Bruce » 28 Jun 2023, 2:52 pm » wrote: ↑
I don’t think people realize how quickly nobody will want a gasoline car that costs $60 to fill up when they are parked beside an electric that’s cheaper, that only costs $6.
Every place we buy gas will have Class 3 (30 minute) chargers in only a few years.
The range is less, but at least as much in the dead of winter as all the pre 1973 dinosaurs that only had a 200 mile range. Long range cars, are a fairly recent development.
I turned 16 in 1974. The price of gas had doubled from 25 cents to 50 cents.
The price of the typical 9 mpg car fell like a stone.
People bought **** little cracker boxes instead.
The new electrics will be very nice, traditional cars.
An electric motor on an axle is many thousands of dollars cheaper to build than a gasoline drivetrain. The car, remains essentially the same.
And the kids will buy thousand horsepower electric cars, with multiple motors. We’ll settle for four or five hundred horsepower.
I never knew or thought about an electric car having a 60% efficiency compared to the 20% efficiency of what we drive now.
I knew wind turbines were getting cheaper but could not imagine that today, a new wind turbine installation is the cheapest source of electricity at two cents a kilowatt.
I don’t think I’ll ever buy into man made climate change.
But we’ll all drive electrics if we live ten more years, and because of economics, not to save the planet.