True, but there are multiple ways to generate electricity.
How many ways are there to create gasoline?
Compare the number of moving parts in a ICE vs an EV, include the transmission
Compare the maintenance schedule, and expected motor life
What is on the road, battery technology wise, is not the same thing that is going to be on the road in 2-3 years. Everything is changing, as it was intended. What was once dirty - is becoming clean. Compare Coal fired power plants of the 1950's to the Coal plants in use today.
Are they the perfect solution to everyone, today? Nope
But, for us old geezers who remember when microwaves were thousands of dollars, and quickly heated hotdogs and cupcakes in the store demo - what tomorrow holds will be amazing.
I honestly don't know whether there are multiple ways to generate gasoline. Aren't people skeptical about it deriving from dinosaur fossils? What's the cost, including environmental, of batteries?
Motor life? I don't think we have a handle on the electrical motor life. The combustion engine has shown very good motor life. If you take care of it, and it was designed well, decades, maybe even centuries. I would much rather depend on a mechanical engine as opposed to one which requires a bunch of chips. Think about your electric vehicle trying to operate when it encounters a blue screen. At that point it's pretty much a paper weight. And I'll admit that I'm assuming that most, if not all, electric vehicles these days are very dependent on on-board computers, more so than non-electric vehicles though even non-electric vehicles these days are probably pretty dependent on on-board computers.
I admit I would like a little EV if I lived in a dense city, but also keeping my gas car just in case. When SHTF, fire > electricity. But the fact that they want to force people in rural or completely undeveloped areas all around the globe to drive EVs too shows that they intend to take cars and automobiles away from the masses and keep them for the elites and the Outer Party that serves them.
Hybrids more versatile than a straight EV because you aren't at the mercy of finding a charging station like the idiot in the vid. Hybrid best of both worlds, most efficient in traffic & city speeds plus pollution kept low. IC engine when you can use it most efficiently on open road. Now, if someone would make a diesel hybrid I might buy one.
I’m with you. If you have solar panels on your roof and have enough excess power to charge a little around town vehicle that’s awesome. I’m waiting for better battery technology before I’ll pull the trigger on one but I’d love to have a Tesla and a truck. It just makes sense for a contingency plan. For me it boils down to getting the hell off the grid and being insulated from potential fuckery from China.
This fool probably doesn't realize that 80% or so of the electric generation comes from coal and natural gas. These people really are dopes.
True, but there are multiple ways to generate electricity.
How many ways are there to create gasoline? Compare the number of moving parts in a ICE vs an EV, include the transmission Compare the maintenance schedule, and expected motor life
What is on the road, battery technology wise, is not the same thing that is going to be on the road in 2-3 years. Everything is changing, as it was intended. What was once dirty - is becoming clean. Compare Coal fired power plants of the 1950's to the Coal plants in use today.
Are they the perfect solution to everyone, today? Nope But, for us old geezers who remember when microwaves were thousands of dollars, and quickly heated hotdogs and cupcakes in the store demo - what tomorrow holds will be amazing.
I honestly don't know whether there are multiple ways to generate gasoline. Aren't people skeptical about it deriving from dinosaur fossils? What's the cost, including environmental, of batteries?
Motor life? I don't think we have a handle on the electrical motor life. The combustion engine has shown very good motor life. If you take care of it, and it was designed well, decades, maybe even centuries. I would much rather depend on a mechanical engine as opposed to one which requires a bunch of chips. Think about your electric vehicle trying to operate when it encounters a blue screen. At that point it's pretty much a paper weight. And I'll admit that I'm assuming that most, if not all, electric vehicles these days are very dependent on on-board computers, more so than non-electric vehicles though even non-electric vehicles these days are probably pretty dependent on on-board computers.
I admit I would like a little EV if I lived in a dense city, but also keeping my gas car just in case. When SHTF, fire > electricity. But the fact that they want to force people in rural or completely undeveloped areas all around the globe to drive EVs too shows that they intend to take cars and automobiles away from the masses and keep them for the elites and the Outer Party that serves them.
Hybrids more versatile than a straight EV because you aren't at the mercy of finding a charging station like the idiot in the vid. Hybrid best of both worlds, most efficient in traffic & city speeds plus pollution kept low. IC engine when you can use it most efficiently on open road. Now, if someone would make a diesel hybrid I might buy one.
I’m with you. If you have solar panels on your roof and have enough excess power to charge a little around town vehicle that’s awesome. I’m waiting for better battery technology before I’ll pull the trigger on one but I’d love to have a Tesla and a truck. It just makes sense for a contingency plan. For me it boils down to getting the hell off the grid and being insulated from potential fuckery from China.