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EV's are NOT America's future!
- Thread starter H2O MAN
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I just drove my 2017 FIAT 124 from Ocean Springs Mississippi to Atlanta. About 395 miles or so...
1st off... don't drive a FIAT 124 for 400 miles for about 6 hours. After 3 hours, the seats feel like you're sitting on a park bench.
2nd it was literally the worst drive of my life... apparently no one in Alabama knows that you don't drive in the left lane going the speed limit, with absolutely no intention of passing cars on your right.
3rd Every Tesla driver was guilty of driving in the left lane the entire time. ( to be fair, I only saw 3 Tesla's today. But rest assure you, they were all in the left lane. ) I can't make this Shist up...
Thank the good lord above for Google maps that diverted me off to Lagrange Ga. That took me out of about 3 hours of extra traffic, if I had stayed on 85 north. It was the best 45 miles of top down cruising at 70 miles per hour. Even when the speed limit was 60 mpg, it was fine... no fighting with retards who can't drive.
Tesla can suck it...
My Wife and I spent lots of time commuting for work. So we always kept good road cars
If I read this correctly...Teslas are very comfy as to give the sense you're not in a hurry to get off a park bench of a ride. And people in Alabama are converting to Teslas. That's great news!!!
You dont know the difference between Miles Per Gallon and Miles Per Hour...you're forgiven, happens all the time to Tesla haters. Tesla people have no inkling to the meaning of MPG
Student burned alive inside Tesla Cybertruck 'after doors locked shut'
Krysta Michelle Tsukahara, 19, was one of three who died when the vehicle smashed into a tree at high speed in Piedmont, California, last November.
I admit the vehicles themselves are not terrible and that they have real potential to get much better, but we should reinvest in the the power infrastructure for generation and delivery of electricity across the nation before we flood the roads with EVs ... build nuclear power plants all over the country so we have an overabundance of electricity with redundant backup systems so rolling blackouts are a thing of the past.
"Rolling blackout"... is that the term for an EV with dead batteries?
And just to pitch back in because some of the participants in this thread don't seen to understand the economics of getting electrons to the charging points they need for their EVs.
Most of us know that the buildout of new data centers for AI are incurring costs to the consumer by way of increased infrastructure funding to meet power needs. Generation and distribution will always lag demand, and, at present, the distribution companies are concentrating their resources on data centers and not on upgrading residential and light industrial infrastructure:
They're spending it on supplying data centers. Because if they don't, the data centers will build their own generating capacity and then the existing utility companies will lose future business.
hls.harvard.edu
Harvard says "may". The reality is that not so much in GA, but in many places, they already are.
It doesn't really matter that much what your opinion is about whether subsidizing some of the world's largest companies in building out these centers, the reality is that their demand for electricity and that supply lag in power generation and distribution has a profound effect on EV adoption too. That increase in cost (no matter what line it's on in your energy bill) is a price signal. Competition for electricity at everyone's breaker box is increasing.
Until (and unless) the power generation and distribution infrastructure is upgraded (or demand for electricity falls) the economics of powering everything by electricity will continue to be uncertain, and the attendant risks greater.
There's a reason few cities use EVs for primary EMS response and fire suppression. They can't be sure they'll be able to charge them when they need to.
It's that simple.
Most of us know that the buildout of new data centers for AI are incurring costs to the consumer by way of increased infrastructure funding to meet power needs. Generation and distribution will always lag demand, and, at present, the distribution companies are concentrating their resources on data centers and not on upgrading residential and light industrial infrastructure:
They're spending it on supplying data centers. Because if they don't, the data centers will build their own generating capacity and then the existing utility companies will lose future business.
How data centers may lead to higher electricity bills - Harvard Law School
According to environmental and energy law expert Ari Peskoe, the public is paying for the energy infrastructure used to power Big Tech.
hls.harvard.edu
Harvard says "may". The reality is that not so much in GA, but in many places, they already are.
It doesn't really matter that much what your opinion is about whether subsidizing some of the world's largest companies in building out these centers, the reality is that their demand for electricity and that supply lag in power generation and distribution has a profound effect on EV adoption too. That increase in cost (no matter what line it's on in your energy bill) is a price signal. Competition for electricity at everyone's breaker box is increasing.
Until (and unless) the power generation and distribution infrastructure is upgraded (or demand for electricity falls) the economics of powering everything by electricity will continue to be uncertain, and the attendant risks greater.
There's a reason few cities use EVs for primary EMS response and fire suppression. They can't be sure they'll be able to charge them when they need to.
It's that simple.
Only if it dies while you happen to be going downhill...
Man and dog die after being trapped in CorvetteStudent burned alive inside Tesla Cybertruck 'after doors locked shut'
Krysta Michelle Tsukahara, 19, was one of three who died when the vehicle smashed into a tree at high speed in Piedmont, California, last November.www.dailymail.co.uk
Damn those cars with Internal Combustion Engines! They're all death traps!
Seriously, this problem isn't ICE or EV, it's "let's design the doors to need electrical power to open".
