I can tell ya from personal experience on a volunteer advisory committee for my local City Council: there's a really touching number of grownups still believing with their whole hearts in the existence of the Electricity Fairy (no relation).
Thanks for the detailed analysis, Gato. Even without all that knowledge, just doing a very quick and superficial analysis of cost of the car, cost of electricity, the hassles with batteries, and the environmental effects of manufacturing batteries, I had already figured out that EVs in general are a bad idea.
If you just did the opposite of whatever the government tells you to do, would you EVER be wrong? Even once? Apparently, trying to reverse the market doesn't lead to better allocations - who'd have thunk it?
I toyed with buying an electric car two years ago. However, they were too many unanswered questions about everything you talked about here. Instead, I purchased a Kia Niro hybrid. I get 55 MPG on average (sometimes even get in the mid 60s!) and never have to worry about finding a charging station. One of the best decisions I’ve made!
This is all just wrong! Gato, you are completely ignoring the thousands of dollars/month the EV owner gains in virtue signalling. Additionally, with technology improvements, the power companies will eventually pay the EV owner to use electricity, EVs will be so safe that insurance requirements will be waived by the state, and gasoline will cost $150/mL.
… all you said plus: cobalt digging children, indonesia got china’s coal fired electric plants so xi could get blue skies and cheap abundant electricity, and a friend has set up a business towing/rescuing EVs from the side of the road. Good times feeding our corporate welfare class and corrupt politicos.
2. Showed actual calculations and sources for costs
3. No praise for Ukraine in article
4. Failure to assess needs/costs to upgrade homeowner power panel (older homes can handle maybe 100 amps), let alone older apartments without charging stations
5. Not published on Twitter, the only source of truth
What do a man with diarrhea and a electric car owner have in common?
They both hope to make it home
I can tell ya from personal experience on a volunteer advisory committee for my local City Council: there's a really touching number of grownups still believing with their whole hearts in the existence of the Electricity Fairy (no relation).
"Let them eat cake" has become "Let them buy Teslas"
Markets find truth.
That’s why commies hate markets.
Thanks for the detailed analysis, Gato. Even without all that knowledge, just doing a very quick and superficial analysis of cost of the car, cost of electricity, the hassles with batteries, and the environmental effects of manufacturing batteries, I had already figured out that EVs in general are a bad idea.
"I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping."
From the WSJ (subscription may be required):
https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-rented-an-electric-car-for-a-four-day-road-trip-i-spent-more-time-charging-it-than-i-did-sleeping-11654268401
If you just did the opposite of whatever the government tells you to do, would you EVER be wrong? Even once? Apparently, trying to reverse the market doesn't lead to better allocations - who'd have thunk it?
They want the grid to crash. The grid can't handle anymore electric cars
No one ever talks about driving these from Duluth to Minot in January.
It's worse than that when considered on a macro level.
For but one aspect of the lie that is the 'green economy consider the Cat994H which is what is used to move earth for large scale mining.
For one Tesla car battery 500,000 lbs of earth must be moved to obtain the requisite minerals.
The Cat994H burns 1800 gallons of fuel in one 12 hour shift.
The level of dishonesty is beyond the pale in all aspects of the 'green economy'- this single example illustrates just that.
I toyed with buying an electric car two years ago. However, they were too many unanswered questions about everything you talked about here. Instead, I purchased a Kia Niro hybrid. I get 55 MPG on average (sometimes even get in the mid 60s!) and never have to worry about finding a charging station. One of the best decisions I’ve made!
This is all just wrong! Gato, you are completely ignoring the thousands of dollars/month the EV owner gains in virtue signalling. Additionally, with technology improvements, the power companies will eventually pay the EV owner to use electricity, EVs will be so safe that insurance requirements will be waived by the state, and gasoline will cost $150/mL.
… all you said plus: cobalt digging children, indonesia got china’s coal fired electric plants so xi could get blue skies and cheap abundant electricity, and a friend has set up a business towing/rescuing EVs from the side of the road. Good times feeding our corporate welfare class and corrupt politicos.
Errors made by el gato:
1. Not enough blue hair in avatar
2. Showed actual calculations and sources for costs
3. No praise for Ukraine in article
4. Failure to assess needs/costs to upgrade homeowner power panel (older homes can handle maybe 100 amps), let alone older apartments without charging stations
5. Not published on Twitter, the only source of truth
The math is even worse for EV big rigs. Completely impractical...
"pushing EV’s to reduce CO2 is a crony corporatist grift"
Like all so-called green initiatives.