Batteries for dummies
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My bad I was just guessing it was near what a tank of gas on a regular car was. Apparently EVs suck worse than I even thought lol.
I drive a typical 56 MPG with my Diesel powered Peugeot. To hell with these cars aimed to milk the urban hipsters.
It's a damn shame domestic car manufacturers don't build more diesels. My understanding it's been due to the increasingly draconian emissions laws but man oh many do those engines get great mileage.
I drove a volvo suv with a diesel a few years back while in england for work for a few weeks. Great vehicle/engine.
EXACTLY!! My friend has a diesel VW we drive from Illinois to Yellowstone Park - usually we split the price for gas - the last few years, it's been around $250 / each for the ENTIRE trip - including driving around the park, etc. Of course, this year, it will be more - but I LOVE her diesel car!
Right?? They're incredible and it's a rather prominent element in my life right now. I'm on vacation with my wife, son and two dogs. We road trip these days to our vacation spots because we can bring the dogs with and because we're not giving any money to the airlines.
The downside is that I drive a Durango RT with a big V8 and it's 1500 miles each way to our vacation spot. I get about 20 mpg, a far cry from that Diesel Volvo SUV I drove over in England : ( Was rather expensive to get down here and moreso when we drive back up in a week.
I remember as a kid, my dad got my mom a diesel sedan. I was perhaps 6 years old and my old brain can't remember back 40 years as to what make and model the car was. But it was awesome. Incredibly reliable and I remember at the time my mom was amazed at the gas mileage.
The ONLY downside was that we lived in Minnesota and we HAD to plug in the engine heater at night if we expected that thing to start in the morning.
Diesels are MASSIVELY underrated by Americans. I still think it stems from the 70s/80s clusterfuck GM perpetrated trying to put diesels in Oldsmobiles.
I'm a fan, myself. I couldn't even GUESS the record for miles put on a 300 Cummings without major overhaul. I bet it's a fucking SHITLOAD, though!
There was a post on reddit /r/cars the other day about actual EV mileage a guy was getting. He was getting way less mileage than advertised.
My VERY green daughter and her BF decided to rent a TESLA to drive from Dallas to Peoria, IL - they were SO excited - until it took them TWO FULL days to drive what is usually a 12 to 14 hour drive. They had a hard time finding charging stations, and it took forever to charge the car before getting back on the road. I can say with certainty that this opened their eyes to owning an EV!
I'm glad they learned the hard way! Anytime I ask someone how they expect me to drive 700 miles to get to my extended family in an EV, their answer is usually, "Well not everyone has to do that!" Along with, "you should own two cars for that kind of situation.'
Oh, so now you want me to own more than one vehicle just to go visit my family? That's insane.
I have concluded that most people are just plain STUPID!!! God Bless you!
That would be the case wouldn't it lol.