The Electric Vehicle Charging Problem

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References
[1] www.ucsusa.org/resources/surveying-consumers-electric-vehicles
[2] www.castrol.com/content/dam/castrol/master-site/en/global/home/technology-and-innovation/electric-vehicle-adoption/accelerating_the_evolution_study.pdf
[3] www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-ev; www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview; www.nissanusa.com/shopping-tools/build-price/cars/nissan-leaf/2021/40-kwh/29125:BABYp:AqoD5iM/exterior; afdc.energy.gov/data/10567
[4] www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview; www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-ev;
[5] teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/updated-model-3-charging-profiles-durations.145054/; www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-ev; www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/electric-cars/leaf/features/range-charging-battery.html
[6] neo.ubs.com/shared/d1N4RjMdUf/; insideevs.com/news/444567/electrify-america-new-lower-rates/
[7] neo.ubs.com/shared/d1N4RjMdUf/
[8] www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-tsla-4q-earnings-report-2020-11611708257
[9] www.plugshare.com/location/284932
[10] cleantechnica.com/2019/02/16/standardization-of-ev-charging-in-the-eu/
[11] www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2020
[12] www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2020
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Jim Barr Official
Prieš 12 minučių
Sorry.. the country isn't ready for electric cars. We need to re-investigate nuclear power for vehicles. The actual amount of sealed nuclear fuel required would be extremely small and almost impossible to use for weapons or any other purpose. If 350 lbs of nuclear fuel can charge a submarine for 35 years, then something far smaller could power a car for much shorter period of time.
ɐɔᴉlǝƃu∀
Prieš 40 minučių
they still haven't solved how to generate all the extra electricity cars will be needing without burning fossil fuel so the whole exercise is pointless, is it not?
Peter L
Prieš 45 minučių
I think you meant Chevy BOLT, not Volt. The Volt is a hybrid, not a full EV.
skyislandaz
Prieš 48 minučių
We do not need to have fast-charging stations to be as accessible as gas stations, so the claim at 10:30 is a strawman argument. The overwhelming majority of all dairy car trips are less than 30 miles, most are half of that. I might need access to a fast-charger once every 2 months.
Ronstar308
Prieš val
The infrastructure problems are even worse in older countries such as England, as most overnight parking here is not on privately owned driveways, but just out on publicly owned streets. You almost never know where you'll be able to park your car before you get home. So without a massive investment in on-street overnight charging, you'll just never tip the balance here... And add in to that the possibility that neighbours / kids / some agent of chaos might just wanna unplug your car for the shits and giggles - you have a real headache for EVs on roads that were built by the Victorians.
Dennis Roll
Prieš val
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Reforger 83
Prieš val
... and where do these batteries go when you can’t charge them anymore?
Anne Reilley
Prieš val
The electricity these cars use is generated by coal. Stop calling them electric cars, call them coal burning cars.
hangthatflagupsidedownplease
Prieš val
Thank you for showing the idiots how difficult going green is going to be. These people need a reality check.
Ben Watson3
Prieš val
Personally, a hybrid between gas and electric would work because if you run out of gas, you can then use your stored battery charge.
Dennis Kogl
Prieš 2 val
Without nuclear power, the green revolution will fail. How stupid can you be? Burning trees for "green" energy!
dan brownell
Prieš 2 val
Disagree. Throw out a random number such as Range 2000 miles on a full charge. How many charging station problems disappear with that? Spoken backwards, give everyone a battery car that goes 26 miles, how many problems with charging station appear?
Troy Champion
Prieš 2 val
you guys act like lithium batteries last forever (so does google) in fact when i tried to find out if they could be recycled they wouldn't answer the question directly.... so i asked in a different way, how long they last and got some semblance to an answer in that they last x to x amount of hours 300-500 or whatever based on the system.. MY POINT is they DON'T last forever... which means they are made from a finite resource (for the eggheads out there that means it won't last forever... kinda like they were saying oil wouldn't last forever we WILL RUN OUT) It is a different solution but it isn't a REAL SOLUTION, it just prolongs the problem... in fact oil can be created, it can be grown with algae and be used in a zero carbon way... in other words the algae soaks up carbon dioxide and creates oil (vegetable oil) which can then be used in a diesel engine thus releasing the co2 back into the atmosphere while not adding to the amount or taking away (that's what zero carbon means eggheads). Your lithium solution is NOT a solution... my Algae solution IS a SOLUTION, and not only that mine hurts nobody, you get to use the same vehicles you're used too in the same way, I get to grow algae and press it for oil to sell you, everybody is happy.... except the oil barons. We don't have to redo the whole entire system at a tremendous cost for something that won't last any longer than our limited supply of lithium and that does not even mention that most of our lithium sources are in places where there are devastating social issues and funding these places will not help them or you, or the fish eating my dried algae chips. Does your lithium batteries have a side effect like that? feeding fish? creating food as a bye product? There ARE "GREEN SOLUTIONS" EV's may or may not be one of them, IF you had a unlimited source of batteries, you don't.. quit lying to yourself or prove yourself, so far you haven't.
Nick Edwards
Prieš 3 val
No do a video on the making, life, and disposal of the batteries. Good for environment or bad for environment???
NoisyBoy
Prieš 3 val
Maybe, just maybe, batteries aren’t the answer. All they are doing is trading one problem for another.
NoisyBoy
Prieš 3 val
I told people before EV’s came out this would be a problem. When will society listen to me? I do have the answer, but like I said, they don’t want to listen to me. Besides, people like me get suicided. I’ll just keep it to myself and not make waves.
Pained Truth
Prieš 3 val
Taking a 12 hour break every 150 miles just sounds great. You could go from coast to coast in about a billion years. In a common sense vehicle you can drive 500 miles in about 8-9 hours. That same trip in one of these electric cars is going to take 2-3 days minimum because you have to stop constantly for 10-12 hours. I bet hotels love these green cars. Noone even mentions that we still burn fossil fuel to create the electricity. You will just be paying the electric companies that use fossil fuel instead of gas stations. What a scam. It'd be virtually impossible to take a long road trip in one of these hippie cars and you don't even get to feel good about breaking your dependence on fossil fuels. You hippies out there. Why not just wait 100 years for the technology to be realistic? Why shove this nonsense down our throats right now when it won't work, the same as you did was gay marriage, transgender and sex changes for 3 year olds? Yeah....things are so much better. We are definitely going in the right direction. Next stop: incestuous marriage equality (brother-brother/sister marriage) and trans-species marriage equality (marrying dogs).
Steve B
Prieš 3 val
Chevy Volt ≠ Chevy Bolt EV, not least because the former has been discontinued.
NaYawkr
Prieš 3 val
I still drive a Prius. I see in this no suggestion that replacing it with a EV would be anything but just stupid.
Meredith White
Prieš 4 val
I used to think Elon Musk might end up being the Ford of electric vehicles and release the equivalent of the Model T. It used to look like he was going to eventually release an electric car that was more affordable to the average consumer. But he seems to be more into making his cars a status symbol instead. I'm waiting for someone to finally make an electric car with the same range as a gas powered car and make it cost
rajan khoiwal
Prieš 4 val
Great work.... That clarified a lot anonymity on realistic viability of range and cost
Andrew McFarland
Prieš 4 val
Right. Now, do the really interesting math. Assume perfect chargers are literally free, and even HALF of the cars on the road were electric. Multiply the average daily power consumption per car times the number of cars; Take that REALLY BIG number and compare it to the amount of headroom left in the electric grid as it is in 2021... wait for it...
Sol RC
Prieš 4 val
In order for any of this video to make sense you have prove people need to charge their car while out. I am sorry all facts point to this being completely false. It is not a charging problem, it's a perception problem, but slick talk like you do makes it seem like it is the techs fault, pretty disingenuous. I guess that how you get the views. Feed people what they already believe.... You charge your car at home....then you drive your average 16 miles to work ....this video is just such a waste of math and time.
KillerMZE
Prieš 4 val
I'm gonna stick with a car that refuels to 100% in less than 2 minutes
jpulley
Prieš 5 val
The I can't gas up my car at home even overnight. I can charge at home. A little planning goes a long way.
Naruto Uzumaki
Prieš 5 val
why not have replaceable batteries? Like we have in our remotes? I had heard a company in China was doing that. Please make a small video on this.
DUANE
Prieš 5 val
Stick a Honda generator in the trunk...
CinemaDemocratica
Prieš 5 val
Wait: There's a role for government in adjudicating market failures? Really?!? Gosh, who knew! Here all this time, I thought the only thing Britain did to rail travel was bog it down in pointless bureaucracy, and the only reason that the monopoly cruise line in Hawaii was so expensive was because of the minimum wage!
P C
Prieš 7 val
I won't buy an electric vehicle until all electric power plants are privately owned and all power plants can compete for my business. The nearest charging station is 50 miles away.
Irfan Liaqat
Prieš 8 val
Standardized battery pack which can be quick replaced at stations using robotic system in 5-10 mins. Station keep an inventory of battery packs, and has ability to charge spent ones.
GamingNinjaSheep
Prieš 8 val
The reason I unsubscribed from Nebula is because there was no way of knowing if a new video from someone I follow have been uploaded apart from checking the site everyday. Has that changed lately? Or will I still find myself watching youtube videos only to realise at the end that there is a better, ad-free version on Nebula that I could have watched.
Kyle Justus
Prieš 9 val
The electric bill alone make electric cars never an option. Oil is king for a reason. The electric required to run an ev would take for more than make. Its a pipe dream. The work to make it work isnt going to happen. For the us, every power plant would have to be nuclear and thats not even taking into acount that are power grid barely works as it is. Ev are not going to change that no matter the range or how cheap they get.
steve symons
Prieš 9 val
In Australia we have no Nuclear power stations, are phasing out Coal powered generation, and are relying heavily on unreliable Renewables, Solar and Wind ,yes, it is dumb with no back up. So in short , we barely have enough electricity to run our Economy. People just are off with the fairies here , not considering anything your well explained video reveals.
Mark Pickford
Prieš 10 val
The only question is not, more chargers, it is more Power Generating Plants. You can’t just fit x number of additional chargers to an existing finite amount of power and expect them all to work. This video didn’t even mention where the power actually comes from.
John James
Prieš 10 val
30 minutes charging time would soon become an absolute pain.
seaplaneguy
Prieš 11 val
An 80 gallon tank would be eight (8) six inch diameter tubes 82 inches long, 48 inches wide between front and rear tires wells, just like battery pack. Completely flat skateboard interior.... For the SAME weight as a Tesla M3 battery at 1050 lb you could have 170 gallons and drive 22,000 miles! Do you understand? 1 month is 1300 miles or 10 gallons. 30 gallons is three months or 3900 miles... 3 minutes for three months of driving. 1 minute / month. This is the future of cars. This also allows towing where the range drops by 3-5 times depending on drag and weight. EV = 310/5=62 miles at 100%.
Jon Smith
Prieš 11 val
THE BIG THING NOT MANY HOUSES IN NEIGHBORHOOD CAN PUT IN CAR CHARGERS THE ECLECTIC GRID CANT HANDLE LOOK IT UP DO THE NUMBERS TELL EVERY ONE WE WILL NEED A LOT OF NUKE PLANTS TO GET POWER IF WE GO TO EVS
seaplaneguy
Prieš 11 val
New Engine Type would have 195 mpg x 32 gallon gasoline = 6240 miles and fill in 3 minutes with the SAME volume as the battery. It is can have twice that easily in the floor of the car or 1 month of driving per fill up... It can also have zero exhaust on a closed cycle... 80 gallons in a mini van is no issue. EVs are obsolete if I can get the majors to wake up. This tech can use Ammonia Hydroxide as well and get 10% of the gasoline range or 624-1200 miles on fuel that is 80 cent/GGE or 2.3 cent/kwh from house. No, EV are NOT the answer, but may be forced due to politics. I show on twitter the facts about the CO2 and they are 3-20 times more CO2 when you want to run real numbers... At NO time every is a BEV or FCEV less CO2...never. @new_engine_type on twitter or newenginetype.com
Happy Home
Prieš 12 val
Given your citation of the European example, why doesn't Tesla - since they obviously have the design and tooling -- just go ahead and put CCS on all their chargers, and provide the adapters to their customer base, thus serving their own interests by promoting larger EV ownership ? We own a BOLT (not even mentioned in your video - you talk about a VOLT which is no longer even made).
Daniel
Prieš 13 val
I charge at home
JanjayTrollface
Prieš 14 val
Wow! It's almost like you can't just leave societal issues up to the market to fix....... who would have thought?....
City
Prieš 14 val
Did the government build gas stations 100 years ago?
Yong Kiat Lee
Prieš 15 val
Therefore invest in charge point
Tito Mik
Prieš 16 val
If every households owns an electric car in US, the amount of electricity required to charge them (9.1 billions kwh) will far exceed the total electricity generating capacity of all the power generating stations combined (1.1 billion kwh) in US. Demand for electricity to charge the cars will increase exorbitantly and it will be nearly impossible to meet it. There are 241 coal fired power plants in US which generates 23% of the total electricity which creates more pollution than the cars. There is a need to innovate alternate source of energy or fuel for the vehicles which are not a burden to existing infrastructure.
Beren Scott
Prieš 16 val
Those range requirements also are prone to decline. Meaning that as the vehicle ages, those values diminish. And ICE vehicles don't suffer from the same issue as much. Sure, a car will become less efficient at burning petrol, but we are talking about 10%. Fast charging in itself will only further reduce this, as in order to fast charge a car, it would lose it's charge even faster.
Ck 2018
Prieš 16 val
You sound like the HAI guy
Khắc cảnh lê
Prieš 16 val
Refill my vehicle in 31 minutes? F that. I like refill in 3 minutes. If I go empty in the middle of nowhere. Pull out the 5 gallon can and 2 minutes later, I've got an additional 120 miles. The only EV is the "future" is because of government forcing it, not by open market choice.
CCP Must Fall 中共必倒台湾に応援しています!
Prieš 16 val
3:11 this data is probably valid for certain countries. For those who live in apartment...?? Impossible to get an EV. Yeap that will be the reality we need to face. Therefore we might see Hydrogen car and EV side by side together. ORRRR The best would be everyone using public transport. US please upgrade ur railways lol
OXDH AOXT
Prieš 17 val
Thanks Edison
Sean Walck
Prieš 17 val
Westinghouse was just a puppet that usurped Nicola Tesla’s patents. Edison was a fraud that liked to public murder elephants as well as other animals
Vic Smith
Prieš 17 val
The Chevrolet EV is the BOLT. Not the Volt. Sad the author is so uninformed.
Bladen Roush
Prieš 17 val
Half an hour for a charge and only 300 miles vs. 5 minutes max and 450 miles yeah I’ll take my chances with the combustion engine thank you
Rob Kinney
Prieš 17 val
The average American must have much lower standards than I do regarding range and charge time. In less than 10 minutes at a gas station, I fill a gas tank from "E" to full and get about 400 miles range until I need to refill. I would need to get at least the same results before I will be willing to change to an EV. 30 minutes to charge for less than 300 miles range is absolutely unacceptable.
Jameel Ja
Prieš 18 val
You should have mentioned the westinghouse AC technology was actually nikola tesla's invention.
Jameel Ja
Prieš 18 val
I'm surprised how expensive the fast chargers cost.
Thiên Minh
Prieš 18 val
I thought Tesla created the AC.
Soundwave Superior
Prieš 18 val
Exactly. You know upper middle class White people who have large houses with charging points in their garages available may not have a problem. But Literally 99.9% of the rest of the world's population do. EVs are the most pompous first world creation ever. Like seriously, in how many countries and even in America do people park out on the street? How many people live in apartment complexes around the world? How will they charge their car? "Oh buy a Tesla. You can use their fast chargers." Yeah why don't you also tell a homeless person to buy a home? That'll fix homelessness right? What about in Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh? Or south east asian countries? There's no space there. Most people park on the roads. I think it's extremely insensitive to say go electric and then take away people's transportation away from them because they aren't as rich and first world as you. That's flat out elitism. "We are going to replace the technology you have with better stuff. Too bad you can't use it. You should have been a first worlder." Do you see what I'm getting at? And now another point... What's the average time it takes 15 cars to fuel up at a 2 pump gas station? Now what's the average time it takes 15 EVs to charge at a 5 pump charging station? It's not how many charging stations there are but how long it takes. Even if you can cut down charging times from hours to just 30 minutes, it's still going to throw the ENTIRE transport system off. In those 30 minutes, at a 2 pump station, over 50-100 cars can be fuelled up. But at a 5 charger station, it would only charge up 5 cars. People don't seem to be able to grasp the bigger picture. Causality is a foreign concept to most. Critical thinking needs to be taught in schools.
Cypher791
Prieš 19 val
My diesel car cost £700 and goes 500 miles...
Chee woh Chaw
Prieš 19 val
24 superchargers only in whole of Russia? No wonder elon musk wants to connect with Putin via clubhouse
RWBHere
Prieš 19 val
Wow, you're so out of date with this information! Are you being sponsored by an oil company? Modern EV's have plenty of range, equaling or exceeding that of an average petrol car, and certainly exceeding the average safe driving range of a human being. In any case, the average daily journey length in Britain has always been less than the range of electric cars produced in the past 50 years. They're now only a little more expensive to buy than fossil fuelled cars. The charging speeds are adequate, because you don't have to stand next to it to recharge. Simply plug it in, input your payment method, start the charger, walk away, do the necessary things that human beings have to do (we need to recharge too!), then return after your coffee and natural break, unplug and drive away. The cost of running the car is also substantially less than that for conventional vehicles. Maintenance and servicing is also less expensive. And they cause no pollution in our towns and cities. Best of all, you wake up each morning to find your car fully 'fuelled' with no need to refill at a smelly fuel station every week. That applies to me, even though home charging is not entirely convenient, but we have still found a simple workaround. The buyers' attitude is what makes the difference. So long as they are being fed misinformation by people, they will have negative perceptions of EV's. The fact remains though that it will be illegal to sell new fossil fuelled cars in Britain within the next decade. Hydrogen is a red herring, because most of it comes from petroleum or else from inherently inefficient electrolysis. People will have to either buy increasingly old gas guzzlers or else embrace the better technology. Many have already made the change.
Stan Long
Prieš 37 minučių
Your reply: "Are you being sponsored by an oil company?" On the other hand, are you being sponsored by an electric car company? You sure have put out a lot of info on electric cars similar to those companies.
Christopher Rasmussen
Prieš 19 val
WOW! Wendover Productions really needs to update this! The Model 3 is rated at 263 miles and that's the standard range plus model, the Chevy Volt is no longer in production (for the last 3 years) and the Nissan Leaf is in its 2nd generation!!!!!!
Jacob Brickner
Prieš 20 val
Imagine praising Europe
Evilkittyof doom
Prieš 21 val
7:00 You show the opposite of what you are talking about ...
Mark Brand
Prieš 21 val
All the boomers in the comments: jUst rPlACe thE baTteRies
Mike Carter
Prieš 21 val
We have charged our non-Tesla cars over 3,009 times - if there is such a charging problem, why are we the only car at the sites 90% of the time? Main problem with public DC charging is the chargers are often broken since not used enough to justify repairs.
Ace Zenfu
Prieš 21 val
Guess it's time to switch to hydro cars... oh wait...
Chip Redding
Prieš 22 val
Commentator keeps saying Chevy Volt but that model is no longer made. He is referring to the Chevy Bolt. He also erroneously says there is no adapter for the Bolt's J1772 to plug into a Tesla charger nut I have one that I purchased for less than $200.00 and have used it several times to charge my Bolt on a Tesla charge station.
iKingRPG
Prieš 23 val
It's the Chevy Bolt, not Volt. The volt was discontinued
Mitzael Serna
Prieš 23 val
Try floatplane too
Kratos_ Rural670
Prieš 23 val
Are you the guy from half as interesting
Paul Preboist
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The Brexiteer
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No one! living in an apartment or a house without a drive! is going to buy an electric car, end of! 😎
john mcginnis
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There are some falsehoods here: * The govt is not in the infrastructure business as depicted. Fact the last time we have a large scale project was the Interstate system. That has now devolved to the States and many have in turn handed it off to the counties. Even then the interstate system was funded as a defense appropriation and technically they are defense roads. Increasingly govts at any level are not funding road construction. Here in Texas the roads that are built are generally toll roads. * Amtrac is an anomaly. All of the commercial rail hauls freight, over right of way they own. Amtrack continually loses money hand over fist. * Fueling stations are certainly not a govt infrastructure. The tanks, pumps, land and profits are private. There are other issue for EVs are: * We do not have the generating capacity to support EVs on a mass market scale. * Lithium which makes up the key component of the batteries is also a limitation. There are only so many mines that are commercially viable to extract the ore.
Nom Sayin
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Why cant manufacturers design it similar to propane exchange... So that when your battery gets low, you go to your local gas station, take out the used battery and slip in a new one, then your on the road again without waiting and waiting for your battery to charge
darkmath100
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Replaceable Batteries. There, I just solved the battery charging problem. You're welcome...
Ray Pastora
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I can gas up in less than 10 minutes. Usually in about 5. That's the speed it needs to get to.
Frank R
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It's a Chevy Bolt, not Volt.
iKingRPG
Prieš 23 val
Correct
Breen Whitman
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Countries that are leading Climate Change policy will be in trouble to get to the tipping point, hence meeting those policy goals. For example, in New Zealand the Tesla Model 3 is $76.000 for the base model, $93,000 for the Premium model and $102,000 for the Premium All Wheel drive. The Tesla S Plaid All wheel drive is $258,000. In January 2021, the UN advised New Zealand they are performing poorly re climate change. At the Tesla prices above(and all car makers EV versions are expensive), come 2030, IE just 9 years time, the Climate Leaders are going to fail to meet obligations big time.
Koblac
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Why is Europe so much better than the US :(
Anica
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damn europe really sexy huh
Koblac
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Take a shot every time he says 31 minutes
Dave Hamilton
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are these people really that stupid...your charger is the car its self all kind of rotating parts going down the road
Doctor Who 2002
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I'm buying a used Toyota 2014 Prius 👌 Save tons of money this way 😁
Patrick Reynolds
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Living in California, I think the big issue is housing prices. An EV would be great if I could park it in my garage and charge it but with housing so unaffordable most people don't have access to that setup. Public parking EV charging stations are never available, always filled.
Ted miles
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These are supposed to be saving grace for the environment, but the batteries in each of these is a environmental disaster.
Rohit Das
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What the hell... just use lightning... it’s free...at this point in time.
Ted miles
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Why can't they put solar panel built into the roof? Why can't they put an alternator that will recharge as you go?
Ted miles
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Considering that a EV only gets 120 miles per charge it's not feasible to go on a trip. Would take me three days to get 400 miles to see my family.
Mr. Sivilla
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So why has Tesla made a profit for 6 straight quarters? Your math is wrong and deliberately misleading. Not all Tesla owners need to have a charging station as accessible as a gas station. The vast majority of Tesla owners charge at home or work and only use Superchargering stations for long trips. Rewatch this video in 2025 and see if you feel the same.
HWI
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The numbers people consider acceptable for range and charge time are pretty whack to me. Maybe because I do a lot of long trips, but I would want a 400 mile range with a 15 minute charge time. Anything less would just suck big time compared to internal combustion.
izzy garbo
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At a large rich hospital/ research center they built a 5 story 1500 car garage with no charging stations. You would think the goverment would requir that at least 1 to 3 % of parking spots have charging stations.
Aaron Turner
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The thing stopping me from buying electric is i dont have a house. I have an apartment with no direct outside access to an outlet nor do my apartment complex have a charging station.
Mona Langer
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That is my reason as well, the closest charging point is a 15 min drive, and what do I in the winter while waiting for it to charge.
Rocco
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1:35 How is the Nissan Leaf more expensiv but has less Money symbols?
13DatsyukDangle13
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One thing I disagree with is in the beginning. You say the price is already at the point where the cost is low enough for consumers, but fail to mention that all of those cars are compact cars whose ICE competitors are $10,000 or more cheaper. The electric car still has a lot of work to bring buy in costs down. Also, charging stations need to be universal for all cars the was gas stations are. Every company having its own system won't work. Another fix to the charging problem could be larger capacity batteries, but it may be a while until that's financially viable.
Angelo Fidanza
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hybrid is the way of the future - unless you drive short distance or city only
Garett Fox
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A lengthy trivial conversation about a fraudulent technology. First the creaky, aged and poorly maintained grid will not support millions of electric cars - just look at what happened in Texas! Second does anyone think to ask where the electricity comes from? In the United Snakes the grid is about 80% COAL. Since when is burning coal in your car better than burning gasoline? Third what about the toxic footprint of building the non-recycleable battery. What about when these lumps of poison wear out? Do they go into the landfill? What about the mining of all the toxic rare earth minerals? Mining is the most destructive thing we do - it destroys the environment and indigenous communities. Read The Limits of Clean Energy at Peak Oil News for more on that. Also look at Planet of the Humans, available on LTsection more about the fraud which is so-called "clean energy." So-called "green" corporations are razing entire forests for bio-mass. People are hypnotized by this insane nonsense. This is not about saving the environment; it is so the car companies can keep building cars and so mindless dupe consumers can continue ruining the environment while engaging in the illusion of freedom through "happy motoring." If we were serious about saving the climate (which we are not) we should have put natural gas engines in every car of the fleet, stopped making new cars and focused on making parts for the existing fleet and training auto workers as mechanics. But this is about corporate profit, not about saving the environment. But here is twenty minutes upholding the fraud by discussing charging from the inadequate grid. Shake your head, people.
Scrooge McDuck
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They allegedly can go to Mars but can’t properly charge cars.
v w
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I'm not going to sit at a charging station for 15 minutes!!
v w
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@kaffeine69 Not a big deal to you but I'll wait till they get it figured out.
kaffeine69
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They’re at the malls! Or by food and gas stations...why not? Check your email call someone...no big deal lol
uwuSym
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Sorry but I'm not paying 36k for a car
Tony Morse
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You're ahead of yourself. The supply of electricity in L.A.,Houston and other metropolitan areas is already compromised with frequent "brown-outs". and there is very, very few electric cars out there overall.(1 in over 5,000). Look at gridlock in our hugh cities, consider electrical demands a hundred times greater than today. Materials for building batteries and disposing of them properly (c'mon green people) is not even fathomed, let alone a realistic plan. The rush is on -A.O.C. says we only have 11 years left!!!