Posted on 01/09/2022 10:13:32 AM PST by rktman
Imagine: It is September 4, 2035, in Miami and a large Cat. 5 hurricane is offshore headed straight for the city.
Roughly 7 million persons are in the general area where the hurricane will come ashore in 24 hours. The governor orders an evacuation of the Miami–Fort Lauderdale area of Florida. All of the cars start heading north on I-95. All lanes are cleared to head northbound. With Congress and President Cortez having mandated that all cars built after 2030 must be electric (no hybrids), everyone heads north, but now all the people are caught up in a terrible traffic jam.
Electric cars are starting to stall out on I-95 as well as the A1A and the Turnpike as they run out of power. There are simply not enough charging stations to charge the cars, and police monitoring the available chargers are limiting drivers to 15 minutes. Chargers are shutting down as water shorts out the charging heads on the cars. The electric cars are turning off their air-conditioners to preserve their remaining charge.
You are stuck in a traffic jam all night with the storm headed right at you. No battery, no A/C, no windshield-wipers, no GPS. All that you can do is call 911 and hope for help, but they can't because all of the roads are blocked with stalled electric vehicles. The new electric police and EMT vehicles mandated by President Cortez soon are out of juice. The wind is increasing. Then Florida Power and Light turns off the grid as power lines come down.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“This is ridiculous. We will all be dead by 2035 from Covid.”
Well. we won’t ALL be dead. There are always some people with resistance to almost anything. They have found people with complete natural immunity to AIDS. The fact that I am typing this is evidence that humanity didn’t get wiped out by some new disease over the last few million years.
I know this because I’ve seen “The Omega Man” (both of them, and the second one was a stinker).
“Maybe we need to add an amendment to your constitution, if you want to vote, you have to serve in the military. Once you serve 5 years in then military, you are eligible to vote and run for office. Sort of like Starship Troopers.”
I’d settle for being a net contributor in taxes vs direct government assistance during the course of your working years.
It’s not my area of expertise either. Haven’t used TEG tech since 1998. Thought you might have a passing interest in it. GeoThermal is a proven efficient method for homes but expensive in the short term. Not sure what they call it when they just use the ground as the fairly constant heat exchanger for heat pumps. Allows the ability to tune a system to much higher efficiency
And people in the northern climates such as Michigan know the drill. Stay away from EV's!
The estimated mileage on an EV SUV is approx. 280 miles on a full charge, in the winter that drops down to 160 miles.
There is no way in hell that any snowmobile enthusiast or skier is going to drive the 280 miles to northern Michigan for a weekend of skiing or snowmobiling, especially if towing a trailer of two sleds in the wintertime.
Sorry but you EV fanboys aren't thinking thru this crap.........
How cool is that? With that being said, what's a 200 unit apartment complex going to do to accommodate all the EV's of it's renters?
You actually think they're going to install 300 chargers in their parking lots or allow the tenants to run extension cords out their apartment windows to their vehicles?....LOL!
I don't think people are lying, just uninformed. Just keep posting. the facts and it will eventually sink in. There are great reasons to not get an electric, and I probably never will. There are good reasons to get one, e.g. if you live in the city and get free charging at a politically correct office building. Or you shop at overpriced stores and they give you a "free" charge.
Already evident in California which runs out of electricity. But not for the reasons claimed in the article. EVs in heavy traffic don't use up the battery.
It’s amazing when you look at those auto factories in Detroit back in the 1920s and 1930s, they were like cities in themselves.
Hurricanes don't do a lot of damage past the landfall location plus 50-100 miles. Beyond that there's no need to flee further. Of course you would never know that from the media, but they are disaster shills.
Just as A/C led to the mass migration to the South, EVs may very well just finish off the job and force everybody else to move South to a warmer climate.
“EVs in heavy traffic don’t use up the battery.”
They sure do when the heat or air conditioning is on. Not a problem in CA though.
“It’s amazing when you look at those auto factories in Detroit back in the 1920s and 1930s, they were like cities in themselves.”
My godmother worked in a Chicago area that employed 50,000 people at one time. We don’t even make anything anymore that could employ 50,000 people at a facility.
Those battery packs make a Tesla weigh 5000 lbs. I think you can just Netflix and chill in you vehicle while the storm rages...
<>Hurricanes don’t do a lot of damage past the landfall location plus 50-100 miles. Beyond that there’s no need to flee further.<>
Spoken like a.) Someone who never fled from an approaching hurricane. Or b.) An EV apostle.
Maybe both.
There's plenty of oil and natural gas to go around for everyone for a very, very, very long time......
Exactly, what’s the problem that they are trying to solve?
<>They’re starting the reductions on ICE cars, and then will go after EVs.<>
I don’t doubt that for moment. Force everyone into HUD high-rise tenements, where the only good paying jobs are with the Thought Police.
They were displaced by more popular and useful ICE vehicles.
To the EV evangelicals I say, "Free Beer Tomorrow."
Funny you should mention Detroit in a topic about EV's.
Detroit Electric was one of the last early EV manufacturers, lasting into the 1930's with the last one shipping in 1939.
Using the EV cheerleader's 'logic', this shouldn't have happened as it's less money to manufacture EV's and they require less maintenance. EV's should have killed the IC market back then if they were so great.
Guess it didn't quite work out that way.
And he likes to claim it's the automotive industry leading the way. Does the numbnuts have any data on how many EV's would have sold without government incentives for the purchasers and to the manufacturers? No, he doesn't. This shite it primarily driven by the a-holes in Washington, DC.
And last, he likes to go and on about fewer people to make them and repair them while ignoring the millions of people in the current car market. It's not just line workers putting them together, there's an entire industry of performance upgrades to IC automobiles that will be put out of work. I can hardly wait to see them standing at intersections with signs that read "Will plug in your EV for food."
Or maybe they can all learn to code.
EVs are the cars of the future.....and always will be!
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