At each charging stop, in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York, I ran into problems. A five-minute wait to see if the car and charger would establish communications was invariably the case. Waiting 10 minutes was not uncommon. Even then, there was no time to relax; more than once, an error somewhere in the loop shut everything down after just a few kWh...
Then there was the problem of whether or not all of the chargers at a given location were even functional. At one EA station with a Plugshare rating of 9.8, two of four chargers were completely inoperable and a third was reduced to just 50 kW. Four days later, nothing had changed other than its Plugshare rating, which had increased by 0.2 points to the maximum score of 10, with a note in italics about the reduced-power machine...
The fuel needed to produce the electricity to power these "environmentally oriented" vehicles costs more than gasoline. Your example only proves more how useless is this system. Fill up a car, hybrid or conventional, travel a long distance. need more fuel? Five minutes and you are ready to roll again. Of course, if you have time to spend such as 35 minutes to dwdle over coffee then the electric vehicle and its waste of energy is for you, the "concerned consumer" who is being blinded by reality.
ReplyDeleteit's clear, and factual, but when have facts ever persuaded the religious? And electric car people are in the Green Life religion of not getting their hands dirty with anything that spews exhaust. Just that out of sight, out of mind, sort of ignorance.
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