Posted on 12/21/2024 4:32:48 AM PST by dennisw
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Anti-oil climate activists in Germany fight the "climate crisis" by throwing orange paint over a Tesla Cybertruck, an electric vehicle that does not run on oil.
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In the working world, trucks actually work for a living. The cybertruck is first and foremost designed to work. It is not for driving long distances. It is for use at a job site or in my mind getting around in the Permian Basin oil patch where there are hundreds of mostly white trucks scurrying around on specific missions of the day. Your typical say Ford F150 lacks the general utility offered by the Cyber truck. I'm serious. Check it out. The designers have created something new from scratch I do not own and have no interest in owning a Tesla
Honestly, no, I’ve not investigated. Just went off the general feeling that ICE power is more practical. Will check it out!
EVs absolutely run on oil, gas and coal - once it has been converted to electricity.
Elon Musk recently stated that the AfD (Germany’s non-Leftist party opposed to mass immigration) was the only thing that could save Germany. Perhaps the Fascist Left attacked a Tesla for that reason, rather than “oil”...
Excellent. Beat them with logic and reason. Electric cars are not greener then ice cars.
Also wearing those ridiculous skinny jeans. No man should wear them.
Actually, solar now accounts for MORE THAN 100% of all new electrical capacity. (There are new gas-powered generators, but these less than make up for other closures.) If energy demand goes up, solar gets built, not gas or coal.
The electric grid is not unsurprisingly very efficient otherwise it wouldn’t be used at all for you know bulk power transfers for large loads like building AC and lighting,industrial production, smelting of aluminum, the production of HCL and NAOH...The list is endless.
Natural gas combined cycle turbines are 60% efficient at turning the lower heating value of a fuel into electrons at high voltage. Coal and nuclear are in the 30% ranges but with nukes it’s irrelevant when a million BTU of thermal heat costs a fraction of a cent in uranium fuel costs.
The transmission grid at high voltage AC is a modern marvel of efficiency here again it would not be used by profit seeking companies to sell electrons over if it was not. For distances under 200 miles the losses are 5% or less.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/evs-more-efficient-than-internal-combustion-engines/
This has links to all the actual science. I can confirm that from plug to pack to wheels there is a average of 7% loss over now 30,000+ miles of driving a Tesla. This means the amount of electrons from the plug to fill 50kWh of pack energy took from the plug 7% more fast charging is 10% to 13% is what the BMS has shown at 150+kw rates the slower L2 overnight is more efficient due to heating losses and resistance.
Mine is 95% charged off the solar panels on the roof above it so the grid losses in my case are irrelevant. Same for the inverter losses since the electrons are free given the panels long have paid for themselves in cost and the energy needed to make them they have 20 years of life left giving “free” power they cost 15 cents per watt of capacity new. Less than 5% of all charge put in this model 3 have come from HVDC superchargers the BMS keeps tract of every kWh in and out where it came from and where it went. I have a stable of vehicles the Tesla gets used the most now it’s cheaper per mile than the S60 Volvo of identical size next to it by at least ten times per mile. The Volvo was also $50,000+ new and the Tesla was $28,000 so almost half the capital expense from mile zero it has been cheaper per mile. I thought I would use the S60 for “long road trips” like DFW to New Orleans which is 590 miles one way. The Volvo does it with one fuel stop in Alexandria LA. Turns out Tesla has blanked the interstates with superchargers the model 3 I have does 375 miles full it also will make the DFE to NOLA run with one stop. It’s 9.5 hours in the seat well past my limit of the bladder. So regardless of the Volvo or Model 3 every 3 hours is a stretch/ piss break. Two 15 min supercharger stops for a piss and some snacks or lunch is more than enough to pull inot NOLA with 150+ miles left to drive around town with. Caesars will valet 7 diamonds members for free and charge it to 100% the first night at the property win win in that case. I haven’t taken the S60 out for a road trip in over a year the FSD is priceless on long drives it’s literally hands and foot free for hundreds of miles at a time. I put my Starlink Mini on the back fast and stream Plex or Pluto TV to the dash mounted tablet.
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