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.
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You do realize that Florida is only 160 miles wide at its widest point. Therefore, people don't go "inland" in FL to avoid a storm, they go north. It's almost 600 miles from Miami to the Georgia state line. Thus, the need for a charge before even getting out of FL.
I am quite familiar with history. I considered building some “Edison batteries” just cause I could.
doble made some cool steam cars too. I wonder if you could do a hybrid sometimes
<>Exactly, what’s the problem that they are trying to solve?<>
Trumpsters. Free people making a living.
Think of the control evil marxists will have over those dependent on the electric grid.
So is future space travel.......
Floridians today supposedly dont have enough sense to buy food or plywood ahead of time, nor enough sense to fill their tanks with gas. The reason they are fleeing in the first place is that too many didnt have enough sense to take the steps necessary to ensure that homes there were suitable for the environment.
How are they now suddenly going to suddenly develop enough sense to pre-charge a battery?
I’m in FL too. EVs with their shitty range cannot physically go the length of the state in prime conditions... much less during one of our hellish evacs.
WTF are you talking about?
Why are you always running into these EV threads as if you spend your entire non-FR time suckling a Prius?
Are you Chinese or just some silly, insufferable fanboy?
“Why do we need EV’s anyway?”
Read my post #74
“And what are you going to do with all the dead EV batteries”
All the new LF batteries made in the last 2 years are 100% recylable. Toyotas new solid state batteries are 100% recylable.
“Why are you always running into these EV threads as if you spend your entire non-FR time suckling a Prius? Are you Chinese or just some silly, insufferable fanboy?”
Trying to counter truly uniformed posters who know nothing about EV’s but trash them. For example Posters saying the batteries are not recyclable when all the ones made in the last year are the new LF and are 100% recylable.
But you are right I’m done trying to inform posters who do not even do the most basic research about EV’s. What is truly scary is they do not even know how misinformed they really are. I have never run across such a group of luddites.
Do you realize that when EV's first appeared on the market that their target audience was women due to their ease of use?
Why would men back then risk breaking an arm while crank starting a Winton or ALCO, having to mess with the spark, choke the engine, etc.? They could have been just like the wimmin folk, hopping in the thing and go.
The reasons EV's died back then are just as valid today. Same with steam powered automobiles.
And don't use the range argument. Boston Electric had vehicles that could do 200 miles per charge with upgraded Edison batteries prior to WWI.
Sure
And there are many of them.
“Sure”
Feel free to post facts and figures making Toyota and Tesla a liar.
“...and Toyota claims the batteries will last 15 years.”
So, little or no resale/trade-in value.
If the car is not moving the car is not wearing down the battery.
Running the heater or AC alone uses MUCH less energy than pushing the car down the road...
I've got a three-year-old Tacoma and I'm not sure the pickup itself will make the fourth year.
Ev’s never took off years ago because much or most of the rural population had no electrical power.
It was easier and cheaper to transport gas.
See The Power of the land vieo below - a farm in Warnock Ohio getting electrical power for the first time in 1939.
Warnock Ohio is 15 miles away from Wheeling W.va..one of the richest and most developed and highest manfacturing base cities in the country per capita in 1900 so it is not as if it is out in the middle of nowhere.
My grandpaps farm in hollars of W.va did not get electricity until early 40’s and that was due to a civilian works project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZchKXFpaDg
IF there is anyone to remember........
“...and Toyota claims the batteries will last 15 years.”So, little or no resale/trade-in value.
Just like gas cars today. I see gas cars on facebook marketplace 2002-2003-2004 models for $750-1000
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