Electric Vehicles? Towing? Hauling?

HadEnough wrote:

free radical wrote:

HadEnough wrote:
There seems to be quite a push lately for zero emission vehicles and electric only vehicles.

How on Earth would these ever work for us? You can't go cross country in an electric vehicle in a practical way. You don't get great range when towing or hauling a TC.

What are we going to do when these become mandatory??

I'm also not sold on them in general as I think it's less carbon not to manufacture a new car (with lithium batteries) in the first place and continue running your old car. Especially given people forget it still takes the same energy to move a car from the bottom of the hill to the top. Sane energy has to come from somewhere. It's just being made remotely and pollution somewhere else.

What are we going to do when it's all electric and zero emissions becomes mandatory?

I'm a very off grid person and I'm disgusted by the on grid nature of this trend as well as the requirements in a few places that all vehicles must be electric now.

I doubt Ev will be mandatory anytime soon,
But once EV trucks are available at reasonable price
youll forget about diesels quickly

https://youtu.be/5n9xafjynJA

But it doesn't work for RVing.

How do I take off from the east coast and drive to Wyoming or something? I can't. It doesn't have range or any ability to refuel (charge) in a reasonable amount of time.

Simply doesn't work for travelers.

And I think I'm definitely one of those anti Elon Musk people. Kind of annoyed that everyone thinks he invented anything at all. He just took old ideas and marketed them with new sizzle.

Some of the first cars invented were electric cars.

That's a different off topic topic though. Ha ha ha.

Point is, this stuff doesn't work for RVing. No range, long recharge times means a terrible traveling experience.