flacaltenn
Diamond Member
The model T ford was a bag of crap.
It had limited range, was slow and needed quite a lot of work to keep the thing on the road.
Fuel, although several types were usable, wasn't always easy to get.
People bought the thing by the millions.
To the posters who knock new technology as imperfect.
Get a life just after you turn your brains on.
You are aware that we had electric cars in the 1800s -- aren't you? And some of them probably had close to the range of a Chevy Volt.. New tech no.. But packaged a helluva lot more nicely...
I mock it from a BIG PICTURE point of view. Because SOMEONE has to care where all the additional electricity is gonna come from when you move transportation from oil to electric.
Especially when I'm supposed to buying squiggly bulbs, turning down my thermostat and watching the lights go out in the airport while I'm trying to read. We need to get real about the messages that are being sent. Having some folks feed their EVs and having Safeway keep their signs on all night -- whilst I freeze my buns off and grab 1W phone chargers out of the wall --- that's not even comical..
Short sighted.
As EVs become more efficient, the internal combustion engine will be a thing of the past.
The infrastructure argument is really very silly.
There were no petrol stations before the motor car became popular but the power grid is already in place and will be upgraded to cope with the new demand.
Demand that will, eventually, be served by alternative energy, not oil.
The US is dependent on oil and most of that is middle eastern oil.
The US government knows this and wants freedom from that dependency.
Big picture time.
MOVING TERRAWATTS of power from oil for transportation to ELECTRICITY is a real concern and NOT ""really very silly"... Give me a breakdown of where that supply is gonna come from and WHY we are kicking and screaming about building ANY NEW CAPACITY today..
Got a BETTER PLAN for you.. Use FUEL CELLS to power the EV. And make hydrogen with wind/solar AWAY FROM THE GRID. That way --- it stores better. --- It can take the variability and reliability issues of solar/wind into account without the nation going dark. --- And it means we don't need to build out a BEEFIER LARGER grid...
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