Mr. Bean Actor Says the Electric Car ‘Honeymoon’ Is Over

Epoch Times ^ | June 8, 2023 | By Daniel Y. Teng

[HartleyMBaldwin]

They are not all idiots in Hollywood. Peter Weller and Brian May come to mind.

Some others are Jeff Baxter from Steely Dan, who has worked as a defense consultant, and John Tichy, a guitarist with Commander Cody. Tichy had a Ph.D. already when he joined the group and later became head of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. And then there's Woody Paul, the fiddler for Riders in the Sky, who holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.

[Sporke]

His daughter is also quite hot!!! :)

[higgmeister]

EVs have their place. But they cannot replace ICE vehicles as the primary autos, it will never be feasible.

(But of course they know that)

They outlaw ICE transportation and EV cars are of course are out of reach for most individuals, then they automatically have their 15 minute cities or starvation for outliers, whichever is expedient.   We are all Eloi.

[AnAmericanMother]

I think there's an economy of scale problem - what's feasible for a large ship is not always down-sizeable.

But modern engineering has solved some of the problems that stymied the Stanley brothers.

According to the author, it was the big wreck in a speed trial that torpedoed the Stanley for the public. He also mentions the *smell* of the kerosene . . . "You could see a Stanley before you heard it, and smell its owner before you saw him."

[higgmeister]

Don't you feel suckered in at least five ways?

You pollute more than your old car because of the initial manufacturing materials and process.

You spent way to much for the privilege of vurtue signaling.

You will experience exponential degradation of the lithium ion batteries.

You now have to worry about your car becoming a Molotov cocktail.

You are going to pollute with the unrecyclable car when you are through with it.

All of that and a few other mendacious deceptions would make me very torqued.   I am jacked up to know they are being sold, just like wind farms and solar panels.

[Tell It Right]

Nothing virtue signaling about my wife's and my decision to go solar and get an EV. It's all about protecting our retirement investments from runaway energy inflation costs by the Dims' stupid war on energy.

It won't work for everybody. All the parameters have to be right for your situation (i.e. climate, plan to be there at least 10 years, your regular power consumption habits, your regular driving habits, if solar on your roof then you need a metal roof so that your solar panels aren't in the way when you replace your shingles in 10 years, etc.). But we just happen to be in that kind of situation. End result, our house is now all electric, most of our driving is in the EV car (which means charging at home unless we take it on a long trip) and, 80% of our power is free from solar.

Thus, when the Dims keep making energy costs go up while also making energy less dependable, it impacts us only 20% as much. That's not virtue signaling. That's protecting my family from some of the government bureaucracy by making us more self-reliant (at least energy-wise). I don't know one lib that takes on more personal responsibility and wean himself from some of the government control over his life.

In that same manner, we're growing more of our own food. I doubt we'll be as self-reliant with our garden. LOL