Give ma a couple of $billion and I’ll build some too.
The parking lot of the Walmart in our tiny town has a charging station for 4 cars (I think). I think they might have been installed for our winter visitors, but the amazing thing is, I have never seen a car plugged into them. I have noticed cars parked in the spaces, but not plugged in because they were ICE powered. Not even hybrids. Funny ain’t it?
What an absolute waste.
No one subsidizes my gas stations...yet I am forced to provide chargers for folks stupid enough to not foresee their limits.
Amenities like “manicures”????
Must be some of those preening peacocks from the Capitol out in one of the rural Districts.
... because central planning has always been superior to free markets. /s
How about the electrical generation infrastructure? Wind/solar plus vast arrays of storage batteries just isn’t going to cut it?
We need nuclear. NOW.
There is a way to set this power source up very quickly, on a mass production basis.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/advanced-small-modular-reactors-smrs
The technology exists. The manufacturing capacity exists. And most of all, the need exists. It is possible, using a number of much smaller grids, or no grid at all, to tailor the placement of these smaller units in such manner as to readily “harden” them against an EMP pulse from a low-orbit nuclear blast launched by a hostile party, and thus recover full capability quickly.
metal scrapers are gonna love this,
And we thought California bullet train was the big grift.
Here is Biden saying “Hold my beer.”
The waste will be staggering.
So the EV driver plugs in and goes into a salon to get her nails done ...
Meanwhile her EV is fully charged long before her nails are ...
and theres a line of EVs waiting to use the charger ...
What then ???
Charger “Sorry, no charge for you? You went to a Trump Rally” “Be seeing you....”
These things are going to wind up in ruins like little Stonehenge’s if they ever get built. Where does the federal gov get the authority to do this?
Reality is quickly overtaking this propaganda effort. Owners of electric vehicles are experiencing and loudly reporting the nightmare of long distance travel. It isn’t just about the lack of charging stations. It is also about the impractical vehicle ranges that causes trips to be constantly interrupted for LONG recharging stops. It is about the need for heat inside the car in very cold weather which results in even LESS vehicle range than normal.
There is even a more ominous threat. If you must sit in a car in one location for a long recharge, you become prey to violent criminals.
Will a single woman want to be stationary at a charging station where she MUST get out of the car to disconnect the charging cable? She is literally TIED TO THE CHARGER and cannot flee without becoming even more vulnerable by exiting her car to disconnect.
Also, the fast-charge cables have valuable copper inside. Thieves have already stolen cables to sell as copper scrap. We could easily see a huge percentage EV charging stations vandalized and inoperable. Drivers could find they are on an endless search for WORKING, UNDAMAGED chargers.
This would be like exiting an interstate highway and finding many gasoline pumps disabled and not working.
Ok. I’m old and retired, so I’m out of the marketplace now. But here’s an idea for some entrepreneur.
First, set aside all your pre-conceived notions. There is money to be made by sucking on Uncle Sam’s Lollipop.
These “corridors” are gonna be built no matter what anybody with a practical mind has to say. Sure, it’s stupid: sure, it’s a huge skittle—y-zillion dollar boondoggle.
Here’s the idea: “EV-Passports”
A reserved-guaranteed “slot’ for a long trip. Your “slot” follows you along with pre-reserved “slots” in motels and charger points. This removes anxiety over getting stuck in Podunk with crowded charger points and delayed.
It’s a travel service for individuals to be sure of a place to charge and a meal, and maybe an overnight. Basically, you “file a drive plan” with EV-Passport, and they reserve your needed stops and facilities along the route — additionally providing tracking emails or voice calls to a relative if you want.
A membership service, I can see as how an entire parallel but private and even high-class operation might evolve from this.
This sort of roadwatch thing WILL happen. It’s a needed service. It’s only a question of WHO will do it. Maybe joint venture with a hotel chain with existing presence and name.
Send me 1% of profits if you do it.
No batteries or charging stations. Just more electrical outlets and real long power cords.
...like barber shops or manicures...
But I do not need a haircut every 200 miles
Translation: “Do what you are told or you will be arrested”
GOP response: “Send us money and we will send a memo”
Billions for a fantasy transportation system.
Billions for a war 1/2 way around the world.
Billions for the next fun idea.
Looks like biden’s handlers are hell bent to bankrupt this country. Or they are thinking they can make it up with massive new taxes. Either way, it is not a good plan for us.
No one drives these f’ng EVs. All who drive ICE automobiles and trucks end up subsidizing the EV owners. Who are usually upper middle class. So their EV toy is their second or third automobile.
EVs are what percent of US automobiles? ANSWER >>> 1%
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Key Insights:
Over 2 million electric vehicles have been sold in the United States.
But electric cars still make up just 1% of cars on our roads.
46% of Americans remain unlikely to consider an electric car for their next vehicle.
But the market for electric vehicles still doubled in 2021.
Tesla’s market share for electric vehicles is 66.3%
On average, an electric vehicle costs $10,108 more than a standard vehicle.
But running an EV for 200,000 miles could save you $4,380 compared to a gasoline-powered car.
The government says it wants to build charging stations every 50 miles on interstates. I think I-85 in Alabama sums up how this will work out. At the exit that would have the charging station, the EV drivers can plug in at the Biden station, while everyone else can go across the street to Buc-ee’s, which will probably have their own places to plug in(because they have everything else). When the market dictates that gas station owners can make money by having a few charging stations, they will install them. That would be better than the way things are now anyway because places to plug in your electric car are not always near the exit like gas stations are.
“(Reuters) - Armed with billions of dollars, the Biden administration is embarking on the biggest transformation of the U.S. consumer driving landscape in generations, hoping to blanket the nation’s highways with electric vehicle chargers.”
It takes years to build a road. How are they planning on lining the landscape with EV chargers?