Posted on 06/04/2022 5:54:35 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
Just put a windmill on the car. Free power!
Just call it a legal fiction. Like free lunch.
Pumps don’t work ‘cause the vandals took the handles
Flux capacitors ...
My local Walmart has an automated propane bottle swap station outside. You pay with credit card. Perhaps they will accept your propane bottle.
Yep. Changes are still coming. Heck maybe
the man on the moon will have some info.
If only EV’s were in use, the electric grid would be taxed with some 284 MILLION vehicles.
Brown outs and black outs. Damaged charging stations.
And where is all of that electricity going to come from?
Here is some more info. Evidently, you buy the car and lease the battery for the swap system.
https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/tech/nio-power-swap-station-does-it-work-/
its actually an “emissions somewhere else” car
Like one of those emergency batteries that you crank to charge it up. Just put a big crank on the EV! Solved. LOL
when they do their studies do they factor in that electricity loses 50% of its power in transmission?
“They’re only about 800 pounds....”
The Chinese have already solved this problem with auto and swap station design.
“..The state now accounts for more than 40% of all zero-emission cars in the country....”
That’s a huge lie.
That electrical energy is being produced by a power station somewhere. That power station either has a smoke stack or nuclear fuel rods. And as a side note; every time that energy is converted from one form to another, there is energy loss which makes it even worse for the environment.
These libs are dumber than a box of rocks with apologies going out the rocks.
You are talking about an item that costs thousands of dollars. Each swap would need to involve an evaluation of the old battery versus the new battery, which would make it uneconomical.
Google Toyota Prius, they’ve been around for over twenty years.
True that. Plus, charging times are going way down. Hyundai/Kia are now making EV's that'll put over 200 miles of charge in under 20 minutes. Of course, the charge station has to put out 350kW (very few do now). But we may be looking at a point soon where wait time for charging isn't much of an issue except for EV's made before now.
Even with all of that, I wouldn't get an EV unless you do a lot of your driving nearby (not use it much for long trips, but do a lot of miles commuting to work or living an active retired life with frequent 50 mile round trips) and have a way to charge it for free at home at least half of the time (i.e. a good solar system on your house and you live in the southern half of the U.S. where we get lots of sun). The Dims are already doing their best to make electricity as scarce and expensive as they're doing oil and natural gas.
800 Lbs. Almost as heavy as a Packard straight eight.
Nope. Brandon may as well come out and say, "If you like your power you can keep it."
If you own your own home, plan to live there for at least a decade, live in the southern half of the U.S., and believe as I do that the Dims are doing their best to mess up our power supply as they've done oil and natural gas, then you understand why I'm upgrading my home solar system to produce about 90% of all the power my house needs -- including charging the EV I have on order to drive it ~200 miles per week.
It's not a save the world from cow farts thing. It's about my family having most of the energy we need even after the Dims screw everything up. And it's about protecting my financial planning from runaway energy inflation.
Why not make it where you get a fully charged battery pack interchanged in seconds at a battery station?
They are not all the same. You would have carry Hundreds of different battery packs.
That was how NYC electric taxis operated at the turn of the twentieth century.
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