison was still alive when the wiring was installed.
Minimally old houses like this would require a new 200 Amp main panel and running a new service line from the street. Don’t know what the current cost of that work would be, but it would be in the thousands.
“So you think there will be no more mandatory evacuations then? Good luck.”
Maybe a 12-mile drive inland to a friend’s or relative’s house instead of a 600-trip to a metro Atlanta motel.
Anything can be stolen and sold (including people) if there is a market for it
I’m slowly coming around to EV cars.
It’s not there quite yet, but it is improving rapidly.
Yes, I’m talking about the American made Tesla, not the foreign made shiite box Volt, nor the E stang or F150, nor GM Barra-Pig Junk that don’t yet exist.
Temperature doesn’t effect Dry Cell tech like older Lead Acid.
Charging speeds have really gotten much, much faster, the charge stations at the edge of the mall parking lot can get you a 60%-80% in about 20 minutes.
and the cycle life of the battery pack has also increased dramatically.
It’s still more of a “First/Early Adopter” groovy thing, like “Color TV” back in the day, or big screen flat panels in the last decades, than practical transportation for the masses. But like lots of new tech, prices come down and usefulness goes up with mass production.
FWIW - I recently sold my beloved VW Cabrio mk 3.5. Yes, impractical, 2 Slow, terrible tech, everything wrong as a car except . . . it was an absolute JOY to drive. The best summer-time ice cream getter ever invented. Loved top-down in the fall too.
BYD’s “Dolphin” loks very interesting indeed . . .
Yep, older homes without 220v would need a new line run in, with panels, breakers etc . . .
But for many, a 220v charger installed in your house is easy.
The contactless floor charger is even cooler.
I get the idea of the “Charging Deserts”. Lots of different kinds of deserts in the get-hoe. That is something that cures itself over time.
This was inevitable: the Green New Deal is racist. About the only option the fascists are going to leave us is mass suicide.
“In the city i have a house. I must park my car blocks away from my house. I’ll buy a 2000 ft extension cord and plug my new ev car into it.”
The sun shines during the day, when most people work. Truly “green” EV charging will generally be done in employer parking lots.
stop it! just, just stop...
Pigro is the Italian word for lazy.
Can you guess how the slang word for police came into being?
I was thinking about this here in CT.
The majority of the urban and inner suburban homes were built pre-1960.
You also see a lot of older homes in the rural areas.
I think we are talking about half the homes in New England are in that age range.
That’s why in a free country, people get to make these kinds of decisions. Give people choices, and let the producers meet the demand. What is the problem with having a variety of motors until technology and infrastructure develop to make EVs more practical for more people? I guess it’s because the climate messiahs have decided otherwise, and they have the power to have their way. The government timeline on a switchover to EVs is going to be disastrous. It reminds me of when the young Fidel Castro wanted to diversify Cuba’s agriculture and make the country more self-sufficient in its food supply. He decided to go big on planting a certain crop (I have forgotten what it was.). Cuban agricultural experts warned him that the crop wouldn’t grow in Cuba, but Castro insisted on his plan. The crop didn’t grow.
“older homes without 220v”
Water heaters, clothes dryers and ovens normally run on 220v.
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