When you want to buy an EV, you can fast-charge its battery in 30 minutes. Soon it’ll be within 15 minutes. Some suppliers claim even faster times. But they don’t know when that might be possible for the normal person with a EV. And what they don’t tell you is that fast-charging will never charge more than 80% or less of your battery of your EV. Also, they don’t tell you that it takes about 9.5 hours to charge your battery of your EV at home.
And what’s the range of a fully charged battery? 258 miles (or 415 km). But that’s the number the factory claims. The actual range is about 180 miles (or 290 km). This assumes that you don’t drive fast, otherwise your range can be reduced to 100 miles (161 km) or less!
Americans reportedly drive an average of around 1,000 miles (1,609 km) a month, according to the Federal Highway Administration. That means that you need to charge minimum four-five times (waiting time minimum two hours, assuming that charging stations are empty and there is electricity) to get charged 80% of the battery capacity.
If you don’t have a garage, where do you recharge your EV?
Did you know that leaving an EV garaged outside – in the cold – will result in the EV’s range when you parked it being less when you get up the next day to drive it?
This is because EV burn power even when they aren’t being used – because EV have powered heating (and cooling) systems that are always on – to keep the battery from getting too cold (or too hot). That means needing to keep the EV plugged in, to avoid loss of charge while it’s just sitting – especially if it is sitting outside, in the cold (or heat).
Did you know or considered that using EVs will increase the “carbon footprint”?
One, EV do not last as long as non-EV – because EV battery packs do not last as long as non-EV do and cost more than it’s worth to replace them when they can no longer power the EV. That means a new EV sooner. Which means new raw materials (and carbon dioxide “emissions”) to make the new EV – which will be just as prematurely disposable as the old EV.
Two, because EV are energy hogs. Even the small ones like the Tesla 3 – which is a compact-sized car comparable to a Honda Civic sedan – has more than 1,000 pounds of battery pack, which it uses to deliver the speedy 0-60 times it touts. But that entails a probable doubling of the size of the battery pack that would otherwise be needed to deliver adequate (rather than “ludicrous”) speed – and also uses twice (or more) the power needed to keep it charged up. Almost all of that power – especially the commercial-grade power available at “fast” chargers – produced by combusting lots of natural gas, oil and coal. Resulting in lots of carbon dioxide “emissions.”
So, why aren’t the people hard-selling EV telling people these things? Well, for the same reason, the same people didn’t tell the people about the “vaccines” – until after they’d been injected with them.
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