heckler56
Active member
Earlier this year I started a thread on EVs. I stand by the comments raised. The video highlights some issues against the agenda to make people adopt these.
4 months into my EV ownership, yes, my electric costs are cheaper than if I purchased gas. However, my Michigan utility just announced rate increases coming June 1st. When there is more demand on electricity does anyone think the price will go down?
All the banter about how to get road dollars out of EVs is a joke. The solution should be simple, pay a tax on charging per Kwh. The people that drive have to recharge. People driving instate and from out of state need to recharge here. Hiking registration fees and gps monitoring does not really address usage like recharging. My home charger is “tied” to my utility. They see exactly what I am using I cannot undo that. Could I charge with a common houseplug, sure, just don’t plan to drive for 3 days.
For me living in the country it is not ideal. I drive into town going down hills and use the regenerative braking and it charges the batteries. Going home uphill will tap my predictive miles remaining by 1/3.
It is true over in Europe they are forcing the conversion over to EV. I read volumes of information from there both good and bad. Like most things being justified to the public it is covering up those mining practices mentioned in the video or that a EVs carbon footprint is 65% compared to a ICE vehicle 35% at manufacturing. EVs only can surpass a ICE if you use a solar charging. The video briefly mentioned the blades on the windmills. Currently in the US we have two places those retired blades are buried for the next generations to deal with. The plastic and fiberglass materials have a limited useful life but will last for well over 1k years.
One other notable issue is our electric grid. In Europe most power lines are underground. No problems like the Houston freeze or California fires to knock out service.
A scientist I worked with in the early 90’s would curse about how we beat up autos as polluting yet they represented less than 3% of all pollution. The highest contributors were manufacturing and off road vehicles.
Grub, I support you in going this path as it seems you are going in with your eyes open and realize it will be like having a 10 gallon tank of fuel (or a Nitro 7 gallon tank). For us I decided to try it while the subsidies are around. Can I drive at a moments notice to Chicago and back in a day, only after 5 one hour stops to recharge. That is about 4 1/2 more hours than in a ICE vehicle.
EVs are great for urban areas but not so much for rural.
4 months into my EV ownership, yes, my electric costs are cheaper than if I purchased gas. However, my Michigan utility just announced rate increases coming June 1st. When there is more demand on electricity does anyone think the price will go down?
All the banter about how to get road dollars out of EVs is a joke. The solution should be simple, pay a tax on charging per Kwh. The people that drive have to recharge. People driving instate and from out of state need to recharge here. Hiking registration fees and gps monitoring does not really address usage like recharging. My home charger is “tied” to my utility. They see exactly what I am using I cannot undo that. Could I charge with a common houseplug, sure, just don’t plan to drive for 3 days.
For me living in the country it is not ideal. I drive into town going down hills and use the regenerative braking and it charges the batteries. Going home uphill will tap my predictive miles remaining by 1/3.
It is true over in Europe they are forcing the conversion over to EV. I read volumes of information from there both good and bad. Like most things being justified to the public it is covering up those mining practices mentioned in the video or that a EVs carbon footprint is 65% compared to a ICE vehicle 35% at manufacturing. EVs only can surpass a ICE if you use a solar charging. The video briefly mentioned the blades on the windmills. Currently in the US we have two places those retired blades are buried for the next generations to deal with. The plastic and fiberglass materials have a limited useful life but will last for well over 1k years.
One other notable issue is our electric grid. In Europe most power lines are underground. No problems like the Houston freeze or California fires to knock out service.
A scientist I worked with in the early 90’s would curse about how we beat up autos as polluting yet they represented less than 3% of all pollution. The highest contributors were manufacturing and off road vehicles.
Grub, I support you in going this path as it seems you are going in with your eyes open and realize it will be like having a 10 gallon tank of fuel (or a Nitro 7 gallon tank). For us I decided to try it while the subsidies are around. Can I drive at a moments notice to Chicago and back in a day, only after 5 one hour stops to recharge. That is about 4 1/2 more hours than in a ICE vehicle.
EVs are great for urban areas but not so much for rural.
