brenthutch
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/01/31/ben-shapiro-song-tom-macdonald/ Who knew Ben Shapiro could rap?
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Went on an airboat ride in Florida last year and a the owner told me how he remapped the ECU to get better performance out of the Chevy truck engine on his airboat. He went from headers and 4 barrel carburetors to fuel injectors, computer chips and laptops. Old dogs can indeed learn new tricks.
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“Tesla CEO Elon Musk underscored the near-term struggles, warning last week of a sharp slowdown in sales growth this year. With margins falling amid price cuts, shareholders erased $80 billion from Tesla's stock valuation the following day.” https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/industry-pain-abounds-electric-car-demand-hits-slowdown-2024-01-30/
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The Mustang to which you refer is an internal combustion vehicle, no?
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The E-Mustang is making skid marks in the pants of the management of Ford. https://thedriven.io/2023/06/05/electric-ford-mustangs-have-a-demand-problem-as-mach-e-sales-slump-44-pct/
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Extrapolate the trend a few years or just look at what is happening in Germany now.
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One can only go so fast, we have these things called speed limits, and I quit stoplight to stoplight racing after high school. My annual oil change takes less time than it takes to charge a Tesla on a supercharger never mind the three minutes vs three hours to “recharge” our respective vehicles at a filling station. And don’t forget a fender bender that involves the battery = totaled vehicle. Once one considers depreciation and higher insurance rates, EVs aren’t the panacea the Fanboys are selling.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/europe-s-biggest-car-market-to-see-first-ev-slump-in-seven-years Down 14% after the subsidies went away. The same thing will happen here when the government stops wasting taxpayer dollars on bribing folks to buy an EV.
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And kids don’t buy cars
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The street consensus is only 16% and dropping
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That was 2023. Now for something from 2024.
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Little known fact, 95% of EVs are still on the road…the other 5% made it home
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Half of the folks who buy EVs go back to ICE vehicles on their next purchase. I don’t doubt EVs will continue to grow as a percentage of vehicles sold. However I think the rate of growth will continue to slow and eventually flatline at a level far too low to make the “Great EV transition” anything more than a lefty fantasy, while costing taxpayers billions. That is my problem with EVs, it is the billions to artificially prop up a technology that is not ready for prime time. We could be spending those resources on schools and homeless shelters. BTW still waiting for you to refute “at least half” of my points
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You said that about coal https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/15/global-coal-use-to-reach-record-high-in-2023-iea#:~:text=The demand for coal is,a report released on Friday.
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What part of “develop the technology” did you not understand my young friend?
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This is why I oppose EV subsidies
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Fixed it for you.
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I did and didn’t find anything to refute “at least half” of my claims. 1 cost more than the equivalent ICE vehicle 2 deprecate faster 3 take longer charge than a gas vehicle takes to fill up 4 lack of sufficient charging stations 5 cost more to insure 6 poor cold weather performance 7 range is less than the equivalent ICE vehicle 8 poor towing performance 9 greater tire wear 10 weigh more putting stress on infrastructure 11 more costly to repair 12 requires more natural resources 13 more difficult to extinguish an EV fire 14 60% of grid energy comes from fossil fuel Most of these points are backed up by links on my posts. Instead of spending billions on cajoling an unwilling public, why don’t we go back to the drawing board develop the technology to the point where it can compete in the marketplace.
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If sea levels are a proxy for global temperature, it must have been warmer in the past, as there are former coastal cities that are now many miles inland today.
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Thought experiment: what if EV adoption fails to reach critical mass? For charging stations to be viable (profitable) there has to be millions of EVs on the road and EVs will not be adapted en masse until there are hundreds of thousands of charging stations. A bit of a catch 22 don’t you think? Still waiting on Lippy
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https://www.scienceunderattack.com/blog/2020/12/28/new-evidence-that-the-ancient-climate-was-warmer-than-todays-68 One study demonstrates that the period known as the Roman Warming was the warmest in the last 2,000 years. The other study provides evidence that it was just as warm up to 6,000 years ago. Both studies reinforce the occurrence of an even warmer period immediately following the end of the last ice age 11,000 years ago, known as the Holocene Thermal Maximum.
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Hottest year since the 1880’s. It was warmer during the Roman Climate Optimum. (funny that name, today we call it the modern climate cataclysm)
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“It’s well known that EVs lose some of their travel range in the cold, especially in subzero temperatures like those that hit the nation’s mid-section this week. Studies found that range loss varies from 10% to 36%. EVs also don’t charge as quickly in extreme cold. Some Tesla owners near Chicago told reporters their cars wouldn’t charge at all” That’s not a problem with normal cars https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicle-charging-tesla-frigid-temperatures-2c85e3455d49a86c12d1ba59a235cd4b
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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiWytqGzeeDAxUPkokEHTNwBzQQvOMEKAB6BAgTEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fteslas-electric-vehicles-cold-weather%2F&usg=AOvVaw3B_fCHHs8VCaFaH82CJDHr&opi=89978449 “some electric vehicle owners are learning a bitter truth: Low temperatures can stop the cars dead in their icy tracks.” “I've been here for over five hours at this point, and I still have not gotten to charge my car," Tesla driver Brandon Welbourne told CBS Chicago. "A charge that should take 45 minutes is taking two hours." This is why half of the country won’t even consider an EV and why half of EV owners go back to a ICE vehicle on their next purchase.
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I expect better from you SkyDekker
