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Electric Cars -- anyone own one?

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Ah, fake news I can trust !
 
This just in! Delaware is following California’s green initiative by banning all fossil fuel car sales by 2035. I would guess they should also consider banning all fossil fuels for home heating, too. It only makes sense, right? Shouldn’t that also include the rest of the US, moving forward? I mean, if we’re going to embrace this thought, we shouldn’t be hypocritical about it!:eek:
 
Time to find out how hypocritical the libs really are. The fact is over half the cobalt in every EV car battery originates from the southern Congo mines. No matter the claims, the fact is that indentured black workers from age 5 upwards dig most of it out of the ground by hand for a dollar or two a day. They are just paid enough to survive for another day at work. Congo is the only place In the world with sufficient supply of cobalt needed to make lithium batteries we use in all our gadgets, and now EV's. The chinese control the majority of our cobalt demand. Let that one sink in.
 
You know this is funny, not haha funny but here we are in the middle of this cold snap and they are telling us to "conserve" heating our homes, but I guess it's okay to charge my Tesla. SMH at the stupidity of all of this.
 
Did anyone else see where the head of Toyota, at a speech in Thailand, actually had the balls to publicly say they (Toyota) were not sure that going exclusively EV was a good idea (per the Wall Street Journal). Finally, someone with some real qualifications and skin in the game is speaking out. Apparently, he has been preaching this message for awhile, but it has largely gone unheeded, because it is not "politically correct" for lack of a better terms.
 
Did anyone else see where the head of Toyota, at a speech in Thailand, actually had the balls to publicly say they (Toyota) were not sure that going exclusively EV was a good idea (per the Wall Street Journal). Finally, someone with some real qualifications and skin in the game is speaking out. Apparently, he has been preaching this message for awhile, but it has largely gone unheeded, because it is not "politically correct" for lack of a better terms.
Toyota hybrid technology is the best in the world. I have a RAV-4 and it is a joy to drive and gets 44-45 mph in combination city- expressway driving. Lots of power when you want it, quiet enough for my decreased hearing to hear a conversation, and the ability to fill up with gasoline anytime I want. The management is smart and not so woke. So far no mechanical issues in 3 years. Why would they want to throw this technology aside for all electric? They will be easily able to transition if the time comes.
 
I was called by a local Ford dealer. He said Ford was going to require him to put In A level 3 charging station at his dealership for public charging and a level 3 inside for his service dept. The minimum size of each charger is 120 kw. Each charger requires a 300 amp 480v 3 phase power supply. These chargers are supposed to recharge an Ev in less than 1 hr.. IF! THE EV is designed for fast charging. An 1800 Sq ft house can easily opperate on a 25 kw service if it dose not have electric heat. I wonder what size of charger would be required for a Semi truck and the amount of power required to charge 100's of thousands of these freight haulers across the U.S.? Makes no sense to me other than commuting vehicles.
 
I was called by a local Ford dealer. He said Ford was going to require him to put In A level 3 charging station at his dealership for public charging and a level 3 inside for his service dept. The minimum size of each charger is 120 kw. Each charger requires a 300 amp 480v 3 phase power supply. These chargers are supposed to recharge an Ev in less than 1 hr.. IF! THE EV is designed for fast charging. An 1800 Sq ft house can easily opperate on a 25 kw service if it dose not have electric heat. I wonder what size of charger would be required for a Semi truck and the amount of power required to charge 100's of thousands of these freight haulers across the U.S.? Makes no sense to me other than commuting vehicles.
You are not supposed to ask those inconvenient questions. Wait until people start to see the costs being passed to them and how bad the government designed systems work in actual practice. Then these mandates will become the economic and political disasters they really are. EVs and their enthused backers are uninformed or being enriched by our tax dollars. I suspect the money has corrupted again which is just what the politicians are experts at doing.
 
Another factor to consider is that a 120 kw utility transformer while it is setting there waiting for some one to charge their EV is consuming around 25 Kwh of power per day.
 
You are not supposed to ask those inconvenient questions. Wait until people start to see the costs being passed to them and how bad the government designed systems work in actual practice. Then these mandates will become the economic and political disasters they really are. EVs and their enthused backers are uninformed or being enriched by our tax dollars. I suspect the money has corrupted again which is just what the politicians are experts at doing.

I've long thought that there shouldn't be any subsidies (rebates, whatever), meddling. There should be a voluntary industry association, to come up with simple stuff like plug standards. The electrical aspects should simply conform to reasonable safety standards for such gear and charging. And, IF it turns out the overall economics works sufficiently well to attract buyers because it's a better "mousetrap," then good for them.

But, pushing such things before they've been ironed out ... Well, I don't necessarily see disaster, but there are too many things dangling that could easily leave people holding a very big, very expensive "bag."
 
But, pushing such things before they've been ironed out ... Well, I don't necessarily see disaster, but there are too many things dangling that could easily leave people holding a very big, very expensive "bag."
I see a disaster when it comes to government agencies wastefully spending our tax dollars!
 
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