The Chinese are pushing sales of electric cars. To keep down the traffic in their biggest cities, they conduct license plate lotteries. Out of millions of hopeful car owners, only a few tens of thousands get plates. Unless it's an electric car, electric cars get plates immediately. And, the Brits and the Euro's are talking about the same thing, everybody drives an electric by 2040. Yesterday GM and Ford made similar noises over here. GM has actually made and sold electrics for twenty years now, abet not many of 'em.
Is this really the wave of the future?
Not for me. The best electrics only go 200 miles on a charge, most of 'em are worse, like 100 miles. I regularly drive 400 miles down to see my daughter, my new grandson, and my son-in-law, who is a perfectly nice and decent guy, but I am a little closer to my daughter than my son-in-law. My Buick will make the trip on a single tank of gas. A best electric would have to recharge once, the lesser electrics would have to recharge three times. Even with a high powered 440 volt charger, it takes two hours to get a charge. Lesser 220 volt home chargers take all night. I don't want to spend two hours waiting on a charger, and turning a 10 hour trip into a 12 hour trip. I'm sticking with 87 octane gas engines.
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