I drive mostly on electric, and it is pretty sweet.
I am not a fan of the internal combustion engine. It needs a fuel/air mixture system, a lubrication system, a cooling system, and an electric spark system. They need constant maintenance. The fuel goes bad if you let it sit too long and will clog everything up.
A pure electric car makes you dependent on the power grid, though. It would be tough to get enough solar up to be able to charge your car.
But honestly there is nothing you can do about it. Electric vehicles are coming. When they improve the batteries everybody will go for it.
OK, but if you always only point out an internal combustion engine's bad parts and EV's good parts you will never see the whole truth.
For instance, people point out that fossil fuels are finite so one day we will run out so we should stop using them now. However, they never point out that materials for electric motors and batteries are also finite so one day we will run out.
They also assume that all the energy charging those batteries is from a "renewable" resource. However, those renewable resources need solar panels, mirrors, wind turbines and batteries to make them work. All those rely on materials dug from the ground so they are also finite.
Also, no-one ever seems to work out how much land will be consumed by those solar or wind farms. Replacing one coal-fired power station with four hundred square miles of mirrors may be impractical for many countries - and what about the environmental impact?
Then we are told that wind and sunlight are free but so is coal and oil! The cost comes when you try to convert what you started with into electricity.
Then there is the tax issue. The price to the consumer includes taxes. When the government can no longer collect those taxes what do you expect will happen? Will they say we don't need those taxes any more or will they just be added to "renewable" energy bills instead?
My care doesn't need "constant maintenance." In over two years of ownership, I've gotten one oil change. I might need another one next year. I haven't even washed it, as it rains often enough. The gas won't ever go bad, as I have to fill up at least once a month. BTW, my riding lawnmower sat idle over the late fall, winter, and early spring with gas in it. I started it up for the first time this season, and it started up just like new, even though it's 3 or 4 years old and is always put away for the winter with gas in the tank.
An electric car needs maintenance and lubrication.
There's not an electric car on the market that can go as far on a charge as my car can go on a tank of gas. And I can fill it up in 5 minutes at millions of gas stations. The electric car takes more time to charge, and there are limited locations. There are only two charging stations in my whole county. So don't come here.
"If" they improve the batteries enough to matter. But they will still be made of noxious metals mined in third-world countries by children with no future except death by poisoning.
An electric car would only be worth my notice if it could go further than my gas car, takes only 5 minutes for a full charge, and the batteries lasted the life of the car. You can buy a used gas car for the price of a Tesla battery replacement.
Gasoline automobiles will be around for a long time. I expect to be driving mine for another 8 or 10 years.
Why not hydrogen? Plenty of people have made engines that run off water and oil companies buy the patents and hide them or the inventor is just straight up killed. I'd prefer to be able to fill my tank up with my garden hose for like 2 cents. Let's quit playing their game on their board.
No such thing as real perpetual motion. Splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen uses more energy than you get back when they recombine. It's a proven losing battle.
Sounds like a dupont response. There have been quite a few water engines created that work, so someone is lying and my money is on the scientific community.
Not DuPont, but actual science. It takes more energy to split water than you get back. There are losses in every process. In the physical world, it's called friction, and air resistance, and heat loss. You have to keep adding energy from somewhere else.
In the case of nuclear energy, the energy was added to the radioactive elements at the point of creation. In the case of wind and hydroelectric power, the energy is added by the sun.
That "plenty of people" you cite don't exist, and you can't prove otherwise. There has never been one of those engines shown to work without added energy from somewhere. Some people are very clever at hiding the source of the added energy, but a careful examination shows. The problem is that the ones you know about probably never submitted their engine to a thorough examination by competent people.
In short, you are absolutely wrong about having an engine that you can run from the water hose.
I drive a 23 year old crown victoria. It has 110,000 miles and the engine will likely last 300k. Not the prettiest car BUT, I do industrial maintenance and get dirty at work and would rather not get into a newer car. Also, I have v8 power and still get over 20 mpg, parts are cheap when something does break, it's an easy car to work on, and if someone dings my door at the grocery store I don't care at all.
This is true. My power comes from water power though.
I drive mostly on electric, and it is pretty sweet.
I am not a fan of the internal combustion engine. It needs a fuel/air mixture system, a lubrication system, a cooling system, and an electric spark system. They need constant maintenance. The fuel goes bad if you let it sit too long and will clog everything up.
A pure electric car makes you dependent on the power grid, though. It would be tough to get enough solar up to be able to charge your car.
But honestly there is nothing you can do about it. Electric vehicles are coming. When they improve the batteries everybody will go for it.
OK, but if you always only point out an internal combustion engine's bad parts and EV's good parts you will never see the whole truth.
For instance, people point out that fossil fuels are finite so one day we will run out so we should stop using them now. However, they never point out that materials for electric motors and batteries are also finite so one day we will run out.
They also assume that all the energy charging those batteries is from a "renewable" resource. However, those renewable resources need solar panels, mirrors, wind turbines and batteries to make them work. All those rely on materials dug from the ground so they are also finite.
Also, no-one ever seems to work out how much land will be consumed by those solar or wind farms. Replacing one coal-fired power station with four hundred square miles of mirrors may be impractical for many countries - and what about the environmental impact?
Then we are told that wind and sunlight are free but so is coal and oil! The cost comes when you try to convert what you started with into electricity.
Then there is the tax issue. The price to the consumer includes taxes. When the government can no longer collect those taxes what do you expect will happen? Will they say we don't need those taxes any more or will they just be added to "renewable" energy bills instead?
You are assuming I like electric vehicles because I am an emotional sandal-wearing tree-hugger. I assure you I am not.
I'm an old man who hates lawn mowers that don't start. Because ICEs are shit.
Or, like myself, don't want to pay the price at the pump. $10-20ish/month for charging, not bad at all.
What I dislike most about the EV vs Gas debate is that no one talks about why we aren't using nuclear energy.
Uhhh because shit happens we are all human and accidents happen!
Nuclear is just an over priced steam engine. How about the countless water engines that have been hidden from us? Hydrogen is by far the best option.
I am another old man who hates cars that don't start because the battery is flat!
My care doesn't need "constant maintenance." In over two years of ownership, I've gotten one oil change. I might need another one next year. I haven't even washed it, as it rains often enough. The gas won't ever go bad, as I have to fill up at least once a month. BTW, my riding lawnmower sat idle over the late fall, winter, and early spring with gas in it. I started it up for the first time this season, and it started up just like new, even though it's 3 or 4 years old and is always put away for the winter with gas in the tank.
An electric car needs maintenance and lubrication.
There's not an electric car on the market that can go as far on a charge as my car can go on a tank of gas. And I can fill it up in 5 minutes at millions of gas stations. The electric car takes more time to charge, and there are limited locations. There are only two charging stations in my whole county. So don't come here.
"If" they improve the batteries enough to matter. But they will still be made of noxious metals mined in third-world countries by children with no future except death by poisoning.
An electric car would only be worth my notice if it could go further than my gas car, takes only 5 minutes for a full charge, and the batteries lasted the life of the car. You can buy a used gas car for the price of a Tesla battery replacement.
Gasoline automobiles will be around for a long time. I expect to be driving mine for another 8 or 10 years.
Yes and then they will jack the price of Electricity through the roof!
Why not hydrogen? Plenty of people have made engines that run off water and oil companies buy the patents and hide them or the inventor is just straight up killed. I'd prefer to be able to fill my tank up with my garden hose for like 2 cents. Let's quit playing their game on their board.
No such thing as real perpetual motion. Splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen uses more energy than you get back when they recombine. It's a proven losing battle.
Sounds like a dupont response. There have been quite a few water engines created that work, so someone is lying and my money is on the scientific community.
Not DuPont, but actual science. It takes more energy to split water than you get back. There are losses in every process. In the physical world, it's called friction, and air resistance, and heat loss. You have to keep adding energy from somewhere else.
In the case of nuclear energy, the energy was added to the radioactive elements at the point of creation. In the case of wind and hydroelectric power, the energy is added by the sun.
That "plenty of people" you cite don't exist, and you can't prove otherwise. There has never been one of those engines shown to work without added energy from somewhere. Some people are very clever at hiding the source of the added energy, but a careful examination shows. The problem is that the ones you know about probably never submitted their engine to a thorough examination by competent people.
In short, you are absolutely wrong about having an engine that you can run from the water hose.
I drive a 23 year old crown victoria. It has 110,000 miles and the engine will likely last 300k. Not the prettiest car BUT, I do industrial maintenance and get dirty at work and would rather not get into a newer car. Also, I have v8 power and still get over 20 mpg, parts are cheap when something does break, it's an easy car to work on, and if someone dings my door at the grocery store I don't care at all.