I appreciate all those things work for you. My post that follows is not an attack on you, as I am sure you read my post and saw “anyone in their right mind” and took that as an insult. It did NOT apply to you, as you are a “focused case use” user. You have means. You have backup. You say you have your own solar power. That is all good, and I genuinely applaud you.
But you are not the standard consumer who uses these vehicles. You have multiple high-end vehicles you can fall back on, you have a sailboat, and that is all great. You are one of those “focused case” uses.
But that is not what the vast majority of people are who own EVs. For the majority, that is their only car. And most of them are ignorant of the hole they have dug themselves into, because for DAMN sure, the government is not telling them.
For many of these people duped (thinking they will help stop “Climate Change” or coerced into buying one (by governments telling them that their days of owning ICE vehicles are coming to an end) they jumped into the early adopter mode, but the more people that jump into the “early adopter” role, without the government increasing the availability of electricity, the infrastructure to GET that electricity to a point it can be delivered to a vehicle are going to be absolutely and positively screwed.
Right now, the government cannot shut off consumers from owning their own fuel. Ten gallon jerry cans are available to anyone who wants them and is willing to fill them and store them. But as I said in a recent post, if you think the government cannot or will not shut off your electric vehicle that communicates wirelessly for a variety of purposes (and as you likely know, not all of them are for entertainment only) you are sorely mistaken, especially if you have been paying attention to what this government is doing to its own citizens.
You, sir, are NOT the standard use case. And yeah, you likely have a high-end Tesla, you live in Texas and not North Dakota. Pushing EVs for those who understand the positives and negatives are one thing.
Pushing them for everyone, as the government is desperately trying to do now, is worse than a mistake. It is both malignant and malicious.
Again, I am glad you are wealthy enough to afford three or four cars, a camper, a sailboat, and “4 or 5 commercial sized solar panels on your garage that in a single 8 hour sunny day will put 300+ miles of range in a Tesla” as you said.
I am not kidding. I fully support people who have the means to do that. But it is a cruel and terrible thing to assume that everyone can do that (and to suggest they follow your example and do it that way) because the fact is, they can’t.
By the way, if it didn’t come across in my post, I wanted to make sure: I in no way disparage what you have done.
Quite the contrary.
I admire it. If I had the means to do it, I would do it as you have complete with what is likely a high-end Tesla.
I just don’t think it is a thing to sell for people who might not have the means to do it, which is many people. Granted, as individuals, they may choose to do or not to do, but for the government to encourage, and soon, mandate it, that is what I object to.
Hope I was clear, FRiend.