From the article:
An auto club in Germany that claims 21 million members ran some controlled charging test electric vehicles to see how efficient that process was. The results put another nail in the value coffin. Not only are they expensive to buy and own, but the average charge also wastes up to 13% of the electricity.
Put another way, the consumer is charged for all the electricity required to fully charge the battery, which is as much as 13% more than the battery can hold.
So, imagine pouring two gallons of gasoline on the ground every time you filled a 20-gallon tank. People would lose their collective minds. But that will be standard for every charge of every vehicle in the utopian electric fleet of the future.
ADAC’s Ecotest calculated the kWh needed to fully charge a range of electric vehicle batteries.
The result of the test under the same conditions for all electric car models: E-car drivers have to plan for a particularly large amount of power loss for some models – but everyone has to pay extra. According to the ADAC Ecotest, a 100 kWh battery in a Tesla Model X100D actually needs 108.3 kWh. The Kia e-Niro Spirit has 72.3 kWh for a 64 kWh battery. The Jaguar I-PACE EV400 also needs at least 10 kWh more for a 90 kWh battery.
With electricity prices scheduled to double in New Hampshire (as an example) and with the cost of EVs still out of the range of most middle and lower-income families, throwing money out the window with every charge might just as well be another tax
Maybe we should stop planning cities so everyone has to own a car. Do you know how much money we spend on widening widening and widening roads in this country? It’s a hidden tax and a waste of money. Give me a small conservative walkable town any day where I can walk or ride my bike to everything.
Electric cars don’t solve the real issue and that is carbrain auto culture which conflates freedom with owning a car. If you have to own a car just to live your life that’s not freedom that’s slavery. It’s another deep state scam on the population.
Here in the us,things are more spread out as we have more land. It would cost far more to condense the people than it does to widen the road.
But I own my own home and a screaming fast ford mustang and a 4 wheel drive. That is freedom and fun. When we get large snowstorms you can't leave the house without 4 wheeldrive for several days.
Speak for yourself. The life you want you can have in abundance in New York City, etc. Go for it. The fact of the matter is that people associate liberty with freedom, and freedom with the ability to go where you want to go. You don't have to own a car---just like you don't have to own a telephone, a TV set, or be on the internet. You don't even have to travel by airplane. Live your life as you wish. That will be one less person cluttering up the roads for the rest of us.