Electric cars

[HDRKID]

TAKEN FROM GM’s Strike Is About UAW Leadership’s Grasp For Relevance, Not A Nonexistent Shift To Electric Cars

Here’s the problem with GM’s switch to electric cars (BEVs,) though: nobody is buying them. Combined sales of the Chevy Bolt and Volt totaled 17,551 units in the first 9 months of 2019, down from 25,050 units in the same period in 2018. Combined sales of the Volt and Bolt represented 0.8% of GM’s U.S. deliveries in the first nine months of 2019.

 

[Mayhem]

Some weeks ago in the USA a Police car being electric had to abandon a chase as it needed a charge.

 

[PaulaJedi]

Electric cars catch on fire when they crash. There are too many cases to list here. Just Google it.

 

[Num7]

Electric cars are awesome, but I can't see myself driving one during a snow storm on the highway...

Or in heavy traffic during the winter. What if I run out of juice in the traffic?

 

[Einstein]

Electric cars are awesome, but I can't see myself driving one during a snow storm on the highway...

Or in heavy traffic during the winter. What if I run out of juice in the traffic?

Electric cars don't work in freezing weather. The batteries need warmer climates to function. Of course I suppose they could incorporate battery heaters in the colder climate areas.

 

[Num7]

I wonder how much battery power such heaters would drain. Would the car need to be plugged in, in order for the heater not to drain the battery too fast?

 

[Einstein]

I wonder how much battery power such heaters would drain. Would the car need to be plugged in, in order for the heater not to drain the battery too fast?

I think it would definitely reduce your overall mileage per charge. Just remember a cold climate electric vehicle would be an option. Probably an additional $10,000. Although the battery would probably be insulated to reduce heat loss. I might point out that currenty the batteries use a coolant system to keep them from overheating. So some type of temperature regulating system would have to be developed for cold climate operation.

 

[HDRKID]

TAKE FROM It’s 2020. Where are our self-driving cars?

When it comes to self-driving cars, the future was supposed to be now.

In 2020, you’ll be a “permanent backseat driver,” the Guardian predicted in 2015. “10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020,” blared a Business Insider headline from 2016. Those declarations were accompanied by announcements from General Motors, Google’s Waymo, Toyota, and Honda that they’d be making self-driving cars by 2020. Elon Musk forecast that Tesla would do it by 2018 — and then, when that failed, by 2020.

But the year is here — and the self-driving cars aren’t.

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Self-driving cars were supposed to be common now. Futurists will no doubt blame corona virus. That is what I suppose. That said, we do wonder why we do not have a future filled with self-driving electric cars. OK, so last week I saw $ 1.37-gallon gas. Hey, that could be one reason.

 

[Mahadragon]

I myself would never get into an electric car self-driving cars anything like that, these things are all ran by computers okay so sit there and think about it. We see how computers get glitches at times they fly out or even better yet how easily hacked they can be so electric cars run on energy and computers we already seen that some hackers have been already able to hack cars with computers in it so say you're driving down the road you're like oh 3 400 miles from nowhere you ran out of electricity to run it yeah same thing can be said for gas but at least you can run on gas fumes.

What electric car has been hacked by hackers and what exactly did they do to compromise the car?