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April 29, 2024
I recently saw a Facebook post that had an angle on electric vehicles that got me thinking. Before I go into that, let me clarify that I am all for cleaning the environment and reducing pollution. And electric motors can be excellent in a lot of cases. The recent revolution in lawn power tools – moving to electric blowers, weed whackers, lawn mowers, and snow blowers is fantastic. Not having to try to start a two-cycle small engine makes me very happy. And the power the electric engines produce is incredible. My electric snow blower far out-blows my old gas one, which was larger and heavier.
However,
not all
applications
make sense.
Has anyone ever thought about this? Take a look at the picture in this article. In areas where it snows a lot, photos like this are common.
If all cars were electric and stuck in a three-hour traffic jam in the cold of a snowstorm, your batteries would be completely dead. Even if you are not moving, the car needs to be heated, which uses power.
Now imagine every car in that picture having a dead battery – which would happen in a long jam.
You can try to call emergency services, but they cannot come to help because every road is closed and blocked with hundreds of cars, so the vehicles cannot get through. And they, too, would likely die for the same reason because probably every police car and emergency vehicle will be electric.
And no one can move forward when thousands of cars block the roads. How do you charge batteries on the spot? Then how do you get all the cars out of the way once the snow melts? You would have to tow them all. How long would that take?
Regular traffic jams create the same the same problem if they are bad jams.
Talk about a mess. Just sayin…
