Posted on 12/26/2022 2:02:31 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda recently caused the climate lobby to blow a fuse by speaking a truth about battery electric vehicles that his fellow auto executives dare not. “Just like the fully autonomous cars that we were all supposed to be driving by now,” Mr. Toyoda said in Thailand, “I think BEVs are just going to take longer to become mainstream than the media would like us to believe.” He added that a “silent majority” in the auto industry share his view, “but they think it’s the trend, so they can’t speak out loudly.”
The Biden administration seems to believe that millions of Americans will rush out to buy electric vehicles if only the government throws enough subsidies at them.
Imagine if the 100 million Americans who took to the road over the holidays were driving electric cars. How many would have been stranded as temperatures plunged? There wouldn’t be enough tow trucks—or emergency medics—for people freezing in their cars.
... the web of federal rules, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, and a 1960 federal law that bars charging stations in rest areas.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
—”EVs need to be pioneered and “domesticated” IMO.”
BINGO!!!
The technology and material sourcing are NOT in place.
When I was a kid no one had central AC, then a few had window shakers some years later new houses had central air conditioning.
And that sucked up a massive amount of power.
But as AC grew so did the power grid.
My hundred-year-old house once had a wood-fired cookstove and a coal-fired boiler.
Times change but still the horse has to come before the cart.
The ‘build it and they will come’ is a fantasy story.
—”No new nuke plants since Three Mile Island and that was in 1979.”
NOT EXACTLY.
BUT THE USUAL SOURCES DELAY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
Radioactive fuel is being loaded at Georgia’s new nuclear power plant.
https://fortune.com/2022/10/14/nuclear-power-plant-america-georgia-vogtle-radioactive-fuel/
The FR-EVers are about to descend on you for that blasphemous statement you made. how dare you? /sarc
😂😂😂. Uncapped hemi 3/4 cam, loping at idle. Yes please.
—”In comparison, our decent size fully electrical house is wired for 6kW.”
Are you sure?
When we put an addition to our hundred-year-old house we upgraded to a 200 amp service, at 240v.
That would max out at around 48 kWh.
The building code in the area is for a minimum service of 100 amps at 240v (24kWh).
What do we expect him to say, for us to buy all other cars besides the ones Toyota makes?
Bookmark.
All true (except my EV takes 10-15 minutes to charge at a 350kW charger). I think the the issues rightly point out could be solved, but only in a free market. And only if the warmageddon cult Dims quit getting in the way of making power like they get in the way of gasoline.
One of the main reasons my wife and I got an EV is to give us diversification in energy dependency. We have 2 cars: an EV car and an ICE pickup. If the Dims make gasoline hard to come by (which it was not too long ago) or too expensive (IMHO it still is), we can do most of our driving in the EV. If the Dims make power hard to come by or too expensive, we can do most of our driving in the ICE pickup.
—”Why would credit card readers be more complicated than those on gas pumps? That doesn’t make sense.”
Even worse than stated!
Over on youtube, Engineering Explained did a road test on a VW EV.
He pulls in to Electrify America for a charge.
VW built Electrify America as penance for dieselgate and a court order.
It was a long and arduous procedure to get the car charged including calling to tell the charger number being used.
For Tesla owners the charging station and the car handshake and charge, the charge information is shown on the car display. Not sure if you need a password?
Quick and simple.
—”They have a battery chemistry that generates it’s own oxygen when they combust...not good at all! “
Worse than that, take a look at a lead acid battery used in most ICE vehicles.
They produce not just oxygen but also hydrogen in an explosive ratio!!!
I personally have blown up two of them!
One was on my backup generator in the garage. the battery was covered with supposedly fireproof blankets and I was grinding on the other side of the garage.
BANG! and the battery leaves a white mess everywhere!!
The other one, I was simply hooking up a battery in the car, a POP, and the top of the battery was gone! It also ate my jacket.
Most gearheads have seen it happen.
When batteries are being recharged, they generate hydrogen gas that is explosive in certain concentrations in air (explosive limits are 4.1 to 72 percent hydrogen in air).
https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/safety_haz/battery-charging.html
Durn, I mixed up. You are right.
But nobody ever uses that power.
Average US house uses on average 1.2kW of power. Of course zero or near zero sometimes and a lot more in peaks.
That charger 365kW is going on all the time when somebody charges the EV.
And charging stations have often several chargers. You are talking over MW in steady consumption.
No new nuke plants since Three Mile Island and that was in 1979.
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That’s technically not true. They stopped issuing permits after that. Several plants were in construction then, and some were finished.
Last, and largest nuclear PP in the USA is Palo Verde in AZ. The construction was finished in 1988!
It has three units. They wanted to build five, but were stopped at three.
The space is still there!
It was 5 deg F in Knoxville a few days ago - much colder than normal - people had their electric furnaces running - likely nonstop. With all that strain on the grid, power did go out a couple of times.
As far as I know, the electric is generated locally.
Charging thousands of cars on top of that would be a huge strain.
In the eighties, it was never expected that everyone should own a diesel powered vehicle. I’m looking for an explanation of why only EVs should be allowed in the future.
I assume that Miss Thunberg is very disappointed in Mr. Lomborg.
Or, if its a car.. could get a jump start..?
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