Electric car charging stations
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I can picture it now...........
What do you mean we can't go home?
I forgot to plug the carpool van in this morning when we got here.
OR
Sorry boss I will be in late today.
Why is that?
I forgot to plug my car in last night so I'm just waiting for the battery to charge.
What do you mean we can't go home?
I forgot to plug the carpool van in this morning when we got here.
OR
Sorry boss I will be in late today.
Why is that?
I forgot to plug my car in last night so I'm just waiting for the battery to charge.
Hahah Good luck ! WE had a LNG refuleing station that was supposed to be used By the city and county vehicles that would all be converted. and of course it would be profitable by means of public participation. Guess what ! Another green failure at taxpayers expense. Its been closed for years already . Good news though there is lots of Green gorming up through the parking lot.
maybe they should consider an e-85 oump at these staions as well. Do they still sell that anywhere?
Perhaps i missed It but who is paing for that, and how are they going to charge private users ?
maybe they should consider an e-85 oump at these staions as well. Do they still sell that anywhere?
Perhaps i missed It but who is paing for that, and how are they going to charge private users ?
Or....who stole my cord?
I can picture the 2 guys in Birkenstocks and wool sweaters going at it over who gets the last plug-in before the ride the diesel belching bus to Microsoft.
I hear it takes 12-16 hours
to recharge the latest offerings from GM and Nissan. They better work long days so they have enough juice to make it home!
I can see this will be a fun game for kids....go around unplugging all the cars.
WOW....I'm really pessimistic today.
I can picture the 2 guys in Birkenstocks and wool sweaters going at it over who gets the last plug-in before the ride the diesel belching bus to Microsoft.
I hear it takes 12-16 hours
to recharge the latest offerings from GM and Nissan. They better work long days so they have enough juice to make it home! I can see this will be a fun game for kids....go around unplugging all the cars.
WOW....I'm really pessimistic today.
Or....who stole my cord?
I can picture the 2 guys in Birkenstocks and wool sweaters going at it over who gets the last plug-in before the ride the diesel belching bus to Microsoft.
I hear it takes 12-16 hours
I can see this will be a fun game for kids....go around unplugging all the cars.
WOW....I'm really REALISTIC today.
Better!
What I don't get is why people can't understand that as far as where car battery technology is at now, it isn't a good idea. So you don't pollute the atmosphere with exhaust gases, that's great, but what happens when you get in a wreck and there is battery acid spilled all over everything including probably you. Can you say toxic fluids? Plus in a short few years time when those batteries need to be replaced, has anyone told them how much it will cost? Try around $5,000 to $8,000. And what do we do with those boxes full of toxic fluids? Probably put them in a landfill somewhere. People are stupid!! I agree that we need alternatives to gasoline and diesel, but so far, the electric car is not the answer. I remember awhile when the big thing was hydrogen powered. Yeah, that's great, no bad exhaust, but how do they make the hydrogen, they burn coal to generate the power to seperate the oxygen and hydrogen from water. I repeat, people are stupid!!
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Im all for alternative ways of using energy. I just dont think that electric cars are the wave of the future we once thought them to be...
Not unless battery technology makes some HUGE strides.
For now it's great for the guy with money to blow and just wants to scoot down to the grocery store and doesn't drive very far or often. But drive down any major freeway and count the number of vehicles that could be replaced by electric....not many. Most are trucks (big and small), cars that are already as economical as electric but with much more range and power, or big SUV's. I'm just not seeing a huge market.
I wish I could find the study done that looked at a variety of cars and trucks and rated them.....from the raw material used to build them, to the projected use and life-span in miles and years, to the disposal/recycle of the vehicle, the hybrids rated the worst and trucks were at the top, despite their consumption of more fuel. It told a much different story as far as what is truly "environmentally friendly" rather than just looking at MPG. Maybe someone else has the article?
I remember times of black and brown out's from not enough electricity in areas. Where will all the electricity come from to charge a bunch of cars?Oh thats right we can now make salmon grow twice as fast as normal so we only need half as many,so i guess we just put more dams on the rivers OR?
I have an idea. Alternative fuel #1: Capture all of these islamic terrorists (pretty much the entire population of every eastern country), squeeze them in a big juicer and get all of the oil from them, refine it (to remove all of the squishy skin cells and sell it to consumers. 
They are not conventional lead acid batteries.
I believe most are guranteed for 100k miles.
You recycle all the expensive chemicals and what is left that isn't toxic goes to the land fill.
nope, just misinformed.
again, just misinformed. Hydrogen as a energy storage medium is not very good, but electicity as an energy transportation method is very good. Very high efficiencies with electric energy transportation and utilization.
You mean back in the days when Enron people were manipulating the markets to screw California out of millions of dollars?
I don't think it matters what gets charged from braking, but since brakes are the most powerful part of a vehicle, it would be best to do something else with the energy then to make something hot..
Maybe that was true a long time ago, but it isn't today.. wait, no that isn't right, as most of the people that drove the GM EV1, a decade or so ago, loved them.
Ummm.. My interstates mostly have cars.. what freeway you driving down? I look outside in the parking lot and I see about 80% of the vehicles cars. I bet most people don't drive more then 50 miles each way to work either, some due, but I think the average commuting distance in the US is about 20-30 miles. I think the electric vehicles have ranges of 100 miles.
I don't understand why the argument needs to be made that electric vehicles need to replace ALL transportation methods for it to be viable? Surely there is never going to be one perfect choice.
I hope the article wasn't very old, as the times are a changing, as technology and focusing on recycling have changed a lot.
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