The Electric Car Thread

Coming soon to a state near you unfortunately. I wish our issues were limited to CA but the nonsense is spreading so best prepare yourself for it now.

 

Newsom for president, coming soon

 

Yet record numbers of people are flying, driving, going to national parks, national forests, state parks, campgrounds, concerts, pro sporting events, and every other place that is becoming more expensive and overcrowded. Welcome to the consequences of the earth having more people.

 

Record numbers? I doubt that. Increasing numbers maybe.
Air travel numbers in 2019 were higher than they are today.

 

Conspiracy much ???
Have you considered that there is a difference between correlation and causation?
Do you have any facts to support your theory or just specualtion to create a narrative that matches your belief structure?

 

Censored for the protection of my login credentials…

 

Come on its fishing season and I just wanted to see who would rise to the bait.

 

It's almost the fourth of July. In honor of those who gambled their very lives on the formation of the greatest nation in human history, speak truth to power. To do anything less is simply un-American.

 

You think?

https://simpleflying.com/june-30-2023-busiest-day-in-us-aviation-history/

 

Air travel isn’t at a record yet, but it is close and will be soon enough. How soon depends depends the economy. The rest still applies.

 

Record day for passengers.

After a week of how many flight cancellations?

Sounds like the sort of propaganda one might say about job growth after certain events.

 

On July 1st, the TSA announced that it had recorded its highest-ever
number of passengers screened in a single day.

That's an odd way to put it. Why didn't they say the highest number of passengers
who flew on a single day? Surely that's a number they have available.
Screened passengers is not the same as passengers who actually flew.
And the difference is small, 680 people.
There are a number of oddities in that report.
It uses lawyer phrasing and cites odd numbers.
And why compare June 30, 2023 to Dec 1, 2019, why not compare it to June 30, 2019?
Let's see the average passenger numbers on daily flights, or passenger miles flown
or even total flights on a single day, and show them over an extended period, not one day.
Looks to me like somebody did some cherry-picking to write a rosy article.

 

Someone should do a chart for all the people that have bought EVs and show them the emissions that come off the jets they fly on and the refinery scraps that their cruise ships get to burn in international waters

I cant imagine stopping in the middle of my day for half an hour to recharge......and that is assuming the charger is open when you arrive

I thought only white people would pay money to knowingly inconvenience themselves in the name of virtue signaling, but I've seen a few token asians lately as well.

I run a very busy day/biz......I shave time wherever possible

 

I think they buy them for the acceleration, that’s the main topic of discussion in my experience and the main thing they want to demonstrate.

As far as the charging during a road trip they recommend never charging to 100% anyway, the navigation will lay out a route between charging stations along your route with 15-20 minute sessions. So we’re talking a piss stop & leg stretching session, prefect for my old bladder.

 

Last Friday, I hopped in my truck and trailer here in Columbia, SC. I got out at the Bucees by Barber in Leeds, AL. I did the same thing going home. I don't think the battery car will do that for me.

I do like the idea of one for local stuff.

 

Internal combustion for long trips and electric for local trips for our two cars would work fine for my family. Some people don’t ever take trips by car. All depends on your usage. Retired and not in a hurry? Electric works fine for longer trips. More stretch and pee breaks. With that said, they need to make sure decent food, walking areas and restrooms are available at the chargers. Pulling into an industrial area at 8pm to charge is not so good. Check out the TFL long distance electric drives. Cal to FL and FL to CO.

 

You apparently have been blessed with a bladder of truly epic proportions.

 

I beat him. I left Georgia in a Volvo S60 with the eco weenie motor and did get out of it to pee until I was almost to Crowley, Louisiana. That damn thing got over 600 miles to a tank of gas. It still wasn't out but my bladder couldn't take it anymore. I think the car would have made it. I could not.

Crowley, LA to Cumming, GA - Google Maps

 

My limit is usually around 6 or 6.5 hours; 400 to 450 miles.

 

Once I remembered that locomotive train engines are hybrid powered diesel/electric motors I've accepted that hybrid road vehicles will likely have a large role the future of transportation. Still not a fan of the rare-earth elements being utilized so heavily in battery and solar production, especially for motorized vehicles. EMS workers careers will continue to become more dangerous with every passing year. Environmental issues are simply shifted to different parts of the world, allowing said negative impacts to be 'outside of their own neighborhood and country,' with a clear conscience.
Typed with a modern phone battery in my pocket...