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2022-06-13 Science & Technology

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-13 06:10|| 2022-06-13 06:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Notice that the answer is more charging stations, not better batteries or charging efficiency.

Posted by Too Old To Work 2022-06-13 08:10|| 2022-06-13 08:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Libs understand battery physics about as well as they understand economics. So don't expect much realism there.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-13 08:12|| 2022-06-13 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Libs? Marxist Red Guard know nothing how the world really operates living in their magical cocoon built by Western Civilization.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-13 08:22|| 2022-06-13 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Private auto? 'Liberals' want you ride the state-owned train.

Posted by magpie 2022-06-13 13:41|| 2022-06-13 13:41|| Front Page Top

#6 As long as you stay in a 75 mile radius from home, you are OK. You will save money only to spend it to pay for battery replacement. In the event of an EMP you are toast.

Posted by Papa Cooky 2022-06-13 15:57|| 2022-06-13 15:57|| Front Page Top

#7 ^The current generation of EVs aren't made for road trips. They're made for driving around town, and are reasonably good at it.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-06-13 17:34|| 2022-06-13 17:34|| Front Page Top

#8 As long as you stay in a 75 mile radius from home, you are OK

As long as it is not winter, since range falls with temperature.

If I remember my chemistry, reaction rates fall by half for every 10 degree Centigrade decrease in temperature. This reduces EV range. I suspect this also means longer charging times but I have seen this discussed.

Posted by SteveS 2022-06-13 17:44|| 2022-06-13 17:44|| Front Page Top

#9 One of the more fun things out there on the horizon will be when the entire Salton Sea is taken from the state of California by eminent domain so that the rare earth minerals in it can be recovered.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-13 17:48|| 2022-06-13 17:48|| Front Page Top

#10 EV's make gov't lockdowns easy. Just 'brown out' the target area and no one goes anywhere.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-13 18:24|| 2022-06-13 18:24|| Front Page Top

#11 A palpable point, Besoeker.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-13 19:11|| 2022-06-13 19:11|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 *DING DING DING*

How ~~Soviet CCP~~ Putin

Posted by Frank G 2022-06-13 21:23|| 2022-06-13 21:23|| Front Page Top

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