Posted on 02/10/2022 12:34:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Biden administration wants 50% of all new cars sold by 2030 to be electric or plug-in hybrids. But the average range of today’s electric cars is only about 180 miles. That means for any trip on an interstate, there have to be charging stations every few miles to ensure that people are stuck in the middle of nowhere high and dry.
Recognizing the problem, a big chunk of funding in the infrastructure bill was for building a network of power stations from Texas to Canada and from sea to shining sea.
That’s all well and good, but as the Washington Post points out, it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The administration says the money is the largest investment of its kind, yet it still represents a fraction of the estimated $39 billion cost of building a public charging system by 2035.
“The $5 billion the EV Charging Program will provide is a historic investment, but it is far from sufficient,” the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, wrote in comments to the Federal Highway Administration. “Federal Highway Administration. “Federal guidance should do everything possible to encourage complementary commitments and hedge against displacing other investments or programs.”
Highway Administration. “Federal guidance should do everything possible to encourage complementary commitments and hedge against displacing other investments or programs.”
But adding a few thousand power stations across the vast expanse of the U.S. doesn’t even begin to address the problem.
Electric vehicles are a tiny fraction of annual sales and establishing a viable network of chargers — the administration wants 500,000 — is widely seen as a vital step to convince more Americans to switch out their gas-powered cars.
But it’s a job that must account for the needs of apartment and rowhome dwellers, who can’t charge on their driveway,
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It would take you 3-4 hours to drive on a short 200 mile trip.
There’s much more to the electric car story than what you might be hearing. The anti-fossil-fuel business tends to forget and/or ignore the fact that electric cars are, obviously, just that … powered by electricity, a secondary energy source that is mostly generated by the combustion of coal and natural gas both here in the U.S. and around the world.
Electric cars often need an entire night to recharge at home, and they can increase a house’s power consumption by 50% or more, Adding an electric car on the grid is equivalent in some cases to adding three houses.
There’s much more to the electric car story than what you might be hearing. The anti-fossil-fuel business tends to forget and/or ignore the fact that electric cars are, obviously, just that … powered by electricity, a secondary energy source that is mostly generated by the combustion of coal and natural gas both here in the U.S. and around the world.
Electric cars often need an entire night to recharge at home, and they can increase a house’s power consumption by 50% or more, Adding an electric car on the grid is equivalent in some cases to adding three houses.
HUNTER’S Charging Stations everywhere!
5 billion will be pocket change by the time this baby gets off the ground.
Let Private Business do it.
Don’t need Goobermint here.
Market works.
Good points. These people either don’t understand, or are willfully ignorant, about how electricity is generated.
I don’t understand another aspect of things. Today’s cars emit just a tiny fraction of the emissions of cars from decades ago. We have done a hell of a lot to clean up the environment, including emissions from vehicles. Yet in the zeal to have a “zero emission” car, powers that be want to eliminate today’s low emission cars and replace with electric cars.
But they make no note of the fact that, in many parts of the country, fossil fuel fired power plants, are generating the electricity to power that so called zero emission electric car.
Not quite true. The Level 3 charges can give about 150 to 200 miles within 40 to 50 minutes. Longer than filling up at a gas station? Definitely. A few hours? Nope. IMHO the 40 to 50 minutes wait is a deal breaker only if you plan to use the EV for many trips. If it's one or two long trips per year, but lots of use for commutes, then being able to fill up at home regularly is more convenient than a 10 minute gas stop once per week or so.
But that doesn't get into upgrading the power grids to bring power to all of these Level 3 chargers. Then there's the issue of charging at home if half the neighborhood has an EV and the grids needing to be upgraded to bring everybody lots of power in the evening when folks get home from work. IMHO that's the major electrical engineering hurdle.
The ones who buy them in CA are well off and have the money for it. MOST are leftards who bitch to you and me about “climate change” yet ignore the fact their charging process does more damage financially for everyone.
Sorry Honey, I know its 3 am but I ran out of juice for the car. I can’t be responsible that they put a strip club next to the charging station.
I’ll bet all those low income families are praising Joe for allowing them to be able to charge the batteries in their $30k to $60k electric vehicles.
Upgrade the power grid so smug leftards can charge their rolling kitchen appliances at our expense? Screw that. I’ve heard “ upgrade the national power gird” the past 30 years and look at Texas. Blackouts galore.
As long as they have nice yellow CAT 3406 engines running the generators, I see no big problem with this.
Two electric cars in each neighborhood. No problem. Twenty or forty then the electrical grid is toast and you can no longer make toast.
This program will allow people traveling on interstates to spend the night while their vehicles are being recharged.
The Biden administration touted the new proposal saying it also improve highway safety since people will not be able to travel more than several hours per day using EVs.
The "Biding your time" hotels will be free of charge to all people who utilize the charging stations. The hotels will also serve complimentary meals and offer an optional spa and nail pedicure package.
It’s Obama wasting billions on Green Jobs all over again ,LOL
If I get an EV I'll upgrade my home solar system. That's not to "save the world" or any of that hogwash. It's to save my budget from the Dims jacking up our energy costs. Like you said, the Dims aren't happy with the great improvements in pollution reductions on gas cars -- even though they always claimed they would be. Likewise, they won't be happy if most folks switch to EV -- they'll tell us it makes us evil to be demanding so much from the power grids and they'll jack up power costs even more than they're already doing. And all the more so for natural gas price inflation. The last I checked it was double what it was a year ago.
Stuff like that is why I got a solar system and converted my natural gas appliances to electric. I sleep better at night knowing that about half of the energy I consume from my house is free and can't be messed up by the Dims. I'd like to extend that to at least one of my cars by converting one to an EV.
i don’t recall the government building gas stations because cars became popular...
if this is such a good idea, where are all venture capitalists???
i DO NOT want to pay for it
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