Cabal Plan: The new poor will be anyone who can't afford to buy an EV.
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It’s a half hour charge with ~4 hours of driving. Additionally it’s fast AF. Blows the gas cars out of the water that cost the same price. Plus supporting Elon Musk, who appears to be on our team (for the moment). I traveled down the east coast with little to no issues (in terms of charging convenience). I actually really like my Tesla. Realistic “MPG” is ~40 because electric prices are super high in the northeast. 33-34 cents per kWh.
I can understand if someone has a 15kw home charger which is an 80a breaker or can find a supercharger station on the route. Lots of reaidential electrical panels lack the capacity to install one. Not to mention the local utility lack of overall capacity as well.
On the west coast BEV support is laughable at best and the lines to charge your car are long at times. Energy prices are manipulated heavily out here. Support dor teslas is not good where I am also-2hr drive to nearest dealership.
I think Elon is doing good stuff. I'm strongly considering starlink for the simple fact of if the local power goes down then the local utility's switch gear goes down too. If I'm on a solar or generator I'm still able to see out and figure out whats going on, providing that the starlink is still up.
I dont like apple products and I also dont like my vehicle being comnected to anything except my hands and feet and bottom.
Additionally my diesel pickup is also fast and can drive down the road for 4hrs as well and cost about 10k. Plus I can tow/haul what ever I please with it.
I would also argue that a turbo v8 audi or bmw i6 will definitely not be blown out of the water by a tesla unless were talking plaid car. Im talking 2015 vintage cars too that are used and can be had for 25-30k and with simple mods and tuning will run along with the plaids and have good fuel range still if not being beaten on constantly. But honestly a 600hp dsg turbo v8 or i6 awd is a fun daily. And I like the sound!
The tech/infrastructure and raw materials arent quite there for full BEV adoption yet imo.
Problem number 1 for any electric car is the battery production. It destroys the environment from which it’s mined. Unless we switch to pure nuclear energy, forget about air quality going up, a net zero gain in my book. What I looked at when I bought the Tesla was two things, my wallet (also my family’s finances), and my job. Related subjects.
I work at a nuclear power plant, generating electricity, the actual “clean” energy, if you could call any energy clean. They offer free car charging on site because they are “green”. Where I live is snowy in the winter, but my job to come to work regardless of the weather. I also drive a long distance to work, so gas in a car that can also fit the family is not cheap. So I could buy a car from an lgbt promoting company and have a gas or diesel, or I could buy an electric car and support Elon musk.
Even if Elon was playing a good guy but was really a bad guy, it would not add a negative to Tesla, it would just be par for the course.
I'm a strong proponent of nuclear power. In fact I went to school for an emerging "energy systems engineering" program at a state university over here. My intention waa to go toward the nuclear power field and attempt to raise awareness and try to shift public opinion. How naïeve I was!
As it turns out, even 10 years ago the wokism was creeping in. I had profs that hated that I was a blue-collar white guy trying to get the education I needed to go into that field. They actively made the classroom environment hostile and the grading was def biased. Since we worked in lots of groups between classes and had similar answers, we started noticing that certain individuals grades were lower or higher for the same work. Such is life.
I work on my own vehicles so I can buy old cheap cars and not support the agenda-of-the week which is also a double edged sword because I do something similar for work. The old saying goes "the mechanic's car gets worked on last." My commute is hard on cars. Its still cheaper than carrying a payment but not by much.
It sounds like the BEV works for your family's situation and thats good! I think that if the infrastructure is there then the tech will advance.
Imagine if we could use what Nikola Tesla was planning/discovered with power over air! That would solve a lot of problems with storage and distribution.
Maybe the fusion reaction that was published recently will be viable and able to be scaled up. Maybe it will be censored and memory holed like everything else that brings down costs and increases production unless it makes the right people money. Maybe the DOE will let us use breeder reactors so we can reprocess all the spent fuel rods sitting around instead of worrying about bad actors doing something with them. Who knows!
What I know is that God wins and we're all along for the ride!
Take a look at modular reactors as well. Not yet financially feasible, but will be soon.