Reality check on electric cars

[Into the Night]

That is what usually happens. I don't know all the details but some of the chargers and models will quick charge in a few minutes just enough to get people home unless you live in CA.
Where Tesla lost me was a few years back during the Florida hurricane evacuation, Tesla remotely extended the vehicle owners' range. Fuck them. If they can do it, then do it at the time of purchase.

Why the tow truck then? If they can drive home, what do they need the tow truck for?

[Lionfish]

Why the tow truck then? If they can drive home, what do they need the tow truck for?

Tow truck hauls the dead vehiche to the closest charging station. Beyond that I can't help. I drive fuel burners.

[T. A. Gardner]

Yet Germany’s move to a power system largely reliant on weather-dependent renewables is quickly running up against limits—issues that all countries exchanging conventional fuels for wind and solar will eventually face. What happens when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow for hours or even days at a time? And what about the short, dark, cold days of midwinter when renewables of Germany’s power demand?

And it’s not only shortages that are problematic but also surpluses: Stormy days can be so windy that the power flows from wind parks on- and offshore overwhelm the power grid, even triggering its collapse. These electricity tsunamis can threaten the stability of neighboring countries’ energy systems, a brickbat the Poles and Czechs wield. Moreover, when there’s excess power in the grid, prices can go negative, forcing grid operators to pay customers to take the electricity,

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/10...ewable-energy/

Solar and wind won't supply the electricity for battery cars or anything else. They are utter and total fails.

[T. A. Gardner]

Tow truck hauls the dead vehiche to the closest charging station. Beyond that I can't help. I drive fuel burners.

If your Tesla is that down on a charge, it's a brick.

[Into the Night]

Tow truck hauls the dead vehiche to the closest charging station. Beyond that I can't help. I drive fuel burners.

Still a good meme.

[Into the Night]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/10...ewable-energy/

Solar and wind won't supply the electricity for battery cars or anything else. They are utter and total fails.

The SDTC is about to learn that lesson the hard way.

[Lionfish]

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Going electric could cost the auto industry hundreds of thousands of jobs

[Lionfish]

[Walt]

Tow truck hauls the dead vehiche to the closest charging station. Beyond that I can't help. I drive fuel burners.

All gasoline powered engines, and almost of diesel powered engines, use electricity. You might not have the connector yet, but if there is enough electric cars, then every tow truck would have the connector. Much like tow trucks will often carry some gasoline, they would also carry a battery constantly topped up by electricity of the tow truck.

Worth noting that if you do not have a gas tank, and are not willing to siphon gasoline, you must tow an ICE car to a gas station too.

[Walt]

Going electric could cost the auto industry hundreds of thousands of jobs

Much like converting to cars put huge numbers of horse shoe makers out of business.

[Lionfish]

All gasoline powered engines, and almost of diesel powered engines, use electricity. You might not have the connector yet, but if there is enough electric cars, then every tow truck would have the connector. Much like tow trucks will often carry some gasoline, they would also carry a battery constantly topped up by electricity of the tow truck.

Worth noting that if you do not have a gas tank, and are not willing to siphon gasoline, you must tow an ICE car to a gas station too.

Sweet Jesus Wally, you are a genius. Why didn't Elon Musk think of that? We could just have a gasoline powered tow truck drive to the EV and connect it's generator to the disabled vehicle and wait for 12 hours while it recharges. Who woulda thunk?

Also worth noting, if I ever run out of gasoline I just push a button in the headliner and a vehicle will deliver me a gallon or two of gasoline.

[Walt]

We could just have a gasoline powered tow truck drive to the EV and connect it's generator to the disabled vehicle and wait for 12 hours while it recharges.

Would you put 10 gallons of gasoline into a car that has run out of gasoline? No, of course not. You only need to put enough fuel into a vehicle to get it to the next refueling station.