Electric cars

Red Lily wrote:Is your 'EV' a golf cart or a real vehicle?  No hybrid cars require 6 batteries.  Golf carts do but I don't consider them real vehicles.  They're toys.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

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Red Lily wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:One could not make it from Sydney to Canberra in an electric vehicle. How in the hell would you make it to Perth on electric?
Are you guys ok with paying a price premium for gasoline?

Oh , and beleive me , I know you already do!
But I mean , if you give in to this bullshit you'll be paying more.

I realize it's probably cheaper to fly to Perth from Sydney. Way cheaper.


I had a lot of thoughts I had to delete here.

Did you miss the part where I said we are not ready for EVs yet?   Or that I prefer hybrids?

I have no desire to drive to Canberra or Perth but, thanks to our new leftist moonbat government, petrol/gas here right now is $2.04 per litre!  That's right, per LITRE and since I have to do a lot of driving right now that really pisses me off having to waste all that money just getting from A to B.

My son has a hybrid and he does NOT have to charge it.  Petrol/gas starts it and then the electric motor takes over.  The battery stays charged through regenerative braking and by the internal combustion engine.  He drives hundreds of miles regularly and never has a problem.  It's a great, and very quiet, car and if I wanted to dish out $40,000 for a car I'd certainly buy one.  No charging and it would save me thousands of $$s.

I'm not giving in to any bullshit because there really IS some balanced middle ground between the extremes of "shut down all the power stations and everyone has to drive an electric vehicle" and "OMG they are out to destroy us so don't give in to the scam   "   ...  and that's where I prefer my head to be.

Back in the 1990s some of you probably thought cordless phones and the internet were the work of the devil too.   Trust me, I had a lot of thoughts I had to delete here too!!

The point is , you have no desire to do anything that will upset anybody.   You troll and you'll troll  her the troll wins.

People here don't give a care about that.

That was m want for  @ Sprintcyclist

Casey Jones wrote:

Red Lily wrote:Is your 'EV' a golf cart or a real vehicle?  No hybrid cars require 6 batteries.  Golf carts do but I don't consider them real vehicles.  They're toys.

What do you call a real car?

How far to you go between plug-ins?  WHERE do you plug it in?  HOW MUCH does it COST you, and how much TIME does it take?

Calypso Jones wrote:

Red Lily wrote:Is your 'EV' a golf cart or a real vehicle?  No hybrid cars require 6 batteries.  Golf carts do but I don't consider them real vehicles.  They're toys.

It is a somewhat larger than a golf cart and road worthy...that's why we have to have registration and tags.   I would NEVER use it for serious long distance travel, because of other drivers.  I have used it on the highway at Myrtle Beach like other EV owners do also, but then, the traffic is heavier and slower.

Red Lily wrote:
I call a real car one that is a real car, one you can use daily for work etc and on trips, one that is as safe as any other car on the road.

Golf carts aren't legal to drive on the roads here and are nothing more than a toy like the battery operated ones you buy for kids.   Both my kids had one.

Like I've said a THOUSAND times you do NOT plug hybrids in.

RV wrote:My Son had a 'hybrid', after putting up with it not functioning correctly for a while, took it to the dealer. Dealer told him that it just needed a new battery. When asked about the 'new battery', my son was promptly told the cost and it was more than the hybrid was worth! Needless to say, he traded the hybrid in and bought a reliable GASOLINE car.