As someone with access to focus groups, I can tell you the number one reason isn't to be environmentally conscious. It's the free money (courtesy of taxpayers) in incentives. These consumers couldn't care less about the green side EXCEPT for the virtue pearls. It's getting something for "free" be it HOV access, tax breaks, field charging for a year, or even those who sold the farm for solar roof panels to sell the power company. FREE! FREE! That's the psych behind it.
Zero emissions doesn't exist. If they really want Zero, all they have to do is require everything that breaths is to stop exhaling. Inhaling is fine. Just no exhaling.
every single thing we buy and consume is made and transported using oil. fresh vegetables are flown in daily to most countries from warmer climates. how do you think that new tv or phone or jacket was made and transported to the store? yep using oil.
My wife and I were all in on EV's until we saw that batteries cost more than the car to replace and the insurance premiums are higher (and doubled if you even make a claim). Not withstanding there are huge questions on the actual climate friendliness of them when you account for rare earth mining, EV battery dumping, the energy required to actually make the batteries, etc. Hybrid is our likely new car.
How can the government realistically think people nowadays have the patience to hang around for 30-40 mins while their car charges? The attention span will not allow them to wait in todays immediate gratification culture.
Making double the average wage I trade for a new car every year - just gas & drive - no thanks to daily charging & higher insurance plus longer repair times -
If the environmentalists were willing to actually slow down on their blitzkrieg for EVs and instead standardize hybrids first like the market was sort of doing in the late 2000's to early 2010's there wouldn't be the massive resistance towards EV's. This would also give the market time to mature the battery tech, find solutions to the fire response issues, get better range, standardize on a single type/model of battery, etc... so in maybe 30-50 years you could start to ease in EV's that would meet market expectations and develop the infrastructure needed to support them. Instead as we have seen EV's have been rushed to market where both the market and the tech is not ready. From now on there will be market push back as people have now developed a bad taste as they remember the last time this idea had been tried at great expense. They have shot themselves in the foot and only through bayonet government mandate are EV's going to see mass adoption which only adds to the push back.
I live in northern Canada. It was -58 C, with the wind chill, around here this morning. There has been a power grid alert here all day, telling us to only use electricity that is absolutely necessary, or there might be power outages. How are we supposed to replace our ICE vehicles, with EV's, when the power grid isn't even capable of supplying enough power just to heat and light our homes?
I live near hydro generating stations ( dams).... and we can't get businesses to buy/ start up because we don't have the power... mines and wood mills had to run their own lines in just to operate... glad I use wood....and thrilled I'm not in the south..Cheers Snowing like heck now to boot..
I live in northwest Montana and it is currently -43°C it’s supposed to drop even colder by morning I can’t imagine attempting to drive an EV and expect any decent range at these temperatures
Toyota's anti-EV CEO was just replaced with an EV-friendly one: "How’s this for a difficult job: taking over from the founder’s grandson, who led the family business to the very top of its industry, and who’s still very much in the mix as paradigm-changing disruptors force the company to transform. "Such is the position Koji Sato was thrust into at Toyota Motor Corp. in April, taking over from Akio Toyoda, who became chairman. The Japanese manufacturer is making and selling more cars than ever, and yet *_battery-electric vehicles are a “missing piece” in its vast portfolio of products, Sato said_* in one of his first interviews since his promotion to chief executive officer in April."
I took my 13 year old SSV 6.0 V8 to Melbourne and back from Albury(same day) and still had 1/4 of a tank left. It was a smooth, effortless and gutsy trip 😊
EV’s are hot garbage. I’ll keep my dirty V8 and travel between NSW and QLD whenever I like how I like. It’s time people start paying local members a visit and put them on notice. It’s time they fear us, not the other damn way around
Even if you ignore EVs inconveniences, higher cost, massive depreciation, disastrous impact on the environment and so on, who in the right mind when finding out new battery will cost 10s of thousands of dollars would even consider one ?
Here in Finland 🇫🇮 temperatures for last week: -25 to -35 so range drop 30-50 %. PS one insurance company does not let you insurance audi gt or porche taycans because replacement battery after just a dent have costed 80 000 euros.
@@davidvanderklauwBecause 40-45% of the cost of a new EV is the battery. If they did as you suggest, only people with an IQ below 80 would buy one. And they can't afford one...
@@hansemannluchter643 Don't be surprised if insurance companies take up my idea and exclude batteries. I expect they will start to exclude batteries on older cars.
My son in london hired a tesla to come meet us in tenby wales.... He wont be doing that again. It was expensive and time consuming and instead of looking at the scenery he was looking at the screen for the next charging point.
and fast charging it costs more then using a petrol car.. ev only any good for to and from work and charging at home at night. our leaf is worthless once it gets below minus 20c
I’d be genuinely worried if I owned an EV. “Range anxiety” is the least of your worries when the constant threat of an environmentally catastrophic Hazmat incident forever hangs in the air.
Yes Lacey mate I feel for the folks who have to deal with these toxic events including the fire fighters and surrounding residents or people just passing by and what would you do if you were trapped inside a burning EV and just had you wait for you to die??
@@johngoard8272 That's a totally acceptable hazard for the net zero zealots... unless, of course, they are the ones trapped inside that EV! A spontaneously combusting EV can destroy the home where it is being recharged in the garage, adding hundreds of thousands to the bill for the loss of the EV itself, not to mention the "cost" of precious lives lost.
@@rrnonya5472EVs being maintenance free is a myth. You still have cooling system services and all the maintenace that's not engine related. Tire rotations and brake services should actually happen more often with EVs.
Whatever one can save via owning an EV is not worth the threat to one's family and home if they combust while charging in the garage in the middle of the night.
The biggest issue with a full EV is that they are a disposable asset. There is going to be a negligible second hand market for them, when you are unable to confirm the actual range of batteries, who is going to risk buying one not knowing if they are going to have to pay another substantial sum for a new battery pack. EV buyers may as well go and buy a brand new vehicle if that is what you want, at least you then know what the supposed range is, and have a warranty.
I'm a millennial born in the mid 80s and I don't like how they're pushing EVs the way they are. I still drive a V8 as a daily and they'll have to outright ban them before I'll give up petrol or diesel engines.
@@foam27 For me personally I like to fix and upgrade my own cars. The only time a mechanic touches my car is for wheel alignments and tyre balancing. Second if I go on road trips I don't want to be any longer than 15 min when filling up. Then you have the fires and how hard they are to put out, I live in a bush fire prone area so that's another reason. I don't have anything against EVs I just don't want to be forced to buy one.
Just saw a new story that Hertz is selling a third of its fleet of ev's to purchase petrol powered cars. Don't know how accurate this reporting is but it could make a good topic for a video for you to do. Thankyou for your wisdom. Keep up the good work 👍
Considering that if you own an EV, you should charge them between 20 to 80% and slow charging makes the battery last longer than fast charging. With a rental, the renter is likely to always use fast charging and charge to 100% and may even run them lower than 20%. So, the batteries won't last as long with a rental company as with a private owner. Which begs the question. Who would buy a used EV from a rental company?
Yep. Companies and private owners are learning there is no resale value on BEV's. They are worthless from the time they leave the dealer because no one knows what the condition of that very expensive battery actually is.
NEVER get a used one. Every EV owner has ignored the 80% charge recommendation to get the most range and plans to dump that vehicle before the battery fails...on THEM.
Ridiculous repair costs and massive depreciation is essentially turning them into e-waste. They only sell on hype and insane subsidiaries, take both away and you have a toxic turd.
EVs exist simply to justify the phasing out of ICEs. The ultimate goal is to reduce private car ownership, hence the lack of urgency re. the supporting infrastructure.
Same with 15 minute cities, all of the amenities within 15 min walk or cycle, sounds great. Except they put the enforcement cameras in before the amenities, so you have to travel and get "fined". No agenda 2030 here, nothing to see, keep moving.
@@noelgibson5956 "The message is more important than money" - Disney This is a critical and important PSA, the people who are pushing for this do not care about money - they want control over you, and everything you do. Once they control you, they can control anything they want to call "money" just as easily. Hence the several attempts to create a "global digital currency" that can be anything, anywhere, and of any value; and you can be stripped of it for anything they desire.
@@mikafiltenborg7572 So? there are 1.4 billion light vehicles. All EVs ever made are 0.04%. Of light vehicles produced this year there were about 4 million BEVs capable of highway speed, Tesla made over 1/3rd of those. That is roughly 4% of light vehicles made in 2023. The vast majority of EV sold have had government subsidies in China it was 20%; these are being cut in China, USA and Germany. As a result EV sales will go down.
Exactly and one of the things we get back from plants is oxygen. Years ago scientists use to call Co2 the gas of life, now they are to scared to speak up due to the fear of losing their government funding.
It's also a trailer in any climate change, not a driver. The climate naturally changes hotter and colder. CO2 follows changes one way or another. Something like 95% of CO2 emissions are natural. In North America there are more trees today than 100 years ago. Believe it or not we have become better stewards of our natural resources not worse, just as the Bible asks us to do.
@@Ad_Blocker_For_RU-vid😉👍 straight to the top of the group!! If there was an emergency it would be the first switch turned OFF!! 🤔 ? Always the same deal, evidence all around yet No one wants to see 🤷♂️
This is absolutely true. Most of the EV drivers I see around are actually people 50+ and when you talk to any 40- no one likes EVs and wants to switch...
US Hertz is getting rid of the majority of its electric cars because customers do not want to rent them 🙂 The customers want diesel and petrol instead!!
Makes sense. Whoever rents a car will travel a lot in short time, those people don't have their own houses to charge cars there over night and don't want to loose their tourist time to sit around charging stations.
They have been selling them at low prices for a while. The cheapest ones (Tesla Model 3, 2021) have been for sale for USD 17K. Theese cars were priced at around 50K back in 21. Great resale price🙃 HERTZ are never going back to EVs. They learned the hard way.
Sometimes virtue signaling needs to hurt. Anyone could have told them EV rentals was a bad idea. Who wants to plan their travel around an unknown charging network in an unfamiliar area while on vacation or a business trip? Not even the EVangelicals are dumb enough to make that a viable business model.
Heavy, batteries that are shockingly non eco friendly to make and at end of life, charging problems, may burst into flames, difficult to repair, expensive to repair, expensive to insure, worth nothing when you decide to sell, the list goes on, yet manufactures are still racing to the cliff edge where they stop making IC cars. We can only hope sanity prevails just before we fall off.
They've run out of the initial enthusiasts who wanted EVs and the government incentives/rebates are drying up, further reducing the number of interested consumers. Interest is further exacerbated by the litany of cons associated with EVs that have been well publicized lately, at least on alternative media such as your channel. None of it is much of a surprise. Thanks for posting.
Higher repair costs, rapid depreciation and battery replacement an excess of $20,000 along with the lack of charging stations and fires is there demise.
@@melissasmess2773 Add range anxiety, time to charge, reality of range being much less than estimated and the fact they recommend, for longer life, the battery charge not be decreased below 20% and not increased beyond 80%, effectively leaving you with 60% you can use without degrading it. Add higher insurance costs as well.
So you want to say “mainstream” media is pushing EVs and that is all they are doing? :D Sure, there is a lot of unbiased press regarding Tesla in mainstream media, suuuuuuure
Essentially they're worse in nearly every way than what we're used to. Another development is that many millions of people are far less trusting of government, MSM, and "Experts" than they were only a few years ago.
I think the biggest detriment to EV sales ATM is the present owners. They have discovered the reality of EV ownership and how it differers from the parroted fables and are telling other people what owning one is REALLY like. I was talking to a guy at a party before Christmas. He sure opened my eyes to a few things that I haven't heard before. I also spoke to a lady when I was up north Visiting family that said she had an EV ( Tesla ) and sold it in less than 9 months at a huge loss but didn't care. She said every year for near 30 She Drives from Syd to Brisbane to Visit her sister. She normaly does it in one day, even taking her time. She said the journey took so much longer in the EV and she was forced to go to out the way places to charge frequently because unlike being able to find a servo whenever your tank was getting near empty and only having to do it once anyway, she had to plan where the chargers were to make it to the next one. At one place they were broken so she had to spend the night in a motel and charge from the regular outlet to make it to the next one. $150 plus extra meals killed any petrol savings and she lost more than half a day as well. On the way back having to line up at a charger, she said enough was enough, took the thing to a country Toyota dealer and said I want to leave this here and drive out in something TODAY. She took a big hit on the tesla as they said they didn't want it and would only be sent to Auction where they more often than not got passed in and did multiple rounds. She said she drove out in a Demo which she loves and hasn't regretted anything but buying the EV in the first place which she wasn't comfortable with even with her normal Journeys out of Sydney to the mountains and down south. I bet she has put 20 people off buying an EV on her own!
When our daughter's 2nd hand Leaf finally gave up its ghost...barely recharging to 80km range all that was left of her 6000 NZ 🇳🇿$ was what we paid for two good tyres. I Much rather have a fully restored Morris Minor 1000--- reliable, repairable, resellable.
You should have seen the proud EVs owners this week in Alberta, Canada with a wind chill of minus 50°C, scrambling for chargers with a power grid maxed out.
When I was in grade school they created the international observance of Earth day, there were a lot of PSAs on TV about pollution, littering etc, and these were good things to teach kids. Environmentalism was responsible, healthy and positive. Car makers were serious about identifying where and how engines emitted real pollutants and engineering solutions to reduce those emissions. The catalytic converter was a breakthrough in the 1970s intended to transform toxic carbon monoxide into harmless CO2, the gas we all exhale, we put it in our soda pop for flavor, and plants need it to live. It was later when they decided to contrive a way to classify CO2 as a pollutant that things turned evil. Now every kid comes out of school brainwashed like Chicken Little to believe CO2 will end the world. I gotta hand it to any kid these days who is able to break free of that mind control.
Environmental lobbyists were also responsible for pushing governments to phase out paper bags, in favour of plastic. All of that tree felling and paper bleaching was going to destroy the planet. Plastic bags turned out to be a great solution, just as EVs are.
I'm in Southeast Asia and I remember in the early 80s in elementary science class we were taught animals and humans inhale oxygen from plants and exhale carbon dioxide which the plants use for their photosynthesis. Anti-pollution messages back then were not as crazy sounding as today. Growing up in a developing small city where there wasn't much heavy industry and traffic I often wondered what smog looks like since I often read about it in magazines and particularly in Reader's Digest articles about pollution. Even today our city don't have smog like those in Chinese cities even though quite a lot of big manufacturing plants have sprouted since the 80s. Maybe it's because our city is facing a wide sea and the winds blow any polluted air to the surrounding areas that can still be called tropical jungles and we all know how tropical jungles just suck hot air loaded with carbon dioxide from the air like there's no tomorrow. But our government now is also brainwashed to this net-zero lunatic theory. A year ago the transportation department was slowly promoting EVs but everybody knows they are too expensive compared to gasoline vehicles. About 10 years ago they had this clean air act. It's was OK since it focused on regulation of vehicle generated pollutants particularly diesel cargo trucks and buses. But it turned idiotic and a nuisance when local governments used that law to ban burning of cut grass and leaves from your own backyard. I think it's an Asian thing, but burning cut grass, fallen leaves and twigs at late afternoon is almost tradition here. And 90% of our country is choking with overgrown, full blown, no nonsense, raging tropical jungles. How is a minuscule pile of burning grass and leaves going to affect the climate of tropical jungle saturated country? But the government sure turns a blind eye to the big SUVs the national and local government officials very much love to to use everyday which the poor masses paid for with their taxes by the way.
My kids point out cool cars when we are driving around on a daily basis. They point out hot rods, old fords, chevs, holdens, from the 20s thru to the 70s even 80s... never once an ev. Modern cars all look exactly the same, sometimes to the point where you can't even tell what brand they are... my kids understand that a car should be enjoyed for many reasons.. they don't have any interest in driving a kitchen appliance.
There is a reason the BEV look similar. Wind drag kills them. They have determined the most efficient functional shape and they use it or they have lost. I saw one that could be had with a tiny optional spoiler, that decreased the Advertised range by 5 miles.
@robertkubrick3738 that's exactly true. Cars used to be designed by people.. now they are designed by wind tunnels.. especially evs, but also non evs as even ice cars are trying to optimise fuel consumption
Why would I buy an EV when it’s got an extremely dangerous/fire, hazard, lithium battery to power it? Why would I buy a vehicle that I need to wear asbestos clothing to stop being burnt to live in? I’ve literally just bought a brand-new diesel V8 to get me around the countryside and it’s got a driving range of between 1200 and 1500 km per diesel fill up.
@@redryderaus well what’s the point of a vehicle if you’re not gonna use it to live in and drive around the countryside i.e. to work etc it’s not designed as an art piece.
@@redryderaus Lots of semi-truck drivers live in their trucks for much of the time. They have sleepers in the cab. If the truck was electric and caught fire, they could be burned alive while sleeping.
@@davisbrown318 unfortunately there is likely more truth than poetry to that statement. But the problem is too many people refuse to get involved in the “selection” process. As a former county and state delegate from my voting district, I can attest to the increased power those who do get involved have over those who refuse to. So if you are unhappy with the selections presented, GET INVOLVED!
They're not even faster. Look at drag racing records. The 1/4 mile record for ANY EV including purpose built, one and done dragsters is still severil seconds behind the record time and about 100mph lower than the record trap speeds for STREET DRIVEN ICE cars. It's just in production form manufacturers are allowed to do the best they can with EVs while ICE has to deal with a labrynth of restrictions.
We need more channels like this one. Your giving out the facts and the truth. Snake oil is a good way to describe the EV scam. Remember when the GM Leaf came out years ago a few people bought them, but they never took off. And lets not forget Hybrids are still too expensive and complicated. And the hybrids catch on fire too, so park them up the street in front of your neighbors house not in your garage.
Excess CO2 in our atmosphere is real, and it comes from cars/freight. But currently the messaging for alternative transportation is just so bad...... I'd sooner buy a hybrid cuz it makes sense today. A EV truck is proven to be bad. But a hybrid truck??? Hmmm 🤔
@@terrancecloverfield6791 Yet another EV fire in an attached garage ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-itGeAq9rBeY.htmlsi=6aKPDtYRojO6XHb4 Never carry your children in an EV. If a battery fire starts whilst driving along you will be lucky to stop, get out and retrieve your precious ones before the well over 1000C flames are coming out of the car sides at leg level and have melted the car's floor.
But "zero emissions" is a big fat lie, the electricity has to come from somewhere and that's overwhelmingly from burning gas, coal and oil. Hardly any countries have enough windmills or nuclear stations to meet existing needs let alone power a whole generation of kilowatt hungry EVs. Not to mention the CO2 emissions involved in mining the lithium and making the things. Something that has to be repeated after 8-10 years when the batteries wear out (or earlier if they're damaged in an accident).
I'm a boomer, and I'm not only sticking with gas powered cars, but older gas powered cars that don't run on software, have cameras and microphones all over the place to spy on you, and self driving trash that can take control of the car away from you. I also don't deal with touch screens. My desktop computer has a mouse and a mechanical keyboard. I also have another computer running Linux, and use it as much as possible. My computers are connected to the modem by a cable, not Wi-Fi. And I use an old school flip phone with no touch screen and no internet connection.
Totally agree. I’m Gen X, and I still don’t have cable or internet at home. I’ve never seen Netflix, and I haven’t watched TV much at all this Century. I like older trucks too, and I’m not into useless gadget add-ons. I do have a smartphone, and I buy stocks on it. I own all the companies everyone else is making wealthy by “herd addiction.”
I also prefer older cars. Parts are cheaper and they generally are easier to fix and maintain. And the main part of the depreciation has taken place before you buy them.
Don't worry: Despite no one wanting them, there will be regulation to 'fix' that. Its is only a matter of time before there are 'quotas' on EV sales, which will push up the price of gas cars to absurdity. See Norway for example.
And the UK. Starting this year, manufacturers will be fined if they don't sell an increasing proportion of EVs leading up to 2035 when only so-called zero emissions vehicles will be allowed.
There already is a quota, and that's how they know that EVs haven't sold as much as the government would want. Norway is an outlier because they usually charge 25% VAT on cars, and they zeroed that for EVs. That wouldn't fly in the US, because the government would get sued.
In the US the government's EV mandate for dealers has just been defeated. Great news but I'm pretty sure the psychopathic "elites" will find a way to push them again.
I can see them pushing for quotes, but the first ev fire in a garage or carport that cooks a family..they'll be ducking for cover when a class action or two appear on the horizon.
@@philiphumphrey1548yes, I think that 22% or similar of the cars they sell have to be EV or low emissions and they get fined £15k per vehicle over that. All it will mean is piles of pre-reg EV’s stacked up everywhere towards the end of the year. A friend of mine recently bought a new ICE BMW and he said the dealer asked him to sign a document to say they had tried to offer him an EV, which I think is BMW providing evidence that consumers don’t want the cars to the government.
Apart from the obvious increased emissions caused by EV manufacture in the first place, followed by the toxic emissions when they experience a thermal runaway, EV's, being heavier, will cause more emissions of particulates from their tyres. Why aren't these emissions added to the overall picture?
We travelled 550km / 6 hours each way from Melbourne (Vic) to past Griffith (NSW) for a wonderful family Christmas. This would not have been remotely possible with an EV,
Hybrids are a nightmare too. Way more complicated than an EV or ICE. They still have a battery to be replaced and the engines are typically undersized.
But they aren't a nightmare. We bought a used 2011 Lexus RX450h suv with 80k mi on it 5 years ago , it now has almost 200k mi. Zero probs, batt pack is cheap.
I keep hearing that hybrids are more complicated than ICE cars. The thing is my Ford Maverick hybrid doesn't have a turbocharger, starter, alternator, or serpentine belt. All these things are often replaced in regular cars. In addition, the transmission is a simple robust system that should last forever.
@@jimfarmer7811I'm a mechanic that works on ICE, hybrids, and EVs. Hybrids are, in fact, more complicated than pure ICE. You're adding an EV (granted with a much smaller battery pack) into an ICE vehicle. The transmission is more complicated because you're replacing a simple fluid coupler with an electric motor. The brakes are more complicated because what was a simple hydraulic system now also uses the electric motor to slow the vehicle requireing total control to be given to the vehicle's computer system. Rather than having the engine be responsible to move the vehicle it may only be responsible to charge the battery pack, run the AC, or any combination. Also, just so you're aware, your Maverick does have a starter motor. It's inside your transmission. It also charges your batteries just like an alternator would.
@@lb9gta307 I'm a retired engineer so I'm well aware of how the hybrid system works. By the the way a typical automatic transmission if far from a simple fluid coupler. In addition the torque convertor the automatic transmission is loaded with clutches, gears, and a valve body. All items are subject to wear and very expensive to repair. The Maverick uses a simple differential style system using a handful of robust gears and two electric motors. The naturally aspirated engine of the hybrid doesn't have to work nearly hard as a high reving turbocharged engine.
the newly elected NZ Govt ( national led coalition ) have just dumped the previous labour govts EV bribe rebate s ( cost taxpayers over 300m) and dumped their ute tax that was imposed last year...these two very unpopular ideological bits of legislation surely helped their demise...at least one Govt in the world is showing some common sense....
I believe HERTZ have 100,000 of them and they are getting rid of them 20,000 of them because repair (accident) costs are higher and can make more money out of mugs renting ICE cars.
Hello Simon, we can do but hope the "we don't want EV's" ball keeps rolling along gathering momentum. I'm not sure that hybrids are that appealing either, but just a nod to ease peoples consciences, who think we can realy save the planet with electricity (that we won't have enough of).
Well I think plug in style hybrids are not really worth the bother. I’ve just been using a plug in while my proper car is in for service. I can’t have a high power charger because of where I live. I had to use the 13amp (uk) lead from an outside socket. That meant it took all night to charge to 100% - ok, I wasn’t going anywhere. Next day I was taking it back to the dealers it was showing a 20+ mile electric range. Set off on the 23 miles run back to dealer. Ran it as pure EV for a bit, but after 6 miles of 40mph B road driving it had used half the battery so did the rest of journey on hybrid. Once I got onto the last 70mph leg the battery drained in seconds and we were on petrol only. Up to that point we were getting 100+ mpg (not bad eh?) but driving on the petrol engine alone dropped it to 30 in no time. The point is that manufacturers are putting tiny asthmatic engines in hybrids, tbat struggle to drive the car without battery help. This car (new Jag E Pace - very nice car much better than the older model) had a 3 cylinder 1.5 engine (in a Jag for god’s sake!) which whilst putting out incredible power for its size (300 bhp with the electric help) was really working very very hard. Now it wasn’t rubbish (in fact my friend who doesn’t go far liked it so much he ordered one ) but I was very happy to get back into my 5 litre V8 which on the return journey gave 28 mpg - almost the same as an unplugged hybrid. The dealer told me they never bother to plug the hybrids in as it’s too much bother. So they seem a little pointless unless you don’t travel far. Exactly the same as a full EV except you won’t get stuck if the battery runs out, well if you’ve remembered to put petrol in that is! BTW dd you see the article about Hertz dumping all their Teslas by the way???
Learn how to coast up to red lights and time them well any you can reap many of the advantages of hybrid energy recycling without the hassles. I get 42 mpg around town with my 2000 Toyota Echo. A hybrid would only be slightly better.
Has anyone considered the strategic implications of this push to electric? We know the consequences in national emergencies such as floods and fires but what about defence? Electric tanks and transport vehicles? Electric fighter planes? Our enemies would love that!
Consider the following scenario. A war in the Middle East stops oil shipments to Singapore where we get all of our fuel. Australia has about a month of petrol/diesel supplies. The government rightly states that it will be reserved for critical needs; private vehicles will not be allowed to fill up. Then you will be wishing that you had access to an EV.
The UK government has just introduced a law that forces car makers to produce at least 22% of their vehicles as EV's and this percentage will increase year on year until it reaches 100%.As it is clear that people just do not want EV's, this will have only one result-the car makers will go bust.
South Australian farmers will take legal action against BOM after false weather claims. The Bureau of Meteorology warned SA farmers of above average temperatures and dry heatwave conditions for this summer, the reverse effect has happened, leaving many farmers to lose millions of dollars both in live stock and produce. Record rainfall and cooler than average temperatures has been the issue.
Yes , it seems the weather boys are just guessing or they have a very narrow field of data , and super computers are only as good as the data that is fed into them , there are a whole series of other external events that influence weather , , like the moon for example which changes its plane every 19 years and makes the world in places more likely to flood , add to that , from memory the Tonga under sea volcano shot shot the equivelent of 60,000 olympic pools of moisture into the atmosphere some time ago , and that is just 2 events and there are more things that effect out little rock . But of course , its actually the climate emergency due to ICE vehicles the greenies will shout :) .
Yes, the "worst case scenario" carried over from the covid nonsense, to yet another narrative-pushing government agency. Same thing her in UK with the met office .
Hertz are dumping 20,000 of their Teslas because of terrible maintenance, repair, insurance and depreciation costs. They have been buying them for well below what the average person can. They are reinvesting the money from sales of the Teslas into internal combustion vehicles that people actually want to rent. Who could have guessed?
Fact is EVs are just a transfer of emissions from the tail pipe to the national grid. Saw the mackmasters video the other day and noticed his 30min charge at a fast charger used 34kwh. That is about the amount of power needed to provide heating and lighting in the average UK home a day. (30 to 45kwh/day). That's a lot of carbon emitted in one year.
@foam27 Gas is inefficient, but EVs are charged from power grids that are based on fossil fuel technologies that produce carbon. Green energy is still a small part of grid supplies.
It’s a lot less carbon than the same number of miles driven by any internal combustion engine. Especially an ICE Porsche. Even an EV powered by a coal fired power station has a lower carbon footprint than an EV. And his Porsche is one of the most inefficient EVs. It carries too much battery weight to give it the high performance. Just like ICE cars that had a penalty. And for these videos he deliberately uses the most inefficient route planning. For his trip from Leeds to London he didn’t do what any Dane driver would do and charge his car at home to 100 percent overnight because he said it would be cheating. Pull the other one it’s got bells on! And on the Welsh race the SUV he was “racing” took the direct route (which had superchargers on the route). He didn’t charge his car overnight because he said the nearest charger was miles away. Actually the nearest charger was just beyond his hotel hedge. There’s no way an EV driver using Zap Map wouldn’t know that. And every UK driver uses Zap Map.
I wondered if another reason for lack of enthusiasm in EV's and hybrids for that matter was their difficulty in home repair and maintenance. These days I'm happy to let the garage service, and repair my (diesel) car but when we were married first and didn't have much money I did almost all my own maintenance on our old banger. Not to mention all the auto enthusiasts who love to strip down, rebuild and soup up their own cars.
Just looking up and down my street. A lot of 4WDs and older, nicely kept beauties. A lot of them have club badges on them and as such are a big part of the owner's lifestyles. They are NOT going to give them up or being prevented from driving them without a fight.
I love my diesels. I let someone else change the oil also but if I had to do it myself, I would add a half liter of used oil to my fuel at every fill to dispose of it.
Once again my village in Yorkshire is having daily power cuts, averaging 3 hours per night ! And we have not reached the coldest winter months yet, EVs will never be practical for me.
As a gen X'er I've been hearing so called experts predicting some sort of doom and gloom scenario since the 70's. None of it came true. Not one thing. But many have become very rich promoting it.
Same is now happening in Norway. Tesla was the top selling brand for the last few years, because of the huge tax cuts handed out by our government to battery cars. In 2023 Toyota reclaimed the top spot, mainly due to increased sales of their hybrid cars and the new battery car. The new Toyota battery car were close to the best selling Tesla's, but the hybrids are very popular and sold in large numbers. My mothers has a 2020 RAV4 Gas Hybrid with a range of 950 kms fully topped tank and battery. When new I piced it up at a dealership in Oslo and drove the 2200 kms home to where we live. The RAV4 average was 4.5 liters pr. 100 kilometers or 52.2 MPG for the journey. Norway is a mountainous country, we drove up and down many mountains on our way back north.
@@jeffreykreiley7265 It's getting more expensive as Norway change out working gas driven turbines in the oil industry with electricity, and we have more and more battery cars on the roads driving up demand. We have a lot of hydro power, but demand is rising way higher than production. Because of this electricity prices are projected to go up a lot at least until 2030 the government says.
From This Is True. Powered Up: The City of Philadelphia, Pa., has been implementing its 2021 Municipal Clean Fleet Plan to eventually replace its 5,000 gasoline-powered vehicles with clean, efficient, and lower-maintenance electric vehicles. So far it has 261 electric cars, but there’s one teensy little problem: it hasn’t been buying chargers for them. The city does have 107 EV chargers, but they aren’t necessarily installed anywhere near where the electric cars are parked at night, so employees have taken to using public chargers during work hours, blocking the taxpayers they were installed for. And WCAU Philadelphia checked: none of the installed 107 chargers had a permit for the electrical work. (RC/WCAU Philadelphia) ...But hey, nice work on the Plan, Gordo.
In 'stop-n-go' type use the hybrid works well as it recovers some of the energy put into the vehicle by regeneration rather than just wasting it as heat with the brakes, but they still have the cost and complexity issues that make them less than ideal for many people. And in steady speed highway driving the hybrid offers little to no benefit over regular ICE propulsion so unless you live in a city it's going to be hard to justify the added costs. Both EV's and hybrids only exist to satisfy the government regulations and I find it amusing that manufacturers make their vehicles pass the tests....then the government fines the crap out of them for 'cheating' the testing. Our government full of Green Loonies are trying to destroy the auto industry and so far are doing a bang-up job of bankrupting them all.
My neighbours had two EVs six moths ago. A Model 3 Tesla, which they still have, and a MG5 estate, for the dogs. They have a large wall-box, with off-peak overnight charging. The lady now has a 3 year old diesel Isuzu D-max pick up truck, because she likes it. Says a lot.
Though hybrids (including PHEV) are the most complex of all vehicle classes they provide many of (any) the benefit of an EV - with the bonus of fueling options, as is being observed by many, EVS are optimal for short to mid range commuting trips, (or a few back to back runs down a dragstrip for a laugh) where a plug in parking space is available at one end and longer trips (along with charging anxiety) are better / optimally performed by ICE propulsion (range extender, or whatever). MANY - Esp GenZ - likely can't see their way to having multiple vehicles garaged in their premises (ie. a "golfcart"/Taycan for short trips and a cruiser for highway / long trips) may well be looking for that Goldilocks vehicle. PHEV - as a significant part of their performance boost (can) comes from the engine (motor/generator, or parallel driveline) tend to stress their batteries a lot less than BEV, where all the throughput comes from the traction battery of course. Reducing the Amps per cell (in and out) is critical in longevity and avoiding the "approach to thermal runaway" - as well as comprehensive cooling and preconditioning availble for "problem mitigation.... For those (millennials or Z'ers - X and Boom will definitely realise a saving charging at home) who don't want to plug in their PHEV - I hope at least they do fill up with fuel occasionally. (Personally I have never had any thermal runaway event, though using RC Planes, Multicopters, Cars, Prones, Computers, etc - over the last 2+decades.. I have seen lots of puffed cells - non catastrophic failure - in RC plane batteries mostly.)
My nephew a Zoomer has a 2013 Hyundai Accent he has wrecked 4 times (half his fault) and he keeps repairing it and driving it. He has Zero savings and couldn't replace his car if he had to. I told him last time to apply the repair money to a used Accent that had never been wrecked with fewer miles, but no, he didn't have $4k to buy the car outright and he couldn't take even the small car payment.
@@howardj602 Nuclear power and renewables can not increase output, when EVs are connected for charging. Coal and natural gas power plants can. So the charging is powered by fossils.
@@howardj602 Those batteries are not here, they would be very expensive and would rise the cost (and damage to the environment) of EVs even more. When EVs are plugged in for charging, mainly at night, the electricity comes from natural gas power plants, as you described, or from coal. So EVs are mainly run with fossils.
@@howardj602 One complex of whatever in Hawaii doesn't change the simple fact that EVs in general are mainly charged with electricity from fossil fuels.
@@howardj602 That's right, we don't know what will come. But for the EVs people are forced to buy, only what exists counts, not what could be if money and efficient use of resources wouldn't count, or what is on a very rich island that builds everything with the resources and money from elsewhere.
Unless you only ever want to do short journeys charging from home you would be mental to get one. Anyone who gets an ev knowing they will have to use public chargers even once needs a check up from the neck up. What fully grown adult with a brain want's a car which forces them to sit in shit hole carparks and scummy roadside services, just waiting and waiting and waiting while their life is fading away. Nothing in life is worth waiting in a carpark for, especially just to charge a heap of shit car up. It's fucking mental behaviour.
When I bought my new ICE car just 2 months ago , I had to order it and wait for it to be manufactured in South Korea as the dealer said that's how things worked now! Yet these EV's are manufactured and shipped out without being ordered by a customer!! Did I get treated differently because I bought a ICE and not a EV??
Hybrids are an inconvenient solution, carrying two motive systems adds weight and that defeats the object surely as weight increase the energy required to produce motive power. The answer is to keep developing lighter, more fuel efficient vehicles and to keep,working on cleaner burning fuels. In the long run that is going to be far healthier for out planets resources overall. The degree to which current vehicles are so much cleaner than even 20 years ago proves that this direction is the sensible and practical option. In any case, all,of these “Air Pollution” measuring points have been sited in positions where they will give exaggerated readings. There has been a lot of research in Germany completely destroying the conclusions that these EcoTerrorists have convinced opportunistic politicians to impose which prove that the sir quality a mere street away has nowhere near the readings recording on the equipment at busy intersections and close to large buildings. An interesting documentary covering some of this from a German Broadcaster, DW, has been available on RU-vid for years, it’s an eye opener.
I think the main issue of purchasing an ev will be The depreciation of the vehicle,when your ready to sell or part exchange. Who has that amount of money to loose,I can’t see how the leasing companies will be able to loose money either
My Honda hybrid also has a NiMh battery pack. It's now 14 years old, with 200,000km on the clock, on its original battery pack. I've owned it since it was less than 5 years old. Been absolutely faultless. That is until I did a full engine build on it and slapped a blower on top 😂😂 . Now I get engine lights for knock. But that's my own doing 💁
The husband of my sons girlfriend is a member of generation XYZ and rides a Harley. He told me that electric bikes are for sissies and electric cars are for even bigger sissies because they are even bigger. Besides, neither make any broom, broom sounds…
In the 1960s I attended college, where one of the instructors tried to indoctrinate us about the end of the world through nuclear distruction. 60 years on we are still here but he is not.
The question we are all wondering is that why did this Biritish engineer / laywer give up his lucrative career to become an anti-EV RU-vidr in Australia?
Just wondering how green these things are when it comes time to deal with all the waste batteries, if they don't catch fire first and pollute the air ways.
