EV's need gas too - Tow with a Tesla?

[BobsYourUncle]

Had to laugh when a buddy sent me this pic.

Here's a Tesla on the side of the road somewhere, 2 gennys cranked, to charge his car so he can continue. And a big bucket of gas sitting there. Wow, isn't this fun?

Of course, we all know how environmentally friendly our generators are...:R

I wonder how long he sat there charging until he could go again...

[Grit_dog]

shelbyfv wrote:

Grit dog wrote:

JRscooby wrote:


I know where your quote comes from. I have to wonder how long before Europe adds US to the class that contains China and India?

I have to wonder how a seemingly very intelligent person such as yourself, who has been a hard working American all his life can be so anti-US and pro-socialist....

Joe McCarthy, you're baaack!:R

Not even totally sure what you're insinuating... References from this century, or at least from sine I've been alive might be more helpful next time, cause I didn't get the joke, or sarcasm.

But I did have to look up who Joe Mc Carthy was...probably mentioned in history class when I was a kid, and don't remember....never cared much for history class.

[JRscooby]

Grit dog wrote:


I have to wonder how a seemingly very intelligent person such as yourself, who has been a hard working American all his life can be so anti-US and pro-socialist....

Not sure I would call myself "very intelligent" but from the time I heard "We must burn the village to save it" I have tried to look at how my actions affect others, and tried to do best for all.

Any parents around? If your child is acting in a manner that is contrary to your beliefs, acting in a way that will cause society harm, do you try to change the way the child is acting? Does that mean you do not love the child?
Is love of country that much different than love of you child?
The fact is most of the developed nations of the world see we need to change our actions if society will continue, and I fear the rouge nations might be punished

[shelbyfv]

Grit dog wrote:

JRscooby wrote:


I know where your quote comes from. I have to wonder how long before Europe adds US to the class that contains China and India?

I have to wonder how a seemingly very intelligent person such as yourself, who has been a hard working American all his life can be so anti-US and pro-socialist....

Joe McCarthy, you're baaack!:R

[Grit_dog]

JRscooby wrote:


I know where your quote comes from. I have to wonder how long before Europe adds US to the class that contains China and India?

I have to wonder how a seemingly very intelligent person such as yourself, who has been a hard working American all his life can be so anti-US and pro-socialist....

[mkirsch]

free radical wrote:
Every Tesla has a comp that display range remaining.
Maybe the driver ignored that !?
Or maybe its just another fake photoshop to throw dirt at Tesla from our regular Tesla haters.

EVERY vehicle made in the last 30 years has at least a "low fuel alarm." Anything in the last 10-15 years has a "miles remaining" readout. They tend to read low, as in if it tells you that you've got 50 miles to empty, it's more like 60-70.

We have ALL been guilty of thinking "I can make it to the next exit." Sometimes we do. Sometimes we don't.

[JRscooby]

shelbyfv wrote:
Explanation of China bad air:


So all of a sudden — China and India ain’t putting nothing into cleaning that situation up. So all that bad air is coming from them. But since we don’t control the air, our good air decide to float over to China’s bad air.

So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. And now we got to clean that back up.

I know where your quote comes from. I have to wonder how long before Europe adds US to the class that contains China and India?

[shelbyfv]

Explanation of China bad air:


So all of a sudden — China and India ain’t putting nothing into cleaning that situation up. So all that bad air is coming from them. But since we don’t control the air, our good air decide to float over to China’s bad air.

So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. And now we got to clean that back up.

[time2roll]

Huntindog wrote:
China has already decided that dealing with the results of climate change makes more sense than trying to stop it... The proof is in their actions, not their words. We all get together for a multination talk about who will commit to what.... And China never makes any real time commitments. It is always far into the future while today they are building coal power plants.
IOW, they will be burning fossil fuels and laughing at us as we ruin our economy chasing the green dream.

An optimist sees the glass as half full.
An pessimist sees it as half empty.
A realist sees the glass as too big.

You say this like China has quit solar.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/673444/china-solar-power-generation-china/

Compare to recent growth in coal consumption:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265491/chinese-coal-consumption-in-oil-equivalent/

[Huntindog]

China has already decided that dealing with the results of climate change makes more sense than trying to stop it... The proof is in their actions, not their words. We all get together for a multination talk about who will commit to what.... And China never makes any real time commitments. It is always far into the future while today they are building coal power plants.
IOW, they will be burning fossil fuels and laughing at us as we ruin our economy chasing the green dream.

An optimist sees the glass as half full.
An pessimist sees it as half empty.
A realist sees the glass as too big.

[time2roll]

Europe is in war mode. Not really focused on cost or the environment as much as keeping the lights on during the conflict.

[Groover]

propchef wrote:

Huntindog wrote:
Europe is now going back to coal, because the have to.
Electricity is going to sky rocket beacuse green energy must be backed up with conventional power plants... So on order to have a reliable energy system, we will need to have two systems... The cost of this will be paid for by someone...Look in the mirror to see who will pay.

Germany and several other countries are temporarily using coal to conserve natural gas, something that was usually coming from Russia and is now in very short supply. This is very easily confirmed.

It has nothing to do with more EVs on the road. lol

Compounding their stupidity Germany is still planning to shut down all three remaining nuclear power plants this year unless something has changed very recently.

Washington Post on German stupidity

The last I heard the Washington Post is a left leaning news source and even they think that Germany is stupid for doing this.

[Grit_dog]

Regardless of the notion that pic leads people to believe about EVs, just think about the lack of common sense involved to be sitting literally on the fog line of a divided highway, with a nice smooth relatively flat area just outside the paved shoulder.
Whether the pic is staged or real, the intelligence is lacking on all fronts.

[shelbyfv]

^^^Don't confuse him with facts.:h

[propchef]

Huntindog wrote:
Europe is now going back to coal, because the have to.
Electricity is going to sky rocket beacuse green energy must be backed up with conventional power plants... So on order to have a reliable energy system, we will need to have two systems... The cost of this will be paid for by someone...Look in the mirror to see who will pay.

Germany and several other countries are temporarily using coal to conserve natural gas, something that was usually coming from Russia and is now in very short supply. This is very easily confirmed.

It has nothing to do with more EVs on the road. lol