What do you think about Electric Cars?

Discussion in 'Serious Discussion' started by Katzenfreund, Aug 24, 2017.

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Will your next car be electric?

  1. My next car will be electric

  2. I’ll wait several years for prices to drop

  3. I’m not convinced by them, I’ll buy conventional

  4. I am undecided, far more info is required

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  1. gorski

    gorski MDL Guru

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    It is comfy, obviously, else he wouldn't have done it...

    Have you any idea how much it costs to get a hotel room in Sweden or Norway? :D
     
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  2. JFKI

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    Nope. Nor do I care. :dunno:

    Funny But I do seem to remember near the beginning of this thread I made a comment about how long it would take to recharge the batteries in an electric tractor trailer in the cold, and here you post a video of a car being "supercharged" overnight and the charge being in the mid 40 percent range the following morning.
    And then you touting a 2 hour recharge time using a supercharger to recharge that tractor trailer. :laie:

     
  3. Joe C

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    The guy in that video would have really been screwed if he was down to 8% because he would not be able to drive in the time needed to "heat up" his battery in order for a charge. It would take more than an entire day to recharge @ 7f outside, and that is not unusual from where I live
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    And yes... that is my current forecast
     
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  4. gorski

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    #424 gorski, Dec 12, 2017
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    Heh, there is a setting to heat the battery using its own energy but oh no...

    And it's not like I didn't already show you what Tesla in cold climate is really like - instead you put your hands on your ears and play dum... ermmm, no, that's wrong, you are dumb - but you are pretending to be clever... and it shows... :D :D :D





    How it really functions, in real life, as opposed to JFK's "head" :D :D :D



    Norway programmer, how it's really functioning... ;)



    Btw, that guy was showing a "trick", how to get a properly cold battery warm enough for a supercharging to take place - but OK, as you say, you don't care. So, go elsewhere to "not care"... :D
     
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  5. gorski

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    Interesting...



    Real life:





    VP in Tesla on cold climate driving, heating the battery etc.:



    Teslas in Norway:

     
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  6. Joe C

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    Your repeating yourself gorski, My mother-in-law repeats herself too, and we are considering about putting her in a nursing home
     
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  7. Mr.X

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  8. gorski

    gorski MDL Guru

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    Joe, if you still have some part of your brains left working after all that celebratory champagne, for whatever mystical reason you conservatives deem it warranted, consider this: I was RESPONDING to REPEATED and BASELESS accusations from your (conservative) side, hence me saying "I already told you this but you conservative lot are OBVIOUSLY NOT taking anything on board, dogmatically clinging on to your PREJUDICES"...

    The funny thing is, you remember me posting some of those but your conservative colleague couldn't for the life of him remember I posted a complete rebuttal of his PREJUDICE and YOU DID NOT WARN HIM ABOUT NOT REMEMBERING THESE THINGS - which in itself is STOOPID - BUT YOU REMINDED ME I POSTED THEM BEFORE... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Go on, warn him now that he is uninformed, prejudiced and talking from his rear end - go on, then, just do it... :D

    Got it or should I type slower? :D
     
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  9. Joe C

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    As a philosopher, you sure do like to place labels on people. Don't cha?
     
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  10. gorski

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    Go on, then - warn him he "repeats his prejudiced, ill-informed nonsense", like you warned me I repeated myself, even though I had to remind him he is talking rubish - I dare you!
     
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  11. gorski

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  12. GOD666

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    OK people, can we please remain civil and let cooler heads prevail?
     
  13. JFKI

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    I can plainly see that you don't understand context either.

    WHAT I don't care about is "how much it costs to get a hotel room in Sweden or Norway". :rolleyes:
     
  14. gorski

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    Oh, if it isn't the "EV trucks, run by batteries only, are impossible to achieve" guy... :rolleyes: :D :D :D

    Boy, you have some cheek to appear in this thread any more... :rolleyes:

    But then again, I do expect this level of stoopid from you... :D
     
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  15. JFKI

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    Cool. so you WANT to be treated like that ?

    I could, but make a conscience decision not to do that... After all, isn't it a sin or something to hurt dumb animals ? :dunno:
     
  16. gorski

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    F you, too! You are too dumb to figure out you need to first control yourself from calling people names you can't even begin to understand! THEN, we can talk!!!

    I.e. IF and WHEN you withdraw your baseless accusation that I am a hypocrite - we can talk...

    And IF and WHEN we start talking, you can start by facing the FACTS!!!

    As opposed to your PREJUDICES, which constantly turn out to be just that - BASELESS prejudices!

    And for me, this constitutes a dogmatic, conservative person! Flying in the face of facts - and carrying on regardless!!!

    I accuse you of being what you really are, as I have already proven, umpteen times!

    So, go on, be an arse, carry on as before...
     
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  17. gorski

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    I repeat:

    "Time after time, in this thread alone, you have been definitively proven WRONG and yet you keep insisting on idiotic ideas, like:

    1) "having to charge the batteries 7 times a day" (poor taxi drivers who have to sit and wait for hours and hours - for what?!? even the busiest of them can drive 2 days without having to recharge),

    2) not being able to travel even 250 km in a go (and EVs do go twice that nowadays),

    3) EVs not being able to travel very far because of no charging stations (EU, US etc. are not exactly poor in supercharger stations),

    4) batteries not being able to move bigger vehicles (look above),

    5) not being able to function in cold climates (look at my first post, a third of Tesla's sales are in cold climate countries)

    ...and the list goes on and on.

    HAVE YOU NO SHAME?!?!?!?!?!? HAVE YOU NO MINIMAL CAPABILITY FOR REFLECTION AND INTROSPECTION?!?

    Now that we have seen effective EV vans and even trucks, that more % of electricity production goes to the renewables by the day, less to coal, better and faster charging batteries are on their way, while their price is falling, just as EVs are getting cheaper etc. etc. - you are looking ever more stoopid by the post - but don't let that stop ya!!! We're 'avin' a larf!!!
     
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  18. JFKI

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    That is simply an observation based on your inability to comprehend what the articles you post actually mean, and the fact that you don't even own an E/V so all your arguments are based solely on what other people say and your attacks on others who point out errors in what you say are simply as vehement as they are.

    At this point my observation stands.

    Case in point, Why does an E/V coal truck need air cleaners. a radiator, and an exhaust ? What was your reply to that question ? Think about it.

    Edit to add: Your rant WHILE I was answering your last post is not helping you. :D
     
  19. gorski

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    So, that's a no, then - no ability to figure yourself out, to face the facts, to stand up, for once, be a man and say "I was wrong, as can be seen in all these new developments".

    You'd rather be an ostrich.

    Fine.

    Go!
     
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  20. JFKI

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    Well unlike you, at least I AM in the process of building an E/V.

    So why does your coal hauling E/V need Air Cleaners, a Radiator, or an Exhaust ?

    Don't bother, your credibility with me is gone.

    By the way, Just how many batteries have blown up in your face ? Over the years ( since about 1970 ) I've had about 6, over half in below zero F weather.

    So your saying I am pulling my facts out of my a$$ is nothing but horse:poop:...

    You know, something you seem to thrive upon.