The Future Of Electric Cars Is Here

[Independent thinker]

Well, maybe not.

Thousands of electric car chargers pulled from UK roads after energy price surge

Thousands of free electric car chargers have been pulled from Britain's roads over the past year as soaring energy costs makes them unaffordable to offer.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Moonglow]

Hydrogen is the future.

 

[progressive hunter]

just g

Well, maybe not.

Thousands of electric car chargers pulled from UK roads after energy price surge

Thousands of free electric car chargers have been pulled from Britain's roads over the past year as soaring energy costs makes them unaffordable to offer.

www.yahoo.com

give it time and they will see its far from a replacement,,

 

[Burgermeister]

Get use to more of this -

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None of these structures were designed for the much heavier EVs.

 

[lennypartiv]

Could be a smart businessman who set them up as free charging stations for a few months to draw in customers, with the plan to change them to recharge stations requiring a credit card payment.

Electric car public charging costs | RAC Charge Watch | RAC Drive

Charge Watch is the RAC's initiative that monitors the average cost of charging an electric car so that you get a fair price.

www.rac.co.uk

 

[progressive hunter]

Get use to more of this -

and -

None of these structures were designed for the much heavier EVs.

a fully loaded semi weighs far more than a tesla,,

 

[Burgermeister]

a fully loaded semi weighs far more than a tesla,,

Irrelevant statement. Bridges, parking decks, and roads are designed for all the vehicles that will be using them. If you don't understand how doubling the weight of the average car would affect the engineering calculations, I can't help you.

 

[progressive hunter]

Irrelevant statement. Bridges, parking decks, and roads are designed for all the vehicles that will be using them. If you don't understand how doubling the weight of the average car would affect the engineering calculations, I can't help you.

who doubled the weight of cars??

 

[Burgermeister]

who doubled the weight of cars??

JFC.

 

[progressive hunter]

JFC.

who is that??

EVs weigh about as much as cars from the 60s and 70s,,,

I think road construction has improved since then,,

face it you used a piss poor example to make a point,,

 

[Burgermeister]

who is that??

EVs weigh about as much as cars from the 60s and 70s,,,

I think road construction has improved since then,,

face it you used a piss poor example to make a point,,

Your facts are wrong and you lack logic. Carry on.

 

[progressive hunter]

Your facts are wrong and you lack logic. Carry on.

I didnt post a picture and lie about what caused it,,

what I said was actually true,,

 

[Moonglow]

Internal combustion is pricing itself out of the market. The rate of subprime loan defaults is critical in the auto sales division.

 

[Concerned American]

Get use to more of this -

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None of these structures were designed for the much heavier EVs.

Yeah, because those things weren't meant to support fully loaded 18-wheelers. SMH. Fake news.

 

[Burgermeister]

Yeah, because those things weren't meant to support fully loaded 18-wheelers. SMH. Fake news.

OMG. There's two of you.

 

[Hellokitty]

Get use to more of this -

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None of these structures were designed for the much heavier EVs.

If the issues with fires isn't enough... I'll add this my list of why I'm not getting an EV. Bridges already freak me out.

 

[Rogue AI]

Hydrogen is the future.

How? It isn't found freely on Earth, therefore must be produced. Its atomic size makes storage a constant loss problem, its combustibility makes it a transport problem. Explain how there is a future in that.

 

[Concerned American]

doubling the weight of the average car would affect the engineering calculations,

Try again, an average passenger car in the 50s and 60s which those bridges you pictured were designed for, was 4190 lbs. The average EV is 4300 lbs--well within weight tolerances of the bridges. Additionally, those bridges were designed to handle much heavier vehicles than passenger cars.

 

[Resnic]

a fully loaded semi weighs far more than a tesla,,

Ok, you still ignored the point in an effort to be a contrarian. If someone said a fully loaded semi then you'd probably say "well 2 fully loaded semis are heavier" and just keep scaling it up till you were talking about an oil freighter.

The point is it's extra added weight not originally intended in the design. When bridges are built they are built with specs in mind of average traffic with average cars, trucks and semis.

Now if you bring in heavier cars a bridge once intended to hold an average of X amount of semis and X amount of everyday vehicles is compounded. If 100 cars and can fit on a bridge and they are all electric you are adding in an addition 100 tons of weight unaccounted for during construction which can cause stress damages or collapses over extended periods of time and premature wearing.

Maximum curb weight of a f150 is 5600lbs.

How much does a Ford F-150 weigh? | Jack Demmer Ford

The Ford F-150 is a capable and strong truck that's perfect for anyone looking for a new vehicle with some power. Test drive one today at Demmer Ford.

www.jdemmerford.com

Starting curb weight of a electric f150 is 6500lbs

2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Weight & Dimensions | Jack Demmer Ford

Ford drivers can expect a relatively heavier curb weight than your standard light-duty truck with a curb weight of up to 6,500 lbs.

www.jdemmerford.com

Your response is both pointless and dumb.

 

[hjmick]

I stumbled across the article the other day:

Fisker and Ample Partner to Deliver Fisker Ocean EVs with Innovative Swappable Batteries by the Start of 2024 - Fisker (NYSE:FSR)

Fisker and Ample seek to increase adoption of EVs in the United States and Europe The companies intend to bring the first Fisker Ocean SUVs to market with swappable batteries by Q1 2024 Fisker and Ample will

www.benzinga.com

At about 25 seconds:




Now, granted they have a ways to go to make this concept operable, the number of stations needed alone would seem almost over whelming. And they would need manufacturers to adopt the idea much the same way electronics companies adopted VHS over Betamax (a much better quality recording) or DVD and Blue-Ray over those 33 1/3 size video discs... but it's the first idea that made me think I would consider buying an EV...