Off topic, a little humor?
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petehoovie
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Tinker
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Thoughts: electric cars can only get around 300 miles. Don't even try and pull a boat. I still like them as a run around vehicle. 90% of our travel is less then 100 miles.
Get a hybrid if you want the best of both worlds. Or keep a old truck to pull a boat and electric to go to the grocery store, watering hole, and/or church....
This is a staged video. Funny though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTCeREg_EeU
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Get a hybrid if you want the best of both worlds. Or keep a old truck to pull a boat and electric to go to the grocery store, watering hole, and/or church....
This is a staged video. Funny though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTCeREg_EeU
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aussie merc
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do the sums they actualy cost more to run in $/mile then add in all the rest [like a fast charger for home $5000] and that electricity you buy to run it takes about 6 metric tonnes of coal to make
GB SISSON
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Good one! And us Washintonians have abundant hydroelectric power. This could be a good area for electric cars. Many areas burn fossil fuels to generate electricity. When electric vehicles are all they sell I bet we will be seeing a lot more nuclear power plants. There will be yet another uproar from that. And then there's the mining operations and shipping for all those batteries.....
51504bat
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First, I'm a diehard car guy starting with my first car, a '31 Model A when I was 15 in 1966. And my wife owns a 2017 Chevy Volt. Its perfect for her around town and when we do use it for longer trips beyond the 50 -60 mile electric range it gets over 42 MPH on the freeway. We have a 220 home faster charger that cost less than $1,000.00 installed not $5,000.00. We have roof solar panels that put more into the grid than we use. And while I don't necessarily agree with the push for total electric cars use, CA didn't ban gasoline powered cars in 2035 only that all new cars starting in 2035 can't be gasoline powered. This may or may not turn into reality. There are many issues relating to the electrical grid being up to increased demand and electric car batteries including their disposal/recycling. As the song says "The times they are a changing" It remains to be seen just how much swimming we'll have to do. JMO
I would chuckle, cept for the stupidity.
thought most Americans were a bit smarter.........but Im a learnin.
I went to a local car show yesterday with about 100-150 cars. was surprised that there wasnt one electric there. the concept is as interesting as it is old.
More electric trucks on the road in 1890 then any other vehicle........... gas or steam.
will be interesting to see in 20 yrs if anything has really changed.
thought most Americans were a bit smarter.........but Im a learnin.
I went to a local car show yesterday with about 100-150 cars. was surprised that there wasnt one electric there. the concept is as interesting as it is old.
More electric trucks on the road in 1890 then any other vehicle........... gas or steam.
will be interesting to see in 20 yrs if anything has really changed.
GB SISSON
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Or in a tarpaper shack in the great North Woods and you need to get to town twice a year for flour, sugar and salt.... Oh wait, we don't HAVE electricity.
GB SISSON
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Holy Cow! Free 'Gas' !
It's like free shipping
SoCalCoupe
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Thank you for your thoughtful post. I own 3 cars here in California, a 2005 V8 Mustang convertible, a 2014 Mazda 3 hatchback and a 1941 Ford Coupe flathead. Like you, I have a 100% plus solar system. The next driver car I buy will probably be all electric. Yes, gasoline and gasoline cars will be around for a long time, long after I’m dead, even here in the Peoples Republic of California (I intentionally moved here 2 years ago and love it, not everything, but overall.) As you say, “the song says "The times they are a changing"”
Tinker
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Yep your on it. The path to non fossil fuel is nuclear. No other way to supply the demand. Other then using oil and "green" energy. There is a lot of situations where gas is used that might not be the best option. Lets define "green" energy as one that doesn't produce air pollution. There shouldn't be a thought that there is no byproduct of any product made at a mass industrial level.
Just a thought on power grids. The conventional idea is one big plant that supplies everyone. How about a grid of small powerplants everywhere (like roof panels) feeding the grid. Not the end all and there would have to be a main power supply to manage the difference. But it can't hurt.
Gas isn't going anywhere, anytime soon. Less we figure out fusion.
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tomcarman
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Whatever the answer is remains to be seen. The point of this post is I find humor in irony, absurdity and hipocrisy. The caricature posted embodies all 3 in my opinion. GB notes in post #7 that we here in Washington have abundant hydroelectric power. Not noted is much of that power is exported to California. Also not noted is the movement to breech up to 4 dams for environmental reasons with no plans to replace the energy lost. I believe that given incentives as opposed to mandates the free market and entrepreneurship will succeed in "building a better mousetrap". In the meantime relax and have a laugh.
GB SISSON
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I asked my HS physics teacher if one could couple a generator to an electric motor. All he'd have to do was give it a spin with a rope starter kinda like my british seagull outboard. Voila, free power. Turns out my invention is thwarted by the Demon Friction.Seeing your propeller car made me think that where I live about 600' up a steep mointain road I could coast down my hill and maybe go a 1/2 mile on that charge. But alas, how would I get home? I got the irony in your pic and even showed it to my wife and a friend. We all had a good laugh. The true irony in planning on going all electric and at the same time warning of too much charging is pure Humor!
