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 ...
I don’t need to be the first out of the gate at a red light. I need to be able to drive one way 350 miles to Jasper, a 3 hour gas car trip, in about 3 hours. I don’t need to drive for 150 miles and then take 3 hours to charge and then drive another 150 miles and take another 3 hours to charge.
Akio Toyoda and Elon Musk = Two common sense people.
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S.F. (Sylvanus Freelove) Bowser sold his newly invented kerosene pump to the owner of a grocery store in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on September 5, 1885. Less than two decades later, the first purposely built drive-in gasoline service station opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Something anyone who passes EE 101 knows. (EE 101 is also a course that Dorkbama & minions would drop after week 1.)
Another duhh..moment.
ROTFLMAO! From your site:
First Drive-In Service Station
Although Standard Oil will claim a Seattle, Washington, station of 1907, and others argue about one in St. Louis two years earlier, most agree that when “Good Gulf Gasoline” went on sale, Gulf Refining Company opened America’s first true drive-in service station.
AND-—While that apartment dweller is at work-—WHO will be charging THEIR car & stealing that power?????
Then you know that oil is not used in our grid:
Neither wind nor solar are cheap or reliable enough yet to displace oil and especially natural gas in our grid
And milk comes from Safeway.
Within 4 years, they will BAN Christmas lights.....
Can’t we just put windmills on the cars. That way, the faster they drive, the more electricity they produce. Same for solar. Put a bright light on the solar panels for night time operation. The plan has already been approved by AOC.
“Toyota CEO Agrees With Elon Musk: We Don’t Have Enough Electricity to Electrify All the Cars”
There’s more than enough if you simply tap into it. Think Nikola Tesla and the Pierce Arrow in ‘34.
” I don’t need to be the first out of the gate at a red light. I need to be able to drive one way 350 miles to Jasper, a 3 hour gas car trip, in about 3 hours. I don’t need to drive for 150 miles and then take 3 hours to charge and then drive another 150 miles and take another 3 hours to charge.”
ROTFLMAO! Tesla Model 3 has a range of 353 miles.
“Can’t we just put windmills on the cars.”
That wasn’t funny the last 100 times you posted it.
Sure. Warm summer. Tailwind. Downhill.
That still means a much longer trip than a gas car would take.
“AND-—While that apartment dweller is at work-—WHO will be charging THEIR car & stealing that power?????”
hmmm. I wonder how they. keep people from stealing gas at gas stations ....
Keep pingin me to all this electric car nonsense. Lyft is bragging about forcing all their drivers to switch to EV in the next few years. Sometimes I think some Americans are getting infected with the virus that makes them terminally stupid!!!
It’s the first time I’m hearing the joke.
So, hee Hee Hee.
“Sure. Warm summer. Tailwind. Downhill.”
Stick with the facts.
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