My family and I were traveling when we were passed by a gasoline-powered truck pulling a sickeningly eco-green colored trailer with an EV truck on it. Why was this new super-duper environmentally friendly truck being towed by the environmentally “destroying” gasoline-powered vehicle? A little research revealed the answer. The driver was towing his super-duper truck because this is the tried-and-true way to get an electric vehicle from one location to another.
Comparing EV trucks to gasoline-powered trucks, the contrast is shocking. While the Ford F-150 Lightning EV truck’s claimed range is 320 miles, the range is actually closer to 270 miles. Thus, according to the Pickup Truck Talk website, the rig must “stop every 3.5 hours, find a charger, make sure the charger works, and then wait an inconsistent amount of time (chargers have different rates of charge) to get back on the road again.” Claimed charging time is 30-45 minutes. EV advocates allege this is the same amount of time to fill a gasoline-powered vehicle. Additionally, they say “nobody fully charges.” On trips, I always fill my gas tank in far less than 40 minutes.
Of course, everything changes during cold winter months. Lightning’s range drops 35% during freezing conditions due to heating the cabin, reducing the range to 175.5 miles. Conventional internal combustion engines use engine heat to warm the cabin.
Trucks are purchased to haul things. The Lightning driving range decreases 24.5% carrying 20 bags of concrete mix (~1,400 pounds), dropping the range to around 204 miles. During freezing weather, this range drops to 133 miles.
Then of course there is vacation season. A Lightning was compared to a GMC Sierra 1500 half-ton gas-powered 6.2-liter V-8 truck. Hitched to identical 6,000-pound campers, the Sierra’s driving range was 280 miles, while the Lightning’s driving range reduced immediately to 160 miles, but it “barely made it 88 miles before requiring a charge.” “Sucking down the electricity much faster than anticipated, the data offered on the screen in the EV truck didn’t show accurate range estimates.”
Traveling with electric trucks is termed “nerve-wracking and frustrating.” It was stated, “Imagine stopping every 100 miles or less with a nearly dead battery.”
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Please note that “most charging stations aren’t set up for pull-through charging.” This means on your “vacation,” before your 30-45 minute wait to recharge every 88 miles, you will also “enjoy” unhitching your trailer to charge your EV. What fun!
In a Detroit to Denver drive, an EV driver paid ~$193 for charging, which took more than 5 hours. Fuel for the gasoline-powered vehicle cost about $300, but saved 5 hours. So, the gas-powered vehicle’s trip cost $107 dollars more, but the EV added over 5 additional hours to the trip. You have to decide which is more important, time or money.
However, according to the Anderson Economic Group, “In Q4 2022, typical mid-priced ICE [Internal Combustion Engine] car drivers paid about $11.29” for fuel for 100 miles of driving. This was “~$0.31 cheaper than the amount paid by mid-priced EV drivers charging mostly at home, and over $3 less than the cost borne by comparable EV drivers charging commercially.”
Concerning charging the EV, we have a new expression to add to our society, which is “the range of anxiety.” This is when your vehicle is saying, “I need a charge,” and you are trying desperately to find a charging station before you run out of juice. My understanding is that these charging stations can be hard to find and are often are in places you don’t want to be.
By the way, your EV truck will probably cost about $20,000 more than a comparable gas-powered truck. Also, EV batteries typically only last 100,000 miles. If you ever need to replace your battery, they cost $15,000-$23,000. Are EVs supposed to be considered disposable?
While all this seems bad for the future of EV trucks, it’s actually worse when you research personal testimonies. One Lightning owner said he bought his vehicle because that’s considered “responsible citizenship these days.” After purchasing his $80,000 EV truck, and paying over $10,000 for a home charger, he took his family for a 1,400-mile trip from Winnipeg, Canada to Chicago. His first recharging stop took 2 hours to recharge from 10% to 90%. At his second recharging stop, he found the charger was dysfunctional. So, he traveled to another station. It, too, was dysfunctional. Then he noted that his family was “really worried and stressed at this point.” With only 12 eco-friendly-miles left, he had to tow his EV to a Ford dealership where he rented a gasoline-powered vehicle to complete his “vacation.” He stated EVs are the “biggest scam of modern times.”
Even Ford’s CEO drove a Lightning truck on a trip and said it was a “reality check.” He further stated, “Charging has been pretty challenging.” Charging to 40% took 40 minutes, meaning a 90% charge would have taken an hour and a half.
Then there’s that other issue. Remember after Hurricane Ian where EVs were “exploding all over Florida” when salt water mixed with electricity? The extremely hot fires from these explosions are almost inextinguishable. It takes 3,000-8,000 gallons of water to extinguish an EV fire. Comparatively, it takes 1,000 gallons of water to extinguish a gas-powered car fire. What about water conservation?
Are these explosions just a rare salt-water induced problem? In New York there have been 108 lithium-ion battery fires reported this year, injuring “66 people and [killing] 13.” In 2022, over 200 fires from batteries on e-bikes, EVs and other devices have occurred. One fire killed four people and left two others in critical conditions. “In just three years, lithium-ion battery fires have surpassed those started by cooking and smoking as the most common causes of fatal fires in New York City.”
If you purchase one of these super-duper trucks, don’t forget to purchase your explosion suit and fire extinguisher. Also, don’t forget to purchase your EV’s sickeningly green trailer, so everyone will know how environmentally conscious you are, as you tow your electric truck with your gasoline-powered truck. Vroom vroom.
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Most “early adopter” EVs are bought by Dem local gov’t depts, and Blue state depts. same when the first hybrids came out.
EVs won’t win over mainstream consumers until a few changes happen. They know what they are but will they do it in time?
My only dispute is that ev’s are the biggest scam. Imo the biggest is our so-called scamdemic over the fauci created covid.
Leftists aka democrats aka demonrats can’t accomplish any of their be loved commie programs in the free market, thay all come from freedom destroying mandates.
When Pinocchio Joe and all the other leftist cronies start flying in battery powered planes I will consider an ev to put on my green trailer to celebrate.
What’s good for the leaders of the World Economic Forum is good for me. They drive gas cars and fly planes using jet fuel.
Propaganda works…
Nothing beats the Dr Mengele Fauci, ChiCom Wuhan COVID scamdemic.
“A FEW changes”…?
There are not enough rare earth minerals on the planet to produce enough batteries to replace gas combustion vehicles…not enough even for only the first round of the batteries needed. The batteries can not be refurbished or “recycled”. It takes more energy to produce one battery than one battery saves. They are a net “L” in every respect. It won’t take “a few changes”. It will take dispention of reality.
One would be hard put to see any way the industry could be less prepared for actually driving these excuses for vehicles.
You must understand that no system ( ICE in this case) will be replaced unless the new system eclipses ALL the advantages enjoyed in the current one.
Electrics obviously don’t even come close.
The problem is Lithium Ion batteries. There are other alternatives that are being researched that would not turn into unstoppable fires or cost a fortune to replace. Why Tesla is not investigating these alternatives does give us pause. Or, he is lookng into alternatives but the cost to retool the factories to accommodate those new types would be almost cost-prohibitive.
But, if Elon Musk wants to keep Tesla producing into the future he will have to make the change or lose more sales in the future because using Lithium Ion in your cars and trucks is no longer a satisfactory and cost-effective mode of transportation except for the stupid and the rick !!!
That was supposed to be spelled “Rich”.
The range issues of EVs were well known before the EVs went into production. EVs were designed by engineers who knew the electrical characteristics of lithium batteries but marched to orders of management who simply wanted to get in on the government gravy train. Battery powered cars were tried over 100 years ago and failed. But government thrives on repeating previous failure.
Climate change is the biggest scam of our time. EVs are just a part of that.
No, the Globull Warming scam along with the fraudulent 2020 election results got it beat by a mile.
Actually, the biggest scam in modern times is the reason WHY EVs are a “thing” at all! Remember, this is ALL based on the premise that the world is boiling and the culprit is CO2.
ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE is the biggest scam in HUMAN history. It is proven scientific fact that increases in the dreaded, deadly, catastrophic CO2 monster FOLLOW temperature increases. Meaning, the Watermelons have once again hysterically put the cart before the horse(sh!t).
And yet Bill Gates is buying up forests and chopping down the trees that consume CO2. Madness. The Bible calls it the Mystery of Lawlessness.
So, if trees consume CO2, the psychopath Gates wants to amplify the amount of CO2 in the air by burying trees?
Well said.
Nope. The biggest scam in history was the 2020 installment of joe biden.
Climate change remains the biggest scam of our times, and EV’s are just a part of that.
I don’t know, guys. It has some pretty stiff competition for that trophy: covid-19 fake vaccines, masks, and lockdowns and the global warming hoax.
It’s all part of the same WEF playbook, to scare and then control the masses.
EVs demonstrate how far ahead some people think….about an hour. Cordless tools are great, but we know they’re limited. Limiting travel to a battery is not smart at all.
Oh, the ‘best’ part is when they get to claim they saved the planet when (in a few decades) the climate cools off again like it always has varied over the centuries
They will just lie and say it’s still getting hotter.
Democrats only lie.
Those pushing EVs, the ‘vaccines” as “safe and effective” and climate change tend to be college indoctrinated. A higher education is no indication of intelligence.
I can’t imagine having no choice but to stop in a seedy area while waiting to charge an EV. It takes me 5 minutes or less to pump a full tank of gas and drive for 400 miles. I will take that any day over waiting in line to charge an EV.
“It takes 3,000-8,000 gallons of water to extinguish an EV fire.” <—No it does NOT.
Once a battery is in thermal run away the chemical reaction produce Oxygen and heat. You can dunk the EV in water or put it in a vacuum, it will still burn until the batteries are consumed. Water, a Water dunk tank, or smothering blanket are all used to LIMIT Collateral damage not from the EV fire not to extinguish it.
These are contractor trucks. Contractors have portable gas generators they can use to charge the truck while they work, problem solved. Green & Greener.
I would totally buy an EV…as a toy…if I was having a mid-life crisis and also was in possession of $60k my wife knew nothing about.
Keep EV cars where the batteries belong. ON YOUR TOOLS. They work very good for that.
Sorry folks…these vehicles will cause as much future pollution as the nuclear waste the WORLD generates.
The costs associated with the building of these soon-to-be useless yard art attempts place these ‘cars’ in a five- year HOLE TO RECOVER the environmental damage done-THAT NO ONE CALLS OUT VOCIFERIOUSLY, to make these ‘cars’ attractive. A great idea, but the REALITY is they are stinkers waiting to smell.
Just look at all of the RELIABILITY. ‘They’ can TURN YOU OFF IF ‘they’ PLEASE.
But get them wet with some salt and GET YOUR MARSHMELLOWS OUT…even the bikes are burning down buildings.
And WHY? “The love of money is the ROOT OF ALL EVIL”.
‘They’ are current investors using INSIDER TRADING. “Their” returns are incredible until they are not…but we will all suffer ‘their’ fallout.
A time of reckoning is approaching. Know the God I know or suffer ETERNAL TORMENT.
Biggest scam of modern times = climate change.
The Holohoax of WWII and the covid hysteria beat the EV scam. But don’t expect the #zionist# fake news clowns on this website to address the @jew@ supremacist Holohoax myth. This website promotes *jewsupremacist* &BULLSHIT&!
Back in February, I saw an article in which a Canadian EV truck owner stated the batteries freeze in winter so he needed to have the battery on charge all night to keep this from happening. Coupled with the charging issue and searching for commercial chargers when not at home he finally traded it back in for a diesel engine truck after only six months.
EVs are a non-solution to a non-existent problem.