With all the crime in SA, it is better to drive an old beaten-up car! Lots of food for thought there in you excellent analysis. (subscribed!) IMO some legacy car makers, in particular Toyota, Nissan, will become niche brands for developing markets, when the rest of the big markets follow Norway and China in EV adoption. The USA is also slower to transition, because of traditionalism and the long distances people drive there, opposed to Europe or China. Take care
Thanks for sharing mate. And I agree with you, legacy car makers will certainly increase their market if the other brands decide to go full electric. But, we remain hopeful, if one of the above issues mentioned in the video could be solved, then we can make some serious strides toward having a cleaner transport means. There is plenty to say as I left everything open ended and will be sharing more thoughts in the next video 😊.
Re: issue 3, crime... You certainly can lock the doors whilst inside and charging. I think the issue you will have heard about is that there is no way to pull out the charging plug without getting out of your car. There are a couple of ways to solve this. First, EVJect is a sacrificial adaptor that in an emergency allows you to stop the charge from within your car (on the charging screen) and then drive off, causing the charging handle and cable to drop to the floor. Second, we've seen Tesla explore charging options that do away with this issue. Either a robot arm comes out and plugs in for you, or the car has an underfloor plate for wireless charging (which can be better than 90% efficient, matching cable charging efficiency). I think you're right that SA will need to approach public charging (and maybe at home charging) differently for the reasons you stated. You've got a good insight into the potential problems. I'm guessing Elon is well aware of many or all of these issues, being SA born and bred. Hopefully battery and solar solutions are coming to help smooth the grid problems and eventually make public and home charging viable.
Thanks for clarifying the TESLA issues mate 🙂, it sounds like there are no more safety issues around EV charging protocols. I think the main issues we have are scaling EV technology. People can obviously build their own private electric charging stations that they can - maybe - service out to people but sustaining that would NOT be easy at the very least. Also, I think our electricity grid is very unstable to bring in EVs and until we solve this biggest flaw we cannot quite break ground into seeing our streets flooded with EVs or even producing our own EVs. Thnaks for the informative take on this 😊. Take it easy.
Excellent points indeed sir! I second most of those pointers but I believe it’s not all doom and gloom, the issues you have mentioned are all redeemable 🎉😊. Thank you!
@@ayvep "Interesting viewpoint, why is that mate?" == It's not only my opinion, it's a consensus. www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Why+EVs+don%27t+work. The reasons are too many to write down here.
