Electric Vehicles

[sumdumguy]

What’s your time worth when you run into the city to grab a part for the combine? Can you afford two hours standing at Canadian Tire scratching your ars? I would totally lose it and would take a cab to Volkswagen to lease a Tiguan to get home pronto.

[Hamloc]

Not gonna lie to you but..... your neighbour definitely would.


If his f150 has a cab.. a fuel tank... a box... wheels.. a seat, pedals. Then maybe he could eek out 30 mpg. Or does he just haul it around on a deck of a chev 1/2 with the new little duramax?

That ecoboost cant possibly do that number unless he clocked it coasting downhill.

So your numbers in your calculation are just plain wrong.. and they are anyways.
10.6 km / L works out to 24 mpg.

12.75 km/ L would be 30 mpg.


Story. Debunked.

30 miles = 48.28 kilometres. 4.54 litres in a Canadian gallon(imperial) therefore:
48.28/4.54 = 10.63. I rounded it down to 10.6

[rumrocks]

80 - 90% of recharging will be done from home electricity. Ice vehicles can shop around to find the cheapest fuel and reap the savings from lower world oil prices. I don't recall electricity being lowered in cities. How much of a convenient fee will be added by Tesla to the cost of the electricity at their charging stations.
Ottawa will trample themselves to add a green tax to charging stations, deterring people from traveling long distances.

[TSIPP]

Looks like goalieguy works for factcheckers!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I doubt a switch to evs would help make it Rain out here !

Change the climate !

Axe the Carbon tax !

Actually, it probably would. Make it rain out there.
Rain needs microscopic particles in the atmosphere to form raindrops.
Modern internal combustion engines run so clean there's hardly any particulate emissions.
But if we are forced to adopt EVS in any significant numbers, they only way we will be able to keep them charged is with lots of coal generation. Which will result in lots of particulate emissions making it rain out there. A real win for the environment to be certain.

[6V53]

Every Canadian tire in BC has a dozen Tesla recharging stations. Only saw one vehicle recharging. Even spotted a pair of chargers on a gravel patch at the top of a really steep hill, you'd think if they made it to the top of the hill they could recharge going down the other side.

[chuckChuck]

Actually, it probably would. Make it rain out there.
Rain needs microscopic particles in the atmosphere to form raindrops.
Modern internal combustion engines run so clean there's hardly any particulate emissions.
But if we are forced to adopt EVS in any significant numbers, they only way we will be able to keep them charged is with lots of coal generation. Which will result in lots of particulate emissions making it rain out there. A real win for the environment to be certain.

Only way to charge EVs is coal generation? Really? LOL

How is this so when Canada has 60% of its electricity from hydro and coal is being switched over to natural gas along with lots of wind, solar and other generation sources?

But we should keep using coal to make it rain? Hilarious! Another stupid A5 idea! Like we are going to run out of carbon dioxide if we don't keep burinng fossil fuels?

It never rained before we started using a lot coal 200 years ago?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Only way to charge EVs is coal generation? Really? LOL

How is this so when Canada has 60% of its electricity from hydro and coal is being switched over to natural gas along with lots of wind, solar and other generation sources?

But we should keep using coal to make it rain? Hilarious! Another stupid A5 idea! Like we are going to run out of carbon dioxide if we don't keep burinng fossil fuels?

It never rained before we started using a lot coal 200 years ago?

Our grid and generation capacity are nearly maxed out at present without significant EVs. and in many areas, beyond capacity, as evidenced by brown/blackouts, and bans on charging EVs etc. Adding more EV's will require more generation. Don't even include the current mix, since that is already spoken for.
Your very own NFU is opposing any future hydro, good luck building any more. Wind and solar are a rounding error. And as we have discussed before, solar is useless for charging an EV at home in the dark while the car is parked after work. Your environmental terrorist friends are all opposed to frac'ing all over the world, and have quite successfully stopped that in many countries/regions.

And in case you hadn't noticed, thanks to the failure of renewables, coal is making a real comeback the world over, in places like Germany specifically. It is the quickest scalable generation that will be used to fill the additional demand. Here in western Canada there will be more natural gas, but I assure you, emissions released into the atmosphere in Europe or Asia don't stay there forever.

[Guest]

Our grid and generation capacity are nearly maxed out at present without significant EVs. and in many areas, beyond capacity, as evidenced by brown/blackouts, and bans on charging EVs etc. Adding more EV's will require more generation. Don't even include the current mix, since that is already spoken for.
Your very own NFU is opposing any future hydro, good luck building any more. Wind and solar are a rounding error. And as we have discussed before, solar is useless for charging an EV at home in the dark while the car is parked after work. Your environmental terrorist friends are all opposed to frac'ing all over the world, and have quite successfully stopped that in many countries/regions.

And in case you hadn't noticed, thanks to the failure of renewables, coal is making a real comeback the world over, in places like Germany specifically. It is the quickest scalable generation that will be used to fill the additional demand. Here in western Canada there will be more natural gas, but I assure you, emissions released into the atmosphere in Europe or Asia don't stay there forever.

oh, didn't know that , wonder why chuck never mentions that , he seemed to right up on germany?

[shtferbrains]

California is a leader in renewable energy with lots of solar and wind power.

Actually they have surplus during the sunny hours but charge premium rates after 4:30 pm to try to limit demand when solar goes off line and base load plants take over.

In order to continue to reduce emissions they are banning gas stoves and furnaces.
Also banning gen sets under 24hp that are getting more popular for home backup when they brown out after sundown.
And many more EV's to plug in for the night.

So more demand for the time of day that they are already browning out with less future supply as they plan shutdowns of nuclear and gas plants.

Will it ever end or will people be happy in the dark?🤡🤡🤡

[chuckChuck]

I see A5 doesn't want to defend his latest stupid idea that we need to keep burning coal to make it rain!

I can't believe anyone would suggest such a stupid idea, but A5 keeps coming up with winning ideas like we are going to run out of CO2 if we don't burn fossil fuels and we need to pollute the air with coal to make it rain.

Another looney example of scientifically challenged thinking from the land of milk and money.

[fjlip]

Rain drops form on dust particles, search that...