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Dave's avatar

You sound like a college kid telling a Cuban refugee about the wonders of communism.

I am experience and I'm telling you who are inexperienced, you don't know jack diddly squat.

Commuter stuck in a snowjam -

Standard practice among EV owners is 80% charge for daily driving

Say you have a 60 mile commute round trip. A vehicle with a 75kw battery starts with 60kw in it at 80%. A 60 mile round trip commute requires about 20kw in winter.

This means you have 40 kw to keep warm with in a snowstorm. It takes 1-2kw per hour to heat the cabin. So while you are parked you have 20-40 hours of heat.

If I was on a road trip then I'm being responsible and looking at the weather and the road ahead. Snowstorms don't just magically appear out of nowhere after all. IA truck stop parking lot is a heck of a lot more comfortable than a ditch, and less costly than a tow/wreck.

I alter my travel plans all the time in winter. When I visit my folks its 400 miles away. If a snowstorm is forecast to coincide with my drive I leave the day before. Yes it sucks to lose a day visiting my folks. Would suck worse if dangerous road conditions lead to never seeing us again.

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daiva's avatar

On serious ding though, note two humble-yet-magic words: energy density. These are from physics fundamentals no wishful thinking can override 🙂

🗨 About 60 pounds of batteries are needed to store the energy equivalent to that in one pound of hydrocarbons. Meanwhile, 50–100 pounds of various materials are mined, moved, and processed for one pound of battery produced.

🗨 In rough terms, it requires the energy equivalent of about 100 barrels of oil to fabricate a quantity of batteries that can store a single barrel of oil-equivalent energy.

Maths matters (& it's not raycist nor Cuban communist 😉). Check it out for yourself if you're up to challenge your luxury beliefs --> manhattan-institute.org/green-energy-revolution-near-impossible

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daiva's avatar

Ok, let's transfer to aural plane 😂 You sound like a butthurt brat whose cherished toy was [grossly unfairly!] badmouthed by random jackass on interwebz: How on earth dare they! 😤

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