bidens incredible transition to electric cars
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Smilingreen
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Heh....how cheap is it now to own an electric car? Just like the cost of buying a canned coke in the vending machine. It's over $2.00 a can. Charging fees will continue to double and triple within a short time.
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Petro-Canada issues huge EV charging fee increase across the country, one week after acknowledging how unreliable their network is [Update]
Plugging in and charging on Petro-Canada’s Electric Highway just got a lot more expensive for EV owners. Instead of billing owners at differing rates in each province, the oil giant has now instituted a flat […]
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sebastiantombs
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On a side note, how many EV charging stations has the Bribem Administration built? Remember we're supposed to be all EV by 2035.
The answer is ZERO!
The answer is ZERO!
Smilingreen
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For some reason, most politicians think everyone who owns a electric car has their own house where they can plug their electric car in for 24 hours to top it off. What about the millions of apartment dwellers that park out in a big lot, with no power available for 100's of feet?
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Renters face charging dilemma as U.S. cities move toward EVs
The great transition to electric vehicles is underway for single-family homeowners who can charge their cars at home, but for millions of renters, access to charging remains a significant barrier.
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Driver of Electric Vehicle Comes up With Solution to Drive 1,800 Miles Without Charging
The driver of an electric vehicle revealed how he drove 1,800 miles without making a stop to charge it. A
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Smilingreen
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I drive an electric car in Scotland - first it was exciting, now it's a struggle
A SCOTS motorist who drives an electric car claims it has become more challenging to find a charging point – because so many of them are faulty. Laura Young, an environmentalist who has worke…
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For some reason, most politicians think everyone who owns a electric car has their own house where they can plug their electric car in for 24 hours to top it off. What about the millions of apartment dwellers that park out in a big lot, with no power available for 100's of feet?
Renters face charging dilemma as U.S. cities move toward EVs
The great transition to electric vehicles is underway for single-family homeowners who can charge their cars at home, but for millions of renters, access to charging remains a significant barrier.
My employer has installed a bunch in the parking lot/garage and the local supermarket has them now. The supermarket offers free charging, at my employer it’s a 50% discount. Hopefully more businesses will follow.
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Once there's a critical mass of EVs, those free chargers will be turned into profit centers.
Smilingreen
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Most of the free ones have disappeared. Cracker Barrel had 2 of them installed at their #1 store in Lebanon TN. They sat there unused for the better part of 6 years and finally pulled them back out, because everyone traveling the interstates drives Petro Cars. They did in in conjunction with Nissan, because the Nissan Leaf was forecasted to be a huge success @ 73 miles per charge and everyone was going to buy one....
Subaru Can't Afford to Build EVs In North America Because McDonald's Pays Too Well
If you’re planning to sell electric vehicles in North America, chances are you’re trying to work out how to build EVs here, too. The Inflation Reduction Act has made it a worthwhile investment for automakers. Not Subaru, though — Subaru remains unconvinced, for the moment.
Smilingreen
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That is actually disturbing....Subaru Can't Afford to Build EVs In North America Because McDonald's Pays Too Well
If you’re planning to sell electric vehicles in North America, chances are you’re trying to work out how to build EVs here, too. The Inflation Reduction Act has made it a worthwhile investment for automakers. Not Subaru, though — Subaru remains unconvinced, for the moment.www.yahoo.com
Smilingreen
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Is the CEO of Subaru adding total cost of employing totally non-skilled labor, like FUTA And SUTA and possibly shitty health insurance for McDonald's employees? That would be the only way I could imagine he could come up with a mid-twenties figure for non-skilled McDonald's employees realistically. Otherwise, it would cost over a $100 to take a family out to Micky D's for dinner and franchises would go broke paying those kind of hourly wages.
Will this be like when the utility offers you a measly one time credit of $25 so that you give them the right to turn off your AC during peak demand?
Who would want their EV cycling charge everyday to power back the grid? Gonna kill the life of the batteries.
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Who would want their EV cycling charge everyday to power back the grid? Gonna kill the life of the batteries.
Electric cars won't just solve tailpipe emissions — they may even strengthen the US power grid, experts say
A budding technology could allow electric cars to provide power to the grid when it's needed most, helping utilities deal with heatwaves.
sebastiantombs
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Let's see, pay a fee to charge your EV so you have enough power for it to get from A to B. Along the way, plug back in and discharge into the "grid" you just bought power from to support the grid and kill the range of your EV. What could possibly go wrong here?
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Well it took me dozens of times driving to and from work to remember to record driving past the Ultium Cells manufacturing plant under construction that I posted the drone shots of several pages back.
I'm going about 60 here and it still takes me just short of a minute to drive past it. It's huge.
Had I kept recording you'd be able to see the GM plant, what use to be Saturn. But it's visible in the drone shots.
Video!
I'm going about 60 here and it still takes me just short of a minute to drive past it. It's huge.
Had I kept recording you'd be able to see the GM plant, what use to be Saturn. But it's visible in the drone shots.
Video!
Don't Look Up
Getting the hang of it
Don't Look Up
Getting the hang of it
Contrary to the implications often found here, looks like Gasoline does indeed cause its share of fires, as Jay Leno just found out. Hope he gets better soon.
Oceanslider
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Actually I think @tigerwillow1 was referring to "profit centers"; if a "Gas Station" sells only gasoline, they won't survive economically, as the bottom-line profit from a gallon of gas can be as low as 2 cents in some areas. This explains why most "gas stations" are basically convenience stores that also sell food, drinks, beer, cigarettes, etc. with markup as much as 30%.
IMO, the ticket printers at the pumps where you can use your credit/debit card and not have to go inside run out of paper a lot, </end sarcasm> throwing up a message "Clerk has receipt" because they want you to come in and buy something...something they can make more money on than they can make on gasoline.
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