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As long as the batteries do not have transponders.
Ragnar
a server issue that prevented people from driving their EVs
but it also opens a bigger door
some EVs can be turned off on people
I've been preparing for some 20 years. Watching the methodology of comfort and security traded for freedom and liberty.
John Calhoun's experiments with mice and rats in closed environments is becoming human reality. Aberrant behaviors of heightened aggression and withdrawal. No meaningful rights of passage for maturing young adults. The distractions of prosperity degrading into subjective hedonism (compare 1920s to 2020s) in drugs, alcohol, fetishes.
battery reliability
EV range in various weather
power generation
power grid
recharge time
use in emergency vehicles and recharge
can you imagine a Fire Engine needing a recharge at a fire? do we need battery trucks now also?
but the recharge time is a question
they would need enough to get to a safe place
but a valid idea to explore
LOL!!!
need a partner?
LOL
Bring lunch and reading material as you kick back and relax while the charging takes place. And the meter goes "ka-ching ka-ching".
Maybe we can offer additional services during charge time. Vacuum and cleaning? Wash and wax? Perhaps offer entertainment for a fee - trailer with comfort seating and a big screen TV (air and heat as needed, of course). After all this could go on for hours. Snack bar and necessary facilities? We'll need a quad cab pickup in case we need a few employees on a particular call. Maybe we could petition government to force insurance companies to cover the costs - it is a road hazard with public safety concerns - and that would make sure we get paid the big bucks.
And about 6 years later I got to see some real computers that took up whole buildings at Rocketdyne in Canoga Park. I got a job at their test facility in the Santa Susana mountains, now contaminated from a Sodium Reactor and other things we knew little about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_S...
But, as with roof PV, from a cost perspective they don’t make sense if you’re wanting to save money. Even if you are off grid with your own power for charging, gasoline is still cheaper and will likely always be so absent heavy handed government mandates.
A real eye opener is to consider an electric rover versus a liquid fuel rover on Mars. As the economics involved are dominated by transport costs and transport is limited by rocket capacity, even their liquid fuel rules supreme.
So if in a fully new space where there is no existing industry and infrastructure to compete with, EVs can’t compete, what hope is there for them to compete against that same tech when it has the infrastructure and industry to support it?
And just to be clear, the things WV rovers lose out on would be quite familiar: range, resupply time and expense (energy), maintenance, repair, flexibility, and cost to power.
We had a solar salesman give us a presentation at our new house. I've been attracted to solar for a number of years and was curious.
Doing some "pre-sales" research, we discovered that our electric bill was averaging $53 a month (we have natural gas) and was 1/3 the cost of our old house.
After all his calculations, we figured we would be paying $115 a month, for the next 20 years, just to pay off the solar installation.
With both of us in our 60's, we'd never see a payback on the system, so we politely declined.
back up solar feeding a battery system
not connected to the grid
and i'd want a spare in EMP protection
Gosh...where did I hear thus just recently? What was the reaction by my fellow non-Gulch citizens?
Haha....
follow the money...
and desire to control We the People
In my opinion the answer to this issue is for us to convert over to using hydrogen as our fuel source. Current ICE vehicles can be converted to run on hydrogen, and as hydrogen is the most common element in the Universe we will never run out.
I know, people talk about it having so much energy in it. This is true but not as relevant as how much you can extract. People make the same mistake in reverse with ethanol. Ethanol
has less, true. But in an engine designed for it, we get more of it out.
I usually describe it thusly:
I have two suitcases of money. One has a million bucks in it, the other has 700k in it. On the surface you’d want the first one. But there is a catch. You can only get 40% out of the first one, but 80% out of the second. Now which do you want?
Hydrogen has tons in it, but we can’t extract but a fraction of it and it takes more than we extract to make it. This is borne out in diesel heavy trucking versus HICE when diesel has a significantly total cost of operation. If you compare HICE energy chain efficiency to diesel, diesel is about 2x as efficiency - and that is not counting the energy that goes into producing the hydrogen. That last bit is missing from every single pro-hydrogen article.
When you do a full comparative analysis, hydrogen is a poor choice. The amount of energy that would be needed is far and above what we can produce (sounds familiar eh?) and where do you get that from? The best answer is nuclear. But if you go nuclear the more efficient cycle is electric storage in batteries for vehicles. On that way mass hydrogen and electric vehicles share the same problem: that of electrical production and distribution.
just like with EVs, if serious, were are the power lines in the streets to give power to them, where are the solar panels in orbit??
With subsidies maintaining the entire infrastructure required to make them work they are still expensive, unreliable and difficult to maintain. It may be that until electricity can be produced incredibly cheaply and power lines laid into the roads to supply constant power they will never be able to compete. Even then they could not provide the freedom of choice to leave the road for the trail less traveled.
When government plunders people who would not make a choice to enforce and provide a choice for those misguided people who think they are saving the world by creating more pollution than they would if they would drive a gasoline powered car then mistakes are not only made they are magnified until the destruction is so complete that it cannot be ignored and they give up.
Then they will request those who can use violence to direct others to make another unwise choice, wind powered cars, and use the existing system of violence to continue to force others to live unwisely. I think the government should enforce the production of buggy whips. All those unfortunate people who know how are not gainfully employed. I have a long list of where the government should be employed to help make the world fair, just and the Utopia that I have always dreamed it could be.
Pluses> quick, silent, techkie for the geek in me, fill 'er up at home.
Minuses> Cost, Range, Batteries from China, too much tech, in a world with already too much tech.
Add this all together with an already strained electric grid and it doesn't add up.
Last: the big push for going electric is contradictory.
The Woke doesn't want hydrocarbon fuels (oil does not come from rotting dinosaurs) and they don't want nuclear.
On a still night, zero power is coming from "renewables" That doesn't leave enough juice for a light bulb and a dorm fridge.
Zero-Point Energy exists. Be it ancient technology or off-world reverse engineered, we know it exists.
Until the powers that enslave us economically allow it to be known (and why would they?) Electric cars will remain play things for the rich.
Then there is the control factor (hat tip to mhubb)
https://youtu.be/piXwDW36jBQ
This deserves its own post.
Basically, you have to own this thing for like 8 years to get to 70% OF a normal cars carbon.
If you own it for 2yrs, you are under water on Carbon damage. (It would have been better to drive a normal vehicle, your total carbon footprint would be smaller).
Now, some of this is a problem of SCALE, and some of this is the DIRTY Mining for the elements...
i used to drive 70 miles back and forth to work
in the worse conditions, using a EV for that range would be possible (cold hurting battery charge, cold requiring the heater, ect)
but that would mean it is a second vehicle
An immobile population is at risk of not being able to evacuate. The bigger Question is why do we let the Delete who push this on us continue to breath.