In its natural state in the garage:
Excellent analysis of what most in the STEM world knows intuitively.
Of course, all of this is far beyond the meager abilities of your typical MSM writer, who thinks one must put caps on unused electrical outlets in order to conserve electricity.
Why can’t they build a prius with a larger battery so I could charge it at home and drive, say, 30 miles before the gas engine is needed. I could charge it overnight, spend nothing on commute gas, and have a long range car as well.
Elvon Musk has raised welfare-queenery to a fine art, yet there are those useful idiots who worship him as a beacon of free-market capitalism.
Once again it is about control, limiting free choice, and forcing leftist ideas on others no matter how wrong-headed or distasteful they really are.
The hypocrites aren’t interested in the science, economics, or facts behind the push to eliminate oil and coal.
Yet they are the ones accusing others of being anti-science.
They can make everybody buy a Tesla and call it a tax.
“Now Tesla’s U.S. subsidies face extinction.”
Musk himself is BEGGING Congress to end the subsidies.
Horse and buggy has a range of about 15 to 20 miles and are a lot cheaper to recharge.
In 1961, if you had told a liberal that we could get cars and trucks pollution down to 3% of what it is now, they'd be ecstatic. But, like today, once a utopian goal is achieved, libs move on to the next one, never being satisfied...
Can we quantify that? What is the length of something three times shorter than 1000 feet? It would have to be something that is negative 2000 feet.1x1000feet is a thousand feet. Three times a thousand feet is three thousand feet. This formulation" x times shorter than" is utterly meaningless in plain English. What does the writer think he is saying?
Article complains much about the limits of technology without considering the advancement of technology. Building a commercial EV with 200+ mile range was practically impossible not long ago,
And, again, naysayers fail to note (among other things) the value of a standard car able to be completely powered by independent home energy production (solar, wind, propane, gas, etc).
The real issue with electric cars:
Oil is waaaay more expensive than coal or natural gas. But you can’t make coal portable, and natural gas compression for vehicles is way more expensive than gas’s cost savings. Electric cars allow you to make coal, nuclear, renewable fuels or natural gas portable.
Also, without batteries, solar and wind power work only as marginal energy sources. Tesla cars’ batteries allow you to “download” your power at noon, when solar is abundant, and use it at evening.
So no, Tesla is no environmentalists’ magic bullet. But it’s not a waste of all the investors’ money, either. (Although its valuation of twice GM is amazing, and I wouldn’t swear it couldn’t go down significantly.)
But keep in mind: Tesla is a battery companu, not a car company.
Great article and thought experiment.
In its natural state in the garage:
Are Tesla owners the most smug people ever, or just the ones I’ve met?
They can have my Shelby GT500 when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. Meanwhile, I will drive a real car, not a glorified golf cart.
If PT Barnum had gone into the auto industry instead of the hook’um business.. who knows what we would be driving. I guess Elon is giving it his best shot,, damn the environment or not.
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Every “EV” made is a burner of coal, thus vastly more “polluting” than any IC engine made in the last 50 years.
Choice of Fools!
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