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Wife has a friend who bought a Toyota electric, whatever the name.
The driving and charging didn't fit within the design parameters.
She had to have the battery replaced within a year. Toyota covered it.
The car smelled like sulfur all the time, to me.
Our commute to the stores are about 60 miles one way or 50 the other, then there is the driving once we each the city and more than one store and being stuck in traffic for up to two hours and more sometimes, and demand for air conditioning, when temps are over about 75 as the car gets a lot warmer if the sun is out.
If it is raining the air air conditioning/ heater is a must, and when cold the heat is a must.
I remember, the old Cars from Model T and up. The fifties and some sixties models were miserable in hot weather, cold weather, rain or snow. It requires power to keep the air going.
A trip to the Doctors are over two hundred round trip, with some appointments a bit closer.
A battery powered car would be sitting on the side of the road until towed to where it could be charged.
A hybrid vehicle is the one running at 45 in 75 zone unless it is Porsche or Ferrari at ore than a million a pop, much more.
Th Tesla even won't fit most peoples requirements....as most people do not live near the city. All of you that do and think everyone else does,...well it ain't so.
There is one stretch of I24 in winter, that will be iced over and covered with snow invariable when I have to go to the Doctor. I can see sitting on the side of the road freezing to death.
A to net environmental pollution and use of petroleum products Electric cars are big losers.
I think I will stick with Sadie my 250,000 mile 05 F150, that can haul straw and sod and a bunch of other things and rides better, than a Toyota or Chevy or other car or the all wheel drive Edge which gets less mileage than the about 600 or more hp AMG unless you push it.
Satisfied with them all and they are paid for.
Why buy an expensive lab experiment that is just about guaranteed to strand me somewhere, and is the equivalent of an overpriced big golf cart.
Now when they get batteries that cost less than a years house payments or a new boat and might explode or burn at some point, and I can go 600 miles one way maybe. Even then you would have to find a motel for at least one night that has chargers at a higher room rent.
Now towing I suppose we can rig a charge circuit to our generators, in the Mh.
That would be ten hours at .75 gallons an hour. Seven and half gallons, at currently maybe 2.50 around here. Eighteen dollars and twenty five cents, for a charge or is it longer.
That's a little over eight gallons eqv. at avg prices around here excluding the five real cheap ones.
Then there is the wear and tear and oil change part on geneator. Add four more dollars.
Twenty two to twenty three dollars in cheap fuel, for a hundred miles, of driving lectric.
Maybe tape some big solar panels, on the car and mh and wire them to a charge controller and batteries. Don't drive too fast of course.
Yu know some of these lectics have regenerative braking. Maybe a rock on the brake pedal, as you tow it down the road. A handy dandy fire extinguisher, ner the mh door and extra break shoes and rotors of course. Wonder how much regenetrative brake rotors cost.
heheheheheh.
Just funnin you. Drive whatever you like but don't expect to save any money, in the long run. Matter of fact expect to pay more, according to wife's friend.
The driving and charging didn't fit within the design parameters.
She had to have the battery replaced within a year. Toyota covered it.
The car smelled like sulfur all the time, to me.
Our commute to the stores are about 60 miles one way or 50 the other, then there is the driving once we each the city and more than one store and being stuck in traffic for up to two hours and more sometimes, and demand for air conditioning, when temps are over about 75 as the car gets a lot warmer if the sun is out.
If it is raining the air air conditioning/ heater is a must, and when cold the heat is a must.
I remember, the old Cars from Model T and up. The fifties and some sixties models were miserable in hot weather, cold weather, rain or snow. It requires power to keep the air going.
A trip to the Doctors are over two hundred round trip, with some appointments a bit closer.
A battery powered car would be sitting on the side of the road until towed to where it could be charged.
A hybrid vehicle is the one running at 45 in 75 zone unless it is Porsche or Ferrari at ore than a million a pop, much more.
Th Tesla even won't fit most peoples requirements....as most people do not live near the city. All of you that do and think everyone else does,...well it ain't so.
There is one stretch of I24 in winter, that will be iced over and covered with snow invariable when I have to go to the Doctor. I can see sitting on the side of the road freezing to death.
A to net environmental pollution and use of petroleum products Electric cars are big losers.
I think I will stick with Sadie my 250,000 mile 05 F150, that can haul straw and sod and a bunch of other things and rides better, than a Toyota or Chevy or other car or the all wheel drive Edge which gets less mileage than the about 600 or more hp AMG unless you push it.
Satisfied with them all and they are paid for.
Why buy an expensive lab experiment that is just about guaranteed to strand me somewhere, and is the equivalent of an overpriced big golf cart.
Now when they get batteries that cost less than a years house payments or a new boat and might explode or burn at some point, and I can go 600 miles one way maybe. Even then you would have to find a motel for at least one night that has chargers at a higher room rent.
Now towing I suppose we can rig a charge circuit to our generators, in the Mh.
That would be ten hours at .75 gallons an hour. Seven and half gallons, at currently maybe 2.50 around here. Eighteen dollars and twenty five cents, for a charge or is it longer.
That's a little over eight gallons eqv. at avg prices around here excluding the five real cheap ones.
Then there is the wear and tear and oil change part on geneator. Add four more dollars.
Twenty two to twenty three dollars in cheap fuel, for a hundred miles, of driving lectric.
Maybe tape some big solar panels, on the car and mh and wire them to a charge controller and batteries. Don't drive too fast of course.
Yu know some of these lectics have regenerative braking. Maybe a rock on the brake pedal, as you tow it down the road. A handy dandy fire extinguisher, ner the mh door and extra break shoes and rotors of course. Wonder how much regenetrative brake rotors cost.
heheheheheh.
Just funnin you. Drive whatever you like but don't expect to save any money, in the long run. Matter of fact expect to pay more, according to wife's friend.
