True. For now, people will stop driving electric cars when the grid stops working if the gasoline supply is still intact. Or maybe they'll charge their Chinese, whiny shitboxes with diesel.
As an aside, I caught an electric "supercar." Goes 0-60 in like 2s or something. And the whole time it looks and sounds like a Chinese-made RC car, which it is basically a scaled up version of. You can pay 2 million dollars for that. Same with the scaled-up quadcopters. I'd never get in one of those, unless I like built it. Anyways, it would be way cooler to fly than to track the ground on what is essentially a drag car without any of the fun shit that drag cars do.
At the very least, if you're going to buy an electric car, buy a Mercedes. At least they know how to build cars
I don't know, there's probably at least 2-4% loss to convert to electricity. Diesel generators are pretty efficient compared to gasoline, the cars probably have similar efficiency even though they're lighter. I don't know if the generator is running 24/7 or if it just comes on when someone is hooked up to it. If it's not running near max capacity it's efficiency will go way down.
You also have to factor in the amount of extra fuel it takes to build an electric vehicle in the first place, but they have slave kids digging the cobalt and lithium so it's hard to calculate the difference. There's also things like maintenance and hauling fuel to the generator.
Fuck the fact that electric vehicles are extremely impractical for most of the US for a second and listen up. This and all grid problems we are having is nothing that a few nuclear fucking reactors could solve but nooooOOOOOOooooo! NuClEaR PoWeR iS DaNgErOuS!!! Yep, that's the lie they have everyone believing to keep the power grid fucked.
When it’s managed by white people it’s perfectly safe. Let me expand on that some. When the reactor is started up by a shitload of drunk ass sailors who need to go back out to sea to get some blood back in their alcohol stream and every time it’s a non event, nuclear power is safe as fuck.
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As an aside, I caught an electric "supercar." Goes 0-60 in like 2s or something. And the whole time it looks and sounds like a Chinese-made RC car, which it is basically a scaled up version of. You can pay 2 million dollars for that. Same with the scaled-up quadcopters. I'd never get in one of those, unless I like built it. Anyways, it would be way cooler to fly than to track the ground on what is essentially a drag car without any of the fun shit that drag cars do.
At the very least, if you're going to buy an electric car, buy a Mercedes. At least they know how to build cars
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You also have to factor in the amount of extra fuel it takes to build an electric vehicle in the first place, but they have slave kids digging the cobalt and lithium so it's hard to calculate the difference. There's also things like maintenance and hauling fuel to the generator.
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Imagine adding a few million people charging their cars daily to that already failing grid supply.
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