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William Teach explores that question, and, comes up with a BIG FAT nuthin!
What do you get for starting $47,000?
Well, the price, for most, NOT really affordable. BUT, if it is reliable, just like a real truck that drinks gas and will save the planet….
In a recent video on his Hoovie’s Garage channel, Tyler Hoover put the towing capability of his Ford F-150 Lightning to the test — and he called the experience a “complete and total disaster.” The saga illustrates one of the challenges to owning a battery-powered truck: towing range.
Hoover charged up his Lightning to 200 miles (almost all of its 230-mile range) and set out for a trip to his mechanic 32 miles away to pick up a 1930 Ford Model A and tow it home. As soon as Hoover set out pulling an empty trailer, the Lightning’s range started “dropping like a stone.”
Wait, I thought it was just as good as a gas powered truck?
In the end, the 64-mile journey sucked up 150 miles of range from the Lightning’s battery.
“The truck towing 3,500 pounds can’t even go 100 miles,” he said. “That is ridiculously stupid. This truck can’t do normal truck things.”
Well, OK, but, just charge it, easy fix right? Right? Hello…….
Running low on energy in an EV means stopping for 45 minutes at a fast-charging station.
WHAT? 45 minutes? All because you are using a truck for, well, the types of things you use a truck for? BUT, but, at least you will be avoiding gas taxes while you are pretending to save the planet right? Right? Awww, come on!
Proposition 30 has voters deciding on a tax for zero-emission vehicles. What you need to know
On its face, Proposition 30 is simple enough: Raise taxes on the richest Californians. Pull in $30 billion to $90 billion over the next 20 years. Use 80% of the money to subsidize electric vehicles and charging stations, and 20% for wildfire suppression and prevention.
The fight for votes has prompted plenty of sloganeering and a gusher of spending.
Supporters say Proposition 30 is essential to address climate change. Opponents say it’s not.
What? You thought the left would NOT introduce new taxes? If these bastards could tax the taxes you pay they would.
BUT, you are still saving the planet, so, that is worth it, right? I mean right? Sure, consider that electricity is mostly made from fossil fuels. So, really you are not reducing your carbon footprint at all. You are reducing your wallet, and bank account. Oh, and, also, those E-cars are not really “enviro-friendly”,
Photovoltaic Solar holds great promise, thermal to a lesser degree, but in either case the technology is just not ready for market, never has been. So far it’s been a complete boondoggle. The definition of a false economy. “Pennywise, pound foolish” and “robbing Peter to pay Paul” doesn’t even begin to cover it.
I have no problem with the responsible subsidizing of research but the truckloads of cash that have been pissed away on the current solar, EV, and battery technology so far has only made a few really rich assholes a little richer while creating more of a mess. That and plumped up the campaign coffers of the even worse assholes that created and administered the programs in the first place. These .gov programs, besides the obvious corruption, are actually stifling advances in the technology. Why make a product better when you can bribe some politicians to pay you for your shitty one? And guess where all that cash comes from, you and me.
Solar panel and battery technology needs to get to a place where the raw materials can be obtained without creating ugly humanitarian and ecological disasters on every continent first. Wouldn’t that be a nice start? Jesus fucking Christ, we’ve got half the planet losing sleep over sustainable coffee production, but we can’t apply the same market forces to solve this little inconvenient snag in the green process? Apparently not while our elected “officials” are on the tit! All we see are a vapor trail of decrees and rulings, commanding utterly unattainable (ambitious, we’re told) shifts to “renewables” as though that sort of thing could be accomplished by fiat.
Then let’s work on improving the efficiency such that the hardware will at least have a prayer of producing as much energy as it took to create it over its service life and figure out how to recycle the parts afterward without adding to the environmental troubles created by the mining disasters and manufacturing operations that it took to produce them.
Pretending that we’re on the right track with the current “green technology” is absolutely psychotic, and it’s not helping the citizenry, the consumer or the planet in the least. The collective “actions” by governments, as usual, have created a cure that’s way worse than the disease. Every time we’re told by our betters in authority that they have devised some wonderful new green ordinance, it just costs us more and makes everything just a little dirtier. Meanwhile, if some actual genius were to come up something that was genuinely a great advance in the field, someone (usually driving several black Tahoes) would purchase the patent and we’d never see it again. So it goes.
Oh, and wind is a joke that never made sense even in theory and should be immediately abandoned.