Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers
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Which buses are those?
My position is that the development of long range BEVs (and all the externalities associated with manufacturing and disposing of these batteries) has been an incredible detour. We already had the technology for fuel cell EVs with as much range as ICE vehicles. Meanwhile, short range BEVs are great because they solve the problem of refueling and avoid the problem of recharging, since you can do it while you sleep work. Long range BEVs just trade refueling for "fast" recharging, which is actually slower and more inconvenient than refueling. Where we really need innovation and development is in mass, public transit.
It’s the TOSA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSA_(bus)
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Batteries and liquid fuel are both hazardous in terms of catching fire, do you mean something else?
One can use natural gas (usually combined with some amount of gasoline). In terms of safety - if you've ever seen gas stations with concrete walls between fueling spots, that's where this is popular, so not very safe.
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Just get rid of the fuel stations. It’s ridiculous that vehicles owners should expect to refuel their cars anywhere but at home or at work
Just get rid of the cars. Build cities built for human communities, not for cars and mega corporations. Electric vehicles are a band-aid solution that’s not going to save us, and doesn’t solve the fundamental problem.
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Just get rid of the charging stations. It’s ridiculous that EV owners should expect to charge their cars anywhere but at home or at work
why the hell is that ridiculous? People do go places other than home and work. People take road trips and vacations. Electric cars are a good thing, just because one particular brand is owned by a narcisist ruining the country.
Also, not everyone has a parking spot with electricity. How are you supposed to charge if you're parking on a random place on the street, like most people do? I'd joke about "lower a chain of extension cords from your 20th floor", but that would be assuming you can park next to your home at all. My building's parking, for example, had all its spots sold out by now, while the very few ones for sale in the neighborhood cost a fortune. Apparently, they were affordable if you bought the apartment new, but on a secondary market - no.
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One can use natural gas (usually combined with some amount of gasoline). In terms of safety - if you've ever seen gas stations with concrete walls between fueling spots, that's where this is popular, so not very safe.
I've not seen those (may not be in my country). What do the concrete walls stop, explosions?
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Just get rid of the charging stations. It's ridiculous that EV owners should expect to charge their cars anywhere but at home or at work.
Anything with a Tesla logo on it is fair game.
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I've not seen those (may not be in my country). What do the concrete walls stop, explosions?
It's cheaper and more dangerous, and usually done where natural gas is much cheaper than gasoline. Yes, explosions.
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I'm going to disagree with you on the sentement. We need a better infrastructure for EVs, and non-tesla vehicles can use those charging stations (either via adaptor, or a few use that same plug type.)
Wait, do they not all use the same plug? Forgive my ignorance on EVs, my car is 60 years old.
With ya on infascructure. Would like to see better build quality than tesla stuff though, and hardware you own not locked behind pay walls. Add standardization to the list I guess.
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Wait, do they not all use the same plug? Forgive my ignorance on EVs, my car is 60 years old.
With ya on infascructure. Would like to see better build quality than tesla stuff though, and hardware you own not locked behind pay walls. Add standardization to the list I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJOfyMCEzjQ
This guy has done several videos on EVs and their plugs but this one is what I feel is most relevant.
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Just get rid of the charging stations. It's ridiculous that EV owners should expect to charge their cars anywhere but at home or at work.
He was already selling flame-throwers. That would be hilarious.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJOfyMCEzjQ
This guy has done several videos on EVs and their plugs but this one is what I feel is most relevant.
Hah cool I like that guy. He definitely makes some interesting points. I'm glad theyre moving to an industry standard though.
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I don't care about any particular EV brand. Trying to use battery powered EVs for such purposes means that they need to built with heavy, oversized, extra hazardous batteries. The responsible, proper use case for BEVs is short trips with plenty of time for charging at home or work.
And women should stay home and cook. Amirite?
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Just get rid of the charging stations. It's ridiculous that EV owners should expect to charge their cars anywhere but at home or at work.
Freaking BASED.
But for long-distance trips, that doesn't really hold up until we get battery capacities vastly superior to those of today. For countries with workers that have vacations, we like to go places other than home or work, sometimes.
Aren't EV batteries already big enough? As in, you probably shouldn't drive more than 8 hours or so in a day without taking a long break and getting a good night's sleep. There many models on the market with that capability, right? Also, if that's the type of driving you're doing frequently, an ICE vehicle or ideally an FCEV would be a better choice, just in terms of avoiding battery wear and tear and reducing the amount dead weight you're schlepping around. If you're only going on long drives occasionally, just rent a suitable vehicle or consider another from of transit like a train or a bus and then rent a little EV near your destination.
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Batteries and liquid fuel are both hazardous in terms of catching fire, do you mean something else?
When these batteries burn, they can't be put out except by cooling them down somehow because they contain their own oxidizer. So fire departments tend to just let them burn and send whatever metals and other chemicals into the atmosphere. A gasoline fire can be put out with fire suppressants that deprive it of air. Apart from that, the batteries are also hazardous in terms of their manufacturing and disposal lifecycle and also just by making vehicles heavier. Heavier vehicles mean more energetic collisions and they also require bigger brakes, which means more brake dust pollution.
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So your suggestion is basically families should own an EV just for getting around home.. and a gas guzzler for long distance travel? IMO the ideal should be a slow phase out of the gas cars.
Or you know... instead of needing super heavy batteries... they could have smaller batteries... if charging stations become common enough that people can relatively easily find places to stop and charge on long trips.
Maybe there's a battery range/charge time sweet spot, but I think it's easy to underestimate what common enough would look like. These chargers are going to have to be everywhere and they're probably not going to be taken care of properly. It's just more e-waste.
To answer your question: no, that is not my suggestion.
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all motorized personal vehicles and their attendant infrastructure should be eliminated
I live in New Jersey, so
Nuff said.
Fuel pumps are operated by gas station attendants by law in NJ.
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Just get rid of the fuel stations. It’s ridiculous that vehicles owners should expect to refuel their cars anywhere but at home or at work
If people want to go somewhere, they can just walk. They have two perfectly good legs and nobody is stopping them.
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Maybe there's a battery range/charge time sweet spot, but I think it's easy to underestimate what common enough would look like. These chargers are going to have to be everywhere and they're probably not going to be taken care of properly. It's just more e-waste.
To answer your question: no, that is not my suggestion.
To answer your question: no, that is not my suggestion.
I mean so what is the suggestion? The post I was responding to made it sound like you were saying you shouldn't use EV's outside of short trips near home. Which begs the question what should someone who 99% of the time drives near home, but once a year needs to visit their family for christmas 2 states away.
To me I'm wondering how complex are the chargers... we already have gas stations all over the place. To me it wouldn't seem super inplausible for say fast chargers that are, reasonably easy to add to say the typical truck stop level gas station. Of which, they'd start with just adding one or 2... as EV's become more common add more. Would be slowly working towards future proofing the consumer gas side (To my knowledge EV Trucks aren't in the near future, but every truck stop I've been to has also had a huge regular car side)
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To answer your question: no, that is not my suggestion.
I mean so what is the suggestion? The post I was responding to made it sound like you were saying you shouldn't use EV's outside of short trips near home. Which begs the question what should someone who 99% of the time drives near home, but once a year needs to visit their family for christmas 2 states away.
To me I'm wondering how complex are the chargers... we already have gas stations all over the place. To me it wouldn't seem super inplausible for say fast chargers that are, reasonably easy to add to say the typical truck stop level gas station. Of which, they'd start with just adding one or 2... as EV's become more common add more. Would be slowly working towards future proofing the consumer gas side (To my knowledge EV Trucks aren't in the near future, but every truck stop I've been to has also had a huge regular car side)
BEVs aren't compatible with the gas station model because they take too long to charge. ICE vehicles and even FCEVs are in and out of a gas station in five minutes, so you don't need a big footprint to fuel up a lot of vehicles. BEVs need to park for a while to get a substantial charge, not even full one. The fast chargers get Teslas to 80% in something like thirty minutes. So, if these fast charger were installed adjacent to gas pumps, the price to charge your BEV would have to be something like 6x the cost to refuel in order to cover the missed fuel sales.
As for what type of vehicle a someone should own for the scenario you describe, a long range BEV is overkill. Either keep a ICE car for all your driving or keep a small BEV for local trips and rent a more appropriate vehicle for infrequent long trips. Better yet, take a train or bus for those long trips and rent a short range BEV closer to your final destination.
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When these batteries burn, they can't be put out except by cooling them down somehow because they contain their own oxidizer. So fire departments tend to just let them burn and send whatever metals and other chemicals into the atmosphere. A gasoline fire can be put out with fire suppressants that deprive it of air. Apart from that, the batteries are also hazardous in terms of their manufacturing and disposal lifecycle and also just by making vehicles heavier. Heavier vehicles mean more energetic collisions and they also require bigger brakes, which means more brake dust pollution.
I think that refers to lithium ion batteries. Some EVs use lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) which can still can catch fire but can be starved of oxygen. Sadly it is heavier but it is made without the immorally sourced cobalt.
