re: Electric Vehicles

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So if I go on a 300 mile road trip and the destination doesn't have a place where I can re-charge the vehicle, what are my options?

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The infrastructure is rapidly expanding. I doubt you could take a major road trip using interstates/U.S. highways and not have the option to recharge enroute.
Just looking at Tesla's network, you would have only 5 options in the Dakotas, but other than that, you would have to work hard to run out of juice without recharging on a road trip.

Again, using Tesla as the gold standard, they have a built in tool to allow you to plan on how far to go before you can/should recharge, optimal battery rates at which to charge up (and what to charge up to based on your next stop) and as there is more adoption, there will be a plethora of phone based and built-in vehicle apps for other platforms to get you from point "A" to point "B" - not quite as freeform as the current convenience store/gas station infrastructure, but the EV stuff is about 20 years old. The old gasoline/diesel based infrastructure is over 100 years old. Time is going to fix that part of it.

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This is their plan to shut the grid down and take control

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One of the best things about them is that they are not dependent on one type of fuel to generate electricity. You can use coal, oil, gas, hydrodynamic, nuclear, solar or wind to generate electricity, whichever is the most efficient for your area.

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Sure. Technically, you could hook up a stationary cycle and charge up your EV in a "Walking Dead" environment. If your car runs out of power (unexpectedly) on the side of the road, no one has to "bring" you gas. They just roll up and tap a little from their battery.

My negativity about scale up concerns should not be construed as being anti-electric as a zealot or just against the tech.

But, I'm not convinced we can/should replace all the ICEs with EVs. Semis and buses? Sure - that kind of scale is understandable. That is where most of the soot comes from. That is where the efficiency can be put most to use, at least now. National parks and places that generate their own solar in bulk, such as large municipalities in Florida and the Sunbelt? Absolutely.

But, they're pushing them on Jane and John Doe like there is no tomorrow. Wide adoption of anything comes with unforeseen consequences.

Look at smartphones and deterioration of social skills, so-called "iPosture", folks walking into traffic and into manholes just to name a few unforeseen consequences. That's a communication technology that replaced the largely harmless telephone and, to a degree, light PC function.

Imagine a world where there were just a few million EVs a couple of years ago and there will be half a billion in just a few years (now that's in lieu of ICE powered cars, so not a full on additional burden, so I focus on what's different - all that extra wiring/winding and the batteries).

This same thread happens at least once a day between the OT and PT. They always go the same way.

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Looked into getting a Tesla and our power company said the TVA grid can’t sustain more than 2 EVa on a street.

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You ask the guy that was picking up the paper? That’s like saying the grid can only sustain two houses with freezers per street lol.

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So they are obviously hellbent on pushing these out to the masses.

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Vaccines
Veganism
Animal rights ( most people have already cucked on this)
Sexual Perversion
Greenology
Hatred and division

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The overall impact on the environment has to be worse than a gas engine.

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It's not for the environment, it's for death to America.
But that's a little hard to sell openly.

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That’s like saying the grid can only sustain two houses with freezers per street lol.

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Took some digging but go on teslas site and dig around the charger installation faqs. Level two needs a 60 amp 240v breaker. Level three is ridiculous and takes 300 amp service. They won’t be able to put but a couple of those per location. You won’t be able to scale it up to buccees level convenience unless they have a nuclear reactor on site haha

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Took some digging but go on teslas site and dig around the charger installation faqs. Level two needs a 60 amp 240v breaker. Level three is ridiculous and takes 300 amp service. They won’t be able to put but a couple of those per location. You won’t be able to scale it up to buccees level convenience unless they have a nuclear reactor on site haha

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Why do you need a level 3 charger in your home? A level 1 charger is going to give you 50 miles if you charge over night. Level 2 is plenty good.

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Technically, you could hook up a stationary cycle and charge up your EV in a "Walking Dead" environment. If your car runs out of power (unexpectedly) on the side of the road, no one has to "bring" you gas. They just roll up and tap a little from their battery.

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If I had an EV, I'd probably keep a roll-up solar panel and my Honda generator with a gallon of gas in it for long trips. I'm into alternative energy sources. I have a diesel Yanmar on my sailboat, and keep a solar panel to maintain my batteries when I think shore power may be cut, or if I'm offshore and my cranking battery is dead.

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But, I'm not convinced we can/should replace all the ICEs with EVs.

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It doesn't seem practical in the near (50-100 year?) term.

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But, they're pushing them

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People need to re-learn how to resist being pushed by both government and marketing.

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Imagine a world where there were just a few million EVs a couple of years ago and there will be half a billion in just a few years (now that's in lieu of ICE powered cars, so not a full on additional burden, so I focus on what's different - all that extra wiring/winding and the batteries).

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Meh, having grown up taking the streetcar to school and home in New Orleans made me a big fan of electrified mass-transit. I remember an article from the early 80s when New Orleans was considering expanding the streetcar service that mentioned one of the best things about electric transit was - no roaches. They didn't explain, or even seem to understand why, but they pointed out that streetcars never seemed to have them while busses did. It matched with my own observations as well.

Electric vehicles are for stupid leftists. I will proudly keep driving my V8 that guzzles gas. Love it.