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'Not ready for primetime': EV fans take road trips to prove a point, just not the one they expected(ford CEO) 'I recently found this out the hard way'
dailycallernewsfoundation.com ^ | 10/21/2023 | Nick Pope

Posted on 10/23/2023 7:52:24 AM PDT by rktman

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To: wildcard_redneck

Well obviously WE know how to do 5 year plans better. Hey, wait a minute.........😁👍

🙏🇮🇱👍


21 posted on 10/23/2023 8:04:12 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: N. Theknow

The whole point is to do away with personal transportation.

They will probably succeed in that endeavor. Between high insurance rates, taxes and generally making owning a car more hassle than it’s worth.


22 posted on 10/23/2023 8:04:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

You know taht feeling when your car is on 1/4 tank and you think maybe a fill-up is needed soon. That is how you feel in an EV - ALL THE TIME.


23 posted on 10/23/2023 8:05:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: rktman

Step 1: Close down power plants.
Step 2: Refuse to build new power plants.
Step 3: Require everyone to drive an electric vehicle.

This sounds like a winning strategy to me.
If you don’t want anyone to have a car, that is.


24 posted on 10/23/2023 8:07:35 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: CommieCutter

“I just laugh that they don’t understand this.”

Don’t think for even one second that they don’t understand it. They know exactly what they’re doing. And more importantly they understand why they’re doing it.

L


25 posted on 10/23/2023 8:07:57 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: rktman
A few years ago I took a BMW i3 on an overnight test drive. Although I've owned BMWs for years...and love them...to say I was underwhelmed by this EV would be an understatement. I'll stick wit my diesel sedan...which has done 810 (Interstate) miles on a tankful and can be “recharged” in about 4 minutes at any one of 35,000 “charging” stations nationwide.
26 posted on 10/23/2023 8:09:41 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: rktman

Yep-

To those EV manufacturers and Joey Biden 🖕, quit pushing this CRAP on us.

This is YOUR dream, not ours and you can do whatever you want but like a typical democrat, you want us to live the way YOU want us to while you reap the benefit$ from your ‘pal$’.

And stop lying about oil being a fossil fuel - it is a never-ending planet renewable resource and you want to trap us in your concentration camps.


27 posted on 10/23/2023 8:10:32 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: wildcard_redneck

Great song from the Polish Band “Republika” written when Poland was still behind The Iron Curtain:

The Plan

If everything develops well
As it is in the plan
We’ll know exactly what to do and feel
In five or seven years

Well calculated wars and treaties
A perforated world
At last everything will happen
According to a plan
To a plan
To a plan

A great plan
For many years
A great plan
For many years-years

We’ll dance together cha-cha-cha-cha
If it is in the plan
We’ll laugh and suffer pray and murder
According to the plan

And maybe one day I will kiss you
If it is in the plan
If it’s included in the schedule
Of what I can’t and can
Can’t and can
Can’t and can

A great plan
For many years
A great plan
For many years
A great plan
For many years

We’ll build a ministry of planning
And plan the world ahead
We’ll calculate the past and future
Of all the universe

We’ll fix a plan for all the planets
A plan for all the stars
Computers finally will work out
A plan for all of us
All of us
All of us

A great plan
For many years
A great plan
For many years
A great plan
For many years

For fifty years
For a hundred years
A thousand years
A million years
A billion years
A trillion years

A trillion years


28 posted on 10/23/2023 8:10:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PGR88

Fascism at work.


29 posted on 10/23/2023 8:10:56 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: fruser1

What?? You don’t trust your betters to make the best decisions for you? Hillary will take care of you at her special Reprogramming Camp.


30 posted on 10/23/2023 8:11:15 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: dfwgator

“Charging stations in dem-o-rat run crapholes will become robbery/car jacking stations.”

Anyone remember in the USSR how the elite had their own driving lanes and stores?

That Biden employee who stole the spot from the American family who PAYS her salary showed you exactly what they have planned - they get first dibs and we get their leftovers if there are any left.


31 posted on 10/23/2023 8:13:03 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
Anyone remember in the USSR how the elite had their own driving lanes and stores?

Poland had "Pewex" stores, with Western goods, but you had to pay for them in dollars.

32 posted on 10/23/2023 8:14:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

Kevin at Engineering Explained has pointed out that, while EVs are ideal as commuter vehicles and grocery-getters, it’s better to rent an ICE vehicle for vacations by road. It’s not just because he lives in Idaho, either.

How Miserable Is A Tesla Road Trip?
24:11
Engineering Explained
3.62M subscribers
2,272,294 views
July 3, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC95WACQhCY

How Miserable Is A Winter Tesla Road Trip? -18°C & Broken Superchargers
23:13
Engineering Explained
3.62M subscribers
1,399,025 views
January 27, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UskzfQJt2Bc

https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringExplained/search?query=cross-country

Living With A Tesla Model 3 For A Year - The Best Daily Driver
17:15
Engineering Explained
3.62M subscribers
540,634 views
January 22, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXkRcuwoIm4

Living With An Electric Car Changed My Mind
21:05
Engineering Explained
3.62M subscribers
2,090,172 views
December 2, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo4byxhI6kY

https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringExplained/search?query=tesla


33 posted on 10/23/2023 8:16:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: rktman

Our town just opened three new gas stations. Obviously they believe gasoline will be around for quite a while. According to a map, the nearest EV station in 30 miles from here.


34 posted on 10/23/2023 8:16:42 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Gaza delenda est)
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To: dynachrome

Absolutely right. You’d think this fella would have taken this fact finding trip in another Ev before committing suicide with his company


35 posted on 10/23/2023 8:21:32 AM PDT by pangaea6
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To: rktman
It might have been good to put the rest of the story in your comments area. I liked this part that wouldn't fit in the "excerpts" area...

“Gelles rented an EV from Hertz over the summer to make the 154-mile drive from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a farm near the state's border with South Dakota to gather information for a story about agriculture. He documented his experiences on the open road in a Thursday piece for the Times, observing that his trip was, in theory, emblematic of “the kind of long drive through sparsely populated farmland that is a hallmark of American car culture.” “The nation's EV infrastructure is not ready for prime time,” Gelles wrote. “I recently found this out the hard way.””

“Gelles described having to charge his vehicle while en route, gaining just 2% of the battery life back after 30 minutes of charging. Upon reaching his destination, he plugged in his EV to charge overnight with the cable kept in the vehicle to ensure that he would have sufficient power to make it back to Minneapolis the next day.”

“The next morning, the EV he had rented did not have enough power to make it back to Minneapolis, so he had to call the rental company to arrange for a tow truck to provide a ride for himself and for his otherwise-stranded EV. He made it back in time to catch his flight out, but the rental company billed him more than $700 for the services rendered.”

36 posted on 10/23/2023 8:22:43 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: rktman

I know it’s not cool on FR to like EVs, but I absolutely love my Tesla Model 3 LR. I’ve had a lot of really cool ICE cars over the years, but this EV is my all-time favorite car. Yes, I still have an ICE car, just in case, but charging has never been an issue here in Florida.


37 posted on 10/23/2023 8:22:50 AM PDT by rivercat
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To: rktman

“Copper cables vanish in the night?”

Or fried thieves if they hit alive one.


38 posted on 10/23/2023 8:23:07 AM PDT by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: rktman

Reality check: there isn’t enough lithium.


39 posted on 10/23/2023 8:23:54 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: rktman

I think it is very telling that no one posts how long it takes to charge the battery. I get that sometimes it is a long time and sometimes it is short time, but what is a long and short time. minutes? Hours?


40 posted on 10/23/2023 8:26:24 AM PDT by Eternally-Optimistic (anything is possible)
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