Coast to coast in an Electric car towing a trailer.

Cummins12V98 wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:

tdiller wrote:
Only two things run on batteries...
Golf carts and
Toys.

Until a vehicle can go 3-400 miles on a charge and refill/recharge in five minutes and do it again and again all day it'll never sit in my garage.

X2

Cold hard reality that some folk refuse to believe is that electric vehicles are NOT NEW.. Nope, in the 1890s there were MORE electric vehicles on the road than internal combustion or even steam powered..

Cold hard reality, electric vehicles back then only could get about 25-50 miles of driving and took overnight to recharge..

One Pioneer of electric vehicles from the 1890s produced electric vehicles up to 1901, sold his company off and went to work for Locomobile to design their FIRST GASOLINE POWERED VEHICLE.. He saw the main down fall of electric vehicles was the batteries..

1980s saw a couple of electric vehicles on the market, but those also suffered from lack of distance and charging issues.

While battery tech has improved SLIGHTLY over the years it still is very weak compared to gas or diesel for distance, cost to own, maintenance and refueling.

Not to mention, the notion that electric vehicles are a "clean" mode of transportation is BS..

There IS far more "E" waste generated in the building of EV batteries..

Not to mention adding overhead to already weak electric grid..

Then there is the mere fact of the "pollution" of supposed lack of..

There IS NO FREE LUNCH, energy is energy, it is dirty no matter how far away it is generated..

With a 30 yr career 'generating' energy (power plant control operator) I always get a huge chuckle out of folks and "I'm going green and reducing my carbon foot print"

:B

It's all a big feel good circle J--K!

Fact is these so called ZERO Emissions cars use either Coal, NaturalGas, or Nuclear power to charge these cars. Oh and lets not forget all the Hydro Power that if used you are killing
Salmon. Heck even the big windmills kill innocent birds.

On top of that the "Clean" car sure was not produced without any environmental impact.

I don't feel bad one bit driving my BIG fuel sucking Dually since I could breath the air right out of my exhaust.

These type of people feel they can plug in anywhere they choose since they are "saving the earth".

Example we went to our accountant and started walking up the steps and just about tripped over an electrical cord. The cord was running from a car parked literally in front of the steps so we had to approach from an edge. At first I thought they had to charge their "battery" because the car would not start. Heck no they were USING the owners Power while getting their taxes done. what a freakin MOOCH!