Amazon is using large Sunbelt Rentals Generators to charge their electric delivery vehicles
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These people are STUPID!
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Electric cars still heavily rely on the petroleum industry. Until one is manufactured that is completely independent from this, I will declare that there are no real electric cars.
Yes. Even if you live in an area with abundant Nuclear, Hydro, or dessert scale Solar, the mining resources and construction of these vehicles heavily relies on machines running on fossil fuels
I could imagine a major mine having its own nuclear reactors though to run their massive machines. But that has yet to happen IIUC
Electric vehicles do not pencil out, never have. But you can’t convince the diehards of that.
Just like those Tesler charging stations they've got along the east coast...
There's always a tan colored 20 foot container with a genny inside because it would cost way too much to bring in power underground.
It's super ghey... and sad/hilarious at the same time. You see them lining up to recharge on the turnpike all the time because there aren't enough charging stations... what a collosal waste of time vs rolling in, filling up and rolling out.
I like the electric vehicles a little more with the silver batteries. But I have always liked the plug in hybrid the best. As the grid gets more robust with nuclear, etc. more good electric cars would allow us to export more oil. Not a current fan of any electric vehicle hauling something.
Hybrid makes sense. Pure lectic not so much.
Yes to all of this.
We made a very small solar-electric car in college. It would never be road safe and would never work with the weight of a normal car. But it was a fun demonstration project. We could get about 100 miles travel at 45mph in the sun. Then we would have to stop for about 6 hours to charge the batteries via the sun.
Hey! At least Amazon is using generators that are painted green! That's gotta count for something! 😁
I feel better already. lol
In Atlas Shrugged and Creature from Jekyll Island, the creation of companies and industries that do nothing but move money to benefit anonymous elites is the game itself, not human decency or logic. The game makes sense if you understand its rules (e.g. indifference to destruction of outsiders), not if you assume the players use the rules you grew up with (e.g. Golden).
lol. The charging stations at the malls in NY have generators running them. You can hear them running inside the little sheds they hide them in.
It’s hilarious and the doofus’s think they are so superior to us plebes as they walk past the mysterious noise…… and they live in the north, generators are heard in every neighborhood every winter storm.
Hilarious.
The misguided are the most smug.
peak clown world
It's not for Walmart. They are getting subsidies for their "green" fleet. I'd bet they get more from the subsidies than it costs to run the generators.
They look like they are at least 125KVA- I worked at a rental company (Sunbelt was a small rival here, then) and replaced the field winding that had been overloaded or shorted-my doing it was a test of my competence and I passed 😁 the 3 running at once is improbable, there has to be switching to allow alternate/all usage, so it can be more efficient.
So stoopid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdOPBP9vuZA