Reality check on electric cars

Into the Night said:
Not a good idea to drive your EV through floodwaters!

Of course, it's a good idea not to drive through floodwaters at all!
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Yea, but when the battery gets the least bit wet inside you are looking at thousands of dollars in non-factory / non-warranted repairs as a result. Live where it's really hot or in a coastal area with salt air? Your expected battery life plummets. Battery cars are a bad idea...
 
HA! Motor is finished. It's pushing 538 HP according to the builder's dyno sheets and 517 ft. lbs. of torque. This thing is gonna be a gas guzzling ear shattering rocket ship on wheels at 2100 lbs. and should top out at over 160 MPH. Can't wait to get it here, installed, running and spitting venom again. Spring can't come soon enough!
 
RB 60 said:
HA! Motor is finished. It's pushing 538 HP according to the builder's dyno sheets and 517 ft. lbs. of torque. This thing is gonna be a gas guzzling ear shattering rocket ship on wheels at 2100 lbs. and should top out at over 160 MPH. Can't wait to get it here, installed, running and spitting venom again. Spring can't come soon enough!
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Sounds like you can outrun the cops! :D
 
Into the Night said:
Sounds like you can outrun the cops! :D
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Easily, but it's very difficult to outrun the radio.
Been there and done that. Not doing that again.

Besides, I already lost a whole summer with a blown
motor, I'm not losing my license again just to make an
ass out of a cop (that really pisses them off!).
 
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Stringfellow Hawk said:
REALITY CHECK: At a neighborhood BBQ I was talking to a neighbor, a BC Hydro Executive. I asked him how that renewable thing was doing. He laughed, then got serious "If you really intend to adopt electric vehicles, you have to face certain realities."

"For example, a home charging system for a Tesla requires 75 amp service. The average house is equipped with 100 amp service. On our small street (approximately 25 homes), the electrical infrastructure would be unable to carry more than three houses with a single Tesla each. For even half the homes to have electric vehicles, the system would be wildly over-loaded. This is the elephant in the room with electric vehicles. Our residential infrastructure cannot bear the load."

So, as our genius elected officials promote this nonsense, not only are we being urged to buy these things and replace our reliable, cheap generating systems with expensive new windmills and solar cells, but we will also have to renovate our entire delivery system! This later "investment" will not be revealed until we're so far down this deadend road that it will be presented with an 'OOPS...!' and a shrug.

Eric test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors and he writes, "For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine." Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9-gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles.

It will take you 4.5 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip, your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.

According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery. The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned, so I looked up what I pay for electricity.

I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh. 16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery. $18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery. Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine that gets only 32 mpg. $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 Mpg = $0.10 per mile.

The gasoline powered car costs about $25,000 while the Volt costs $46,000 plus. So, the Government wants us to pay twice as much for a car, that costs more than seven times as much to run and takes three times longer to drive across the country.

WAKE UP NORTH AMERICA!!!!!!!
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So much for what the fuck you know!

Electric vehicle registrations continue to rise in absolute numbers, with 32,522 new registrations in November 2021 (21,726 BEVs and 10,796 PHEVs). The market share last month was 28.1%. ... As shown in the chart, the number of electric vehicles as a proportion of all new vehicles showed a significant increase in 2020. While estimates varied widely from more than 20% to about 90%, the survey on average that executives expect 52% of new vehicle sales to be all-electric by 2030.
 
The 3rd richest guy in the world worth over 150 billion is an electric car manufacturer. Sounds like electric cars are tanking.
 
RB 60 said:
Easily, but it's very difficult to outrun the radio.
Been there and done that. Not doing that again.

Besides, I already lost a whole summer with a blown
motor, I'm not losing my license again just to make an
ass out of a cop (that really pisses them off!).
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So why would you want a car that can do 160mph?
 
Port Tack said:
So much for what the fuck you know!

Electric vehicle registrations continue to rise in absolute numbers, with 32,522 new registrations in November 2021 (21,726 BEVs and 10,796 PHEVs). The market share last month was 28.1%. ... As shown in the chart, the number of electric vehicles as a proportion of all new vehicles showed a significant increase in 2020. While estimates varied widely from more than 20% to about 90%, the survey on average that executives expect 52% of new vehicle sales to be all-electric by 2030.
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You are making up numbers.

Tesla sold 7500 cars last year. 411000 gasoline cars were sold last year. (both figures are new cars only). Source: State registration records, all States combined.

Not much call for a used electric car. The resale value of a gasoline car, on the other hand, holds it's value.
 
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Port Tack said:
The 3rd richest guy in the world worth over 150 billion is an electric car manufacturer. Sounds like electric cars are tanking.
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2nd (as of 2021). Now worth $151 billion. Teslas have no tank.

It costs about $22,000 to replace the battery in a Tesla. They are susceptible to cold weather and getting submerged (such as when driving through a flooded road). Submersion will destroy the battery.
 
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