And cue the FR EV guys and gals.
Told you so.
Electric vehicles are pretty cool. We will all go to them once they can go 500 miles between charges and when full charges can be done in five minutes or less.
This is yet another example of the following truth:
Conservatives carefully weigh all the options, then choose the best one.
Liberals do whatever feels best at the moment, and tomorrow be damned.
Is the town out of hookers?
My phone/ipad charger is 75 watts. I think he means 50 kilo Watts.
Around six years ago, while watching German docu-shows...this public TV news team came to this recharge station that was about 5 minutes driving from a autobahn exit. It was a two-car charger, next to a small business district street...across from a McDonalds.
The crew went over to the McDonalds and asked the manager about the ‘hub’ for recharging. The manager said it’d been there for about 18 months, and no one from the McDonalds had ever witnessed a car there recharging.
So the topic came up...about the rate of cost, if you had driven up and attached for four hours. They dug the local charge cost out and it was an outrageous amount, but the guy noted that he had to get his investment money back.
“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?”
More fear porn of EV’s.
ev’s are not being charged at gas stations only. Most EV charging station in the US are now at home and many are being put in at restaurants, grocery stores, hotels, malls, theme parks where people do their shopping while their car is being charged.
A charging station is a selling point to get people into their stores.
Of course he ignores the fact that most EV drivers will seldom have to go to a ‘charging station’ since they will ‘top off’ while sleeping.
Oh...and the TAXPAYERS are paying for the construction of those charging stations!
The end goal is to bring the world to a halt.
Have fun charging batteries, suckers 🤪
No matter how you look at it, the problem is batteries, they just are not efficient enough.
Pound for pound, 1/1000th the energy of Gasoline.
After many decades, just when technology got ICE vehicles to run super clean, the leftist/Communist want to ban them all and force everyone into EV’s.
This is total insanity.
“In order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in a busy 12 hours”
Down here the only stations that are busy are Costco and Sam’s Club.
The rest are not filling stations but minimarts.
Electric vehicles are a Chinese communist scam!!!!
(The materials for those batteries come from China!)
BTTT
The EV model can be fixed by adopting what is experimental today:
1. Standardize battery modules between manufacturers.
2. Shift to easily replaceable batteries.
3. Pull into an EV service station, and the automated machine swaps out your low charge modules for freshly charged ones.
4. Off you go in 5 minutes.
5. The automated system charges your removed modules in a rack, performs a wellness check and prepares it and other in inventory for the next vehicle in line.
6. Your little sedan might only need one module and the full size van might get 3 swapped.
7. Your vehicle is cheaper to buy because you don’t have to buy the battery(s) but your cost per kilowatt does go up since your are participating in a system that did buy the batteries and maintains them.
This also works well for semis and work vehicles that cannot afford to be down for charges multiple times per work day.
This has been shown to work in Israel and Japan.
Porting the existing service station model over to EVs is silly, and I say this as a happy and pleased EV owner.
Also the charge at night at home model works fine for us since we own our home and the EV pulls in the garage at night, and gets plugged in. Multi family housing??? Um, rethink this ...
Duh. I brought this up 10 years ago. Further evidence that few people can see past their driveway, much less THINK.