How soon will electric or hybrid vans/RVs be common?

[rruff]

StarLink is definitely not the cheapest and fastest Internet service.

Satellite internet, as I said. Prior satellite internet was more expensive and unreliable... and insanely expensive if you were a nomad. It's a huge difference.

 

[RonDean]

Some of these EV scare stories remind me that there was a time in the United Kingdom when the law required self-propelled vehicles to be led by a pedestrian waving a red flag or carrying a lantern to warn bystanders of the vehicle's approach.

*More than 46,000 people die in (personal) car crashes each year, according to the Annual United States Road Crash Statistics (ASIRT). The U.S. traffic fatality rate is 12.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
*FARS contained no fatalities in electric vehicles, and less than 0.01 % of cases in NASS/CDS and NASS/GES involved electric vehicles. The incidence of fire was lower for hybrid vehicles than the conventional fleet in all three databases.
*Travel by personal light-duty vehicles presents the greatest risk, while air, rail, and bus travel have much lower death rates.

(Data from various sources, but I can post on request. Or you can try your own searches to make sure I didn't just present biased sources.)

So...
Maybe we should outlaw all personal vehicles and take public transport or walk instead? It would certainly help the environment.

JIC it isn't obvious, I am being sarcastic.

 

[bullfrog !]

^^^not totally but I remember when only odd number license plate cars could buy fuel on certain days and even numbered plates on the days they didn’t during the fuel shortages.

 

[Frood]

^^^not totally but I remember when only odd number license plate cars could buy fuel on certain days and even numbered plates on the days they didn’t during the fuel shortages.

And you could only buy a certain number of gallons too I think... I remember as a child sitting in the van with my mom stressing out because she didn't know if she could buy enough gas to get to the grocery store and back to the house (our house was pretty rural at that time).

My previous post was referring to that post not the thread by the way. I had second thoughts about a response so edited it. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[Happy Camper]

The Christmas prior to the even odd has buying with huge lines my sister's and I got 12v 9 inch black and white TVs. I remember sitting on the hood of the car waiting in those long lines watching TV. Good times bad times rolled into one.

 

[Happy Camper]

Interesting article about how miles are driven in EV vs gas and hybrid vehicles.

New study finds electric vehicles are driven less than gas cars

Mass adoption of electric vehicles (EV) is a key part of plans to decarbonize the United States' energy system. As EV ownership in the U.S. increases, understanding how much EV owners are driving their cars informs everything from climate and energy models to U.S. policy and energy planning.

techxplore.com

 

[NctryBen]

Well, I’m glad yesterday’s battery failure was a couple of pretty new interstates… had they been new lithium’s in an EV I’d really be in trouble stranded out in the rhubarb!

 

[Happy Camper]

Well, I’m glad yesterday’s battery failure was a couple of pretty new interstates… had they been new lithium’s in an EV I’d really be in trouble stranded out in the rhubarb!

Not the rhubarb!