Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons by Al Goodwyn for January 25, 2024

According to a report by AAA Automotive Research Center, your car battery power falls by about 35% at 32°F, and if the temperature drops to 0°F, it loses 60%. When your car battery loses energy, it will be hard to start the engine because your car requires at least an 80% charge to start the ignition process.

To every EV pusher. Batteries STORE electricity. The don’t create it. So the cute little charger you use, or the power from at home comes from a nuclear / coal generator. Bet you feel foolish for buying a 80000 car / truck that could at any time burst into flame. But “climate change…"

Only moron i see is AL

How lawful it must be to sit in that pool of ignorance, Goodwyn.

The true issue with EVs is that there is a learning curve and a change of how you think about traveling. EVs are not a 1 for 1 replacement for gas powered vehicles. People that understood how to use their vehicles didn’t have these problems. They kept their cars charged properly.

Also, if you live in sever cold climates, for the time being, you may also need a traditional gas-powered vehicle; especially if you go on long drives. But, who cares? 35% of Americans own more than one car anyway (91% own at least one). The infrastructure isn’t in place YET for 100% EV ownership. It will be.

Dinosaurs like Goodwyn need to get out of the way. Your myopic vision os the world is simply pitiful.

And when the Carbon Bomb under the Arctic Permafrost goes off and Agriculture collapses, food and water will be our only concern.

Remember, we did not need to ‘charge’ the horse or fill it with expensive liquid for the horse to ‘work’. Yes. Horses. Ho hum.

al’s still pinin’ away for his good ol’ days at the buggy whip factory…

Makes one wonder why the climate wackos never thought to push hybrids. Their obsession with the EV solution is just another example of how bad their solutions are.

They gotta say something, even if it’s really off-topic and they ought to already know the answer.

Friend of mine who lives on a cliff overlooking a frigid Great Lake just got an EV. During the recent arctic snap, his vehicle experienced a very small, barely noticeable loss of battery power. He does keep it in the garage at home when not driving. No problem.

Norway Sweeden and Iceland lead the planet in the adaptation of electric cars. In Norway 20% of the new cars sold were electric. Iceland is not far behind

It’s a good thing it’s not cold in ICELAND

( AL you are a moron)

Great! Now all the libprogs have to do is find a car builder who’s willing to lose money without end to manufacture it.

Good one!

Goodwyn has discovered than there have been hybrid vehicles for more than twenty years!

Me thinks a lot of people are questioning the wisdom of getting an EV.

I like the photos that circulate on social media of a stranded EV being charged by a gas powered generator mounted on a diesel powered tow truck.

Progress is progress. Get on board, or get the hell out of the way, and join the ranks of horse drawn wagon drivers and telegraph operators.

Goodwyn doesn’t care about the future.

125 years ago this comic would read “Get a horse!”. It took about 20 years for the internal combustion automobile to become user friendly enough to use every day. This next step will be quicker.

Think about aeroplanes in 1908. That’s where electric vehicles are now

Why our government doesn’t support hybrids over EV, at least as an interim measure until technology and infrastructure catch up, is beyond me. But little government does these days makes sense. Love my dependable hybrid.

The way Al beats up on electric cars it gives me pause to think maybe he’s a cartoon lobbyist for the oil companies.

Gas engines also drop by as much as 50% in very cold weather. But we’ll save that bit of information for another time.

EV battery packs, like the starting battery of an ICE vehicle, lose power with cold weather. My Nissan Leaf recently got only an 82 mile range, normally I get 84, due to a very cold charge up. That was a first for me. In warmer weather, I can get a 96 mile range on a full charge.

One curiosity, though. The EV battery pack drops its range faster when fully charged than when there is little range remaining. From 50 miles remaining, I can scarcely notice any energy use. At full charge, I can lose say 3 miles of range in only 3 blocks of travel. But, toward the end of the charge, I can lose only 1 mile of range for 3 miles of travel. Now, as I’ve never heard this from other EV owners, that might just be the nature of my particular EV beast.

And what’s YOUR plan, Al?

Goodwyn describes this as ludicrous, but what’s depicted here is actually an inline hybrid — in other words, the main design of diesel locomotives and large ships. It’s much more efficient than tying the drive shaft directly to the engine, because you can get such great torque out of electric motors. I’ve been waiting for the design model to reach semis, because they put on the kind of miles where a few more MPG makes a huge impact on the finances — and they really need the low-end torque. It could also help them out when they have to slow down to go through sleepy small towns with noise ordinances, where they aren’t allowed to use their jake brakes. Wear and tear on the brake pads adds up to a considerable expense for a trucker, but noise ordinances keep them from using engine braking as much as they’d like. With a hybrid system, they could use the motor to slow down quietly, saving that wear and tear without risking expensive fines.

Updated instructions for EVs: “Do NOT attempt to operate in cold weather.”

Funny; our Tesla 3 did not have battery draining issues while driving it around in the recent teens and 20s temperatures we had around here. Full disclosure: both our cars are garage kept, and we have a level 2 charger in said garage.

You offered the same greeting to the “horseless carriage” we can only assume

Right. Because technology NEVER advances, never overcomes obstacles. Every innovation ever stayed EXACTLY as it was first developed.

Al, my Man — Don’t you just love it when these oh, so smart, oh. so educated types start their rebuttals to comments they disagree with, they soon resort to diatribes, ad hominem attacks, and scurrilous characterizations of the opposition’s thoghts. No wonder half the country can’t abide the other half. Well, Lord love a duck, keep up the old dauber and keep your easel hot!

Another thought — let’s not warm the seat, nor the cabin; bundle up really well ’cause you WILL need the defroster to keep the rime from forming on the interior due to your breath. Many moons ago, when I babysat missiles in NoDakland (Minot AFB), I drove a bug. That car had a lousy heating system; if I diverted the air from the floor to the wind shield, I had to wear mukluks to avoid frozen toes, earmuffs likewise (yeah, a non-uniform item which I removed after getting out of the arctic breeze). I overnighted the engine with a light bulb. And learned that de-icer was a must. The point being — even with a gas buggy, winters in the northern tier is no walk in the park and will probably stay that way as long as any of us are alive.

An example of what happens when the W.H. tries to dictate what Americans need!