Posted on 07/18/2022 5:15:47 PM PDT by lowbridge
If there is one consistent fact about electric vehicles, it’s that they are unreliable. Now their charging stations have come into question as well.
In Aspen and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, many companies have implemented charging stations in their parking lots. All of them are not fully functional, however.
Chris Lane, a Basalt resident who owns two electric cars, highlighted a couple of issues with the local charging stations: Cables are ripped out, attachments are damaged and screens are cracked.
If there is a mechanical problem with any one of these stations, it automatically shuts down, Aspen Daily News reported.
“I charge in Glenwood, I see problems. I charge in Aspen, I see problems,” Lane said. He mentioned one exception: Tesla’s stations.
“I will say this, the Tesla stations are way better, flawless,” he said.
Companies and stores that have EV stations in their parking lots are expected to take care of them, but this has not always been the case.
The Willits Town Center in Basalt, Colorado, is a prime example. With 11 total stations, five were out of order and two were inaccessible, leaving only four functioning chargers available.
“I see mechanical failures up and down the valley,” Lane said.
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EV stations are discriminatory.
They favor electric cars. Yeah, I can park my gas car at an EV station and hang our for 8 hours, but it will do nothing for me. Pure discrimination against us gas users.
That’s why woke government should be forced to provide next to their EV station, stations for gas and diesel.
Can’t they just plug it in at their home? Why do they even need charging stations?
Then it goes through THEIR electric meter.
They are a source for copper wiring for recycling.
Let’s everybody run out and buy an EV so we can look at it sit in our driveways.
Yes, druggies are stealing them...
I charge all over and I’m not having a problem with the
chargers.
My EV has been as reliable as any other car I’ve owned in my
life.
Folks, if you don’t want to buy an EV, I’ll be the first guy
rooting for you on your team. Don’t buy one.
I do believe there are some places out there that have a
down time problem. I believe the main issue, is that there
isn’t a station attendant on site at these places.
Sometimes units go down and stay that way for a while.
I’m charging all over Los Angeles County and beyond.
Granted, out on the road, there may be issue.
I do not read about people having major problems with their
EV vehicles. The people I run into at the charging stations
are very happy with their vehicles.
There’s so much crap information being tossed around out
there.
““I will say this, the Tesla stations are way better, flawless,” he said.”
EV’s are just not going to work for at least 50 years. The battery tech to last 500k miles/25 years, charge in 10 minute for 400 miles has not been invented yet and we barely have electric power for the grid now. Where is all this extra power going to come from?
EV’s are not clean. The environmental impact to produce them and the batteries are dirty as heck and the batteries have to be replaced every 8 years at a cost of $12K to $20K. The batteries are not easy to recycle.
Solar panels are even worse. It costs $30 to recycle one solar panel and the materials recovered are worth about $4. It’s an environmental nightmare and California is just starting to face this as the early adopters of the 25-30 year lifespan of the panels are ending. They can’t just be buried in the ground either. The heavy metals will ruin the groundwater.
The blades on the huge turbines are not recyclable so they just get buried with an unknown time to breakdown.
The entire clean green climate mafia scam is a total joke. It’s not clean or green. Just another wealth redistribution social justice malarkey. Follow the money to see who is laughing all the way to the bank.
Chris Lane, a Basalt resident who owns two electric cars, highlighted a couple of issues with the local charging stations: Cables are ripped out, attachments are damaged and screens are cracked.
Who is tearing them up?
“If there is one consistent fact about electric vehicles, it’s that they are unreliable.”
The writer has just said in print what so many of us were thinking. Oh, they are a dandy little hi-tech plaything when they are new, but for good solid reliability, the internal combustion engine has been engineered and tinkered to a very high standard. EVs have always been a niche vehicle, and for as long as they rely on batteries for energy storage, their application will be limited.
Now, if only an on-board electrical generation system can be made to fit on the same space as now taken up by the battery array, then applying electric propulsion to the wheels would make a great deal of sense as an engineering achievement. Electric applications that can get the power generated as needed, and not have to go through a stopgap storage system that is rapidly becoming expensive to build and replace when it fails, and is largely not amenable to recycling, should be the direction of research and engineering design.
Perhaps some kind of supercapacitor, on which the release of energy could be modulated and controlled, or an auxiliary flywheel device to store the energy as a kinetic spinning inertia, say 30,000 rpm or so at max.
Or maybe we could go straight to hydrogen fuel cells. All we would have to do is open up the hydrogen mines.
Actually, the charging stations are quite expensive.
Comparable with gas.
The only way to save is to charge in your own house.
Did they put their tongue on the terminals to check for a charge ?
I agree. It's childish.
It took me less then 10 minutes to fully recharge the fuel cell in my caddy CTS-V today! I also noticed all of the recharging stations for my car appeared to be open and fully functional??
“In Aspen and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, many companies have implemented charging stations in their parking lots. All of them are not fully functional, however.”
Let me see if I can find my shocked face.
But people are fleeing urban areas in droves because Dems have made them unlivable high crime hell holes. So the raison d'être of cleaning urban air is largely gone. Besides, ICE engines are extremely clean these days, nothing like what we drove 30 years ago.
People argue that EVs will prevent global warming. That is a preposterous argument when you look at the thousands of coal plants being built and coming on line around the world, especially in China and India.
As you wrote, EVs are very dirty when you consider the power sources and batteries. Ron Stein wrote an excellent article on this topic last month:
Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV?Then there is the looming shortage of plain old copper...a typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds. It contains 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminium, steel, and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.
It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just one battery.
...to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid as 80 percent of the electricity generated to charge the batteries is from coal, natural gas, and nuclear.
- Since twenty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S is from coal-fired plants, it follows that twenty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered.
- Since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S is from natural gas, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are natural gas-powered.
- Since twenty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S is from nuclear, it follows that twenty percent of the EVs on the road are nuclear-powered.
A Copper Shortage Is Likely Coming for the Energy Transition, by Lauren Leffer, July 15, 2022, Gizmodo.It takes twelve years to open a new copper mine.By 2035, the global demand for copper is projected to nearly double, according to a new S&P Global report released Wednesday. In the worst-case scenario, based on our current production trends, the report projects a shortfall of 9.9 million metric tons of copper in 2035.
...the amount of copper that will be in demand over the next 30 years will be more than all the copper we used in the world since 1900. That’s a lot of metal.
An International Energy Agency report in early 2021 found that
"...keeping pace with that 2050 goal could increase demand for critical minerals overall by as much as six-fold by 2040. And for some minerals, the gap between current supply and projected future demand is even larger. Demand for graphite, for instance, is expected to grow by 25 times in under two decades, while demand for lithium is projected to grow by 70 times.This reminds me so much of central Soviet planners and how they screwed everything up. "Going Green" is going to be devastatingly bad for earth, is going to consume far more resources than ICE engine powered cars did, will be worse for the environment, will abuse child laborers in many countries, will move mining pollution to countries with little regard for the environment, will require the USA to send lots of money to our enemies for their minerals, and will cost consumers a lot more money. Other than that, what is there not to like?Quickening the deployment of renewable energy will also be a huge factor. For instance, each offshore wind plant requires 13 times more mineral resources than a similarly sized natural gas power plant. And growth in low-carbon power generation overall is estimated to triple mineral demand by 2040.
Washington State has already banned the sale of conventional ICE autos starting in 2030. Enjoy the "transition," folks!
BTTT!!!
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