Nobody voted to make cannabis illegal either. Yet, that hasn't stopped governments from deleting millions of their citizens by denying them cannabis medicine against their will.
Yes, and then they say that Hitler, Putin etc. are dictators. Hmm, isn't that what they themselves are doing, dictating us to drive in BEVs that many can't and won't use.?
Sadly you are wrong. Most voters did in fact vote for the brainless politicians with bans of petrol cars as their policy. Vote stupid ways - win stupid prizes.
@@Retro-Iron11 There were many attempts to introduce steam cars at the same time as early EVs. Steam was an established technology that worked well in factories, trains and marine engines. But it was pretty inconvenient and limited for cars. In the end the new internal combustion engine swept both steam cars and EVs away.
@@philiphumphrey1548 Internal combustion engines also caught on because they were demonstrably far better and more convenient than what came before. If this was the case with current EVs, and it very much isn't, then governments would not have to force us into them.
EVs will be worse! BlockBuster were able to sell off all their videos! No one wants EVs! They'll probably set themselves on fire and pollute the planet.
@@WeAreAllDoomed-n5i it's not that easy , the government isn't fire proof , and without the money from gas taxes and car manufacturers, is going bankrupt
Where methane is 0.00017% of the atmosphere and has an average life span of 28 days so if anyone chooses to believe that cows can give rise to "global warming/climate change" they need to see a Psychiatrist as a matter of urgency as they are suffering from Dr. Albert Ellis's "irrational belief" mental illness.
"Climate advisor"... what a GRIFT! Imagine being able to make a living being so useless as that... Most sane people can't imagine themselves being that incompetent and useless and still being able survive day to day... So, they become victims of the "appeal to authority" that the governments attempt to assign to such clowns and the grift continues. Thankfully, it appears to be slowly coming to an end.
*Ask the Chinese people - how the EV car sales are going* ---- The number of makers has dropped from 500 to 100 manufacturers. Hundreds of thousands of unsold EV's turning are turning into piles of rust. China has also banned all EV's from parking in high-rise car-parks due to fire issues.
@@charlo90952 - China uses the term "new energy vehicles (NEVs)," which includes BEVs, PHEVs *and* FCEVs (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle). Only when *all* of these 3 car groups are combined can you claim a >50% figure. Interesting how EVangelists *include* hybrids to boost numbers when it comes to sales, but *exclude* hybrids when it comes to issues.
There are some people who believe that the oil should remain in the ground, but everything else we can dig up in large open pits that poison large areas and make the environment completely uninhabitable,but as long as it goes to wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars, it's worth it and something good for the climate.
Oil and gas are one the great gifts for humanity to use to our benefit. There is no better more versatile fuel source, and lets not forget all the other critical industrial uses they provide for modern life as we know it.
@nickmalone3143 It is not something that they have calculated, and how is it possible that they are counted as vehicles with zero emissions when they charge the car with electricity from a coal power plant.
Kodak failed because of poor management that sat upon their own digital technology. If they had someone able to see the market it would be a very different world right now.
"Kodak & blockbuster closed..." Off-topic, but Kodak is alive and well. Even the film division is still going - just like vinyl records and cassette tapes.
“Government climate change advisor”? Ok, stop right there. Remember that Reagan said the 7 most dangerous words are, “I’m from government, I’m here to help!”
@@stevemowat4294 "I think you all know that I've always felt the *_nine_* most terrifying words in the English language are: *_I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."_* (Reagan Library)
@@stevemowat4294small mistake, i would not loose sleep over it at all. The exact text dont matter when the message is understood.. you are correct... Message is anarchist approved.
I suspect that EVs are going to be seen like the compact fluorescent lamp - a technology that was pushed as the green option but that are now in land-fill leaking heavy metals into the environment.
Together with the solar panels and wind turbine wings... It was never about the environment but about destroying the economy and force people into kz camps ehm i mean 15 min Citys living in insects and sludge from bill Gates chemical farming.
My son is working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week building a new battery factory in Ohio, USA. He's compensated very well for this. It is so disturbing to see this madness continuing even as no one is buying these cars.
Isn't it funny how it's easy to get a permit from the gummint to build a big, new factory without going through 30 years of environmental impact statements and public hearings if it's for something that the gummint is pushing? And to push the workers into 84-hour weeks to get it done FAST? (I'm sure that no OSHA or NLRB rules are being broken in their mad rush.)
Please tell him to be banking & investing his earnings. Has he already bought property? Good. Hopefully he is planning financially for life after the battery factory is built.
Yes its all payed by tax payers - they dont even care if it crashes, their ideology is not green energy - but the great reset. They will keep restricting and more and more crazy demands and laws on this until the economy crashes and they have the cbdc and digital id ready after so they can control every part of your life.
You got that right! One Cat 798 mine hauler has a 4000hp +/- engine and a 1300 gallon fuel tank. Weight 1,375,000lb. Even when empty that thing is sucking gallons per minute! And most mines have several...maybe a dozen...or more...working 24/7.
My friend has a plug in hybrid company leased vehicle. He's never plugged it in! It's emissions are higher than his old ICE car. It's a tax dodging scam.
Thats why there shouldnt be subsidies. It distorts the market for the wrong reasons. Hybrids are probably great for people who do a lot of stop start commuting with the odd long distance ride. Otherwise you are just dragging a heavy battery around on effectively an ice car.
@DanRyan-v5y most hybrid batteries are under 100 lbs. It's proportional. A battery with 14% of the capacity (42 miles vs 300) is only going to weight 14% of the battery in a full BEV. If a vehicle already weighs 3k lbs an extra 100 isn't going to make a noticeable difference in efficiency.
@@Noah_E it is still 100lbs more though. Probably doesn't matter most of the time but you are still carting around extra weight compared to an ice and thus burning extra fuel to shift it. So if your use case suits a hybrid eg lots of stop start commuting, then it's good, otherwise you get little benefit from the extra complexity and weight. Go Ice in that case.
There was a caller on talk radio a couple of days back who said he brought a 2021 Audi etron for £26k, it has only covered 14k miles. The new cost was £90k, so the depreciation works out at over £4-50 per mile. Add that to the running costs.
Listen up kids.im a grandpa. I usedto be a photographer and usedto use carlzeiss lenses. Very good expensive lenses. Do you know that those old lenses are now being used on digital camera bodies..? The 85mm f1.4 carlzeiss still cost. a lot . Movies like the shining and taxi were shot with zeiss. The lens is essentially the engine of image capture. A flat 6 or v8...12 ...or 10 cylinder combustion engine is like a turbo fan jet engine is to a gulfstream jet. Aint going to be replaced soon... We could put nuclear engine in ships but we still get shipwrecks from storms. Battery is good for torches and phones and hearing aids but not for putting yourself in the hands of a very capricious power source. Besides the infrastructure of the oil buisness cost trillions and trillion over 2 centuries to build. In a HUNDRED year maybe well have a Battery the equivalent size and weight of an internal combustion l engine but in the meantime you are going to need a huge HUGEcombustion engine to run tractors to feed ourselves and ship our food and fly us around..
With all those adapters, a Sony digital camera or any digital camera can use those lenses. It's wonderful to know they are not destined for the trash bin. Now Chinese optical companies are replicating many of those old lenses for very cheap. So, we plebes can experience those lenses without mortgaging our homes and selling our first born.
This is good. But just so you know....a battery airliner factory is being built near here, full blown EV harvesting equipment prototypes are here for all to see ... and now they are talking ships with batteries and wind turbines and panels to haul freight. Their idiocy knows no bounds.
That will rise to help pay for more solar farms and windmills, they will make it that expensive you will not be able to afford to use it. Back to the dark ages we go.
Fun fact- the UK has the highest energy costs in the West. The next highest is Germany which is a third cheaper than the UK :-o And the UK's Labour government just cancelled 100 oil drilling contracts in the North Sea, and fines/taxes oil companies causing them to de-invest. The UK could be as rich as Norway if it wanted to be, due to North Sea oil and gas, but has made the decision not to drill. Ditto fracking. That is how stupid climate activists are (in this case an activist woke zero-carbon leftist government). Dumb dumbs, as the UK now has to import oil and gas (and electricity from Europe), hence the higher costs! Idiot government or what?
The climate advisor is missing the fact that Blockbusters died because customers no longer wanted or needed it. They preferred the convenience of streaming. Customer demand determines whether something will succeed, not Government ideology.
Sometimes customers demand immoral products which government rightly makes illegal in any market under its control. Examples would be Epstein Island activities and similar. So it is not always customer demand that determines if that thing will succeed, but rather Government morality/ideology. Customers demanded a lot of lead in petrol up until government banned it. Would you like to see that lead back in the air our children breath?
the eu auto industry is gonna die here pretty soon while americas auto industry is gonna survive because of trump and i pray trump gets us out of the paris climate agreement permanently being apart of it is a mistake
CO2 comprises .04% of our atmosphere and is the fuel for all plant life. Carbon capture is a great fake-out being used to drive "climate change ideology". We are the "carbon" DAVOS wishes to eliminate, think 15 minute cities.
The problem is wider than just poor EV sales. Other than fleets, sales are poor for ALL cars, and small garages are reporting increased demand to maintain older vehicles. The whole EV mandate is introducing uncertainty across the board so people are holding off until they see what shakes out. We are sticking with our 15 year old SLK and 9 year old Tiguan with no intention of buying any new vehicle for the foreseeable future.
Yes, you're right. I would have replaced my 8 year old Fiesta with a new one, but Ford have stopped making them (don't like the Puma replacement) and there's so much uncertainty. Plus they're putting prohibitive road tax (VED) on new petrol cars. I'm keeping the old car for now.
Yes, 12 mths ago I brought forward the replacement of my car. Now I have a great ICE car I love and will not change it until the auto industry sorts itself out. I think it'll take about 10 years. No one can know how the Government will penalise new, or older, ICE cars. No one can know how EV technology will evolve. Best just to enjoy what you have and wait.
Currently, it's 17 degrees F or -7 C. I live in a rural community, and the closest mid-size city is 65 miles 105 km away via a winding mountain road. It's much colder as I reach the summit. I'm waiting for an appointment at one of two doctors via the mountain. One is 75 miles 120 km the other is 120 miles 193 km from here. Its likely to be even colder by the time I get my appointment. It's possible I will be driving through snow. There is no way I would risk driving there without heat if for nothing else to keep the window defrosted. I wonder how many, if any, EVs could make the round trip without needing to recharge at least once. Think cold weather means lower battery life. A steep winding road means more drain on the battery. Unlike ICE cars, where the heat is a byproduct of driving, EVs need to drain the battery. It's not unusual for there to be accidents on the road with traffic backed up for miles. In sub zero temps what will that do to a cars range? With my ICE car I can easily make the round trip on half a tank. Summer or winter. I wouldn't want to risk it with an EV.
Imagine being in a hurricane zone like me where the power was out for 3 weeks the last time we were hit in 2020 by Laura. I use emergency solar batteries I can recharge on site but there isn`t enough space even in the grassy field nearby for the huge solar panel array it would take to recharge an electric car. It`s expensive as hell to recharge my small batteries under the best of conditions but it`s very useful for lights, fans, a small freezer, small rice cookers and some power for a small air conditioner when I sleep but I need a cheap gas generator to recharge on cloudy days or at night because the batteries suffer damage that causes fires from internal short circuits if they get too low on charge. If I fall asleep with the ac on and my 3.8 kwh battery runs out of charge it must be recharged IMMEDIATELY or thrown away as a fire hazard.
I have 14F right now, and I haven't forgotten how last January there was a cold snap that went as low as minus 14F, and there was a mass stoppage of EVs in Chicago that could not charge in that kind of cold, and it made the news.
Nobody is expecting ppl who live in remote areas to own EVs. That's got nothing to do with most suburban ppl who don't drive more than 50 miles a day and can home charge.
@@charlo90952 I reckon you ignored my comment about the mass EV stoppage in Chicago during last January's -14F cold snap that made the news. Chicago is a remote area too? The EVs were stranded at charging stations unable to take a charge in the cold temps and were being towed away by diesel powered trucks.
Your situation sounds a lot like mine. It's cold af right now, and I've got a choice of passes to get to where I'm going to any sizeable town, with one pass being the highest in my state, and both drives are an easy hour one-way through mountains. I would never chance it in an EV in winter, no way.
The spare part market for electronics is also problematic. You may be lucky if you can get parts after 10-15 years. It’s totally different than the mechanical parts market.
I bought three petrol vehicles last year, an 82 Jeep, a 2005 F-350 diesel, and a 2022 Jeep. I can't imagine driving "coast to coast" in an EV to visit my family living in Washington state, it would be a nightmare. I also bought three sixties and seventies motorbikes I'm currently restoring and own a 1942 ex-army motorcycle among my seven-bike stable. I've done the coast-to-coast journey thirty or forty times in the last sixty years.
@@MzuMzu-nx1emif you have either a 1919 Model T or a 2024 Burgatti you can recharge them for full service duty in under 5 minutes... And you can carry 2 gas cans in the trunk to double it's range without hassles
How can anyone be a climate advisor while ignoring the climate data. We currently have a sun who has just reached it maximum output ie solar maxima. How can a climate advisor ignore the actions of the sun.
Hi Retro, hope you're well. I think they want to roll out their agenda before the end of the 'maxima', so they can claim credit for the temperatures suddenly becoming lower. We know that people in the 70's were predicting the next ice age.
I am planning to manufacture an ICE CAR that takes 4 hours to fill up if you include waiting in line Runs for 150 miles before empty Gas tank has a HOLE in it so you have to continually add gas even if you dont use it There are only 10 gas stations in the entire city for the special filler neck and only 5 really work Needs DOUBLE the cost for insurance Needs a VERY EXPENSIVE GAS TANK that costs $20,000 every 5 years uses SPECIAL UNICORN GAS that uses CHILDREN DIGGING WITH SHOVELS instead of dirty oil platforms Blows up occasionally Special tires cost DOUBLE Special light body panels cost $30k even for a SCRATCH to repair Doors will LOCK YOU INSIDE THE CAR in the event of a FIRE or power failure Im gonna call it IM SMART-YOUR STUPID car and will actually save the earth from blowing up Would YOU buy one for 50K? Its called POLITICS, not a car, enjoy
Anyone buying a new EV in the UK is mad. In order to reach the 22% sales, dealers will pre-register cars then sell them cheap. As long as their losses are less than £15K per car, they’re better off
The UK govt has guaranteed the private turbine generated a price for power whether they turn or not. Scotland has the most turbines but it cannot transfer the unused energy because it's too far away to reach where uts needed. But the companies that built the windfarms still get paid no matter what. That's why the billionaires are investing because they're collecting taxpayers money in the form of subsidies that in 10-15 will need to be replaced.
In the UK we have 30GW of wind installed and 17GW of solar. As of this moment they are providing a measly 15GW and we are buying electricity from France and Belgium as usual. Why would you buy something that produces only a third of it's claimed performance? Sorry, your TV will only work 8 hours a day. You just wouldn't buy it.
It is because they lie about the capacity. They count the maximum rating of say windmills at the best wind speed and conditions. But those conditions never exist. They are dependent on the wind so often dont produce anything like the rating over time, so 30% is actually quite good for them. A fossil fuel or nuclear generator can run at its rated output 100% of the time as long as fuel and breakdowns permit. Renewables have intermittent fuel ie when the wind doesn't blow or the sun dorsnt shine they dont work.
'Better' is the clue and tapes didn't spontaneoulsy explode either. Carbon is not a problem and oil is not a fossil. It has nothing to do with green but everything to do with control.
Netflix was able to eclipse Blockbuster because the INFRASTRUCTURE to do it was already in place. Most homes have good internet speeds. Most homes DO NOT have EV chargers, nor can they afford one. Permits are also required to have one installed, which is more hassle. Most people also live in apartments. It's hard enough convincing a landlord to fix a toilet, let along install an EV charger. And again, there are permits involved. INFRASTRUCTURE is the one thing they never want to talk about.
One may install an EV charger. Being able to use it - maybe, if the big power grid agrees. I've read articles discussing just that. Someone wants to charge EV but can't because there isn't enough power available and thus the charger says nay.
@@SeersantLoom The managers of the two largest power grids -- CA and TX -- have both said their grids cannot support replacing every ICE with an EV. Their power grids can't support it and there's no plans or budget to update the grids. This is public knowledge that's always neglected.
If I was a landlord I wouldn't allow my tenants to have BEVs due to the fire risk. What % of housing is rented? What % doesn't allow off-street charging? So how will 100% BEV ever be achieved...? Even 50% seems unlikely. Maybe 30-40% is possible at a push. So why the hell are politicians still pushing for 100% BEV? Clearly insane.
@@Midiman14 I would disagree. Domestic VHS was 1976 to early 2000s. DVD not until 1996, and SVHS was pretty good in the 1990s- I used it along with laserdisc before DVD and DVD-R came along. And of course Ampex commercial video recorders started in 1956, so I'd say that wasn't a bad run for videotape as a whole, really- nearly 50 years.
Yes, it was a case of more aggressive marketing for VHS. I think the rental market helped to seal betamax's fate. Betamax, as you mentioned was used for mastering. Unfortunately much of those masters can't be reproduced because no one any longer has the equipment to play it on.
Adding to this, any microscopic coolant leak in the battery or powertrain is a disaster on an EV. The other issue is bearings in the drive unit. These bearings run faster than any bearing in an ICE car. These bearings are a!o subject to sparks which create pits in the races. This means the drive unit is not going to last anywhere near as long than older ICE car did.
That's a great video by Mark Mills. I saw the video and Mills brings out a lot of very important facts regarding EV's. It is well worth the time to watch the video.
Yes, film technically was better. It still is in some ways, but the main reason for going digital with cameras was the ability to make an almost infinite amount of photos. Cost per photo was zero. I remember the days when you would buy 2-3 rolls of film to go on holiday. You always had to consider what to take a photo of. And sometimes you came home with half a roll left. Then you could not wait too long to get the film developed... so you would take some extra photos in your town, from your dog etc. 😂
With everything that's going on why is it that the only people who can't smell the coffee are in the House's of Parliament. Unbelievable. Why can't they just leave things alone and let the market decide. I always say if it needs a subsidy then it's not worth investing in.
Which market would that be? The pre-1990 market where lead is in petrol? The pre-1970 market where the Ford Pinto is legal? Or some fantasy free market that no two people can agree what it would be?
Because politicians generally know jack about science and engineering so have to be advised by crooks who have their own agendas, and possibly know nothing about science and engineering
@@davidvanderklauw Actual technological advance allowed unleaded fuel to replace lead. Electric cars preceded petroleum-based cars which rein precisely because they vastly outperform the limited range of EV's.
@@aliendroneservices6621 I never read any article from the NY Post. I switched to Netflix's DVD-by-mail because it was a 30 min drive to the nearest video store. Once Netflix went to streaming, I dumped it because I can't get good internet. Now, I buy blu-rays online. If they stop selling physical discs, I stop watching movies.
Thanks for usually producing something over the weekends. Understandably, most RUclipsrs take the weekend off, but it does get a bit lonely! Keep up the good work. You are an oasis in the Sahara of EV madness, unachievable mandates, and brainwashed utopians. Cheers!
I didvd dn’t need to a clever different choice he went around the titles chap who lived local converted a transit van and fitted shelves inside with loads of stuff went around like an ice cream truck stopping every now a then
Last year on virgin media, i saw a couple of films that still had the interludes in them. Must have been original cuts. The daft thing was that the channel didnt sync the intermission with the ad break, so you had to sit through 5 minutes pf a white screen with intermission on it before gping straight into an ad break. Madness.
What a non-job that is, funded by large companies spinning the absolute myth of a climate crisis. As far the comparison between EVs and Blockbuster/Kodak, I am lost for words. Few people are going to buy technology that in virtually all respects is nothing like as good as that which it is designed to replace.
I think the government is doing a wonderful job in the UK with getting the car manufacturers to netzero, soon the UK will have netzero jobs in car manufacturing because they will all be going bankrupt. Factories have already started to close.
Everyone needs to remember that the only reason VHS beat out Betamax was because the Porn industry was using VHS! NOT because the tech was better… Betamax was better tech at the time than the alternative of the time, they’re comparing apples and oranges to try and convince you of an EVs worth guys. I am not ready to barbecue my kids, I will not buy an EV. BTW, well done Jag on having to buy back you IPace’s
The argument for EVs was only held up because of the so-called clean solar energy as one of the only acceptable energy sources, besides the wind energy. Here is what I have to say only to this subject: I am personally a retired German engineer and I was working in the machinery building business for more than 30 years. I was responsible for installing huge high-vacuum coating machinery - even complete turn-keys projects - in Europe and Asia to make solar panels (CIGS principle) for a couple of years from 2007 up to 2015. The energy consumption for making these panels is so gigantic, these panels probably will never generate the same amount of energy back according to my estimate, which questions the whole concept just from this perspective. I calculated only the necessary heating and cooling energies within these ("my") high-vacuum coating machines and I was astonished - it will take the panels about 5 years in my area (Eastern Germany) only to re-generate the same amount of energy. Still, since I did not have the energy consumption numbers for all the other necessary considerations or machinery necessary, I could not include these energies needed for manufacturing, installation and scrapping: - the huge building construction and its foundation, the installation of the HV-double electric energy supply lines to run the factory later, road and railway track connection. - the constant aircon and heating for the huge building 24/7. - constant lifting and moving of these panels via conveyor belts and robotic arms - the base glass sheet manufacturing, a constant but very high-temperature process as well - running subsystems (compressed air, vacuum pumps, coating sources etc.) 24/7 - cleaning, renewing and conditioning massive coating mask systems, recycling excessive material losses within the vacuum coating machines - laminating, frame attaching and electrode assembly - constant quality checking processes during manufacturing - the storage and packing, transport logistics to collect the raw materials and selling the panels - the power to run the necessary office building - installation efforts (installation crews driving back and for until it goes into operation) at the final destination - most importantly recycling Particular recycling is another virtually hot topic again. Because of the sandwich-like structure of the many different layers (CuGa alloy, Se, In, S, AZO to name a few) being only a few molecules thin on top of the 4mm glass sheet, recycling can be done only with thermic processes meaning a lot of recollecting (transporting) and heating. The average panel lasts for 20 to 25 years only, after that they lose efficiency (out of their already absolute lousy efficiency factor) or break down completely due to entering humidity and fading of the molecular structure. This semi-conductor structure is another reason, why the efficiency rate cannot be pushed endlessly, basically below 30% (sun shines undisruptive straight down onto the panel, meaning an ideal scenario which does not exist in reality --> therefore the efficiency rate of solar panels is so extremely lousy) is the maximum possible dictated by molecular physics. The alternative manufacturing process to make these cells is the Si-based mono-crystal type, which is totally different but might also cause a huge “price” tag in form of the manufacturing input energy needed, just to make them. And the efficiency rate is a bit lower than with the CIGS technology. Besides production cycles are up to 2 weeks needing absolute undisturbed electric energy supply into the factories - no black-out allowed (therefore the twin supply lines and transformer base). So running these factories themselves on "renewables" (what a silly term; energy cannot be "renewed" as we all learn in school early, but what the heck) is no solution. The necessary battery storage to power whole cities and (heavy) industries is also not developed and might never be since there is nothing visible at the sky. Therefore a double electricity powering system (for short: a back-up system) will be always necessary, be it a fuel burning or nuclear power station. This alone will make the so call green energies ALWAYS more expensive. Very very roughly spoken: doubling the system means doubling the price. What is still not within this assessment is the complete rework of all the electric supplies and installations to transport the electricity from power stations into factories, farms, cities and communities to feed the now multiple electric consumptions everywhere wanted for e-vehicles, but also digitalisation (a very big chunk), heating etc. pp. with all the electricity losses during the conversion of solar and wind generated electricity (DC to AC, voltage transformation, frequency and phase adaption) and long-distance transport (cable and transformer warming). Which opens another worm can of questions about the amount of material (here i.e. Cu) to make all these “energy transitions”. I personally believe that we need to get away from burning coal and oil in the future, but the way it is being politically enforced right now is a way into disaster. The reasons for it are multiple - but basically people: "activists" like our highly-educated Greta Thunberg; environmentalist NGOs with very little background-knowledge of math, physics and available technology but with big budgets; pressuring solar technology companies (of course they want to push their products into markets after their heavy investments into their factories); politized scientists and ideologistic dubious "economists" trying to spread single-cause-simple-solution thinking and propaganda messages not allowing any scientific controversy; and finally semi-educated politicians caught in between them all and their populations, which are not willing to accept these doomsday ideologies and their unnecessary financial and, yes, ecologic burdens to their small every-day budgets and living environments. Sorry, I know this is quite long but complex issues need longer answers. However, I thought it might be useful if someone who worked in this field starts to speak up. Peace! from Dresden / Germany
Video players with electric tape transport? FF, REW, PAUSE and PLAY? Wow, you were ahead of your time, techno-dude! 😁 I was too poor for videos but I had loads of audio cassettes. Used to use a biro to rewind them because it saved draining the cassette player's batteries. Hmm... 🤔 Putting up with massive inconvenience in order to save battery power... Where have I heard that before? Oh, yes - it's just like EV owners not using their car's heating, lighting, demister and air-con in winter... C-60 and C-90 tapes were great, but people stopped buying C-120s because the tape stretched and the music died.
The thing with normal power stations is that you have total control of inputs and outputs as and when you need to adjust . Wind and solar you are at the mercy of the weather. No wind , no power, No sun no power and its dark every single night!!
Moving away from DVD rentals was a no-brainer move for the consumer. It doesn't apply to the EV vs. ICE battle because EV's are FAR from a no-brainer purchase. I only know one person who owns a Tesla and he's on a three month waiting list to get a scratch repaired, even after the insurance claim has been processed. EV ownership is a huge f***-around.
EV;s will go the way of the Betamax video recorders. The economics will prevail and even the Governments will see this when their car industries implode and tax revenues decline.
Streaming is not better than good old DVDs. It’s just another push toward everyone being dependent upon a subscription service rather than a physically owned product. Streaming services have been the leading edge of converting society to the “you will own nothing” mentality. We had to sell off a lot of things when we moved a few years ago but we are now looking to re-acquire DVDs, CDs and moving away from video and streaming services. We bought a 2013 ICE car to avoid a lot of the new online car “features” and all the surveillance and controls that are built in.
When is his people going to realise that electric vehicles have a higher carbon footprint than fossil fuel? It takes 90,000 miles for them to become carbon equal in perfect, driving conditions or no cold weather. Before that time, the battery start losing efficiency, which means more electricity or less miles. The average lifespan of an EV according to insurance company figures is 8 to 10 years The average lifespan of fossil fuel is 18 to 20 years so for every fossil fuel vehicle you need to EV vehicles produced Look at the carbon footprint. These people feel righteous that they’re saving the planet, but they’re making it worse. No financial. They’re more expensive to insure if you can’t charge it home, which a lot of people can’t it is more expensive than a fossil fuel vehicle to run if you’re charging at public points and that’s going to get more expensive. They are 80% more unreliable than a fossil fuel vehicle. Then there’s safety we’ve seen them run out of control we’ve seen them in thermal runaway. The government ought to look at the true figures. They’re going to get a lot more expensive, especially now China is putting restrictions on minerals
Difference is government did not stick there nose in and dictate people should use streaming services or switch to digital cameras. The market decided for itself. His statement also now fully acknowledges that government meddling has direct impact on jobs and manufacturing, and giving Asian countries the key to our market to sell cheap vehicles.
The switch from physical to digital mediums in both the film and photography industries happened because the vast majority of the population found they were cheaper, easier and more convenient to use. No government mandates were required to coerce them into switching, unlike EVs. Mandates are required here because a) they hold nothing in common with the previous two examples and b) the come with the added 'danger of death'. Screw government mandates, if ever the government needs to coerce the public into a certain way of thinking/acting it is rarely in the public's best interest in the long run.
Mark Mills is awesome! He provides me with endless hard truths with which to expose EVangelists and their myths to the harsh light of reality. He is equally informative about the folly of Net Zero and renewables. Well worth watching.
mad millipede is now making up his own "science" to try and push this more. thousands of ex 3 year lease teslas at auctions starting at £18k with no bids .
Starmer's new Transport Secretary [Heidi Alexander] is clueless on Transport matters. A former barrister, she was a Deputy Mayor for Sadiq Khan 2018-2021 and did nothing during lockdown and then left. A vacuous MP now in charge. A pathetic 'yes' politician to anything she will be ask to trot out at any given podium.
Nobody voted to ban petrol cars, how dare these brainless politicians interfere with our lives like this.
Nobody voted to make cannabis illegal either.
Yet, that hasn't stopped governments from deleting millions of their citizens by denying them cannabis medicine against their will.
Because you are are slaves to the elite
Yes, and then they say that Hitler, Putin etc. are dictators. Hmm, isn't that what they themselves are doing, dictating us to drive in BEVs that many can't and won't use.?
Sadly you are wrong. Most voters did in fact vote for the brainless politicians with bans of petrol cars as their policy. Vote stupid ways - win stupid prizes.
@@iancarrington1967 I totally agree with you.
If a new technology is better than an older technology, then there does not need to be any mandates or incentives as people would naturally switch.
Ev is older technology than ice. It was the first cars. Yes, newer technology is better. :D
@@Retro-Iron11 There were many attempts to introduce steam cars at the same time as early EVs. Steam was an established technology that worked well in factories, trains and marine engines. But it was pretty inconvenient and limited for cars. In the end the new internal combustion engine swept both steam cars and EVs away.
Exactly!
@@philiphumphrey1548 Also made heavier than air flight possible.
@@philiphumphrey1548 Internal combustion engines also caught on because they were demonstrably far better and more convenient than what came before. If this was the case with current EVs, and it very much isn't, then governments would not have to force us into them.
EVs will end up like Blockbuster videos 100%
EVs will be worse! BlockBuster were able to sell off all their videos! No one wants EVs! They'll probably set themselves on fire and pollute the planet.
Government mandates! Bend over!
@@WeAreAllDoomed-n5i it's not that easy , the government isn't fire proof , and without the money from gas taxes and car manufacturers, is going bankrupt
@@WeAreAllDoomed-n5i Insert your digital i.d to start the car.
Betamax
It's not a fudge it is a frickin FRAUD!
And a ponzi scheme for tesla. Imagine what musks going to do with doge coins.
Worse than the petro dollar
Megalomaniac like gates and the banksters
But But the world will end if we don't give our glorious leaders our money.... 🤔 Yep thats Fraud alright !
Morons once said "bread eaters" go blockbusters - should only grass eaters survive?
I'm sure a government climate advisor is a reliable, unbiased source of information.
Mmmmhmmm👍👎. I can hear the sarcasm in your voice?🤣
there lies the problem .....a government adviser ...no wonder we in a mess....this adviser needs to be held accountable
lol
more safe and effective technology and "research "
Got the job because he is also a communist.
WEF will do its best to bankrupt all car manufacturers 🤔
This is why it is so important to bankrupt the WEF before any of that happens.
Volkswagen and Mercedes are among the most in debt companies on Earth now
Helped along by Blackrock
Endgame
And western nation states. Let's not let them?
It must be really special people who are more terrified of farting cows than burning electric cars.
This confirm my theory about high voltage machinery damaging brain cells, if used without proper safety tools
😂😂😂😂
Where methane is 0.00017% of the atmosphere and has an average life span of 28 days so if anyone chooses to believe that cows can give rise to "global warming/climate change" they need to see a Psychiatrist as a matter of urgency as they are suffering from Dr. Albert Ellis's "irrational belief" mental illness.
Well… one day they have to face reality and then their electric door can’t open. The rest of us just make sure we stand at the right end of the cows.
There must be far more farting veggies and vegans in the world than cows.
"Climate advisor"... what a GRIFT! Imagine being able to make a living being so useless as that... Most sane people can't imagine themselves being that incompetent and useless and still being able survive day to day... So, they become victims of the "appeal to authority" that the governments attempt to assign to such clowns and the grift continues. Thankfully, it appears to be slowly coming to an end.
100%
Why even need a position like that? Just go outside if you want to know.
*Ask the Chinese people - how the EV car sales are going* ----
The number of makers has dropped from 500 to 100 manufacturers.
Hundreds of thousands of unsold EV's turning are turning into piles of rust.
China has also banned all EV's from parking in high-rise car-parks due to fire issues.
Over 50% of new cars sales are EVs in China. For anyone with home charging EVs work fine.
@@charlo90952 BS
@@charlo90952 50% of zero is zero.
@@charlo90952 - China uses the term "new energy vehicles (NEVs)," which includes BEVs, PHEVs *and* FCEVs (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle). Only when *all* of these 3 car groups are combined can you claim a >50% figure.
Interesting how EVangelists *include* hybrids to boost numbers when it comes to sales, but *exclude* hybrids when it comes to issues.
You mean the EVs are turning into piles of forever-toxic brittle plastic and wires😂
Jaguar will NEVER re-open and if by some chance they do very few people will buy them. Either way they are dead RIP Jaguar.
There are some people who believe that the oil should remain in the ground, but everything else we can dig up in large open pits that poison large areas and make the environment completely uninhabitable,but as long as it goes to wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars, it's worth it and something good for the climate.
Oil and gas are one the great gifts for humanity to use to our benefit. There is no better more versatile fuel source, and lets not forget all the other critical industrial uses they provide for modern life as we know it.
@3UZFE Without oil we would live like they did in the mid-nineteenth century and all whales would be extinct.
What about all the toxicity when all these used ev batteries are left to rot ?
@nickmalone3143 It is not something that they have calculated, and how is it possible that they are counted as vehicles with zero emissions when they charge the car with electricity from a coal power plant.
Maybe we should mine graves to build windmills?
Kodak & blockbuster closed because they were superseded. EVs have yet to equal let alone better or supersed ICE vehicles.
Exactly
They still can't match the 400-mile range of a small petrol hatchback car yet
Kodak failed because of poor management that sat upon their own digital technology. If they had someone able to see the market it would be a very different world right now.
The govt didn't have to step in and force everybody to switch to Netflix.
"Kodak & blockbuster closed..." Off-topic, but Kodak is alive and well. Even the film division is still going - just like vinyl records and cassette tapes.
“Government climate change advisor”? Ok, stop right there. Remember that Reagan said the 7 most dangerous words are, “I’m from government, I’m here to help!”
@@stevemowat4294 "I think you all know that I've always felt the *_nine_* most terrifying words in the English language are: *_I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."_* (Reagan Library)
@ I stand corrected, thank you
@@stevemowat4294 same thing; i also heard him (R.R) say exactly like this: " Government is not the solution for anything, Government is the problem"
@@stevemowat4294small mistake, i would not loose sleep over it at all. The exact text dont matter when the message is understood.. you are correct... Message is anarchist approved.
EV's actually explode like a Blockbuster 🧨💥
Evs people have the brain cells damaged by their high voltage scams .
EV's the biggest scam going.
Tesla model Y was the Best selling carmodel on planet Earth in year 2023 🤡🤡
I suspect that EVs are going to be seen like the compact fluorescent lamp - a technology that was pushed as the green option but that are now in land-fill leaking heavy metals into the environment.
A much better comparison than betamax
Great analogy! 👍🏻🇬🇧
Together with the solar panels and wind turbine wings... It was never about the environment but about destroying the economy and force people into kz camps ehm i mean 15 min Citys living in insects and sludge from bill Gates chemical farming.
My son is working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week building a new battery factory in Ohio, USA. He's compensated very well for this. It is so disturbing to see this madness continuing even as no one is buying these cars.
Isn't it funny how it's easy to get a permit from the gummint to build a big, new factory without going through 30 years of environmental impact statements and public hearings if it's for something that the gummint is pushing? And to push the workers into 84-hour weeks to get it done FAST? (I'm sure that no OSHA or NLRB rules are being broken in their mad rush.)
Hopefully with LiFeO4 batteries to make powerwalls to ride out the gaps in electricity during load sharing daily blackouts
Please tell him to be banking & investing his earnings. Has he already bought property? Good. Hopefully he is planning financially for life after the battery factory is built.
Yes its all payed by tax payers - they dont even care if it crashes, their ideology is not green energy - but the great reset. They will keep restricting and more and more crazy demands and laws on this until the economy crashes and they have the cbdc and digital id ready after so they can control every part of your life.
I hate this government meddling in commerce!
And our lives.
EVs can not even exist without Fossil Fuels.
You got that right! One Cat 798 mine hauler has a 4000hp +/- engine and a 1300 gallon fuel tank. Weight 1,375,000lb. Even when empty that thing is sucking gallons per minute! And most mines have several...maybe a dozen...or more...working 24/7.
If there is any plastic in an EV then it needs oil to exist.
That's true but oil is not a fossil. Only coal is.
@@WillCamx An EV uses far more plastic products than ICE vehicle. The body of an EV is almost entirely made from plastic.
@@robri87-hh4gr Then if we stop drilling for oil there will be no EVs.
My friend has a plug in hybrid company leased vehicle. He's never plugged it in! It's emissions are higher than his old ICE car. It's a tax dodging scam.
Thats why there shouldnt be subsidies. It distorts the market for the wrong reasons.
Hybrids are probably great for people who do a lot of stop start commuting with the odd long distance ride. Otherwise you are just dragging a heavy battery around on effectively an ice car.
@DanRyan-v5y most hybrid batteries are under 100 lbs. It's proportional. A battery with 14% of the capacity (42 miles vs 300) is only going to weight 14% of the battery in a full BEV. If a vehicle already weighs 3k lbs an extra 100 isn't going to make a noticeable difference in efficiency.
@Noah_E the yaris hybrid is 400kg heavier!
You can bet politicians hold all the best stocks in companies they funded with tax dollars
@@Noah_E it is still 100lbs more though. Probably doesn't matter most of the time but you are still carting around extra weight compared to an ice and thus burning extra fuel to shift it. So if your use case suits a hybrid eg lots of stop start commuting, then it's good, otherwise you get little benefit from the extra complexity and weight. Go Ice in that case.
Richardson is just one of the idiots advising governments into throwing taxpayers money at the dead end EV technology...
There was a caller on talk radio a couple of days back who said he brought a 2021 Audi etron for £26k, it has only covered 14k miles. The new cost was £90k, so the depreciation works out at over £4-50 per mile. Add that to the running costs.
£26k - he paid too much
😂 Jaguar to reinvent itself as a bankrupt company 😂
Listen up kids.im a grandpa.
I usedto be a photographer and usedto use carlzeiss lenses.
Very good expensive lenses.
Do you know that those old lenses are now being used on digital camera bodies..?
The 85mm f1.4 carlzeiss still cost.
a lot .
Movies like the shining and taxi were shot with zeiss.
The lens is essentially the engine of image capture.
A flat 6 or v8...12 ...or 10 cylinder combustion engine is like a turbo fan jet engine is to a gulfstream jet.
Aint going to be replaced soon...
We could put nuclear engine in ships but we still get shipwrecks from storms.
Battery is good for torches and phones and hearing aids but not for putting yourself in the hands of a very capricious power source.
Besides the infrastructure of the oil buisness cost trillions and trillion over 2 centuries to build.
In a HUNDRED year maybe well have a Battery the equivalent size and weight of an internal combustion l engine but in the meantime you are going to need a huge HUGEcombustion engine to run tractors to feed ourselves and ship our food and fly us around..
Very, very intelligently put.
@@blueridgestickshift
Thanks
My Dad said they used Carl Zeiss lenses in his WWII Royal Navy submarine periscope... ironic but true because they were the best!
With all those adapters, a Sony digital camera or any digital camera can use those lenses. It's wonderful to know they are not destined for the trash bin. Now Chinese optical companies are replicating many of those old lenses for very cheap. So, we plebes can experience those lenses without mortgaging our homes and selling our first born.
This is good. But just so you know....a battery airliner factory is being built near here, full blown EV harvesting equipment prototypes are here for all to see ... and now they are talking ships with batteries and wind turbines and panels to haul freight. Their idiocy knows no bounds.
Don't wind turbine blades and solar panels only have a life of 20 years at best
And can they be recycled?
@@janegreen9340No, they bury them.
thats the short part of their "half life"... rest assured, they will survive buried, for thousands if not millions of years...
Correct.
10-15 years max.
UK consumers should have realised that wind and solar are not cheap, 25% of their bill is a 'renewables levy'....
That will rise to help pay for more solar farms and windmills, they will make it that expensive you will not be able to afford to use it. Back to the dark ages we go.
Fun fact- the UK has the highest energy costs in the West. The next highest is Germany which is a third cheaper than the UK :-o And the UK's Labour government just cancelled 100 oil drilling contracts in the North Sea, and fines/taxes oil companies causing them to de-invest. The UK could be as rich as Norway if it wanted to be, due to North Sea oil and gas, but has made the decision not to drill. Ditto fracking. That is how stupid climate activists are (in this case an activist woke zero-carbon leftist government). Dumb dumbs, as the UK now has to import oil and gas (and electricity from Europe), hence the higher costs! Idiot government or what?
The climate advisor is missing the fact that Blockbusters died because customers no longer wanted or needed it. They preferred the convenience of streaming.
Customer demand determines whether something will succeed, not Government ideology.
Sometimes customers demand immoral products which government rightly makes illegal in any market under its control. Examples would be Epstein Island activities and similar. So it is not always customer demand that determines if that thing will succeed, but rather Government morality/ideology.
Customers demanded a lot of lead in petrol up until government banned it. Would you like to see that lead back in the air our children breath?
@@davidvanderklauw are you claiming ice vehicles are immoral? If not ,you have picked out a very odd generalistic side alley to wander down
@@DanRyan-v5y No. I am refuting a nonsense statement made by the original poster regarding the role of consumer demand and the role of government.
@@davidvanderklauw - Speaking of Epstein Island, please tell us why the government hasn’t thrown Bill Clinton in jail …
the eu auto industry is gonna die here pretty soon while americas auto industry is gonna survive because of trump and i pray trump gets us out of the paris climate agreement permanently being apart of it is a mistake
CO2 comprises .04% of our atmosphere and is the fuel for all plant life. Carbon capture is a great fake-out being used to drive "climate change ideology". We are the "carbon" DAVOS wishes to eliminate, think 15 minute cities.
If petrol cars are like Blockbuster then EV cars are like Virtual Reality, VR has had 3 iterations and still can't find a main stream user base.
The problem is wider than just poor EV sales. Other than fleets, sales are poor for ALL cars, and small garages are reporting increased demand to maintain older vehicles. The whole EV mandate is introducing uncertainty across the board so people are holding off until they see what shakes out. We are sticking with our 15 year old SLK and 9 year old Tiguan with no intention of buying any new vehicle for the foreseeable future.
Yes, you're right. I would have replaced my 8 year old Fiesta with a new one, but Ford have stopped making them (don't like the Puma replacement) and there's so much uncertainty. Plus they're putting prohibitive road tax (VED) on new petrol cars. I'm keeping the old car for now.
Yes, 12 mths ago I brought forward the replacement of my car. Now I have a great ICE car I love and will not change it until the auto industry sorts itself out. I think it'll take about 10 years. No one can know how the Government will penalise new, or older, ICE cars. No one can know how EV technology will evolve. Best just to enjoy what you have and wait.
Miliband needs to be jailed. All the climate scam criminals do.
Here in the U.K. we have a ‘Climate Intelligence Unit’. A bit of a contradiction in terms I suspect.
the ministry of funny walks
Porsche announced they are going to build IC cars as long as possible due to failing ev sales
We know from history that electric cars don't work! Insanity is doing the same thing again and again, expecting different results!
Currently, it's 17 degrees F or -7 C. I live in a rural community, and the closest mid-size city is 65 miles 105 km away via a winding mountain road. It's much colder as I reach the summit. I'm waiting for an appointment at one of two doctors via the mountain. One is 75 miles 120 km the other is 120 miles 193 km from here. Its likely to be even colder by the time I get my appointment. It's possible I will be driving through snow. There is no way I would risk driving there without heat if for nothing else to keep the window defrosted. I wonder how many, if any, EVs could make the round trip without needing to recharge at least once.
Think cold weather means lower battery life. A steep winding road means more drain on the battery. Unlike ICE cars, where the heat is a byproduct of driving, EVs need to drain the battery. It's not unusual for there to be accidents on the road with traffic backed up for miles. In sub zero temps what will that do to a cars range? With my ICE car I can easily make the round trip on half a tank. Summer or winter. I wouldn't want to risk it with an EV.
Imagine being in a hurricane zone like me where the power was out for 3 weeks the last time we were hit in 2020 by Laura. I use emergency solar batteries I can recharge on site but there isn`t enough space even in the grassy field nearby for the huge solar panel array it would take to recharge an electric car. It`s expensive as hell to recharge my small batteries under the best of conditions but it`s very useful for lights, fans, a small freezer, small rice cookers and some power for a small air conditioner when I sleep but I need a cheap gas generator to recharge on cloudy days or at night because the batteries suffer damage that causes fires from internal short circuits if they get too low on charge. If I fall asleep with the ac on and my 3.8 kwh battery runs out of charge it must be recharged IMMEDIATELY or thrown away as a fire hazard.
I have 14F right now, and I haven't forgotten how last January there was a cold snap that went as low as minus 14F, and there was a mass stoppage of EVs in Chicago that could not charge in that kind of cold, and it made the news.
Nobody is expecting ppl who live in remote areas to own EVs. That's got nothing to do with most suburban ppl who don't drive more than 50 miles a day and can home charge.
@@charlo90952 I reckon you ignored my comment about the mass EV stoppage in Chicago during last January's -14F cold snap that made the news. Chicago is a remote area too? The EVs were stranded at charging stations unable to take a charge in the cold temps and were being towed away by diesel powered trucks.
Your situation sounds a lot like mine. It's cold af right now, and I've got a choice of passes to get to where I'm going to any sizeable town, with one pass being the highest in my state, and both drives are an easy hour one-way through mountains.
I would never chance it in an EV in winter, no way.
The spare part market for electronics is also problematic. You may be lucky if you can get parts after 10-15 years. It’s totally different than the mechanical parts market.
I've got a manual v8 and i don't intend to sell it any time soon.
Remember to make fun of Evs running out of battery on highway, slow offer an hand , salut , and step on the gas .🤣🤣😅😂😂😅🤣
@MzuMzu-nx1em 🤣🤣🤣
@@MzuMzu-nx1em Ask if they need a lift then as they get to the door drive forward. Rinse and repeat.
I bought three petrol vehicles last year, an 82 Jeep, a 2005 F-350 diesel, and a 2022 Jeep. I can't imagine driving "coast to coast" in an EV to visit my family living in Washington state, it would be a nightmare. I also bought three sixties and seventies motorbikes I'm currently restoring and own a 1942 ex-army motorcycle among my seven-bike stable. I've done the coast-to-coast journey thirty or forty times in the last sixty years.
@@MzuMzu-nx1emif you have either a 1919 Model T or a 2024 Burgatti you can recharge them for full service duty in under 5 minutes... And you can carry 2 gas cans in the trunk to double it's range without hassles
Car company's are going bust BECAUSE of EV"S
Smart TVs are slow and infuriating. I never recall wanting to throw my 80s tv out of the window. The new is not always better.
EVs have peaked for the third time in 120 years. I would rather invest in steam.
Love a steam car!
Bye Bye JAGUAR GREAT CARS ONE TIME.
Get woke, go broke…..Go all EV, go broke🤔
@@jongoffinet8511When bad assed goes pansy…
How can anyone be a climate advisor while ignoring the climate data. We currently have a sun who has just reached it maximum output ie solar maxima. How can a climate advisor ignore the actions of the sun.
Hi Retro, hope you're well. I think they want to roll out their agenda before the end of the 'maxima', so they can claim credit for the temperatures suddenly becoming lower. We know that people in the 70's were predicting the next ice age.
When you really should be called a shill you will be allergic to facts.
Because they are pushing a grift not the truth
Those changes were consumer driven not mandatory and the transition didn't require any infrastructure update using taxpayer money.
I am planning to manufacture an ICE CAR that takes 4 hours to fill up if you include waiting in line
Runs for 150 miles before empty
Gas tank has a HOLE in it so you have to continually add gas even if you dont use it
There are only 10 gas stations in the entire city for the special filler neck and only 5 really work
Needs DOUBLE the cost for insurance
Needs a VERY EXPENSIVE GAS TANK that costs $20,000 every 5 years
uses SPECIAL UNICORN GAS that uses CHILDREN DIGGING WITH SHOVELS instead of dirty oil platforms
Blows up occasionally
Special tires cost DOUBLE
Special light body panels cost $30k even for a SCRATCH to repair
Doors will LOCK YOU INSIDE THE CAR in the event of a FIRE or power failure
Im gonna call it
IM SMART-YOUR STUPID car and will actually save the earth from blowing up
Would YOU buy one for 50K?
Its called POLITICS, not a car, enjoy
If you can’t drive a stick shift you can’t drive!
I call my 6-speed manual the Gen X Theft Prevention
Some of us remember the hype about Segway. It's the transport of the future.
😂😂😂
Or indeed the Sinclair C5 ! 🤣🤣
Anyone buying a new EV in the UK is mad. In order to reach the 22% sales, dealers will pre-register cars then sell them cheap. As long as their losses are less than £15K per car, they’re better off
The UK govt has guaranteed the private turbine generated a price for power whether they turn or not. Scotland has the most turbines but it cannot transfer the unused energy because it's too far away to reach where uts needed. But the companies that built the windfarms still get paid no matter what. That's why the billionaires are investing because they're collecting taxpayers money in the form of subsidies that in 10-15 will need to be replaced.
In the UK we have 30GW of wind installed and 17GW of solar. As of this moment they are providing a measly 15GW and we are buying electricity from France and Belgium as usual. Why would you buy something that produces only a third of it's claimed performance? Sorry, your TV will only work 8 hours a day. You just wouldn't buy it.
It is because they lie about the capacity. They count the maximum rating of say windmills at the best wind speed and conditions. But those conditions never exist. They are dependent on the wind so often dont produce anything like the rating over time, so 30% is actually quite good for them. A fossil fuel or nuclear generator can run at its rated output 100% of the time as long as fuel and breakdowns permit.
Renewables have intermittent fuel ie when the wind doesn't blow or the sun dorsnt shine they dont work.
'Better' is the clue and tapes didn't spontaneoulsy explode either. Carbon is not a problem and oil is not a fossil. It has nothing to do with green but everything to do with control.
Netflix was able to eclipse Blockbuster because the INFRASTRUCTURE to do it was already in place. Most homes have good internet speeds. Most homes DO NOT have EV chargers, nor can they afford one. Permits are also required to have one installed, which is more hassle. Most people also live in apartments. It's hard enough convincing a landlord to fix a toilet, let along install an EV charger. And again, there are permits involved. INFRASTRUCTURE is the one thing they never want to talk about.
One may install an EV charger. Being able to use it - maybe, if the big power grid agrees. I've read articles discussing just that. Someone wants to charge EV but can't because there isn't enough power available and thus the charger says nay.
@@SeersantLoom The managers of the two largest power grids -- CA and TX -- have both said their grids cannot support replacing every ICE with an EV. Their power grids can't support it and there's no plans or budget to update the grids. This is public knowledge that's always neglected.
If I was a landlord I wouldn't allow my tenants to have BEVs due to the fire risk. What % of housing is rented? What % doesn't allow off-street charging? So how will 100% BEV ever be achieved...? Even 50% seems unlikely. Maybe 30-40% is possible at a push. So why the hell are politicians still pushing for 100% BEV? Clearly insane.
Betamax was actually the better solution for a technical and audio reproduction point of view, VHS just got popular first.
Very true, but then the whole video tape concept did not last long.
@@Midiman14 I would disagree. Domestic VHS was 1976 to early 2000s. DVD not until 1996, and SVHS was pretty good in the 1990s- I used it along with laserdisc before DVD and DVD-R came along. And of course Ampex commercial video recorders started in 1956, so I'd say that wasn't a bad run for videotape as a whole, really- nearly 50 years.
Yes, it was a case of more aggressive marketing for VHS. I think the rental market helped to seal betamax's fate. Betamax, as you mentioned was used for mastering. Unfortunately much of those masters can't be reproduced because no one any longer has the equipment to play it on.
Btw, Kodak is making a comeback.
Adding to this, any microscopic coolant leak in the battery or powertrain is a disaster on an EV. The other issue is bearings in the drive unit. These bearings run faster than any bearing in an ICE car. These bearings are a!o subject to sparks which create pits in the races.
This means the drive unit is not going to last anywhere near as long than older ICE car did.
their ultimate goal is to get rid of the whole automotive industry altogether, did you not get it?
15 minute cities for we plebes is their goal. You will own nothing and be happy!
That's a great video by Mark Mills. I saw the video and Mills brings out a lot of very important facts regarding EV's. It is well worth the time to watch the video.
A climate advisor giving business advice? What next, an Uber driver giving medical advice?
The motor companies will go broke faster making EV's that nobody wants.
Yes, film technically was better. It still is in some ways, but the main reason for going digital with cameras was the ability to make an almost infinite amount of photos. Cost per photo was zero.
I remember the days when you would buy 2-3 rolls of film to go on holiday. You always had to consider what to take a photo of. And sometimes you came home with half a roll left. Then you could not wait too long to get the film developed... so you would take some extra photos in your town, from your dog etc. 😂
With everything that's going on why is it that the only people who can't smell the coffee are in the House's of Parliament. Unbelievable. Why can't they just leave things alone and let the market decide. I always say if it needs a subsidy then it's not worth investing in.
Which market would that be? The pre-1990 market where lead is in petrol? The pre-1970 market where the Ford Pinto is legal? Or some fantasy free market that no two people can agree what it would be?
They don't want to smell the coffee.
Because politicians generally know jack about science and engineering so have to be advised by crooks who have their own agendas, and possibly know nothing about science and engineering
@@davidvanderklauw Actual technological advance allowed unleaded fuel to replace lead. Electric cars preceded petroleum-based cars which rein precisely because they vastly outperform the limited range of EV's.
@@JohnMcClain-p9t Lead was banned by government. Consumers did not demand lead-free petrol.
It was also market led, which they chose to ignore. Noone was getting grants to stream
The market didn't kill Blockbuster. An article in *_The New York Post_* did.
@@aliendroneservices6621
I never read any article from the NY Post.
I switched to Netflix's DVD-by-mail because it was a 30 min drive to the nearest video store. Once Netflix went to streaming, I dumped it because I can't get good internet.
Now, I buy blu-rays online. If they stop selling physical discs, I stop watching movies.
Thanks for usually producing something over the weekends. Understandably, most RUclipsrs take the weekend off, but it does get a bit lonely!
Keep up the good work. You are an oasis in the Sahara of EV madness, unachievable mandates, and brainwashed utopians.
Cheers!
Ahhh Saturday evening down to the video hire shop, chose a family film and a bag of popcorn - simpler times that made for a fun evening.
I didvd dn’t need to a clever different choice he went around the titles chap who lived local converted a transit van and fitted shelves inside with loads of stuff went around like an ice cream truck stopping every now a then
The only realistic net zero is something that doesn't exist.
Harley Davidson is leading the way.
Not fair to Betamax. Its video quality was superior. EVs are equivalent to reel video in the days before fast switching. Anyone remember interludes?
Last year on virgin media, i saw a couple of films that still had the interludes in them. Must have been original cuts. The daft thing was that the channel didnt sync the intermission with the ad break, so you had to sit through 5 minutes pf a white screen with intermission on it before gping straight into an ad break. Madness.
Great video. Great comments 👌. Boy , are we getting stitched up !!!!!!!!
"Climate Advisors" have special status in Davos, so beware, don't take their word lightly
The WEF needs to be raided and everyone arrested.
What a non-job that is, funded by large companies spinning the absolute myth of a climate crisis. As far the comparison between EVs and Blockbuster/Kodak, I am lost for words. Few people are going to buy technology that in virtually all respects is nothing like as good as that which it is designed to replace.
I wonder why the New York State Police REFUSE to drive EV's???? 😢😮
I think the government is doing a wonderful job in the UK with getting the car manufacturers to netzero, soon the UK will have netzero jobs in car manufacturing because they will all be going bankrupt. Factories have already started to close.
Yes you are the carbon they eant to get rid of
@@DanRyan-v5y That's right, they want to import other carbon.
To 90k subscriptions, great channel!
Everyone needs to remember that the only reason VHS beat out Betamax was because the Porn industry was using VHS! NOT because the tech was better… Betamax was better tech at the time than the alternative of the time, they’re comparing apples and oranges to try and convince you of an EVs worth guys. I am not ready to barbecue my kids, I will not buy an EV. BTW, well done Jag on having to buy back you IPace’s
The argument for EVs was only held up because of the so-called clean solar energy as one of the only acceptable energy sources, besides the wind energy. Here is what I have to say only to this subject:
I am personally a retired German engineer and I was working in the machinery building business for more than 30 years. I was responsible for installing huge high-vacuum coating machinery - even complete turn-keys projects - in Europe and Asia to make solar panels (CIGS principle) for a couple of years from 2007 up to 2015.
The energy consumption for making these panels is so gigantic, these panels probably will never generate the same amount of energy back according to my estimate, which questions the whole concept just from this perspective.
I calculated only the necessary heating and cooling energies within these ("my") high-vacuum coating machines and I was astonished - it will take the panels about 5 years in my area (Eastern Germany) only to re-generate the same amount of energy.
Still, since I did not have the energy consumption numbers for all the other necessary considerations or machinery necessary, I could not include these energies needed for manufacturing, installation and scrapping:
- the huge building construction and its foundation, the installation of the HV-double electric energy supply lines to run the factory later, road and railway track connection.
- the constant aircon and heating for the huge building 24/7.
- constant lifting and moving of these panels via conveyor belts and robotic arms
- the base glass sheet manufacturing, a constant but very high-temperature process as well
- running subsystems (compressed air, vacuum pumps, coating sources etc.) 24/7
- cleaning, renewing and conditioning massive coating mask systems, recycling excessive material losses within the vacuum coating machines
- laminating, frame attaching and electrode assembly
- constant quality checking processes during manufacturing
- the storage and packing, transport logistics to collect the raw materials and selling the panels
- the power to run the necessary office building
- installation efforts (installation crews driving back and for until it goes into operation) at the final destination
- most importantly recycling
Particular recycling is another virtually hot topic again. Because of the sandwich-like structure of the many different layers (CuGa alloy, Se, In, S, AZO to name a few) being only a few molecules thin on top of the 4mm glass sheet, recycling can be done only with thermic processes meaning a lot of recollecting (transporting) and heating. The average panel lasts for 20 to 25 years only, after that they lose efficiency (out of their already absolute lousy efficiency factor) or break down completely due to entering humidity and fading of the molecular structure. This semi-conductor structure is another reason, why the efficiency rate cannot be pushed endlessly, basically below 30% (sun shines undisruptive straight down onto the panel, meaning an ideal scenario which does not exist in reality --> therefore the efficiency rate of solar panels is so extremely lousy) is the maximum possible dictated by molecular physics.
The alternative manufacturing process to make these cells is the Si-based mono-crystal type, which is totally different but might also cause a huge “price” tag in form of the manufacturing input energy needed, just to make them. And the efficiency rate is a bit lower than with the CIGS technology.
Besides production cycles are up to 2 weeks needing absolute undisturbed electric energy supply into the factories - no black-out allowed (therefore the twin supply lines and transformer base). So running these factories themselves on "renewables" (what a silly term; energy cannot be "renewed" as we all learn in school early, but what the heck) is no solution.
The necessary battery storage to power whole cities and (heavy) industries is also not developed and might never be since there is nothing visible at the sky. Therefore a double electricity powering system (for short: a back-up system) will be always necessary, be it a fuel burning or nuclear power station. This alone will make the so call green energies ALWAYS more expensive. Very very roughly spoken: doubling the system means doubling the price.
What is still not within this assessment is the complete rework of all the electric supplies and installations to transport the electricity from power stations into factories, farms, cities and communities to feed the now multiple electric consumptions everywhere wanted for e-vehicles, but also digitalisation (a very big chunk), heating etc. pp. with all the electricity losses during the conversion of solar and wind generated electricity (DC to AC, voltage transformation, frequency and phase adaption) and long-distance transport (cable and transformer warming).
Which opens another worm can of questions about the amount of material (here i.e. Cu) to make all these “energy transitions”.
I personally believe that we need to get away from burning coal and oil in the future, but the way it is being politically enforced right now is a way into disaster. The reasons for it are multiple - but basically people: "activists" like our highly-educated Greta Thunberg; environmentalist NGOs with very little background-knowledge of math, physics and available technology but with big budgets; pressuring solar technology companies (of course they want to push their products into markets after their heavy investments into their factories); politized scientists and ideologistic dubious "economists" trying to spread single-cause-simple-solution thinking and propaganda messages not allowing any scientific controversy; and finally semi-educated politicians caught in between them all and their populations, which are not willing to accept these doomsday ideologies and their unnecessary financial and, yes, ecologic burdens to their small every-day budgets and living environments.
Sorry, I know this is quite long but complex issues need longer answers. However, I thought it might be useful if someone who worked in this field starts to speak up.
Peace! from Dresden / Germany
Climate advisor without any common sense.speeding up the production of EVs will lead to the bankruptcy of car manufacturers as noone wants them
Save the manual !!!!!!!!! so much better 👍
The clean green future is obviously walking.
We use to use a EV to rewind 🚗📼,our Blockbuster videos ,
Video players with electric tape transport? FF, REW, PAUSE and PLAY? Wow, you were ahead of your time, techno-dude! 😁 I was too poor for videos but I had loads of audio cassettes. Used to use a biro to rewind them because it saved draining the cassette player's batteries.
Hmm... 🤔 Putting up with massive inconvenience in order to save battery power... Where have I heard that before? Oh, yes - it's just like EV owners not using their car's heating, lighting, demister and air-con in winter...
C-60 and C-90 tapes were great, but people stopped buying C-120s because the tape stretched and the music died.
To really make a difference they will have to allow them to make ICE cars that's what most people want.
The thing with normal power stations is that you have total control of inputs and outputs as and when you need to adjust . Wind and solar you are at the mercy of the weather. No wind , no power, No sun no power and its dark every single night!!
Moving away from DVD rentals was a no-brainer move for the consumer. It doesn't apply to the EV vs. ICE battle because EV's are FAR from a no-brainer purchase. I only know one person who owns a Tesla and he's on a three month waiting list to get a scratch repaired, even after the insurance claim has been processed. EV ownership is a huge f***-around.
Looking forward to jaguar's traveling circus.
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Sorry? What's that? Battery EV's are going to go the way of Blockbuster & Kodak? Totally agree!
You have the best videos. Ty
EV;s will go the way of the Betamax video recorders. The economics will prevail and even the Governments will see this when their car industries implode and tax revenues decline.
Although Betamax was (appatently) technically superior. It's more like we were using it, and VHS was forced upon us.
Streaming is not better than good old DVDs. It’s just another push toward everyone being dependent upon a subscription service rather than a physically owned product. Streaming services have been the leading edge of converting society to the “you will own nothing” mentality. We had to sell off a lot of things when we moved a few years ago but we are now looking to re-acquire DVDs, CDs and moving away from video and streaming services. We bought a 2013 ICE car to avoid a lot of the new online car “features” and all the surveillance and controls that are built in.
When is his people going to realise that electric vehicles have a higher carbon footprint than fossil fuel? It takes 90,000 miles for them to become carbon equal in perfect, driving conditions or no cold weather. Before that time, the battery start losing efficiency, which means more electricity or less miles. The average lifespan of an EV according to insurance company figures is 8 to 10 years
The average lifespan of fossil fuel is 18 to 20 years so for every fossil fuel vehicle you need to EV vehicles produced Look at the carbon footprint. These people feel righteous that they’re saving the planet, but they’re making it worse. No financial. They’re more expensive to insure if you can’t charge it home, which a lot of people can’t it is more expensive than a fossil fuel vehicle to run if you’re charging at public points and that’s going to get more expensive. They are 80% more unreliable than a fossil fuel vehicle. Then there’s safety we’ve seen them run out of control we’ve seen them in thermal runaway. The government ought to look at the true figures. They’re going to get a lot more expensive, especially now China is putting restrictions on minerals
Difference is government did not stick there nose in and dictate people should use streaming services or switch to digital cameras. The market decided for itself.
His statement also now fully acknowledges that government meddling has direct impact on jobs and manufacturing, and giving Asian countries the key to our market to sell cheap vehicles.
The switch from physical to digital mediums in both the film and photography industries happened because the vast majority of the population found they were cheaper, easier and more convenient to use. No government mandates were required to coerce them into switching, unlike EVs. Mandates are required here because a) they hold nothing in common with the previous two examples and b) the come with the added 'danger of death'.
Screw government mandates, if ever the government needs to coerce the public into a certain way of thinking/acting it is rarely in the public's best interest in the long run.
Mark Mills is awesome! He provides me with endless hard truths with which to expose EVangelists and their myths to the harsh light of reality. He is equally informative about the folly of Net Zero and renewables. Well worth watching.
mad millipede is now making up his own "science" to try and push this more. thousands of ex 3 year lease teslas at auctions starting at £18k with no bids .
Somebody watched “Happy days” as a kid!
Have a great one! You’re a genius, my man, I watch every one of your videos!
Steve. 👍🏻👍🏻
Video juat went away when I was 11 min into it? What you say that pissed YT off?
I had some video of a Tesla crash in Sydney which went against RUclips’s advertising guidelines!
Typical
@@mguytv - luckily, I managed to watch the original video. Just returned to "re-like" this version.
It didn't stop for me....
Starting to suspect YT also fudges the subscriber numbers and views regularly.
Mark Mills is spot on and has done analysis way ahead of where we are.
Believe in Iron Munsk , and become unemployed , save the planet .... ... ...... !?
Starmer's new Transport Secretary [Heidi Alexander] is clueless on Transport matters. A former barrister, she was a Deputy Mayor for Sadiq Khan 2018-2021 and did nothing during lockdown and then left. A vacuous MP now in charge. A pathetic 'yes' politician to anything she will be ask to trot out at any given podium.
Car theft in southern Ontario Canada are through the roof every month. But I doubt any are EV vehicles. Too bad.
Battery EVs are more like the BetaMax compared to the VHS than Videostreaming services
I was a kid back at the VHS era , never heard of Betamax exploding or delivering the hellfire (horror movies apart the 80s trash b-movie )
The industry wants it to be like streaming - you don't own anything. The provider can take away your access to a movie anytime.
President Trump will dump the EV mandates in the USA, at last a sane person in power.
Trump is a long way from sane!
@@craigoOZ but is better than a lot of intelligent liars and traitors of their nation
Definitely not sane he just drives the clown car.
@@janegreen9340Potato Joe can't even ride a bike or climb stairs😂
President Trump was and will be the best President in my lifetime of 71-years. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Port of Miami fire in a cargo container. Suspected water damaged EV blowing up.
Any thoughts on the colours of the new Faguars?
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75 percent of jag dealer are getting out before they get taken down with Jag and a show room of unsellable cars.