The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we will ask you a question or provide a topic, and you will talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Do you own an electric vehicle? If not – would you consider purchasing one?
Talk about it….
NO!! … and … No Thanks … and Never!
No … and probably not ….the range of EVs & network / supporting infrastructure will never be built out adequately in my lifetime for me to buy one
No, and no!
No, … but we did buy a hybrid 2 years ago.
Don’t want a fully electric car.
Now just waiting to see if Toyota is going to bring the hybrid Sprout Truck to the USA.
Still won’t give up ‘Beast’ the Jeep, … 🙂
I admit, we like our hybrid, except if we do not drive it at least a few days a week (not let it sit unused for a week), the battery seems to not be able to start the vehicle without a jump. Not a problem with our ICE. I love the Jeeps, but am too cheap to buy one. I just stare longingly as they drive by.
ROZ,
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Toyota Stout truck?
@THE BLACK KNIGHT ~
Yes, you are correct.
I shouldn’t type while I’m hungry, … 🙂
@Jeff (the other one) ~
Yes, the newer Jeep are nice looking too.
No and NO
NO
NO
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Folks in Florida are learning first hand problems, salt water is conductive.
An there’s no way I’d allow a whole house battery inside the structure.
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August 2024
‘NTSB: Tesla Semi fire from August took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish’
“EMIGRANT GAP, Calif. —
It took about 50,000 gallons of water in the fight to extinguish a Tesla Semi fire last month that put Interstate 80 in Placer County on a chokehold for more than half a day. That’s according to a report released Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board.”
https://tinyurl.com/mryjz464
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‘50,000 Gallons! Tesla Semi-Truck & Cybertruck Fire’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-al_gJoxPzQ
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‘What is thermal runaway?’
https://www.evfiresafe.com/ev-fire-what-is-thermal-runaway
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‘Thermal runaway – hazards & behaviour’
https://www.evfiresafe.com/ev-fire-behaviour
No and hell no!
Nope and nope.
Bumper stickers on the back of my large SUV and truck spell it out exactly how I feel about EV’s and hybrids and their drivung habits.
Yes, and yes, bought two.
No longer worried about high gas prices.
You could have bought a LOT of gas with the price difference !
Yea you got bigger problems to worry about when you decide to own electric vehicles. Lol
No. Yes I will buy one when telsa FSD is fully operational.
I don’t own an electric car. I may in the future, but it won’t be a Tesla because I don’t want to put a nickel in Elon Musk’s pocket.
He’ll never miss your nickel.
Not if it was gave to me.
I have a plug in Hybrid. The best of both worlds. Home to work all electic (yes I have Solar). I have gone months without using a tank of gas. Log trips I use gas. I do not think I would ever go full electric.
Yes, I have not purchased gasoline in almost 10 years.
Plus I charge it at work for free….
Love, love love my Tesla model 3.
Angry Andy
You are taking the electricity for your electric car for free?
Nothing is free.
Others are paying for your “free” electricity.
Yes, perhaps YOU are paying for my free recharge. But in fact, the solar panels that generate electricity are actually doing their job. And the children who manufactured those panels also got fed and paid the rent. LOVE my EV! NO bills 10 years!
ANGRY ANDY,
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Maybe the government should start taxing your “free charges” at work as income, rather than an untaxable fringe benefit.
Maybe they should, but for now, FREE charging thanks to SOLAR panels on the roof of my GOVERNMENT PAID job. SO….*YOU* are paying it! Thank you!
ANGRY ANDY,
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So you’re one of these government employees who pays no taxes at all. You get your “income” from the people, so the people pay “your taxes” on your behalf.
Except for the vast majority of first responders and military (and educators to a lesser extent), society’s best and brightest don’t work for the government. So your wisdom is likely falling on deaf ears.
No, and never will. How much do they depreciate?
A used EV comes with a used battery, and since it
could cost up to $20,000 to replace the battery,
that alone will make a used EV worthless.
Besides that, they are ugly.
The sound of a gas guzzling V8 with dual exhaust and
exhaust headers is music to my ears.
Nope, have one hybrid in the family of 8 cars and it is fine but will not have an all electric. Tow a boat, go camping, travel and don’t worry about charging, if it is out of gas it takes five minutes for another full charge
If the technology advances so that the range on a full charge is equal to the range of my combustion vehicle, and I can recharge to full charge in the same amount of time it takes to fill my gas tank, I might consider one. Wait…nope, not even then.
Well let’s think…. A common gas island will have 4 pumps and at average 5min per fill up. That gas isl. will “power up” 48 cars an hr and typically gas stations range from 1 to 30 gas islands (unless you are Bucky’s). A typical electric charger will “power up” one car every 30min. so you will need at least 24 chargers (6 gas islands) to do the same. This is not mentioning the backup produced by the wait time. If you talk to an electric car owner they will be very blase about reading a book or taking a break from driving while their car sits under the charger but what they don’t consider is waiting hours for that charger to be freed up because there are not 24 or so chargers to make up for the 4 gas pumps. I guess it is that new math….
No and no. I won’t buy an electric vehicle until there are no other options available.
Two things must happen
1) ConFire, police agencies and AMR must use all EV emergency vehicles
2) ConFire must use theirs when deployed to large fires throughout the state.
And all politicians MUST convert over to EVs 100% .
Anything less ? Nope!
Yes. But the battery technology and charging infrastructure isn’t ready and I’m not spending big $ on ‘maybe it’ll work’. Heck I get anxious when my phone needs charging, a car would require Valium.
I traded in my full sized truck for an EV in April this year. My monthly gas budget basically pays for the EV lease. I do have solar panels and got a Powerwall this summer so I’m set. My EV deal comes with free charging at Electrify America stations for two years so it’s cost me almost nothing these past six months.
It’s been a weird transition into a smaller vehicle but I’ve managed. Have taken the EV to LA and Redding this year. It takes some planning but overall has been okay. Range anxiety can be a real thing but planning ahead is key. We also have a hybrid and old ICE SUV so we’ve got our bases covered.
I do not, and will not, barring our elected officials mandating we once free citizens have to drive the car of THEIR choice. At least not in the current form. I like to be able to drive more than a few hundred miles, fill up in 5 minutes, and then head on my way for a few more hundred miles. I have not experienced the pleasures of recharging an electric car but have heard friends discuss. Some love it, but they do not drive long distances. I admit, it may be close minded (and am I ever), but I like my gas-powered vehicles.
My first EV will be a mobility scooter when I’m too old to drive. The only time I prefer an automatic transmission is when I know I will be in significant heavy traffic and I almost never use cruise control, even on long trips. I want to be engaged when I drive and prefer a smaller, nimble car with a manual transmission.
Save the manuals!
People who haven’t experienced the whining square cut gears while power shifting a vintage Muncie M-22 have missed out on a great life experience.
And as for the ultra-fast Tesla Plaid, I have a friend who has dusted off 13 of them at Sonoma Raceway, with a 1972 Pontiac Ventura. So much for the extension cord set.
No, I won’t buy any newer car with a “black box” that spies on me, electric or not.
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If we were going to transition away from the internal combustion engine, then we should’ve transitioned to hybrids and hydrogen, rather than this path that we’re on to electric cars. About 20 years ago, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was right when he spoke of “hydrogen highways” to power the future vehicles driving and traveling on California’s roadways.
Batteries are a Dead End Technology for vehicles. We need something better fo cars, like some kind of cascading super capicators that will recharge in seconds. It’s all moot until we upgrade the “Grid” and come up with reliable base load electricity.
I don’t think EV is a left or right issue. Case in point, conservative (he is more conservative than right wing) Tom Sullivan have been driving a Tesla for years, although I believe he also has a gas car. When he got the first one, he went on the air and told his listeners something to this effect, “Mr. conservative bought an EV, he said he test drove one and that is was a VERY NICE car. Jack Armstrong of Armstrong and Getty morning show also have a Tesla, I think he has had it for a couple of years, maybe less. He went out an bought when gas was an all time high after the Covid shut down.
“I don’t think EV is a left or right issue.”
Which side of the aisle has advocated for mandating EV’s for everyone?
Yes, I have to agree that it is the liberals who are more vocal about the issue, but as for who are buying these EV I think that is a toss up. I don’t think it should be a mandate, just let people decide for themselves. Some right winger seems upset that they even exist, which makes no sense. If you don’t like them don’t buy one. Having a choice is a good thing.
Well, EV’s have existed for over 100 years. The left’s obsession with forcing everyone to agree with their “morally superior” agenda regarding them is the only thing I know that upsets people, so you must know the opinions of more “right wingers” than I do.
No, no…but hybrids are great!.
Hurricane victims are finding that flooding is shorting out their EV batteries and they are catching fire!
There’s no way I would ever buy one of those things for any reason.
You proles have no imagination. Electric is the future of high performance automobiles. Just because you “luv muh dinosaur truck!” doesn’t mean that electric doesn’t offer insane advantages over ICE when it comes to performance. One already has the 0-60 record and another is in the top 5 of top speed production vehicles.
We should live in an America covered in safe, efficient nuclear power plants that supply our utterly reliable grids that recharge our fleets of American produced electric vehicles with batteries made in America with American lithium. All of that was and is entirely possible for America. But, here we are.
What do speed records do for me? I obey the traffic laws, and I’ve outgrown trying to impress people with what I drive. Tell you what – you pick whatever standard production model EV you’d like, and I’ll race you while towing a trailer and obeying traffic laws to say, Montana. In January. Winner gets the other one’s vehicle. You game?