JOLENE_THE_RANGER
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It's good for your taste buds though. Reminds me I need to go pick up a bottle or three of premixed eggnog. For tomorrow.Egg nog ice cream is not good for your insides...
Electric vehicles are safer in crashes than traditional gasI still don't want to be a manufactures lab rat.... It's just too untested. Any auto manufacture could make something that looks big and badass but how is the reliability? Have they tested EVERY scenario? Do the batteries handle well in the cold if they have sat for a month? How the hell do you see out of that tiny back window? Accidents happen, no matter how safe or smart the vehicle is it still won't stop a drunk driver from rear ending you. Then what? you're stuck with a couple ton fire hazardous paper weight that you can't even total because no one knows how to handle the batteries? No thanks. Tesla definitely has not thought about what happens when the vehicle is totaled.... I think Tesla should change their name for one (Nikola would be pissed since it doesn't run on lightning bolts) and then have their own trade in/recycling center at the same dealership you bought it from... Kinda like a core charge for a battery. It's their junk, they should be able to dispose of it properly. Just give a rebate for their next pile of junk they make.
Did you see the link I posted above? That doesn't look safer to me. LMAO!Electric vehicles are safer in crashes than traditional gas
I agree Tesla needs to come up with a method to handle spent batteries, mainly just to reuse the elements for new batteries which helps reduce overall costs. But none of the large automakers are on the hook for their millions of old vehicles littering junkyards.
You don't buy Tesla from a dealer you have to order online and picked it up from a service center which is more like a garage than a dealer.
I still don't want to be a manufactures lab rat.... It's just too untested. Any auto manufacture could make something that looks big and badass but how is the reliability? Have they tested EVERY scenario? Do the batteries handle well in the cold if they have sat for a month? How the hell do you see out of that tiny back window? Accidents happen, no matter how safe or smart the vehicle is it still won't stop a drunk driver from rear ending you. Then what? you're stuck with a couple ton fire hazardous paper weight that you can't even total because no one knows how to handle the batteries? No thanks. Tesla definitely has not thought about what happens when the vehicle is totaled.... I think Tesla should change their name for one (Nikola would be pissed since it doesn't run on lightning bolts) and then have their own trade in/recycling center at the same dealership you bought it from... Kinda like a core charge for a battery. It's their junk, they should be able to dispose of it properly. Just give a rebate for their next pile of junk they make.
In theory a 1960's VW bug would work for most of my driving when the weather is nice, 10mi each way. My V8 F-150 with a 22gal tank only sees a gas station once every 2 or 3 weeks.I want to clarify that what I said was that they would work for most people, not that they are what most people need. I'm not trying to tell anybody else what they need. But I am willing to suggest what might work or not, especially if it's something that might not have been considered.
I define "Most" as the majority, or anything over 50% which is pretty common usage of the word.
The DoE says that 63% of US housing units have access to a garage, so in theory MOST Americans could fairly easily have access to charging. Even though you don't really need a garage to have a proper outlet, it probably makes it more likely:
Fact #958: January 2, 2017 Sixty-three percent of all Housing Units have a Garage or Carport
According to the newly released 2015 American Housing Survey, 63% of all occupied housing units have a garage or carport.www.energy.gov
The average American drives between 30-50 miles per day.
FOTW #1047, September 17, 2018: Daily Vehicle Miles Traveled Varies with the Number of Household Vehicles
In a one-vehicle household the average daily mileage is about 30 miles, according to the 2017 National Household Travel Survey.www.energy.gov
That distance would be covered comfortably by every EV sold in the last 5 years, even with heavy battery degradation. So they work for MOST situations.
As previously discussed, there are brand new EVs available for below the average selling price of a new vehicle right now, and they're typiclly very reasonable on the used market too. So MOST new car buyers can afford an EV at this point, and quite a few used car buyers as well.
The argument that evs are better for the environment is pure BS. The electricity has to come from somewhere, it's not unicorn skittles. Places like China, it comes from coal. Really bad for the environment. Even in the U.S., coal is used in some places. Also tell the people who dig the big huge mines in the ground to obtain the materials like lithium and cobalt that are used in the batteries, how much better it is for the environment. And come the day the battery has to be disposed of, somewhere there is going to be one huge junk yard of dangerous lithium ion batteries rotting away.
Better for the environment my ass! There's a guy over in Australia that recently wrecked his tesla. He cannot find anyone to deal with the wreckage due to the batteries. No one will touch it. There it sits, waiting for some wrecking business to reclaim it, but no one will take it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-11-14/abandoned-manufacturer-victim-tesla-crash-cant-find-anyone-who-will-properly
Did you see the link I posted above? That doesn't look safer to me. LMAO!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-11-14/abandoned-manufacturer-victim-tesla-crash-cant-find-anyone-who-will-properly
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-07/stolen-tesla-car-chase-ends-flaming-car-wreck-so-violent-it-confused-fireworks
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-03/ntsb-tesla-driver-was-looking-down-car-autopilot-smashing-fire-truck-2018
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-10-23/teslas-futuristic-door-handles-being-blamed-killing-48-year-old-man-trapped-burning
Yep. vehicles catch on fire. Battery and gas powered. Their fueling stations catch on fire.What about when they self-immolate and burn to the ground with no help from anyone. Gee, look at all that harmful crap soaring into the atmosphere. Below is only one example. Far as I've read, two entire truck fulls of teslas self imomolated and burned to the ground in the dessert of Nevada on their way to Philly to be shipped overseas. And there's that as well, every tesla being shipped overseaas is put on amny truck loads and shipped to Philly for the boat ride overseas. Sounds good for the environment.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-18/tesla-spontaneously-catches-fire-incinerated-after-burning-hours
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-15/tesla-spotaneously-catches-fire-during-test-drive-france
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-17/tesla-claims-2014-model-s-fire-started-after-bullet-was-fired-cars-battery-pack
And the superchargers do it too. LMAO!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-11-18/tesla-supercharger-catches-fire-new-jersey-convenience-store
The NHTSA is on it! ROFLMAO!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-10-04/nhtsa-now-finally-investigating-tesla-battery-fire-issues