New all electric Cadillac Escalade IQ

[SlumpBuster]

IMO charging is a much bigger problem than the cars themselves. Even at a Tesla Supercharger, you have to sit there for fifteen minutes to get just 200 miles worth of juice. Pure electric vehicles are fine for everyday short trips around town, but it's gonna be a long time before they're practical for longer trips.

I've taken several road trips in an EV. Honestly it adds about 5-10% to the trip time, but a lot of that is while I'm doing other things anyway (eating lunch, bathroom, snacks, etc).

So a 10 hour drive takes 11 hours. It's not perfect, but driving distances more than 250 miles is something 99% of the population does maybe once per year. The time saved not going to the gas station the rest of the year (charging at home) easily makes up for that hour lost on the road trip.

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

IMO Rivian's SUV is best EV SUV on the market. Lucid's Gravity is probably going to be pretty dope tho

 

[Pipe Line]

When the DC crowd change over all
of their vehicles to electric, convert to solar power for their homes, stop eating meat, and get rid of their gas stoves, then I’ll consider an EV….maybe.

Nope. Not my problem they choose to live miserably.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

IMO charging is a much bigger problem than the cars themselves. Even at a Tesla Supercharger, you have to sit there for fifteen minutes to get just 200 miles worth of juice. Pure electric vehicles are fine for everyday short trips around town, but it's gonna be a long time before they're practical for longer trips.

This is the biggest drawback in my eyes currently.

 

[Jim14510]

All depends what that extra is at the start. An MIT study had the additional CO2 at anywhere from 2.5 to 16 tons per vehicle. Size of battery, renewable energy used to make the batteries, etc. Being the difference.

MIT measured emissions at an average of 200 grams per mile for electric and 350 grams per mile for gas. That's averaging across the US. If you live in Washington state it's a much bigger difference (hydroelectric) West Virginia a smaller difference (almost all coal).

Department of Energy is at 3,932 pounds per year for electric and 11,435 pounds per year gas. Little less than MIT study for both gas and electric. Not much different though.

So depending on emissions during production and amount of renewable used to charge the battery it's quite variable. Anywhere from net negative emissions at 20,000 miles to 100,000. That's also assuming you don't have to replace the batteries before 180,000 miles which seems unlikely.

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

I love the idea of an electric truck if they make one within $5k of the gas version with similar towing, that gets 400 miles to a charge even in colder weather and doesn't burst into flames like dumb fuck Musk's cars do.

That being said they're at least 5 years away from that happening

Show me on the teddy bear where Elon hurt you @jw3

 

[cwessel76]

Show me on the teddy bear where Elon hurt you @jw3

Maybe on the ass in the form of charred flesh of some Tesla drivers?

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

Maybe on the ass in the form of charred flesh of some Tesla drivers?

I’m sure they did it on purpose duh

 

[betsch]

Definitely going to need some more child/slave labor if we are going to keep mining for these batteries though.

 

[nja13]

That was fascinating. I learned something today.

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

You never ever see a recall for anything on vehicles. Congress needs to investigate IYAM

 

[Toe]

Electric motors are practically indestructible compared to internal combustion engines, you're rarely going to see recalls on those. But the batteries are another matter entirely...

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

Electric motors are practically indestructible compared to internal combustion engines, you're rarely going to see recalls on those. But the batteries are another matter entirely...

I’d like to see you and cookiemonster team up on butter and batteries like Hogan and Flair. There would be no defense

 

[1HuskerDad]

Man forced to ditch $115K Ford EV truck during family road trip to Chicago: ‘biggest scam of modern times’

A Canadian man is sharing his frustrating experience – and the expenses incurred – after he purchased a Ford F150 Lightning EV earlier this year.

www.foxbusiness.com