Electric car lovers...

[Chuck]

Fact or fiction ?


Has anyone thought it through?

If all cars were electrically powered….


Imagine three hours of traffic jam, battery flat, what are you going to do ?


There is practically no heating in an electric vehicle over extended periods.


If you are stuck in traffic during the night, no battery energy left, no heating !!!


Call the breakdown services to collect women and children !!


They can’t even get there because the roads are choked !!


When the road is cleared no one can move, (flat batteries) !!


How are the hundreds or thousands of cars going to be recharged ?


It’s going to be the same in the summer traffic jams.


That’s going to be perpetual jams with dead batteries.



(But nobody talks about it !)



More proof that our Governments , Greens and the rest, don’t think beyond the ends of their noses.
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(If you notice these notices you will notice these notices are totally not worth noticing.)

[2foot6]

Chuck,it's a no brainer to the flat battery problem.All vehicles will have one of these as an accessory........................Peter

[T1 Terry]

What about the petrol or diesel vehicle that runs out of fuel in the traffic jam? Same problem, no heating or cooling. The fact that the electric cars in areas where cold is an issue uses reverse cycle air conditioning for heating means a much smaller energy drain from the battery pack. The electric motor only runs when the car is moving so it wouldn't be using anything out of the battery in a full grid lock traffic jam.
Now, let's look at the petrol or diesel vehicle in a traffic snarl in a tunnel ..... the EV wouldn't be filling the air with deadly fumes, but the ICE powered vehicle would be if they were left running. No heating or cooling in an ICE powered vehicle without the engine running and repeatedly start and then turning off the engine as the traffic crept along would end up with a flat starter battery.
The electric vehicle gives a long indication before the battery actually goes flat, way past the empty mark and will still have tortoise mode that could get a car off the road once the system determined the battery was too flat to drive any further .... what about your petrol or diesel powered car, do you get a reserve bit of fuel to limp off the road if it runs out of fuel? No you don't.
That argument actually supports electric cars as a replacement for ICE powered vehicle, not the other way around.
As far as "where are the cars going to recharge" where do the millions of ICE powered vehicle refuel? The electric vehicle can recharge at home over night, the ICE powered one can't.

The real concern for those with petrol or diesel fuelled vehicle should be "where will I be able to buy fuel when the electric vehicles become the normal choice of transport. I guess the horse people went through the same dilemma, I wonder if they carried on with all this nonsense when the horseless carriage took over?

T1 Terry

[bob r]

Terry I think they are just ratlin your chain.

Bob

[Greynomad]

When Jim the Junior Jeep was part of our travels, we carried a 5 litre jerrycan ...

[supersparky]

At the end of the day, somewhere down the track, we will all be driving electric cars, if we are still on the planet. Times will change and we will adapt. My dad used to tell a story of when he was young, everyone had a horse and cart. Then the motor car turned up, next was air travel. He even watched on as man landed a rocket on the moon. Now we have the Tesla ,amongst other things. The most admirable trait of the human race is to have the ability to adapt. We will find a way.

[Greynomad]

I’m waiting for the Hybrid Jimny...
Full electric probably not feasible for scrub-bashing. Can’t just plug into the nearest tree to recharge.
Full electric would put an end to excursions up the Tanami Track & the other real outback tracks. Can’t really see anyone installing a Tesla recharge station at Well 41.

Rooftop solars anyone??

[Peter]

We have friends who have a hybrid battery / petrol vehicle. When they go on holiday they trot off to Avis and rent a petrol vehicle for a couple of weeks. I know eventually they will come however for a long time I think they will only be a city vehicle not really suitable for long country runs.

[Grandad]

I don't quite understand Peter. If your friends have a hybrid vehicle why don't they just run it on petrol for their holiday?

Jim

[SteveW]

There's not a person on this site who can't remember - overheated radiator, dirty points, fouled spark plugs, vaporized fuel line, flooded carburetor, flat battery (often) no traffic control at busy intersections, dad too pissed to drive properly. And other reasons why the old days weren't necessarily better. Fun though!