My electric coop put in 2 fast charging stations at their office property. The stations are available to anyone. The coop charges 20 cents a minute and a full charge is supposed to take an hour. Not sure about how temps effect this. Teslas supposedly heat the battery before it starts to charge.
The coop thinks it will help spread generation costs over a larger user base by having charging stations. The coop BoD is on the green side so I suspect they are selling the power on the cheap side.

I had an appointment with a customer last Friday. He rolled up in a new Tesla. I had to ask him how it did in the cold temps we were having. It was -12 when he arrived. He said the car was fully charged @ 388 KWH when he left home. When he arrived at the other property, he had 18 KWH left in the battery. This was a loaner, his Tesla had been towed in to the dealer the day before for mechanical problems. Anyway, he said he could fully charge in 2 hours with a 220V adapter plug and more than 8 hours were required for a standard 110V outlet. He also said, in decent weather, he could get 1 mile/3 KWHs. He did the math on his trip Friday and it required 5+ KWHs/mile. His car was, pretty much, dead after 65 miles. Kind of funny because he left his charging cord at home and his wife had to drive her electric car up, then the were going to have to wait 4 hours to get both cars changed for the return trip home.

I guess it is human nature to resist change, but I feel like some people are hoping the EV industry will fail! Some of the same individuals are also hoping the Covid vaccines will fail. Go figure.

Apparently you are a bad boy, Gary.

In both cases, the resistance lies with being forced to accept it. Remains to see if the EV industry will fail. Vaccine is already there.

we aren't resisting "change".

let the market-place decide the pace of new technology; not some dumb mass government "official" mandating arbitrary deadlines.

Dirt, you are correct about that. Here’s the thing: I don’t know squat about EVs and neither does anyone on here. However, you and I are the only ones that can look this stuff up. White can too. Just to prove my google-fu here’s another one:



Gare-bear, good to hear from you! I thought you had left this conversation but you did find something to add. Good on you! However, a quick search of the internet shows that they want 50% of the new vehicles sold to be EV by 2030. Quite the far cry from what you had stated above. It was probably simple extrapolation let you think 50%=100% and from there your imagination really went wild. It happens! Just try calming down you emotions, think more clearly and I’m sure you’ll be hammering out actual facts in no time.

marlin - I agree about the market vs. the government.

Build them both and let consumers make up there own mind.

There's a place for them. But not everywhere.

No room here for physics and engineering....

Nobody wants to hear that!

Actually, I would prefer to drive an electric car. Quiet, less stink and more responsive than a gasser. That's why I was quizzing this fella. My problem is, I have to drive 100-300 miles per day for work. Rain, shine, snow, cold or hot. I could not do my job with any electric car manufactured thus far. Like White said, if it's viable, the market will figure it out. Sick of the stupid mandates!

Sometimes common sense prevails.

I noticed that.

Don't be using those big words. I'm just a common sense guy! Not college edumacated.

There. You. Go. !!!

Without subsidies.

The ev is a failure for me. I have over 100 mile trip to work own a farm and require my vehical to be reliable.

Your other topic is a failer as well. Every week more people I know that are getting covid also had their shots.

It appears to be 50KW charger. $12 for 50KWH . Fairbanks cold. We will go with the 5KWH per mile. You get 10 miles for $12. Gas in Fairbanks is about $3.75 a gallon. We will figure 20 miles per gallon For $12 in gas you will get 64 miles. I would stay with the gas.

"The Alaska Energy Authority ( the State) recently announced the award of grants totaling $1 million to help Railbelt businesses and other entities install electric vehicle chargers. The nine grant recipients ranged from the Chamber of Commerce in Seward to the Three Bears grocery store in Healy."

Interesting. So that comes out to $0.016 miles per charge add to that what is 30 minutes of your time(personal or business) worth? Even at $12 hr that' comes $6.016 per charge plus sitting for 30 minutes at the station.