A City Is Replacing Its Entire Fleet of Police Cars With Teslas. MAGAs wet panties.

[Truth Detector]

Well someone has to be the first to test it but yeah, police vehicles are basically never turned off except for repair, refueling or when they are not in use.

This means that Pasadena will need a set of teslas for every shift or that the officers will need to keep going back to the station to get a charged car.

It’s possible to make this work but it’s not very efficient

Unfortunately for the idiots in Pasadena and the rest of Commirfornia, there won't be sufficient power to charge all those vehicles. They're already struggling to keep on the lights.

It takes a special brand of MORON to be a leftist Democrat these days.

[Truth Detector]

There's so much you don't understand about EVs. That's why you're so confused.

Projection.

[Truth Detector]

Get back to me in ten years with how the citizens thought that this worked out, was a good idea.

Hell, make that five years.

One year even.

[Truth Detector]

There's so much you don't understand about EVs. That's why you're so confused.

We’ll explain what I don’t understand

Ok, you start.

This ^^ is the perfect example of why you cannot argue with a lying leftist moron. Any questions?

[Joe Capitalist]

Looks like Truth Denier is having his daily meltdown

[Lionfish]

Looks like Truth Denier is having his daily meltdown

Looks like Joey wet his panties again.

[Joe Capitalist]

White House to Invest $51 Million to Strengthen Nationwide EV Charging Network

The move is part of the administration's effort to build a network of 500,000 public EV charging stations.

Electric vehicles are on the rise in the US, with more than 3 million EVs on the road today. To support EV adoption, the Biden administration has pledged to create a network of half a million public charging ports across the country. On Friday, the administration announced $51 million in funding, with the goal of ensuring the network is resilient and reliable.

The Ride and Drive Electric program will fund efforts aimed at accelerating the transportation sector's shift to EVs, including projects to improve and deploy EV charging stations, according to a Department of Energy news release. The administration also launched a new group, the National Charging Experience Consortium, tasked with making public EV charging easy to use for everyone.
"The EV revolution is well underway, and this funding will help to ensure that every American can access the benefits and count on a reliable EV charging network across the country," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in the release.
The initiative to accelerate nationwide electrification is part of President Joe Biden's Investing in America agenda, which is geared toward making EV charging networks accessible to everyone in the US.

More than 53,000 public charging stations exist in the United States, with California at over 14,000.
The current number of public charging stations is a far cry from the 500,000-station network the administration hopes to build out.
In August, Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which made way for significant clean energy infrastructure developments like the EV tax credit. That credit reduces the price Americans have to pay for EVs made in the US, up to $7,500.
From wider price ranges to more car brands releasing EV models of their own, there hasn't been a better time to buy an EV. Less expensive varieties, like the 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, start at around $29,000

[Joe Capitalist]

This is an interesting experiment. I cannot wait to see what the results are, or even how quickly they can replace a fleet of cars with Tesla vehicles. I wonder if they will have separately charged batteries to run the lights and siren so they can sit forever with the lights on like they do when they are giving out a ticket or directing traffic.

TESLA’S CO-FOUNDER HAS SOME GAME-CHANGING NEWS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF EV BATTERIES

Redwood Materials announced that it can recover 95% of the important metals from batteries.
by Jeremiah Budin*/*May 26, 2023

Great news for anyone hoping to buy an electric car in the future and for anyone who cares about our planet: A company that recycles lithium-ion batteries recently announced that after a yearlong pilot program, it was able to recover important metals from used batteries at an incredible rate of more than 95%.
The company, Redwood Materials, was founded by JB Straubel, one of the five Tesla co-founders and the company’s former CTO.
Tesla has been slowly moving the world away from transport powered by dirty energy sources and toward electric vehicles. EVs are much less destructive to our planet than gas-powered cars, which release around 5 tons of planet-warming gases per year.
However, one issue with EVs is that their batteries rely on lithium, a chemical that has to be extracted from the Earth via mining. This mining process uses excessive amounts of water and is highly destructive to the surrounding environment.*
Though its effects are not as bad as the effects of mining for dirty energy sources like oil and coal, they must be meaningfully addressed in order for EVs to truly be considered environmentally friendly.
That’s why Straubel moved on from the car company to start Redwood Materials.
The problem facing lithium recycling in the past was not that it couldn’t be done. It’s that the infrastructure was not yet in place for it to be economically viable for profit-driven companies. Previously, there have not been enough used lithium-ion batteries recycled on an industrial scale. But as EVs become more and more popular, that is changing quickly.*
And if the preliminary results are any indication, Straubel’s Redwood Materials is more than ready to occupy that space.
For the past year, Redwood Materials has been collecting old EV battery packs from automakers such as Volvo, Ford, and Audi. In total, it collected 1,268 battery packs and recovered the lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper contained within at a whopping rate of above 95% efficiency.
As Electrek points out, this is even better when you consider that the recycling efficiency rate of gasoline is 0%.

[Joe Capitalist]

This is an interesting experiment. I cannot wait to see what the results are, or even how quickly they can replace a fleet of cars with Tesla vehicles. I wonder if they will have separately charged batteries to run the lights and siren so they can sit forever with the lights on like they do when they are giving out a ticket or directing traffic.

Tesla Model 3 owner Ed Fressler recently surpassed the 100,000-mile mark and documented some of his findings in a YouTube video. Fessler purchased his Model 3 in 2018; a Long Range dual-motor all-wheel-drive variant with the Full Self-Driving (FSD) software.

He has been driving his red Tesla Model 3 for 4.5 years. Via the YouTube video, he talks about every important aspect of the car from a real-world usage perspective. He covers battery health and driving range, charging, software updates, maintenance, performance, and more.

When his car was new, Fessler said a full charge indicated a range of 309 miles, nearly identical to the 2018 version’s 310-mile EPA-estimated range. Even though it’s a well-established fact that batteries degrade over time, the drop in range after driving 100,000 miles wasn’t drastic. His Model 3’s screen now displays 290 miles range on a full charge, meaning the battery still holds 94 percent of the original capacity.

[Lionfish]

Joey wets panties

[Walt]

Joey wets panties

I wonder how the gasoline gets from the underground tank up to the tank of the van? What is the power source of the pump? Oh yeah, it is electricity. One day soon, Tesla will be using electric delivery vans, but gasoline powered vans will still be using electricity to pump their gasoline....

And electricity for the spark plugs... And electricity for the headlights... And electricity for the radio... And electricity for the cell phone... We could go on and on.

The fact remains, we only need a few tweaks to be able to survive fine without gasoline, but it would be a mess to try to replace all the electricity in our lives.

[RB 60]

I wonder how the gasoline gets from the underground tank up to the tank of the van? What is the power source of the pump? Oh yeah, it is electricity. One day soon, Tesla will be using electric delivery vans, but gasoline powered vans will still be using electricity to pump their gasoline....

And electricity for the spark plugs... And electricity for the headlights... And electricity for the radio... And electricity for the cell phone... We could go on and on.

The fact remains, we only need a few tweaks to be able to survive fine without gasoline, but it would be a mess to try to replace all the electricity in our lives.

Whatever it is you mean by that rant

Anyway, the more Tesla vans that are charging on the electrical grid, the harder it is on the grid, and more electricity needs produced. Fire up those natural gas and nuclear powered power plants

[Lionfish]

I wonder how the gasoline gets from the underground tank up to the tank of the van? What is the power source of the pump? Oh yeah, it is electricity. One day soon, Tesla will be using electric delivery vans, but gasoline powered vans will still be using electricity to pump their gasoline....

And electricity for the spark plugs... And electricity for the headlights... And electricity for the radio... And electricity for the cell phone... We could go on and on.

The fact remains, we only need a few tweaks to be able to survive fine without gasoline, but it would be a mess to try to replace all the electricity in our lives.

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[Walt]

Fire up those natural gas and nuclear powered power plants

Or whatever other power source that is least expensive, most available, and/or least polluting. And that is the point really.

Electricity can come from any source, while gasoline engines mean you need one thing: gasoline. If gasoline is expensive, you still need gasoline. If gasoline is not available, you still need gasoline. If gasoline is polluting, you still need gasoline.

Heck, you can power an EV with gasoline. You cannot power an ICE with nuclear power.

[RB 60]

Or whatever other power source that is least expensive, most available, and/or least polluting. And that is the point really.

Electricity can come from any source, while gasoline engines mean you need one thing: gasoline. If gasoline is expensive, you still need gasoline. If gasoline is not available, you still need gasoline. If gasoline is polluting, you still need gasoline.

Heck, you can power an EV with gasoline. You cannot power an ICE with nuclear power.

And when you fry the power grid and the transformers on your light pole.....you're screwed.