Soon it will be time to buy a new set of wheels. Who out there has gone electric? What can you say about it? What's good? What's bad? What's everything else?
Who drives an electric vehicle?
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The only electric vehicle that matters is a Tesla IMHO. If you have the money go with a P90D or model X. If not go with a model 3 and potentially claim up to $14-15k in government incentives. Be a part of the revolution.
It's still a motor vehicle for the purposes of criminal code so DUI worries are not going anywhere.
http://www.canlii.org/en/on/oncj/do...MgaW1wYWlyZWQgb3ZlciA4MAAAAAAB&resultIndex=14
I think if you have two cars, then it's worth it for one of them to be electric and the other gasoline. You can use the electric one on a daily basis, when you're travelling within the GTA. You'll never run out of electricity and you'll always be able to charge it at home overnight. The gasoline car you can use when you're taking trips out of the city, where it'll be hard to find a charger - to the cottage, skiing, USA, Quebec, etc. This way you will save tons of money, because 90%+ of the time you will be using your electric car, and electricity costs way less than gasoline.
However if you only have one car, it'll probably be tough to have just one electric car, because you'll constantly be worried about running out of electricity when you take trips outside of the GTA.
However if you only have one car, it'll probably be tough to have just one electric car, because you'll constantly be worried about running out of electricity when you take trips outside of the GTA.
Your not saving anything if you need to purchase a second car. The electric car market needs to come up with charging stations like there are gas stations in order to successfully take a chunk out of the traditional car market.
The charging stations are coming, courtesy of the Govt of Ontario which apparently has lots of money to spend...
https://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2016/04/ontario-building-more-electric-vehicle-charging-stations.html
On cars nobody want's, and only 1/3 of those who originally bought one, bought electric again.
But hey, it sounds good, and may produce a photo op.
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Were you intentionally forgetting that nuclear power doesn't create any emissions?
Because otherwise you sound like an idiot.
After the Tesla Model 3 was announced I have a serious interest in buying an electric vehicle for my next ride.
Do you know the damage done by the batteries in those vehicles to the environment? To mine the nickel, and to dispose of the spent batteries, once they are no longer useful and have to be replaced? Look up 'Life Cycle Analysis', and you will be surprised to learn of the real cost of these batteries to the environment. Also consider where we get our electricity to charge the vehicles, at present time, and not only in Ontario.
A better solution to the problem would be fuel cell vehicles, or even hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines, with hydrogen being supplied by either solar electrolysis thermal dissociation of water with waste heat to produce the hydrogen needed for fuel. That is still economically a ways off, but do-able.
Ah, the nuclear waste in the spent fuel bays at Pickering, with the Chernekov effect blue light emission from the radiation. Or, the occasional tritium leaks from the Candu reactors....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
Well firstly most electric vehicles use Lithium Ion batteries, which can be recycled. Also regardless of where electricity comes from, the abysmal thermal efficiency of IC engines means they still massively reduce emissions, for example a typical car is about 12-14% thermally efficient in daily use. Powerplants (nat gas) are about 57% today. Accounting for all the losses, Ecars are about 36% thermally efficient in operation adding to that the braking regen about 42-43 % I would estimate. So that is a effin COUNTRY MILE better then gasoline cars.
You speak as though conventional cars have no lifecycle cost. Hydrogen, while promising, has some serious issues with storage and transport.
So what? That is contained solid waste that can be managed....Ah, the nuclear waste in the spent fuel bays at Pickering, with the Chernekov effect blue light emission from the radiation. Or, the occasional tritium leaks from the Candu reactors....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
Who drives an electric vehicle? Not the LA Police apparently....
http://www.motor1.com/news/62685/lapd-not-impressed-by-ludicrous-tesla-model-s-police-cruisers/
http://www.motor1.com/news/62685/lapd-not-impressed-by-ludicrous-tesla-model-s-police-cruisers/
