Posted on 03/09/2022 4:59:00 AM PST by Morpheus2009
Very few people are interested in a 60 grand electric vehicle ....and the poor certainly wouldn’t.
This is just Boiden pushing his green agenda.
They WILL stop your car in its tracks for any reason whatsoever. They will start with stolen cars. Everyone will be OK with stopping a stolen car! But the reasons will expand. Before long your car will be immobilized if you press “like” on a pro-Trump posting.
Not to worry, the government will provide you with an electric vehicle and the charging station.
Electric cars are perfect for those in a position to afford them. However, electricity is not free and imagine some homes where lights and TV is out because the car is charging. Imagine repair costs when the batteries need replaced. What happens to the used car market where dealers sell a car with almost depleted batteries. What happens during hurricanes and other storms when the power goes out? There is just so much to be resolved.
I would love to have a Tesla, it’s a beautiful car but half the time I forget to charge my phone.....
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Right now we’re in the mode of ending production of fossil fuel cars and converting the grid to solar/wind. When that is accomplished, THEN they will move to control the grid, meaning people will ONLY get to charge their electric cars when there is sufficient solar/wind.
So people who intend to charge their cars at home would be best to plug them in every night, in the hope that enough margin becomes available on the grid to allow them to charge (again, it will depend o the weather).
For road trips, if you’re trying to charge off-hours, they pretty much have to let you do charge the car when you need to, but they’ll charge you through the teeth for that convenience if it’s when power is tight.
We used to have a Prius. I always thought that’s the direction to go. Start trying to make those cheaper and better, and figure out how to adapt them to bigger cars/trucks. I know they have hybrid SUVs, but they don’t get good gas mileage like the Prius.
Wish we had our old Prius right now.
Totally electric does not work for so many cases.
We have an RV and like to go boondock. I get the impression that democrats don’t like that lifestyle.
The combustion engine is one of the greatest inventions of man which is why Communists hate it.
-— “No, Electric Vehicles won’t impact the grid or overload it, debunking anti -electric vehicle myths.”
Famous last words....
Any mechanical engineer with an understanding of the Law of Conservation of Energy/1st Law of Thermodynamics is laughing their arses off at these idiot morons.
Oh....wait. Those “laws” were written by nasty, old, racist, white men a long time ago and based on racist mathematics so they must be false. Yeah, so was Newton’s Law of Gravity. Libs need to go to the roof of the tallest buildings in their area, and all jump off together at the very same time to prove him wrong.
Indeed, watching the murders on subway camera footage in NYC and Kansas City was disheartening.
Manufacturing and destroying batteries are two of the most toxic processes extant.
Making and then, ultimately, disposing of batteries will destroy the environment.
Plus the simple fact that batteries have to get the electricity they store from somewhere that creates electricity: coal, hydro, gas, nuclear, etc.
All batteries do for the environment is add a very expensive middle-man, storage device into the electrical delivery system.
If you truly care about the environment, you’ll stay far, far, FAR away from batteries.
People just plug in anywhere they can and then get upset when the outlets owner unplugs them.
I hate EVs but it sure seems to me that manufacturing a 100% EV (no hybrids!) is cheaper than an ICE automobile. Electric motors are cheaper and lower maintenance than an equivalent ICE. Let’s say that Toyota currently produces one million ICE Corollas per year via its ultra efficient manufacturing technology. (Honda and VW are in the same league)
Toyota mass production of one million Corolla EVs will result in a less expensive automobile than manufacturing one million Corolla ICE version. By $3,000 is my guess. Corolla EV will cost the consumer $3000 less. When figuring the battery costs $1000.
Hybrid always appealed to me because it was multiple systems, both electric and gas, best of both worlds.
I worked for an engineering consultancy that studied this very specific aspect of EV migration.
The conclusion was; yes, if everyone had an EV and began charging concurrently the grid would have massive problems. The neighborhood transformers would melt down. We’ll need a complete overhaul of the grid.
Also factor in battery recycling costs and battery replacement costs.
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We saw this when Penski remotely shut down the truck that is leased by a truck driver from Texas who was participating in the Peoples Convoy just this past week.
I saw a word meme called "Klaus's Law" but it was written awkwardly, had no photo for context, and I just think "Klaus's Law" sounds like some kind of German salad. It doesn't flow. I think Schwab's Law reads and sounds better.
Anyway, please shoot me your ideas to add to the list on the right.
Thanks.
“In 2040 you will drive a tiny EV that you do not own and you’ll be happy about it” -— Uncle Klaus
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