This is just too funny
Around 24 Tesla owners were waiting to charge in a Waitrose car park in the village of South Mimms, Hertfordshire, on December 25.
A second added: 'We need more superchargers. I love Tesla, but this country is not up to standards if they want total electricity!'
A third said: 'New Tesla owner and I’m super disappointed with the charging lark. Nobody told me that a winter charge would barely achieve half the performance.
MailOnline analysis also reveals that there is a growing North-South divide, with southerners having access to more than twice as many charging points.
London and the south-east of England have better access to public chargers than poorer parts of the UK, although many electric car owners likely also rely on private chargers at their homes.
Separate data shows one connection for every 30 electric cars in the South but one for every 50 in the North.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11579649/Tesla-owners-blast-Christmas-car-charging-chaos-dozens-forced-wait-THREE-HOUR-queues.html
Well, what can I say? If you’re going to save the planet and prevent nasty weather you’ve got to expect a few inconveniences! Me? I’m not at all bothered by a non-existent climate crisis or allegedly ‘lethal’ exhaust emissions. I live ‘oop north’ and drive a beat up old Skoda diesel with a superb, efficient, low emission Volkswagen engine, which cost me £100, whose heater works, which does 50 miles to the gallon on a long run and which I filled up over Christmas in less than 5 minutes. My old Skoda’s carbon footprint over the time I’ve had it is probably a fraction of your average Tesla. The choice was, let the dogs trash the Skoda, or let them trash a £50k new Tesla which can only be used in nice weather!
EV drivers aren’t aware that all the electric motors driving the wheels form a perfect intense electromagnetic field to surround them. The downside is never discussed. Also if it catches fire, they stil haven’t worked out how to put fires out.
I have an old diesel too and it gets upper 40's mpg on long runs. I don't do many miles per year (~4K) mostly on long runs but the climate crazies still have it in for me. I read that EVs are something like 1/3 heavier than their combustion equivalents (they carry around a lot of AA batteries whose energy per kg is ). The energy density of petrol at around 44MJ/Kg is about 100 times higher than Li Ion batteries 0.54MJ/Kg (assuming 150Wh/Kg). They're not going to compete any time soon.
We burn gas to heat water to drive steam turbines to turn electric generators to feed step-up transformers to send electricity many miles to power step-down transformers to distribute to homes to a step-down transformer to charge EV batteries. Given there's substantial energy loss at each stage, what are we doing?