It’s not the cable being wet that bothers me, it’s my hands getting dirty when I rehang the cable. Almost as bad as whatever that is on the gas pump handle.
How about attaching the charger cable to the ceiling, so it drops down just far enough to reach the outlet on the car? That way, it can never get wet or dirty.
Just so you know, the entire population of the country does not live in Saskatoon, SK
And not everyone needs to tow a trailer in -30 weather to work 300km away, then let it sit a jobsite for 4 hours.
Using extreme edge cases to deny that EV’s are useful for a huge majority of the population is one of the things that really irritates me. (edit: I realize you’re not doing this)
Took longer to find the hook in the junk drawer than to mount it. All EV obstacles are this easy to overcome. If an EV doesn’t work for you, it’s because you’re unwilling to put forth the effort of checking both the garage and kitchen junk drawers for home charging solutions.
I see you employed a 3D printer as well. As did I…
That’s sorta the point I was making. I mean, I was exaggerating for emphasis, but the point I was intending to make was that Sam’s implying EVs won’t work in Canada because they won’t work for him.
You can see from these quotes, he’s taking problems specific to his use case and making them sound like Canada problems.
My bolding
Unrelated but I just noticed this:
If you think I found that, I think you’re not reading your own cites.
Quelle surprise. I’ve heard the ocean is a bit damp as well.
ICEVs are not ideal for every situation either. In fact, they’re less ideal for most situations (for example: commuting across town to work) compared with EVs.
That’s a goodly part of the FF FUD about EVs.
BTW, another good thing that happens with EV adoption is an improvement in health.
A coworker has a 2017 Tesla Y. A truck carrying steel beams backed in to her and smashed the rear window. She had to take it to a special, Tesla-approved shop for repair that was located 50 miles away. The cost to repair is $20,000. (I assume the insurance company for other driver paid.) She took the car to the shop in early November. They still have it.
This is not a knock on EV cars, of course. More on Tesla. She said she is going to sell the car when she gets it back, and said she will never buy another Tesla.
I’m assuming you mistyped the date?
From Wikipedia:
Oops, yea. It’s definitely a Y, though. Perhaps it’s a 2020.
Are you sure it wasn’t $2000?
Last week a branch fell on the rear window of my 2022 Model Y. Completely shattered. Tesla Service just sent the replacement cost - $1,200.
Instead, Shaw learned that a full replacement was the only option, and it would cost over $1,300. The windshield itself costs over $800.
I looked on Safelite and it quoted me $1100 for a 2020 Model Y rear window replacement.
She said $20,000.
It was probably far more than the windscreen, then. On a related note, a buddy got a Rivian (which he loves) but then hit a deer and THEN got clipped by a dumptruck in his landscaping yard. The nearest approved shop is in SLC (we’re in Bozeman MT). It’s finally ready after 3 months! Definitely not buying a vehicle for which there is not local support.
Have I got a solution for you! Move to Saskatchewan, and don’t heat your garage. Absolutely no puddles in winter!
There’s plenty of Teslas driving around in Saskatoon, and probably other EVs as well I just can’t visually identify other EVs as EVs at a glance.
I hit a deer with my iPace. Didn’t look so bad (except for the deer) but it messed up all the electronics.(cameras, sensors, radar for the cruise control, front headlight) Most places don’t work on Jaguars, so I have to go about 50 miles away to one that does, and the first appointment was three months out when I made it (one month to go!)
$18,000 estimate. Covered by insurance at least.
Again, not an EV issue per se.
Teslas are actually one of the better cold weather cars. They use a heat pump rather than resistive heating, so they are more efficient in cold weather. They have good battery insulation and normal sized batteries.
If I wanted a new second car, a Tesla 3 would be a good choice for Canada. A Hyndai Ioniq or Kia EV6 also have heat pumps and make good winter cars - although in really cold weather they won’t heat the interior as much as you’d like.
Tesla’s next-gen motors won’t be using rare earths:
To be clear, it was always false that EVs required rare earths. Induction motors–successfully used on the original Model S–do not require them. However, it’s true that permanent magnet motors are a tad more efficient than induction motors, and that most current EV motors are using rare earths (neodymium in particular). Rare earth magnets are more powerful than the alternatives, so they’re easier to package and are generally higher performance.
However, it appears that Tesla has managed to achieve the benefits of a permanent magnet motor without the rare earths. It’s possible they’re giving up a tiny bit of efficiency to do so, but it’s unlikely to be very much: efficiency is range, and range is battery. And batteries are expensive, so they wouldn’t go this route unless the difference was tiny.
And while rare earths were never that rare to begin with, mining it is difficult and dirty, and China currently produces the most of it. So it’s valuable to disconnect from that dependency, especially as the number of EVs continues to ramp up.
Despite that, there’ll still be people out there claiming that Teslas (or all EVs) have rare earths in their batteries. Which is part FUD and part a mistaken idea of what a rare earth is.
However, there will be some rare earths in EVs. But they’re the same rare earths used in cell phones, laptops and for that matter, pretty much all other cars. Unless the EV doesn’t have a flat panel color display, speaker, and microphone, since those all have some rare earths in them.
Agreed; some tiny amount will likely always be present. Though I don’t think there’s any application where they’re absolutely required; after all, speakers still work with ceramic magnets (just not as well), and microphones can use MEMS (probably most embedded microphones use MEMS these days). In any case, you’re right that this is nothing exclusive to EVs.
Lithium is the only truly critical element (and not a rare earth). There just isn’t currently an alternative chemistry that doesn’t need lithium at all. But there is plenty of lithium out there; we just need to open new mines.