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Here is a news article regarding how much does it cost to run an electric car, and then they compare it by using $.18/KW as the cost basis. Let me tell you, unless you are way below the poverty line and this is the only electricity you use , ie you are homeless, there is no way in hell you are paying anywhere near that. If you are lucky you are going to be at .54, most likely .79 or higher.

This would be like everyone calculating cost to drive to work if gas was $.30 a gallon instead of 6 bucks.

They need us all imoblized , and making us walk is the way to do it. There is not a thing they do that isn't globohomo

Here is a news article regarding how much does it cost to run an electric car, and then they compare it by using $.18/KW as the cost basis. Let me tell you, unless you are way below the poverty line and this is the only electricity you use , ie you are homeless, there is no way in hell you are paying anywhere near that. If you are lucky you are going to be at .54, most likely .79 or higher. This would be like everyone calculating cost to drive to work if gas was $.30 a gallon instead of 6 bucks. They need us all imoblized , and making us walk is the way to do it. There is not a thing they do that isn't globohomo

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and then every 4 years replace the battery pack for a mere 20,000

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Remember when Obama crushed all of the good 1995-2007 cars for no good reason other than what we see today? Those cars would be the cheap beaters people would drive today.

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If you can even find a replacement battery pack. Many people can't.

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If the liberals keep pushing electric cars on us, you all know what's going to happen, right? There will come a tipping point, when suddenly it is easy to find a charging station, but it is hard to locate a gas station. At that point, people will move over to electric like a herd of sheep. And it will massively hurt our economy. Everything the left proposes is designed to cripple our economy, have you noticed? Never mind that electric cars are far more polluting than gasoline-powered cars. The left is determined to push them down our throats, and there are not enough people trying to stop them.

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i agree, however the grid would need a massive overhaul if only 10 percent of the vehicles were electric. its a pipe dream. all the gas burned in cars would essentially have to be used in new power plants and be transmitted on a much beefier grid.

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It's always amusing listening to someone go "But you can buy a used electric vehicle for 25k!"

Someone had to buy that vehicle at full price to start with, but I can still get a decently equipped gasoline sedan for about 25k - new. Less if you pick one of the few that still offers manual transmission.

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You can buy a used electric vehicle for 25k (that only needs a 20k battery pack)

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I'm sure it still has some life in it, but I can hear problems within a gasoline engine (sometimes) with a good examination. With a battery pack, you not only have the unknown as to how the pack was treated, but there's no way to determine if a cell(s) are going to fail until they do.

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I watched a video about an electric car the other day. The range went from a supposed 299 miles down to under 100 miles when towing a small trailer. You lose about 50 miles of range if you raise your average highway speed from 60 mph to 70 mph. You lose range if you carry anything on a roof rack. You lose range if you run the heater. You lose range if you drive in "sport" mode. In fact, you lose miles of range if you do anything except creep around the streets like Granny Tiptoes on her way to church. If you live where it snows, forget about electric. You lose range big time in the cold, and you're lucky if it starts at all.

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...and heat kills batteries. I can just imagine people trying to charge in the california desert where millions of people are straining the grid after all the power plants have been shut down and AC is running. I would assume you almost need to have the garage air conditioned.

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Where I am there is so many few years old 2nd hand hybrid and electrics on the market that anyone with half a brain would be able to realize they are crap.

I was listening to an MSM radio some time ago and there was an "electric car expert" (and a woman lol) explaining how they are much better than normal cars. There was so many people that own el cars calling in and complaining that they had to cut the show short.

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Hybrids are the best imho, if you are inclined to go that route. Max torque at zero rpm is great, it works for locomotives really well.

Pure electric? Nfw

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Do you know if there are hybrids where you can manually choose when to switch to electric?

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Yes, but those are the mclarin and Porsche where the electric is there to make it go faster, rather than the main powerplant.

The Toyota hybrids and the like autoselect , at least the ones I've seen.

A locomotive is 100% electric motor, and the diesel engine is an ac generator.

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I'd rather use my electricity for running my home lab. Gasoline is more reliable for vehicles.

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Electric cars are a bait and switch. Once enough people buy electric cars they will tax the hell out of electricity for electrics or put in a per-mile tax.

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I will make sure I spend 60k on rooftop solar with my 100k all electric car, that needs a 20k battery pack every 5 years, that will show em! I won't be paying those electric taxes...I'm so SMART!!

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talk about electronic device pollution and depletion of earth minerals!