Have you checked that there are no chargers on route or just assuming none because you didn't see any? Using the charger on route will more than likely be determined by your bladder and you'll need to charge long before the battery is flat so the charge needed will only be for a partly depleted battery - with EVs you charge when you park (if you can), you do not run from full to flat like an ICE and then recharge.
1. That is not going to happen overnight so the grid has time to upgrade. In the UK, the National Grid operators have said that it won't be a problem even if it did happen over night.
2. In most cases the average daily journey is quite small, you'll probably only need to charge at the weekends when you are at home during the day so home solar charging is possible. My average drive is about 10 miles per day around London and if i had an I-Pace I could get almost 30+ days between charges (EVs have better mileage around town as opposed to ICE) The I-Pace is reputed to get upto 360 around town as opposed to 250 on long journeys (Jaguars own stats).
"Watch for huge battery disposal fees" eh? these will all be recycled and then turned into home storage, the company that recycles them will buy the old batteries
Batteries are under development that are removing or reducing rare metals so it might be short lived issue. Solid state batteries are also under heavy development
"Most modern sedans aren't very loud." true but still nowhere near as quiet in the cabin as an EV - its the lack of cabin noise they are talking about mainly not external tyre noise
Even drivers of loud cars will get done for running over a blind pedestrian. Top range cars like Rolls Royce, Mercedes etc are very quiet - is that a problem too?
The Japanese/Koreans learnt how to make good vehicles and they still keep improving them whereas GM/Ford seem to have adopted the " this'll do " attitude and rested on their laurels. Trump doesn't help by reducing the fuel consumption targets which helps them stop innovating. They are going to struggle as EV trucks come to the market in the next few years. Tesla is developing pickups as is Rivian, Workhorse, Bollinger. Innovate or die.
Trump is claiming credit for all the stuff that Obama put into place to correct the mess Bush left behind, economic changes take a few years to happen.
" The first slave owner in the US and the one who fought a lengthy legal battle through the British colonial courts to make slavery legal was a black tobacco farmer named Anthony Johnson."
Not quite correct. He was not the first slave owner in the US but he was one of the first people in Virginia to have his right to own a slave legally recognised. Snopes and Wikipedia seem to be on the same page with this explanation. "Anthony Johnson was not the first slave owner in American history, but he was, according to historians, among the first to have his lifetime ownership of a servant legally sanctioned by a court.
A former indentured servant himself, Anthony Johnson was a “free negro” who owned a 250-acre farm in Virginia during the 1650s, with five indentured servants under contract to him. One of them, a black man named John Casor, claimed that his term of service had expired years earlier and Johnson was holding him illegally. In 1654, a civil court found that Johnson in fact owned Casor’s services for life, an outcome historian R Halliburton Jr. calls “one of the first known legal sanctions of slavery — other than as a punishment for crime.”"
Tesla is eating the US and EU manufacturers lunch in the Luxury sector.
"They are such a miniscule fraction of the market they are little more than a rounding error to most of the large manufacturers." - this is a meaningless jibe as they are a young company compared to the 100 year old ones.
No-one say Telsa is selling millions of cars but they are saying that their production is in the upward trend. Telsa is the best selling car in the USA luxury sector. Your delusional prediction of Telsa's demise has already proven to be shit, your anti-tesla nonsense makes you out to be as much a fanboy (negative one) as you accuse anyone of liking tesla to be a fanboy.
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Have you checked that there are no chargers on route or just assuming none because you didn't see any? Using the charger on route will more than likely be determined by your bladder and you'll need to charge long before the battery is flat so the charge needed will only be for a partly depleted battery - with EVs you charge when you park (if you can), you do not run from full to flat like an ICE and then recharge.
Why call an EV "price inflated"? its just more expensive because its new tech that not yet mass produced in the numbers ICE are.
Not at refineries in the UK. One refinery admitted they use as much electricity as a small city.
1. That is not going to happen overnight so the grid has time to upgrade. In the UK, the National Grid operators have said that it won't be a problem even if it did happen over night.
2. In most cases the average daily journey is quite small, you'll probably only need to charge at the weekends when you are at home during the day so home solar charging is possible. My average drive is about 10 miles per day around London and if i had an I-Pace I could get almost 30+ days between charges (EVs have better mileage around town as opposed to ICE) The I-Pace is reputed to get upto 360 around town as opposed to 250 on long journeys (Jaguars own stats).
they are talking about the EV called the Leaf, not one of those things that fall off a tree
https://insideevs.com/watch-20...
"Watch for huge battery disposal fees" eh? these will all be recycled and then turned into home storage, the company that recycles them will buy the old batteries
they can buy a Lear jet for that. This is probably good for a small operator making a entry into air taxis - UBER of the skies :)
Why? a lear jet carries about the same amount of passengers.
Batteries are under development that are removing or reducing rare metals so it might be short lived issue. Solid state batteries are also under heavy development
"Most modern sedans aren't very loud." true but still nowhere near as quiet in the cabin as an EV - its the lack of cabin noise they are talking about mainly not external tyre noise
Even drivers of loud cars will get done for running over a blind pedestrian. Top range cars like Rolls Royce, Mercedes etc are very quiet - is that a problem too?
so for a long journey, you never need to stop for a piss break for you or your passenger and for a longer journey you never stop for lunch?
and you don't mention wind, hydro or nuclear power.
Just shut down the petrol processing plants as they use the power of a town. The UK grid says there is no problem with EV charging.
so how do you fill up with gas in these areas? i'm sure service stations require power to pump gas
Virtually all cars have a defect at some time in their lives - google Ford+defective+transmissions and you get https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/0...
The Japanese/Koreans learnt how to make good vehicles and they still keep improving them whereas GM/Ford seem to have adopted the " this'll do " attitude and rested on their laurels. Trump doesn't help by reducing the fuel consumption targets which helps them stop innovating. They are going to struggle as EV trucks come to the market in the next few years. Tesla is developing pickups as is Rivian, Workhorse, Bollinger. Innovate or die.
Trump is claiming credit for all the stuff that Obama put into place to correct the mess Bush left behind, economic changes take a few years to happen.
" The first slave owner in the US and the one who fought a lengthy legal battle through the British colonial courts to make slavery legal was a black tobacco farmer named Anthony Johnson."
Not quite correct. He was not the first slave owner in the US but he was one of the first people in Virginia to have his right to own a slave legally recognised. Snopes and Wikipedia seem to be on the same page with this explanation.
"Anthony Johnson was not the first slave owner in American history, but he was, according to historians, among the first to have his lifetime ownership of a servant legally sanctioned by a court. A former indentured servant himself, Anthony Johnson was a “free negro” who owned a 250-acre farm in Virginia during the 1650s, with five indentured servants under contract to him. One of them, a black man named John Casor, claimed that his term of service had expired years earlier and Johnson was holding him illegally. In 1654, a civil court found that Johnson in fact owned Casor’s services for life, an outcome historian R Halliburton Jr. calls “one of the first known legal sanctions of slavery — other than as a punishment for crime.”"
i see them as pimped up hatchbacks
you'll see an increase in EV trucks too. Rivian, Workhorse, Tesla are all in the process of building EV trucks
that is still is and always be a stupid comparison - 100 year old world wide companies to a young company.
Tesla is eating the US and EU manufacturers lunch in the Luxury sector.
"They are such a miniscule fraction of the market they are little more than a rounding error to most of the large manufacturers." - this is a meaningless jibe as they are a young company compared to the 100 year old ones.
No-one say Telsa is selling millions of cars but they are saying that their production is in the upward trend. Telsa is the best selling car in the USA luxury sector. Your delusional prediction of Telsa's demise has already proven to be shit, your anti-tesla nonsense makes you out to be as much a fanboy (negative one) as you accuse anyone of liking tesla to be a fanboy.
Telsa is best selling luxury sedan in USA https://cleantechnica.com/2018...