Posted on 01/16/2022 9:44:54 AM PST by Hojczyk
In order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in a busy 12 hours, an EV charging station would require 600, 50-watt chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid. That is enough to power 20,000 homes. No one likely thinks about the fact that it can take 30 minutes to 8 hours to recharge a vehicle between empty or just topping off. What are the drivers doing during that time?
ICSC-Canada board member New Zealand-based consulting engineer Bryan Leyland describes why installing electric car charging stations in a city is impractical:
“If you’ve got cars coming into a petrol station, they would stay for an average of five minutes. If you’ve got cars coming into an electric charging station, they would be at least 30 minutes, possibly an hour, but let’s say its 30 minutes. So that’s six times the surface area to park the cars while they’re being charged. So, multiply every petrol station in a city by six. Where are you going to find the place to put them?”
The government of the United Kingdom is already starting to plan for power shortages caused by the charging of thousands of EVs. Starting in June 2022, the government will restrict the time of day you can charge your EV battery. To do this, they will employ smart meters that are programmed to automatically switch off EV charging in peak times to avoid potential blackouts.
(Excerpt) Read more at americaoutloud.com ...
You= This forum is primarily populate by seniors who are afraid of any automotive technology more modern than a Dodge Slant 6...
“With a deep-skirt block and tall-short pistons, the Slant Six proved very reliable, with regular reports of engines cresting hundreds of thousands of miles, even as the rest of the car may have rotted around it.”
Yes, the seniors on this site can spot hype a mile away. And today, battery cars are still all hype.
😂🙌
Sad but true.
Geezers longing for carburetors.
(That doesn’t mean EVs are ready for prime time)
I saw your exchange with setter about charging stations at apartment complexes. I live in a somewhat northerly midwest college town. College town apartment owners aren't going to put in charging stations unless it caters to higher end renters. If they put in chargers, it is likely they will team with EV a charging network company that can analyze the use and justify installation.
Not if a driver drives away with the gas nozzle still in the filler receptacle. Lots of gas hoses ripped away from pumps, a daily occurrence. Can those still be used? Not really. Not a good point at all.
Most people know when someone is trying to con them.
Maybe with the earlier models? I’d be po’d if I went shopping/dinner and come back to see it hadn’t charged.
I encountered this often while working in IT. For example, 3-1/2 decades ago I created an accounting system on minicomputer systems (Wang and IVPhase), that data entry personnel could enter employee data for hours worked including overtime. Complaints came in to management that salary payouts was incorrect, and blamed my system. I sat down with directors and upper management to watch personnel enter the data.
My system allowed entry of data in different formats, whether it be hours and minutes or fractional hours. Data entry personnel would take timesheets specifying 8.5 hours and enter it as 8 hours 50 minutes, or 2 hours and 30 minutes got entered as 2.3 hours. My system originally allowed a single format, and I accommodated management request to allow multiple entry formats. No matter how much one tried to train the personnel, they still made idiot entries. Solution was to have a supervisor check all entries. Because you can't idiot proof systems.
There is no way these new fangled EV cars are going to replace the good, old-fashioned horses, buggies, and whips.
These tools have served mankind for thousands of years.
Electricity is dangerous and kills people.
Why fix something if it isn’t broken?
Dude! From the brewpuB to your gas tank! We would all have to pitch in to solve this problem together!
https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/articles/development-of-direct-ammonia-fuel-cells/
https://www.gencellenergy.com/gencell-technology/ammonia-fuel/
Of course they would have to adapt it to use in Cars. Ammonia is corrosive on mild steel. However, there is already ammonia available for fertilizer use at your local farm coop.
Then there is solid hydrogen....
https://edu.rsc.org/feature/fuelling-the-future-solid-phase-hydrogen-storage/2020153.article
Sorry, your zeal makes me think you’re lying. Caring so much about how other posters “make us look” makes you a concern troll.
You have a point.
We should all jump on spaceships to Mars.
Forward comrades!
LOL, no he’s not, and he feels it’s his job to educate the rest of us stupid rubes. He says he’s a farmer, but he seems to have way more free time to pontificate on the internet than any farmer I know.
Thanks!
“The famous saying, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door” seems to apply to EV’s.
Most people know when someone is trying to con them”
Ev companies cannot meet demand.
A new battery manufacturer in Michigan just put one of their prototype batteries in a Tesla and went 756 miles on one charge-documented.
Wait until Apple starts producing cars.
10 year from now most here will have an EV and talk about how great it is. No more oil changes, nor more $1000 brake rotor and brakes rebuilds (Ev’s are getting away from calipers and rotors)
S/He’s lying…
its not “free”.....someone is paying for it... probably you if you don't have an EV and shop at that mall...There's an old saying...
“He says he’s a farmer, but he seems to have way more free time to pontificate on the internet than any farmer I know”
I do live on a farm but my fulltime career is in the health care world. Not much farming this time of year.
I am no different than Morgana who only post non stop abortion post or jan_sobieski who post nothing but anti vaccine post.
Pretty much nothing like that. Actually.
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