Getting lectric in a can
Buying a 2nd hand car instead of an EV
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If we're going to make ridiculous arguments, Tom Hanks in castaway would have been less screwed with an EV and a couple of solar panels than an ICE
I'm working with a company at the moment that are developing a giant rollable site powerbank. It's like the electric version of a Jerry can
If you had a long road like that in the middle of nowhere would you be more comfortable with a full tank of petrol of a full charge? Be honest
Or if you were Robin a bank?
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America? Land of gas guzzling engines? Reasonable to say they have infrastructure every 200 miles to help the 5.7litre Chevy drivers get across the desert? I think my Tesla could probably make it too.. Good thing about electricity, if they did want to put infrastructure on the long desert road for EVs you could have a solar based charging depot far more easily than an oil based one
Ultimately this "EVs suck, I can't charge them up" argument is one where 10 years of dedicated EV infrastructure development is being brought up against 110 years of dedicated petrol infrastructure development and I don't think it's reasonable, but equally, the fallback option for slowly charging your EV off the "non dedicated"'infrastructure is still an option, so really all it comes down to is how much of a nitwit the driver is regards planning their schedule
People can demonstrably do it, because they do things like go on holiday, which requires some amount of coordinating places to be and different methods of moving between them, but it's convenient for the ICE evangelists to fall back on "I can just drive to a petrol station round the corner any time I want and fill up in 60 seconds; can your EV do that?" - it's a lazy argument, proposed by people who have been made lazy in the refuelling planning by the way the dedicated infrastructure has developed. It's not a prescriptive model for how car using behaviour must be
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Maybe some pictures will help...
Here's a farmhouse (note the thin things sticking out of the roof - not running on something that comes in a can)
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Here's a cable - it's like a pipe for moving electricity from the farmhouse to the EV:
EV granny charger 13A weatherproof extension lead
High quality 13A weatherproof outdoor waterproof extension leads heavy duty 1.5mm H07RN-F rubber cable. RCD option. IP66. Designed specifically to overcome the issue created by chunkier plugs on electric vehicles (EVs). 2m, 5m, 10m, 15m, 20m and 25m lengths.
Thats the problem "probably"
Im unconvinced....maybe in another few years I'll change my mind.
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Well, your thought exercise didn't set out accurate starting conditions so really I was making a "both the unspecified ICE and the unspecified EV will probably make it to the next fuelling point" claim, rather than a "oh the ICE would definitely make it, but there is a genuine doubt the EV would"
Common sense and self preservation dictates any planning crossing a desert would use a vehicle adequate for the task!
Common sense and self preservation dictates any planning crossing a desert would use a vehicle adequate for the task!
That's amazing! I wish EVs could tell me how much range I had and nag me if they're getting low!
Oh... hang on... they can....
If you had a long road like that in the middle of nowhere would you be more comfortable with a full tank of petrol of a full charge? Be honest
Or if you were Robin a bank?
I can't remember the last time that happened to me?
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