Posted on 07/22/2017 9:39:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
The answers to all your questions are well documented ...
WHAT?
No Smart car folks?
No bikers?
No VOLVO owners??
No; but it can drive 24/7/365 with very LITTLE timeout for re-fueling!
New Volvos are comparative gas hogs without being particularly fast. They’re not professor’s cars any more.
That’s one of my pet peeves too.
It could have been expressed as a percentage: 50% to 66% less. Or a fraction: a third to a half as much. Or as a discount expressed as a fraction: a third to a half as much.
The formulation “X times less” isn’t just technically incorrect, or even just utterly meaningless — it’s so bad it’s ‘not even wrong’ (to borrow a turn of phrase from someone famous, whom I’m too lazy to look up). It’s just another way to dumb down society.
ctdonath2 is partly correct — this “X times less” formulation is deliberately made so that “idiots” can imagine they understand what’s being said. Anyone, who is too innumerate to understand one of the technically correct expressions, is most likely not able to actually understand the meaning of a technical article. Or, should I say: “five times less likely to ...”?
Have you ever driven 24/7/365?
“Or as a discount expressed as a fraction: a third to a half as much.”
Should be: “a third to half off”.
Staying on topic and contemporary: “Will EV, Wind and Solar makes us more productive and efficient?” Cost/benefit thought...
11 months is one month shorter than 12.
10 months is 2x shorter.
11 months is one month shorter than 12.
10 months is 2x shorter.
“Carbon neutral” is a globalist term and a sign of mental illness in anyone using it in my book.
That’s what the Chevy Volt is for. Check it out.
Yes
Have cars ever been driven 24?
Can the plugged in Tesla in the picture above even move?
I am against subsidies of any kind - especially have tremendous hate in my heart for using corn to make ethanol. One of the biggest boondoggles ever and the ripple effect is bad everywhere.
However, I don’t blame Musk for taking advantage of the system in place long before he arrived on the scene. We have allowed our politicians to subvert the free market to benefit themselves and they have run wild with it. When government picks the winners and losers the politicians ALWAYS WIN.
I give Musk credit for innovation. Men like him are rarely “Saints” in the eyes of many, but these kind of visionaries have led to groundbreaking innovations that benefit all of mankind. For every “hit” there are usually many misses and I admire anyone who stands in the box and swings and for them it is rarely about the money. I don’t envision battery operated cars sweeping the market in the near term, but who can clearly see the future of technology? We simply don’t know and it is foolish to speak in absolutes. Battery technology will continue to advance as will the engines that use it. I just recently purchased several Dewalt brushless XR tools and they are a major improvement over those I purchased only a few years ago - last longer, less heat, and even the batteries are much improved.
Since there is no plugged-in Tesla in the picture above I have no idea what you are referring to.
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