This is what’s in store for EV owners [LOCKED DUE TO POLITICS]

[MaverickkcirevaM]

Commerical building wizard here. At least in CA if you upgrade a commerical building or build up a new one, you are required by most major cities to install charging stations. You can just pull up to a parking lot at night and charge.
I know I know. But these are the early stages and you guys sound like the people when cars came about and their well its never going to replace horses...

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[GPSMan]

Radio. Just a fad.

Telephones, will never catch on.

Only lunatics will fly in a vehicle that is heavier than air.

Really guys; this is what you EV opponents sound like.

 

[Scott Asheville]

Love the angry trolls on this site. The favorite targets of their brainless rage are...

1. Anyone who sells a Maverick to buy a Santa Cruz.
2. Anyone who reports a major problem with their Maverick (victim shaming).
3. Anything to do with BEVs.

 

[MaverickEVwouldBeNice]

I would not wait 7 minutes at a gas station for a pump.
There are 4 on every corner.
Even knowing it will only take 2 minutes to fill up after that.
And then how long does it take to charge your car to full?
What do you do in that time?

When we are home, we charge at home. When we are on the road, we plan our charging around our meal or regular trip breaks.

It's only those who want to find fault that will ask stupid questions, expecting to get stupid answers.

 

[TheSEARCH]

A lot of silly information here. Like building requires a charger. What rate of charger? I bet a a 220 volt. 20 miles an hour rate. Cost: most talk home charging but many on the road fast chargers are expensive just as costly as gas.

Comparing horse to model t another funny one. Going to model T was a step up going to EV from gas is a step down.

Will EV's take over, maybe but maybe 30 to 50 years from now. I will be gone. EV fords sit on dealer lots now. EVs will account for less than 8 per cent of total new-vehicle sales in 2023. At that rate many many years for EV's to be even half the cars on the road.

Gas lines verse EV lines. Gas takes what 2 minutes, many EV take at least 30 minutes to fill to 80 percent, I never filled my gas tank only to 80 percent. Many reports on fast charges broken or not functioning at full rate of charge.

My friend goes to local casino they have two charges. He told me that they are always full YET with a gas car in the spot. He told casino they said they rent that and they don't care. lol.

Saving co2. 80 percent of electricity produced in US is from fossil fuels. So unless you have your own solar panels not so much. Plus the break even point even if you do is about 5 years at 10K miles a year from co2 building it.

BUT hey if you like one go for it. I like hybrid and have the Mav hybrid.

 

[Grabber Rick]

Right. Never has happened to gas vehicles before, right?
Like rationing. Or when fuel runs out before a hurricane, etc.

Can charge an EV at home in those situations. Not many have oil wells and fuel refineries at home, though.


Thanks for creating a brand new thread for a topic that has never been discussed before.
Very informative!

Those instances are rare occasions. I remember lines years ago when they had the odd and even last digit on licence plates. With hurricanes I never had to wait in lines or have no gas available. I live up north.

 

[MarcoG]

Interesting in the more than 20k miles I logged on my Tesla in over 11 states not a single time did I encounter anything like this, only once in Chicago, IL was the stall full and I had a spot within 7 minutes...

Now that Tesla is opening up all their stations to everyone and it's plugs are getting adopted we will see how long that lasts.

 

[bbhaag]

Those instances are rare occasions. I remember lines years ago when they had the odd and even last digit on licence plates. With hurricanes I never had to wait in lines or have no gas available. I live up north.

So are these......

 

[710-oil-614]

Now that Tesla is opening up all their stations to everyone and it's plugs are getting adopted we will see how long that lasts.

Seeing as more than half of EVs are still Tesla, and they continue to roll out new charging stations (under their Federal aid and agreement), and they still have plenty of SCs that are Tesla only - I don't think it'll be much of an issue.

 

[azadv]

A lot of silly information here. Like building requires a charger. What rate of charger? I bet a a 220 volt. 20 miles an hour rate. Cost: most talk home charging but many on the road fast chargers are expensive just as costly as gas.

Comparing horse to model t another funny one. Going to model T was a step up going to EV from gas is a step down.

Will EV's take over, maybe but maybe 30 to 50 years from now. I will be gone. EV fords sit on dealer lots now. EVs will account for less than 8 per cent of total new-vehicle sales in 2023. At that rate many many years for EV's to be even half the cars on the road.

Gas lines verse EV lines. Gas takes what 2 minutes, many EV take at least 30 minutes to fill to 80 percent, I never filled my gas tank only to 80 percent. Many reports on fast charges broken or not functioning at full rate of charge.

My friend goes to local casino they have two charges. He told me that they are always full YET with a gas car in the spot. He told casino they said they rent that and they don't care. lol.

Saving co2. 80 percent of electricity produced in US is from fossil fuels. So unless you have your own solar panels not so much. Plus the break even point even if you do is about 5 years at 10K miles a year from co2 building it.

BUT hey if you like one go for it. I like hybrid and have the Mav hybrid.

wow, gas is expensive in AZ, it's about $2.90 in Ohio. You're not gaslighting us are ya.

Oh wait
Love's Travel Stop

(174)
5000 N Sunland Gin Rd
Eloy, AZ
$2.71

A few miles away from Quartzite in CA gas is over $5/gal, you know the same CA with plenty of clean electricity from Chinese solar and wind, never dirty coal or scary nuclear, and EV chargers on every corner… the CA that never has brown-outs and everyone can afford a $55k govt (taxpayer) subsidized EV.

Luv my hybrid Mav, no climate virtue signaling necessary.

 

[AltoXTLfx4]

Interesting in the more than 20k miles I logged on my Tesla in over 11 states not a single time did I encounter anything like this, only once in Chicago, IL was the stall full and I had a spot within 7 minutes...

Then there’s this

 

[ndmiller]

We own an EV, have for 4 years and are buying another one this month. Along with the Maverick coming in December, two/four cars will be EV's. We have $.05/KW rate with our Electric company and charge at home or get free charging near work. Eliminating maintenance for 2 ICE vehicles will save $1000's annually now that we'll have 4 drivers in January. When my wife is done with her Lexus GX, we'll get the Rivian R1S for her, making it 3/4 EV's sometime in 2024 when we can get one, leaving the Maverick as our only ICE vehicle.

For us it's a no brainer, EV's forgetting about the powertrain have pushed forward the concept of a vehicle in space efficiency, comfort, and safety while eliminating most maintenance full stop. Now that Tesla is allowing other vehicles at superchargers starting in 2024, mainstream fast DC charging is essentially everywhere in the US. There are no other obstacles or objections in our house to going EV, so we're going.

For what it's worth I could care less about the environmental factors of ICE versus EV. We have and currently drive SUVs that get 13MPG as they are large enough to keep us safe from distracted/impaired drivers.

 

[ilikebike]

Do you think they're just ... not gonna build more chargers as EV adoption grows or something?

 

[surfstar]

A few miles away from Quartzite in CA gas is over $5/gal, you know the same CA with plenty of clean electricity from Chinese solar and wind, never dirty coal or scary nuclear, and EV chargers on every corner… the CA that never has brown-outs and everyone can afford a $55k govt (taxpayer) subsidized EV.

Luv my hybrid Mav, no climate virtue signaling necessary.

I guess when you're the 5th biggest economy in the world, you make an easy target. Despite all the stories of California flight - we still have expensive housing and fuel -- I guess enough people still want to live here.

 

[azadv]

Do you think they're just ... not gonna build more chargers as EV adoption grows or something?

Sure, but right now there is barely enough grid capacity in some areas, California being one of them. Add millions of EV cars while reducing the number of coal and nuclear generating plants and try to depend on ‘renewable’ energy sources that require sun or wind and no snow or super cold temps and missing massive battery capacity that requires mining lithium and cobalt etc, some from African countries that use child labor, and you have a disaster waiting to happen. Meanwhile corrupt govt mandates get adopted and taxpayers subsidize an EV industry that most folks aren’t interested in right now. All while China, the greatest threat to the US, builds more coal plants this year than the rest of the world COMBINED and rakes in billions from their nearly cornered solar panel production, laughing all the way to the bank of world economic domination.

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