Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Have you ever wondered why soldiers and cops don’t carry revolvers anymore? It’s because semi-auto pistols work better. Both shoot bullets, but a revolver generally holds only 5-6 of them and reloading it when you’re in a hurry takes precious time you may not have. A semi-auto pistol can hold twice as many bullets and reloading it is as easy – and as fast – as dropping the empty magazine and shoving a new one, loaded with bullets, into the gun.

Electric cars are like revolvers.

They only hold so much – and it takes a long time to reload them.

Which would be ok – in revolver terms – if semi-auto pistols hadn’t been invented yet or we weren’t being pressured to give up our semi-auto pistols (our non-electric cars) for revolvers.

And yet, we are being pressured to give them up.

Ostensibly, it is necessary – they say – to prevent the “climate” from “changing.” Kind of like they way they told us it was necessary to wear “masks” to “stop the spread.” And to take drugs that have not prevented anyone who took them from getting – or spreading – the sickness they said would kill millions, if all of us didn’t “mask” for as long as it took and refused to take the drugs they pushed.

But it is not a switch to electric vehicles that is necessary. That is the superficiality.

The actuality is that EVs are to be the vehicles that serve to reduce our driving.

This is to be achieved by limiting how often – and how far – we are able to drive. It will not be necessary to pass any laws restricting our driving. So long as the majority of people drive EVs, the purpose will have been accomplished – because EVs, as they are, will force us to drive less without any law, per se, saying we must.

This is not advertised, of course.

Just the same as the “vaccines” were not advertised as drugs that “reduce the severity of symptoms” – and for essentially the same reasons. If you want to sell people a cat for supper rather than a rabbit, you put the cat in a bag.

But how will EVs force us to drive less?

That is simple. By forcing us to wait more often – and longer – before we can drive.

The high-power and high-performance of EVs is well-known because that is what they want you to know. Or rather, what they want you to desire – and focus on. As they wanted you to focus on the “vaccines” as the things that would relieve you of being obliged to wear a “mask.” What they do not want you to know – about EVs – is that absent a doubling of the maximum range touted by the longest range EVs or a technical breakthrough that makes it feasible to fully recharge an EV at home in 30 minutes or less there is no getting around the EV reality that you will be driving less if you are “nudged” into an EV.

Most EVs on the market tout maximum ranges of around 300 miles. A few very expensive models such as the Tesla S claim around 400. That seems like a lot but functionally speaking it’s a lot less than advertised because of how long it takes to acquire a full charge anywhere except at the so-called “fast” chargers that have the very high voltage charging capability that you do not have at home.

At home, it will take you a couple of days to fully recharge an EV using a standard wall outlet and 120V current. Perhaps longer if it is colder. This writer left a Mercedes EQS plugged in for nearly three days over Christmas to get less than 100 miles of range back into the battery. A full charge would likely have taken the better part of a week.

Meanwhile, absent something else to drive, there would be very little driving.

It is possible to recover some charge faster – but that “faster” is still measured in hours, if we’re talking about charging at home. If you have a 240V outlet to plug into at home. Most homes do not have such a plug-in place for an EV. They may have one for a stove or electric clothes dryer, inside the home. But the EV’s power cord will not reach that far and even if it did, you would have to unplug your stove or dryer to plug-in the EV. So you will need to upgrade your garage to have a 240V outlet accessible to the EV.

This assumes you have a garage. And a single family home. If not, you will probably not be able to 240V charge your EV at home. If you do have a home and a garage and have upgraded to 240V capability, you will be able to instill a full charge . . . in about 9-11 hours, depending on the EV.

If you haven’t got that long to wait, the best you will get at home after a couple of hours or charging is a partial charge. If your EV touts a fully charged range of say 400 miles, you maybe have recovered a third of that after leaving it plugged in to 240V for two or three hours. So now you have maybe 130 miles of range. Which is less than that in functional terms because of the fact that you must be careful to not run out of range – of a place to charge up, again.

There are commercial “fast” chargers, of course. But one may not be within your range. Or it may be full-up with other EVs charging. Even if a “pump” is available, the most charge you can recover is 80 percent (this limitation is imposed to reduce the risk of damaging the battery or increasing the risk of it catching on fire) which means your EV’s touted 400 mile range is in functional fact 20 percent less than that. You will, accordingly, not be driving 400 miles but 320 – assuming the indicated range accurately represents how far the EV will actually travel. Depending on conditions, including temperature, the indicated and actual range often vary considerably.

The recharging issue wouldn’t be one if EVs didn’t need to be recharged as often as they do. But since they do, they need full-charge ranges at least twice and probably three times that of non-electric cars. Probably something on the order of at least 600 actual – not indicated – miles of range, to make up for the time it takes to recharge them to full capacity. That would give most people a week’s worth of driving without constantly worrying about charging.

And the recharging issue wouldn’t be one if recharging did not take as long as it does, especially at home. But because it does, it nudges people to visit commercial “fast” chargers in order to be able to continue driving. But it is hugely inconvenient to drive to these “fast” chargers – and sit there waiting, even if “only” for half an hour, as if that cost were trivial. Which – remember – will not fully recharge the EV. Meaning you will need to stop – and wait – again and even sooner, because you resume your drive with less than a full charge.

But neither fix is forthcoming.

There is no EV battery on the horizon – let alone available – that can keep an EV going for at least 600 miles of actual (not indicated) driving, to compensate for all the waiting. And there is no feasible way to reduce charging times to parity with the time it takes to refuel a non-electric car, especially to full.

Especially at home.

That would take what amounts to Mr. Fusion technology and none such exists – outside of the movies. Thus, when people drive EVs they will be driving less. And waiting more.

That is the real reason for the nudging of people into EVs – by people who despise vehicles and want fewer of them on the road.

And fewer of us on the road, too.

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