Anything with a Tesla logo on it is fair game.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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Just get rid of the charging stations. It’s ridiculous that EV owners should expect to charge their cars anywhere but at home or at work
why the hell is that ridiculous? People do go places other than home and work. People take road trips and vacations. Electric cars are a good thing, just because one particular brand is owned by a narcisist ruining the country.
Also, not everyone has a parking spot with electricity. How are you supposed to charge if you're parking on a random place on the street, like most people do? I'd joke about "lower a chain of extension cords from your 20th floor", but that would be assuming you can park next to your home at all. My building's parking, for example, had all its spots sold out by now, while the very few ones for sale in the neighborhood cost a fortune. Apparently, they were affordable if you bought the apartment new, but on a secondary market - no.
Just get rid of the fuel stations. It’s ridiculous that vehicles owners should expect to refuel their cars anywhere but at home or at work
Just get rid of the cars. Build cities built for human communities, not for cars and mega corporations. Electric vehicles are a band-aid solution that’s not going to save us, and doesn’t solve the fundamental problem.
I'm going to disagree with you on the sentement. We need a better infrastructure for EVs, and non-tesla vehicles can use those charging stations (either via adaptor, or a few use that same plug type.)
Just get rid of the charging stations. It's ridiculous that EV owners should expect to charge their cars anywhere but at home or at work.
Why would it be ridiculous for EV owners to charge cars away from home or work? l'd say that it's pretty necessary for long-distance trips.
EDIT:
Long distance power transmission is normally done with aluminum lines, rather than copper.
https://www.anixter.com/en_au/resources/literature/wire-wisdom/copper-vs-aluminum-conductors.html
Aluminum has 61 percent of the conductivity of copper, but has only 30 percent of the weight of copper. That means that a bare wire of aluminum weighs half as much as a bare wire of copper that has the same electrical resistance. Aluminum is generally more inexpensive when compared to copper conductors.
Resistance is a function of the material's conductivity and the cross-sectional area of a cable. If aluminum has 61% the conductivity of copper, then one needs 1÷0.61=1.63 times the cross-sectional area for an aluminum cable to have the same resistance. That's a radius 1.63^0.5 = 1.28 times the radius of an equivalent copper cable.
So you only need an aluminum cable with a radius 28% larger to achieve the same overall resistance.
In the case of the EV charging cables, flexibility is at a premium, and increasing the radius decreases that. But my guess is that it's probably within the range of acceptability to use a bulkier aluminum cable, if need be.
EDIT2: I was also going to suggest liquid-cooled cables, which electric arc furnaces use for their power busses. Apparently Tesla already tried using experimental liquid-cooled cables, a decade back:
Tesla’s Mountain View Supercharger has always been a little different from the rest. Not only is it located at the world-famous Computer History Museum – where Tesla sometimes holds events, but until recently, it was also running an experiment utilizing propylene-glycol-cooled supercharging cables…
These cables are thinner and more flexible than the standard Supercharger cables which are about as thick as gas station hoses and sometimes more unwieldy, especially in cold weather when they become less flexible.
We’ve gotten word today that Tesla has switched out the experimental cables in Mountain View for the standard thicker cables, thus ending the public experiment. Officially Tesla told us “We changed the cables to unify service procedures and parts across all current Supercharger sites.”
That would have been liquid-cooled copper, but one could presumably also do liquid-cooled aluminum. That's another option, if one wants to keep heat under control with higher resistance from a cable. Probably some extra cost for the cooling system, and there's some extra waste of energy as conversion to heat that way, but I doubt that it'd make EV charging impractical, were that what was required to deal with people stealing copper.
The idea that EV owners should only be able to charge at home is a joke I hope? Should they not be allowed to travel?
They must have a lot of copper. Thieves are going target them. What can you do in a land of criminals?
Fix the system so people don't have to make money by stealing copper.
And yet, here we are with billionaires in charge—robber barons v2.0.
Call the coppers on them!
Oh...
Considering the voltages and amps going through it is safe to assume those are fairly thick solid copper wires yes.
I just think installing these BEV charging stations everywhere is a bad idea in the first place.
What if you work remote and live in an apartment building without plugs???
Instead of socializing the cost of putting charging stations everywhere, landlords and employers should be forced to provide outlets.
Lmao. Unfortunately I live in the USA.
Just get rid of the charging stations. It's ridiculous that EV owners should expect to charge their cars anywhere but at home or at work.
Freaking BASED.
But for long-distance trips, that doesn't really hold up until we get battery capacities vastly superior to those of today. For countries with workers that have vacations, we like to go places other than home or work, sometimes. 😅
EVs are for saving the car/oil cartels, not for saving the planet.
That is an interesting position. How do you figure?