I wonder if the great green brains have considered this:
Snow, Traffic Jams, and Electric Cars.
Can we show a little forethought and practicality? Please?

Has anyone thought about it?
If all cars were electric ... and were caught up in a three hour traffic jam... dead batteries! Then what?
Not to mention, that there is virtually no heating in an electric vehicle.
And if you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no heating, no windshield wipers, no radio, no GPS (all these drain the battery) !!!
You can try calling 911 to bring women and children to safety!
But they cannot come to help you since all roads are blocked and the socialist green weenies will probably require all police cars to be electric also (if we still have police departments then) !!!
And when the roads become unblocked no one can move! Their batteries are dead and they cannot move.
How do you charge the thousands of cars in the traffic jam? (That is a business I think I’d like to look into. Drones to deliver heavy batteries and someone to remove and install.)
Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of traffic jams.
There is virtually NO air conditioning in an electric vehicle. It would drain your battery quickly.
This will make cars run out of "fuel" and create never ending traffic jams, not to mention high tempers.
No socialist bent reporter talks about this of course!
You can’t even call in horses to rescue you. The Socialists are against horses and cows who defecate.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just get rid of the socialist politicians who are trying to help China’s economy?

I wonder if the great green brains have considered this:
Snow, Traffic Jams, and Electric Cars.
Can we show a little forethought and practicality? Please?

Has anyone thought about it?
If all cars were electric ... and were caught up in a three hour traffic jam... dead batteries! Then what?
Not to mention, that there is virtually no heating in an electric vehicle.
And if you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no heating, no windshield wipers, no radio, no GPS (all these drain the battery) !!!
You can try calling 911 to bring women and children to safety!
But they cannot come to help you since all roads are blocked and the socialist green weenies will probably require all police cars to be electric also (if we still have police departments then) !!!
And when the roads become unblocked no one can move! Their batteries are dead and they cannot move.
How do you charge the thousands of cars in the traffic jam? (That is a business I think I’d like to look into. Drones to deliver heavy batteries and someone to remove and install.)
Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of traffic jams.
There is virtually NO air conditioning in an electric vehicle. It would drain your battery quickly.
This will make cars run out of "fuel" and create never ending traffic jams, not to mention high tempers.
No socialist bent reporter talks about this of course!
You can’t even call in horses to rescue you. The Socialists are against horses and cows who defecate.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just get rid of the socialist politicians who are trying to help China’s economy?

I wonder if the great green brains have considered this:
Snow, Traffic Jams, and Electric Cars.
Can we show a little forethought and practicality? Please?

Has anyone thought about it?
If all cars were electric ... and were caught up in a three hour traffic jam... dead batteries! Then what?
Not to mention, that there is virtually no heating in an electric vehicle.
And if you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no heating, no windshield wipers, no radio, no GPS (all these drain the battery) !!!
You can try calling 911 to bring women and children to safety!
But they cannot come to help you since all roads are blocked and the socialist green weenies will probably require all police cars to be electric also (if we still have police departments then) !!!
And when the roads become unblocked no one can move! Their batteries are dead and they cannot move.
How do you charge the thousands of cars in the traffic jam? (That is a business I think I’d like to look into. Drones to deliver heavy batteries and someone to remove and install.)
Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of traffic jams.
There is virtually NO air conditioning in an electric vehicle. It would drain your battery quickly.
This will make cars run out of "fuel" and create never ending traffic jams, not to mention high tempers.
No socialist bent reporter talks about this of course!
You can’t even call in horses to rescue you. The Socialists are against horses and cows who defecate.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just get rid of the socialist politicians who are trying to help China’s economy?

Counterfactual? Political views aside…he does have a point. Yes, the Tesla has a heater so the people won’t freeze to death…but snow or ice events that shut down freeways for hours or until the middle of tomorrow are not an uncommon event…happens a lot in Nebraska, SD…and even on the Grapevine out in the People’s Republic of California. I can guarantee that with a highway full of Tesla cars out there will have a lot of dead batteries by mid day tomorrow…they run out of gas now and that lasts a lot longer than the battery will…and there aren’t any charging stations up the Grapevine or on I-80…or on trucks to go out and charge them up.

Electric vehicles are great for in city and uses like that…but for nobody that needs to go distances a hybrid is the only option outside of gas powered that makes sense…and liberals always ignore the fact that their carbon free Tesla runs on power from the wall socket that largely comes from fossil or nuclear fuel…and neither solar, wind, or battery tech will be there by time soon…not to mention that the t***smission grid to get power from where you can generate solar or wind in the broad expanse of the Midwest to where it is needed like big cities simply doesn’t exist…and would need more trillions to build and many years because you can’t run down to Home Depot and pick up substation parts or t***smission towers or line.

It is frustrating hearing these problems, and then remembering there is a solution some people are trying to develop.

Memory issues disclaimers: I have no sources to link because this is a Memory only.

A couple years ago while waiting at a jiffy lube for my car to be serviced, I read an article about a team in Europe that was working on a new way to power electric cars. There was something in the road (so not usual pavement) that interacted with something in the car. When the car passed the road thing (his that for technical?), the car thing would interact, and that is what would developed the electricity. No gas or plug in necessary.

Has this been disappeared by people developing standard electric vehicles?

It's inductive c**pling. Contactless cell phone chargers use it, some electric toothbrushes, etc. I know a bit about this technology but I've never seen it used on a moving device. I'm sure you could make it work for a slot car track but anything bigger...

The lowly Nissan Leaf has a 150 horsepower motor to provide the motive force. The chassis is about 9 inches off of the pavement meaning the field would have to be exceptionally strong. Imagine the power necessary to move a few thousand Leafs down an interstate. The power would have to flow regardless of any traffic being present. Snow and Rain would dampen power t***sfer. To put the system in place you'd have to tear up a bunch of road and the cars would still have to have their own batteries and have a charge to get them to roads with the system. I think waiting for Star Trek-type t***sporter technology would be an easier solution.