JohnnyDos Posted April 25, 2018 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.41 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2018 A Little Different Story About Electric Cars!! INTERESTING - ONE OTHER QUESTION. IF ELECTRIC CARS DO NOT USE GASOLINE, THEY WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN PAYING A GASOLINE TAX ON EVERY GALLON THAT IS SOLD FOR AUTOMOBILES, WHICH WAS ENACTED SOME YEARS AGO TO HELP TO MAINTAIN OUR ROADS AND BRIDGES. THEY WILL USE THE ROADS, BUT WILL NOT PAY FOR THEIR MAINTENANCE! WHO WILL BEAR THE BURDEN? In case you were thinking of buying hybrid or an electric car: Ever since the advent of electric cars, the REAL cost per mile of those things has never been discussed. All you ever heard was the mpg in terms of gasoline, with nary a mention of the cost of electricity to run it. This is the first article I've ever seen and tells the story pretty much as I expected it to. Electricity has to be one of the least efficient ways to power things yet they're being shoved down our throats. Glad somebody finally put engineering and math to paper. At a neighborhood BBQ I was talking to a neighbor, a BC Hydro executive. I asked him how that renewable thing was doing. He laughed, then got serious. If you really intend to adopt electric vehicles, he pointed out, you had to face certain realities. For example, a home charging system for a Tesla requires 75 amp service. The average house is equipped with 100 amp service. On our small street (approximately 25 homes), the electrical infrastructure would be unable to carry more than three houses with a single Tesla, each. For even half the homes to have electric vehicles, the system would be wildly over-loaded. This is the elephant in the room with electric vehicles. Our residential infrastructure cannot bear the load. So as our genius elected officials promote this nonsense, not only are we being urged to buy these things and replace our reliable, cheap generating systems with expensive, new windmills and solar cells, but we will also have to renovate our entire delivery system! This latter "investment" will not be revealed until we're so far down this dead end road that it will be presented with an 'OOPS...!' and a shrug. If you want to argue with a green person over cars that are eco-friendly, just read the following. Note: If you ARE a green person, read it anyway. It's enlightening. Eric test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors and he writes, "For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine." Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9-gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles. It will take you 4.5 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph. According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery. The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned, so I looked up what I pay for electricity. I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh. 16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery. $18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery. Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine that gets only 32 mpg. $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile. The gasoline powered car costs about $20,000 while the Volt costs $46,000-plus. So the Canadian and American Governments wants loyal citizens not to do the math, but simply pay three times as much for a car, that costs more than seven times as much to run, and takes three times longer to drive across the country. YACCster, Blackbart, Angelz and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastColdBeer Posted April 25, 2018 Member ID: 489 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 547 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4668 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 5849 Achievement Points: 41024 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 08:23 AM Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted April 25, 2018 Duh, all it takes is a pencil and paper to dispute most of what us shoveled at us. Wind power? AHC act? Carbon credits? Phhhhhht, all a load of malarkey designed to line politician's pockets, at our expense. Time for a cup of poisonous coffee while forking down my cholesterol laden scrambled eggs. RobMc, 7Toes, bds1961 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TheHammer Posted April 25, 2018 Member ID: 4101 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 22 Topic Count: 54 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1124 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 792 Achievement Points: 8736 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/05/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: Wednesday at 08:46 AM Birthday: 07/08/1962 Device: Windows Share Posted April 25, 2018 yup garbage , same thing with solar panels they all read y have a 12 inch by 12 inch panel making more electricity than those large 3 foot by 4 foot panel they are like a computer 1 year later and its junk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
bds1961 Posted April 25, 2018 Member ID: 1213 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 19 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5349 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 13963 Achievement Points: 47119 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 174 Joined: 03/04/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 12 hours ago Birthday: 10/11/1961 Device: iPad Share Posted April 25, 2018 The government always shoves things down our throats while hiding the problems. Remember when they forced high efficiency lighting on us years ago with CFLs and other fluorescent bulbs? They did a good job of hiding the fact they have mercury in them. As soon as they became more widely used mercury started showing up in higher quantities in the environment and in the fish we eat. That’s when they started sells g the recycling boxs to dispose of them. But funny thing on our US subs if one of those bulbs broke onboard they had speacial prodocals to clean the affected compartment, so obviously they knew. Now with the cars they still don’t know what to do with the batteries when they hit the end of there life. That me has not been fully realized yet as not a large quantity has failed yet. But it’s coming RobMc, TheLastColdBeer, Blackbart and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
YACCster Posted April 26, 2018 Member ID: 20683 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 138 Topic Count: 309 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3345 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 4086 Achievement Points: 45203 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 22 Joined: 12/12/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: 11 hours ago Device: Macintosh Share Posted April 26, 2018 It's a conspiracy I tell ya! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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