I did too. I'd been thinking we were due another with recent weather and what's come online since last Dec. I do wonder though if we are actually seeing some generation curtailed at these times, as we're not currently optimally set up (grid and dynamic demand) for being able to absorb all this while needing to maintain perhaps 3GW of gas turbine running. Roll on more EVs, more smart heat pumps and more storage 🙂
Have had solar at home since 2008. After moving to Arizona from Wisconsin in 2016 installed a larger solar system and have driven a EV since August 2019. Currently producing a surplus of solar electricity of at least 35%.
I've been watching the "climate shenanigans" for over 2 decades now (I have a post graduate degree in environmental management) and have been growing increasingly despondent at the lack of progress on climate action and more alarmed as impacts intensifies. Your positive news stories are about the only thing keeping hope alive for me - a BIG thank you to you and the team! I also watch the Just Have A Think channel which recently featured your new website - I'm have already bookmarked it and subscribed to the newsletter. I'm in South Africa and we are way behind the trend. I will probably never own an EV, which does make me feel a little sad. Hopefully I'm still alive after 2035 when - theoretically - the last ICE will roll off the production line... we must organise a BIG global party to celebrate!!!!
@@CitiesForTheFuture2030 I watch both this channel and JHAT too. And have an Environmental Science degree aswell, and both channels do keep hope alive me, so Snap !
Try listening to 'Cleaning up', 'Watt Matters, 'Volts', 'The Energy Gang', and 'The Interchange'. All Podcasts that follow the energy transition (and you've already discovered 'Just have a think'). Things really are moving quite fast now, and it's pretty clear that energy and ground transport will be largely decarbonised over the next two decades, at least in the developed world. Steel and cement and shipping are showing signs of progress too. Buildings and agriculture still need _a lot_ of work, and what's going to happen in the developing world isn't clear (that's almost entirely about finance, rather than technology). The last decade has been extremely depressing if you understand the problem and we've got ourselves in a very bad place, but assuming civilisation can hold together a bit longer I feel like we are finally getting somewhere, and most of the money is now going to at least 'better' stuff, if not actually 'good' stuff, and we still have a fighting chance of coming out under 2C and 10 billion people in the end.
Sadly it will be fringe or poor area's that will be most impacted initially, Polar Bear's cannot hunt food as there's no ice but who gives a t*ss in London or New York so long as they can still drive their petrol and diesel cars s*d the rest of the World as they know climate change isn't real, our own MP's drive around in gas guzzlers when they could be in long rang tesla's charged from solar banks and stored energy. Lip service is all we get
Friend's experience of his Tesla's range is that it doesn't go as far as its stated range. He has a little problem with the old right foot though. But what car ever does reach it's advertised range, BEV or ICEV? Actually, my ID3 PP still does its VW summer stated range = 261 miles or more on a run. It used to do 280 when newish, and I swear if I babied it, it might do near 300. Anyway, that said, if a Tesla M3 LR does 380-400 miles at this time of the year, that's pretty damn good, and surely enough for 99% of potential buyers.
My present car exceeds the EPA highway rating. The one before it also exceeded the EPA highway spec, if the pop up headlights were retracted. Aerodynamics and your right make a difference. But running an ICE engine that was designed for gasoline on E10 cuts about 10% off the resl mpg--as confirmed by many reports to the EPA. If your ICE car is designed with a flex-fuel engine, that loss will be lower, but it is still there.
As illustrated in that little segment, it doesn't matter much at all, as long as the range is decent and the charging is fast and convenient. Basically if you drive a Tesla in populated areas of the First World or China.
I'd be happy with a VW e-up! If there was a charger at work or I could charge at home (don't have a drive or allocated parking or really much luck parking in the same road 😅). Rarely drive more than 100 miles in one go and when I did I wouldn't mind stopping here and there to let the dogs stretch their legs (and me)
4% is HUGE. What if next year they do another say 6%. That's already 1/10 of all petrol stations replaced with electric. Then the year after that maybe they streamline the process and do another 10%.
That shock jock was expressing the frustration that $7.5bn was allocated to charging infrastructure in 2021, but by March 2024 ony 7 stations that the money was put towards had opened. Openings do appear to be accelerating, or at least projects in the works. It's a highlight of government waste and inefficiecy which is a separate issue. The many thousands you refer to being opened are probably Electrify America, funded by VW as punishment for dieselgate. They seem to be extremely unreliable. Public charging has some way to go.
Electrify America isn't meant for reliability. Design to break furthering VW distain of EV. Poor charging experience to turn off EV owners and stop potential buyers. VW only makes enough EV and not a unit more to be in compliance. No fines or credits are needed.
Deadset nearly spat my coffee 9:18 when an ad interrupted Robert right in the middle of words" in the world! " Lol the ad was for my local councils green waste bins 😅
70GW in the Nullarbor is very impressive, but what are they going to do with it all? It's a really long way from everywhere, even by Australian standards. Have really long cables to Adelaide/Esperance/Perth? Start an Aluminium smelter? make hydrogen on the coast?
I am an avid supporter of renewables and an owner of a Ford Lightning. I was not aware the number was actually at 50% generation of world energy created by renewables/nuclear. This is good news to me also. I really never would have guessed it was that high. Wow
Personally, I'd like a fact check on that. The IEA mid year figures made it more like 30%, with coal still bigger than anything else and gas still huge. 😬
Actually, renewables + nuclear is 40%. Fossil is 60%, renewables 30% and nuclear 10%. I just checked Our World In Data. Figures from 2024 are not reported yet but 2023 it was 39% so it probably crossed 40% this year. It has hovered around 35% for the past 40 years... but it is growing 0.5-1.0% per year now.
50 years ago Texas was at the leading edge of technology. Calculators and LED watches, specifically Texas Instruments. Seems like they still have some practical electronics skills.
That 192,000 number is counting those we privately installed, WITH MONEY OUT OF OUR OWN POCKETS, in our garages. No reimbursement from the program came to me! The idea of the program was to create a comparable network of DC fast chargers to compete with/complement Tesla's Supercharger network, not Level Two. So that program is rightly considered a boondoggle.
That program requires a minimum of 4 ports for funding. So right there you know the 6 (not shure why it chaged to 8) port figure was not the full story. My local utility has a 2 year lead time of Megawatt scale power.
Can you perhaps cover the organized opposition to offshore wind power in California by a group called REACT Alliance? They are potentially going to stop the best chance California has to get off fossil electricity and aren’t proposing any alternatives. They seem like a bunch of NIMBYs and the project is 20 miles off shore. They also say they aren’t funded by dark fossil money.
Loads of off-shore around the UK these days ... and we've just achieved record wind generation stats within the past couple of days. It seems to work ... and off-shore wind farms aren't a major source of angst amongst the general population.
Thank you for a very informative and positive video, it is good to hear someone who knows what they are taking about and are not in the pocket of big oil talking about renewable energy. Happy Christmas from West Australia
Robert - I hope you get to drive the Eyre Hwy one day. There is an 18 hole golf 'course' along the highway - a hole every 80km or so if you like a hit. Nullarbor Links - The World's Longest Golf Course
You’re data re NEW charging points paid by the govt are not those you have quoted. This bill cannot take credit for charge stations made prior to the bill and those not benefiting from said bill.
The Modern Rogue handle unit conversions (like currency) about the best I've seen. They have a graphic pop up with all the conversions on it. Brian is great, they might share the system they use with you if you ask? Might make it easier as you can just say it once and add almost every conceivable alternative unit in post.
There are so many variables (especially at this time of the year) including the overnight stop. In the summer it would be straightforward, but a few minutes charge over that distance is really no big deal. EVs operate with such a high baseline of efficiency it doesn't take much to nibble away at the ultimate achievable range ... temperature, wind direction, rain, speed, elevation changes over a particular route.
8:00 If your check the latest report on the program they were complaining about: there are now 192 ports installed on something like 32 sites. The 6 charge port figure was a snapshot in time. There is a lot of lead-time in installing Megawatt scale electrical infrastructure.
It wasn't 8 chargers it was 8 STATES, also that was the total amount of the entire program that gets paid out over time with awarding contracts via RFPs with States - this per Pete Buttigieg, US Secretary of Transportation
The whole picture is missing here. There are thousands of charging ports, and growing, but the particular federal program has been extremely slow to pay out, and has paid out for a very small number of projects yet, not having spent $1.5B, but having the money and not spent virtually any of it yet. It may very well be only 8 projects.
The 1 GWh battery facility is not a 1 GWh battery, it's a factory for building the enclosures for 2nd life batteries which can produce enough for 1 GWh per year. That's a different company to the 53MWh battery. That company has a total stock of 2 GWh of old batteries to repurpose.
I doubt it will be standard that quickly but by the end of the decade I be surprise if the majority of EV models, either on sale or coming on sale will be hitting 500 to 600 miles or a more as standard. With people only need to charge once a month or once every couple of months.
@@DavidKnowles0 That'd mean fitting a 150+ kWh battery. I mean not having to charge out and about is great but the cars would be a lot heavier and so less efficient so may need an even bigger battery/motor
Excellent stories Robert...you always prove the future is renewable. Best wishes for Christmas🎄 and the NY🎉 for you and the team and families...looking forward to Everything Electric Sydney🖖
In Norway the gasoline sale have dropped 12,3% October 2024 - October 2023. And, diesel sales 11,9%. So, Shell recharge is just a matter of survival or not. With over 26% EV's on the road. More than pure gasoline cars, this is making a big impact. In one year, or maybe one and a half, EV's on the road will pass diesel cars, too. And, EV's are NOT fossil cars with big batteries....
Is the UK like the US, with loads of small filling stations that look like they don't do any business, and far too many stations in each town? I live in a rural town of 2,000 residents , 1 small store, 2 small restaurants, and 4 gas stations! I can't imagine how the gas stations even stay in business.
I general they all are doing less volume in petrol sales. There are more EVs on the road and less ICE cars. The announcement was more about shutting a bunch down (and selling the land), they are not converting them all. Likely it will only be a handful.
@@jamesengland7461 Mostly the UK has filling stations with 8+ pumps. The very small ones went under a while ago - there was a big crunch when supermarkets started opening pumps with at-cost gas (they hoped people would do an extra shop).
11:40 Robert - The solar and wind farm project is called capitalism too. The nuclear projects have have longstanding, embedded, cost+ problems with an oppressive regulatory structure that is hard to out from underneath.
His calculations are also messed up. Starting from the peak capacity point. And then using HP-C External financing proposition, to calculate that. And saying the energy cost would eyewatering, so not the 9ct/kwh HP-c has. Would take the silly calculation on the apr-1400. "South Korea won the UAE contract in 2009 and has built four APR1400 reactors at a cost of US$18.6 billion. Unit 1 of the country’s first nuclear power plant was connected to the grid in August 2020, followed by unit 2 in September 2021." The same capacity would cost 232,5 billion. He says a few billion and 5 years for the 70GW wind solar, the project itself want to do it over a period of 30 years. ROBERT you need an expert in grids and an expert nuclear energy, no not those fools from Greenpeace there not reliable 😅. Anyway to continue. The semi-right way to attempt a calculation on the to expected TWh's. In this ID have to estimate a capacity difference, for ease I will go with 1:3 That's 1/3 the capacity of 70 GW is enough for the nuclear production equivalent. This would be less then 17 apr1400 reactors. 17 reactors would be around $79 billion.
@@ferkeap - Robert's in the UK so is probably using Hinkley Point C nuclear plant under construction as a reference point, originally priced at £18 billion in 2015 comprising two EPR-1750 generation units each producing 1.63GW electricity (4.5GW thermal) and expected to take 8 years to complete with construction starting in 2017. Currently now projected to take 14 years to complete (2031) for 1 unit, with a projected cost of £47.9 billion projected (£35 billion in 2015 money, so nearly a 100% overrun). Generation starting from 2031 at 1.63GW. Comparer this to the UK's Hornsea offshore wind farm, split into 4 phases the first phase 1.2GW, construction started in 2018, commenced generation as building within 1 year and completed within 2 years. Similar for the 2nd phase of 1.4GW, construction started 2020, completed 2022, generating from 2021. Phase 3, larger at 2.9GW, construction started last year due to complete 2027. Phase 4, expected to be 4GW (keeps increasing with turbine growth) due to start next year complete by 2030. Expected overall cost is £15 billion for 9.5GW of power and total construction duration of 12 years, generating starting from end of 1st year. Hornsea being offshore is, of course, a much more difficult and costly construction location, hence costs and timelines are likely quicker for an onshore wind farm deployment. The benefit of wind is the speed of deployment and flexibility in both design capacity and planning , the rapid return in terms of power generation output whilst constructing, the lower overall and more predicatable cost and the lower operating costs once up and running.
@@tedspradleyindeed. Capitalism means adopting the technology that’s going to give you the best margins. If you can cut your energy costs by adopting renewables, most businesses are going to do that.
16:02 Unfortunately, there'll still be some that'll say "oh, but 400 miles isn't enough for me!!" and that "EVs are only good for local trips, to the shops". Well, unless you live on one side of the country and the shop you absolutely need is on the other, I'm pretty sure the new Model 3 LR will be more than enough for you to get your bottle of soy milk and organic avocados. I don't know, some people, eh?!
@@C4rb0neum so efficiency stays the same? i.e. the loss of electricity vs using it straight away. i'm over explaining because i am not sure if i have the right terminology.
The efficiency (energy in vs energy out) stays roughly the same, as does the self-discharge rate (which is very low for lithium batteries). Capacity loss is the only thing you'll notice with an old EV.
The efficiency of the drive train remains the same ... so if you originally achieved 4 miles per kWh you will still get 4 miles per kWh (but the battery will hold a few kWh less). Some EVs that are "performance optimised" models do max out the rate at which electricity can be drawn from the battery pack... and the rate at which power can be drawn from the pack does tend to be related to capacity ... so in that situation it may be that ultimate "standing quarter" acceleration is slightly reduced but you would need timing equipment to be able to tell. Most normal EVs don't max out the pack so it doesn't apply at all.
It doesn't make any sense to run cables all the way across the desert for a few recharge stations. The finance involved is being better spent elsewhere, for example developing grid scale recycled batteries No new infrastructure is needed to deliver the diesel fuel, as these trends to be co-located with ICE filling stations. Once the recharge points are financially proven, it will THEN make sense for each station to install it's own wind and solar generation, plus a big battery to cover peak demand (like if a convoy of eVs arrive at once). It's a sensible transition arrangement. And in the meantime I would rather someone has an electric car which was charged by diesel once a year for a long road trip than feeling the need to stick with their ICE car in order to make the annual visit to Aunty Mabel.
Passing 50% clean energy is a real milestone. It's not that long ago (10 years?) it was a feeble 4%. Also you are being a little slapdash with the difference between capacity and supply. Yes 70Gw is 25 nuclear power stations in capacity, but it's 'only' 10 in production, which is a more useful measure of how much electricity one will actually get.
@@zapfanzapfan Ah sorry. I was making schoolboy error of mixing up electricity and energy there, when I do in fact know better than that. I tried to find Robert's '51%' in the video again to check what he was actually talking about (capacity?, production?, etc), but failed. I recall that low-carbon energy (as opposed to electricity) has been growing fast enough to keep up with growth at about the same ratio (~87% fossil) for a couple of decades, but not enough to get ahead. Not sure if it's beginning to finally get ahead now - one would hope so) How does your 40% ('clean electricity') figure relate to Robert's 51%?
I own a Tesla Model 3 LR but AWD and it’s no problem to get 350 miles per charge without even trying. I got easily 220Wh/mile. Citi driving you can go well below 160Wh/mile that gives you over 400miles of range.
Absolutely correct ... but Robert was testing a specific long distance drive that includes motorway driving not dawdling around city streets! Huge range when staying within a city isn't why people are looking for longer range cars ... we already have cars that can do the mileage needed in cities.
@MrAdopado Yes you are right. Around 50% of my driving are highways up to 80mph. Driving steadily 80mph I got 280Wh/mile so around 270miles range. Driving 70mph it drops to 220Wh/mile and 340miles of range. Winter driving drops of of those values by 20%.
Don't forget the backhanders via the political 🍊🤡 slobbyist ... We are being charged for them as well as the 1% of directors /bosses bonuses for doing us over again for the next 50yrs. They hope.😂🧙🏼♂️
Motoring journalists and publications have a very bad habit of quoting EPA or WLTP ranges, as do the manufactures. 436 miles on a charge is entirely possible under perfect driving conditions, but as we all know when you add wind, rain, hills, acceleration and deceleration, range falls. Of course, the exact same thing applies to ICE vehicles with claims about mpg or CO2e emissions per km., and as we know, many have been caught out cheating..
An the 436 might be vastly exceeded in city driving which can take full advantage of regenerative breaking, speaking to a couple of uber drivers, they are getting 330 to 350 miles out of their MG4, when it only quoted as 281.
@@DavidKnowles0 EVs are certainly more efficient and cover greater ranges in slow city driving ... however, regen braking isn't the biggest benefit by any means, it's mostly due to less aero drag and rolling resistance. Every time you apply regen braking you still lose some of the energy that was used getting you up to speed (at least 30% lost). Of course the 70% that you get to re-use is a lot better than friction braking where you lose all your motion to heat/friction with no return at all!
On the model 3 segment: Tesla are not the ones making the range claims here. The WLTP people are. You are setting yourself up for disappointment if you think those numbers are worth anything but for comparison between cars. It might as well be arbitrary numbers.
RELIABLE CHARGING will be when charging pads are introduced. Induction makes sense and only about 5% loss over wired. Make it easy and everyone will use it.
Perhaps .. but small percentages, when applied to so many vehicles, add up. For a large country like USA this could add up to hundreds of power stations ... power stations that you wouldn't need if people just plugged in once in a while!
Does anyone know how range specifications are arrived at ? Specifically, it is based on 50/50 ratio of city VS highway driving or it more based on 80% city and 20% highway ? Without knowing this, how can we feel informed to accurately estimate the advertised range in our own particular locations?
I think the EPA uses a rolling road in a lab. So no weather challenges, no human drivers. You can say that a 400-mile car will go further than a 300-mile on one charge but it's a comparison, not a guarantee. And I don't suppose the car's aircon and entertainment systems and heated seats etc will be on, so nothing like a long trip on a chilly wet day on the motorway
These "range" figures are standardised measurements depending on the scheme applicable in your own country. eg WLTP, EPA, CLTC, NEDC. If you look at the resulting numbers for the different schemes for a particular model you will see a huge variation. This doesn't mean that one is "correct" and one is "wrong". Within one particular scheme it should facilitate comparison of one model/brand with another. Each scheme uses different standard and proportions of slow/fast driving. They are not very successful at giving the average driver an accurate guide to how much range they will achieve with their own driving pattern. The reality is that EVs are operating at the upper level of efficiency when achieving their optimum range. This means that relatively slight variations in driving conditions will tend to have a significant impact on range. An ICE vehicle in normal conditions throws away most of its energy in the form of heat ... so on a really cold day some of that heat can be used to warm the cabin ... the engine was making that heat anyway so there is no loss to "range" because that energy would have just been dispersed into the outside air if not heating the car. An EV doesn't throw away much energy. It uses its battery power for the motor(s) and if no cabin heating is required all the battery power is used to extend the range. On that very cold day there is little spare heat so it has to use some battery power to heat the cabin ... this reduces the proportion for the motor(s) ... so range is somewhat reduced. So when tested for a quoted "range" this will have to have been at a set temperature. This is just one aspect of variation. Manufacturers are required to use the testing regimes agreed for their country. The idea is that this makes a level playing field.
In fairness the Aussie project is 70 GW total of wind and solar, whereas i think the Chinese record holder is 20 GW just of wind. Not knocking the Aussie project: in a desert the mix of wind and sun makes total sense. I wonder if the Chinese will add solar to their Gobi desert wind farm?
I. Just want to thank Robert and the entire team for allowing me as US citizen to stay globally. Informed the Highlander and yes, my grandfather was born on the Isle of sky.❤ Please say prayers of success and good health for Sandy Monroe, who is battling cansure?😢
Electric Car sales are up if you include HEV and PHEV they are not selling its only up because dealers are pre registered with huge discounts to avoid the £15000 per vehicle fine. People do not want them they are being driven (no pun intended) because ICE are being rationed by dealers.
You’d have to give me the full Clockwork Orange treatment before I would buy a Tesla. I’m probably not alone. This is 100% due to Elmo and the whole Xitter thing.
Today was a record breaker, 22.54GWp from Wind energy alone. Average was about 10.8GW of wind , solar and Hydro for the last 8 weeks but that includes 2 of the lowest weeks this year. Average for the last 12 months is 11.4GW, 38% of usage.
That Nullabour story sounds fishy. There are no transmission lines to make use of it and the SA and WA grids would not be able to use it all. I’m guessing someone is pitching it as a concept.
Seems a bit further along than just a concept; but yeah, it could be kyboshed yet Apparently the proposal is to generate green hydrogen and green ammonia for export, rather than supplying electricity for domestic use.
I live in Australia and I can tell you there are a number of these large projects happening. Everyone was laughing and thought Musk was joking when he offered South Australia the largest battery storage system in the world AND said it would be built in 100 days or it would be free. He did this because South Australia was held to ransom by the other States who would supply SA very very expensive electricity that they did not use when South Australia suffered black outs constantly. Musk built the battery, and along with that there are numerous solar panel farms and wind farms that supply into the battery. Now South Australia has more than it could ever need. If someone is saying the largest wind farm is going to be built, it might just happen. Plus there will be a huge battery storage facility to hold that power. IF it goes ahead. Can’t see why it won’t happen.
If there are good and consistent wind resources and relatively uncontroversial and cheap land, you can have a business case. Transmission lines is not something that was handed down to us by the Elder Ones. We can build more. The only problem is that Nullarbor is far away from... anything. That distance will chew away at the profit margin somehow for any plan.
400 miles of range? That's not really such a big deal when the Nio ET7 with the semi solid-state battery pack has been driven 652 miles on a single charge.
Tesla is very fast falling behind technologically other companies. An the founder is distracted by silly things such as self driving cars and robotic computers and bitching on Twitter about everything.
Just watched the Albion channel's story of Jaguar and apparently they did actually make cheap cars to establish themselves (called SS back then)... So I suggest you watch that.
The Swallow Sidecar Company, 1922, made sidecars for motorbikes. It began making cars and the name changed in 1934 to SS Cars Ltd. A car they made was the SS Jaguar but they were NOT cheap, costing around 450 pounds in 1937. (Beautiful cars though!). Due to the SS name, following WW2, the Company was renamed Jaguar Cars in 1945. So, Jaguar did not make an SS but SS made a model called Jaguar. Big difference.
I avoid using any charger owned by fossil fuel companies… Shell particularly rip off the customers with their ludicrous prices. We EV drivers need to pull together and boycott these awful companies
What was brave or right about that presentation? Why would you go down the path of doing what so many other companies did, and failed at, by trying to appeal to a tiny minority of the population and alienating the rest of their customer base? People are getting sick of all this rubbish as we're seeing with various election results imo.
@oldbloke204 their existing customer base is aging , they're rightly trying to raise their appeal in a younger market that can keep buying cars for the next 50 years.
@@morosis82 Sow why are they trying to appeal to that tiny part of the younger market? Just jumping on the same failure of an idea that other virtue signalling numpties have tried imo. Have a look at how the top people in the company behave and their focus. Sort of indicative of all the EV rubbish going on though I suppose.
Merry Christmas Robert and everyone at Everything Electric, Fully Charged and all your other nooks and crannies. I would observe that whilst its good to have positive stuff, we should also have negative stuff - otherwise you dont make a circuit ;-) ABN: Have you done a piece on Euro Garages yet? Just up the road from me (East side of Edinburgh next to A1) is their latest forecourt. When you go to it you think "Oh look. 4 Tesla V4 charges. I'll have some of that". Except they are branded as EG charges (dont read the "nozzle". It still says Tesla). There is credit card operation or, if you are a Tesla owner, works like any other Tesla supercharger. (it appears as a supercharger on the Car's map). I think this is an interesting step forward.
Robert seemed to imply that Jaguar were late to the party, I'm not sure what Robert is referring to after Jaguar had a electric car several years ago, before many other car companies had any electric car. I've forgotten the name of that Jaguar electric car, it was a big thing.
Shell is doing great. It would be amazing if you could cover 2nd biggest Oil&Gas company in Spain, which just rebranded, got rid of their fossil brand and are now warp speed on to a green future -> MOEVE
The folks who are moving to renewables are not doing it to help the environment. It's just cheaper and better. The cost of buying and transporting coal or any other kind of fuel only gets more expensive while renewables are going down at the same time.
5:54 - a huge amount of Shell EV chargers, great to see. But SO disappointing that they appear to have NO pull-through chargers. Most of my public charger use is on road-trips, and often I am towing our camper-trailer. WHY the F**K is it so impossible to provide some pull-through chargers. I mean, they do this ALL the time with petrol bowsers 🤔🙄
I thought he started of well. The he started to do math's and engineering with the 70GW, project is oké. I have problems with the mis-information around nuclear, yes he did. I'll copy the answer I posted inside another reply here so you don't need to dig: * His calculations are also messed up. Starting from the peak capacity point. And then using HP-C External financing proposition, to calculate that. And saying the energy cost would eyewatering, so not the 9ct/kwh HP-c has. Would take the silly calculation on the apr-1400. "South Korea won the UAE contract in 2009 and has built four APR1400 reactors at a cost of US$18.6 billion. Unit 1 of the country’s first nuclear power plant was connected to the grid in August 2020, followed by unit 2 in September 2021." The same capacity would cost 232,5 billion. He says a few billion and 5 years for the 70GW wind solar, the project itself want to do it over a period of 30 years. ROBERT you need an expert in grids and an expert nuclear energy, no not those fools from Greenpeace there not reliable 😅. Anyway to continue. The semi-right way to attempt a calculation on the to expected TWh's. In this ID have to estimate a capacity difference, for ease I will go with 1:3 That's 1/3 the capacity of 70 GW is enough for the nuclear production equivalent. This would be less then 17 apr1400 reactors. 17 reactors would be around $79 billion.
Jaguar will go bust sooner than people think. Jaguar lost their way many years ago and desperately need to return to their founders principles. Jaguars are way to expensive even for a luxury car. They need to reduce the cost significantly and they will sell more.
What you are not reporting on in your “biggest renewable project in the world” at the Nullabor is the expected irreversible environmental damage that will be caused to an extremely sensitive ecosystem. My observation is that somehow renewable energy projects are getting a free pass regarding environmental impact when no other use would be permitted. I am an ardent supporter of the absolute requirement to stop burning stuff, but am very concerned about long term environmental / biodiversity impacts in the rush to renewables.
Good grief ... hardly a "free pass" for renewable energy projects! Every time anyone wants to build a wind farm or a solar farm or build some pylons to transmit power it seems everyone is up in arms! Suddenly the people who were happy to mow down wildlife, have leaky gas wells and were prepared to put up with frequent oil spills have gained a huge interest in the ecological impact of any new development! I sincerely hope that we do have a "rush to renewables" because there's no hope for our environment without it. The world climate change impact would completely dwarf any negatives associated with environmental impact of renewables projects.
You missed the U.K. record breaking wind generation, breaking 22GW in early December for the first time and reaching 22.3GW the other night. 👍
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I did too. I'd been thinking we were due another with recent weather and what's come online since last Dec.
I do wonder though if we are actually seeing some generation curtailed at these times, as we're not currently optimally set up (grid and dynamic demand) for being able to absorb all this while needing to maintain perhaps 3GW of gas turbine running.
Roll on more EVs, more smart heat pumps and more storage 🙂
Make that 22.54 GW as of last night.
@@P13CEY wind turbines falling apart due to the storm must give you nightmares.
My National Grid app sent an alert that they think yesterday (18th) broke the record from earlier in the month 22.5GW
Thanks for a great year Robert and all the best to you, your family and the wider FC/EE Teams for a great Xmas and NY.
Have had solar at home since 2008. After moving to Arizona from Wisconsin in 2016 installed a larger solar system and have driven a EV since August 2019. Currently producing a surplus of solar electricity of at least 35%.
This is the kind of report that makes me happy..... because it's true....
The Chinese desert wind farm at average production would surpass the total yearly electricity consumption of Portugal.
Happy Christmas to you all at Fully Charged. See you next year.
I've been watching the "climate shenanigans" for over 2 decades now (I have a post graduate degree in environmental management) and have been growing increasingly despondent at the lack of progress on climate action and more alarmed as impacts intensifies. Your positive news stories are about the only thing keeping hope alive for me - a BIG thank you to you and the team!
I also watch the Just Have A Think channel which recently featured your new website - I'm have already bookmarked it and subscribed to the newsletter. I'm in South Africa and we are way behind the trend. I will probably never own an EV, which does make me feel a little sad. Hopefully I'm still alive after 2035 when - theoretically - the last ICE will roll off the production line... we must organise a BIG global party to celebrate!!!!
@@CitiesForTheFuture2030 I watch both this channel and JHAT too. And have an Environmental Science degree aswell, and both channels do keep hope alive me, so Snap !
I feel your pain
Try listening to 'Cleaning up', 'Watt Matters, 'Volts', 'The Energy Gang', and 'The Interchange'. All Podcasts that follow the energy transition (and you've already discovered 'Just have a think'). Things really are moving quite fast now, and it's pretty clear that energy and ground transport will be largely decarbonised over the next two decades, at least in the developed world. Steel and cement and shipping are showing signs of progress too. Buildings and agriculture still need _a lot_ of work, and what's going to happen in the developing world isn't clear (that's almost entirely about finance, rather than technology).
The last decade has been extremely depressing if you understand the problem and we've got ourselves in a very bad place, but assuming civilisation can hold together a bit longer I feel like we are finally getting somewhere, and most of the money is now going to at least 'better' stuff, if not actually 'good' stuff, and we still have a fighting chance of coming out under 2C and 10 billion people in the end.
Sadly it will be fringe or poor area's that will be most impacted initially, Polar Bear's cannot hunt food as there's no ice but who gives a t*ss in London or New York so long as they can still drive their petrol and diesel cars s*d the rest of the World as they know climate change isn't real, our own MP's drive around in gas guzzlers when they could be in long rang tesla's charged from solar banks and stored energy. Lip service is all we get
I enjoyed the positive stories please keep getting the message out, stay well and safe.
good to hear stories from all over the world
Friend's experience of his Tesla's range is that it doesn't go as far as its stated range. He has a little problem with the old right foot though. But what car ever does reach it's advertised range, BEV or ICEV? Actually, my ID3 PP still does its VW summer stated range = 261 miles or more on a run. It used to do 280 when newish, and I swear if I babied it, it might do near 300. Anyway, that said, if a Tesla M3 LR does 380-400 miles at this time of the year, that's pretty damn good, and surely enough for 99% of potential buyers.
My present car exceeds the EPA highway rating. The one before it also exceeded the EPA highway spec, if the pop up headlights were retracted. Aerodynamics and your right make a difference. But running an ICE engine that was designed for gasoline on E10 cuts about 10% off the resl mpg--as confirmed by many reports to the EPA. If your ICE car is designed with a flex-fuel engine, that loss will be lower, but it is still there.
Did he ever get the "stated Fuel consumption" on an ICE car?
NOBODY ever tried, if they're honest.
This is normal. If I drive sensibly I can beat the stated range easily, but if I do lots of hard acceleration it won't.
As illustrated in that little segment, it doesn't matter much at all, as long as the range is decent and the charging is fast and convenient. Basically if you drive a Tesla in populated areas of the First World or China.
I'd be happy with a VW e-up! If there was a charger at work or I could charge at home (don't have a drive or allocated parking or really much luck parking in the same road 😅).
Rarely drive more than 100 miles in one go and when I did I wouldn't mind stopping here and there to let the dogs stretch their legs (and me)
4% is HUGE. What if next year they do another say 6%. That's already 1/10 of all petrol stations replaced with electric. Then the year after that maybe they streamline the process and do another 10%.
Best show ever - we love a real world range test - Thank You
Love your positivity and the rants!! Seasons greetings to all of the Fully Charged Crew.
That shock jock was expressing the frustration that $7.5bn was allocated to charging infrastructure in 2021, but by March 2024 ony 7 stations that the money was put towards had opened. Openings do appear to be accelerating, or at least projects in the works. It's a highlight of government waste and inefficiecy which is a separate issue. The many thousands you refer to being opened are probably Electrify America, funded by VW as punishment for dieselgate. They seem to be extremely unreliable. Public charging has some way to go.
Electrify America isn't meant for reliability. Design to break furthering VW distain of EV. Poor charging experience to turn off EV owners and stop potential buyers. VW only makes enough EV and not a unit more to be in compliance. No fines or credits are needed.
Deadset nearly spat my coffee 9:18 when an ad interrupted Robert right in the middle of words" in the world! " Lol the ad was for my local councils green waste bins 😅
Happy Holidays, and thanks for the good news!
70GW in the Nullarbor is very impressive, but what are they going to do with it all? It's a really long way from everywhere, even by Australian standards. Have really long cables to Adelaide/Esperance/Perth? Start an Aluminium smelter? make hydrogen on the coast?
Yeah, I too wondered about that. Making hydrogen and green ammonia is apparently the plan.
I am an avid supporter of renewables and an owner of a Ford Lightning. I was not aware the number was actually at 50% generation of world energy created by renewables/nuclear. This is good news to me also. I really never would have guessed it was that high. Wow
Personally, I'd like a fact check on that. The IEA mid year figures made it more like 30%, with coal still bigger than anything else and gas still huge. 😬
@@GregHarveyUK I doubted it also. Then I did some googling. My Google search supported it.
Actually, renewables + nuclear is 40%. Fossil is 60%, renewables 30% and nuclear 10%. I just checked Our World In Data. Figures from 2024 are not reported yet but 2023 it was 39% so it probably crossed 40% this year. It has hovered around 35% for the past 40 years... but it is growing 0.5-1.0% per year now.
50 years ago Texas was at the leading edge of technology. Calculators and LED watches, specifically Texas Instruments. Seems like they still have some practical electronics skills.
Happy Xmas and new year to you and yours
That 192,000 number is counting those we privately installed, WITH MONEY OUT OF OUR OWN POCKETS, in our garages.
No reimbursement from the program came to me! The idea of the program was to create a comparable network of DC fast chargers to compete with/complement Tesla's Supercharger network, not Level Two.
So that program is rightly considered a boondoggle.
Really grinds my gears when a video lies like this. No way they dont know this.
Community note incoming... Oh wait this is not X and is NOT ALLOWED 😢
That program requires a minimum of 4 ports for funding. So right there you know the 6 (not shure why it chaged to 8) port figure was not the full story.
My local utility has a 2 year lead time of Megawatt scale power.
Redwood materials process batteries which will be then create new batteries. Teslas new batteries will last a lot longer than 15 years.
9:37 70GW who's buying and how is it shipped there?
Can you perhaps cover the organized opposition to offshore wind power in California by a group called REACT Alliance? They are potentially going to stop the best chance California has to get off fossil electricity and aren’t proposing any alternatives. They seem like a bunch of NIMBYs and the project is 20 miles off shore. They also say they aren’t funded by dark fossil money.
You’re adoipstick
Loads of off-shore around the UK these days ... and we've just achieved record wind generation stats within the past couple of days. It seems to work ... and off-shore wind farms aren't a major source of angst amongst the general population.
Thank you for a very informative and positive video, it is good to hear someone who knows what they are taking about and are not in the pocket of big oil talking about renewable energy. Happy Christmas from West Australia
Robert - I hope you get to drive the Eyre Hwy one day. There is an 18 hole golf 'course' along the highway - a hole every 80km or so if you like a hit. Nullarbor Links - The World's Longest Golf Course
Lovely job. Have a great break
You’re data re NEW charging points paid by the govt are not those you have quoted. This bill cannot take credit for charge stations made prior to the bill and those not benefiting from said bill.
Thanks Rober,t Merry Christmas to you too and all at Fully Charged - what thing that wind farm in Australia is going to be
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to the entire fully charged/everything electric team.
The Modern Rogue handle unit conversions (like currency) about the best I've seen. They have a graphic pop up with all the conversions on it. Brian is great, they might share the system they use with you if you ask? Might make it easier as you can just say it once and add almost every conceivable alternative unit in post.
So what is the conclusion from the range test? 400 miles didn’t work but how many could you get? 380?
There are so many variables (especially at this time of the year) including the overnight stop. In the summer it would be straightforward, but a few minutes charge over that distance is really no big deal. EVs operate with such a high baseline of efficiency it doesn't take much to nibble away at the ultimate achievable range ... temperature, wind direction, rain, speed, elevation changes over a particular route.
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to all at the Fully Charged Show & all those who watch this channel 😀😍🤩 Keep up the great work!
Loving this semi scripted presentation style Robert. Best wishes for you and yours for the coming year.
Another great video keep up the great work
8:00 If your check the latest report on the program they were complaining about:
there are now 192 ports installed on something like 32 sites.
The 6 charge port figure was a snapshot in time.
There is a lot of lead-time in installing Megawatt scale electrical infrastructure.
I love your channel. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Old Man. See you next year. Stay safe.
Thank you for your optimism!
All the best to you and yours. Would be nice to see some Canadian content in the new year. Granted, there will likely be little to report.
thanks Robert for all your videos l
It wasn't 8 chargers it was 8 STATES, also that was the total amount of the entire program that gets paid out over time with awarding contracts via RFPs with States - this per Pete Buttigieg, US Secretary of Transportation
The whole picture is missing here. There are thousands of charging ports, and growing, but the particular federal program has been extremely slow to pay out, and has paid out for a very small number of projects yet, not having spent $1.5B, but having the money and not spent virtually any of it yet. It may very well be only 8 projects.
Yes, this story wasn't represented very effectively.
The 1 GWh battery facility is not a 1 GWh battery, it's a factory for building the enclosures for 2nd life batteries which can produce enough for 1 GWh per year. That's a different company to the 53MWh battery. That company has a total stock of 2 GWh of old batteries to repurpose.
I love it when Robert is so positive. Wait. Was that actually Robert?
AI generated Robert?
@@davidrichardson2681 Video generated Robert?
Did you enquire if your old Leaf battery ended up at the Johan Cruyf? That'd be a good brag.
I love these episodes, full of facts and laughter 👌🏻😂👏🏻 subscribed to both channels and love the content and presenters.
Have a merry christmas, you and your family Robert 👍👍
400 miles is good, by the end of next year 500 will probably be the standard for most long range EV's
Anything over 350 is more than my old ICE car. Think I got 410 out of it once
I doubt it will be standard that quickly but by the end of the decade I be surprise if the majority of EV models, either on sale or coming on sale will be hitting 500 to 600 miles or a more as standard. With people only need to charge once a month or once every couple of months.
@@DavidKnowles0 That'd mean fitting a 150+ kWh battery. I mean not having to charge out and about is great but the cars would be a lot heavier and so less efficient so may need an even bigger battery/motor
Excellent stories Robert...you always prove the future is renewable. Best wishes for Christmas🎄 and the NY🎉 for you and the team and families...looking forward to Everything Electric Sydney🖖
In Norway the gasoline sale have dropped 12,3% October 2024 - October 2023.
And, diesel sales 11,9%.
So, Shell recharge is just a matter of survival or not.
With over 26% EV's on the road. More than pure gasoline cars, this is making a big impact. In one year, or maybe one and a half, EV's on the road will pass diesel cars, too.
And, EV's are NOT fossil cars with big batteries....
I always like seeing the number of UK filling station sites dropping every year
Is the UK like the US, with loads of small filling stations that look like they don't do any business, and far too many stations in each town? I live in a rural town of 2,000 residents , 1 small store, 2 small restaurants, and 4 gas stations! I can't imagine how the gas stations even stay in business.
@@jamesengland7461 My village of 1200 residents had 1 that closed 20yrs ago , UK had 20000+ when i was a kid , 8300 now. So i site to 5000 cars
I general they all are doing less volume in petrol sales. There are more EVs on the road and less ICE cars.
The announcement was more about shutting a bunch down (and selling the land), they are not converting them all. Likely it will only be a handful.
@@jamesengland7461 Mostly the UK has filling stations with 8+ pumps. The very small ones went under a while ago - there was a big crunch when supermarkets started opening pumps with at-cost gas (they hoped people would do an extra shop).
Not everyone can afford an ev or want one,another one sided argument 😡
11:40 Robert - The solar and wind farm project is called capitalism too. The nuclear projects have have longstanding, embedded, cost+ problems with an oppressive regulatory structure that is hard to out from underneath.
His calculations are also messed up.
Starting from the peak capacity point.
And then using HP-C External financing proposition, to calculate that.
And saying the energy cost would eyewatering, so not the 9ct/kwh HP-c has.
Would take the silly calculation on the apr-1400.
"South Korea won the UAE contract in 2009 and has built four APR1400 reactors at a cost of US$18.6 billion. Unit 1 of the country’s first nuclear power plant was connected to the grid in August 2020, followed by unit 2 in September 2021."
The same capacity would cost 232,5 billion.
He says a few billion and 5 years for the 70GW wind solar, the project itself want to do it over a period of 30 years.
ROBERT you need an expert in grids and an expert nuclear energy, no not those fools from Greenpeace there not reliable 😅.
Anyway to continue.
The semi-right way to attempt a calculation on the to expected TWh's.
In this ID have to estimate a capacity difference, for ease I will go with 1:3
That's 1/3 the capacity of 70 GW is enough for the nuclear production equivalent.
This would be less then 17 apr1400 reactors.
17 reactors would be around $79 billion.
@@ferkeap - Robert's in the UK so is probably using Hinkley Point C nuclear plant under construction as a reference point, originally priced at £18 billion in 2015 comprising two EPR-1750 generation units each producing 1.63GW electricity (4.5GW thermal) and expected to take 8 years to complete with construction starting in 2017. Currently now projected to take 14 years to complete (2031) for 1 unit, with a projected cost of £47.9 billion projected (£35 billion in 2015 money, so nearly a 100% overrun). Generation starting from 2031 at 1.63GW.
Comparer this to the UK's Hornsea offshore wind farm, split into 4 phases the first phase 1.2GW, construction started in 2018, commenced generation as building within 1 year and completed within 2 years. Similar for the 2nd phase of 1.4GW, construction started 2020, completed 2022, generating from 2021. Phase 3, larger at 2.9GW, construction started last year due to complete 2027. Phase 4, expected to be 4GW (keeps increasing with turbine growth) due to start next year complete by 2030. Expected overall cost is £15 billion for 9.5GW of power and total construction duration of 12 years, generating starting from end of 1st year.
Hornsea being offshore is, of course, a much more difficult and costly construction location, hence costs and timelines are likely quicker for an onshore wind farm deployment.
The benefit of wind is the speed of deployment and flexibility in both design capacity and planning , the rapid return in terms of power generation output whilst constructing, the lower overall and more predicatable cost and the lower operating costs once up and running.
That is what Robert was saying, “Choosing to build wind & solar instead of nuclear is called capitalism because wind and solar is cheaper and faster.”
Ironic humour. Robert is a "capitalist" as much as any of the rest of us ... he (we) just like to have a dig at the the way "big money" works.
@@tedspradleyindeed. Capitalism means adopting the technology that’s going to give you the best margins. If you can cut your energy costs by adopting renewables, most businesses are going to do that.
16:02 Unfortunately, there'll still be some that'll say "oh, but 400 miles isn't enough for me!!" and that "EVs are only good for local trips, to the shops". Well, unless you live on one side of the country and the shop you absolutely need is on the other, I'm pretty sure the new Model 3 LR will be more than enough for you to get your bottle of soy milk and organic avocados. I don't know, some people, eh?!
Most people who say that have never driven more than 400 miles non stop in a single journey
100% Optimistic!...Funny (nice editing)
question: as a battery degrades is it just the capacity that's reduced? does the the efficiency stay the same?
Yes less capacity and slightly less power
@@C4rb0neum so efficiency stays the same? i.e. the loss of electricity vs using it straight away. i'm over explaining because i am not sure if i have the right terminology.
The efficiency (energy in vs energy out) stays roughly the same, as does the self-discharge rate (which is very low for lithium batteries). Capacity loss is the only thing you'll notice with an old EV.
The efficiency of the drive train remains the same ... so if you originally achieved 4 miles per kWh you will still get 4 miles per kWh (but the battery will hold a few kWh less). Some EVs that are "performance optimised" models do max out the rate at which electricity can be drawn from the battery pack... and the rate at which power can be drawn from the pack does tend to be related to capacity ... so in that situation it may be that ultimate "standing quarter" acceleration is slightly reduced but you would need timing equipment to be able to tell. Most normal EVs don't max out the pack so it doesn't apply at all.
i cycled across the eyre highway in 2011, it was hot and loads of fun.
The ev chargers on the NULLABOR, are diesel powered, room for change?
It doesn't make any sense to run cables all the way across the desert for a few recharge stations. The finance involved is being better spent elsewhere, for example developing grid scale recycled batteries
No new infrastructure is needed to deliver the diesel fuel, as these trends to be co-located with ICE filling stations.
Once the recharge points are financially proven, it will THEN make sense for each station to install it's own wind and solar generation, plus a big battery to cover peak demand (like if a convoy of eVs arrive at once).
It's a sensible transition arrangement. And in the meantime I would rather someone has an electric car which was charged by diesel once a year for a long road trip than feeling the need to stick with their ICE car in order to make the annual visit to Aunty Mabel.
No doubt they will be replaced with solar as time progresses.
Thanks ❤
Passing 50% clean energy is a real milestone. It's not that long ago (10 years?) it was a feeble 4%. Also you are being a little slapdash with the difference between capacity and supply. Yes 70Gw is 25 nuclear power stations in capacity, but it's 'only' 10 in production, which is a more useful measure of how much electricity one will actually get.
It's 40% fossil free electricity, and it has been hovering around 35% for the past 40 years. But at least it is growing now.
@@zapfanzapfan Ah sorry. I was making schoolboy error of mixing up electricity and energy there, when I do in fact know better than that. I tried to find Robert's '51%' in the video again to check what he was actually talking about (capacity?, production?, etc), but failed. I recall that low-carbon energy (as opposed to electricity) has been growing fast enough to keep up with growth at about the same ratio (~87% fossil) for a couple of decades, but not enough to get ahead. Not sure if it's beginning to finally get ahead now - one would hope so) How does your 40% ('clean electricity') figure relate to Robert's 51%?
I own a Tesla Model 3 LR but AWD and it’s no problem to get 350 miles per charge without even trying. I got easily 220Wh/mile. Citi driving you can go well below 160Wh/mile that gives you over 400miles of range.
Absolutely correct ... but Robert was testing a specific long distance drive that includes motorway driving not dawdling around city streets! Huge range when staying within a city isn't why people are looking for longer range cars ... we already have cars that can do the mileage needed in cities.
@MrAdopado Yes you are right. Around 50% of my driving are highways up to 80mph. Driving steadily 80mph I got 280Wh/mile so around 270miles range. Driving 70mph it drops to 220Wh/mile and 340miles of range. Winter driving drops of of those values by 20%.
Fossil Fuel FUD? Say it ain't so! These cartels need to be held to account for all their lies!
@@jimsEVadventures first step would be holding them accountable for the pollution they cause
Don't forget the backhanders via the political 🍊🤡 slobbyist ... We are being charged for them as well as the 1% of directors /bosses bonuses for doing us over again for the next 50yrs. They hope.😂🧙🏼♂️
Good news Robert!
Great news... 🙂 Honest news.. thank you..
The “But hey now!” Part of the edit was inspired.
Motoring journalists and publications have a very bad habit of quoting EPA or WLTP ranges, as do the manufactures. 436 miles on a charge is entirely possible under perfect driving conditions, but as we all know when you add wind, rain, hills, acceleration and deceleration, range falls. Of course, the exact same thing applies to ICE vehicles with claims about mpg or CO2e emissions per km., and as we know, many have been caught out cheating..
An the 436 might be vastly exceeded in city driving which can take full advantage of regenerative breaking, speaking to a couple of uber drivers, they are getting 330 to 350 miles out of their MG4, when it only quoted as 281.
@@DavidKnowles0 EVs are certainly more efficient and cover greater ranges in slow city driving ... however, regen braking isn't the biggest benefit by any means, it's mostly due to less aero drag and rolling resistance. Every time you apply regen braking you still lose some of the energy that was used getting you up to speed (at least 30% lost). Of course the 70% that you get to re-use is a lot better than friction braking where you lose all your motion to heat/friction with no return at all!
4% is still no small number, when it comes to Big Oil letting go of something.
I do love your intro sequence
On the model 3 segment: Tesla are not the ones making the range claims here. The WLTP people are. You are setting yourself up for disappointment if you think those numbers are worth anything but for comparison between cars. It might as well be arbitrary numbers.
RELIABLE CHARGING will be when charging pads are introduced. Induction makes sense and only about 5% loss over wired. Make it easy and everyone will use it.
Perhaps .. but small percentages, when applied to so many vehicles, add up. For a large country like USA this could add up to hundreds of power stations ... power stations that you wouldn't need if people just plugged in once in a while!
I'm a young old Jag driver. 3 litre twin turbo powerrrrrr, and it makes me sad that they're not just making an ev-xf
Please come back to Hastings soon, always welcome
Does anyone know how range specifications are arrived at ?
Specifically, it is based on 50/50 ratio of city VS highway driving or it more based on
80% city and 20% highway ?
Without knowing this, how can we feel informed to accurately estimate
the advertised range in our own particular locations?
I think the EPA uses a rolling road in a lab. So no weather challenges, no human drivers. You can say that a 400-mile car will go further than a 300-mile on one charge but it's a comparison, not a guarantee. And I don't suppose the car's aircon and entertainment systems and heated seats etc will be on, so nothing like a long trip on a chilly wet day on the motorway
These "range" figures are standardised measurements depending on the scheme applicable in your own country. eg WLTP, EPA, CLTC, NEDC. If you look at the resulting numbers for the different schemes for a particular model you will see a huge variation. This doesn't mean that one is "correct" and one is "wrong". Within one particular scheme it should facilitate comparison of one model/brand with another. Each scheme uses different standard and proportions of slow/fast driving. They are not very successful at giving the average driver an accurate guide to how much range they will achieve with their own driving pattern. The reality is that EVs are operating at the upper level of efficiency when achieving their optimum range. This means that relatively slight variations in driving conditions will tend to have a significant impact on range.
An ICE vehicle in normal conditions throws away most of its energy in the form of heat ... so on a really cold day some of that heat can be used to warm the cabin ... the engine was making that heat anyway so there is no loss to "range" because that energy would have just been dispersed into the outside air if not heating the car. An EV doesn't throw away much energy. It uses its battery power for the motor(s) and if no cabin heating is required all the battery power is used to extend the range. On that very cold day there is little spare heat so it has to use some battery power to heat the cabin ... this reduces the proportion for the motor(s) ... so range is somewhat reduced. So when tested for a quoted "range" this will have to have been at a set temperature. This is just one aspect of variation.
Manufacturers are required to use the testing regimes agreed for their country. The idea is that this makes a level playing field.
In fairness the Aussie project is 70 GW total of wind and solar, whereas i think the Chinese record holder is 20 GW just of wind.
Not knocking the Aussie project: in a desert the mix of wind and sun makes total sense. I wonder if the Chinese will add solar to their Gobi desert wind farm?
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Electric Car sales are up if you include HEV and PHEV they are not selling its only up because dealers are pre registered with huge discounts to avoid the £15000 per vehicle fine. People do not want them they are being driven (no pun intended) because ICE are being rationed by dealers.
Total nonsense. Try producing some evidence for that baloney.
You’d have to give me the full Clockwork Orange treatment before I would buy a Tesla. I’m probably not alone. This is 100% due to Elmo and the whole Xitter thing.
Absolutely
Model S was my dream car for so long, but now I wouldn't be seen dead in one, simply due to that piece of shit and his antics.
Muskmo is a complete liability for the brand. Powerwalls included. Such a pathetic person.
@ yup. Marketing genius: piss off your core demographic and launch a product its target market won’t buy until there’s a coal rolling option.
Luckily there are many other manufacturers now.
How much electricity has been produced in the last 8 weeks from renewables here in the uk ?
Today was a record breaker, 22.54GWp from Wind energy alone. Average was about 10.8GW of wind , solar and Hydro for the last 8 weeks but that includes 2 of the lowest weeks this year. Average for the last 12 months is 11.4GW, 38% of usage.
Fossil fuel is down to under 28% of generation in the last 12 months
That Nullabour story sounds fishy. There are no transmission lines to make use of it and the SA and WA grids would not be able to use it all.
I’m guessing someone is pitching it as a concept.
Seems a bit further along than just a concept; but yeah, it could be kyboshed yet
Apparently the proposal is to generate green hydrogen and green ammonia for export, rather than supplying electricity for domestic use.
I live in Australia and I can tell you there are a number of these large projects happening. Everyone was laughing and thought Musk was joking when he offered South Australia the largest battery storage system in the world AND said it would be built in 100 days or it would be free. He did this because South Australia was held to ransom by the other States who would supply SA very very expensive electricity that they did not use when South Australia suffered black outs constantly. Musk built the battery, and along with that there are numerous solar panel farms and wind farms that supply into the battery. Now South Australia has more than it could ever need. If someone is saying the largest wind farm is going to be built, it might just happen. Plus there will be a huge battery storage facility to hold that power. IF it goes ahead. Can’t see why it won’t happen.
If there are good and consistent wind resources and relatively uncontroversial and cheap land, you can have a business case. Transmission lines is not something that was handed down to us by the Elder Ones. We can build more. The only problem is that Nullarbor is far away from... anything. That distance will chew away at the profit margin somehow for any plan.
It's over a period of 30 years.
But Robert calculations of Nuclear or so wrong.
He is just ranting.
400 miles of range? That's not really such a big deal when the Nio ET7 with the semi solid-state battery pack has been driven 652 miles on a single charge.
Tesla is very fast falling behind technologically other companies. An the founder is distracted by silly things such as self driving cars and robotic computers and bitching on Twitter about everything.
THANKS ROBERT,FOR SHARING POSITIVE + CONTENT 🤗⚡️⚡️⚡️
Just saw the model of the BYD seal on the top shelf ,where it should be!
So The Model 3 Car Test Failed.
You tried to brush over it as quickly as possible, but at least you said it out loud.
Thank you.
Just watched the Albion channel's story of Jaguar and apparently they did actually make cheap cars to establish themselves (called SS back then)... So I suggest you watch that.
The Swallow Sidecar Company, 1922, made sidecars for motorbikes. It began making cars and the name changed in 1934 to SS Cars Ltd. A car they made was the SS Jaguar but they were NOT cheap, costing around 450 pounds in 1937. (Beautiful cars though!). Due to the SS name, following WW2, the Company was renamed Jaguar Cars in 1945. So, Jaguar did not make an SS but SS made a model called Jaguar. Big difference.
Charging more than petrol to charge electric on the roads…. As an EV owner its laughable actually.
I avoid using any charger owned by fossil fuel companies… Shell particularly rip off the customers with their ludicrous prices. We EV drivers need to pull together and boycott these awful companies
I now understand why the shoes are on the shelf
Jaguar are doing a very brave and, more importantly, _right_ thing. They can't just keep on as they are. They're going to have to innovate!
Yeah I reckon this too. It might be painful short term for them but I think they're a company that really understands that it needs to evolve or die.
What was brave or right about that presentation?
Why would you go down the path of doing what so many other companies did, and failed at, by trying to appeal to a tiny minority of the population and alienating the rest of their customer base?
People are getting sick of all this rubbish as we're seeing with various election results imo.
@oldbloke204 their existing customer base is aging , they're rightly trying to raise their appeal in a younger market that can keep buying cars for the next 50 years.
@@morosis82 Sow why are they trying to appeal to that tiny part of the younger market?
Just jumping on the same failure of an idea that other virtue signalling numpties have tried imo.
Have a look at how the top people in the company behave and their focus.
Sort of indicative of all the EV rubbish going on though I suppose.
@@oldbloke204what "tiny part of the market" are you referring to, and where's your market research to validate your claims?
Why are there shoes on the shelf behind you ?
He use to be a shoe maker.
excellent
Merry Christmas Robert and everyone at Everything Electric, Fully Charged and all your other nooks and crannies.
I would observe that whilst its good to have positive stuff, we should also have negative stuff - otherwise you dont make a circuit ;-)
ABN: Have you done a piece on Euro Garages yet? Just up the road from me (East side of Edinburgh next to A1) is their latest forecourt. When you go to it you think "Oh look. 4 Tesla V4 charges. I'll have some of that". Except they are branded as EG charges (dont read the "nozzle". It still says Tesla). There is credit card operation or, if you are a Tesla owner, works like any other Tesla supercharger. (it appears as a supercharger on the Car's map). I think this is an interesting step forward.
Robert seemed to imply that Jaguar were late to the party, I'm not sure what Robert is referring to after Jaguar had a electric car several years ago, before many other car companies had any electric car. I've forgotten the name of that Jaguar electric car, it was a big thing.
The important part of that “8 chargers” claim is that that’s all that has been produced by the IRA. (inflation Reduction Act, not the Irish militia).
17:28 road trip video !?
Shell is doing great. It would be amazing if you could cover 2nd biggest Oil&Gas company in Spain, which just rebranded, got rid of their fossil brand and are now warp speed on to a green future -> MOEVE
nice job
The folks who are moving to renewables are not doing it to help the environment. It's just cheaper and better. The cost of buying and transporting coal or any other kind of fuel only gets more expensive while renewables are going down at the same time.
An many people are going to electric cars not to save the envionment but because they are better cars.
5:54 - a huge amount of Shell EV chargers, great to see. But SO disappointing that they appear to have NO pull-through chargers. Most of my public charger use is on road-trips, and often I am towing our camper-trailer. WHY the F**K is it so impossible to provide some pull-through chargers. I mean, they do this ALL the time with petrol bowsers 🤔🙄
Why does Aus need that much energy…?
If you build cheap energy, industry and jobs will come! 👍
IF RENEWABLES are so wonderful, why do we pay the highest price for energy in Europe ?
I thought he started of well.
The he started to do math's and engineering with the 70GW, project is oké.
I have problems with the mis-information around nuclear, yes he did.
I'll copy the answer I posted inside another reply here so you don't need to dig:
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His calculations are also messed up.
Starting from the peak capacity point.
And then using HP-C External financing proposition, to calculate that.
And saying the energy cost would eyewatering, so not the 9ct/kwh HP-c has.
Would take the silly calculation on the apr-1400.
"South Korea won the UAE contract in 2009 and has built four APR1400 reactors at a cost of US$18.6 billion. Unit 1 of the country’s first nuclear power plant was connected to the grid in August 2020, followed by unit 2 in September 2021."
The same capacity would cost 232,5 billion.
He says a few billion and 5 years for the 70GW wind solar, the project itself want to do it over a period of 30 years.
ROBERT you need an expert in grids and an expert nuclear energy, no not those fools from Greenpeace there not reliable 😅.
Anyway to continue.
The semi-right way to attempt a calculation on the to expected TWh's.
In this ID have to estimate a capacity difference, for ease I will go with 1:3
That's 1/3 the capacity of 70 GW is enough for the nuclear production equivalent.
This would be less then 17 apr1400 reactors.
17 reactors would be around $79 billion.
Jaguar will go bust sooner than people think. Jaguar lost their way many years ago and desperately need to return to their founders principles. Jaguars are way to expensive even for a luxury car. They need to reduce the cost significantly and they will sell more.
What you are not reporting on in your “biggest renewable project in the world” at the Nullabor is the expected irreversible environmental damage that will be caused to an extremely sensitive ecosystem. My observation is that somehow renewable energy projects are getting a free pass regarding environmental impact when no other use would be permitted. I am an ardent supporter of the absolute requirement to stop burning stuff, but am very concerned about long term environmental / biodiversity impacts in the rush to renewables.
Good grief ... hardly a "free pass" for renewable energy projects! Every time anyone wants to build a wind farm or a solar farm or build some pylons to transmit power it seems everyone is up in arms! Suddenly the people who were happy to mow down wildlife, have leaky gas wells and were prepared to put up with frequent oil spills have gained a huge interest in the ecological impact of any new development! I sincerely hope that we do have a "rush to renewables" because there's no hope for our environment without it. The world climate change impact would completely dwarf any negatives associated with environmental impact of renewables projects.