Posted on 07/11/2022 10:47:52 AM PDT by Paul46360
25% of all EV Chargers Don’t Work.
Ditto DAT!!!!!
Article on the same website as this thread’s article, https://www.westernjournal.com/journalists-tow-camper-behind-electric-truck-end-stunning-failure-make-85-miles/
In 2008, BBC’s Top Gear TV show tested the Tesla Roadster. Tesla/EPA claimed it could do 244 miles per charge but after a few laps around their test track, presenter Jeremy Clarkson stated that the car’s onboard computer was reporting it would exhaust that charge after just 55 miles.
Tesla sued for libel.
Tesla lost the suit because Clarkson could prove his account of events, and in the UK, truth is an effective defense against of libel.
Tesla appealed the verdict.
Tesla lost the appeal, too, because neither the facts of the case nor the law governing defense against libel had changed.
Tesla was ordered to pay the BBC’s court costs and remains butt-hurt over the incident to this day.
We’ve been tinkering with battery-only EVs since the 1820s. Yes, for 200 years, 70(-ish) years before the ICE-engine automobile. And they have yet to make one that can be re-charged in less time that it takes to exhaust that charge. After 200 years, that’s still the best they can do.
Simply put, the battery-only EV remains virtue-signaling, and/or a fashion statement, and/or a rich man’s toy that you can’t afford to own unless you also can afford an ICE back-up.
“Tesla superchargers were excluded from the study since they are only available to Tesla drivers — and work 98% of the time.”
I’m having a hard time believing we could build and power enough charging stations. Imagine how long the lines would be.
An EV I would consider buying, will never be made. A stripped down model, steel rims, crank windows, no computer screen on the dash, no wifi or cell signal, no air conditioning, no electric locks or seats. Yes to heat.
$12,000 MSRP - Battery pack affordably swappable and they get recycled. $2,000 swap out fee.
We thought about a lot of these issues when folks were stuck on I95 in VA for a day last winter in a snow storm and freeze:
The original Tesla Roadster was made from a Lotus Elise with its ICE engine replaced with BEV one. If you added the cost of a replacement battery into the cost of the Tesla's ownership, and presuming you owned/operated the Tesla to the end of the life cycle of it's replacement battery (second battery since new), the total cost of ownership would be the same as if you were to buy a series of new gasoline-engined Lotus Elises, driving each one 50,000 miles, THEN THROWING THEM AWAY (NO trade-in).
In the end you could have one 250,000-mile Tesla, or five 50,000-mile Lotuses, all sitting in the garage, all at the same total cost to own (excluding insurance).
“Tesla lost the suit because Clarkson could prove his account of events, and in the UK, truth is an effective defense against of libel.”
Not lost. Dismissed. Judge said no reasonable viewer would confuse track conditions with real world driving thus Tesls suffered no damages.
“In the end you could have one 250,000-mile Tesla, or five 50,000-mile Lotuses, all sitting in the garage, all at the same total cost to own (excluding insurance).”
Lay off the booze ...
You mean like when I'm driving and my wife complains about the temperature? Talk about real-life driving conditions.
Well, there’s one-in-a-row for EVs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e55Vued028
Here’s the video comparison. The trailers were also pretty empty.
“Well, there’s one-in-a-row for EVs.”
Well?
More than half of the world’s cobalt resources are located in the DRC, and over 70% of the world’s cobalt mining occurs there.
Small-scale mining in the DRC involves people of all ages, including children, obligated to work under harsh conditions. Of the 255,000 Congolese mining for cobalt, 40,000 are children, some as young as six years.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/drc-mining-industry-child-labor-and-formalization-small-scale-mining
it takes 2,000 tons of water to produce one ton of lithium, according to a report from Ingrid Garcés, a scientist at Chile's University of Antofagasta.
https://fortune.com/2022/05/23/chile-has-become-the-worlds-case-study-for-reconciling-economic-opportunity-with-climate-change-concerns/amp/
the moment you excerpt someone else’s post to prove you’re right proves you’re wrong...
“the moment you excerpt someone else’s post to prove you’re right proves you’re wrong...”
Since you completely omitted my post you are doubly wrong ...
I have always gotten at least 2 MPG better than the EPA numbers.
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