Great video! Thanks for sharing. We have alot of growing pains as we transition to electric from ICE. Especially towing a boat up north. There are alot of nay sayers out there but this is our future and it will take time. When the first automobiles started to show up on the roads the cars were scaring the horses. Many municipalities passed bylaws restricting cars from entering town. In ten years most people had switched to automobiles.
I support electric vehicles 100%. We need them to cleanup the air in our cities and the environment. It's going to take longer for everyone to be able afford a new electric vehicle. As technology improves the cost and charging times will decrease. Right now we have a world wide shortage of batteries and resources which is why I have time to go on Stomps, go camping and go fishing. I'm laidoff waiting for more electric batteries to arrive. So we will have to wait longer and keep on fishing! Tight lines.
Yeah I think you're 100% right with all of this. The one thing though, is that there isn't a shortage of battery resources, but there is a massive shortage of companies who are currently refining it. Musk has publicly asked someone, anyone to start a company who is willing to refine it because they'll make a fortune. He didn't want to get into starting another business, but nobody was willing to really ramp up refining production so he's started his own refinery in order to keep up with his own needs at Tesla. I will catch up, but it might take time... I hope you're able to get back to work sooner than later..and that you save some fish for the rest of us! hahaha
There's a reason why Toyota hasn't embraced the entire EV thing and you have to remember they brought out hybrids. And consider they are probably the most environmentally friendly auto producer.
They'll go EV soon enough... They literally forced their CEO to resign over the fact that their EV program was so far behind.
That said I'm not a hardcore EV fanboy...This is just what I think will happen. And we will have an ICE vehicle for at least another decade as our second vehicle... The one we currently own has been using the same tank of gas for 6+ weeks though! lol But yeah... My experience has been 100% positive as an EV owner... minus town the boat 2000Kms through the wilderness. haha
Great video, love watching the trips. Unfortunately EV is already becoming antiquated technology. Ford is currently working on a hydrogen ICE. Anyhow, the Xterra gets horrible mileage at 32l/100k. My f150 gets about 15/100 with the boat. Factoring in all the stops, adding 10 hours to the trip (20) total, adding additional hotel stops, the Tesla is getting more expensive. Also unless extending the trip, you potentially loose fishing time.
For myself, EV is far from perfect. There is no less pollution generated by EV compared to other vehicles. Not a rant on either or, you make your own choices.
Again, great video.
Thanks for the love! And yeah, the Xterra is brutal.... But yeah... it's from 2006, isn't in perfect condition and it has pretty big tires. I also rip at like 125kms hr when I'm towing with it...
I think it's to each their own, like you said. EV's actually generate more pollution currently while being built, but over time they generate less pollution... I think it was Volvo who did a study on it and released the information. There's a YouTube vid out there on it someplace.
And yeah like you said, to each their own. Towing the boat to a destination like this isn't ideal at all. But for any other family trips without towing, our Tesla is hands down the way to go for us. We could do Florida and back for like $300 tops... and won't really lose any time, or have to stay in any hotels when compared to a gas car. It's just the boat that wrecked it. My usual charges take about 15 minutes when I'm not towing.
Canada's contribution to global warming is less than 1% of the global neighbourhood, until China , Russia and India step up anything we do will make little to no difference in global warming, sorry to say.
yeah I'm not really driving an electric car to save the world... it's to save my pocket book! lol (I drive a lot for work... explanation below)
Electric vehicles are great. I have a few friends with them the torque is second to none.
However even an electric vehicle will come with environmental impact, no emissions but more environmental impact in the manufacturing process. To produce 2000lbs of lithium requires almost 2 million tones of water currently.! So as demand rises….then what? lithium mining is rapidly becoming a big concern globally but demand and market is likely to trump epa for preserving certain sites.I hope the world makes the right decision for all of our futures.
Again I’m all for the right technology but Evs are still made with many petroleum based products and the manufacturing side of these batteries is currently hushed.
I vote hydrogen lol.
We definitely have plenty of resources to accommodate demand in the future, the current problem is keeping up with mining and refining. My hope is that they're able to mine and refine the products with the environment in mind, and long-term they will be able to recycle nearly all of the materials that go into the batteries. There's already a couple of companies in the USA who are doing amazing work with recycling batteries. People often forget that drilling, refining and moving oil/gas around the world isn't pollution free either. And you can't recycle gas once it's been burned. There's definitely arguments to be made on both sides of the fence... and for the time being I think there's a place for both ICE and EV vehicles...
Hydrogen would be awesome!!! lol
LASTLY guys,
I never really mentioned it in the video.... but here's why we went EV as our primary family hauler and vehicle for me to use for work purposes....
Last year we spent $2200.00 on average per month at the gas pumps, and both of our cars were getting way too old... so we had to replace one. Combine a $500.00 per month car payment (I think that's being conservative in today's day and age) with $2200.00 in gas and it was just too much. I do have a higher car payment now at around $850.00, but my "fuel consumption" has gone down drastically. My electricity bill for the first period was only $80.00 higher than usual. Also, I drove to NYC for work and spent about $100.00 at superchargers, and charged my client the usual .58 cents per KM... So I charged them $900.00 and spent $800.00... My car payment was taken care of in just one shoot.
So for us it allowed us to get into a brand new vehicle, and we're saving literally thousands of dollars per year... no brainer on my end.
