Today, would you buy an EV vehicle.

[ultrarunner]

My electric is very quiet... so much so I've been asked when am I working and I was already done.

 

[blee03]

Here’s another thought on EV’s. The gubment isn’t going to let you drive them much longer until you’re forced to stick a GPS or other device on your car. They’ll be more than happy to send you a bill for $0.50 or whatever per mile for road tax.

Yeah, road tax soon.... but only after everyone switches over

The government plan is on track, as planned, for $10.00 gasoline and diesel. We are being forced into electric vehicles, really electric everything, by our government. (Sort of like masks and vaccines) It will be easy to control the population when there is only one source of power. Nuclear is the only logical source of power generation and, have you noticed, the government isn't talking about it.

My conspiracy theory: read "Rules for Radicles" government is on track for that too!

And wait until the price of electricity sky rockets due to power shortages from everyone charging... that'll be a real treat.

Then everyone will be forced into generating their own electricity supply via solar/wind/whatever

 

[California]

... Be Very Afraid.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yeah, road tax soon.... but only after everyone switches over



And wait until the price of electricity sky rockets due to power shortages from everyone charging... that'll be a real treat.

Then everyone will be forced into generating their own electricity supply via solar/wind/whatever

We already pay city taxes plus added fees on electricity to the home...

 

[blee03]

We already pay city taxes plus added fees on electricity to the home...

and Road tax soon... just wait.

 

[blee03]

... Be Very Afraid.

Should I mask up?

 

[tradosaurus]

Dont forget you cant sell them after you have them for 5 years or more, they are going to end up in landfills as you cant crush them, and the batterys will be next 'nuclear waste' for us to worry about, but got to have everyone drive them or the world will collapse... Column: The end of the world is coming, even if you've heard it all before

What happens to regular car batteries when they die every 4-5 years?

 

[California]

Dont forget you cant sell them after you have them for 5 years or more, they are going to end up in landfills as you cant crush them, and the batterys will be next 'nuclear waste'

That may remain the American way.

Or we could do what Germany has had for years. Enact law that at end-of-life the car manufacturer has to take back and re-use 85~95% of what it had manufactured.

(The text at this link is in English):

BMUV: Legislation in Germany: End-of-life Vehicle Ordinance

Official website of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection - BMUV

www.bmuv.de

[Starting 2006] manufacturers ... of the average net weight of an ELV, at least 85 percent would be subject to reuse or recovery.
From 2015 on, at least 85 percent (reuse / recycling) and at least 95 percent (reuse / recovery).

 

[shooterdon]

The smart rich people are going EV.

The smart average people are staying ICE

The poor people who have no option are staying ICE

I wonder what the dumb people will do?

I wonder what Joe/Jane average will do?

 

[nickfank]

Don't rest the saw against your legs, and you'll be all set.
Seriously, that seems to be the safety viewpoint of some. While watching the news with my parents years ago they showed somebody cleaning up hurricane damage... running a chainsaw in shorts and sneakers. I had to leave the room. I won't even start the darned thing up without full chaps, hearing protection and safety boots. Sometimes it takes longer to get geared up than to make the cut.

I wonder if I would need hearing protection with an electric saw?

My helmet has them built in, but I've taken to leaving them up. One of the downsides of hearing protection is being less aware of what's going on around you, (like subtle cracking noises.) That's always made me paranoid about my situational awareness in the past.

I'd say it's probably right on the threshold for needing hearing protection. However, it's only noisy when you're actively cutting, which is what pushed me to the "no protection/more aware" side.

 

[Jstpssng]

The smart rich people are going EV.

Smart rich people own more than one vehicle per driver.

 

[Hay Dude]

and Road tax soon... just wait.

Thats to replace the gasoline tax.

 

[ljjhouser]

Interesting video about EV acceptance in the U.S.
Best states to own an EV.

 

[ultrarunner]

I sure do see a lot of them and new ones all the time in not so common Marks.

Bolts seem to be gaining as saw 7 in my 5 mile commute today.

Toyota and Tesla dominate in the SF Bay Area.

With that said many shopping centers have EV charging and always room

The drivers using as around town city vehicle simply charge from home...

 

[koshari]

i really want to get an electric motorcycle but the 18k and the 18 month waiting list is the only bit putting me off atm, no carby to block up, quite and mountains of torque,

 

[Reddogs]

That may remain the American way.

Or we could do what Germany has had for years. Enact law that at end-of-life the car manufacturer has to take back and re-use 85~95% of what it had manufactured.

(The text at this link is in English):

BMUV: Legislation in Germany: End-of-life Vehicle Ordinance

Official website of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection - BMUV

www.bmuv.de

Oh my, that will happen when bovines drink too much Red Bull and are levitated above our heads...lol

 

[bsekf]

Your car is already keeping track of your mileage. when your car is inspected, the inspection station will report the mileage to the IRS and you will get a 1099 and pay it with your income tax. Just a matter of time before a milage tax is imposed and you can bet it will be imposed on everybody, ICE and EV. Takes a lot of money to support a politician in the manner they expect!

 

[stingray1]

NO!

 

[ultrarunner]

Time to dust off the Model T… no speedo.

Or, maybe convert one to electric?

 

[ArlyA]

Time to dust off the Model T… no speedo.

Or, maybe convert one to electric?

Battery power autos are not new for Ford.​

As early as 1903, Henry Ford was aware that his friend Thomas Edison was experimenting with battery technology for vehicles. But it wasn’t until 1914 that Ford began openly working on a low-cost electric car. According to news accounts, the goal was to sell the so-called Edison-Ford for as low as $500, only slightly more than a Model T in the day.

“Within a year, I hope, we shall begin the manufacture of an electric automobile,” Mr. Ford told The New York Times in January 1914. “The problem so far has been to build a storage battery of light weight which would operate for long distances without recharging.”

Fred Allison, an electrical engineer, with a Ford experimental electric car. Circa 1914.

The batteries under the seat on the first couple of electric prototypes were capable of somewhere between 50 and 100 miles on a single charge. Ford was also rumored to be establishing a Detroit-based facility to produce the first Ford EV for introduction in 1915.

During this era, electric cars were particularly appealing to women. Unlike gas cars that started with a hand-crank, battery-powered automobiles didn’t take a lot of muscle to operate. EVs were reliable, and they didn’t produce foul-smelling emissions. Henry Ford’s wife Clara, who drove an 80-mile 1914 Detroit Electric, was an early EV advocate.

By May 1914, Mr. Ford said, “It’s coming.” And he was proclaiming an EV revolution in the works. “The electric automobile will be the family carriage of the future.”

Historians aren’t certain why Ford never delivered on his promise for the Edison-Ford car. Some say that he was pulled away on other projects. But others believe that the electric self-starter was the culprit. When internal-combustion cars started replacing hand-cranks with electric-starter devices, EVs were robbed of a key selling point: ease of use. So, despite Clara’s encouragement and an investment of about $1.5 million in his electric-car project, Ford shelved his plans for a new, affordable electric vehicle.