I don't have EV so I didn't know. Used to wonder how far it can go and where are all these charging stations just as logistic considerations. When I don't see bunches of charging stations, I decided the best I can do is the hybrid, then I heard about the battery problem.
Lithium mining is MUCH more harmful to the environment than oil. BTW, oil is NOT a fossil fuel, the earth makes more every day. Do you know what IS a fossil fuel...yep, Lithium.
When you put it in a battery that powers a car it becomes a fuel, correct? There is a finite amount of lithium on earth so by definition it is a "fossil fuel".
I think it's a feature. In Portland, they have a train called "Max" that runs on electric, every the weather dips below 32 degree Fahrenheit, expect problems.
What's amazing is Car and Driver did a stupid piece awhile back about how actually/allegedly using the battery generates heat so cold weather use of EVs is just fine, and it's a myth otherwise etc. I was like WTF are you idiots (like everything MSM, they toe the MSM/advertisers line) talking about. And here we are....
(Brock Yates - organizer of the Cannonball NY-LA races - is probably spinning in his grave at what C/D has become.)
What mag would you recommend today? I used to get them all at various times: Car and Driver, Road and Track, Motor Trend. My last was Automobile, even though it was somewhat hoity-toity in its demeanor. It did not survive a publisher's culling of low-popularity titles and the lofty opinionators are now silent as tombs.
I don't have one really. I quit doing print ones, as there is too little content to justify buying anything. I quit reading R&T site after one too many woke takes on things, and C/D is starting to push it (recent piece called Musk a loser of the year "because Twitter, enough said" (at least several commenters beside myself called them out on this). MT was always TOO obvious about being commercials for everything (they all are but it was always insane, and the obvious reason for their low-ass price). I agree Automobile was always too hoity-toity LOL. I used to read Excellence and have quite the stack of those, but haven't bothered so much as it got thinner, anything current is typically SUV crap, resto-mod's make me throw up (Singer can go to hell), etc.
The sad thing is, print journalism used to be good, magazines (ad revenue) thick, etc, and almost nothing has this kind of content anymore. The one mag I was still buying on the newsstand from time to time was Vintage Guitar, which apparently that market still keeps alive, but they screwed the pooch by, at the end of a "what is Clapton up to these days" piece said "I just wish he'd wear a damn mask." I sent them a scorching email about keeping the politics out of shit esp when the dude is vax-damaged and everything, and how I will never give them another cent.
Heh, I did buy a copy of Rimfire awhile back since they had a bunch of heavy-barrel target-type ones on the cover and I figured that would be interesting reading (it was).
And yeah, it's a total pity. Online writing doesn't really allow for the read-with-your-feet-up kind of stories and columns print does. You think about guys like Peter Egan for example, that's simply not going to happen again, unless somehow we go back. Guys like that would be writing about cars or whatever, sure, but they were writing about life, people, the world, etc too.
I hear some of the club magazines, like BMW Roundel or whatever, are where some the guys still in the business have gravitated to btw. (I knew a guy who'd been at Automobile - of all of them ha - for some time a couple jobs ago, so that's who mentioned this. He was interesting - he of course drove some hot shit from time to time. Example: he said of the 427 Cobra, he thought the clutch was gone and totally slipping, and the guy behind him said no you keep roasting the tires.)
LOL maybe? So I asked the guy in all the wild stuff he drove (he was with the mag for 11y)(and no they don't get a get-out-of-jail-free card road testing of course) what were some interesting things you might not guess, and he said 2 things, one the 289 Cobra is a way better balanced car and still very fast, and two, Ferraris are totally hit/miss, like one will be fantastic and another model a total dog, but Porsches are always the same, you can drive a 356 or a modern one and the feel/DNA is basically the same (in my limited experience, true, I drove one 70s 911 once, a couple 928s, and had a 944). I wonder if this still holds true with the current generations/sedan shit etc....
As kids, I used to turn off the audio on all my gameboys to keep the batteries lasting longer.
With a EV In 0° temps... you have to turn off the audio and heat to get the most out of your battery life...
Nope. No thanks.
I don't have EV so I didn't know. Used to wonder how far it can go and where are all these charging stations just as logistic considerations. When I don't see bunches of charging stations, I decided the best I can do is the hybrid, then I heard about the battery problem.
No thanks
Lithium mining is MUCH more harmful to the environment than oil. BTW, oil is NOT a fossil fuel, the earth makes more every day. Do you know what IS a fossil fuel...yep, Lithium.
I know about the harm about mining Lithium.
Did you just tell me fossil fuel is Lithium? Can I have some info on that please?
It's used as "fuel" for batteries and there is a "finite" amount on earth, ergo it is a "fossil fuel".
Lithium is an element on the periodic table. Its not a fossil fuel.
When you put it in a battery that powers a car it becomes a fuel, correct? There is a finite amount of lithium on earth so by definition it is a "fossil fuel".
I'll bite. How is lithium a "fossil" fuel? (A "fuel," yes, because it is in practice unsustainable.)
You answered your own question.
They need a Honda generator.
I heard that b4. Thanks.
example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJfjrgEq34
Sucks to suuuck
Is it a bug, or is it a feature?
I think it's a feature. In Portland, they have a train called "Max" that runs on electric, every the weather dips below 32 degree Fahrenheit, expect problems.
Add it to the list!
Please add to "DO NOT BUY" list
What's amazing is Car and Driver did a stupid piece awhile back about how actually/allegedly using the battery generates heat so cold weather use of EVs is just fine, and it's a myth otherwise etc. I was like WTF are you idiots (like everything MSM, they toe the MSM/advertisers line) talking about. And here we are....
(Brock Yates - organizer of the Cannonball NY-LA races - is probably spinning in his grave at what C/D has become.)
Oh my God. What a stupid ass to say that battery generates heat so cold will work better.
Just try using Christmas light with battery inside the home vs outside and see how long the battery last. Simple and free experiments.
Dumb *f, even 5 graders should know.
Yup.
What mag would you recommend today? I used to get them all at various times: Car and Driver, Road and Track, Motor Trend. My last was Automobile, even though it was somewhat hoity-toity in its demeanor. It did not survive a publisher's culling of low-popularity titles and the lofty opinionators are now silent as tombs.
I don't have one really. I quit doing print ones, as there is too little content to justify buying anything. I quit reading R&T site after one too many woke takes on things, and C/D is starting to push it (recent piece called Musk a loser of the year "because Twitter, enough said" (at least several commenters beside myself called them out on this). MT was always TOO obvious about being commercials for everything (they all are but it was always insane, and the obvious reason for their low-ass price). I agree Automobile was always too hoity-toity LOL. I used to read Excellence and have quite the stack of those, but haven't bothered so much as it got thinner, anything current is typically SUV crap, resto-mod's make me throw up (Singer can go to hell), etc.
The sad thing is, print journalism used to be good, magazines (ad revenue) thick, etc, and almost nothing has this kind of content anymore. The one mag I was still buying on the newsstand from time to time was Vintage Guitar, which apparently that market still keeps alive, but they screwed the pooch by, at the end of a "what is Clapton up to these days" piece said "I just wish he'd wear a damn mask." I sent them a scorching email about keeping the politics out of shit esp when the dude is vax-damaged and everything, and how I will never give them another cent.
Wow. Thanks for the overview. What a pity. About the only magazines I keep now are gun and aerospace magazines.
Heh, I did buy a copy of Rimfire awhile back since they had a bunch of heavy-barrel target-type ones on the cover and I figured that would be interesting reading (it was).
And yeah, it's a total pity. Online writing doesn't really allow for the read-with-your-feet-up kind of stories and columns print does. You think about guys like Peter Egan for example, that's simply not going to happen again, unless somehow we go back. Guys like that would be writing about cars or whatever, sure, but they were writing about life, people, the world, etc too.
I hear some of the club magazines, like BMW Roundel or whatever, are where some the guys still in the business have gravitated to btw. (I knew a guy who'd been at Automobile - of all of them ha - for some time a couple jobs ago, so that's who mentioned this. He was interesting - he of course drove some hot shit from time to time. Example: he said of the 427 Cobra, he thought the clutch was gone and totally slipping, and the guy behind him said no you keep roasting the tires.)
To borrow a line, "Some day, my prince will come."
LOL maybe? So I asked the guy in all the wild stuff he drove (he was with the mag for 11y)(and no they don't get a get-out-of-jail-free card road testing of course) what were some interesting things you might not guess, and he said 2 things, one the 289 Cobra is a way better balanced car and still very fast, and two, Ferraris are totally hit/miss, like one will be fantastic and another model a total dog, but Porsches are always the same, you can drive a 356 or a modern one and the feel/DNA is basically the same (in my limited experience, true, I drove one 70s 911 once, a couple 928s, and had a 944). I wonder if this still holds true with the current generations/sedan shit etc....