Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Let’s put the cost factor in there. No one has come up with the actual cost to fuel these beasts.
what happens when there’s no coal and nuke plants? What happens indeed?
Turd world government here we come.
BS
Power station Don’t burn gasoline, they burn NG. Cars don’t burn NG, they burn gasoline. The author is introducing a confusion factor to suck in the gullible.
Does anyone have a stopwatch as to when two individuals on FR, enter this thread to tell anyone who doesn’t worship Elon Musk and EVs, they’re a Neanderthal.
Mmmkay, gotta start somewhere I guess…
If I eat 5 pounds of rice instead of 5 pounds of pasta, I’ve saved 5 pounds of pasta.
This irks me the most - you and I are subsidizing all those Teslas on the road.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Unbelievable.
Should read -
Saving America with Electric Chairs
I am not sure what the converter from coal/natural gas fired plant is to EV.
I mean this. If 20 gallons of oil is good for 500 miles is a convention car, how much extra coal or natural gas is used to get that same 500 miles in a similar car?
I figure that a power plant rarely operates at 100% capacity. stuff is burned, a giant turbine is turned, electricity is created. Is more coal burned during peak operation to turn the turbine faster, or to turn more of them?
Also, once the energy is converted electricity, is an electric motor more efficient than a internal combustion engine. A Chevy Volt had its gas to electricity on board. A miniature power plant, if you will, and its gasoline to electricity output appeared decent. I would think that a giant power plant would be even more efficent, of course the distance the power travels can come into play. No one on either side ever suggests a range of tangible numbers for the consumption of regular folks.
My question put another way is, does 100,000 btu of coal to create electricity to move a car move it farther than 100,000 btu of oil?
/Sarc
EV’s do save gas. Because of range anxiety, owners don’t travel much, staying off the road when they’d otherwise be burning gas.
And where is the analysis that shows how much energy is expended creating the batteries, wind towers and solar collectors?
We need a perpetual energy source, a perpetual motion machine.
It seems like everytime we exert effort to distill alcohol or transmit electricity or move energy fro a to b we lose a little.
That has got to stop. sarc needed?
Technology isn’t here yet,
Ideal would be electric, with Hydrogen based fuel cells.
We just can’t capture all the energy the sun gives us.
If we could, it would be Jake.
It isn’t wind, and our solar cells ain’t all that great.
Need fusion power, miniature suns. Other than bombs we aren’t doing very good with fusion.
That’s not even looking at what it takes to get this battery technology out there. I’m willing to bet that it is zero gallons, or near that when you add it all up.
Wait till they realize there is only enough lithium to power 10B leaf cars. I think tesla uses larger batteries, so fewer cars.
How well does Earth absorb lithium abuse?