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What EVs have you driven?
What EVs have you driven?
Why not have both? Competition brings progress and lower prices. Not sure why you wouldn’t want that.
Fossil fuels - plants take CO2, we use the resulting fuel and release the CO2 - plants use the CO2 to grow. Ideal!
sure, but considering that an area in the US equivalent to the entire state of Kansas is currently under cultivation for ethanol and its barely making a dent. Now when you add in fertilizer, diesel for the machines to run the farms, fertilizer inputs etc its just not that productive and without subsidies its a dead duck. We need energy density to run our world, there literally isnt enough arable land to meet energy needs and feed us.
I can confidently say I'm never owning another gas powered car/SUV again. I will probably have a diesel SUV or truck for towing but for a commuter point A to B car, I see no point in gas for my use cases. Wake up with a full charge, no oil changes, no oil leaks, never change brake pads, less carcinogens. I don't care what people think, I'll be enjoying my commute.
I can confidently say I'm never owning another gas powered car/SUV again. I will probably have a diesel SUV or truck for towing but for a commuter point A to B car, I see no point in gas for my use cases. Wake up with a full charge, no oil changes, no oil leaks, never change brake pads, less carcinogens. I don't care what people think, I'll be enjoying my commute.
There are so many problems with EV's that the current media and political hype ignores. They are great for specific applications and do have many positives but lets not pretend they are something they are not. There will be no large scale energy "transition" to green and so called sustainable energy sources, its simply not physically possible. EV's have been the next big thing since 1910, they are an insignificant part of the market, Tesla is bombing, Ford make something like a 62k net loss on each EV 150 that rolls out the door but the numbers dont lie, the energy and material inputs to make an EV are not scalable enough for the world as we know it. Dont even mention the energy grid upgrades and powerplants required to run an EV fleet. Finally for those Chinaphobes out there, they produce pretty much all i.e. 90% plus of the worlds and US supply of neodymium magnets which are crucial to EV's so how about that for "security" There are some really awesome high performance EV's out there but all of them obey the laws of physics with regard to energy density, for the most part EV's as far motorcycle enthusiasts are concerned are souless appliances. I dont care how fast a toaster does the 1/4 mile