Posted on 10/28/2023 1:40:37 AM PDT by John Semmens
Whether or not electric vehicles (EVs) are really less polluting than gasoline-powered vehicles is not clear. However, the effort to mandate an all-electric future for transportation may not be economically feasible.
Gasoline-powered cars didn't have to be mandated. Their performance advantage over animal-drawn transportation is what enabled them to reshape transportation. EVs do not have a performance advantage. They have a performance deficit. They are less convenient and more expensive. All the government subsidies poured into EVs makes the cost of driving them equivalent to having to pay more than $17 per gallon of gasoline.
With a gasoline-powered car you can fill up the tank in under five minutes and drive 300 to 400 miles before you need to refill. With an EV a "fast charger" you can drive about 200 miles before you need to refill. Most of the public chargers being built with federal aid will provide a maximum of 60 miles of range for each hour of charging. Due to the longer dwell time during refueling for EVs it is estimated that for each gasoline nozzle we have today we will need 20 EV charging ports.
While EV service providers claim that their equipment works 95% to 98% of the time, 20% of EV drivers say that they have been unable to charge because equipment isn't working or the lines are too long. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm blamed these drivers for "not planning ahead. On my recent EV road trip I sent staff ahead in a non-EV to reserve me charging port before I arrived at the charging station."
She also disputed the need for as many chargers as have been forecast, saying "this assumes that everyone who owns a car now will still own a car in the future. What if we simply outlaw gasoline? Most members of the lower classes won't be able to afford an EV. Therefore, they won't need to use a charging port. With fewer cars on the road there will be less traffic congestion and the more valuable time of important people won't be wasted in traffic jams."
In related news, a recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) concluded that "the world will need to add 50 million miles of new transmission lines at a cost of $600 billion per year to achieve the year 2040 global emission reduction targets of the Paris Agreement." In line with this objective, the Biden Administration just announced a budget of $3.5 billion for 58 green energy projects, which Granholm called "the largest-ever direct investment in critical grid infrastructure, supporting projects that will harden systems, improve energy reliability and affordability."
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You can’t say “deficiencies” anymore. In Newspeak, they’re called “non-conformances”.
Their performance advantage over animal-drawn transportation [as well as early electric cars and steam powered attempts.]
Saw some poor tesla-ite sitting at a station where I had stopped to top off. I topped pff, went inside, pit stopped, got a drink and a leisurely saunter back to the car. He’s still sitting there.
I made sure to slowly drive past him, do the “dust off..done!” motion with my hands and laugh.
No telling how long the trip back to MA was going to be for that schmuck.
“...On my recent EV road trip I [Jennifer Granholm] sent staff ahead in a non-EV to reserve me charging port before I arrived at the charging station. ...”
How she doubled her carbon footprint without even trying!
‘ou will get on de train and like it.
Probably factually correct but irrelevant in context. Most EV owners on long trips avoid the slow public chargers. We just completed a two-month, 3,600 mile road trip in our EV from Alabama to the northeast, including east Canada, visiting family in various spots. Used nothing but fast chargers on the road and 120V wall sockets at the various cabins we stayed at. But that requires some foresight, not just mapping chargers before a trip but also before buying the EV to examine the charging options at the various trips you usually make. For example, the road trips we make in the southeast and up the eastern seaboard have way more fast roadside chargers than the sparsely populated plains states of the west that we’ve never driven through. If we do one day drive through then we’ll take our ICE pickup.
Of course, that’s thinking about EV’s from a free market perspective, which unfortunately is not how the Dims push EV’s by force. The rest of the main post I 100% agree with, especially the problem of the grid infrastructure. A problem made worse by the Dims making it harder to generate electricity.
The hubris and lack of self-awareness needed to even think a statement like that, let alone say it out loud, is amazing. She forgot the part about "let them eat cake". Eventually, people like Jennifer Granholm will face the 21st century guillotine or a Benito Mussolini retirement party, and be surprised when it happens.
An EV’s end of life can take you with it
Here’s an information-filled article on the EV. It’s more than a ‘political’ article.
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