Electric vehicles are an interesting exercise but they will be an oddity for
many more years before the technology is sufficiently developed.
Think about the farmer who feeds you all.... Picture a guy out here on the
High Plains who raises the wheat for your bread and the beef for your
burger. On average he lives about 30 to 40 miles from the nearest Coop where
he hauls his grain and about 60 miles from the nearest cattle auction and
feed lot where he takes his beeves to be sold. He hauls a couple of 800 lb
round bales a week a distance of about 50 miles to feed your burger. He
hauls 20,000 lbs of wheat about 40 miles to the elevator to make your bread.
He runs a large tractor about 3 days a week and during harvest, a $220,000
combine which runs about 18 hours a day for a week to cut the wheat for your
dinner plate and the corn for your ethanol.
There isn't an electric vehicle in the world that can even begin to touch
doing all of this. Long story short, stop thinking about driving your car to
work and start thinking about all the other vehicles that would also need to
be electric. When you do the obvious conclusion is that we are a long way
from being there yet..... ;-)
Cheers!!
Jim - Dodge City, KS - Wheat & Meat Country
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Cheers!!
Jim Johnson
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