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    Select Your Electric Car: Select Your Electric Car, #3
    Select Your Electric Car: Select Your Electric Car, #3
    Select Your Electric Car: Select Your Electric Car, #3
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    Select Your Electric Car: Select Your Electric Car, #3

    By Dale Stubbart

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    An electric car is often referred to as an electric vehicle or EV. In Select Your Electric Car, I explore the various options of EVs available in the United States. If you live in California or in one of the other states which have similar zero emission vehicle standards, you will have more choices. These states have laws that car companies selling cars in their state must provide a certain percentage of EVs. I am going to focus on the EVs which are widely available in the US now (2018). I'll compare them, so that hopefully you will be able to purchase the EV which fits your lifestyle - or the lifestyle which you plan to adopt once you own an EV. I'll also look at a few other EVs which are not as widely available.

    In 2019, car dealers will be offering more models of EVs nationally, at least that's the plan. I'm thinking that you might want a car with more of a track record. So I won't be saying as much about those models, though I will mention them.

    In 2018, the US ranked seventh in number of EVs sold, following China, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Netherlands, and Norway who is at number one. If you wanted to wait until 2022 to drive your EV, and you had 200,000 dollars to spare, and you had a commercial driver's license (CDL) or could hire a driver who did; why not just purchase a Tesla Electric Semi. After all, Elon Musk is now saying it will have a 600-mile range. Even if he's only 75 percent correct, that's still a 450-mile range. I could drive into town (Olympia) every day of the week and up to the big city (Seattle) on the weekend. And I still wouldn't have to charge my rig. And in Aug 2018, a Tesla Semi made it from Coast to Coast across the US. It did have to be recharged. But the driver was able to find charging stations which were powerful enough to charge it. But where would I park the thing? Besides I don't have a CDL. And the few people I know who do aren't interested in being my personal chauffeur. I also definitely don't have 200,000 dollars that I can afford to spend on my next vehicle.

    I won't talk about the Tesla Semi in this book. You can hear about that vehicle in my book - The Xybrid Vehicle. I'll also mention techniques for driving an EV which will expand their range. At least these techniques work when driving my 2015 Electric Nissan Leaf.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDale Stubbart
    Release dateNov 22, 2021
    ISBN9798201324896
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      Select Your Electric Car - Dale Stubbart

      Electric Cars

      Clipart by Cactus Cowboy on OpenClipArt

      First, let me define Electric Car. You probably are already at least a little bit familiar with what an Electric Car is or you wouldn’t be reading this book.

      Even so, I’m going to define Electric Car assuming that you aren’t familiar with them. And for those of you who are already well-versed on what an Electric Car is, I’m going to give you my definition as it may differ slightly from yours. This definition was compiled from several sources and is generally how people define Electric Cars, at least for the most part.

      Definition: An Electric Car is a car which has one or more electric motors and no gas (or non-electric) motors. Electric Cars generically include Cars, SUVs, Cross-overs between Cars and SUVs, light small Trucks, etc. In other words, any vehicle which doesn’t require you to have a special license to drive it.

      There is of course an exception to that definition. Three wheeled Electric Cars may require you to have a motorcycle endorsement to drive them. Whether that requirement applies to you or not depends on where you live. Even so, three wheeled electric vehicles, even when technically classified as motorcycles, are generically referred to as Electric Cars.

      An Electric Car is often referred to as an electric vehicle or EV. Technically though, EVs include electric semis, electric motorcycles, electric hoverboards, electric scooters, electric buses, electric boats, and even electric airplanes.

      Yes, electric airplanes have been around since 1973. Now several companies are developing regional and personal electric aircraft.

      EV would even technically include electric transporters if there were any.

      ––––––––

      The earliest vehicles were powered by gravity, people, and/or animals.

      Then in the 1800’s steam powered cars were invented. Perhaps the most popular of those was the Stanley Steamer. Most often, at least in the early days, the steam was generated by boiling water over burning wood. Later, coal was burned to boil the water.

      Next came Electric Cars. Yes, Electric Cars were invented before gas-powered cars.

      But I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ll cover more on that in the next chapter.

      Along the way in the later 1900’s, biofuel (vegetable oil) powered cars and hydrogen powered cars were invented. Hydrogen powered cars are referred to as fuel cell cars. The fuel cell splits hydrogen from the fuel and uses the hydrogen as a power source. Then it combines the hydrogen with oxygen so that the only output is water.

      Theoretically fuel cells can run on water (hydrogen plus oxygen). And I’ve even seen a small fuel cell powered by water. In practice, fuel cells are most often fueled by oil / petroleum (hydrogen plus a lot of other stuff). I read somewhere that oil which is produced by fracking works better in fuel cells than non-fracked oil.

      Hybrids are cars which employ both a gas engine and an electric engine. Plugin-Hybrids (PHEVs) allow you to charge the battery pack for the electric engine by plugging in your PHEV, rather than by using energy primarily generated by the gas engine.

      Some people include PHEVs under the term EV. I do not. I restrict EVs to cars which only rely on electric motors. That’s not to say that I wouldn’t like to see a PHEV which ran on electricity and biofuel.

      However, non-electric motors, like the one you would need to take advantage of the biofuel, require many more parts. And the more parts there are, the easier it is for something mechanical to break down; especially when those parts are moving parts.

      And now on to just a bit more history about EVs.

      Don’t worry, I won’t bore you with massive or excruciating details.

      The REVolution

      Much of the information below was found at http://www.Hybridcars.com/history-of-Hybrid-vehicles/ and at https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car.

      In 1839, Robert Anderson made the first Electric Car in the UK.

      In 1891, William Morrison builds the first US made Electric Car.

      In 1897, the London Electric Cab Company was the first Taxi Service to be run solely by electric taxis.

      In 1900, American car companies made 1,575 Electric Cars. That’s almost 38% of all the cars made in the US that year.

      In 1904, Ford started making gas-powered cars. It didn’t take long for the sale of Electric Cars to decline.

      In 1996, Mike Corbin introduced the Sparrow as a concept car.

      In 1997, major car makers started making a limited number of Electric Cars. Again, after a few years, most of those disappeared from the roads.

      In 1998, the first Polaris GEM, a Neighborhood Electric Car was produced.

      In 2005, Rick Woodbury and Commuter Cars produced the first Tango, an Electric Car which is narrow enough so that two of them can be driven side-by-side on a single freeway lane.

      In 2007, Elon Musk produced the first Tesla.

      That same year Mark Frohnmayer introduced the Arcimoto FUV, a small three-wheeled Electric Car.

      It’s now over ten years later. And we’ve yet to see a decline in the manufacture and sale of Electric Cars.

      Now we call them EVs.

      So, let the rEVolution continue!

      Table of Contents

      Electric Cars

      The REVolution

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Your EV Lifestyle

      The List of Your EV Choices

      Selecting My Electric Car

      Information I’ll be Covering

      Notes

      Your Checklist

      Charging Your EV

      Tesla

      Commuter Cars

      Nissan

      BMW

      Mercedes-Benz / Smart

      Myers Motors

      Corbin Motors

      General Motors (Chevrolet)

      Arcimoto

      Polaris

      Jaguar (Jag)

      Renault

      Comparison & Recap

      Your Conclusion

      How Much Will an EV Cost Me?

      Preparing to Purchase Your Precious EV

      A GPS for EVs

      EV Travel Aids

      Extending the Range

      Accelerating the Curve

      EV Bumperstickers

      The Road Ahead

      The Finishing Touch

      Who Wrote This Anyway?

      Appendix A – Definitions

      Appendix B - The EV Battery

      Appendix C - Gas vs Electric Power

      Appendix D – High Speed Limits

      Introduction

      In this book, I’ll explore the various varieties of EVs available in the United States. If you live in California or in one of the other states which have similar zero emission vehicle standards, you will have more choices. These states have laws that car companies selling cars in their state must provide a certain percentage of EVs.

      Other than CA, that law was only binding starting in 2018. The other states are CT, ME, MD, MA, NJ, NY, OR, RI, and VT. DC, DE, PA, and WA are following California’s low emission vehicle standards. So a wider variety of electric vehicles are also available in those four states. But it is probably not as wide a variety as the ten states which are following the zero emission vehicle standards.

      This report shows which EVs were available in your state in 2015. https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/ev-availability. There are probably more EVs available in your state today.

      I am going to focus on the EVs which are widely available in the US now (2018). I’ll compare them, so that hopefully you will be able to purchase the EV which fits your lifestyle – or the lifestyle which you plan to adopt once you own an EV.

      I’ll also look at a few other EVs which are not as widely available.

      In 2019, car dealers will be offering more models of EVs nationally, at least that’s the plan. I’m thinking that you might want a car with more of a track record. So I won’t be saying as much about those models, though I will mention them.

      The US ranks seventh in number of EVs sold, following China, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Netherlands, and Norway who is at #1. https://cleantechnica.com/2017/08/19/top-electric-car-countries-charts/

      If you wanted to wait until 2019 to drive your EV, and you had $200,000 ($200K) to spare, and you had a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) or could hire a driver who did; why not just purchase a Tesla Electric Semi. After all, Elon Musk is now saying it will have a 600-mile range.

      Even if he’s only 75% correct, that is still a 450-mile range. I could drive into town (Olympia) every day of the week and up to the big city (Seattle) on the weekend. And I still wouldn’t have to charge my rig.

      And in Aug 2018, a Tesla Semi made it from Coast to Coast across the US. It did have to be recharged. But the driver was able to find charging stations which were powerful enough to charge it.

      But where would I park the thing? Besides I don’t have a CDL. And the few people I know who do aren’t interested in being my personal chauffeur. I also definitely don’t have $200K that I can afford to spend on my next vehicle.

      I won’t talk about the Tesla Semi in this book. You can read about that vehicle in my book – The Xybrid Vehicle. I also have a chart of the first several Trucking companies who bought Tesla Semis, on my website: http://fantasticstoriesforyou.com/xybrid.html - scroll to the bottom. Walmart just ordered another 30.

      I’ll also mention techniques for driving an EV which will expand their range. At least these techniques work when driving my 2015 Electric Nissan Leaf.

      But first ...

      Your EV Lifestyle

      An Electric Car is an Electric Vehicle or EV for short. EVs include Cars, Pickup Trucks, Passenger Vans, Semis, Cargo Vans, Delivery Trucks, Golf Carts, Motorcycles, Bicycles, and Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs).

      NEVs are electric vehicles which are limited to 25MPH top speed and to 35MPH roads. They are designed to be used solely in residential neighborhoods.

      The Polaris GEM mentioned in this book and many other NEVs have passed the same safety tests that Cars are required to pass. The required safety tests for NEVs are not as stringent as those for faster vehicles. The test are less stringent because NEVs are not going as fast. And at those slower speeds a crash won’t hurt you or the car as much as it would at higher speeds.

      It is in the interest of manufacturers of NEVs to spend the extra money and pass the more stringent tests. They want you to know that they value your safety. And they hope that by passing more stringent safety tests, you’ll be more likely to buy their NEV.

      The term EV can include many different types of vehicles. But usually EV is used to refer to Electric Cars, Pickups, and Passenger Vans. There aren’t any widely available Electric Pickups or Passenger Vans in the US. So in the US, EV refers mostly to cars.

      ––––––––

      Ok, ok. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, why should I buy an EV?

      Fair question. Which of the following answers would you like me to give

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