Posted on 11/15/2022 9:32:35 AM PST by SaxxonWoods
Electric vehicles are among the least reliable cars and trucks in the automotive industry today, according to Consumer Reports rankings released Tuesday. Reliability issues with all-electric vehicles were expected, since most automakers, with the exception of early EV-leader Tesla, launched fully electric models in just recent years. Consumer Reports surveyed owners of more than 300,000 vehicles to make predictions about the reliability of 2023 model year vehicles.
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Ping.
Unexpected.
Electric vehicles less reliable because of OLD LAWS OF THERMODYNAICS.................
“If it could recharge in any gas station in three minutes, this car would score about 110,” said Jake Fisher, head of auto testing for Consumer Reports. Fisher called the car’s performance in the magazine’s performance tests “off the charts.”
Mine and my wife’s EV (Hyundai Ioniq 5) and gas powered pickup (old small Ford truck) both do well and what they’re designed for. It’s a shame the Dims won’t let folks decide their car of choice on the free market.
Correct, EVs have their applications where they work quite well and so do gas and diesel vehicles.
I am reading that a new challenge for charging stations is the charge cables are being stolen to get the copper. All you need is a good cutter and bye-bye in seconds.
EVs have great acceleration, which is a buzz.
Because the public wants speed, the car companies have been encouraged to tune the engines for 0-60 performance rather than fuel mileage.
By now we could have cars that got 50+ miles/gallon, but those cars would be sluggish by the average American's standards. So instead we have Camry's that still hover under 30 miles/gallon.
The good news is that we now have cupholders, entertainment systems, and temperature-controlled seats for those passengers in the back seats.
The celebrity CEO isn't dumb. He will tell you that he can give a reporter an all expense paid trip somewhere for a week with an escort/stripper that costs the CEO $20K and he will get 30-40 stories worth 1000 times that amount over the course of a couple of years.
Indeed, where would we be without those cupholders. Iaccoca is smiling somewhere.
A better agile would have been. Affordable EVs are unreliable. E, maybe Obama can launch an affordable EV act that republicans can approve spending for.
I thought about getting a Tesla until I found “Rich Rebuilds” on youtube.
The democrats have shown us they can steal just about any election they want to. There is nothing stopping them from pushing to end gas engine sales by 2035.
And unlike a lot of other sources of copper that thieves plunder, they can be sure that the EV charging cable is not live when they cut it.
Our main two reasons for getting it are: 1) diversification on energy dependency for mobility (if the Dims make power hard to come by or too expensive on the road then we have our ICE pickup, if the Dims make gas hard to come by or too expensive, we have the EV), and 2) a desire to be almost energy independent overall.
Because most of our driving is in the EV, and because we have a large solar array and battery storage for our all-electric home, we've been over 90% energy independent since I bought the EV and added onto our solar system. Basically, as the Dims threaten to make energy too expensive to use to force us to sacrifice to their gaia, it bothers me only 10% as much (the amount of my power I have to buy from the grid).
I wish I could drill and process my own natural gas or coal or oil, but I can't. For those energy resources I have to depend on the Dims' energy regulations to allow us to use them. What solar brings to the table is that I'm the one who regulates it. That's why it works so well. It's not a superior energy source, not even close. The fossil fuels are way better --- except that the bureaucrats regulate them. Because I regulate the solar system it almost always provides plenty of power both for my home and for my local driving (by charging the EV).
And the pollution causes by the miscreants burning off the insulation....gets a better price and disguises the origin of the cable.
The average age of cars in the US is 12.2 years. Very few EVs are that old. So the reliability of EVs is largely unknown.
On the other hand, the hybrids with nickel metal hydride batteries have been in production longer.
Your electricity comes from burning fossil fuels, nuclear, hydro and solar/wind in that order.
Yeh, I’ve predicted this from the get go. Folks will have to carry their own charging cables in their vehicle. Also, a side note, charging station plug in receptacles need to be standardized.
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