That’s what we do, spend time. And when its gone, there is not way to get it back. We can’t built it, we can’t bank it, we can’t hide it for later use. Once time is gone, it is gone for good.
Yet we squander time. The internet and social media are places where we waste time. We follow people who we think are leading interesting lives we would love to lead (can you say Kardashian). We seem to think if we see it online, it must be true. We find things interesting that simply aren’t. We watch or listen to podcasts that are simply advertorials for the person on the cast, and then change our lives to fit. What a waste of precious time.
Those of us here at PT have tried to provide tools to help you make better use of that most limited resource. Parknews.biz, our parking news aggregator, can be scanned in a very few minutes and the headlines can give you an idea of something that might help you in your daily parking life. Astrid averages 10 to 15 parking based stories from around the world on Parknews.biz each day, that’s over 200 a month. If you are not inclined to ‘on line,’ you can read a summary of between 30 and 70 articles each month in Parking Today’s industry news section. Proper names are in bold, so it can be quickly scanned. If you have a specific item you require, go to our web site, Parkingtoday.com, enter your request in the search field on the home page, and you will automatically and quickly search our entire body of work over the past 25 years.
Anything we can do to help you make better use of your valuable time, please let us know.
Like the late great Jim Croce sang, “If I could Save Time in a Bottle…”
If only
JVH
Is Getting More EVs on the Road All About Charging?
This article from MIT that Astrid posted over on Parknews says the answer is YES YES YES. They posit that the number of chargers, and the speed that batteries can take a charge is critical to increasing the fleet. Fair Enough.
However I wonder. Remember that I live at ground zero of electric car purchases (California). My feeling is that until EVs equal or surpass ICE vehicles in most ways they have an uphill battle. Yes, charging is an issue. As noted in the article above, at very best, fast chargers can charge 200 miles of electrons in 15 minutes. However you can fill the tank of an ICE in what, five minutes. And you don’t have to hunt for a charger, wait for someone else to finish, and then hope that the available chargers are in working order.
But let’s set chargers aside. What about the cost. It seems today that Ev’s cost about $20K more than a like ICE vehicle. I don’t know about you, but that’s more than pocket change. There seems to be another issue. The major car companies (Ford, GM, and Stellantis – Chrysler) are loosing huge amounts of money in their EV divisions and only keeping profits up by ICE sales.
Trucks (pickups) are the big number for auto sales in the US. And it seems that Electric trucks don’t stand up well against ICE trucks. Their range drops substantially when fully loaded or pulling a trailer. That’s not good if you rely on your vehicle for your livelihood.
A friend told me that he loved his Tesla. Love to drive it around town. However he wasn’t so sure when he took it skiing 450 miles north. Seems he had to stop for charging at least twice in each direction. My 20 year old ICE machine can make it non stop. Oh Well. My friend was frustrated and owns an ICE vehicle for long trips. I noticed that most people who have EVs also have an ICE SUV hidden in the garage. My neighbor has a GMC SUV and a Jeep parked alongside his Tesla.
Variety is the spice of life. People want variety. With literally hundreds of ICE models available it would seem that EVs will be more attractive if there is more variety. Who knows.
I noticed that when EVs were promoted on the Super Bowl, they were promoted as ICE vehicles that ran on electricity. There must be reasons for people to buy EVs beyond government edicts. What’s in it for me is important.
Just sayin
