An EV truck story

[Boiler Buck]

Man ditches EV truck on road trip, for gas rental, where power charge stations did not work and the ones that did were more costly than gas per mile....and took 2 hours to charge. Calls EV a scam.

Truck cost $115,000
Charging station instal $16,000

While gas/EV options seem to work with other countries, not sure EV is the answer on road trips. Or even general use, unless your home is solar already. But the costs seem prohibitive to me....not to mention the problems this man had.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/electric-vehicle-trip-charging-infrastructure-1.6932074

 

[BNIBoiler]

Until they improve the time to full charge in 10 minutes or less, EV vehicles are bunch of crap.

 

[Hausta01]

Until they improve the time to full charge in 10 minutes or, less EV vehicles are bunch of crap.

Biggest problem with increased charging speed is heat. Purdue actually developed, with Ford, a fast charging cable, or set of cables, maybe 1 or so ago that I think could fully charge an EV is roughly 5 minutes and didn't have a heat issue with the cable. The battery might still overheat, however.

 

[SIBoiler2]

Until they improve the time to full charge in 10 minutes or, less EV vehicles are bunch of EXPENSIVE crap.

FIFY

 

[Boilermaker03]

Until they improve the time to full charge in 10 minutes or, less EV vehicles are bunch of crap.

You're asking for the near impossible, otherwise there will be major issues.

 

[Indy_Rider]

The biggest issue with EVs, which we are now starting to see as they have now been around long enough to really hit the secondary market, is battery life and range loss. Yeah, they keep working on battery packs to be better, but it will never be a non-issue because it is a chemical reaction and you do eventually use up base materials.

As a result, you end up with vehicle that is completely worthless because the battery pack cost far more than the vehicle is worth and well outside of the realm that people in that market can usually afford. So, you ultimately turn personal car ownership and the independency that comes with it to something that is an upper-class luxury as it's an expensive disposable appliance.

You also now seeing insurance companies really quick to total out EVs for minor fender benders for fear of something happening to the battery pack as often those are also used as structural components. This is going to mean insurance cost on EVs will probably also rapidly increase soon.

 

[tjreese]

The biggest issue with EVs, which we are now starting to see as they have now been around long enough to really hit the secondary market, is battery life and range loss. Yeah, they keep working on battery packs to be better, but it will never be a non-issue because it is a chemical reaction and you do eventually use up base materials.

As a result, you end up with vehicle that is completely worthless because the battery pack cost far more than the vehicle is worth and well outside of the realm that people in that market can usually afford. So, you ultimately turn personal car ownership and the independency that comes with it to something that is an upper-class luxury as it's an expensive disposable appliance.

You also now seeing insurance companies really quick to total out EVs for minor fender benders for fear of something happening to the battery pack as often those are also used as structural components. This is going to mean insurance cost on EVs will probably also rapidly increase soon.

True and like @Hausta01 said Purdue has improved the time, but....I imagine like other batteries charging too fast generates too much heat...assuming lithium reacts in similar fashion. It is not all for naught though...a certain group investing in such probably made a lot of money as they pushed "climate change" and got in early on EVs. Texas decided that since EVs were not "directly" using gas that tax dollars were being lost and so I think there is a $400 initial fee and then $200 each year after. Those EVs still use some oil in about everything in the car. Yeah a scam...

 

[BoilerJS]

True and like @Hausta01 said Purdue has improved the time, but....I imagine like other batteries charging too fast generates too much heat...assuming lithium reacts in similar fashion. It is not all for naught though...a certain group investing in such probably made a lot of money as they pushed "climate change" and got in early on EVs. Texas decided that since EVs were not "directly" using gas that tax dollars were being lost and so I think there is a $400 initial fee and then $200 each year after. Those EVs still use some oil in about everything in the car. Yeah a scam...

Putting out EV fires is also a big issue.
Most rural Fire Departments, mostly volunteer, don’t have the special , expensive equipment to do so.

 

[TheGunner]

Until they improve the time to full charge in 10 minutes or less, EV vehicles are bunch of crap.

That’s not what Joezo 🤡 says

 

[Indy_Rider]

True and like @Hausta01 said Purdue has improved the time, but....I imagine like other batteries charging too fast generates too much heat...assuming lithium reacts in similar fashion. It is not all for naught though...a certain group investing in such probably made a lot of money as they pushed "climate change" and got in early on EVs. Texas decided that since EVs were not "directly" using gas that tax dollars were being lost and so I think there is a $400 initial fee and then $200 each year after. Those EVs still use some oil in about everything in the car. Yeah a scam...

Yes, charging them fast reduces the life faster. I think even Tesla now warns about using superchargers to often and it's effect on battery life.