Big oil
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rod
Retired 22 years
An electric car that I would have to stop every 200 miles for 20 minutes to get an 80% charge would definitely be a deal breaker for me. I bitch every time the wife wants to stop for a bathroom break or get a cup of coffee. I don't drink coffee and apparently have a much better bladder than Ma.
Fred's Myth
Nonhyphenated American
When they make all roadbeds into wireless charging stations, I might consider one.
Have you priced the cost of the charger you'll need at home?
oldngray
nowhere special
and don't forget to factor in battery life and replacement costs
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
$500 plus instillation.
It will be fine
Well-Known Member
They have slow charge options for at home that are basically an extension cord. Works fine if you charge over night.
I may be wrong but don't they require 220 volts like a dryer?
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
That would be for a quicker charge. You can still charge with 110, it'll just take longer.
The ideal is you plug your car into a solar island in the parking lot at work, get a full charge throughout the day, go home, plug in and back feed most of your home's electrical system, or at least add to your home's battery bank capacity. That's a set up I am working towards.
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DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
I don't think my neighbors would appreciate an extension cord going through my front yard and over the sidewalk to my car.
Re-Raise
Well-Known Member
No one has a garage in the trailer park?
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
Tunnel under the sidewalk and run the cord through a conduit. Robert's your mother's brother.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
We actually don't even have a sidewalk green strip in my area.
I'm just saying it's not all cookie cutter for electric charging. There's a lot of people who street park in cities.
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zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
I never meant to suggest that I think everyone could, or even should, have an electric car and charge it at home. I am working towards producing all my electricity at home. I'd rather have a hybrid than a straight up electric, but having a car that I could charge at one of the free charging stations around town during the day and plug into my home electrical system at night would be a nice bonus.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
I really wonder what they auto market is gonna look like by the time electric has majority share of the market. Kids don't even seem to want cars like they used to.
We've got a subscription generation being raised right now that doesn't seem very interested in ownership of anything.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Cars will be driving themselves mostly any way. You’re right kids won’t much care when they get a license.
Free charging stations would be a good way for churches to slow if not reverse their dwindling attendance if not for the fact that for many so called "Christians" the internal combustion engine is their god.
If only we had been able to take the thousands of American lives lost and the trillions spent defending Middle East oil and dedicated it to EV's and clean fuel technology.... the nation as a whole might have been much better for it.
If only we had been able to take the thousands of American lives lost and the trillions spent defending Middle East oil and dedicated it to EV's and clean fuel technology.... the nation as a whole might have been much better for it.
Fred's Myth
Nonhyphenated American
Nothing in life is free.
DIDO dismisses anything that conflicts with his Reagan era viewpoint of the 21st century. If American's truly want to become a more isolationist nation EV's are a good place to start. Trouble is components are made from rare earth minerals and 70% are located in China. So pick your poison....Middle East Kingdoms or China?
Netsua 3:16
AND THAT’S THE BOTTOM LINE
Pure ignorance. As if we can rely on low oil prices to forever boost the economy? Then push all blame on the placeholder when the prices go up? Pure friend’ing ignorance. This is inevitable. We’ve killed how many people in an effort to control the oil game??? And we still can’t keep up. Because it’s a dying resource. We need to get over it and wake up
I’m not trumpeting Joe Bilbo here, unfortunately I have to make that clear. He’s just the friend’ing puppet man.
I’m not trumpeting Joe Bilbo here, unfortunately I have to make that clear. He’s just the friend’ing puppet man.
