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  1. olofscience
    Brent will keep predicting the death of EVs as the last ICEs go out of production, and keep declaring his "facts". By all measures at the time, the earliest steam ships were crap - they were slow, unreliable, and handled poorly. They were only suitable for river operations. Interesting thing to note is, not a single company who made sailing ships in the 1800s managed to make the transition to steam ships at the turn of the century, and most went bankrupt. Now they're a very small niche (for cargo, anyway).
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    Oh yeah - dealerships don't like EVs. That's because there's fewer parts to wear out and replace, and service is a big part of those dealerships' revenue. Now the dealers are trying to put a big markup on sticker prices, but car companies are now looking at bypassing the middleman and selling direct to consumer, like Ford. Tesla never had to sell through dealers, which is why they have the highest profit margins in the industry.
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    Do you have this ready to cut and paste? Anyway, billvon's point is actually valid - a growing list of car manufacturers have announced they will become electric-only, several countries Europe and UK have announced planned dates for banning all new ICE vehicles. Almost no new R&D is being done on ICE vehicles. They won't go extinct, but it's ICE vehicles that will become niche, rather than the EVs. Horses didn't become extinct when cars took over, but these days getting horse tack is more of a specialist market.
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    That's...exactly the same as moving goalposts. Do you hear yourself?
  5. olofscience
    For conspiracy theories in general: they're a simple "explanation" for complex issues. It's usually simpler to understand a conspiracy than an actual complex issue It makes the conspiracy theorist feel special - that THEY're specially aware of the conspiracy, while the rest of the "masses" are ignorant (i.e. they're in possession of scarce "knowledge") confirmation bias - they want the conspiracy to be true, because of the above and other reasons (usually ego-related) Just off the top of my head, I might have missed a few more.
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    Strange to be saying this when both bill and seth have said they enjoyed their long trips. Also did you consider how much of a minority you are? You specifically do long-haul driving as a job... Being in the UK or Europe hearing you guys talk about 1000+ mile road trips is quite funny, here many people would consider 300 miles pretty far. At 1000+ and you'll have a much bigger problem with visas, passports and understanding the local language (and local alphabet) than charging.
  7. olofscience
    Be more specific. In any case, you've already made up your mind so this is more dishonest arguing from you.
  8. olofscience
    No, Nissan Leafs have high depreciation because its lack of a battery thermal management system (air-cooled) means that the battery degrades quickly. Pretty much every other EV has liquid cooling for the battery.
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    Anyway, in other news, EVs now make up more than 80% of new car sales in Norway.
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    From the report itself, "Electric vehicles are still relatively new to the market, which limits the ability to track their 5-year depreciation." The report only had FIVE electric cars in the report. The top 5 vehicles that depreciated the most in the study, were all ICE (except for 1 hybrid). The Tesla Model S was 19th:
  11. olofscience
    This misinformation about EV depreciation needs to stop. Myth Buster: EVs depreciate faster than ICEs Brent googled 'EV depreciation' and read the AI-generated google snippet from a random website, with no source of the data, that "There have been reports that EVs lose up to 52% of their value just after three years as compared to ICE vehicles' 39.1%." Even the quote just says "there have been reports" and does not provide them. There's too little data about EV depreciation right now, but with their much lower maintenance costs it will probably be lower than ICE vehicles. Probably much lower.
  12. olofscience
    At least for the UK, trigger locks on petrol pumps are not a thing (safety standards)
  13. olofscience
    ...and use them for what? Do you eat those?
  14. olofscience
    Anything that anyone has ever written on the internet can be evidence to him...as long as he agrees with it. Opinion pieces, AI-generated articles, whatever. Even random blogs run by unhinged deniers (one of which who came here with hilarious results). But respected journals like Nature? Lefty, commie rags. The IEA? Same, except when they report things he likes about coal. Then suddenly they're a respected authority.
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    When you have Ranked Choice voting, you don't really need to take this extra step. It works out mathematically:
  16. olofscience
    For someone who claims to be an "independent thinker" don't you have anything other than regurgitating what the other rightwing trolls have been doing here for a while? You're not really adding anything new...just the zombie-like repetition of the usual right-wing lines.
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    I used the driving example because my comment was before January 6th...
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    Like throwing away a perfectly fine ICE car to buy a new electric car, I think switching when you don't need to yet will result in a higher carbon footprint anyway. New build houses in the UK are usually all-electric (no more gas heating) but you should really only switch older houses when their gas boilers reach the end of their service life.
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    With quite a bit higher failure rate and higher maintenance costs than electric infrastructure. You can pipe electricity to every room, in every house and building in the country. It's scalable. Imagine if all our devices like TVs ran on tiny gas engines and instead of electric sockets, every room in a house had a little gas tap...
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    To move fossil fuels you'll need tankers, pipes, pumps, valves etc. To transport electricity, you just need a piece of metal.
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    When will those be finished? Because according to this, China currently has 379GW in solar under construction, and on course to add another 371GW of wind capacity before 2025.
  22. olofscience
    This guy has never seen Alberta's oil sands, or a refinery, for that matter. And many EVs don't use any cobalt at all.
  23. olofscience
    Yeah, you should have invented, certified, and flown electric aircraft instead. Yeah, shame on you for just living your life and using the technology of the day to...just live your life. Well like the aircraft, you should have invented them then. Or bought them as soon as they were available even if you didn't need one! What were you doing all those years? /s Seriously, I don't blame anyone who has benefited from fossil fuels or who lives their life using fossil fuels - we don't have that much control over that. It's like saying, "HA! The hospital you were born in used diesel generators, you HYPOCRITE!" Brent is just moving goalposts to somewhere outside people's control so he can accuse people of hypocrisy. Does that count as setting things up for personal attacks?
  24. olofscience
    Do you also believe any wars we wage shouldn't be taxpayer-funded at all, but rather organised, supplied, and fought by those ordinary citizens who believe in that particular war's cause?
  25. olofscience
    Well according to Slim, Russia - famous for its coffee plantations - isn't experiencing the same prices for coffee as the rest of the world. Because of those Russian coffee plantations. Or something... Or maybe he just wishes Putin would pay for his Walmart coffee...