Friday, December 10, 2021
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NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - Currently in Tennessee, 15,000 electric vehicles are on the road. In the next six years, the Tennessee Valley Authority plans to see that number jump to 200,000. With a rise in demand for electric vehicles, the need for electric charging stations rises too. Travis Reid is with the TVA and he says Tennesseans are ready to make the switch to electric.
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Charging stations are a joke. A town near me a business decided they would put in 2 charging stations for customers. Owner never thought about the price so the business pays the price... which is really nothing because in 5 years they have had 2 people use the charging stations. One was some lost city dweller on a joy ride and the other was an RV owner with an adaptr cord to run his AC off the charging station.
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We'll need 21,000 square miles of solar panels to go all solar.
DeleteEnvironmental impact studies have started and will be completed after our sun goes supernova.
Going to have to pass on electric cars for now. Daily commute is 120 miles round trip. I've been seeing anecdotal evidence that some of the current crop of electric cars aren't charging up fully over night. Additionally, we get a real winter here and I do seem to recall that electric cars suffer a degradation in battery power in sub zero weather. But the real deal breaker is when we have to bug out because of wildfire (yes we had to bug out )I need something to pack up the dogs and guns age get out fast
ReplyDeleteTo go with the battery degradation, there's the matter of heating the passenger compartment.
DeleteHow do you know that electric cars are a shit idea, apart from the obvious reasons that is. Your governments are promoting them and, in some cases, want to make them compulsory. Politicians, wrong about everything all of the time.
ReplyDeleteDid you just answer your own question here? I think so. Math is the real answer. Electric cars still run off 80% coal, whether you like it or not. However the main issue is the electric grid will not be able to handle it in the summertime. Gas powered cars are still the least invasive to the practical fuel supplies. Lithium batteries are a whole other issue being toxic and very impractical.
Delete"How do you know that electric cars are a shit idea, apart from the obvious reasons that is."
DeleteWell, battery powered cars were invented before ICE powered cars and disappeared pretty quickly after the latter came about.
Showerheads, toilets, lightbulbs and now cars! What is next on the list for government to eff up? Oh, the whole country!
ReplyDeleteThe politicians who are harping on global warming and how bad CO2 is need to stop exhaling.
DeleteDon't forget what the bastards did to good old fashioned gas cans.
DeleteThis shit isn't going to end well.
ReplyDeleteImagine that, a supplier of electricity is in favor of electric cars. Who knew.
ReplyDeleteTVA hmmmph. Are they gonna just flood more of the state?
When first learning of the TVA, my teacher went off on the TVA. It seemed a lot of her family lost a lot of their land when they flooded the state.
Couldn't read past the first five paragraphs. The federal government owns TVA. Yessir, yessir, three bags full, say the TVA people. One-hour charges? So what happens when the drier of Car #3 in line uses his 100-foot extension cord and bypasses 1 and 2? News stories on Charger Rage? TV ads tout hands-free driving on some cars and pickups. Where are those highways? It ain't going to work.
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