I did the big test drive three years ago with the Audi E-car. I attended the solar expo in Munich. I've seen and reviewed the Mini E-car. So I came to various conclusions. The big take-away? I just don't have the enthusiasm or interest in getting into E-cars.
1. Once the car guy said that the distance business does not work that well in extreme cold, or extreme heat....I asked how much? Well....it could drop by 25-percent. That's a good bit.
2. It bothered me that you needed to be on top of the charging business around the clock. Your schedule, your grid situation, your planning for a trip.....all have to be calculated on a hour-by-hour basis.
3. Mini had an estimate cost on the replacement batteries (needed by the 8th year) of 1,900 Euro. So around the 7th year, you had to make a guess.....do I keep the car and replace the batteries....or sell it for a lesser value?
4. With E-scooters, E-buses, E-cars, and E-trucks.....about every month in Germany....there's a fire. At the pace of things, I expect this to progress quickly to once-a-week, and eventually to once-a-day. It bothers me.
5. Driving along in flooded streets was not a big deal for gas cars....but would I do that with a E-car? No.
In Europe as in America, we lack the infrastructure to support that level of electrical use.
ReplyDeleteIn particular, areas such as California reduced electric use -- 'rolling-brownouts' and 'rolling-Blackouts' -- for decades.
That will continue, and it will get worse.
The concept of all-electric vehicles is based on an unrealistic foundation.
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An aside:
BisonPrepper James M Dakin discussed this problem a decade ago:
* as the Malignant Overlords abandon an area, they cease investing in the infrastructure.
Roads are slow to be repaired, the electric grid increasingly fails, municipal services -- LawEnforcementOfficials -- are replaced by lowering of standards.
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Those 'global citizens' simply move to a new area for their locust activities.