Posted on 12/21/2020 4:15:45 PM PST by george76
Toyota makes a lot of cars, so many that it’s the world’s largest or second-largest auto manufacturer every year.
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So Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda’s comments at the company’s year-end press conference deserve notice and no little amount of respect. He knows more about cars and their economic ecosystem than just about anyone else on the planet.
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“The more EVs we build, the worse carbon dioxide gets… When politicians are out there saying, ‘Let’s get rid of all cars using gasoline,’ do they understand this?”
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failure to count the cost of what politicians are proposing. More EVs will demand more electricity.
Toyoda is getting at two things. One, EVs are not powered by magical unicorn emissions, they are powered by the means we use to generate electricity. In the Japan, the United States, and everywhere else
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Wind is not economically competitive yet, so it’s subsidized by the government. Neither wind nor solar are cheap or reliable enough yet to displace oil and especially natural gas in our grid. The wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. Oil and natural gas always burn.
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The second issue Toyoda is getting at is that petroleum isn’t just a fuel, it’s the foundation of thousands upon thousands of products we rely on every day. Cars alone have plastic and other petroleum-based parts throughout their systems and interiors. There is as of yet no reliable or economical replacement for the petroleum used to manufacture those parts
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Perhaps two of the world’s leading car experts should be listened to before Tokyo, Washington, or any other capital follows California’s lead and bans gas cars without considering the ripple effects.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Well, there is an environmental impact to dams and hydro-electricity; salmon can no longer swim upstream to their spawning grounds, etc...
Jonty, I think you made the mistake of thinking RockyTx was open minded and would consider actual facts, like what Toyota is saying publicly. Apparently he can read minds and divine intent, in spite of the fact that Toyota also makes hybrids and EVs.
He’s just watched too much Star Trek.
Many people need training in economics to have a better understanding why some things, like electrifying society,can’t work. For starters, there is just not enough copper for all that wiring needed or sand for theoretical zero resistance wiring. There also the lack of recognition that hydrocarbon byproducts is 100% recyclable by nature.
It’s the first time I’ve heard that joke. I laughed when I read it.
:-)
+1
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Show us your numbers and help us understand how electronic vehicles are in fact more efficient.
“It’s the first time I’ve heard that joke. I laughed when I read it.”.
It’s been around since the 70’s. Posted at least once on every thread here about EV’s, solar or wind power.
“Show us your numbers and help us understand how electronic vehicles are in fact more efficient.”
Can you multiply?
The future of nuclear is Enhanced Coulomb Repulsion. Google spent $10M on it and has filed several patents.
“+1”
F.
Hysteria? There have been 3 gigantic accidents with fission powered plants, Fukushima, Chernobyl, and 3 Mile Island.
Feel free to buy land inside their exclusion zones if you really believe that baloney.
You’d think New Mexico and the desert states would catch on.
“1. 60% thermal loss at generation plant/
2. 8% loss in transmission lines/
3. 1% loss charging the battery/
4. 7% loss from the electric motors in the car/
Total loss is 76%. (thus 24% makes it to your wheels)”
I only use your numbers for clarity in showing your glaring errors.
If you start with 100% then after 60% loss in generation you have 40% remaining.
If you lose 8% of that 40% in transmission you have 36.8%.
If you lose 1% in charging you have 36.8 x .99 = 36.4% remaining.
If you lose 7% in the motors that is 36.4 x .93 = 33.8% remaining.
33.8%, not 24%.
But Molt Taylor’s 1947 flying car design would overcome that pothole problem. People like AOC are counting on flying cars and building railroad bridges to Hawaii. They don’t even see the irony. There are very few potholes in the open sea.
LOL! Peak oil copper.
Obviously written by a layman with no nuclear power knowledge.
Show everyone how it is incorrect. Maybe it’s only 23% instead of 24%, thus making your statement true but your point false.
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