Posted on 06/27/2023 4:36:51 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Is this before or after it sets the house on fire?
“could lead to an increase in potholes.”
They’ll have to count them all.
This is just yet another reason not to buy an ev.
Roads full of potholes caused by EV’s not yet on the road ...
When vehicle government authorities decide vehicle weight is damaging to roads, they invariably require more axles and wheels for heavy vehicles. This is to spread the heavy weight over more road surface area.
Will future Tesla’s be built with three or four axles and six or eight wheels?
And then again, maybe not.
What a waste of my time, reading this slop.
Hydrogen fuel cells are MUCH lighter than a lithium-ion battery array.
Build the infrastructure for delivery of hydrogen fuel cells, and EVs make sense. Batteries are a cumbersome, and relatively inefficient, means of converting electricity for powering vehicles not on a direct power distribution connection, like an overhead network of charged power lines above the roadway (inherently not practical). The expense of the battery array and relatively low reliability over a couple of decades of use indicates they were always a dead end, suitable only for certain niche applications.
Pay more for the vehicle.
Pay more to insurance it.
Pay more to power it.
Pay to ruin local roads.
Pay to become stranded with a dead battery.
Pay to drive with no heat or AC to save on battery.
Pay to drive & house a spontaneous fire hazard.
Gov’t: You’ll drive EVs and like it.
Common sense has deserted FR.
You forgot to add that EV resale value is crap.
Thank you!
Pay up front for no resale value.
Maybe just the ones in Blackburn Lancashire.
Raise taxes to beef up the roads so they can handle these electric appliance vehicles.
This is a prelude for lowering the tax and tracking boom on previously subsidized electric card.
FAKE NEWS: Nobody actually DRIVES Electric Cars. Rather they get them all nice and polished up, and then park them in their garage to virtue signal when needed (in certain social situations).
Well, that was kind of critical.
First of all, we need a HUGE commitment to providing safe, abundant, reliable and ultimately much cheaper electrical power for the mass of humanity, and to do this, a network of construction of and initiating operation of literally thousands of small modular nuclear reactors to drive electrical power generation even in very isolated localities, WITHOUT depending on a huge nationwide power grid, or silly idle dreams of “free” electrical power from windmills or solar panels, both notoriously expensive to set up, and highly unreliable in terms of longevity or or steady power production.
This supply of electrical energy is then used to hydrolyze water into its component parts, hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is then distributed to retail points where it is used to charge up the hydrogen storage tanks on board of an EV, much as gasoline is sold for use in internal-combustion vehicles. With this power storage medium on board, the EV may then perform as it was meant to, far more efficiently than the IC vehicle.
This is not deserting common sense. This is looking ahead ten, or twenty years in the future. Look at how fast the computer industry grew, and the leaps and strides it continues to make. The same may be done with electrical infrastructure.
.... Yup .... The insurance companies have not yet adapted to complications and liabilities involved with owning an EV!
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EV’s need special tires, so just put a $5,000 tax on every EV tire sale.
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