pipesgt Loc: Central Florida

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?

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Let's just do it⭐ We'll think about it later after it's too late to go back and everything is paralyzed🤪

berchman Loc: South Central PA

This counterfactual rant was already posted a few days ago.

flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

Yeah...it's in the Attic where a number of incorrect facts were addressed and corrected.

Ollieboy

What about our local power grid that can't handle AC in the summer. If 1/4 of the public bought electric cars there would be no way to supply the demand. You're right, no one wants to address reality. If you don't have access to a charging station, you're dead in the water.(Apt dwellers take note). Not everyone has a driveway or can afford the charging equipment. These are facts and not a rant. Not even political. Nothing complicated about these facts.

newsguygeorge Loc: Victoria, Texas

Please tell me how this advances my interest in photography and what it has to do with photography. Frankly, if I wanted to waste my time on this kind of thing, I'd be on Facebook.

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dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

My daughter has a hybrid car and it took some getting used to... that stopped at a light there is nothing going on until she steps on the "accelerator" ...

Pipesgt is a Florida Conservative I would bet... He worries about too many what iff-Ns ... How many times has there been a blizzard in central Florida... Oh, Pipesgt is worried about climate change and that Florida will be the Artic when the poles shift ... Comes the Coupe and Revolution solar charging an electric car will be the only way to drive... you can open the Trump and see the batteries.

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

Excellent article on this topic - What happens when a battery electric vehicle is stuck in traffic and eventually loses all its charge? - and this was posted a year ago - with technology improving every year, EV's will get cheaper and be more efficient...

anotherview Loc: California

The green egos have adopted a program (all-electric cars) without thinking it through. Your comment if circulated would likely squelch the concept of all-electric cars.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Contrafactual? What facts are opposed to this besides the fact that you bought into the Green New Deal scam and don't want to look farther than a hood ornament on an EV?

DennyT Loc: Central Missouri woods

Facts Make no impact on these people! When faced with facts they ignore the post.

CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida

Technology is moving toward charging electric vehicles by plugging into standard 110v outlets. Newer Golf carts are already at that point so in emergencies they could equip charging station vehicles with generators or they could put plugs on streetlights, etc.. solar cells on all vehicle roofs.....small auxiliary propane generators to charge vehicle in an emergency........
The possibilities are endless for positive thinkers.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

So are the charging times endless when you are in a hurry and don't have hours to wait, 110v or 220v.

neillaubenthal

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 transmission 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 transmission towers or line.