re: Electric Vehicles

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Your car is good for 5 hour charge

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What does this mean? Your car will go for a certain amount of miles, not hours.

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Imagine a charge takes 2 hours to fully charge your battery!

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Why imagine that it takes upwards of 8x more time to charge than it actually does?

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What if they have 50 or 100 chargers to charge cars, How long are you going to wait to charge you car and then 2 hours to charge your car!

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Again, why are we imagining scenarios that are not real world scenarios?

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Stupid

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I mean, yea, your mythical scenarios are pretty bad and not real life scenarios.

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There’s a lot of mining needed to produce batteries. Parts of Alabama are already being bought up towards that end. Plus the electricity will be produced by fossil fuels, more of which will be required. The grid infrastructure will need to be beefed up substantially I would suspect. Then there’s battery disposal issues, increased fire risk possibly using less clean generation resources to meet more extreme peak demand… There’s pluses to EVs, but saving the environment has never been one of them.

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Every single electric vehicle, regardless of model, utilizes copper wire as well. Copper isn’t difficult to mine but Afghanistan was out copper mine because companies like the Serrie Nevada club and Save our planet have stocks in over sea mining operations

When I’m reality Alaska has 6 trillion in copper sitting a shovels dig below the secluded tundra. Most think prestige rivers, glaciers, mountains and streams when they picture Alaska, and it has that, but the landmass stretches the same distance as FL to New Mexico. 85% is frozen Tundra inhabited by virtually nothing

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Honest question. If you take a road trip and have to stop to charge your car, how long does that take?

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Generally, 10-15 minutes.

You don't have to charge from 0-100. Using the GPS in the car, it'll tell you how long you need to charge to get to your next supercharger. So you don't even have to charge from 30-100, or anything like that. You just charge enough with a bit of a buffer to get to the next station. On some of the level 3 chargers now, 10 minutes is max, not long at all, certainly not nearly as long as you see a lot of posters in these weekly threads who always say 1-2 hours.

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How much range does that get you?

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My car's max range is 260 miles.

But please see the edit above on my last post, I added a lot more info


Main thing, you don't have to charge all the way to 100% with each stop, the car will tell you how much you need to get to the next supercharger.

In a normal day. I can easily put 300 miles on my car. Obviously I go through cars like water. Buying only used cars with about 50-60k on them. Right now I'm running the last coming year on my Nisson with 215,000 on it.

When someone tells me they have a 275 mile range ...that doesn't get me there and back. To make the point. Use Hollywood to describe why.

And Justice for All. The Judge takes our lawyer on a helicopter ride. He brags about challenging the fuel gauge each time out. Past 1/2 tank ....a little further out. Turns and heads to the airport .....ends up in the water and has to wade ashore because the tank ran out.

So a family day trip must be half range to get there and back.

Meanwhile, Wind and Solar equals the garbage burner, like Bayer, The trash burner like the landfill ....they are the grid heavily regulated by the Utility. They can be cut off and the switches opened if the power is unstable or what we call dirty. With careful planning, the Utility must run their transmission lines as if those co-gens are not available.

Where they get in trouble quickly, becomes Texas in an unanticipated, unplanned winter freeze lasting weeks instead of days. Becomes an East Coast black out simply because a tree limb fell across distribution lines that swung the system wildly and took the whole east coast offline .....Why? Because the Protection Relays were not set properly.

And Biden is proud that less than a tenth of a multi trillion dollar fraud will go toward infrastructure.

I am curious to see what the long term effects on battery life will be with all these hot fast charges. Everything I have ever been taught when it comes to batteries goes against fast charging.

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I love my LED lights and no government mandate had to get me to buy them. They just provide a lot of light that is very energy efficient because they produce very little heat and almost all light.

Then too, there is that bathroom incandescent ligh
t that always went out when I got up to pee.

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Agreed. Anyone thinking LED lights are bad are delusional. I still have some in my house that get turned on every day and have been in use for almost 10 years.

Also, when you see a rating for the light fixtures, it's for incandescent. You can put an LED bulb in (say an overhead fixture in your bathroom) that is 10x the incandescent rating.

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I am curious to see what the long term effects on battery life will be with all these hot fast charges. Everything I have ever been taught when it comes to batteries goes against fast charging.

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Units that have been 100% supercharged only saw minimal degradation over typical use units.

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Sweedish guy blew up his 12 yr old Tesla rather than change the batteries for $20K

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You realize that was a YouTube stunt, right?