As gas prices rise, towns add electric car charging stations

The Associated Press ^ | March 21, 2022 | By WAYNE PARRY

[willk]

I like electric cars for the evolving technology. My current car has a range of about 290 miles if all freeway at 65 mph. Around home (Reno) I have a range of up to 345 miles. I charge at night for .05 per kwh. My battery holds 77.4 kwh so 77.4 x .05=$3.87 to go from 290-345 miles. At fast chargers I can go from 20 to 80% charge in 18 minutes but it will cost .31/kWh (plus $4 per month) or about $24 to go between 290-345 miles. The electric car is great for local driving. Maybe okay for occasional long trips. The problem is that leftists think that electricity can be generated from windmills, solar and unicorn flatulation. Eventually, when everyone starts using electric cars the cost of electricity will sky rocket. I see why people on FR are against electric car subsidies. I don’t understand why all the hostility against electric cars. Not all of us are climate change wackos. A few years ago I saw a Prius with a bumper sticker that said “Saving my money for ammo”.

[Jacquerie]

<>Can you imagine trying to visit Yellowstone driving a Tesla?<>

Nope.

Nor can I imagine hundreds of thousands of FL people fleeing from hurricanes in EVs either.

[mewzilla]

Or finding out that when you need to take someone to the hospital yourself, the response time for an ambulance being way too long, your damn EV needs a charge first.

[TornadoAlley3]

Do they pay for the gas pumps?

[wally_bert]

Back in January while near the end of my IICU stay, one of the nurses asked my opinion of electric cars.

One of my nays was a polite version of your post.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

My nephew has two EVs and loves them. Like you, he understands both the negatives and positives of EVs and they fit his individual needs.

What’s largely unknown about Teslas (his brand) is their performance. Teslas are the modern version of muscle cars. Literally bad ass.

[Tell It Right]

There are a few free chargers open to the general public -- that's where the longest lines are and they're generally slow chargers. Some hotels have a free charge as a benefit like a free breakfast.

If I get an EV about half of my charging will be free from my home solar system. But that's not about "saving the earth" or any of that hogwash. It's about saving my budget from the Dims' energy policies and trying to limit our freedom.

[Pollard]

What’s my ROI for an electric car considering the most expensive vehicle we ever bought was $3k?

[Drago]

Got to compare “apples to apples”....your 5 cents/kWh night rate is probably subsidized by tax payers/rate payers to encourage “greenness”. My CA average per kWh is ~30 cents/kWh. (complicated by “Baseline Tier” quantities that change seasonally)(Baseline Tier @ 28.24 cents/kWh and “Reg. Tier” @ 35.5 cents/kWh). I have heard/read that chemically/energy wise one gallon of gas equals 33.7 kWh of electricity, so in my part of CA (Central Valley/PG&E) that would mean that the equivalent of one gallon in gas would be about $10.00 in electricity. So how far can an average electric vehicle go on 33.7 kWh? (Eq. of one gallon of gas). Based on what you said in your post around 150 miles? So about 6.7 cents a mile in electricity for an EV. The average midsize Camry gets about 30 mpg at say $4.90/gallon so about 16 cents/mile. So I guess the “break-even” point for a 30 mpg vehicle in gas prices is about $2.08/gallon...at least at CA electric prices. Not an electrical engineer, these #’s subject to revision by EE Freepers! ;-)

[roadcat]

The Romans paved roads.

With slaves. Our governments used taxes to subsidize paving roads. They built small sections, and encouraged others to link the sections on their own dime. Paying taxes is sort of indirect slavery. The Romans were up front about it; our government does it like a slow boil. We owe a lot to the Roman Empire, road and rail track widths are based on Roman chariots. The Roman Empire fell apart after a few hundred years, and we seem to be following a similar path.

[SmokingJoe]

What a bloody joke.
As at Feb 7, 2022, less than 1% of the 250 million cars, SUVs and light-duty trucks on the road in the United States are electric. And GM produced a miserable 26 EVs in the last quarter.
So how the heck are 247 million internal combination engine cars on the road going to use these new charging stations?
Answer: They can't.
They are going to have to pay the record high Biden gas prices.
This is pure virtue signaling and propaganda.

[Vigilanteman]

Pennsylvania is hoagie heaven for those of us who like monster subs. Not just Wawa, but Sheetz, Speedway and GetGo all have pretty good offerings as well.

I honestly don't know how the national chains like Subway make it here. But they tend to be located in mall food courts, strip malls and places far enough away from gas stations.

[Fresh Wind]

Most people in Pennsylvania think a “sub” is a kind of boat, and “subway” is an underground train.

“Hoagie” is the only correct term.

[Vigilanteman]

LOL! I know and I’m only a transplant here (since June 2002).