I mean charger a car probably uses less electricity than a dryer cycle per top off, and most everyone has a dryer. Infact, you can technically charge from that outlet as well. I don't see it being a huge issue as most houses are pulling more running AC, microwaves, and it's a short charging time for daily charging.
Why would you want a manual transmission in an ev? They donât even have transmissions, right? Itâs just instant torque. Thatâs why they go 0-60 in under three seconds. Who wants to slow their vehicle down?
This is it in a nutshell for me. The current/upcoming class of EV's will be the test group. This push and the clear issues with Lithium batteries will drive development of other options (hydrogen?) that will make your Rivian or similar the Beta Max of our era.
This was something that I was excited for and would have been better but the powers pushed towards using batteries.
Also would be amazing. And I'm not totally convinced electric is better, I agree with all the comments on mining. I just know if many ICE were electric using one source of fossil fuel to power all the cars vs that one source of fossil fuel plus all the cars that run on them. Obviously if I'm the only person driving electric and the rest of world is burning gas I'm not making a dent in whatever the problem is. I know this is the wrong comment. However, to your comment, I would definitely like to see the same.
These are things I don't know and a tax for sure if coming. Any Tesla people on here have any experience with battery replacement and car depreciation? Older Tesla's seem to hold a lot of there value even through the tech that runs them must be pretty outdated at this point.
The Rivian does seem badass.
The difference is a few gallons of gas and you are golden. An ev is just screwed.
Math doesn't agree with you. From the thread I linked to, they estimate that the resistive heater takes 2-3kw, meaning it takes about 2-3% of the pack, per hour, depending on exterior temps. That is a long way from being screwed.
Iâm talking about what you do when you have depleted your energy. Someone can bring you gas. They canât bring you a charge. At least not easily. And speaking of math you arent calculating the significant energy drop with temperature. There is far less efficiency loss with an ice in freezing temperatures. Case in point if I had my bronco and a Mach e in the garage and went to bed with both having 270 miles of range And woke up to 32 degrees and snow the Mach e magically loses almost 50 percent of its range mean while my Neanderthal bronco can still go roughly the same distance. Electric vehicles are still a generation from being viable. Charging times, infrastructure, and above all cost relegates them to after thought. They are no cleaner than ice and in some cases dirtier when you take into account the environmental toll producing them exacts. Finally when the government has to subsidize them like ethanol you know they are shit. In 2000 they projected electric vehicles to make up 20% of new car sales in 2020 they were less than 5%. Instead of forcing a bullshit half baked idea on people they should be focusing on building an efficient grid to support evâs first. A robust charging network and figure out how to build them affordably with little or no environmental impact. Cars account for less that 10% of pollution in the US. The power plants that power EV are 74% do the math as to what is more ecologicalâŠâŠ..
Ummm.....I bought ALL three....sort of..... Already received my 2021 Bronco Sasquatch, my 2022 Hybrid Maverick and Have a VERY early order on the LIGHTNING!
I was being facetious... point is these are two totally different vehicles, how do you compare the two fairly?
My family lives in rural Virginia, 20 min from a gas station. Your points are valid, but there is also something to be said for them being able to charge/fuel their vehicle from home.
