The Real Costs of Electric Car Ownership - CNET

[indyblue]

There sure are a lot of of non-working stations under repair. If zoomed in, there are even more than are showing here.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

There sure are a lot of of non-working stations under repair. If zoomed in, there are even more than are showing here.
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Out of curiosity, what site is this?

 

[indyblue]

Out of curiosity, what site is this?

https://www.plugshare.com/

 

[Ingomike]

Biden-favored EV bus maker Proterra goes bust and leaves a trail of broken and irreparable buses

Proterra, which President Joe Biden once said was "making me look good," sold hundreds of electric buses to municipalities across North America. Every transit district Just The News spoke with, except one, has inoperable buses awaiting repairs.

justthenews.com

 

[Alamo]

Do an overlay with major interstates.

Yes exactly my point. Bidens $7.5 billion program is to put a network of charging stations along the interstates. Well guess what …

 

[Alamo]

There sure are a lot of of non-working stations under repair. If zoomed in, there are even more than are showing here.
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Considering the total number of stations available, it doesn’t seem like so many that are under repair. I don’t know about other EVs but Teslas will map out the route to the working charging stations for you.

 

[Ingomike]

Considering the total number of stations available, it doesn’t seem like so many that are under repair. I don’t know about other EVs but Teslas will map out the route to the working charging stations for you.

The legend is bad, under repair should be red so as to easily identify them. As it is they look good until one digs down and the green bubble has a wrench on it.

 

[Leadeye]

Lets say everything goes electric, and there is plenty of power to support it.
What happens when all these batteries fail and what will they do with them?
Can they be reconditioned/refurbished? Or tossed into a landfill?

I've said this before, but I believe that scenario ends up with everybody leasing a very no frills generic government designed car like the Trabant. You will get a lease, drive the car for a specific amount of time and when that expires turn it in for a new lease. The dealer will strip off all the useful parts for maintenance of other cars and send the body to the manufacturer who will grind it up and recycle it. Read China into this because nobody here is going to be able to recycle the leftovers for what they can, just like producing useful Lithium. China will close the US auto industry and leadership will be helping every step of the way.

 

[Leadeye]

Just imagine the amount of energy needed to do this .

China will have plenty of energy to do this and cheaply, they are building new plants and sourcing coal all the time.

 

[Percolater]

https://www.plugshare.com/

Plugshare's a great app for those that charge away from home. The wrenches are new chargers coming soon 99% of the time (so don't attempt to go there yet). Like Newcastle and Crawfordsville adding a couple chargers as seen on your map. I recommend Plugshare app for all new EVers.

 

[JCSR]

Plugshare's a great app for those that charge away from home. The wrenches are new chargers coming soon 99% of the time (so don't attempt to go there yet). Like Newcastle and Crawfordsville adding a couple chargers as seen on your map. I recommend Plugshare app for all new EVers.

Does it tell you those that are out of order? I hear that is becoming an issue.

 

[Percolater]

Does it tell you those that are out of order? I hear that is becoming an issue.

If the entire station is out of order, that will also show up as a wrench on plugshare. Pretty rare to have entire station down, there may be a stall here or there similar to gas stations. App users can then update location and say "Stall 5B not working" for others to know beforehand.

 

[jamil]

In the mean time Elon’s Tesla has put in over 50K supercharger stations around the WORLD. But Biden won’t invite him to his EV events because he has non-union free speech cootees. Probably didn’t even cost him 7 1/2 billion.

US illustrative map:
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Notice how the dots seem to line up horizontally and vertically? I wonder why…

The boner drone has been perfected. These stations were chosen to correspond with boner drone squadrons. These boner drones were specially programmed to give people hardons for for EV’s as they charge their cars. It’s to keep them, uh, occupied? While they charge their cars.

In a bit of serendipity, they discovered that the secondary boner drone rays make ICE drivers be sexually attracted to Tesla’s too.

 

[jamil]

Do an overlay with major interstates.

Denny!

 

[TheGrumpyGuy]

I've said this before, but I believe that scenario ends up with everybody leasing a very no frills generic government designed car like the Trabant. You will get a lease, drive the car for a specific amount of time and when that expires turn it in for a new lease. The dealer will strip off all the useful parts for maintenance of other cars and send the body to the manufacturer who will grind it up and recycle it. Read China into this because nobody here is going to be able to recycle the leftovers for what they can, just like producing useful Lithium. China will close the US auto industry and leadership will be helping every step of the way.

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Meh, give me one of those along with a trenchcoat and a cigar, and I'm good to go

 

[Hawkeye]

Yes exactly my point. Bidens $7.5 billion program is to put a network of charging stations along the interstates. Well guess what …

Pretty sure Tesla's network was built/planned independent of Biden's progam. Tesla's network is what was shown originally.

 

[Alamo]

Pretty sure Tesla's network was built/planned independent of Biden's progam. Tesla's network is what was shown originally.

Yes it was. And they set up thousands of charging stations, including along all the interstate, and I’ll bet it didn’t cost them 7 1/2 billion dollars

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Don’t you hate it when this happens?

 

[Leadeye]

Don’t you hate it when this happens?

They would have better luck with the whole concept if changing batteries was that easy.

I figure until somebody pulls working nuclear fusion out of their back pocket, everything about green energy will remain a fraud.

 

[ajeandy]

Hmmm... which EV runs on 12 volts??

Actually every modern vehicle outside of the Tesla Cybertruck still runs on a 12v architecture for most of the components. The main battery will run the motors but it all also links to the 12v as well. It's pretty strange to me but it may be a regulatory thing as I haven't done a deep dive into the reasoning as to why. There are actually over 400 endpoints that link into the 12v battery in some shape or form in a Tesla Model 3.

It likely has something to do with if you deplete or let the big battery die that there is still a battery which will allow the car doors to be unlocked etc since it's all electronic.