quick question: E-cars

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What general part of the world/country do you live in, and do you have a lot of Electric Cars around you?

I'm in the Seattle area and there are THOUSANDS of electric cars here, mostly Tesla. My wife and I were discussing them and she's read from her online travels that a lot of people in the US have not seen a huge increase in electric cars. I'm curious if that's true, or if electric cars are really as popular as they seem to be in my limited travels.
 
Oh boy. Did you open up a conversation. We’ve beat this one up pretty good in a couple threads. Both pro and con. Be interesting to see where this goes. :unsure:
 
To answer your question. NE Illinois has a pretty decent population of Teslas. Am not familiar yet with the EC’s from other manufactures, but I’m sure those are out there as well. Still way more fossil fuel vehicles get sold to date where I live.
 
Downtown San Diego. I live in a high-rise condo and our parking garage is probably at least 50/50 electric/gas. Just as many other makes as Tesla: lots of Benz and BMW electrics, as well as Hyundai, etc. It's only a matter of time...
 
In the last couple of weeks I saw 2 Tesla trucks, havent seen them until now.
There are a ton of Tesla cars here, and the electric version of the Mustang is seen quite a bit (which looks like a prius). Other cars I have seen are the Hyundai Ioniq6, the Chevy Bolt ... or is it Volt ... whatever. So I guess we have a ton here.
 
Yeah, not really intended to be a "what's better: gas vs. Electric." We were more curious as to what the market looks like out there outside of my area. We have every type imaginable, but more than half the time, a majority of the cars around here are electric. Teslas up the wazzooo. I've seen a few of the new CyberTrucks that are absolutely ridiculous in person.

Still a lot of Rivian, Lucid, and the big manufacturer rides like the Ionic's from Hyundai.
 
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Ghostman said:
What general part of the world/country do you live in, and do you have a lot of Electric Cars around you?

I'm in the Seattle area and there are THOUSANDS of electric cars here, mostly Tesla. My wife and I were discussing them and she's read from her online travels that a lot of people in the US have not seen a huge increase in electric cars. I'm curious if that's true, or if electric cars are really as popular as they seem to be in my limited travels.
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I think the federal government gave cars to government employees, and California gave cars to state employees, the city where I live must have provided cars to city employees...
so it's not that people are buying a lot of electric cars but government entities are providing them. There must have been a lot of grant money involved somewhere....

The transition to electric cars creates a whole new set of problems.
If everybody owned one, the size of the electric grid would need to be tripled in capacity at least. That's just the start of it.
 
Ghostman said:
What general part of the world/country do you live in, and do you have a lot of Electric Cars around you?

I'm in the Seattle area and there are THOUSANDS of electric cars here, mostly Tesla. My wife and I were discussing them and she's read from her online travels that a lot of people in the US have not seen a huge increase in electric cars. I'm curious if that's true, or if electric cars are really as popular as they seem to be in my limited travels.
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The West coast, Portland. Tesla’s everywhere.
It’s going to interesting to see the eventuality of EC. If I had a 25 mile radius to drive it could be conceived.
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
I think the federal government gave cars to government employees, and California gave cars to state employees, the city where I live must have provided cars to city employees...
so it's not that people are buying a lot of electric cars but government entities are providing them. There must have been a lot of grant money involved somewhere....

The transition to electric cars creates a whole new set of problems.
If everybody owned one, the size of the electric grid would need to be tripled in capacity at least. That's just the start of it.
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That’s true and might be a far bigger problem than vehicles.
 
ibmorjamn said:
Were those propane bottles in that car?
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Plutonium batteries, shat happens.
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I'm not saying electric cars are a bad thing, just that nearly all electricity is generated by burning fuel; it's not solving an environmental problem.
Until all electricity comes from non-fuel sources, moving the exhaust from tail pipe to power plant does not create a zero emission vehicle.

*between power plant and point of usage 63% of the electric power is lost in the transmission. Information from California Energy Commission.
 
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Amp Mad Scientist said:
I think the federal government gave cars to government employees, and California gave cars to state employees, the city where I live must have provided cars to city employees...
so it's not that people are buying a lot of electric cars but government entities are providing them. There must have been a lot of grant money involved somewhere....

The transition to electric cars creates a whole new set of problems.
If everybody owned one, the size of the electric grid would need to be tripled in capacity at least. That's just the start of it.
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I haven't seen that many Gub'ment cars rolling around that are electric. Some of the Nissan Leaf's for sure, but nothing in the Tesla range. My area is flooded with upper level executives from Amazon, Microsoft, and Starbucks, so those are definitely private purchases.

The second issue I've seen pop up lately is the weight of these new Electric cars. The battery packs are so dense, the cars and trucks are insanely heavy. For example the Rivian is 7100lbs. Or how about the new E-Hummer that I've seen a few times, which is a whopping 9600lbs. Cybertruck, 6800lbs, or the X model, that are wildly popular here, another beast at 5400lbs. A Ford F-150 scales out around 4500lbs in comparison.

The reason this will be an issue is that the safety mechanisms on our roads are not designed to handle such weight. Rivians and Teslas are blowing through guardrails like tinfoil because of it. Imagine your average car getting T-boned by a Rivian. Oooof.
 
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