Posted on 07/11/2022 10:47:52 AM PDT by Paul46360
President Joe Biden’s administration wants the United States to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 — and a big part of that plan involves a switchover to electric vehicles.
EVs, we’re told, are the way of the future. Gone are worries about “range anxiety,” we’re told. These vehicles can put in some serious miles on a single charge — and the government’s building more charging infrastructure along the highways every day.
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Range?
You don’t need range peasant.
You will drive where and when we tell you.
YUP
Color me not surprised.
Democrats Lied Again??? Say it ain’t so.
Until CSS 1 chargers are commonplace and reliable and EV’s can charge from 0 to 80% in under 8 minutes, no thank you for EV’s.
There were similar issues when they started publishing city and highway mileage for real automobiles. They weren’t very realistic.
If people want to buy highway capable golf carts they should be able to buy them. But we should not have the Federales trying to force us to buy that trash.
why didn’t an editor catch this: driving with the air conditioner AND the heater going?
Inquiring minds want to know.
This happens in most cars the moment you put the front defroster on.
In a normal car running the heat is a nothing burger. It uses a small radiator on the firewall to get hot, then blow cold air over the heated radiator. The coolant cold off(in the winter) and air heats up.
To get the same thing in an ev the heat is now produced electrically (like a toaster) and a motor turns the a/c compressor and then blows that DRY (if not cooled) air across the heater.
It’s very, very inefficient.
First, batteries are not as efficient as temperature drops. Compare your car's cold cranking amps to regular cranking amps.
Second, when heating a regular car, the heating is free. When heating an electric car, it saps your battery very quickly. And summertime air conditioning will be equally bad, if not worse.
Electric cars might be serviceable in Southern California. Anywhere else they will be pure crap.
And the more of these chargers being set up, where will they be planting those Electricity Trees as they close down the Coal Powered Generating Plants?
Several start ups offering a 5 mile in 5 minute charge jump pack. Starting at 10k a pack with one hot swappable battery.
I was looking into this 2 years ago for my company and figured its
Cheaper to tow them some place.
That's because the old EPA testing procedures were not realistic. The new test implemented in 2008 better matched actual driving conditions, and as such people are now getting fuel economy figures pretty close to what the EPA gets from their current test.
...I thought I saw somewhere that a new Ford electric pickup truck, pulling some kind of trailer, went a whole 85 miles before the battery died...did anyone else see that or did I just have a very vivid nightmare of things to come...??
And that's the scary part that many people are missing.
What the government provides, the government can take away.
We are literally putting the government in control of whether or not we can recharge our vehicles or not. All they need to do is flip a switch and all EV drivers are confined to their home area.
I was chastised and criticized in this forum when I questioned the advertised v. real world ranges for EV. I questioned if the advertised range was like the MPG ratings. I was told I didn’t know what I was talking about when I raised the same points about payload weights, a/c operation, cold weather, etc.
BTW, those inflated MPG ratings are done using a very similar process as the range ratings for EV.
Not too mention that without a massive upgrade to the electric grid all this ev nonsense is just mental onanism anyway.
The practical limit for EVs is a single round trip within a city.
What’s amazing is the federal government is actively planning to eliminate fossil fuels in the 2030s. If regular people don’t accept that, tough sh!t. The Great Reset is upon us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehicles
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