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Bewy

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An EV in California with a gas/diesel generator bolted to the rear of the vehicle......to charge the battery!!!
 
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I don't see how electric cars are going to work in this country. Not everyone can charge up at home, and will need to be able to charge up everywhere they go, as that battery degrades. That will be impractical and uneconomical for businesses to install.
 
I don't see how electric cars are going to work in this country. Not everyone can charge up at home, and will need to be able to charge up everywhere they go, as that battery degrades. That will be impractical and uneconomical for businesses to install.
It's about limiting movement, i.e control
 
I don't see how electric cars are going to work in this country. Not everyone can charge up at home, and will need to be able to charge up everywhere they go, as that battery degrades. That will be impractical and uneconomical for businesses to install.
Imagine an apartment building with say 100 units, I'm laughing just thinking about it!
 
Imagine an apartment building with say 100 units, I'm laughing just thinking about it!
Guy was telling me the other day, a fast charge is 120v on a household plug, and a regular one is on a 30a stove plug.... OK cool. Now, about the Service Upgrade to that Building? Lol
 
US population is about 343 million people I think. A huge number have cars.
Imagine what will happen when those that are working come home & plug in their EVs to charge overnight ....

None of this nonsense has been properly thought out or planned for....in any country.....Just ask the Germans who are freezing because of no heat.
 
US population is about 343 million people I think. A huge number have cars.
Imagine what will happen when those that are working come home & plug in their EVs to charge overnight ....

None of this nonsense has been properly thought out or planned for....in any country.....Just ask the Germans who are freezing because of no heat.
Exactly.
 
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Should work well here in Australia if you could mount enough solar panels to the roof, some of our towns are over 700 miles apart how are we supposed to charge up an electric car when the closest town is nearly twice the available range away
 
There is a company that rents a trailer for the long trips. For extra juice.
I am not searching for it though as be worse than having a Russian **** site in my computer's history to have.
 
Guy was telling me the other day, a fast charge is 120v on a household plug, and a regular one is on a 30a stove plug.... OK cool. Now, about the Service Upgrade to that Building? Lol

60A service is needed for EV's is my understanding.

If that's true, there's not one inch of service line in this country that won't have to be upgraded, and that's NOT counting the actual generation.
 
60A service is needed for EV's is my understanding.

If that's true, there's not one inch of service line in this country that won't have to be upgraded, and that's NOT counting the actual generation.
60 amp isn't that much. Ours is 200 a. The old homes with the screw in glass fuses were 60a.
 
60 amp isn't that much. Ours is 200 a. The old homes with the screw in glass fuses were 60a.
You're not thinking globally.
Wanna charge your car while the mandated electric furnace is running, your clothes are drying and the the kids are gaming? Over half the country is only 100 A. Even a 200 A panel is getting warm at that point.
You ain't roasting a Thanksgiving turkey in your mandated electric stove at this point, and if your family members need to charge before they go home....

And that's PER CHARGING STATION.

with you, the wife, a kid in college and high school kid that's.... Math......240 amps.

Now multiply that by every house on every block in your suburb. And that's one suburb in your tiny Iowa town with lots of wind nearby.









Have fun with that.
 
I don't see how electric cars are going to work in this country. Not everyone can charge up at home, and will need to be able to charge up everywhere they go, as that battery degrades. That will be impractical and uneconomical for businesses to install.
They are not going to let the facts get in the way :) Add in winter temps down to -40C and reduced battery life to the equation. Also, around here if you have a hot tub and ac you likely don't have a big enough household service to support an electric car.
 
In hindsight we should have built the power plants and ran powerlines to all the houses before inventing the light bulb.
 
In hindsight we should have built the power plants and ran powerlines to all the houses before inventing the light bulb.

haha - Yes a bit of the chicken and egg scenario. I'm waiting to hear the plans from government and the utilities how how and when they will upgrade our entire infrastructure and add massive generation capacity.

Like a very wise man said about 10 years ago....when the electric car can do everything the IC engine car can do without compromise then they will become common place. We are a long ways from that. (cost, space, range, etc)
 
In hindsight we should have built the power plants and ran powerlines to all the houses before inventing the light bulb.

Yeah but nobody back then could have predicted we'd be a bunch of screen addicted chimps by now.
 
AS I stated in another thread, wait till all EV owners start getting bills from the state and Fed gov, for their share of road tax. Right now it's in the price of fuel. Brothers' boy (know it all), bought a used Tesla. Within 3 months he received a bill. Didn't say which it was from, wouldn't say how much, but it apparently wasn't light. And just think, once everyone goes EV, they can charge whatever they want.
Now I have another prediction. Within, 5-10yrs, people are going to be getting sick, doctors won't know what it is. No cure. People will be getting and dying from "radioactive" or some such, poisoning. The cause, being in close contact to the Lithium batteries, giving off slight "waves", fumes (undetected). Several people I've said this to say I'm crazy. Maybe... Maybe not
 
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