Posted on 12/02/2019 5:04:18 PM PST by Chode
We taxpayers need to pay for more chargers in the prime parking spots, even better than the handicapped spots for those poor, oppressed Tesla owners.
My lovely wife has a solution to this problem. I bought her a Lexus RX 350 that she pulls into the local gas station and fills up. In and out in 10 minutes. She wanted a Tesla and I told her no way, she is very happy with her Lexus.
One can easily extend the range of their Tesla. https://www.cat.com/en_US/products/new/power-systems/electric-power/mobile-generator-sets/1000023964.html
Electric cars need standard quick change battery packs that stations keep charged and ready to exchange.
the plan has always been to turn cars into consumer products like computers.
By changing the requirements and making cars computer dependent they have done just that.
I have junked two cars because of computer module issues that were two expensive to fix
LOL... it should be an option
At least EVs have options for power, odd as they may be.
When gas is out, you can’t plug in your ICE car.
I might consider a hybrid, but never an all-electric. T just isn’t practical for the kind of driving I like it need to do. And, as you point out, the infrastructure isn’t anywhere near what it needs to be. If I am out in the boondocks, I can still find gasoline.
That’s quite a stiff price to pay to signal one’s virtue. Plus, the longer the line one waits in, the less unique and special one feels. Feelings of real regret can mount!
I have been wondering how scalable this electric car nonsense would be.
Now we know.
Imagine the day 8000 cars arrive at the Pentagon between 7:45 and 8:00 AM and plug in.
“pay for more high-tension lines, substations, switching networks, etc.”
Only to turn it all off when the
wind blows.
If there's alien life out there, thousands of galaxies away, listening for signs of life, a virtue signal of this concentrated magnitude surely will have reached them.
Or on a little towed trailer with a large fuel tank.
I think the big problems start when the Teslas start hitting the recycling yards.Unless someone can explain differently, they must be pretty much boat anchors after about 8 years.
Eventually I’m sure the technology will evolve until it’s usable but right now they’re just expensive toys. It’s going to take a big breakthrough in battery technology and a near instantaneous recharge ability to make them really usable.
pretty much, with a HUGH hazardous waste battery problem
I was just thinking that. Or a portable charger to plug in at your destination. As long as you don’t travel more than 300 miles.
I can hear them now, “ You ain’t putting THAT dirty, dusty,battery pack in MY car!
A "big breakthrough", like, repealing the second law of thermodynamics?
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