EV Hummer 4 day charge

[goalieguy847]

Ughh as much as i dont want to defend ol chucky.. seems as though he needs a few allies here...

Theres nothing wrong with evs. At all. Just like avadex... truflex canola... these things ( for example) are just another tool in our toolbox.
Im sure in 10 years the range of the avg electric car will be 800 miles and charging times will be reduced to minutes.. not hours.
I would love to build a huge array of solar panels for our farm and my home. Its a 0 brainer. I also cant pretend like im really making a difference in a carbon footprint by driving an electric F150 as the overall dollar AND carbon cost to build it is just as much as a dinosaur fueled monster truck.

My biggest question is; have we all just been hoodwinked into funnelling our money into something else?
In the 50s when the fertilizer plant outside of Redwater, AB was built they said they would figure out what to do with the gypsum pile being started north of the plant. Since then..the pile has extended 1 mile north and..i dont know...400 feet tall by a mile wide? They have 0 interest in figuring out what to do with slightly radioactive gypsum so they just keep piling...piling..

Point being. Industry doesnt care. Do you, chuckchuck, believe that we are headed down a different path when China..Musk..etc have bought up huge mines ( alot in 3rd world countries with 0 care about environmental sustainability or climate change) and just strip... and strip... and pile.. and pile?
What happens to the batteries in when they die? What happens to the mines when they stop producing? How about all the 90% other components of the tesla car itself? They are made up of what.. 95% petroleum based by products?

It seems like we are just moving our money.. and beliefs..from one evil.. to a future " hopefully" lesser evil.
As for the people who pile on climate change believers..greenies.hippies..etc..
Wouldnt it be nice if they were actually correct? And there was a better way forward?

Hopefully it will be here and we ARE actually on the right path..

Jamming it down our throats when clearly.. CLEARLY... its not a sustainable way AT THE PRESENT TIME... is probably not the best way to get things changed.

[Guest]

AB5 you need a little imagination. I did some research and I found a solar powered car charger built by a company called Electrek. For a cool $60000 USD you can purchase a solar powered charger equipped with a battery that allows you to get up to 235 miles(just under 400km)of chargeable range per day. Very affordable, just like everything in the green transition. Watch Trudeau buy thousands of these!🤪😬

Also keep in mind your chargeable range would be greatly reduced in the winter with far less daylight!

Or if you pulled something behind, heaven forbid
Be like in the early 90’s when chev couldn’t keep a tranny in trucks
Shop foreman said “you better not have been pulling with it”
I said “but, but , it’s a truck”

[blackpowder]

Good point Goalie Guy. But Chuck is still a dumbass.

[biglentil]

Remember when they mandated the end of the standard filament type lightbulb and compact fluorescent was to be the solution. Luckily led was an emerging technology because cfl's were a horrible solution. They are loaded with mercury gas if one were to break in your house the procedure was wild. Evacuate the house, open all windows for 24h, full hazmat cleanup...... disposal of the bulbs was to happen in proper bins were the bulbs were often smashed. Anyways mercury is already persistent in our waterways and environment cfls should never been pushed. Leds were just around the corner anyways. The problem with EV's is lithium batteries. They just dont cut it, range needs to be 1000km plus, battery lifespan of 10yrs minimum, they need to be safer, they need to be cheaper without the difficult to source cobalt, rem's, nickel... I think a better alternative is just around the corner but the push is unessesary the motivation to find better battery tech is already there. A massive amount of infrastructure is being built around lithium, when the new battery tech comes out all that infrastructure will be in the garbage dump.

[chuckChuck]

Most vehicle trips for the vast majority of consumers are suburban daily commutes where extended long range is not as important.

Rural residents are another market. Hybrid electrics and other low emission vehicles will work fine in these circumstances.

The assumption that range, batteries and EV technology to overcome some of the shortcomings of EVs will never improve is ridiculous. But many of the negative nellies are stuck in the past and can hardly imajine the future at best.

There isn't any car companies who aren't planning to have a significant fleet of EVs and hybrids.

High gas prices are driving demand considerably. It will be a transition done over time.

[chuckChuck]

Good point Goalie Guy. But Chuck is still a dumbass.

BP I see A5 liked your post calling me a dumbass but spent several posts in another thread whining about my swearing after he ran out of good comebacks!

A5 is a two faced bullshitter with double standards!

Oops I broke A5's "libetarian" censorship rule on swearing again. The one that limits calling A5's dumb ideas dumbass. LOL

[Hamloc]

There are over 30 million vehicles registered in Canada. Can you imagine the amount of resources it will take to replace all of those with EV’s or hybrids? Then consider what it will take to recycle the 30 million existing ICE vehicles. I still use vehicles and equipment that are over 35 years old. My Versi 895 is 40 years old. This net zero dream is in my opinion just political hot air. I have always said efficiency is very important but I also like being realistic.

[chuckChuck]

Since when did worrying about resource shortages become an issue for free market capitalists? Isn't the market place supposed to solve these problems?

I agree it is a massive transition that will take decades. Just like the change from human power to animal power to steam to the ICE. All were massive changes that took a long time.

[blackpowder]

A5 can say whatever he wants and so can you not my monkey. But at least you didn't argue my statement. A fine neighbor I'm sure but born and lived a bonehead. I've got one a mile over. Decent guy just is what it is.

[jazz]

I agree it is a massive transition that will take decades. Just like the change from human power to animal power to steam to the ICE. All were massive changes that took a long time.

haha, what. The discovery of oil kicked off the biggest productive period in human history inside 20 yrs.

We are 20yrs on still looking for evidence of global warming.

Those EVs will never replace ICEs with the same efficency. Not in a 1000 yrs. It a tech headed for the scapr heap. They have been working on solar panels since the 70s and they still only have 16% efficiency.