We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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Everything new… is a step backward;

[Henry] Payne, an auto critic for the Detroit News, set out to travel from Detroit to Charlevoix, Michigan. His trip was to be around 280 miles, and he was driving a new 2022 F-250 Lightning EV.

Payne wrote that he charged the truck to a full 100 percent charge ahead of the trip, and that the manufacturer claimed that a full charge should have allowed him to travel the whole distance without another charge.

I won’t spoil the ending.

Oh, nevermind.

But it wasn’t even close.

Payne wrote that as he sat at his third charging station of the day, another driver asked what sort of mileage he was getting on his roughly $93,000 EV truck.

Read the rest, it gets better.

h/t roaddog

47 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”

  1. The Smart Set love the latest new thing and the more expensive the more superior they feel. Electric vehicles and especially heavy duty ones reaffirm that old adage B.S. baffles brains.

    1. Can we call that generator thing in the back, a “slip-tank” just like in olden-times?
      Or maybe just add a shit-load of batteries in the back?
      Kind of reduces the load hauling, but hey we are saving the planet!!

  3. 450 km without a diesel generator in the back of the truck, How stupid.
    Some people forget, must be a journalist? Diesel fuel only cost about $8 a gallon, but they’re going to be running out of Nationwide diesel in about 18 days so as long as you don’t plan on staying longer than 2 weeks you’ll get back just fine.

    Dummies just don’t plan ahead anymore??
    Do They??

  4. I try to learn from other’s mistakes. Others insist on learning via their own mistakes.
    I prefer my way as I’ve no skin in the game which means I am not biased against the learning.

    Many EV drivers cannot admit they made a mistake, the learning is therefore some distance off……

    1. Many EV drivers are brain-dead Progs who, as I noted yesterday, are immune to reason.

      Let ’em freeze in the cold in the dark in the middle of nowhere whilst dancing to their Gang Green pagan god, Globull Warming, all the while praying for the battery to ignite and the resulting bonfire will afford some heat.

      Fug ’em.

  5. TBF … his trip included a 45 min. construction delay, which doesn’t EXCUSE the awful range of most all EV’s … but actually is just the kind of thing that will lead to our roadways being littered with dead EV’s … traffic. Get stuck in traffic and your EV may not make it to the next charging station. And just imagine if that happens in harsh, cold, weather? Yes, there could be some dead EV drivers.

    And it’s one thing to get stuck in traffic when you’ve left home with a 100% charge … but what if you’re stuck in traffic after “topping up” (far less than 100%) at a charging station? Nobody is sitting at a charging station getting their battery up to 100%. If they were, there would NEVER be a spot available to charge. So … the risk of traffic delays after a charge station are critical.

    What a waste of time and money.

    1. a 45 minute construction delay, I bet he didn’t turn off the heat and the audio system while sitting there waiting…

    2. Kenji,
      Dead people?
      England is expected, Prophesied, to have at least 10,000 deaths this year due to Environmental freezing, Environmental Warming is just not working out.
      How many deaths in the
      European Union, I have no idea?
      CANADIAN, USA?

        1. Followed by ground penetrating radar? Someone has to profit from the mass grave industrial complex

  6. A 1921 Detroit Electric went 211.3 miles on a single charge in the 1920s, after 100 years of development, a 2022 Ford Lightning went 170 miles…

    /oops

      1. In ’21 they were likely 6 volt.

        Just for shits & giggles, I looked it up. Fourteen six volt lead acid batteries. Apparently you could upgrade to “higher quality Edison nickel-iron batteries” for an additional 600 bucks.

  7. If people really really really must have an electric car to feel good about themselves or whatever, the only answer seems to be that you should get a hybrid. These charging stations can’t keep up with demand when there are almost no electric vehicles, so it is only going to get worse.
    Thankful that I will probably be dead before they can force me to drive an electric of any kind.

    1. getting a hybrid means the idiots can’t no longer lord over you with the “zero emissions” mantra

  8. Now do the trip in the winter, in a snowstorm.

    When all Biden’s solar panels are covered with snow.

    And the road isn’t plowed, because the electric snow plows are waiting for a charge.

    1. The Winds of Change are Blowing – Into an Empty Box Canyon
      Brilliant, Joe. Dead snowplows in winter. Love it.

      Friend of mine was visiting one of the haul truck OEMs recently, and they told him a bit about the electric truck(s) they are developing. Anybody with even a lick of sense knows that makes utterly no sense, pragmatically. They informed him that they “had no choice.” Those are going to make some incredible bonfires, when they go up. “I love the smell of burning lithium in the morning.”

      I had hoped that at some point along the way, one of the grownups in any one of a number of vehicle manufacturers would have pushed back from the conference table of geniuses, stood and said “This is all nonsense, and needs to stop right now,” but they have apparently retired all the old, belligerent, intelligent fellows.

      We are developing an entire generation of vehicles whose primary task is to consume vast amounts of energy by driving thousand pound batteries around the community. And no Moore’s Law beckons, because that principle simply does not apply to battery technology.

      It wouldn’t be nearly so tragic, if the Gretanistas were even close to being right about the “existential threat” posed by Global Warming, but they’re not even close on that great conjecture. The monkeys banging on at the typewriters WILL recreate the entire works of The Bard before our allegedly warming climate actually threatens human life.

      Groupthink is a terrible thing, and the avalanche approaches ever nearer to the cliff.

      2. roaddog, we have developed a generation of brain dead morons and this would be the end result.

  9. My neighbor just bought a Ford SUV EV. He really likes it, but admits that it is strictly a commuting vehicle. It needs to be in his garage every night hooked up to his $1000 charger.

    He will also be trading it yearly. He does not want to take any chances with the battery once off warranty (160,000 km) or anywhere near the warranty expiration.

    1. Just wait until the home owners’ insurance company finds out he parks it inside. His premiums will triple.

        2. Insufficient data for the actuaries at this point. Years ago, one could install a wood stove with virtually no extra premiums. Since then, insurance companies have accumulated sufficient data to regard wood heating as a big problem. Now, there are so many hoops to jump through that it’s scarcely worth it.

          The fire hazard from these batteries is exceptional. Having one in your attached garage would consume the house in minutes. It won’t take many fires before your insurance company demands a concrete garage.

          1. “Now, there are so many hoops to jump through that it’s scarcely worth it.”

            Our wood burning stove costs us an additional $600 yearly on our house policy. In addition, the installation must meet code. No way we get enough use out of it to offset the premium. It’s nice in the winter time & when the power goes out.

  11. Electric cars or any other electric machinery is such a good idea.
    Except when it comes to the supply of power.
    One would think that, that is why they quit making electric cars century ago.
    The only thing that changed since then is the availability of electric power. There is plenty of it, heh…, from fossils, as much as they would like to tell everyone that it’s from wind and solar.
    Ain’t that a shame?

  12. The EVs are mostly toys for the urban rich, used for urban commutes and virtue signaling (perhaps not in that order). Most if not all have ICE vehicles for practical use beyond the commute. Given their massive batteries, they should be renamed battery cars. Hybrids have much smaller batteries and with dynamic breaking, they make way more sense than battery cars. One can buy a barely used and dependable ICE vehicle for the cost of a replacement battery for an battery car.

  14. I have no problem with EVs, as long as I’m not legislated into using them. If you buy in to this ‘technology’ you earn the consequences. Apparently the ‘Powers That Be’ want to legitimize stupidity.

  15. I agree with another poster who said several days ago ” Quit calling them ‘electric’ cars and trucks. Call them ‘battery powered’ or ‘battery’ vehicles”. A)..Because that’s what they are and more importantly B) Calling them battery powered instead of electric takes away some of the self righteous pride that the owners have in their purchase. It knocks their ego down a few rungs. It’s a vehicle with a rechargeable battery…that’s it.

  16. Back up that truck…
    And get on the electric bus.
    In the winter.
    But it’s crammed full because ICE cars are now illegal and battery cars are too expensive due to a lack of battery material.
    The next one is crammed full because not all of them could be charged overnight because the electrical supply from solar and windmills is spotty and large storage is…limited.
    So take the next bus that isn’t coming for an hour.
    (Sorry, the train system is down completely.)
    So work from home…

    But I don’t have that kind of job and if I did, the power’s out there anyway.

    “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.”

  17. The weather today in Southern Ontario is exactly the same it was 37 years ago. Sunny and 20 C. I remember because I got engaged the night before and spent Nov. 1, 1985 in Niagara Falls.

  18. Have you brought the manufacturers up on charges of false advertising? No? Then you deserve what happened to you.

    Coward.

  20. Ford has squandered the reputation of both the Lightning and the Mustang brands with these hideous creations. I’m old enough to remember when a true Lightning could give my true Mustang a real challenge at a traffic light.

  21. Toy cars are also run on batteries but I’m sure the eco-pious would never make that connection.

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