Posted on 08/22/2024 8:00:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’ll be traveling through northern Washington and Idaho next week for my job. I booked hotels yesterday. The towns I would be staying in had no more than three hotels. One had none. I booked at a log lodge.
I’m kinda doubting a huge EV infrastructure.
Where’s the map of ‘60’s era muscles cars with over 400hp?
Now THERE’S a stat I’d be interested in!
...that and rubber band powered balsa wood airplanes of course.
So much more interesting than coal powered Johnny Cabs
Ignorance and virtue signaling are powerful emotional forces.
However Tesla is the exception. Tesla is the cutting edge of automotive and semi truck technology.
Tesla has a heat pump
Once you get off a rural interstate, there is none unless it is a place where the elite meet to eat.
If electric cars are so great why did not the Citicar take off like a rocket back in 1975? I saw plenty of them on new car lots but never one on the streets. Never.
Good grief. ECAT is a scam that has been going around for a LONG time. I remember being intrigued by it at least 12-15 years ago. If it was real it would have changed the world a long time ago. Astonished to see it pop up yet again.
The absurdities of one of these EVs should have been evident to most folks long ago. If everything went exactly as planned, they would probably still be not quite as efficient as a ICE vehicle, but there are always unexpected little things that turn up requiring extra power. Temperature changes, hills, extra stops & more. Not much of a problem with ICEs. In a near-ideal situation using an EV, I would think the initial cost, & later on the cost of a replacement battery (especially with a used vehicle) would keep the average driver from ever owning one. As I see it (for the average person) there is no good reason to ever own an EV.
Beyond question, there is more interest and positive published reports now in the field of cold fusion or LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) than ever before. Will Andrea Rossi and his ECAT prove out? I suspect that he is onto something. As most any patent lawyer or biographer can tell you, inventors tend to be squirrely and troublesome people, so I am inclined to make allowances for Rossi and await developments.
I knew it, you are a comedy writer.
This isn't a case of having a long gestation time - either a prototype works transparently, or it doesn't and its all smoke and mirrors. You are literally regurgitating the same names and jargon I was investigating 15 years ago! I'm impressed at the durability of this scam.
Just what do you dispute as a scam? The positive reports of cold fusion and LENR? Or just the ECAT and Andrea Rossi? And, if results are your measure, isn’t hot fusion the greater, longer, and more expensive scam in that decades and many billions of dollars have been spent without a single commercially viable hot fusion prototype reactor yet appearing?
That helps a little, depending on climate.
I would advise you that some enlightenment on the subject of Tesla technical superiority is in order. Tesla is in fact the current leader in manufacturing and design technology.
I fully understand your erroneous belief in the status of the Big Three American auto manufacturers. I don’t hold that against you because learning about Tesla superiority requires some effort and study beyond the ordinary day to day. It also requires some knowledge base that you apparently don’t have regarding many technical matters.
Lastly, on a collateral subject, the other Elon Musk company SpaceX is the de facto current leader in rocket and space technology in the world. SpaceX has beat NASA, Boeing, and Russia in space vehicles. It is therefore not wise to be out of hand dismissive of Tesla.
I have no interest in EV’s as agents of change or saving the world with climate change. I merely point out that there is far more to Tesla than the failed and incompetent efforts of Ford, GM and Stelantis to attempt the electrification of their vehicles.
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