Electric Vehicles

[Chief]

I am of course referring to unsubstantiated coffee shop claims of either.

Well yes I have been to the coffee shop a couple of times and there may be some embellishment of stories. I see where you’re coming from now.

[Chief]

The ev f150 has a long way to go before I would be interested. I pull a 1100 gal imp water tank 68km round trip for spray water. If my son had to wait two hours while the truck was charging that would be unacceptable. 5-10 min to fill up vs 2 hrs. All day operation vs how many 2 hr stops with a working ev f150?

[sumdumguy]

What’s your time worth when you run into the city to grab a part for the combine? Can you afford two hours standing at Canadian Tire scratching your ars? I would totally lose it and would take a cab to Volkswagen to lease a Tiguan to get home pronto.

[Hamloc]

Not gonna lie to you but..... your neighbour definitely would.


If his f150 has a cab.. a fuel tank... a box... wheels.. a seat, pedals. Then maybe he could eek out 30 mpg. Or does he just haul it around on a deck of a chev 1/2 with the new little duramax?

That ecoboost cant possibly do that number unless he clocked it coasting downhill.

So your numbers in your calculation are just plain wrong.. and they are anyways.
10.6 km / L works out to 24 mpg.

12.75 km/ L would be 30 mpg.


Story. Debunked.

30 miles = 48.28 kilometres. 4.54 litres in a Canadian gallon(imperial) therefore:
48.28/4.54 = 10.63. I rounded it down to 10.6

[rumrocks]

80 - 90% of recharging will be done from home electricity. Ice vehicles can shop around to find the cheapest fuel and reap the savings from lower world oil prices. I don't recall electricity being lowered in cities. How much of a convenient fee will be added by Tesla to the cost of the electricity at their charging stations.
Ottawa will trample themselves to add a green tax to charging stations, deterring people from traveling long distances.

[TSIPP]

Looks like goalieguy works for factcheckers!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I doubt a switch to evs would help make it Rain out here !

Change the climate !

Axe the Carbon tax !

Actually, it probably would. Make it rain out there.
Rain needs microscopic particles in the atmosphere to form raindrops.
Modern internal combustion engines run so clean there's hardly any particulate emissions.
But if we are forced to adopt EVS in any significant numbers, they only way we will be able to keep them charged is with lots of coal generation. Which will result in lots of particulate emissions making it rain out there. A real win for the environment to be certain.

[6V53]

Every Canadian tire in BC has a dozen Tesla recharging stations. Only saw one vehicle recharging. Even spotted a pair of chargers on a gravel patch at the top of a really steep hill, you'd think if they made it to the top of the hill they could recharge going down the other side.

[chuckChuck]

Actually, it probably would. Make it rain out there.
Rain needs microscopic particles in the atmosphere to form raindrops.
Modern internal combustion engines run so clean there's hardly any particulate emissions.
But if we are forced to adopt EVS in any significant numbers, they only way we will be able to keep them charged is with lots of coal generation. Which will result in lots of particulate emissions making it rain out there. A real win for the environment to be certain.

Only way to charge EVs is coal generation? Really? LOL

How is this so when Canada has 60% of its electricity from hydro and coal is being switched over to natural gas along with lots of wind, solar and other generation sources?

But we should keep using coal to make it rain? Hilarious! Another stupid A5 idea! Like we are going to run out of carbon dioxide if we don't keep burinng fossil fuels?

It never rained before we started using a lot coal 200 years ago?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Only way to charge EVs is coal generation? Really? LOL

How is this so when Canada has 60% of its electricity from hydro and coal is being switched over to natural gas along with lots of wind, solar and other generation sources?

But we should keep using coal to make it rain? Hilarious! Another stupid A5 idea! Like we are going to run out of carbon dioxide if we don't keep burinng fossil fuels?

It never rained before we started using a lot coal 200 years ago?

Our grid and generation capacity are nearly maxed out at present without significant EVs. and in many areas, beyond capacity, as evidenced by brown/blackouts, and bans on charging EVs etc. Adding more EV's will require more generation. Don't even include the current mix, since that is already spoken for.
Your very own NFU is opposing any future hydro, good luck building any more. Wind and solar are a rounding error. And as we have discussed before, solar is useless for charging an EV at home in the dark while the car is parked after work. Your environmental terrorist friends are all opposed to frac'ing all over the world, and have quite successfully stopped that in many countries/regions.

And in case you hadn't noticed, thanks to the failure of renewables, coal is making a real comeback the world over, in places like Germany specifically. It is the quickest scalable generation that will be used to fill the additional demand. Here in western Canada there will be more natural gas, but I assure you, emissions released into the atmosphere in Europe or Asia don't stay there forever.