Exactly Why You Should Buy an EV

[Weatherman2020]

This is a Tesla truck, but every EV has the same wonderful selling points.

 

[toobfreak]

This is a Tesla truck, but every EV has the same wonderful selling points.

Honestly, I see the attraction of an EV, but really, they deserve to be people's secondary vehicles for when they don't need severe duty, and frankly, at this point since transportation is a necessity and their non-use the greatest danger mankind faces smoke: ), then the government ought to be supplying one free to every household.

And for those who think EVs will be vastly cheaper or charge much faster and have greatly farther range anytime in the future, I have some swampland to sell them, as they obviously do NOT understand the technological and economic barriers both EVs and society now stand at.

 

[1srelluc]

I don't care what improvements are made to it but my vision of the Tesla PU will always be when I saw it struggling up a steep hill going into town with 20 or so other cars behind it a few weeks back.

It looked to be going up that hill 30-35 in a 55mph zone.....Most folks are cooking along 60-65 at that spot.

 

[theHawk]

You can now get EVs for 80% off!

Another EV company goes tits up!

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[1srelluc]

Whoo! At first I thought it read Fiskars and was wondering why they did not stick to axes and game shears.

 

[Sunni Man]

EV car insurance costs way more than a gasoline powered car.
Because a fender bender with a gas car is usually repairable.
Whereas, the same fender bender in an EV costs soo much to repair because of all the expensive complex electronics, and requires a specially trained mechanic to repair the vehicle.
That many insurance companies will declare the EV a "total" and just write it off.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Honestly, I see the attraction of an EV, but really, they deserve to be people's secondary vehicles for when they don't need severe duty, and frankly, at this point since transportation is a necessity and their non-use the greatest danger mankind faces smoke: ), then the government ought to be supplying one free to every household.

And for those who think EVs will be vastly cheaper or charge much faster and have greatly farther range anytime in the future, I have some swampland to sell them, as they obviously do NOT understand the technological and economic barriers both EVs and society now stand at.

/——/ Hybrids make more sense. Best of both worlds.

 

[Mac-7]

This is a Tesla truck, but every EV has the same wonderful selling points.

Greenies are going to encourage us to buy EVs by STRANGLING the oil supply so that we have no choice except to drive an electric car

 

[Cellblock2429]

Greenies are going to encourage us to buy EVs by STRANGLING the oil supply so that we have no choice except to drive an electric car

/——-/ Only if we let them.

 

[Crepitus]

This is a Tesla truck, but every EV has the same wonderful selling points.

Teslas are crap. If you want an EV there are many much better choices for far less money.

 

[Yarddog]

Honestly, I see the attraction of an EV, but really, they deserve to be people's secondary vehicles for when they don't need severe duty, and frankly, at this point since transportation is a necessity and their non-use the greatest danger mankind faces smoke: ), then the government ought to be supplying one free to every household.

And for those who think EVs will be vastly cheaper or charge much faster and have greatly farther range anytime in the future, I have some swampland to sell them, as they obviously do NOT understand the technological and economic barriers both EVs and society now stand at.

Just like that young female poster who comes on here and asks why we cant have giant solar panels in space... or attach a space sail to the planet Venus. They are sold an idea and none of the realities or details matter.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Teslas are crap. If you want an EV there are many much better choices for far less money.

So you too can take hours to half charge for $50 in electricity!!

 

[toobfreak]

/——/ Hybrids make more sense. Best of both worlds.

They certainly offer the biggest bang for the buck for the least trouble, in the soonest, immediate future. But until all countries like China and India take hold of the EV commitment as well, as some of the biggest polluters, I can't take green energy and EVs too seriously.

 

[Robert W]

I don't care what improvements are made to it but my vision of the Tesla PU will always be when I saw it struggling up a steep hill going into town with 20 or so other cars behind it a few weeks back.

It looked to be going up that hill 30-35 in a 55mph zone.....Most folks are cooking along 60-65 at that spot.

When batteries lose electricity, it shows down EV as you saw.

The problem as I keep repeating is the battery. First it discharges. Second the number needed are very heavy. Weight penalizes.

 

[Robert W]

They certainly offer the biggest bang for the buck for the least trouble, in the soonest, immediate future. But until all countries like China and India take hold of the EV commitment as well, as some of the biggest polluters, I can't take green energy and EVs too seriously.

When the US transitioned from the Horse to the Auto, did people back then think they were very educated? Electric current is a blessing. But it also has penalties. Such as the GRID. It has to be stable. And users work hard to make it not stable. Autos being charged add to the instability.

 

[Robert W]

Teslas are crap. If you want an EV there are many much better choices for far less money.

WELL????? When will you inform us? I believe my grandson is pleased with his Tesla. Course he also has compensation from Facebook amounting I am told of around $400,000 per year. Not bad for a recent university graduate. Where he a singer like Taylor Swift, he could be worth over 1.2 Billion dollars pretty soon.

 

[toobfreak]

When the US transitioned from the Horse to the Auto, did people back then think they were very educated? Electric current is a blessing. But it also has penalties. Such as the GRID. It has to be stable. And users work hard to make it not stable. Autos being charged add to the instability.

There is NO WAY our power grid is even within a mile of handling the EV world that the left fantasize. And it never will be without wholesale re-engineering and the building of nuclear power stations, except that, whoops, our power grid is also the most subject to attack and failure, from everything from the Sun itself, to cyber and terror attack.

The worst possible thing we can do is to put all of our eggs in one basket to where /everything/ depends on electric power, because once you do that, all anyone has to do is take down ONE THING and Voila!, America is brought down on her knees.

 

[Robert W]

There is NO WAY our power grid is even within a mile of handling the EV world that the left fantasize. And it never will be without wholesale re-engineering and the building of nuclear power stations, except that, whoops, our power grid is also the most subject to attack and failure, from everything from the Sun itself, to cyber and terror attack.

The worst possible thing we can do is to put all of our eggs in one basket to where /everything/ depends on electric power, because once you do that, all anyone has to do is take down ONE THING and Voila!, America is brought down on her knees.

Listen to him people. He understands.

 

[toobfreak]

The problem as I keep repeating is the battery. First it discharges. Second the number needed are very heavy. Weight penalizes.

The true liability of electric cars is that they do not generate their own power like a gas car; someone must generate it for them elsewhere, then it must be transmitted great distance, then the battery must STORE that energy and hold it suspended in a static state until needed. If anything goes wrong with the battery, it releases all that energy at once with tragic results. Worse, not only does the battery consume nearly 50% of the weight of the car, but batteries lose capacity with use over time and temperature, costing a great amount to replace every ten years or so.

There will be no old or 'classic' EVs on the road. They will be a recycling nightmare.

 

[Foxfyre]

Honestly, I see the attraction of an EV, but really, they deserve to be people's secondary vehicles for when they don't need severe duty, and frankly, at this point since transportation is a necessity and their non-use the greatest danger mankind faces smoke: ), then the government ought to be supplying one free to every household.

And for those who think EVs will be vastly cheaper or charge much faster and have greatly farther range anytime in the future, I have some swampland to sell them, as they obviously do NOT understand the technological and economic barriers both EVs and society now stand at.

With what the real number illegal immigrants are costing us, the government probably could furnish one free to most households. But those of us who live in areas where they are not at all practical would not want one. You couldn't sell it and it is costly to register and insure a vehicle you don't use much if at all. And giving one to every household would likely so devastate the rest of the auto/truck market that the whole thing could collapse.