Electric Vehicles here to stay, for good or bad?

[TheDan]

“To Fort Worth” from where ? Distance ?

Didn't I say all this like 20 pages back, or was that another thread?
It was something like 460mi round trip.

 

[Tnhawk]

It's impractical even with the infrastructure. Took a friend's Tesla to Ft Worth. Plenty of superchargers along the way so infrastructure wasn't an issue. Stopping to charge added an hour and half to the trip. Started out will full battery, too.

It was three separate charging times of about 30min each. Didn't have to wait, but one of those times we took the last available charger so if someone else came along they'd have to wait on us.

Didn't I say all this like 20 pages back, or was that another thread?
It was something like 460mi round trip.

460 miles with 3 charges of 30 minutes vs a 5minutes stop for gas

 

[TheDan]

vs a 5minutes stop for gas

Why so long? Have to pee, too?

Normally on that length of trip I'd only have to fill up once, too.

 

[Tnhawk]

Why so long? Have to pee, too?

wife has nicotine fits without smoke breaks

 

[Tnhawk]

We may need to wait for better vehicle technology, but I don't want to spend it waiting at charging stations.

 

[no2gates]

We may need to wait for better vehicle technology, but I don't want to spend it waiting at charging stations.

The concept of the electric car is sound but the storage technology is a joke. Once they get super capacitors perfected, you'll be theoretically able to charge a car in less time than it takes to fill a car with fuel. Not sure how they're going to get that amount of amperage to a charging station though.

 

[Tnhawk]

The concept of the electric car is sound but the storage technology is a joke. Once they get super capacitors perfected, you'll be theoretically able to charge a car in less time than it takes to fill a car with fuel. Not sure how they're going to get that amount of amperage to a charging station though.

Not sure what the source of that amount of amperage will be.
Liberals don't understand that, electricity or money, it has to have a source of creation.

 

[TheDan]

Yeah, EVs only make sense for people who don't drive anywhere. A hybrid would be nice, tho. Too bad the only hybrid I even halfway like isn't in production anymore. If I could get a 2500 hybrid with a stick I'd do it in a heartbeat.

 

[Tex62]

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There are only two ways to make “electric vehicles” work for most Americans:

1) Implant power sources in ALL roadways;

or,

2) Design them with quick change batteries and build a massive network of battery change stations

Neither is llkely to happen any time soon.

leVieux
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Or restrict travel to your local. Something else rumored to be in the works.


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[Tnhawk]

Or restrict travel to your local. Something else rumored to be in the works.


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Another liberal goal - control/restrict travel

 

[Tex62]

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There are TWO big problems with the entire concept:

1) There is no way to make any battery take a real “quick charge” to its full capacity.

&

2) No nation produces sufficient electricity to run the scheme.

So, the idea of everyone driving an electric vehicle, and of those electric vehicles replacing internal combustion engines, is a pipe-dream.

leVieux
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Yup. There aren’t enough rare earth elements available to make the fad perpetual.


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[Grumps21]

Why so long? Have to pee, too?

Normally on that length of trip I'd only have to fill up once, too.

Those full Gatorade bottles you see in the sides of the road ain’t full of Gatorade. I had to explain that to my wife on our road trip through the Arizona desert this past September.

 

[candcallen]

Another liberal goal - control/restrict travel

The liberal dems that run small towns in the uk are preparing for that by putting gates in and restricting people to geographic areas with only allowed so many days a year outside your assigned neighborhoods.

Can anyone say ghettos?

 

[leVieux]

Or restrict travel to your local. Something else rumored to be in the works.


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>
BINGO !

What do “gun control”, electric vehicles, over-taxation, etc. all have in common ?

RESTRICTING Citizens & weakening us !

 

[BigRed]

>
BINGO !

What do “gun control”, electric vehicles, over-taxation, etc. all have in common ?

RESTRICTING Citizens & weakening us !

Tyrants

 

[Bwmart22]

If everyone eventually converts to electric vehicles. How be a shit show will it be durIng a hurricane evacuation?

 

[wakosama]

Automaker Stellantis lays off hundreds of American workers, blaming high cost of making electric cars

Stellantis announced its decision to idle operations at an assembly plant in Belvedere, Illinois, next February, resulting in "indefinite layoffs" for workers.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[TheDan]

Automaker Stellantis lays off hundreds of American workers, blaming high cost of making electric cars

Stellantis announced its decision to idle operations at an assembly plant in Belvedere, Illinois, next February, resulting in "indefinite layoffs" for workers.

www.foxbusiness.com

The Belvidere plant only makes the little Cherokee. That thing is basically just an updated Jeep Liberty and no one wants that turd. The real Cherokee is built at the Jefferson plant alongside the Durango.

 

[Shady]

If everyone eventually converts to electric vehicles. How be a shit show will it be durIng a hurricane evacuation?

Hurricane evacuations are not a shit show now with hoards of people heading to the gas stations

 

[Lonesome Dove]

I've worked with around and on electric warehouse equipemnt ie Reach trucks,fork lifts, pallet jacks, dock trucks and more total of 108 machines between two buildings. Charging systems, three types of 24- 36 volt batteries. Wrenched on and used this Crap and all was the latest and greatest. We got new shit in monthly even batteries because they have a memory and when you mid charge rather than waiting until they run down we'll you guessed it they start to charge only mid way never full so cell's go bad.



The electronics on the machines is Very sensitive and just the slightest interruption can put the machines down. EVs are no different. They claim they have conquered these issues but that's just marketing bullshit. They blamed the batteries so they went with Lithium. Same shit different battery.

These machines were Raymond and Crown. Most popular for Warehouse and Cold storage.
Yeah I know what's this have to do with cars and trucks. LoL same shit same technology. EV