I haven't heard that - but so far very little beats refueling in three minutes. Most cars I've read about, it's an overnight thing, which means range is kind of irrelevant. Gas is portable - you run out of gas, someone goes and fetches you a few gallons. What do you do with a car that has discharged and is too far from a charging station?
At home, I've done both electric and gas powered lawn items - mower, chain saw, leaf blower, snow blower, hedge trimmer and so on. Electric is all massively underpowered for the work that needs to be done. The mower was the worst - with the cords and the constant stopping of the motor, a small yard took all morning when a gas mower could do it in 20 minutes.
And since most of the world's electricity is still created via fossil fuels, it really seems to me that carbon capture is a more intelligent solution. You can't meet the constant growing need for electricity in homes - worse, IF the entire transportation sector - with windmills and solar. Ain't enough.
And I sure ain't payin' $40k for an electric car. Haven't paid anywhere near that much yet.
The people who have electric cars plug them in every night at the house. It’s a lot different than refilling at the gas station because you aren’t refilling your gas vehicle every single night while you sleep. The only time you should worry about running out of juice is if your driving longer than the vehicle’s range in one shot. I.e., road trip.
Here’s an older article discussing your concern. You really have to try to run out of juice...it’s not like a gas car.
Are Tesla cars ever stranded without electricity; so how are they rescued? This question was originally answered on Quora by Michael Nickerson.
www.forbes.com
As far as gas versus electric tools, electric is now outperforming gas if you buy the right stuff. I’m not talking about an 18 volt leaf blower outperforming a gas one. I’m talking about stuff like Milwaukee MX Furl tools. Concrete saws and jackhammers and whatnot. They have electric versions that are outperforming the gas AND you’re not dealing with gas. Which means no headaches from using the tool in a not well ventilated area. No dealing with oil changes or other maintenance.
This is all super recent. Like, last couple years recent. The electric of today is so much better than the electric of 10 years ago and it’s evolving at an incredible pace.
As far as pollution goes, yea. I’m not naive. I’m not sitting here seeing an electric item and thinking I’m saving the world because I moved the pollution out of my eyesight. But that’s also not really what I was talking about. That’s a whole new thread. I was just discussing that electric vehicles are a lot further along than people in this thread realize.
$40l for a new vehicle is “reasonable.” I would not pay it either; I buy used. I’m a gearhead, like I said..I buy older rare cars and fix them up and mod them. $40k is a reasonable price tag for a new vehicle. Prior electric vehicles (not the Prius style vehicles; FULL electric ones that were actually comparable to gas) were pushing $100k. $40k is absolutely in line to a brand new gas vehicles. Regardless of who would pay that and regardless of whether or not it’s better to buy used vs new.
All I’m saying is, electric cars are the future. I don’t mean that in a wide-eyed sense, like omg this is amazing!!!!! I mean that in the same way that people were saying internet is the future. Electric vehicles are going to take over everything. I think the people who are pushing back on that idea might not be seeing how much electric vehicles have progressed in the last 5 years. Don’t sleep on them; if you enjoy paying $3k for a used car and fixing it up, you need to start learning electric.
