The “Energy Transition” Delusion: A Reality Reset

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3 minutes ago, Mike E said:

It’s a Canadian thing, eh.

Now even more of a Canadian thing.  

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1 hour ago, Boiler said:

 

Those aren’t Tesla superchargers so not surprised.  EA and EVgo are a pair of jokes.  
 

On the  Tesla subreddits people are complaining they can’t charge at home because it is too cold.  The car has to first heat up before it can charge. And if you don’t have enough juice in the battery well you are going to brick the car.  
 

So I am thinking: “you can afford to buy a $60K car and you can’t afford a garage?”

 

Still I am always amused how most people in the sun belt who have garages can’t park their cars inside them because they don’t have room for all the stuff they never use and refuse to get rid of.  I’ve owned a home in the sun belt off an on for 15 years and could always park a car. I have a friend in California who parks her cars on the driveway because her bicycles would get stolen.  So instead the windows on her cars get smashed.  I didn’t mansplain to her about these  things called bike hooks.  

 

Discipline folks. Discipline.  
 

It would be unthinkable to not park a car in the garage in summer here when it hits 110 degrees and inside the  garage it is 85 degrees.  
 

EVs today are a niche product. Has to be a Tesla, that is garaged, and has a 240V dedicated charging circuit in Hawaii, California, AZ, NM, TX, LA, Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida. So maybe 1 percent of the population (due to the garages being full of stuff besides cars).    I think in maybe 20 years we might see EVs that are practical for sitting in a driveway in the winter in southern Colorado, east of the front range. 
 

I mean how many gasoline powered vehicles have you seen in the lower 48 that have engine block heaters? I’ve seen just one: when I custom ordered a pickup trick from Chevrolet in the 1990s.  The truck of course had to be built in Canada,  and it had day time running lights, etc all because I specified a $25 option.  
 

How are Americans going to adapt to plugging in an EV if they haven’t mastered an engine block heater (another Canadian thing, eh?).  It’s simply laughable that millions of cars in the USA can’t be started today for want of a $10 extension cord and a $25 engine part that is standard equipment in Alberta (where outdoor office parking lots routinely have 120V outlets).  

 

Last week was cold for southern Arizona, and I did a run from the Phoenix airport to south of Tucson where we live.  We arrived with less than 10 miles of range, a personal record.    It took 5 long minutes before the car would wake up to let me charge. I was that close to bricking.  If a seasoned EV owner in one of 3 warmest states in the lower 48  nearly bricks an EV then yes this is a delusion.  

Edited December 24, 2022 by Mike E

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Certainly not unknown here for School Buses to be frozen, and I have heard of Construction Equipment needing to be plugged in.

 

That guy in the video had an interesting conclusion at the end. He certainly does not like EA and how could they role out new equipment without testing them? He mentioned Tesla work in cold weather and some others which are reliable, after all I think the Country with the biggest percentage take up is Norway and it gets cold there. He was checking the Front Range area and yes it was cold but not once in a lifetime cold, I have seen it colder, much colder.

 

 

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2 hours ago, Mike E said:

most people in the sun belt who have garages can’t park their cars inside them because they don’t have room for all the stuff they never use and refuse to get rid of.

This goes for anywhere.  A car is typically the second-most-expensive thing that people own (house is first), so why do they expose it to weather or crime in favor of garage junk?  This goes double for a Tesla.

 

I still can't envision how people who live in high-density inner cities, or even in any apartment building of any size, will all be able to charge their EVs, especially if there's only street parking.  This is yet another consequence of forced "saving the planet" that the environmental whackos seem not to have considered.

2 hours ago, Mike E said:

Canadian thing, eh?

Got it, first try, eh!

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If you can get a good charge in 10 minutes not that different to a gas station

 

If you can plug it in when shopping etc even better

 

I am 9 miles from a gas station so even if I could slow charge locally that would have an advantage

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8 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

This goes for anywhere.  A car is typically the second-most-expensive thing that people own (house is first), so why do they expose it to weather or crime in favor of garage junk?  This goes double for a Tesla.

Indeed. I know someone who parks his Prius in  the drive way because his co-owner  has the garage filled with stuff. Two  weeks after moving in, the catalytic converter was stolen.  In a cul de sac where the majority of residents are law enforcers. 
 

I will wager that if most of garage stuff was placed on the driveway under a tarp, it would either sit there for years untouched by thieves or if not, the owners would never notice.  

 

 

 

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I still can't envision how people who live in high-density inner cities, or even in any apartment building of any size, will all be able to charge their EVs, especially if there's only street parking.  This is yet another consequence of forced "saving the planet" that the environmental whackos seem not to have considered.

Before the age of cars, they had horses and so apartments must have had stables on the bottom floors.  Of course apartments  were a third the or less than the size they are now.  There will need to be a massive reversion to mid  19th century building layouts: smaller apartments, and rationed electricity in the dwellings to allow cars to be charged over night.  

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Got it, first try, eh!

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1 hour ago, Mike E said:

they had horses

We'll probably end up back with these.

Of course, the enviro-whackos will object, because horses emit greenhouse gases.

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Tesla owner says he had to cancel Christmas plans because car would not charge in freezing weather
 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/tesla-owner-says-cancel-christmas-plans-car-would-not-charge-freezing-weather

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That whooshing sound is windmills shredding tax dollars

 

Nothing more horrifying than a chirpy Energy Secretary tweet first thing in the morning.  Especially when it contains the trifecta of bad news for taxpayers from one of the denser members of the Biden administration's stable of lackluster cabinet mannequins:

1) Green energy
2) Unions
3) Federal incentives aka tax dollars  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2022/12/30/that-whooshing-sound-is-windmills-shredding-tax-dollars-n520655