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How’s those Teslas working out for you?
Here in Fort Myers.
How are you charging them? Gas generator? |
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Grocery stores and big box retailers have generators and are open for business. I need to run out and get some fresh chainsaw chains today.
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A few days ago, the Weather Channel had a piece where they were talking to a Tesla owner a couple of days before Ian was supposed to arrive. The correspondent asked the Tesla owner what he was going to do if he ran out of juice for his car. The owner stated that he'd just carry a portable generator with him.
There were several groans from the studio... |
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Snide’s post is the cornerstone of my thread. EV is not sustainable. Parts of Fort Myers could be without power for over a month. How does your little GSC3 EV get you through this bullshit. Same thing for winter storms.
Maybe they can put a wind turbine on the top of their Tesla. |
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what's that, didn't work? you probably spilled too many. try again tomorrow. |
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1 in 8 people in this country live in apartments. How the f are those people going to manage an EV? How does a 200 unit complex for example charge all those EV shitboxes?
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Like some slum lord is going to put several hundred thousand worth of chargers in da hood to have them destroyed. |
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If you were about to say "the gas station has a fossil-fueled backup generator" then guess what? The EV owner can have one of those too and "sustain" just fine. |
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As you might expect, car ownership among my neighbors was pretty low. |
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I've seen one tesla in town up in CDA..Realtor we know. Informed me the dealership loaned him the car to "try it out" for a week. Next time we ran into him he said he returned it.
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Many, including myself keep 55gal drums of various fuels to support vehicles, equipment, performance vehicles, marine engines etc. Some "round here" even have, gasp, in-ground fuel tanks with pumps that can be manually operated if need be. I have a couple decent electric bikes (ones a Sur ron) we ride on the trails. Fairly decent range if cruizing. But I also own a couple dual sports ie enduro's with desert tanks for extended range. Which do you think I prefer on an excursion further than 15mi off the property or under any extreme conditions? For heavy snow I'd seriously avoid an electric snowmobile or electric tractor lol for pulling someone out of the ditch. YMMV |
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red is for gas
yellow is for diesel blue is for kerosene green is for electrons...... |
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