"More Time Charging Than Sleeping"

[PoliticalChic]

1. Electric car in your future?
Consider the theoretical and the practical.
If you expect to buy an electric car be because it is gonna save the planet, get a clue: the electricity is generated in fossil fuel burning plants.
And if it's virtue-signalling...
“In fact, more than half of the Prius buyers surveyed this spring by CNW Marketing Research of Bandon, Ore., said the main reason they purchased their car was that ‘it makes a statement about me.’
Say ‘Hybrid’ and Many People Will Hear ‘Prius’ (Published 2007)
....no one cares.


2. And if you are buying it to 'save' money.....well it looks like this is your moment...but if you think it saves time.....check out this WSJ article"

"I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.​

Our writer drove from New Orleans to Chicago and back to test the feasibility of taking a road trip in an EV. She wouldn’t soon do it again." I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.​

3. "Given our battery range of up to 310 miles, I plotted a meticulous route, splitting our days into four chunks of roughly 7½-hours each. We’d need to charge once or twice each day and plug in near our hotel overnight.
The PlugShare app—a user-generated map of public chargers—showed thousands of charging options between New Orleans and Chicago. But most were classified as Level 2, requiring around 8 hours for a full charge.

4. While we’d be fine overnight, we required fast chargers during the days. ChargePoint Holdings Inc., which manufactures and maintains many fast-charging stations, promises an 80% charge in 20 to 30 minutes. Longer than stopping for gas—but good for a bite or bathroom break.

5. Over four days, we spent $175 on charging. We estimated the equivalent cost for gas in a Kia Forte would have been $275, based on the AAA average national gas price for May 19. That $100 savings cost us many hours in waiting time.

But that’s not the whole story."

(Whole story to follow......)




Are you beginning to notice a pattern in all the great ideas Democrats/Progressives have....open borders, special rights for authorized groups, socialism, nuclear weapons to Iran, infanticide, kangaroo courts......and electic cars for everyone?

Wake the heck up.

 

[Likkmee]

I want a Prius.......to put a small block Chevy in

 

[BULLDOG]

I remember when I first started college, I would go by the book store to look at the new calculator they had in a glass case. It was the size of a 4 slice toaster, and would add, subtract, multiply and divide, and it cost $983.00. I feared I would never be able to afford such an amazing piece of technology. Yesterday, I saw a box of calculators beside the cash register at a book store and they cost $2.13 each

 

[BULLDOG]

Betamax. In 1975, Betamax was unleashed on the home video scene. It ushered in more of an opportunity for the general public to watch and/or record movies. The price point for this new media player retailed at $2295 for higher end models and just under $2,000 for base models.

 

[gipper]

I remember when I first started college, I would go by the book store to look at the new calculator they had in a glass case. It was the size of a 4 slice toaster, and would add, subtract, multiply and divide, and it cost $983.00. I feared I would never be able to afford such an amazing piece of technology. Yesterday, I saw a box of calculators beside the cash register at a book store and they cost $2.13 each

How old are YOU?







lol

 

[BULLDOG]

How old are YOU?







lol

Should be easy enough to figure out

 

[gipper]

Should be easy enough to figure out
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Yes. I’m right there with you.

 

[BULLDOG]

Yes. I’m right there with you.

Getting old. Not a job for a wuss.

 

[Blues Man]

Electric cars have a spot in the mix.

We will be implementing cleaner power sources in the future. If we wise up we'll greatly expand our nuclear power capacity.

 

[gipper]

Getting old. Not a job for a wuss.

Yes. She said it best. I know you know who she is, but our ”immature” members have no idea. Lol.

“Old age ain't no place for sissies.”​

― Bette Davis

 

[Mr Natural]

In 25 years, they'll be laughing at us and our gasoline powered cars.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I remember when I first started college, I would go by the book store to look at the new calculator they had in a glass case. It was the size of a 4 slice toaster, and would add, subtract, multiply and divide, and it cost $983.00. I feared I would never be able to afford such an amazing piece of technology. Yesterday, I saw a box of calculators beside the cash register at a book store and they cost $2.13 each

tempus fugit.


And, it doesn't even include the advances in technology.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Should be easy enough to figure out
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Remember when you got your first sundial wrist watch?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Getting old. Not a job for a wuss.

Interesting.


I hope you consider the Democrat attitude about age.....


Elderly.....the ones that Democrats told to go and die.
Democrat Governor Dick Lamm once created a firestorm in Colorado (a few years after leaving the Governor’s office) when he said: “the elderly have a duty to die.”

 

[PoliticalChic]

In 25 years, they'll be laughing at us and our gasoline powered cars.

So you stil watch the Jetsons?

 

[PoliticalChic]

6."New Orleans, our starting point, has exactly zero fast chargers, according to PlugShare. As we set out, one of the closest is at a Harley-Davidson dealership in Slidell, La., about 40 minutes away. So we use our Monday-morning breakfast stop to top off there on the way out of town.

But when we tick down 15% over 35 miles? Disconcerting. And the estimated charging time after plugging in? Even more so. This “quick charge” should take 5 minutes, based on our calculations. So why does the dashboard tell us it will take an hour?

“Maybe it’s just warming up,” I say to Mack. “Maybe it’s broken?” she says.

Over Egg McMuffins at McDonald’s, we check Google. Chargers slow down when the battery is 80% full, the State of Charge YouTube channel tells us.

Worried about time, we decide to unplug once we return to the car, despite gaining a measly 13% in 40 minutes."

I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.

Our writer drove from New Orleans to Chicago and back to test the feasibility of taking a road trip in an EV. She wouldn’t soon do it again.

www.wsj.com

 

[alang1216]

1. Electric car in your future?
Consider the theoretical and the practical.
If you expect to buy an electric car be because it is gonna save the planet, get a clue: the electricity is generated in fossil fuel burning plants.

Unless the electricity is generated by hydroelectric, wind, or nuclear.

2. And if you are buying it to 'save' money.....well it looks like this is your moment...but if you think it saves time.....check out this WSJ article"

"I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.​

Only a moron or someone with an agenda would rent an electric car for a road trip. They make great city or commuter cars but nothing does everything.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Unless the electricity is generated by hydroelectric, wind, or nuclear.


Only a moron or someone with an agenda would rent an electric car for a road trip. They make great city or commuter cars but nothing does everything.

Funny......I have a very similar attitude about voting Democrat.

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. "Our real troubles begin when we can’t find the wall-mounted charger at the Kia dealership in Meridian, Miss., the state’s seventh-largest city and hometown of country-music legend Jimmie Rodgers.

When I ask a mechanic working on an SUV a few feet away for help, he says he doesn’t know anything about the machine and points us inside. At the front desk, the receptionist asks if we’ve checked with a technician and sends us back outside.

Not many people use the charger, the mechanic tells us when we return. We soon see why. Once up and running, our dashboard tells us a full charge, from 18% to 100%, will take 3-plus hours.

It turns out not all “fast chargers” live up to the name. The biggest variable, according to State of Charge, is how many kilowatts a unit can churn out in an hour. To be considered “fast,” a charger must be capable of about 24 kW. The fastest chargers can pump out up to 350. Our charger in Meridian claims to meet that standard, but it has trouble cracking 20.


“Even among DC fast chargers, there are different level chargers with different charging speeds,” a ChargePoint spokeswoman says."

I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.

Our writer drove from New Orleans to Chicago and back to test the feasibility of taking a road trip in an EV. She wouldn’t soon do it again.

www.wsj.com

 

[PoliticalChic]

8. "By the time we reach our next station, at a Mercedes-Benz dealership outside Birmingham, Ala., we’ve already missed our dinner reservations in Nashville—still 200 miles away.


Here, at least, the estimated charging time is only an hour—and we get to make use of two automatic massage chairs while we wait.

Salesman Kurt Long tells us the dealership upgraded its chargers to 54-kW models a few weeks earlier when the 2022 Mercedes EQS-Class arrived.

“Everyone’s concern is how far can the cars go on a charge,” he says. He adds that he would trade in his car for an EV tomorrow if he could afford the $102,000 price tag. “Just because it would be convenient for me because I work here,” he says. “Otherwise, I don’t know if I would just yet.”

We stop for snacks at a gas station featuring a giant chicken in a chef’s costume. We lean heavily on cruise control, which helps conserve battery life by reducing inadvertent acceleration and deceleration. We are beat when we finally stumble into our Nashville hotel at 12:30 a.m.


The woman charging next to us describes a harrowing recent trip in her Volkswagen ID.4. Deborah Carrico, 65, had to be towed twice while driving between her Louisville, Ky., apartment and Boulder, Colo., where her daughter was getting married."

I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.

Our writer drove from New Orleans to Chicago and back to test the feasibility of taking a road trip in an EV. She wouldn’t soon do it again.

www.wsj.com