Man plugs in electric truck, learns it will take a week to charge

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[–]Davethe_blank_ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

buying an electric hummer is stupid. At least with a gas powered one you can use it for it's intended purpose. By the time you get out to the middle of nowhere to have fun in the EV hummer, you'd need to charge it again. There are no charging stations out in the sticks

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    [–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Put it in the bed

    charge while driving

    [–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Well a hummer is worthless for off roading unless you invest thousands of dollars in upgrades, rock cralwing is for one vehical and even my wife knows jeeps are best. Fuck hummers.

    [–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Jeeps are girl cars LOL

    [–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    The gas hummer has a 32 gallon tank, which is 320 to 410 miles range.

    The electric has a 350 mile range on a full change.

    There's a little over 50,000 EV charging stations in the US, and a little under 150,000 fueling stations. So distances between them aren't dramatically different already.

    They're only as stupid as each other.

    [–]jamesK_3rd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    That's cute.

    EV charging stations may include stations that only service one type of charge receptacle (Tesla only). Filling stations will fuel either vehicles, gas or diesel. Additionally, the 50000 includes many auto dealerships which provide them as a service to their customers, which typically may not be near a highway.

    Someone who has the idea that distances aren't dramatically different likely lives in a city, where they don't see any issues during their daily travel routine going from their public library to whole foods to home.

    If you are outside of the east coast or a metro area, getting low on electriciy can be stressful, let alone doing things like offroading. There is no, "just bring me a can of gas". If you're lucky, you shut it off before it dies, and someone brings you out a generator. If you're unlucky and it dies, some of these cars have to be taken to the dealership once they completely run out of charge to be reset, you can't just get a charge and go.

    I'm not against EV, but I'd like to see every state have a nuclear reactor built before we start doing things like prohibiting fossil fuel utilization or/and production. That'd be a minimum, then we can talk about using little black and brown kids in Africa to mine minerals for EV batteries. Some EV users don't realize they are directly responsible for slave labor of little negroes in Africa, but then again many of them do.

    [–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Additionally, the 50000 includes many auto dealerships which provide them as a service to their customers, which typically may not be near a highway.

    The 150,000 also includes many that are not near highways.

    If you are outside of the east coast or a metro area, getting low on electriciy can be stressful, let alone doing things like offroading.

    You won't pass gas stations offroading either.

    If you're unlucky and it dies, some of these cars have to be taken to the dealership once they completely run out of charge to be reset, you can't just get a charge and go.

    Do they? Which ones are those?

    On the other hand, you don't damage an electric vehicle by running it out of power. Whereas you may damage your fuel pump if you run it on air.

    I'm not against EV, but I'd like to see every state have a nuclear reactor built before we start doing things like prohibiting fossil fuel utilization or/and production.

    You should pay an extra levy to cover the costs of the droughts, floods and fires you're causing. But, if that's the way you want to go. It does shit on poor parts of the world, because you're only covering droughts in the south of the US, and fires in Cali. You're not helping Malaysia, but you're damaging their farmers too.

    That'd be a minimum, then we can talk about using little black and brown kids in Africa to mine minerals for EV batteries.

    Certainly environmental standards and work health and safety standards are insufficient in many multi-national run operations in Africa. No matter what resource they're exploiting. It only gets better in the presence of international unions.

    Funny how Nestle, the producer of most of the worlds food that crosses international boundaries can use child labour for decades, or Nike or Apple for that matter, but it's not a problem until someone is competing with fossil fuels does it.