OK so lets sort this out. You all hate oil and oil companies. So we go to electric and we all buy electric cars. 1. You get to work. Now you have to search the parking lot for an open charge station. You find one and hook it up. Then go to your office. 30 minutes later you have to leave your office to the parking lot and move your car so someone else can use the charge station. If you don't get an available charge station you will have to find some way to know when it will be available. There may even be a daily wait list to get into a charge station. So all day long employees will be moving their cars in and out of the charge stations. What if you forget or don't get one. Will you be able to get home? Will you have to wait after work until your car is charged?
2. Now electric consumption has skyrocketed because everybody has to charge a car. Demand goes up so price goes up. Now instead of hating oil companies you hate power companies. There is only one way you will ever be able to provide enough electricity to charge the working force of America, coal. You will need to burn a lot more coal to satisfy electric car use. You will never, in our lifetime, be able to produce enough electric from any other source to satisfy the demand.
3. Our current electric grid will not be able to supply the increase in demand for electric cars. It will take a lifetime to get the grid where it needs to be.
Electric cars are a pipe dream. A lot of you will never admit that or accept it but it is the truth. Charging a car everyday sometimes more than once a day is an inconvenience the majority of people will not pay for. Maybe in 50 or 60 years or more.....hell...people complain because their smart phone has to charge everyday.
@hprox please. I refute you: 1. The Nissan Leaf will have an 80 mile minimum range. The average American commute is 16. So even if they forgot to charge it one night, they'd still get home without charging at work. 2. Even powering an electric car with COAL is better than driving a combustion engine to work. 3. If we quit spending BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS ON fossil fuels, maybe we'd have a little leftover for some wind/solar/thermal/tidal/biogas plants?
1. Quick charge stations (level 3) will only be available at commercial sites due to their rate of amperage. Therefore your home charge will require an install of a dedicated circuit and will require 8 hours to charge. Imagine having an electric dryer and running it for 8 hours every night.That's what you'll be doing. Essentially your electric bill will double when you by a $40,000 electric car. After you spend $2,500 to have an electrician run a dedicated 220 amp circuit. 3. You won't let us build anymore coal plants to supply the extra demand that our existing 60 year old coal plants will have to supply. 4. Tell me, how many acres of land will you need for wind power or solar to replace 1 coal plant. Then multiply that by the number of coal plants in this country. Again I say, there is never going to be a method or resource in our lifetime that will ever replace the capacity that coal and oil produce for the demand of the world. No matter how much money you throw at it. Here is the harsh reality of wind farms: http://www.aweo.org/problemwithwind.html
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OK so lets sort this out. You all hate oil and oil companies. So we go to electric and we all buy electric cars.
1. You get to work. Now you have to search the parking lot for an open charge station. You find one and hook it up. Then go to your office. 30 minutes later you have to leave your office to the parking lot and move your car so someone else can use the charge station. If you don't get an available charge station you will have to find some way to know when it will be available. There may even be a daily wait list to get into a charge station. So all day long employees will be moving their cars in and out of the charge stations. What if you forget or don't get one. Will you be able to get home? Will you have to wait after work until your car is charged?
2. Now electric consumption has skyrocketed because everybody has to charge a car. Demand goes up so price goes up. Now instead of hating oil companies you hate power companies. There is only one way you will ever be able to provide enough electricity to charge the working force of America, coal. You will need to burn a lot more coal to satisfy electric car use. You will never, in our lifetime, be able to produce enough electric from any other source to satisfy the demand.
3. Our current electric grid will not be able to supply the increase in demand for electric cars. It will take a lifetime to get the grid where it needs to be.
Electric cars are a pipe dream. A lot of you will never admit that or accept it but it is the truth. Charging a car everyday sometimes more than once a day is an inconvenience the majority of people will not pay for. Maybe in 50 or 60 years or more.....hell...people complain because their smart phone has to charge everyday.
@hprox please. I refute you:
1. The Nissan Leaf will have an 80 mile minimum range. The average American commute is 16. So even if they forgot to charge it one night, they'd still get home without charging at work.
2. Even powering an electric car with COAL is better than driving a combustion engine to work.
3. If we quit spending BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS ON fossil fuels, maybe we'd have a little leftover for some wind/solar/thermal/tidal/biogas plants?
@onecallednick
1. Quick charge stations (level 3) will only be available at commercial sites due to their rate of amperage. Therefore your home charge will require an install of a dedicated circuit and will require 8 hours to charge. Imagine having an electric dryer and running it for 8 hours every night.That's what you'll be doing. Essentially your electric bill will double when you by a $40,000 electric car. After you spend $2,500 to have an electrician run a dedicated 220 amp circuit.
3. You won't let us build anymore coal plants to supply the extra demand that our existing 60 year old coal plants will have to supply.
4. Tell me, how many acres of land will you need for wind power or solar to replace 1 coal plant. Then multiply that by the number of coal plants in this country. Again I say, there is never going to be a method or resource in our lifetime that will ever replace the capacity that coal and oil produce for the demand of the world. No matter how much money you throw at it. Here is the harsh reality of wind farms:
http://www.aweo.org/problemwithwind.html