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06-19-2021, 6:55pm | #1 | ||||||
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1 in 5 electric vehicle owners in California switched
Roughly 20% of electric vehicle owners in California replaced their cars with gas ones, a recent study shows. The main reason drivers made the switch was the inconvenience of charging. The findings suggest new challenges facing the growth of the nascent electric vehicle market. In roughly three minutes, you can fill the gas tank of a Ford Mustang and have enough range to go about 300 miles with its V8 engine.
But for the electric Mustang Mach-E, an hour plugged into a household outlet gave Bloomberg automotive analyst Kevin Tynan just three miles of range. Standard home outlets generally deliver 120 volts, powering what electric vehicle aficionados call "Level 1" charging, while the higher-powered specialty connections at 240 volts are known as "Level 2." By comparison, Tesla's "Superchargers," which can fully charge its cars in a little over an hour, run on 480 volts. That difference is night and day, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Energy by University of California Davis researchers Scott Hardman and Gil Tal that surveyed Californians who purchased an electric vehicle between 2012 and 2018. Roughly one in five plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) owners switched back to owning gas-powered cars, in large part because charging the batteries was a pain in the… trunk, the researchers found. https://www.businessinsider.in/1-in-...w/82332806.cms |
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The local car/truck dealer wants to consolidate a few of their franchises to one big building. A couple of the GM brands plus the Hummer electric vehicles.
The big hold up right now is who is going to pay for the massive power lines required for the mandatory Hummer quick charging stations. Hummer says the dealer, the dealer says the electric company and the electric company considers that an "upgrade" and won't provide it without being compensated for it. |
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I bet even more Californians and Texans go back to fossil fuels after the utilities finish auto-adjusting their thermostats to 78 degrees so as to stave off rolling blackouts....
The people who want to mandate the end of gasoline power are idiots who have zero grasp on how outdated and fragile the National electric grid has become after decades of neglect. |
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Duh.
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"California, Facing Power Crisis, Frets Over Electric Car Charging Routines"
Lib, CA, IDIOTS There is a big azz article about the CA power grid unable to even handle demand for normal appliances...much less all the cars they want to go electric....I didn't post the entire thing, but you can google it. |
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Once there's a nuke plant and wind turbines throughout Martha's Vineyard... then we'll know the left is truly serious about this.
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