Sometimes I think this is what the left expects life on Earth to look like when they get done making things their way
Lucky this administration knew enough to include tax payer supplied charging stations in the "Bash Business Bigger" packaage eh? Surely the grid can handle supplying the power to EVs that most folks (what with the BOOMING economy) can't even think about buying. And, why would you? (I know in some circumstances they work for some folks including some FReepers.) Grrrrrrr!
Yup, folks in Democrat cities (e.g., hell holes) will be able to leave their e-cars charging outside with no worries about vandalism.
This is gonna get good.
Some folks will have a difficult time paying their monthly household electric.
Great comments on the original thread.
Apparently older homes (50+ years old) would need major electrical system overhauls to be able to handle home vehicle chargers.
Details, details....
Why might charging stations be more prevalent in “well to do” neighborhoods, regardless of ethnic diversity?
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Because the other neighborhood tend to jack the power?
Lilly-white leftists are pretty much all I see and know that have bought into the EV wave at this time.
Shoot, if I had a ton of extra cash for another car, and planned to only use it fooling around town and nearby, only; I’d consider an EV.
People who act like animals can’t have nice things.
Why would anyone put charging stations in non-White areas? They will be destroyed in 3 hours. The wires will be stolen and sold. Anything that works will be smashed into bits.
There are not very many people in non-White areas driving to work. They don’t need to. Whitey’s money is taken and given to them.
And they blame their failures on Whitey.
One Freeper posted recently about the consequences of near universal electric vehicles in a mandatory evacuation for hurricanes etc.
In all those hours of snarled traffic how many downed dead vehicles would strand people often in dangerous conditions? How would that mess ever be unpacked?
The left lives in la la land where “what could go wrong” is never factored in to their utopian frog marches. Often, as in the case of increasing taxes decreases productivity and does not generate as much extra $ for the IRS as lowering taxes (to a point), the left knows their policies will fail but imposes them because they like the control and power.
Could it be that poorer people are also less likely to throw away their $ on gimmicky undependable technology? Poverty forces pragmatism.
When I’m down in LA I see charging stations popping up here and there. I went up to one and it requires a credit card. I’ll bet these tree huggers think it’s free and electricity comes out of their ass.
“I WOULD buy an electric car, but I guess my neighborhood doesn’t have enough charging stations. Oh well.”
People in urban areas don’t need the range rural folks do.
I have not gone more than 15 miles from my house for two years because of Covid.
At no point would I have needed a car with more than say 18 miles of range.
Those that need longer range for say a vacation could rent trunk batteries or an ICE car.
So EVs are racist. It must be easy being a leftist reporter. You don’t have to do any investigating at all. Just blame every problem on either racism or climate change. And if you can get both racism and climate change into a single story, you might have a Pulitzer Prize in your future.
of course gas-powered cars are also racist
of course
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/fossil-fuel-racism/
Make White people pay for Black EV’s, eh?
In the city i have a house. I must park my car blocks away from my house. I’ll buy a 2000 ft extension cord and plug my new ev car into it.
My two Honda Crvs are paid for and are trouble free, they get great das mileage and are comfortable and carry a nice sized load, so why in the heck would I want an overpriced science experiment? No thanks.
I’m slowly coming around to EV cars.
It’s not there quite yet, but it is improving rapidly.
Yes, I’m talking about the American made Tesla, not the foreign made shiite box Volt, nor the E stang or F150, nor GM Barra-Pig Junk that don’t yet exist.
Temperature doesn’t effect Dry Cell tech like older Lead Acid.
Charging speeds have really gotten much, much faster, the charge stations at the edge of the mall parking lot can get you a 60%-80% in about 20 minutes.
and the cycle life of the battery pack has also increased dramatically.
It’s still more of a “First/Early Adopter” groovy thing, like “Color TV” back in the day, or big screen flat panels in the last decades, than practical transportation for the masses. But like lots of new tech, prices come down and usefulness goes up with mass production.
FWIW - I recently sold my beloved VW Cabrio mk 3.5. Yes, impractical, 2 Slow, terrible tech, everything wrong as a car except . . . it was an absolute JOY to drive. The best summer-time ice cream getter ever invented. Loved top-down in the fall too.
BYD’s “Dolphin” loks very interesting indeed . . .
Yep, older homes without 220v would need a new line run in, with panels, breakers etc . . .
But for many, a 220v charger installed in your house is easy.
The contactless floor charger is even cooler.
I get the idea of the “Charging Deserts”. Lots of different kinds of deserts in the get-hoe. That is something that cures itself over time.
This was inevitable: the Green New Deal is racist. About the only option the fascists are going to leave us is mass suicide.