Also great for cruising around in your over-55 community.
Hey, this guy raided my 1970s sock drawer.
Posted on 11/28/2020 9:53:24 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Linda Barnes and her husband had to visit six charging stations as one after another they were either out of order, already had a queue or were the slow, older versions that would never be able to provide a fast enough charge in the time.
The couple, who love their new fully electric Porsche Taycan 4S, which has a range of about 250 miles, contacted the Guardian to describe how difficult it is to recharge a car away from home. Their journey would have taken two and a half hours in a conventional car, they say.
Linda says the sense of relief was enormous. “We ran through the entire gamut of emotions in those nine hours – resignation, range anxiety, annoyance and disbelief that this was happening – and finally elation when we realised we’d get home,” she says.
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I have a BMW i3 , and I love it. It gets about 120 miles on the batteries. It also has a gas powered generator that kicks in when the battery gets low. It will go 80 miles on the gas, about 1.5 gallons. I almost never use the gas. I intentionally run the battery down once every three months to burn off a half gallon, so I know I have fresh gas. So around town, shopping, this car is awesome. And then, if I want a 250 mile trip, I just carry a gallon of gas or take a little lunch break and let it charge for an hour. Not a big deal. The next morning, its fully charged. In fact, this car is almost always fully charged. When its parked at home, it’s plugged in.
So sorry, but electric cars are dirty and eco-not-friendly. It takes about 80,000 miles driving before they match an equivalent gas car. Just about the time you have to replace the dirty batteries with new dirty batteries. But don’t get me wrong, in spite of the low range, inconvenience, and environmental issues they are terrific for virtue signaling.
“I might do a hybrid at some point, but I’d never do a plug in electric.”
Actually I’m at the point of buying an old pre-computer car due to the cost factor of repairing newer cars.
One of the keys for my Ford Escape stopped working. $175 +/- if they only have to reprogram the key. I didn’t ask about the cost of a new key.
Just replaced the starter...$369 for a new starter including labor.
If the computer takes a crap I’m definitely going old school.
LOL!
Plus laying it out so you can easily replace the entire electrical harness every six weeks.
The way of the future might be hydrogen fuel cells.
The hydrogen runs over the catalyst, platinum, and that releases electrons to the electric motor.
The technology is here, and it works.
Problem is, the hydrogen pumping stations, we need them all over the country, like gas stations.
I think it will happen.
What does charging an EV like that at home do to your electric bill? How much do charging stations charge?
Yea, and wait until these charging stations get a little more commonplace. The local gangbangers and robbers are going to realize that these “metros” will be easy pickings as they sit in these charging stations at nite.
I don’t feel sorry for them.
I wonder if the Brit EV’s will come with a spare jar of Replacement Harness Smoke, eh?
Lucas Electric jokes and link to Harness Smoke
Regards
alfa6 :>}
The article does use the pronoun "he" in referring to the "husband," but given LGBTQXYZ pervertedness, the use of the pronoun may not mean what it used to.
“The British built the amazing Spitfire and excellent Hawker Hurricane fighter planes. What happened?”
Socialism happened.
They also built the infamous Reliant Robin. The three wheel vehicle with the single wheel...on the front. And they wondered why it had a habit of tipping over. :-)
Also great for cruising around in your over-55 community.
Hey, this guy raided my 1970s sock drawer.
2014 Forrester-—New Key-—$350+ I believe $369.00
Thank goodness we found the old one
Electric vehicle? Sorry,not in *this* lifetime.
LOL. In a Yugo.
As an MGB owner, that made me laugh.
Every time the wind blows in my area the lights go out. In reality it happens about 6 times a year for hours up to several hours at a time. I live in one of the most densely populated & the wealthiest area of the City of Cleveland. Yet our electrical infrastructure rivals a Third World country!
The water lines are lead pipes anywhere from 80 to 150 years old. Main lines rupture regularly. Our sewer system has been forced to spend billions by the EPA to prevent storm sewers from overflowing the waste water plants & pass raw sewage into the lake.
I ran an appointment to day on the East Side of Cleveland & once again find myself shocked at the condition of the housing in many of the areas. Favellas in Brazil come to mind.
It's a disgrace!
Unions.
If only they had done some research....
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