Electric Vehicles (EV) ... coming

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Chill, folks. In a secret laboratory 60 feet below Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, engineers are working on impact-resistant fire-retardant lithium-free long-lasting American-made quick-charging waterproof nickel-free lightweight super-power cold-resistant EV batteries filled with a miracle electrolyte made of dragon poop, griffin snot and unicorn earwax. They'll survive a .45 round at point-blank range, reach a full charge in 15 minutes at -50 below zero, never, ever need to be replaced, and the range is up to 50,000 miles per charge, even when you're towing a tricked-out top-of-the-line Airstream AND bringing home the vegan grocery haul from Whole Foods Market in your Ford F-150 Lightning. And in a pinch, you can charge them from your iPhone!

Heard it from The Easter Bunny while we were stocking up on jalapeño beef jerky and pepperoni Slim Jims for the road trip to Sedona at the 7-Eleven in Barstow where Jimmy Hoffa works the night shift.
 

Don't worry though. Taxpayers will subsidize manufacturers and purchasers and then the manufacturers will jack up MSRP another 1/3 of what used to be a gas car's price to help pick up the slack. As a plain old 4-door gasoline sedan gets a sticker price of $45K or more the equivalent EV's $60K price begins to almost seem not ludicrous.

Well, as long as you don't look at the $2K or so to put in a home charger (assuming that's even possible where you live). Or the increasing rates paid for public chargers. Or the wider driveway you need because the EV can't be parked in the garage or your insurance is void. Or...

... but ya doesn't has to call me Johnson.
 

Naturally said:
Chill, folks. In a secret laboratory 60 feet below Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, engineers are working on impact-resistant fire-retardant lithium-free long-lasting American-made quick-charging waterproof nickel-free lightweight super-power cold-resistant EV batteries filled with a miracle electrolyte made of dragon poop, griffin snot and unicorn earwax. They'll survive a .45 round at point-blank range, reach a full charge in 15 minutes at -50 below zero, never, ever need to be replaced, and the range is up to 50,000 miles per charge, even when you're towing a tricked-out top-of-the-line Airstream AND bringing home the vegan grocery haul from Whole Foods Market in your Ford F-150 Lightning. And in a pinch, you can charge them from your iPhone!

Heard it from The Easter Bunny while we were stocking up on jalapeño beef jerky and pepperoni Slim Jims for the road trip to Sedona at the 7-Eleven in Barstow where Jimmy Hoffa works the night shift.
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That was interesting and very imaginative! Good writing! As I read it, I pictured it used as a military vehicle than for consumer use, lol.
 
Naturally said:
Chill, folks. In a secret laboratory 60 feet below Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, engineers are working on impact-resistant fire-retardant lithium-free long-lasting American-made quick-charging waterproof nickel-free lightweight super-power cold-resistant EV batteries filled with a miracle electrolyte made of dragon poop, griffin snot and unicorn earwax. They'll survive a .45 round at point-blank range, reach a full charge in 15 minutes at -50 below zero, never, ever need to be replaced, and the range is up to 50,000 miles per charge, even when you're towing a tricked-out top-of-the-line Airstream AND bringing home the vegan grocery haul from Whole Foods Market in your Ford F-150 Lightning. And in a pinch, you can charge them from your iPhone!

Heard it from The Easter Bunny while we were stocking up on jalapeño beef jerky and pepperoni Slim Jims for the road trip to Sedona at the 7-Eleven in Barstow where Jimmy Hoffa works the night shift.
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Ok, fine. But where you gonna recharge those things?

And do I have to download the app?
 
This is 25 minutes long, but covers a lot of ground. Revised version that corrects figures used in a previous version of the presentation.


Some scary cost estimates outlined here. I think she's wrong about HEVs (as opposed to PHEVs and BEVs) though. A non-plugin hybrid makes the most sense as far as I can tell, especially if one lives outside the Goldilocks Zones where temperatures are evenly mild all year 'round.

One point I hadn't thought about is that distribution grid power transformers are designed to heat through the day but then cool down each night once load drops off. Charging cars overnight breaks that model of operation, so that much more new grid buildout is needed.
 
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I think I saw a series on YouTube about Skinwalker Ranch and strange goings on down there.
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Yeah, brought to you by the same two brothers from Michigan who spun the Mysteries Of Oak Island TV series out for over 15 years, without ever actually finding any gold on that island in Nova Scotia. This is their new money maker. JimB.
 
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