A family who attempted to take their Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck on a 500-mile road trip learned the hard way that the infrastructure in some parts of America is not yet ready to support a full switch to electric vehicles.
The family, known by the name “All Electric Family” on YouTube, documented the trip from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Denver.
-WiscoDave
They shoulda called Newsom and he would have sent them 5 gallons of wind power.
ReplyDelete“In the end we made it, but beware of EA’s chargers and have a backup plan,”
ReplyDeleteYes, buy a truck with a gasoline powered engine and leave the EV’s to the more gullible.
Even if there were enough charging stations, once there are a significant number of EVs on the road they will have to queue for hours, possibly days, to charge up. A local filling station near me has been consistently cheaper than others in the area and has had cars queuing to fill up. But since it only takes a couple of minutes to tank up, the queue moves pretty fast so you are still away within ten minutes.
ReplyDeleteI've been on holiday in the past week and have clocked up seven hundred miles in my diesel, obviously with no such problems.
The EV Fairy Tale does not have a happy ending.
ReplyDeleteQuote me.
No matter how many charging stations are built, power is not free and the costs are what the costs are. No matter how much the supporters of expensive golf carts blab about it, EVs are big, expensive golf carts that are limited and inconvenient.
Sounds like a "Didn't plan to fail, Failed to plan".
ReplyDeleteMake it more practical, cheap and dependable than petroleum.
ReplyDeleteMake it safer to store.
Ever see the core of a 18650 battery dropped into a tub of water? Surprise!
People will adopt a better solution voluntarily.
Presently, it's like making people eat bugs.
The F-280 is that size so that you can carry a diesel alternator.
ReplyDeleteJust keep it running and charging and you can combine that smug "I'm saving the planet" face while being confident that you will not be inconvenienced.
Just like John Kerry and others to numerous to mention.
A similar thought did occur to me. Maybe next time they can pack an adequately sized generator and a little bit of fuel so they can have a reliable source of power when they actually need it. Fair bit of weight but it's not like they weren't already trying to tow a trailer.
DeleteThis is but a glimpse of the EV future.
Not to mention hot climates shorten battery life to less than 5 years.And a new EV battery can run upwards of $15K. You won’t spend that on maintenance in 5 years for a gas or diesel car.
ReplyDeleteAnd cold climates flat out kill it...especially when everything "free" on an IC engine, like heat, and 12V power, cost you more Amp Hours from your battery.
DeleteI bet these morons would still tell you it was worth it.
ReplyDeleteBut can a diesel truck do this?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3433054/nuts-texas-doctor-powered-a-vasectomy-with-his-electric-vehicle
WiscoDave
Yes, and many more than that battery lol
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I will spend a dollar to 2 dollars for a fill up more than drive to the cheapest gas station within reach. I absolutely NOT spend an hour or more for a electric charge and keep moving around to different chargers just to get enough charge to go a hundred or so miles further. Keep your coal powered virtue signal vehicles.
ReplyDeleteLet me get this straight.....it took them 3 days to travel 500 miles, had to pay to stay in a motel, had to pay to get charged, and them had to pay to get towed to get charged.
ReplyDeleteThis is the future?
My 2021 GMC Denali pulls a travel trailer. Total weight is 19,200lbs. It gets roughly 11-12 miles per gallon of diesel. That's approximately 45 gallons x what ever the local price of diesel.
And it would have taken me less than 9 hours to drive that far including the time to refuel and grab a meal.
$100k truck that can't tow or go a few hundred miles. Yep, definitely a sales tactic to drag me in! Electrical Engineer VI.
ReplyDeleteMaybe strap a gas generator to the top of the car so you can charge and drive at the same time.....
ReplyDeleteI would have preferred the story being aired on 60 Minutes and it discussed the tragedy of how they died alone after refusing help from passers by with "dirty" vehicles.
ReplyDeleteJust think, if the stupid ass leftist build enough windmills, pretty soon the birdshit on the statues will be a thing of the past....
ReplyDeleteeducated beyond common sense.....IMO..STUPID
ReplyDeleteThey were only going from Lincoln, NE to Denver, and had to make 3 charging stops before they even got out of Nebraska! That was about 100 mile per charge, and the last charger was broken.
ReplyDeleteTo me, that's a short trip. When the Air Force stationed me in Denver, the one good thing about the assignment was that I could drive to Lincoln and see my grandmother any weekend. My little car only had to gas up once on this 1,000 mile round trip. I'm not sure if a gasoline F150 would have a big enough tank to make 500 miles towing the trailer, but I don't think they'd have needed three stops for the whole 1,000 mile round trip.