Remember the post on how Alex Jones horribly misrepresented a video on Tyler “Hoovie” Hoover’s trouble with a Ford F-150 Lightning EV pickup truck? Well, there’s a follow-up:
It turns out that it isn’t just towing that drains the F-150 Lightning EV’s battery at an alarming rate. In mild winter weather (37°F), he found the Lightning using up 120 miles of estimated range in a mere 60 or so miles. “Towing nothing! It’s just cold outside! What!?!”
Teslas can suffer from the same problem, but even by that standard, the Lightning loss of range seems pretty extreme.
This is yet another example of why our urban elites decreeing that everyone should drive EVs to phase out gasoline-powered cars is foolhardy. EVs may be adequate for an urban commuting environment for people who have garages in which they can recharge them overnight, but is deeply unrealistic for people who need to do lots of driving in a single day, or need to haul around a lot of equipment or a trailer, or just any country driving in general.
And the F-150 Lightning EV seems unsuitable for, well, just about any real pickup truck tasks. Unless you live in Hawaii, southern Florida or the Rio Grande Valley, and even then there are better options.
Sidenote: At the end of the video, Hoover replaces the Lightning with…a Hummer EV! I thought the Hummer brand had been sold to China a decade ago, but evidently that deal fell through, and GM has evidently kept the brand dormant until recently.
It’s more than a little ironic that a 9,000 pound behemoth (the battery alone weighs more than a Honda Civic) with a nameplate treehuggers used to treat as synonymous with evil now counts as “green.”
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This is true of every EV out there whether the manufacturers (and the government dimwits) acknowledge it. Here’s another example:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-19-electric-vehicle-nightmare-15-hours-travel-wyoming.html
That’s a nominal 2-1/2 hour drive that took 15 hours. And it wasn’t even winter, much less a particularly mountainous route.
This was originally reported in a Wyoming publication on-line (I don’t remember which and didn’t bookmark it), and the manufacturer’s excuse was that “…it was cool out, and there was hilly terrain”. I live in northwestern WY and, gosh-golly, gee-whiz, it’s “cool” here for 3/4’s of the year, and I’m pretty sure that all of the mountains that surround the Bighorn Basin would be considered “hilly terrain”.
Heck, if EV’s worked even semi-well I’d consider getting one just for running into town and back, but I’d have to build a detached garage to house the vehicle and its charger in the all-too-likely event that it blows up or catches on fire. Just see the hundreds of them that did that (and went unreported by the lame-stream) after the FL hurricane, and the cars/batteries were flooded.
I hope the owners of these things are enjoying their nuclear/coal-fired vehicles.
A feature, not a bug. The underlying objective is to restrict individual mobility. Pretty soon all vehicles will be equipped with a remote controlled kill switch so the government can freeze you in place at its own caprice.
Predictable. Lithium batteries lose capacity when they are cold; in fact the battery control circuit will shut down discharge completely if the battery itself falls below a certain temperature (usually a bit below 40 deg F). And you can’t charge them up when they are that cold, either. That’s why all your rechargeable battery packs have three terminals: the third one is the temperature sensor. The problem is insoluble with current Li technology.
Also BTW if you live in Nevada, you can’t charge or discharge them with they are too warm, say like if you leave your vehicle parked in the sun for a couple of hours during the summer time.
Electric vehicles are a toy technology for non-serious people, not a legitimate solution to any problem in the real world.
This is the automotive equivalent the Coronavirus hoax. Nobody’s saving anything with EVs, from the four year old kids who mine lithium in Africa to the toxic manufacturing process to the still unknown method of recycling batteries. And given that the co2 gains are marginal up to 100,000 miles, there’s only virtue signaling left in owning one.
Wood gas engines: the wave of the future!
It’s all a scam.
If you do the math, and follow up on all the BS promises made in the documentation about “renewable” energy, what you find in every instance is that they fudged the numbers, left out critical information, and that none of the assumptions ever worked out.
I used to drink coffee with a retired Boeing engineer. One of his hobby-horses was “renewables”, with emphasis on wind and solar. He’d gone over the documentation used to justify what they were doing, and before he even factored in the damn real-world power generation availability, what he worked out was that they’d left off including nearly all of the inputs like how much energy was going into making the concrete for the bases, the energy used to construct the roads, the energy used to mine and refine the copper for the grids within the wind power stations, and disposal fees.
What he had in his spreadsheet basically showed that all you were doing with wind power was taking fossil fuels and running them through a “green-washing” machine, and that you’d almost never, ever get the energy back from a wind turbine that you expended building and maintaining it for its stated service life. Even if the things ran at their worst-case projected availability of 85%, once you dug into the math, it was at best, break-even.
Now, if you go back and check the actual energy production on these projects, in real life? LOL… Good Christ, I drive by the wind farms down around Ellensburg, WA, and you’ll rarely see more than one or two of the turbines turning at any given time of the day or night. There’s no damn way any of those installations are producing power 85% of the time, as promised.
The whole thing is a scam of truly mind-boggling scale. Once you factor in all the things the advocates hand-waved away or didn’t even include (fuel to run the maintenance vehicles in the wind farms, for example, or the energy required to run the de-icing systems…), what you find is that they’re actually a net energy drain, rather than a real source of power. Add in everything else, like having to have standby generation ready to go if the wind dies? LOL…
It’s fraud, pure and simple. The only possible way this crap could work out was if we had much more efficient generators, decent energy storage, and cheaper-than-copper room-temperature superconductors. Since almost all of that is in the realm of science fiction, guess what?
The fact that people bought into this crap in the first place is what’s disturbing. It’s all an indicator that the general public is essentially innumerate and completely gullible. They’re not going to catch on to the fraud until they’re starving in the dark, and that’s ridiculous because the fraudulent nature of all this crap is right out there in the open, readily observable. Thing is, nobody’s making the observations and then acting on them. Every one of these “Green Energy” and environmentalist whackos that want to wipe out humanity need to be removed from the public sphere, one way or another. There aren’t any of them who’re either sane enough or honest enough to be entrusted with the levers of power, in any sense of the word.
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