Posted on 04/13/2022 2:29:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
It seems that no one can ever do quite enough to satisfy the demands of professional complainers. Not even Elon Musk, world-famous promoter of electric vehicles. He was met rudely by protesters at the grand opening of his Tesla assembly plant, just outside Berlin, during recent ceremonies: "...it [the plant] has faced opposition and some environmental activists blocked the factory’s entrance while displaying banners flagging its high water use…”
All said and done, it should become clear to various parties that the newer generation of electric vehicles is no better, environmentally speaking, than late-model automobiles powered by the much-maligned internal combustion engine. The goal of saving the Earth from ungrounded fears of “climate disruption” attending CO2 emissions pales in contrast to the massive disruptions by a transportation system whose dependence on EVs that will trigger dreaded brownouts.
Modern EVs share inherent shortcomings with their dowdy ancestors. I recall my father pointing out a relic black Baker electric (made circa 1910–14) as it trundled down our street. It resembled a hearse more than a car. Obviously, 2022 Teslas far outperform the Baker, but both the Baker in its own time and today’s nifty Teslas require lengthy recharging when the batteries run low. More about that detail a little later.
Here’s another sobering thought for EV prospects in northerly climes. There is no waste heat from onboard fuel combustion to warm the car’s interior. Both warm and cool air must come from a heat pump operated parasitically with current drawn from the battery pack, whose stored energy is intended primarily for vehicle propulsion. Diverting power to accessories decreases the driving range below its advertised value, and substantially during very cold or very hot weather.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Saw TWO Teslas yesterday within TWO MILES of each other on the side of the road! Weird.
We all know this its about control, control energy control the population, there is no plan to replace just a plan to control
Edison spend big chunk of his fortune to try to make an electric car. Could not compete with gas.
His biggest loss.
Tesla is rated second to last in quality/reliability among all car makers.
Forgot who is the last one.
OMG! REALLY?
You can pay cash for gas at any ubiquitous gas station. You can even bring cans and keep some extra in your garage.
You can only charge a car at a fast charger with a credit card/phone. They know where you are and can stop your travel if they want. So much easier.
My 2016 ICE automobile gets 29.2 MPG city driving. This is real world and according to my gauges. Good enough to me to not want an EV. But if I were going to buy one, I would get the EV Hyundai Kona. Get a new one. The first models had problems from what I can see
Living with Hyundai Kona Electric EV| Auto Expert John Cadogan (Australia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w39ALqowjf0
Even today Kalifornia has regular blackouts and brownouts due to inadequate power supplies...and about 3% of their vehicles are EVs. What happens when it's 5%...25%...50%???
It just won't work...ever!
There's a reason why Duesenberg SJ's, custom coached Packards, V16 Cadillacs, among others, are routinely million plus dollar cars and vintage electric cars aren't.
The public didn't want them then, when the market was determined by choice, and many don't want them today especially with the market driven by BigGov.
New law requires ALL cars will have a remote stop ability for police.
Demand for Tesla cars is high, including their $250,000 Sportster. 6 month wait minimum. All “buy choice”.
Husband in one car and wife in the other, now all you got to do is figure out which one was chasing after the other.
Now there's a vehicle that will fail miserably when BigGov mandates all vans/pickups be electric.
My common 3000+ mile roadtrips will take weeks rather than days to complete once we're forced to go electric.
Most buyers of electric cars are enabling an out of control government, buying into the climate change lie.
“EVs, however, are not green. A half million pounds of earth has to be dug up for just one battery pack which must be moved for processing in huge (diesel-powered) trucks, crushed and then wildly-toxic chemicals used to extract the ores — specifically lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and others. None of this occurs with a traditional vehicle. The packs are not economically recyclable and requiring them to be will wildly escalate their costs further. Charging said vehicle is approximately equal to running your electric clothes dryer all night long, and the cost of power when you’re not at home is roughly double to triple when you use a “supercharger” or similar; this makes the cost on a per-mile basis higher than that of a gas car in many cases.
We do not have the electrical capacity nor is there any way to generate it using so-called “green” methods to charge these vehicles if a material percentage of the fleet converts. Without power you own a $50,000 brick and being “out” means not going anywhere. What’s worse is that the existing fueling stations are used by a vehicle for about 5 minutes; conservatively it requires 30 minutes to get usable range from an EV, so contemplate where you’re going to get six times the land you have for each fuel station now, plus you will need to place them twice as close together as the average EV range is half or less that of a gasoline vehicle.
The truth is that modern automobile gasoline engines are about as efficient as can be achieved. CO2, which is the only primary emission of modern closed-loop gasoline engines, is not a pollutant — it is plant food and emitted by every animal as well. Simply put your gasoline car is far greener, all-in, than is your EV. Sorry, facts are facts folks and we don’t use liquid hydrocarbons because we’re pigs. We use them because nobody has come up with an actual workable and cost-effective alternative.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=245556
Just wait for the self drivers.
They could lock the doors and drive you to the nearest police station!
Cue the picture of an auto club service truck on the roadside attached to a trailer upon which sits a running diesel powered generator that is charging an EV. Too funny ...
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