Posted on 01/16/2022 9:44:54 AM PST by Hojczyk
In order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in a busy 12 hours, an EV charging station would require 600, 50-watt chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid. That is enough to power 20,000 homes. No one likely thinks about the fact that it can take 30 minutes to 8 hours to recharge a vehicle between empty or just topping off. What are the drivers doing during that time?
ICSC-Canada board member New Zealand-based consulting engineer Bryan Leyland describes why installing electric car charging stations in a city is impractical:
“If you’ve got cars coming into a petrol station, they would stay for an average of five minutes. If you’ve got cars coming into an electric charging station, they would be at least 30 minutes, possibly an hour, but let’s say its 30 minutes. So that’s six times the surface area to park the cars while they’re being charged. So, multiply every petrol station in a city by six. Where are you going to find the place to put them?”
The government of the United Kingdom is already starting to plan for power shortages caused by the charging of thousands of EVs. Starting in June 2022, the government will restrict the time of day you can charge your EV battery. To do this, they will employ smart meters that are programmed to automatically switch off EV charging in peak times to avoid potential blackouts.
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“And cue the FR EV guys and gals.”
EV’s are fine commuter cars and you should charge them at home every night.
Period.
Beyond that gets pretty ridiculous.
I have no bone to pick with you, I'm neutral on the issue of EVs vs ICE. There are many problems with our government. One is, that they're hiding the issue that they want to get rid of private ownership of all vehicles; they're just focusing on ICE now. Even Elon Musk has stated that the government should not subsidize EVs, but Biden is hell-bent on doing so for GM and Ford while excluding Tesla. Biden is a hypocrite, subsidizing GM to build EVs while saying he is for "green" energy, which is plain BS. All this government interference with the market is just plain wrong. All it does is to wreak havoc with the free market and their R&D efforts.
I read at some stations, customers are plugging in and then go shopping/eat only to find out another EV owner has unplugged their connection. I find that hilarious.
Fifty watt chargers?🙄
That sounds more like it.🤔
The nozzle can be locked in place. Only the owner and their key fob can release it (if the owner enables the locking, not to do so is lazy).
The public is fat dumb and happy, and has no clue what the elimination of gas-powered vehicles means. It will be a very rude surprise: long wait times for charges, high prices for charges, high taxes to build the infrastructure needed for the chargers, high electricity prices all around, batteries that lose their charge progressively every day, ridiculously high cost for replacing battery packs, blackouts because they won’t build more power plants, and finally freezing to death on the highway in cars that ran out of power.
Just how will AAA service vehicles with drained batteries? Will AAA come around and give you a shot of electricity - enough to get you home? Even if that were possible it would take 20 minutes to give you that charge.
We’re heading for disaster, folks!
It’s not through incompetence. It’s all planned. Oh, and do you think the ruling elite is going to be in electric cars? No, they won’t be.
When they hitch their criminal rig to something they stick to it, solar electric cars, wind, climate change, pandemics.
Here’s something those who have EVgasms never bring up, human nature. Next few times at a gas station, look at the nozzles and notice how much damage they’ve taken over the years. In a perfect world those nozzles should look nearly new but there are plenty of incompetent drivers out there. I’ve came up to pumps where the nozzle was so worn and dinged I went to another pump.
How do they plan on idiot proofing charging stations? Seems to me they would be easy to mess up and not very tolerant of use by morons.
“blackouts because they won’t build more power plants, and finally freezing to death on the highway in cars that ran out of power.”
Please do some basic research on the ‘net.
177 new power plants are being built and most of the old coal plants are being extended to at least 2050.
A tesla heater last 72 hours on a full charge if left stranded.
I could counter every one of your comments.
I’m done trying to explain this stuff.
My last post.
I read that the newer BMW i3 models manufactured after March 2015 has the new firmware update to automatically unlock plug from charge port once it's 100% charged. Someone can't just pull the plug if charging, but can if no longer being charged. That's a good feature. You can't idiot proof anything, you stop one idiot and there is always another one around to ruin things.
“...digital cameras, credit cards, voicemail, cellphones, email, and a myriad of new tech.” did not require substantial government subsidies and mandates to keep them afloat. They built a better mousetrap, and people wanted their product. EV’s selling point is manufactured guilt and government interference in free trade. Let EV companies stand on their own two feet and produce something consumers will flock to.
Government thumbs on the scale is evil—I know you don’t get that—hopefully someday you will figure out why it is.
go total renewable energy by requiring charging stations to use solar and wind power independently instead of connecting them to the national electrical grid...
problem solved...
Hamsters running on wheels.🙄
You really sound like you'd be more comfortable over at DU. Your buddy, Obama, said something similar - "If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Take your socialist crap somewhere else.
Elon Musk is a long con grifter who’s got rich(er) off the US Gummint’s illogical support of his grift.
You keep hyping “solid state” batteries but Wikipedia says there or issues with them and they still need lithium.
Point is a well worn or damaged gas nozzle can in most cases still be used. How about a worn or damaged EV charging cable?
“..digital cameras, credit cards, voicemail, cellphones, email, and a myriad of new tech.” did not require substantial government subsidies and mandates to keep them afloat.”
Every technological advance we have was subsidized by the US gov’t at one point or another.
Read Steve Jobs book. Most of the cell phone technology was subsidized or even invented by the US gov’t. Steve was smart enough to put it all together in one package.
The US gov’t is spending 52 billion dollars for subsidizing chip manufacturing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/14/global-subsidies-semiconductors-shortage/
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