"up148 wrote:They ought to be thinking about upgrading our electric grid before straining it with EV's. From the pan to the fire.
"They" are doing so.
Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)
HELP!
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2 ... e-identify
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Re: Electric cars
"They" are doing so.
Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)
HELP!
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2 ... e-identify
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Re: Electric cars
I can get the jump on just about anything from a traffic signal with my lowly little Bolt.
Re: Electric cars
Hertz selling 20,000 EVs from fleet, to reinvest in gas-powered vehicles
Rental car giant said the sales will continue over the course of 2024
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/her ... d-vehicles
Rental car giant Hertz on Thursday said it will sell about 20,000 electric vehicles from its U.S. fleet.
The offloading of those EVs will cut the company’s global EV fleet by roughly one-third, Hertz said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The rental car giant said it would allocate funds it gets from selling the vehicles toward purchasing more internal combustion engine vehicles "to meet customer demand."
Rental car giant said the sales will continue over the course of 2024
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/her ... d-vehicles
Rental car giant Hertz on Thursday said it will sell about 20,000 electric vehicles from its U.S. fleet.
The offloading of those EVs will cut the company’s global EV fleet by roughly one-third, Hertz said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The rental car giant said it would allocate funds it gets from selling the vehicles toward purchasing more internal combustion engine vehicles "to meet customer demand."
Re: Electric cars
Funny how the comments are turned off on this video. This guy knows he’s going to get blasted on how the cold weather reduces the battery life in EV’s.
Great. I just defrosted my EV with my smart phone, but I can’t make it to the grocery store and back.
https://youtube.com/shorts/v7N4WEUxaho? ... 5gqlcYd6H5
Great. I just defrosted my EV with my smart phone, but I can’t make it to the grocery store and back.
https://youtube.com/shorts/v7N4WEUxaho? ... 5gqlcYd6H5
Re: Electric cars
3 Reasons my 50-year-old truck is better than your $100,000 EV.
https://youtube.com/shorts/buRrv4r9Mwo? ... FrREAlouW4
https://youtube.com/shorts/buRrv4r9Mwo? ... FrREAlouW4
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Re: Electric cars
Another one bits the dust.....
EV maker files for bankruptcy after hemorrhaging cash
Automotive designer Henry Fisker has struck out again
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-au ... aging-cash
Henrik Fisker is out of gas, again.
The automotive designer's California-based electric vehicle startup, Fisker, filed for bankruptcy protection late on Monday and will seek to sell its assets and restructure its debt after hemorrhaging cash on its "Ocean" SUV line in the U.S. and Canada.
The company joins other would-be Tesla competitors such as Proterra, Lordstown and Electric Last Mile Solutions, which each went bankrupt in the past two years after depleting cash reserves, fundraising hurdles and production challenges related to global supply-chain issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fisker vehicles were also under investigation by U.S. regulators.
EV maker files for bankruptcy after hemorrhaging cash
Automotive designer Henry Fisker has struck out again
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-au ... aging-cash
Henrik Fisker is out of gas, again.
The automotive designer's California-based electric vehicle startup, Fisker, filed for bankruptcy protection late on Monday and will seek to sell its assets and restructure its debt after hemorrhaging cash on its "Ocean" SUV line in the U.S. and Canada.
The company joins other would-be Tesla competitors such as Proterra, Lordstown and Electric Last Mile Solutions, which each went bankrupt in the past two years after depleting cash reserves, fundraising hurdles and production challenges related to global supply-chain issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fisker vehicles were also under investigation by U.S. regulators.
Re: Electric cars
HONDO74 wrote:Another one bits the dust.....
Henrik Fisker is out of gas, again.
Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a reorganization process that allows a business or individual to continue operating while restructuring their debts.
During reorganization the 360 mile range Fisker Ocean is selling for $35,000 to $37,500.
That range works for getting to and from the cities I visit frequently.
Columbia - Louisville 103 miles x2 = 206 miles round trip.
Columbia - Nashville 131 miles x2 = 262 miles round trip.
https://www.fiskerinc.com/inventory?fil ... lerCode%3D
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Re: Electric cars
General Motors Quietly Backs Off Plans To Go All-Electric
General Motors (GM) quietly backed away from its high-profile pledge to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles over the next decade, effectively abandoning the electric vehicle (EV) transition it once championed, E&E News reported Thursday.
In January 2021, shortly after former President Joe Biden took office and before his administration implemented new regulations and tax credits to incentivize the production of EVs, GM announced its plans to transition to an all-electric vehicle lineup by 2035. However, on Tuesday, GM announced that it would invest $4 billion in the production of mostly gasoline-powered vehicles as it backs away from its earlier EV targets, according to E&E News.
Sam Abuelsmaid, an auto analyst for a Detroit-area research firm, told E&E that the move means the company is “giving up any hope of achieving that [2035] goal.”
“We still believe in an all-EV future,” GM stated when asked on Wednesday by E&E about the status of the 2035 goal. Notably, GM CEO Mary Barra has consistently claimed that EVs are the future of transportation, and said in May that “EVs are fundamentally better.”
Behind the scenes, however, GM was actively lobbying the federal government to overturn California’s EV mandate.
“We need your help!” GM said in a recent email blast to its white-collar employees, The Wall Street Journal reported. “Emissions standards that are not aligned with market realities pose a serious threat to our business by undermining consumer choice and vehicle affordability.”
General Motors (GM) quietly backed away from its high-profile pledge to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles over the next decade, effectively abandoning the electric vehicle (EV) transition it once championed, E&E News reported Thursday.
In January 2021, shortly after former President Joe Biden took office and before his administration implemented new regulations and tax credits to incentivize the production of EVs, GM announced its plans to transition to an all-electric vehicle lineup by 2035. However, on Tuesday, GM announced that it would invest $4 billion in the production of mostly gasoline-powered vehicles as it backs away from its earlier EV targets, according to E&E News.
Sam Abuelsmaid, an auto analyst for a Detroit-area research firm, told E&E that the move means the company is “giving up any hope of achieving that [2035] goal.”
“We still believe in an all-EV future,” GM stated when asked on Wednesday by E&E about the status of the 2035 goal. Notably, GM CEO Mary Barra has consistently claimed that EVs are the future of transportation, and said in May that “EVs are fundamentally better.”
Behind the scenes, however, GM was actively lobbying the federal government to overturn California’s EV mandate.
“We need your help!” GM said in a recent email blast to its white-collar employees, The Wall Street Journal reported. “Emissions standards that are not aligned with market realities pose a serious threat to our business by undermining consumer choice and vehicle affordability.”
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Re: Electric cars
I've put 15,000 miles on my first EV in the last 15 months. My view is that if you have a Level-2 (220 volt circuit) charger at home then an EV will be the best thing since sliced bread.... but if you can't charge at home then having an EV will probably suck for you.
My home charger cost about $400 and a local licensed electrician charged me another $500 to install it. He had to swap out some breaker switches in my panel box to make room for the new 220 breaker, plus he had to run wire -- very expensive wire! -- from the panel to where he installed the charger. He also had to drill thru cinder block to run the wire, so his fee was quite reasonable given the work he did. The power company rebated some of the cost back to me.
My EV is programmed to only charge overnight, when the power company charges a much lower off-peak rate. Per the charger's app my charging at home has cost between $12 and $31 per month. A similar gas vehicle would have cost me 4 times as much to drive the same amount of miles... and that's not counting the oil changes the gas vehicle would have needed. (There's no engine oil to change on an EV.)
Supposedly my EV can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds, but I've not yet taken it to a drag strip to confirm that.
My home charger cost about $400 and a local licensed electrician charged me another $500 to install it. He had to swap out some breaker switches in my panel box to make room for the new 220 breaker, plus he had to run wire -- very expensive wire! -- from the panel to where he installed the charger. He also had to drill thru cinder block to run the wire, so his fee was quite reasonable given the work he did. The power company rebated some of the cost back to me.
My EV is programmed to only charge overnight, when the power company charges a much lower off-peak rate. Per the charger's app my charging at home has cost between $12 and $31 per month. A similar gas vehicle would have cost me 4 times as much to drive the same amount of miles... and that's not counting the oil changes the gas vehicle would have needed. (There's no engine oil to change on an EV.)
Supposedly my EV can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds, but I've not yet taken it to a drag strip to confirm that.
Re: Electric cars
May I ask what model EV did you purchase, I looked in to getting one 2 years ago but when the dealer told me I should not charge the batteries in the garage overnight because it could possible start a fire I gave up. Will wait until they get the battery issues resolved.
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Chris Webster
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Re: Electric cars
I bought a Ford. How I decided on it is a very long story.HONDO74 wrote:May I ask what model EV did you purchase,
I appreciate that concern. When I purchased my first home back in the 1990s, I didn't consider any townhouses with garages at the bottom because I didn't want to be living above 40+ gallons of gasoline (in two parked cars.)I looked in to getting one 2 years ago but when the dealer told me I should not charge the batteries in the garage overnight because it could possible start a fire I gave up.
The last statistic I saw was that electric vehicles are 20 times less likely to catch fire than gas cars. The problem is that when they do catch fire, electrical cars are much harder to extinguish than gas cars!Will wait until they get the battery issues resolved.
Re: Electric cars
It was a Ford Mustang Mach-E that I was looking at
Was going to trade in my 2007 Shelby Mustang GT for it.
Was going to trade in my 2007 Shelby Mustang GT for it.
Re: Electric cars
I looked in to getting one 2 years ago but when the dealer told me I should not charge the batteries in the garage overnight because it could possible start a fire I gave up.
Most all of the people I see with EV’s have them charging in the garage. The ones that don’t are charging outside but still close enough to burn down everything around it if it did catch on fire.
Other than a person that drives infrequently what is the real upside to owning an EV?
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