Last summer we visited family near Palm Springs. I witnessed a very amusing sight of one of those $100,000 Tesla’s driving in 120 degree weather with ALL THE WINDOWS down. I finally realized that they could not turn on the air conditioning and make it home. I laughed all the way to the gas station where I filled up my gas tank with renewable energy (it renews to 100% every time I fill up the tank).
It aint full until it runs over.
“Last summer we visited family near Palm Springs. I witnessed a very amusing sight of one of those $100,000 Tesla’s driving in 120 degree weather with ALL THE WINDOWS down. I finally realized that they could not turn on the air conditioning and make it home. I laughed all the way to the gas station where I filled up my gas tank with renewable energy (it renews to 100% every time I fill up the tank).”
As bad as that is, try warming up an electric car after it was cold-soaked at 0F. While gasoline engines have always struggled to provide good fuel economy, they’ve NEVER struggled to provide heat. It’s a freebie for gasoline cars - they just re-direct engine heat into the cabin. But electric cars have to take their heat right out of their batteries, and if it’s really cold, that’s a lot of kwh’s (ask anyone who owns a house with electric heating in a cold climate - I once owned one in Houston, of all places, and we still got bit in winter, along with summer, of course).
As far as fossil fuels being renewable, pal, they have been in my lifetime. We now have about twice the amount of proven oil reserves that we had we had when I was born...so, as far as I’m concerned, the oil keeps renewing itself.