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?
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.
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.
Did they put their tongue on the terminals to check for a charge ?
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.
I wonder what the AGW cultists think will happen to these chargers that are installed in Chicago, Baltimore, or Atlanta.
Good analogy and summation of Democratic ideas and the programs passed to implement them.
Real drivers are damaging them, maybe? In retaliation for EV people’s hating on our REAL cars and trying to ban them?