Electric cars

Electric cars are coming--and the only question is how popular they will become.

My brother-in-law has a Chevy Bolt. It's now his only car. He says that the car's range is over 200 miles. He told me that if the charge gets below 25%, he can find a charging station and "top up" the battery without a full charge in about an hour, and proceed. It takes him 10 hours to fully recharge from a depleted battery.

He has an app on his phone that lets him find charging stations, and he never has any trouble with that. Of course, he usually charges it at home. The one thing he can't really pull off is long cross-country trips, but for everything else, even a full day of running errands and such doesn't drop the battery below 50%.

He had a Chevy Volt before, which is a hybrid, and he told me that the battery-only range was quite short--only about 60 miles. But of course, if you run the battery down, the car just switches over to the gas engine. But that means, as well, that on longer trips, you're in effect just driving a regular compact car.

Now the kicker. He had a Chevy compact before that and his fuel costs were about 14 cents a mile. With the Volt, those costs dropped to 7 cents a mile. And with the Bolt? 2 cents a mile, if he pays for his own electricity--and frequently, he doesn't have to.

The next step in the technology will be to figure out some way to put in a full charge in an hour or less. Right now, the delay in recharging is a deal-breaker for some people. The availability of charging stations is increasing, so that won't be much of a problem in the near future. When gas prices spike again (and they will), you're going to see a LOT more interest in electric cars, and more and more manufacturers are bringing in new electric-only models for 2020/21.

I'd mention the benefits attendant to emissions reduction and the reduced consumption of fossil fuels, but that's all just liberal snowflake Hillary Clinton environmental wacko anti-Trump Democrat scientific stuff, and Fox News wouldn't approve.

Counterpoint - "Cant run no car off no windmill."

What you can't see in the picture is that the dog is on a treadmill.

Put Der Fuhrer behind the wheel and that truck could run forever off of the hot air being generated.., but then there would be the problem of disposing of all of the bullshit being produced while generating that hot air. 

Troll, do not feed.

Not as good of a deal in Illinois where the license plates now cost $100 more per year for electric vehicles to compensate for revenue lost from not collecting gasoline tax.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-illinois-ev-fee-hike-20190603-story.html

i thought the whole idea was to incentivize electric vehicle ownership in order to reduce air pollution save the planet etc. etc. Now, it looks like they're doing just the opposite.

This is just more Republican evil. They don't like non-fossil-fuel energy and electric cars because those things lessen the demand for petroleum products. The oil and gas companies write great big checks to the Republicans to keep that from happening.

You'd think that maybe, just occasionally, the assholes in charge would make a decision based on something other than what best lines their pockets. You'll see more of these registration fee gouges--mostly in red states, as Clem Cornpone don't want them fancy elecitrickal vehicles on his farm anyway.

Stalker is too stupid to have actually read the article; "the Democrats" turned down that legislation.

Being an asshole as well as a Trumper has made Stalker into nothing more than a babbling troll.

DemocRat PROPOSED that legislation - all one needs to know. Keep running your filthy, insulting mouth Kevin - I don't and won't forget. You are going to get yours, and deservedly so.