The Real Costs of Electric Car Ownership - CNET

[Ingomike]

Biden's traffic boss will force you to "live a simpler life"

Back in February, Joe Biden nominated Ann Carlson to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. He did this despite the fact that Carlson had no experience in the field and had previousl...

hotair.com

 

[actaeon277]

The root cause... we have too many people that are okay with telling other people what to do (or being told).. as long as it's what THEY want.
Not thinking that will eventually work against them.

 

[Ingomike]

Homeowner Says Do Not Buy EVs After Mercedes EV Loaner Burns to a Crisp, Taking Her Home with It

One woman learned the hard way why buying an electric vehicle is a horrible idea, and now she is warning others to avoid them like the plague.

www.westernjournal.com

 

[Ingomike]

Cargo Ship Transporting Nearly 500 EVs Burns for a Week before Being Towed into Port

Some good news from the world of science: Researchers make discovery that could lead to safer lithium-metal batteries.

legalinsurrection.com

 

[actaeon277]

Cargo Ship Transporting Nearly 500 EVs Burns for a Week before Being Towed into Port

Some good news from the world of science: Researchers make discovery that could lead to safer lithium-metal batteries.

legalinsurrection.com

That or redesign ships specifically for carrying electric cars.

 

[Ingomike]

That or redesign ships specifically for carrying electric cars.

What could be done?

 

[actaeon277]

What could be done?

More compartments.
Ability to flood compartment with either water, or gas.
Strong centralized control system with sensors and redundancy in both control and sensors

Larger crews to fight the fire.
Ships use the minimum to do the job.
Fighting fire takes bodies.

Train the crews on these types of fire.
Equip the crews.

Require manufacturers to start conducting research for land based, and ship based firefighting techniques.

 

[actaeon277]

And yes, that cuts into profits, making elec cars more expensive

 

[jwamplerusa]

Interesting, Purdue is running a survey for the State of Indiana. I'm going to go out on a limb and state that they probably will not like my answers...

https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eepFAOGph6DLlFc

Feel free to provide feedback, it will go to the Indiana DOT.

So stupid question, but why is government using my tax dollars to build out infrastructure for electric vehicles, is this not what private industry should be doing (if such infrastructure was actually viable of course)? I don't approve, I want those dollars confiscated from my earnings returned.

 

[jamil]

What could be done?

Oh, I dunno. Don't sell engineers short. They can figure **** out.

 

[Ingomike]

Oh, I dunno. Don't sell engineers short. They can figure **** out.

Act covered the answer well…

 

[actaeon277]

Act covered the answer well…

I'm sure I missed things.


Just as I'm sure nothing will be done.

 

[Ingomike]

WaPo acknowledges EV industry’s ‘treacherous conditions’ for overseas mineral miners

The report highlghts one of many consequences that often go unaddressed in EV talks.

justthenews.com

 

[JCSR]

Interesting article about poor decisions all around.

Bala's first stop was about 350 kilometres south of Winnipeg in Fargo, N.D. He paid $56 to charge his vehicle's battery from 10 per cent up to 90 per cent.

The trouble started at his next stop in Albertville, Minn., where Bala said the only fast charger brought up a faulty connection message in his truck when he plugged in. He called the number on the charger for help but never got a response.

He headed to another charging station in nearby Elk River, Minn., but a charger there wouldn't work either, he said.

With only 15 kilometres remaining on his battery and no fast charger within that range, he decided to ditch his Lightning. Bala got it towed to a Ford dealership and the family rented a gas-powered Toyota 4Runner to finish their trip to Chicago.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/electric-vehicle-trip-charging-infrastructure-1.6932074

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

This would suck. Anyone that has ever had an electrical cable for anything can easily imagine these charger connectors being bad a significant percentage of time…especially once they get more use on them. Count on frequent charging stations being offline at any given time.

$130,000 to be ecologically responsible? Screw that.

Man forced to ditch Ford EV truck during family road trip to Chicago: ‘biggest scam of modern times’

A Canadian man is sharing his frustrating experience – and the expenses incurred – after he purchased a Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck earlier this year.

finance.yahoo.com

 

[jkaetz]

This would suck. Anyone that has ever had an electrical cable for anything can easily imagine these charger connectors being bad a significant percentage of time…especially once they get more use on them. Count on frequent charging stations being offline at any given time.

$130,000 to be ecologically responsible? Screw that.

Man forced to ditch Ford EV truck during family road trip to Chicago: ‘biggest scam of modern times’

A Canadian man is sharing his frustrating experience – and the expenses incurred – after he purchased a Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck earlier this year.

finance.yahoo.com

For 130k I can think of some much nicer vehicles that wouldn't have a problem finding fuel.

 

[Ingomike]

To those who say “I got my truck don't matter”…

Cameras Punishing Drivers in Name of Climate Change Disabled by Furious Vigilantes

Residents are fighting back as an out-of-control government moves in to tax them to death in fealty to the religion of climate change.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

 

[actaeon277]

To those who say “I got my truck don't matter”…

Cameras Punishing Drivers in Name of Climate Change Disabled by Furious Vigilantes

Residents are fighting back as an out-of-control government moves in to tax them to death in fealty to the religion of climate change.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

I hope those guys have 'war gamed' out possible future responses.
Just cause they're getting away with it now, doesn't guarantee future success.

 

[Ingomike]

I hope those guys have 'war gamed' out possible future responses.
Just cause they're getting away with it now, doesn't guarantee future success.

The biggest failing of those that want to preserve our political heritage is the “that will never happen” group. Some on this very site and several that tucked tail after being proven completely wrong about wuwho flu issues…

 

[actaeon277]

The biggest failing of those that want to preserve our political heritage is the “that will never happen” group. Some on this very site and several that tucked tail after being proven completely wrong about wuwho flu issues…

If they're not planning on police responses, they they're "planning to lose".