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sneakypete:
Barring the creation of some new battery and/or battery charging technology,I just don't see mandatory electric vehicles as being practical.

It just takes too damn long to recharge the batteries,and they just don't go that far on a charge. AND......,once they become mandatory,what is that going to do to events like your summer vacation trips when your vacation is maybe 500-600 from home,and you have to stop 2 or 3 times and wait several hours for your battery to recharge so you can get to where you are going? Compare that to how long it takes to fill your empty gas tank,and you will understand what I am talking about.

Then there is the expense of buying replacement batteries,IF you are even allowed to buy replacement batteries.

Not to mention the power draw on your local electric service when everyone gets home at 6 PM,plugs multiple cars into the electric grid,turn on their tv's,cook dinner,run the ac,etc,etc,etc. Gonna have to be a LOT of new electric power stations built!

Of course,the truth is most of this won't really be a problem because at the heart of it is the desire to move people into "Soviet Style" cities where everybody lives close to whatever plant they are assigned to work,and then ride the bus to work. It will just be too hard to deal with the difficulties of living in the suburbs and fighting the traffic every day,finding a place to plug your car in to charge while you are at work,charging it again when you get home,and paying the huge freaking electric bills.

The environmentalists just ain't going to be happy until everyone is bicycling or walking to work,and this fits in with the communist control freaks desire to move everyone to central locations where they are easier to watch and control.

GtHawk:

--- Quote from: Kamaji on May 07, 2021, 01:36:15 pm ---Where will all the electricity come from to power an all-electric auto fleet?  Places like NYC already have barely enough power to carry them through a hot summer, with only a few thousand electric vehicles.  I've seen estimates that it will require the construction of 500 to 700 new full sized nuclear power plants to support an all-electric vehicle fleet in the U.S.  Those power plants won't just spring into existence like magic; it takes years and years of planning and permitting just to get to the point of breaking ground.  Has even that process started?

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Fear not, there is a solution to that charging problem whether at home or on the go and all it takes is some retro tech as envisioned by this French company. :silly:
https://electrek.co/2020/02/19/french-startup-proposes-battery-trailers-as-ad-hoc-ev-range-extenders/#:~:text=EP%20Tender%20envisions%20charging%20about,trailers%2C%20according%20to%20the%20company.

Hoodat:
I'm looking forward to it.  With that many electric vehicles on the road, the price of gasoline will drop to a point where I can fill my tank for $5.

sneakypete:

--- Quote from: Hoodat on May 09, 2021, 01:23:25 pm ---I'm looking forward to it.  With that many electric vehicles on the road, the price of gasoline will drop to a point where I can fill my tank for $5.

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@Hoodat

Not a chance. The government will make it illegal to register or drive a gasoline-powered vehicle,not to mention make it illegal to operate gasoline powered tools like weed-whackers and generators.

This is about control and keeping people in the cities.

SZonian:
Going to be interesting to see how states like CA make this work.

CA went from being a net exporter of electricity to being one of the largest importers of electricity in about 10 years due to their "green" policies. Neighboring states will soon stop exporting the power because they'll need it.

I suspect that in order to generate enough power to just keep the lights on, every square inch of desert in CA will soon be covered by solar panels and enviro whackos won't even utter a peep about it because "the environment".

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