I leave every morning with a "full tank". So the time I am inconvenienced by charging is 5 seconds when I get home and plug in and 5 seconds in the morning when I unplug to go to work. The actual charge time I am sleeping. When I travel, the charge stops are about 15 minutes which is about the time needed for stretch and restroom breaks. I can do those while it charges. But filling with gas, I have to do those things AND THEN go fill it up while the family sits in the car twiddling their thumbs. Full disclosure, I would estimate my total stop time on a BEV trip is about 1/2 hour longer per day on trips. So it is a minor inconvenience. However, in many cases, the chargers are located in places with healthier food so it is a win as I don't have to make one stop to charge and another to eat. Finally, total time screwing around with all care and feeding is dramatically less with a BEV. No oil changes, far less brake work and rare inconvenience related to "fuel". So all in all, BEV is way more convenient than ICE.
My wife has an EV. She works 6 miles from home. She is thrilled that she never has to go to the gas station. With other running around thrown in, we do a full charge (almost) every couple of weeks.
With modern EVs with 250 miles or more range. If your wife worked 60 miles from home it would still work great. As a return trip is just half the range.
Food for thought - you can extend the life of the battery by actually charging a small amount more regularly. EG the battery will maintain its maximum capacity for longer if you’re regularly charging from 55% to 75%, rather than doing a big charge from 25% to 100% irregularly. Then again if you’re on a 2 year lease, fuck it do whatever lol
So this would fit more for parking lots at large shopping areas restaurant downtown walk areas theme parks movie theaters etc etc etc. Places where you plan to park and leave your car for a couple of hours. And the ones who figured that out are going to make a lot of money
The problem is that for high speed charging we really don't want people parking and leaving their car for a couple of hours. We want people to plug in and get charged up to about 80-90% and then move their car so someone else can charge it. For most newer cars this can work out to about 20-40 mins. About enough time for someone to get food and eat and use the bathroom at a typical fast food place.
The ones who figure that out, also have to determine how to bring an industrial sized electrical installation into an already built shopping center, and which charging standard to go with. If they get it right though they could certainly make a lot of money.
At your workplace is the ideal for people who can't charge overnight - park your car in the morning, swipe your company ID card to tell the charger who you are, plug in the slow charger, and go to work. Get billed by your company at cost for the electricity you consume at the end of the month. Or companies could offer it for free as a company perk. There's an assumption that everything needs to be "fast" whereas lots of "slow" works just as well. And the added benefit of slow chargers is that they don't require huge investment in additional electrical installations.
@NNFaNRacing I don't know that it's bringing in electricity on the scale you're thinking. There are charging facilities at several shopping centers where I live and more going in. The space taken is minimal, you only lose a couple of feet of the length of a parking space for the unit, unless they're sited on the periphery of the parking area. Then no space is lost.
Just from a fundamental engineering perspective, EV charging infrastructure is much simpler and safer than liquid fuels infrastructure. Mounting a glorified transformer and hooking it up to the electrical grid is simple and can be done almost anywhere. Getting liquid fuels from a refinery, and then safely transporting them, storing them underground and pumping them into vehicles takes a lot of sophisticated construction and equipment and large numbers of truck drivers, pump inspectors, hell, even store clerks. It's really inefficient. The whole argument wouldn't make any sense except that there's a large liquid fuels infrastructure already in place.
So you change your convenience store / rest stop very slightly to the more European model - where they have seats and bathrooms and whatnot - so patrons can sit for 30 minutes, have a cuppa, and head off on their way.
Actually… the "wait time" to recharge an EV is shrinking exponentially. I've driven from Utah to the east coast and back, and the average time it took to charge throughout that trip was… 21 minutes. Just about perfect to visit the restroom, buy a drink or snacks, wash the bugs off the windshield. Surely drivers of gas cars do the same -unless they're a new Marvel Superhero: "Bladderman"!
I have done trips from PA to Florida multiple times. It's just about learning what is different. The car will charge faster the less charge it actually has and slow down as the battery fills up. So instead of charging to full every time you stop, you charge with enough to get you to the next stop with about 15% battery to be safe. This allows you to charge faster, you have more stops, but they much quicker. And the car does all the calculating for you, you don't even have to think about it.
Need More low power DC Chargers around the 40 - 50kW range at location where people already visit and park. The main goal is to have many of those units as possible not just a handful.
A better location for EV chargers than gas stations is restaurants and supermarkets. These are places that you do spend 30 minutes to an hour at once a week, if you are unable to charge at home that is. The only downside to this is getting the power to the chargers which could be offset with solar canopies and battery storage. It's all about cost
Honestly, the only times I ever charge somewhere other than home, my ideal spot is a gas station with a built-in fast food restaurant. If I'm hungry, I can grab a snack or grab a meal and get back on the road. Anywhere else is less convenient.
"The only downside to this is getting the power to the chargers which could be offset with solar canopies and battery storage. It's all about cost". Yet most every home the country has hydro so how would it be so hard put in the infrastructure for hydro? It's not like we have to truck it in? We just have to hang new wires off a few existing poles and poof! An EV charging station. BTW. You can deliver very high voltages with low current over relatively thin wires ( wire size depends on current capacity not voltage, think of those high tension towers that cross the country. High voltage, Low current. ), use a transformer to change that high voltage/low current to a low voltage and higher current. Happens all the time. It's simple electrical theory.
I'm not a fan of EVs, but I'm surprised restaurants don't have charging stations off to the side. You can plug in, go in and eat, then be ready to continue when you're done. They could be turned on when you told the restaurant where you're parked.
I would not have gotten an electric if I could not charge it at home. Right now, I only have the 110 volt charger and it's really slow. But it's fine to leave it plugged in overnight in the garage. I like the idea of chargers at restaurants and movies where you'd spend a couple hours.
Having an electric car is like having a gasoline car, where it is magically 70% filled with gas every morning. On days where that is not enough, which is about 3 times per year, I have to wait longer at a "gas station" than I did before, by about triple.
You could charge to 100% every morning. But it wears the battery down to do so over time, and it’s almost never necessary for most daily driving needs. I only charge it to 100% when I have a road trip planned.
@@mcrap7759hahaha. That’s fucking dumb. Also fast charging hurts batteries. Also cold kills batteries. Also we don’t have the infrastructure for EVs at scale. Also we don’t have the raw materials. So this big push has been a massive waste of resources pushed into a dead end
He's only been transportation secretary for a couple years but you can ask him about airlines or EV fast chargers and he not only knows more than you do, more than your friends do, and more than your friends' friends do, he can explain it better than anybody else as well, and do it in less than two minutes.
@@JamesSalie I'll make the bad assumption that you're asking that question in good faith and among the dozens of answers I could give I'll say making a serious dent in airline malpractice by bringing attention and serious consequences to violations of existing regulations on airline performance standards. What say you?
Cars aren't the future anyways. Are there going to be cars in the future-- of course. But bicycles and trains will get a higher mode share than it gets today in the United States. How do I know this? Because we simply can't afford to maintain all the roads we've already built. Our development pattern of strip malls and suburbs is not sustainable. It costs more to the municipality to maintain than it brings in with tax revenue. In the future cities will need to adopt micromobility and rapid public transit. Cities will also need to be denser which makes it easier to walk. Electric cars are better than gas cars but good policy looks like lessening our subsidy to cars.
Most gas stations are in urban areas where there are thousands of other possible sites for charging, including at home. EV drivers don't typically go somewhere to charge as they would in an ICE vehicle. We charge mostly at home when we are sleeping. We might charge while parked at the mall, at a restaurant, or any number of places where we charge while doing other things. Even on the highway, we charge while using the facilities and grabbing a coffee.
trump recently repeated the "charger is a gas pump" thing. The challenge is installing chargers at Apartments as the prices for EVs drop. I have a 60A/240V circuit in my house for my Tesla and can charge up to 48 amps. I schedule the charging at night and the car is always ready in the morning. So I never go to a gas station and pay about a quarter of what my gasolene costs would have been. It only takes a couple of seconds to plug in or un plug. The time, effort, filth, fumes, crime, and the weather are not issues in my garage. The irony is that I spent hours of time and too much money at gas stations and people think you waste time charging....
Really that makes no sense. Stuff from the convenience store has way higher margin than gas. If you can keep your customer for 30 minutes right next to a convenience store, you will definitively get more money than just the 5ish minutes a pump takes. Truth is the gas economy does not want to facilitate the end of gas. Governments love to regulate everything - they should be requiring gas stations to offer EV charging
You pull into a EV station hook up to a belt similar to a car wash. Your old battery is pushed out as a new charged battery is pushed in place. 5 min later you are on your way.
NIO already does that, but the concept does not scale up. There are too many different battery formats and shapes to maximize the efficiency of the BEV.
@@Neojhunvehicle manufacturers are the service stations. The biggest problem with EV charging is range it’s the limited availability with apartments/ condos. Personally I think the whole vehicle ownership is limited. I see automated vehicles /uber businesses as the future. Most people drive a vehicle under 2 hrs day yet have a place for it and store it 12-16 hrs a day.
it totally is. my EV charging at home draws less than the clothes dryer. i charge at 120, which is plenty adequate for my needs, but even with a 240v charger it would only draw even with my dryer and central a/c. non-issue.
As someone who drives a hybrid, driving on electric power is much more enjoyable and far cheaper than driving with the gas motor. I just plug the car in at home and it charges overnight.
I love PB but if you want the voters in Alabama, a ticket with a non white woman president and a gay VP might be too much. I would love to see him as president one day though. He is absolutely brilliant. I might be wrong but my guess would be a white, straight, Lutheran, married man as VP. Preferentially an avid church goer from a swing state with 2 kids and a saintly wife who is a homemaker. :)
@@hanstun1 You're right. Though, hasn't the time come for the country to change? if not now, when? Slavery -1864. Women's voting rights - 1920. Civil rights act - 1964; time is now to have a women president, and a gay VP. 2024.
People are disappointed because they have to delay their road trips charging up. They say “it’s too early to switch to electric”. but hey are wrong, this is a narrow minded view. They’re only thinking of themselves. What about all the plumbers, electricians, air conditioning service people driving vans all over town all day? How about school and city buses, ambulances, delivery cars, taxis, police cars? Those never leave town, and can be charged up off shift.
this is the most reasonable and full-disclosure analysis i have ever heard or seen from secretary buttigieg. why can't this administration, and greenies in general, be this practical and forthcoming when discussing this and similar matters? i have a whole new perspective on ev's now. i still don't think they are the end-all and be-all to replace internal combustion vehicles, but they certainly have their place in our economy. i wish them all the success in the world, as long as it is market-driven and not government-imposed. (wow. i should post on youtube at 2:30 in the morning more often...)
He’s only true in certain ways I find these things to be quite compatible. I know our number of Sheetz gas stations that also hold Tesla superchargers next-door. I think they’re very compatible. With the Tesla charge it’s just about enough time to go inside. Use the restroom buy a soda and a bag of chips and walk back to your car and then you have to spend a couple minutes watching RUclips. You can’t do any of that while you’re filling your car because filling your car and going into the store are mutually exclusive so there’s cereal and they take just as long in the end.
What about road use taxes, which are for repairing, building, and maintaining roads? Do EVs have to pay a surcharge to augment that, like the taxes charged on a gallon of gas? What about the cost of repairing/replacing batteries in relation to the cost of repairing a gas/diesel vehicle? What are the environmental costs for mining/disposing of the materials for EV batteries?
Some alternative hybrids only use gas fuel for a generator to recharge batteries for an electric engine. This saves the cost of having 2 engines (one internal combustion, and one electric) in hybrids, while still extending the range when plugging in to recharge isn't convenient. Someday, some cars may have batteries that can be swapped out at service stations for fully charged batteries. Either way, if we don't want other countries to take over the vehicle market, our vehicles have to keep up with the global demand for EVs.
Until the under-repaired and under-capacity grid collapses. I like Pete - I don't like EVs. I teach electrical diagnostics. It would help if we trained 21st century mechanics. Can't do that with a 1950s curriculum.
if the grid collapses, the fuel stations with their electric fuel pumps will be out of luck. This is why infrastructure investment is so important, a robust grid is important of for all aspects of our lives, beyond charging our vehicles.
Jesus.. people don’t think…, what about the required infrastructure… a gas station need tanks… , charging need serious power supply (almost dedicated transformer/ sub station) to do in timely fashion … You don’t hat pull energy from a comic book Elon fans
When I had my charger installed, the electrician installed a new circuit in my existing breaker box and ran a dedicated line over to the wall closest to where I park my car then installed a, exterior NEMA-1450 plug. It was pretty darn simple and easy.
@@meanmutton The narcissism of it all…, thinking as far as ya nose eh… all about your situation. Tell me.. when half the houses in your neighbourhood double their required supply capacity, the local gas stations now require another transformer to supply those fast chargers… it is all Kw & Mw of power… which is wonderful, but it doesn’t come from thin air.. it requires vast$ on new sub stations n ditty great thick expensive HV copper cables, switch rooms etc etc, Most electrical dept around the globe are already struggling keeping the systems at capacity let alone increasing it.. It is an effective doubting of many local networks capacity EV charging.. particularly fast charging requires in high power capacity
@@meanmutton Do you think the electricity is everywhere just sitting in the ground and when they add a Mw of fadt chargers to a gas station they just push poles in the dirt.., or indeed the your local suburban power was build way the f over capacity.. just for shits n giggles… before they could have envision these kinds of power loads… Who’s buying for the 2nd most expensive part of EV infrastructure .., not the EV owners! And the most expensive part when be getting rid of the battery/ clean up of fallout People have been sold a lie.., nothing is as simple as the boyhood dreams out Elons arse
@@johnaltobello5095 He is chauffeured in a Mach-E. Look it up, Buttigieg Mach-E. "Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, clearly has a strong vision of an EV-friendly America, but he is well aware there's a bit of mental adjustment people will need to do first. Buttigieg told Car and Driver on Wednesday how much he liked the Ford Mustang Mach-E EV his security detail was just issued, and noted that, along with the keys, they were handed a gas card-standard issue for a government vehicle. "I love the fact that we’re never going to have to use that gas card," he said. "Unlike with gas, we can fill it up right here in the basement at DOT headquarters."
I can’t “fuel” my car at home. I don’t own a home with a garage. That would take an income many fold higher than mine. My apartment complex is small and full of working poor like me. We’re not getting any EV stations any time soon. Note, not all Americans are comfortably well-off suburbanites. A way-too-common mistake made by Democrats 😑.
so push for better public transport so you don't need the clunker of a car anyways, how much are you spending on gas, oil changes, battery replacement, belts etc.??
Bizarre how he literally addressed that the government is working hard to expand charging to apartment complexes and workplaces. He literally is working to address your problems and trying to fix it but you ignored it. It's a way-too-common mistake made by working class voters who vote Republicans.
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Imagine getting a response this nuanced from literally any other modern politician with a national profile.
No hyperbole, no lies, just nuance and clear explanation.
That’s why Congress is awful at regulating technology. Most politicians don’t understand it at all!!!
Methinks that you are confusing "nuanced" with "idiotic"
@@markphillips898 methinks that you are confusing an insult for an argument.
Now let's ask him about who mines the Cobalt, and the environmental disaster of the lithium fields. I'm sure it will be very nuanced.
I've had an EV for 7 years. I've fast charged it at a public charger 4 times in 7 years. Really how often do you go more than 250 miles?
I leave every morning with a "full tank". So the time I am inconvenienced by charging is 5 seconds when I get home and plug in and 5 seconds in the morning when I unplug to go to work. The actual charge time I am sleeping.
When I travel, the charge stops are about 15 minutes which is about the time needed for stretch and restroom breaks. I can do those while it charges. But filling with gas, I have to do those things AND THEN go fill it up while the family sits in the car twiddling their thumbs. Full disclosure, I would estimate my total stop time on a BEV trip is about 1/2 hour longer per day on trips. So it is a minor inconvenience. However, in many cases, the chargers are located in places with healthier food so it is a win as I don't have to make one stop to charge and another to eat.
Finally, total time screwing around with all care and feeding is dramatically less with a BEV. No oil changes, far less brake work and rare inconvenience related to "fuel". So all in all, BEV is way more convenient than ICE.
Absolutely. You've hit several nails on the head, very clearly and I'm surprised Pete didn't say the same.
My wife has an EV. She works 6 miles from home. She is thrilled that she never has to go to the gas station. With other running around thrown in, we do a full charge (almost) every couple of weeks.
With modern EVs with 250 miles or more range. If your wife worked 60 miles from home it would still work great. As a return trip is just half the range.
Food for thought - you can extend the life of the battery by actually charging a small amount more regularly.
EG the battery will maintain its maximum capacity for longer if you’re regularly charging from 55% to 75%, rather than doing a big charge from 25% to 100% irregularly.
Then again if you’re on a 2 year lease, fuck it do whatever lol
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A dennys near me has the entire perimeter of the parking lot as EV chargers. Can’t think of a better business for it.
He's going to be the US President some day. Mark my words.
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Your lips to God's ears.
My friend Mark once stole my dictionary. I told him "Mark, my words"
Word.
I hope so, I really do. But remember; he's gay. On the other hand, Obama is black and he was elected. Perhaps, some day a woman is elected. Who knows.
So this would fit more for parking lots at large shopping areas restaurant downtown walk areas theme parks movie theaters etc etc etc. Places where you plan to park and leave your car for a couple of hours. And the ones who figured that out are going to make a lot of money
The problem is that for high speed charging we really don't want people parking and leaving their car for a couple of hours. We want people to plug in and get charged up to about 80-90% and then move their car so someone else can charge it. For most newer cars this can work out to about 20-40 mins. About enough time for someone to get food and eat and use the bathroom at a typical fast food place.
The ones who figure that out, also have to determine how to bring an industrial sized electrical installation into an already built shopping center, and which charging standard to go with. If they get it right though they could certainly make a lot of money.
At your workplace is the ideal for people who can't charge overnight - park your car in the morning, swipe your company ID card to tell the charger who you are, plug in the slow charger, and go to work. Get billed by your company at cost for the electricity you consume at the end of the month. Or companies could offer it for free as a company perk.
There's an assumption that everything needs to be "fast" whereas lots of "slow" works just as well. And the added benefit of slow chargers is that they don't require huge investment in additional electrical installations.
@@SDGreg buddy, wireless charging exists...
@NNFaNRacing I don't know that it's bringing in electricity on the scale you're thinking. There are charging facilities at several shopping centers where I live and more going in. The space taken is minimal, you only lose a couple of feet of the length of a parking space for the unit, unless they're sited on the periphery of the parking area. Then no space is lost.
Just from a fundamental engineering perspective, EV charging infrastructure is much simpler and safer than liquid fuels infrastructure. Mounting a glorified transformer and hooking it up to the electrical grid is simple and can be done almost anywhere. Getting liquid fuels from a refinery, and then safely transporting them, storing them underground and pumping them into vehicles takes a lot of sophisticated construction and equipment and large numbers of truck drivers, pump inspectors, hell, even store clerks. It's really inefficient.
The whole argument wouldn't make any sense except that there's a large liquid fuels infrastructure already in place.
So you change your convenience store / rest stop very slightly to the more European model - where they have seats and bathrooms and whatnot - so patrons can sit for 30 minutes, have a cuppa, and head off on their way.
FWIW, Sheetz already is set up for this, as are Royal Farms and likely several other brands. (Buccee's?)
Actually… the "wait time" to recharge an EV is shrinking exponentially. I've driven from Utah to the east coast and back, and the average time it took to charge throughout that trip was… 21 minutes. Just about perfect to visit the restroom, buy a drink or snacks, wash the bugs off the windshield. Surely drivers of gas cars do the same -unless they're a new Marvel Superhero: "Bladderman"!
perfectly said. Once this mindset kicks in the battle is over Kodos Kodos
21 minutes ? How many 21 minute stops ? 30 ? That's 5 1/2 hours both ways . Unacceptable Sparky. Try again.......................................................................................Titties!
I have done trips from PA to Florida multiple times. It's just about learning what is different. The car will charge faster the less charge it actually has and slow down as the battery fills up. So instead of charging to full every time you stop, you charge with enough to get you to the next stop with about 15% battery to be safe. This allows you to charge faster, you have more stops, but they much quicker. And the car does all the calculating for you, you don't even have to think about it.
Charging stations need to be set up in the parking lots of barber shops and salons if there is enough space.
Need More low power DC Chargers around the 40 - 50kW range at location where people already visit and park. The main goal is to have many of those units as possible not just a handful.
Great idea!
We charge our car dinner time at a shopping center, plug in, go eat, unplug, go.
Nice excuse to go out for a meal.
Pete get them to install bathrooms at the charging station, when they don't people go outside and that creates a big mess.
A better location for EV chargers than gas stations is restaurants and supermarkets. These are places that you do spend 30 minutes to an hour at once a week, if you are unable to charge at home that is. The only downside to this is getting the power to the chargers which could be offset with solar canopies and battery storage. It's all about cost
My Kroger has two new chargers in the parking lot right up front. They are well used. I think we’ll see more of this.
Honestly, the only times I ever charge somewhere other than home, my ideal spot is a gas station with a built-in fast food restaurant. If I'm hungry, I can grab a snack or grab a meal and get back on the road. Anywhere else is less convenient.
"The only downside to this is getting the power to the chargers which could be offset with solar canopies and battery storage. It's all about cost".
Yet most every home the country has hydro so how would it be so hard put in the infrastructure for hydro? It's not like we have to truck it in? We just have to hang new wires off a few existing poles and poof! An EV charging station. BTW. You can deliver very high voltages with low current over relatively thin wires ( wire size depends on current capacity not voltage, think of those high tension towers that cross the country. High voltage, Low current. ), use a transformer to change that high voltage/low current to a low voltage and higher current. Happens all the time. It's simple electrical theory.
I'm not a fan of EVs, but I'm surprised restaurants don't have charging stations off to the side. You can plug in, go in and eat, then be ready to continue when you're done. They could be turned on when you told the restaurant where you're parked.
I would not have gotten an electric if I could not charge it at home. Right now, I only have the 110 volt charger and it's really slow. But it's fine to leave it plugged in overnight in the garage.
I like the idea of chargers at restaurants and movies where you'd spend a couple hours.
Having an electric car is like having a gasoline car, where it is magically 70% filled with gas every morning. On days where that is not enough, which is about 3 times per year, I have to wait longer at a "gas station" than I did before, by about triple.
Where did you get 70% from? Why not 100% every morning?
You could charge to 100% every morning. But it wears the battery down to do so over time, and it’s almost never necessary for most daily driving needs.
I only charge it to 100% when I have a road trip planned.
Having an electric car is like driving a bad idea around and pretending it’s a good one
@@mcrap7759hahaha. That’s fucking dumb. Also fast charging hurts batteries. Also cold kills batteries. Also we don’t have the infrastructure for EVs at scale. Also we don’t have the raw materials.
So this big push has been a massive waste of resources pushed into a dead end
@@eclark9965 Do you like being jerked around by big energy companies?
He's only been transportation secretary for a couple years but you can ask him about airlines or EV fast chargers and he not only knows more than you do, more than your friends do, and more than your friends' friends do, he can explain it better than anybody else as well, and do it in less than two minutes.
What's his biggest accomplishment since being picked? In your opinion.
@@JamesSalie I'll make the bad assumption that you're asking that question in good faith and among the dozens of answers I could give I'll say making a serious dent in airline malpractice by bringing attention and serious consequences to violations of existing regulations on airline performance standards.
What say you?
you are listening to a future president of the US
Maybe they should make the batteries changeable. You don’t bring your grill to get refilled, just the tank. Just a thought.
Cars aren't the future anyways. Are there going to be cars in the future-- of course. But bicycles and trains will get a higher mode share than it gets today in the United States. How do I know this? Because we simply can't afford to maintain all the roads we've already built. Our development pattern of strip malls and suburbs is not sustainable. It costs more to the municipality to maintain than it brings in with tax revenue. In the future cities will need to adopt micromobility and rapid public transit. Cities will also need to be denser which makes it easier to walk. Electric cars are better than gas cars but good policy looks like lessening our subsidy to cars.
Most gas stations are in urban areas where there are thousands of other possible sites for charging, including at home.
EV drivers don't typically go somewhere to charge as they would in an ICE vehicle.
We charge mostly at home when we are sleeping. We might charge while parked at the mall, at a restaurant, or any number of places where we charge while doing other things.
Even on the highway, we charge while using the facilities and grabbing a coffee.
Pete Buttigieg is incredibly smart and insightful. People should really get over their issues and vote for him if he runs for President again...
trump recently repeated the "charger is a gas pump" thing. The challenge is installing chargers at Apartments as the prices for EVs drop. I have a 60A/240V circuit in my house for my Tesla and can charge up to 48 amps. I schedule the charging at night and the car is always ready in the morning. So I never go to a gas station and pay about a quarter of what my gasolene costs would have been. It only takes a couple of seconds to plug in or un plug. The time, effort, filth, fumes, crime, and the weather are not issues in my garage.
The irony is that I spent hours of time and too much money at gas stations and people think you waste time charging....
Really that makes no sense. Stuff from the convenience store has way higher margin than gas. If you can keep your customer for 30 minutes right next to a convenience store, you will definitively get more money than just the 5ish minutes a pump takes.
Truth is the gas economy does not want to facilitate the end of gas.
Governments love to regulate everything - they should be requiring gas stations to offer EV charging
You pull into a EV station hook up to a belt similar to a car wash. Your old battery is pushed out as a new charged battery is pushed in place. 5 min later you are on your way.
NIO already does that, but the concept does not scale up. There are too many different battery formats and shapes to maximize the efficiency of the BEV.
@@Neojhunvehicle manufacturers are the service stations.
The biggest problem with EV charging is range it’s the limited availability with apartments/ condos.
Personally I think the whole vehicle ownership is limited. I see automated vehicles /uber businesses as the future. Most people drive a vehicle under 2 hrs day yet have a place for it and store it 12-16 hrs a day.
Our grid is not set up for every home to have an electric charger for an automobile.
it totally is. my EV charging at home draws less than the clothes dryer. i charge at 120, which is plenty adequate for my needs, but even with a 240v charger it would only draw even with my dryer and central a/c. non-issue.
The music is annoying.
As someone who drives a hybrid, driving on electric power is much more enjoyable and far cheaper than driving with the gas motor. I just plug the car in at home and it charges overnight.
why is this guy not VP nominee already?
Too many homophobes in this country
I love PB but if you want the voters in Alabama, a ticket with a non white woman president and a gay VP might be too much. I would love to see him as president one day though. He is absolutely brilliant. I might be wrong but my guess would be a white, straight, Lutheran, married man as VP. Preferentially an avid church goer from a swing state with 2 kids and a saintly wife who is a homemaker. :)
One day President, hopefully
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@@hanstun1 You're right. Though, hasn't the time come for the country to change? if not now, when? Slavery -1864. Women's voting rights - 1920. Civil rights act - 1964; time is now to have a women president, and a gay VP. 2024.
People are disappointed because they have to delay their road trips charging up. They say “it’s too early to switch to electric”. but hey are wrong, this is a narrow minded view. They’re only thinking of themselves.
What about all the plumbers, electricians, air conditioning service people driving vans all over town all day? How about school and city buses, ambulances, delivery cars, taxis, police cars? Those never leave town, and can be charged up off shift.
Every quick fuel stop is effectively an overnight truck stop. QT, 7/11, and whoever else needs to add showers for the overburden of wait times.
I like the gogoro model.
Pete has explanations and answers but never denigrates the subject or participants.
this is the most reasonable and full-disclosure analysis i have ever heard or seen from secretary buttigieg. why can't this administration, and greenies in general, be this practical and forthcoming when discussing this and similar matters? i have a whole new perspective on ev's now. i still don't think they are the end-all and be-all to replace internal combustion vehicles, but they certainly have their place in our economy. i wish them all the success in the world, as long as it is market-driven and not government-imposed. (wow. i should post on youtube at 2:30 in the morning more often...)
He’s only true in certain ways I find these things to be quite compatible. I know our number of Sheetz gas stations that also hold Tesla superchargers next-door. I think they’re very compatible. With the Tesla charge it’s just about enough time to go inside. Use the restroom buy a soda and a bag of chips and walk back to your car and then you have to spend a couple minutes watching RUclips. You can’t do any of that while you’re filling your car because filling your car and going into the store are mutually exclusive so there’s cereal and they take just as long in the end.
Whore Houses with charging stations the answer?
What about road use taxes, which are for repairing, building, and maintaining roads? Do EVs have to pay a surcharge to augment that, like the taxes charged on a gallon of gas?
What about the cost of repairing/replacing batteries in relation to the cost of repairing a gas/diesel vehicle? What are the environmental costs for mining/disposing of the materials for EV batteries?
A little disappointed that he did not get picked for Vp. This guy is smart and he not afraid to lead
Can someone please explain to me how being Mayor of South Bend, Indiana qualifies one to be Secretary of Transportation?
Because he’s really smart, really articulate, and has his head on straight and his heart in the right place. Next question.
2032, here we come, baby.
Some alternative hybrids only use gas fuel for a generator to recharge batteries for an electric engine. This saves the cost of having 2 engines (one internal combustion, and one electric) in hybrids, while still extending the range when plugging in to recharge isn't convenient. Someday, some cars may have batteries that can be swapped out at service stations for fully charged batteries.
Either way, if we don't want other countries to take over the vehicle market, our vehicles have to keep up with the global demand for EVs.
Revenue potential per hour is dramatically lower.
How was this even a realistic question to begin with?
How many million for 2 ev chargers? 🔌
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Until the under-repaired and under-capacity grid collapses. I like Pete - I don't like EVs. I teach electrical diagnostics. It would help if we trained 21st century mechanics. Can't do that with a 1950s curriculum.
if the grid collapses, the fuel stations with their electric fuel pumps will be out of luck. This is why infrastructure investment is so important, a robust grid is important of for all aspects of our lives, beyond charging our vehicles.
My EV charger draws less electricity than my home AC and operates when the AC doesn't.
😂😂😂
Stupid is as stupid does.
Just a guess, but I will bet that the corporations that manufacture the components for electric vehicles are big contributors to the Democrat Party.
And then there’s Elon Musk.
Elon Musk who owns Tesla supports Trump.
Captain Obvious.
Jesus.. people don’t think…, what about the required infrastructure… a gas station need tanks… , charging need serious power supply (almost dedicated transformer/ sub station) to do in timely fashion …
You don’t hat pull energy from a comic book Elon fans
When I had my charger installed, the electrician installed a new circuit in my existing breaker box and ran a dedicated line over to the wall closest to where I park my car then installed a, exterior NEMA-1450 plug. It was pretty darn simple and easy.
@@meanmutton
The narcissism of it all…, thinking as far as ya nose eh… all about your situation.
Tell me.. when half the houses in your neighbourhood double their required supply capacity, the local gas stations now require another transformer to supply those fast chargers… it is all Kw & Mw of power… which is wonderful, but it doesn’t come from thin air..
it requires vast$ on new sub stations n ditty great thick expensive HV copper cables, switch rooms etc etc,
Most electrical dept around the globe are already struggling keeping the systems at capacity let alone increasing it..
It is an effective doubting of many local networks capacity EV charging.. particularly fast charging requires in high power capacity
@@meanmutton
Perhaps you can ask what a metre of HV cable for a sub station supply costs, or the transmission or transformer, switching gear costs
@@meanmutton
Do you think the electricity is everywhere just sitting in the ground and when they add a Mw of fadt chargers to a gas station they just push poles in the dirt.., or indeed the your local suburban power was build way the f over capacity.. just for shits n giggles… before they could have envision these kinds of power loads…
Who’s buying for the 2nd most expensive part of EV infrastructure .., not the EV owners!
And the most expensive part when be getting rid of the battery/ clean up of fallout
People have been sold a lie.., nothing is as simple as the boyhood dreams out Elons arse
How's he get to work everyday?
A Mustang Mach-E. Why?
@@SDGreg electric vehicle?doubt it..he's chauffeured..
@@johnaltobello5095 He is chauffeured in a Mach-E. Look it up, Buttigieg Mach-E.
"Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, clearly has a strong vision of an EV-friendly America, but he is well aware there's a bit of mental adjustment people will need to do first. Buttigieg told Car and Driver on Wednesday how much he liked the Ford Mustang Mach-E EV his security detail was just issued, and noted that, along with the keys, they were handed a gas card-standard issue for a government vehicle. "I love the fact that we’re never going to have to use that gas card," he said. "Unlike with gas, we can fill it up right here in the basement at DOT headquarters."
Lots of double talk. There's only one reason Uncle Joe made this guy transportation secretary and it sure wasn't his transportation experience.
Why do you think this is "double talk"? Because he said that EVs charging has both pros and cons compared to gas?
I can’t “fuel” my car at home. I don’t own a home with a garage. That would take an income many fold higher than mine. My apartment complex is small and full of working poor like me. We’re not getting any EV stations any time soon. Note, not all Americans are comfortably well-off suburbanites. A way-too-common mistake made by Democrats 😑.
The same for cars when they first came out. Many people could only afford a horse.
He said in the video they are working on getting more charges in apartments
so push for better public transport so you don't need the clunker of a car anyways, how much are you spending on gas, oil changes, battery replacement, belts etc.??
Bizarre how he literally addressed that the government is working hard to expand charging to apartment complexes and workplaces. He literally is working to address your problems and trying to fix it but you ignored it. It's a way-too-common mistake made by working class voters who vote Republicans.
He is clueless on reality. I am dumber for listening to that nonesense.
How so? Nothing he said was not true.
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@@DaleMeese i have no idea what you mean
Word salad
This is not a word salad. It's extremely well articulated. I'm sorry if you don't understand, but that's on you.
Attempt to explain but try to use logic
@@interpaq
The new buzz phrase used in an attempt to disqualify an argument when you can’t respond adequately. Previously presented as “talk to the hand” etc.