How DARE you question the glory of golf carts!!!
Posted on 10/17/2017 10:52:16 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
A global tipping point for electric cars could come as early as 2022, as battery costs decrease and concerns about range and infrastructure ease. That’s from analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who in a little over a year’s time have turned even more optimistic about the future dominance of electric cars over internal-combustion vehicles. In a Tuesday note, the analysts forecast that one in three cars will be purely electric by 2030; their July 2016 prediction was one in 10 by the same year. “There are several factors converging that have led us to revise our thinking — a combination of changing customer preferences, increasingly viable product, regulation, and infrastructure,” they said in the note.
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The Settled Science liberals actually believe that batteries are better for the environment because there are no emissions.
hahahahahahahahahaha!!!
(Energy for nothing and chicks for free!!!!)
at what 300 miles at a charge? 10 days to drive across the country? Geez, that is a real lesson in efficiency.
I’m guessing a hockey stick is involved.
Don’t call the Tesla S a cute little car. That sedan is one of the fastest production cars in the world!
What car (brand, yr & model) do you currently own? I’m seriously looking to switch mine as soon as I can afford to.
Everybody misses the point that this issue is all about forcing people to move into cramped Urban environments where the government can better provide services. Driverless vehicles in to some extent electric vehicles are really public transportation . You’re not going to own the batteries you’re going to lease them . And a flip of a switch will make refueling impossible where as you can make your own biofuel or trade for a substance like gasoline . This is about the end of personal transportation since electric vehicles and specially driverless vehicles will require constant network access monitoring and loss of privacy. Then those pesky small town people will have less and less influence until there aren’t any anymore.
Meanwhile, layoffs at Tesla and only 240 Model 3 produced last quarter.
Toyota makes the best cars. I think their hybrids are fantastic. If they had a diesel hybrid you’d get 100 miles per gallon and the electric phase would also contribute to the power.
Or not.
I know this is a dumb question, but where will the electricity come from for all these electric cars?
The most interesting thing I have seen lately was new that Mazda is working toward a return of the rotary engine, not as primary propulsion, but as an extended range generation source for a EV. They weren’t exactly successful as primary engines, but are very compact and might be the perfect complement to electric power.
How DARE you question the glory of golf carts!!!
Unless you are on a road trip.
Wine country inferno, minutes to get away, no charge on the electric car......Uhhhhh....no thanks.
I was listening to NPR this morning (don’t judge) and they had an electric car story on. Currently EV’s (all electric vehicles) are only 1.5% of the world market. 1.5%.
If even NPR is reporting such low numbers I don’t see any tipping point in the foreseeable future.
Stay overnight at work while the damn oversized golf cart recharges?
” I commute 75 miles a day. How is an electric car supposed to help me?”
It would drop your fuel costs to about 1/3 of present.
(Liberal wet dream!)
They love anything that restricts or eliminates independence, self reliance and freedom of action.
Exactly!
And what I pay in electricity in one month to charge is still less than what I pay for ONE FULL TANK of gas.
95% of charging is done at home while the driver sleeps.
However, here is the dirty little secret about electric They are not “long distance” cars. Yet.
I think Teslas are cool, but they are only good for scooting around the megalopolis. If you want to drive from Seattle to Portland, Chicago to Indianapolis, etc. you need your petrolium car, or constantly worry about the amount of charge.
Oh, and cars use a LOT of electricity to propel two ton machines down the road. Imagine the stress on the power grid if only 20% of the population used electric.
The day may come where they are practical, but it is decades away, barring some earth shattering tech advancements in solar collection and power storage, e.g. graphene based capacitors as batteries - but don’t let those contacts touch. :)
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