Dying for a Chevy Volt, but....

Feb 24, 2013 528 Replies

...Only if electrical engineering in general appears incredibly complex to you.

I've done the wiring for a few EVs. It amounted to heavy cables between the battery and controller, and controller and motor, plus some light wiring to the driver's controls.

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They are considerably simpler than the engine wiring in my Ford, which has an intermittent fault I've chased all through it, sensor by sensor and connector by connector.

EVs aren't nearly as complex as a Segway. I substituted for their injured lab tech for a while. I've also repaired electric wheelchairs and scooters, which are good examples of how simple an electric vehicle can be, as are golf carts.

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A more efficient controller would modulate the power to the motor rather than wasting it in resistors, though that wouldn't matter if the cart is always driven at top "speed". jsw

But you've been trained from birth to be sheep. They don't call you "subjects" for nothing.

No, politics is trumping economics. Socialism is just that. Eventually economics will win but everyone *will* lose.

Once again you prove how clueless you are, moron.

You're too funny. If I were haller, I'd slap you silly for agreeing.

You're *WRONG*. We'd have to quadruple generation to replace gasoline.

Run the numbers, idiot.

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Spoken like a True Believer. Toyota Pious develops more smug than any other car on the road.

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You probably have never heard of them and couldn't do a search. Figures.

You're the one who's shacking up with HomoGay. Don't project your lifestyle on others.

They get you there a lot faster, though.

With tons of tools, parts & manuals? Yeah, riiiiiiight.

I drive a full size pickup, and the bed is rarely empty. Can you haul a ton of marble chips in your little windup? How about a dozen full size sheets of plywood? 15 computer monitors, or 35 computers?

Clearly this is your problem..... too much sand kicked in your face. Typical. My fitness apparatus uniquely holds a heavy bag. email me, I'll send you a unit, mebbe you can build yerself up... after yer money order clears, of course.

Run the numbers. 200+ miles/wk, on the numbers claimed by Tesla, would add about 300 kWhrs to the electric bill (per car). That's about 1/3 to 1/4 the bill of an active mid-size household.

*You* proly live by a 25 W bulb, wood stove, and a battery alarm clock, but for others, night-time recharging would certainly add to the bill, but it would not dwarf it.

Your turn.

North of Washington, we do that in the states, too.

And an ounce of gold won't by an ounce of bread.

I have a 12' step ladder I use indoors.

Which put even more of a strain on the already overworked grid.

It was 'real fun' to pull straight into a lot and not be able to back up more than a few feet, without turning the steering wheel to compensate.

It was my dad's trailer, and the original tongue snapped not long after he bought it. The POS had a piece of angle iron for the axle, and had started life as a popup camper. I had looked at it at someone's house and told him not to buy it. A few days later I get home from work and it's sitting in the yard, where he bought it from a used RV dealer.

It was fully loaded, and on a highway wen I saw the tailgate go up several inches and stay there. I pulled over and found the only thing holding was the metal along the top edge. All I could find to patch it was several pieces of 18" long 1/2" stainless steel rods and a half dozen large hose clamps, but I made it home that way.

The replacement tongue was heavier steel, and a 1/2" larger.

The bookies no longer trust him.

"There is no electric vehicle in existence that a normal citizen could afford that has anything near the capabilities of my old gasoline powered service van."

The truth is that if an electric car were made for around $12K that could seat 4 people comfortably and had a reasonable range, a lot people would buy one.

The reason electric cars ain't selling is one of economics. People have their charts, figures, and graphs, explaining why electrics won't work but that's all BS. The real reason is that currently, the cars are too expensive. Here's what you can count on - someone is going to come up with a breakthrough product at the right price and people will respond. That's the way it always happens.

If it smokes you need to overhaul the engine.

What a moron. Those "charts, figures, and graphs, explaining why electrics won't work" tell you why its too expensive.

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