Posted on 04/11/2024 6:25:40 PM PDT by Jonty30
“ Not saying it’s good/bad, just facts. They are stubborn things.”
Cancer may be cured someday as well.
I’m still a little leery with the charge time but those are great arguments that renders the time problem moot really
The want EV’s, not because they are better but because they can immobilize you from a 2000 miles away.
Put chargers along the highways at 50 mile increments this is exactly what Tesla is doing. 75% of all Americans live in a census urban county they will never need to have charger in BFE. The cities are being blanketed with CCS and NACS fast DC and L2 are going in at urban condos as well. For the two trips per year or less that urbanites take past 400 miles you rent a car and be done with it. No need carter to the edge users you cater to the 75% that’s growing in percentage every year. Hybrids make sense for the 6% or less who drive more than 30 miles per day in a regular basis.
This is Toyota’s plan make one drivetrain that can be hybrid,fuel cells or fully electric using the same motors and inverters. Tesla will leave the consumer market once they get their automated taxi approved there is too much profit in automated ubers/lyft vs selling a $35,000 car. Automated uber’s run 12 hours per day are $100,000 in revenue or more per year No way Tesla stays in the consumer market.
“The want EV’s, not because they are better but because they can immobilize you from a 2000 miles away.”
Love the tinfoil moment but every car sold after 2026 regardless of drivetrain will have a remote kill switch every single one per federal law. It’s already moot every car that has onstar,Ford sync,bluelink ect already has that hardwired.regardless of if the service is activated or not. The fedgov simply said after 2026 every car must have onstar,bluelink ect. Like airbags it will just be part of the base model.
And I love the absolute denial, despite the WEF being open with what they want to do.
An officer might be able to shut you down in a car chase, but he has to get close to you to do it. They want to shut you down 2000 miles away if you break their rules.
You have to pay for onstar to have it.
That’s why my 2004 Toyota Corolla will remain. Low-tech, lots of spare parts available, and a very reliable work car.
Speaking of infrastructure, I’d love to ask of the politicians pushing this crap one simple question: What are you proposing we use to pave and repair the thousands of miles of roads, driveways and parking lots that are currently made with asphalt? Asphalt, of which the main ingredient is bitumen, is a byproduct of the gasoline refining industrial process you’re hoping to make obsolete. So what entirely new, non-oil substance are you going to invent and scale up to rival evil earth killing asphalt? And while we’re at it, you need 30 gallons of oil to make one set of car tires, so leaving oil behind, are we going back to wooden spokes and steel hoops?
Some of the lowest IQs are in politics, I swear….
I remember reading this like 20 years ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(Niven,_Pournelle,_and_Flynn_novel)
“ When we get to 600, 700, 800 miles on a charge that takes 15 - 20 minutes, in a reasonably priced car, the game is over for internal combustion.”
Inexplicably or ignorantly, you are completely ignoring infrastructure.
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Party pooper. Spoiling all the fun. 😿👍🏻
“You have to pay for onstar to have it.”
You have to pay to access OnStar but it is still there even if you don’t pay.
most newer cars have an active cell silently communicating status to the vendor.
With the Ford app I can see the status of my car with no subscription. If I wanted, I could pay to turn on access to the cell spot.
>You have to pay for onstar to have it.
You have to pay for OnStar for *you* to use it.
The box is there and working regardless. That said, today there is not one reason why you can’t read any of a bunch of sites, or watch a variety of videos, and locate and unplug the module or remove it entirely.
In a future where Brandon’s WEF tracking mandate actually takes effect, the same people who put bat boxes over UK speed cameras and flood the Scot hate-speech report system with (true) comments about the PM’s anti-white racism will be right there to help everyone with hints on how to use cheap Raspberry Pi machines to generate fake but realistic data and ignore those pesky shutdown commands (or similar methods).
Tesla won the charger standard battle because we don’t have a three phase to the end use grid we have a 1890s split phase archaic grid. Every where else you can get 400 volt triple phase to every structure even homes. The NACS aka the Tesla plug is single phase AC but up to a megawatt in DC rating. V4 superchargers already out out 350kw DC with 500 on deck with a over the air update no hardware change is needed. Going from 450V to 800v now 900v opens up huge charge rates. The limit is the battery cells can they take.3,4,5C charge rates. This is where solid state cells are set to take off. No fire risk, 5C rates, bipolar cells mean less copper/aluminum to.active materials. Most are cobalt free so no DRC...been there done that 2014 during the Ebola era as a geologist. Fun fact most cobalt in the world goes to smart phones,tablets and laptops EVs are under 6% of output. NMC cells make modern smartphones ppossible thst wouldn’t exist without the density of NMC cells period full.stop.
No onstar ,bluelink,Ford sync can all shut down via the 4G link that’s always active regardless of if the service is on it’s hardwired to the engine’s ECU so is the SOS button even when the service is off press that button it will connect you to EMS and cops by law. Cops don’t directly send the shutdown even in a chase they have dispatch contact the respective companies data center and send the stop command via the 4 G network it just kills the accelerator pedal the car coasts to a stop you don’t kill the engine or power steering and brakes fail.
NOt good in my books.
You answered your own question. Oil is too precious to burn to the sky it should be used to make products that can be recycled into new products. Every geologist knows the mantra mine once use many.
For every 30 gallons you burnt once to the sky you can make a tire that can be retread a number of times then shredded and reduced to steel for melting, rubber that can be liquefied and mixed with new isoprene which can be synthesized from carbon monoxide and hydrogen BTW. Isoprene is the base rubber polymer from there you can go to any rubber this is world war two tech.
As soon as humans can move to using oil for durable goods only the longer it will last for future generations. It makes no.sense to burn in two centuries what took the planet 400+ million years to make and accumulate that’s generational selfishness. We as a species have the tech to move on to longer lasting resource management and should boomers don’t care because y’all expect to die before depletion. Fortunately you all are now outnumbered two to one by the younger generations who finally are saying no we won’t let you burn like drunken sailors then leave us to deal with 8+ billion people who all want and need middle class levels of resource access.
And you don’t have a problem with that?
And then the performance degrades precipitously until you have an evil, toxic, immobile monolith that costs far more to dispose than it cost to buy in the first place.
We better hope the wind keeps blowing when the sun isn’t shining.
EC
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