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“So what’s charging the batteries right now? What’s the source of electricity?” … wait for it … pic.twitter.com/uBuYKGzouU
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The stupidity. Ouch! It burns!
But it only burns 95% tho…..not 100%!!!
LMFAO….
The stupid, it burns………..95% coal. Bwahaha!
The redesign of the battery placement is stunning. At least with the batteries in the trunk, a person had a chance to escape the smoldering fire. Can’t make this stuff up.
The electric Pinto?
https://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/26/10-000-for-a-pinto-the-cost-of-going-electric-in-1976/
if you rear-end it you get struck by lightning ….
Corvair, as it is a GM product.
The point : we out here in mechanical abilities & understanding the rules of physics regarding energy and it’s uses you all sound like blithering parasitic idiots !
Fact : High School Science – energy cannot be created or destroyed only transformed by science & engineering . It can be wasted or used inefficiently !
Fact : electric propulsion requires fossil , nuclear , solar , wind & hydro electric production to keep it practical and wide spread use .
Be sure to tell home owners to charge their electric cars they must not heat or cool their homes .
That’s what it takes !
All your fuzzy huggy green ideas have one huge problem REALITY
“All your fuzzy huggy green ideas have one huge problem REALITY”
in their morality that’s YOUR problem and you’re evil if you don’t provide them with the solution.
A windmill on your house and solar panels. oh, and a lot more walking or peddling.
Its PFM! Most sheeple have no idea what the local power company uses for supplying power to their homes. Electric cars are not more green or more efficient. It’s a big scam and a lot of sheeple are falling for it! So sad.
One of the interesting schemes (scams?) that Portland (OR) General Electric was running about 12 years ago was charging an extra 20% if you chose to get your home electricity from ‘green’ sources … as if there were special, dedicated electric power lines from the ‘green’ sources to YOUR house …
And — not surprisingly in PDX — folks fell for it and paid the extra 20% …
You … can’t … cure … stupid …
Virtue signaling is hard when you are stupid.
Virtue signalling is easy especially if you are stupid.
And that’s only to move the coal in the pit. Then it has to get out of the pit, then to the train, then on the train, then across the country, etc., etc., etc.
And once it is electricity, 10-30% losses for transmission and conversion.
And I still have not has a single fuel tank get smaller or wear out on me yet! Not one has required I fill the last 20% with a teaspoon to prevent tank damage.
Gas cars are only 30% efficient unless you drive a Prius
The ICE in a Prius is no more efficient than any other ICE. The electricity recouped from the braking system (which would otherwise be waste heat) is originally generated by the same 30% efficient ICE.
The rest — because you missed the point — is electricity generated largely from coal & gas with LOSSES FOR TRANSMISSION AND CONVERSION between the power plant and your charging station. Coal fired power plants can get you up to 50% efficiency — but that increased efficiency is offset by losses transmission, charging, and storage of the electricity.
Your Prius is not a perpetual motion machine. It cannot defy the second law of thermodynamics, Mr. Smug.
Not sure about current prius models … but in earlier models, the battery could only propel the car for about 2 miles before the ICE had to kick in and begin recharging it …
“in whose world does this … make sense?”
in their world. you’re just the resource to make it happen.
Well, that critter can carry a crapload per bucket. It might only take 5 buckets to move 500,000 pounds. At 150 gallons an hour, which is from the meme, and which is dramatically overstated – the real number is no more than 50 gallons an hour – that would be like 5 gallons or somesuch for 500,000 pounds, or $30 in fuel. Plus labor and capital. That critter weighs 1 million pounds approx.
Let us say depreciation is $5,000 an hour (I really don’t know). That would be around $350 in depreciation costs. So the fuel costs are negligible. So it would cost $400 plus manufacturing and milling costs to make a battery, if we assume that the 500,000 pounds is correct. And given how inaccurate the estimate of 1800 gallons in 12 hours is, I would suggest it is likely to be wildly inaccurate.
Don’t believe everything you see in a meme. Hell, don’t believe anything you see in a meme. Because they are pushing narratives. Here is a link to actual fuel use for a 994h:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58877529414fb5283ed14a6b/t/5888f8acbebafbea448f7094/1485371564893/Fuel+Table+-+Loaders.pdf
The building is charging them. Isn’t it obvious?
like “ayn rand” said, “these people never had any idea that power plants existed.”
The loons tried killing coal years ago. Now we’re ok with using lots of coal? I am going to assume they will say that coal is ok now because they can capture all the pollutants now. Personally, I do not think that is a terrible idea. The terrible idea is trying to force everyone into electric cars too fast. Got to build out the infrastructure first.
A friend of mine suggested, years ago, that all electric vehicles should have the same battery packs that are quickly, easily and economical enough so that you could stop at a gas station and switch them out in 5 minutes or less. That sounded like a pretty good solution to me.
Nice idea but the implementation would very difficult.
As said, the same battery pack. Over 100 years of cars and very little is standard between them. Would require government interference and would take decades to get to mass compliance.
Batteries wear out. Who eats the cost when you get a dud? Your last battery did 200 miles, the next one?
Who does the switching? A robot? A spotty teenager with 2 hours of training? I won’t use full serve because people today don’t give a shit about other people’s property.
If the battery faults and burns the car, who is responsible?
Not saying that it can’t be done, just that it will be a LOT more complicated than most think.
Then this: Where is all the electricity going to come from in the first place?
“Who does the switching? A robot? A spotty teenager with 2 hours of training?”
like these rocket fuel boys.
“like that!”
And it would require a dedicated electric substation just to charge hundreds of batteries required for just a short stretch of interstate travel.
And stacks of charged batteries waiting to be swapped. Then one of them catches fire…….
I like electric cars as in town runabouts. They make sense. Otherwise, too many limitations.
Electric could replace ICE, but the monetary and environmental costs would be enormous.
It is amazing that man has reached a point where the ICE has been near perfected and is almost zero emission, so we are collectively going to toss almost the entire infrastructure and technology aside for something that is not as good (oh, yes…zero-60 in 2 seconds, real useful /s) but costs more in all ways including convenience.
Yup. Clown world.
Yes, I’m sure you’re right. They have an insidious plan to wreck every good working thing on the planet. I do wonder how many more decades we have left of oil though.
The US has several hundred years of coal reserves, so it make sense to use more of it, but that is exactly the opposite of what the greenies want.
95% of the electricity comes from coal!!! That can’t be right. I thought it came from unicorn farts.
We could line up all the farting cows and unicorns to spin the wind turbines.
Psst… All TBPers should know: Unicorns poop cupcakes.
More bs, telling people that all that have to do to “save the world” is buy an electric car, no concerns for deforestation, fossil fuel pollution, plastic pollution, chemical pollution, agriculture reliant on destroyed soil which must have inputs from the fossil fuel industry to even grow anything at all, lack of clean water (or any water at all in some areas), fish and marine life killed or mutated by pharma/chem/nuclear waste, species (especially insect) die-off, hormone disruptors in food and food packaging, heavy metals sprayed in the atmosphere,… no, your fucking Tesla just saved the world,….hooray
The electricity comes from the green energy COALition.
Feining innocent makes you look stupid.
… that’s actually a good insight.
Lesbians are boring af zzzzzzzz
I didn’t think my parents knew much…all those Christmas Stockings loaded with Coal.
1) Eliminate internal combustion engines. 2) Do not build electrical infrastructure up. 3) Enjoy the result. The result? The proletariat no longer has personal transportation, which has been the goal all along.
Almost no one on this site ever accused the greenies of being logical.
Their green energy solution to saving the planet is as stupid as a doctor telling a patient with clogged arteries to stop eating meat and instead drink a daily glass of canola oil.