My car had 50 miles of range left. Pulled into a gas station. Tapped credit card at pump removed gas cap. Pumped 11 gallons of gas into car, replaced gas cap. Started up car and had 405 miles range. Took me 2.5 minutes!!
And it works even if you left it unattended for many years. Put a fresh 12V battery, refue, turn the key and vroom... If you let you EV or hybrid unattended for 3 to 4 months it's a brick.
Here's an issue not talked about, EVs are said to be emissions free, but the truth is the emissions are front loaded in the manufacturing of the batteries and generators. So the emissions are released into the atmosphere before a wheel on an EV has turned. With an ICE car the emissions are released over the 20 years of its life, therefore we are pushing more CO2 into the atmosphere quicker just by making EVs, not even selling them. They just get worse after you sell them and they use gas powered electric madness and people fall for it
even better is the fact you can use cash and no app required as well as it nearly always being covered and you see a real person if you pay at the till.. So you are not on your own when filling up in the middle of nowhere...
The plan is 82% renewables by 2030. I've lived I two states that were 100% renewable and my current state gets to 60% most days. There is more solar than the grid can currently handle.
@@jasonhutcheon5991 The 'problem' is storage - the only mid term storage is thermal plants, coal or nuclear. AND where is that investment? instant storage - batteries short term storage - discretionary loads ie aluminium plants long term storage - pumped hydro
@@jasonhutcheon5991 Don't follow you. A lot of coal is already offline and gas is unavailable - electric cars are upping nighttime use. And we are at the limit of loadsheding.
Texas is or was 29% wind and hundreds of thousands were stranded without power one winter and that is AFTER they gloated about it. I imagine they were eating crow the next few days after that incident. I know I would be due to how embarrassing that was.
@@brianbarcroft9167 Nonsense argument and clutching at the wrong metric! When an ICE catches fire it might take itself out and a vehicle either side of it. When an EV catches fire, it takes out an entire car lot (dozens, if not 100's of cars) and the structure of the building. You should be looking at the collateral damage metric - it is way worse for an EV.
A farmer friend (UK) has seen some of his leased land being given over to a solar farm. The land agents have offered him the use of the ground beneath the panels for raising sheep. My friend refused the offer, the reason being that should a storm damage the panels, the fragments will harm the sheep. The sheep would also need a new place to graze. He refused to be drawn into the fake image that a solar farm is good and can have dual purpose.
My boss rents ground under solar panels for sheep and it's not fun chasing the sods about beneath them. One thing he found is after the solar farm come to the end of life you can claim it's industrial land and sell it for house building which increases it's value so much they can retire very comfortably. Just outside Melksham Wiltshire
@cedhome7945 if you claim land as industrial land it then is classed and Brown field land and therefore cannot be used for houses for quiet some time.. So that blows a hole in your story...
My brother in law lives in Pheonix AZ. We are in San Marcos CA. He came to visit this weekend. He bought new Ford EV. It's a 5 hour drive normally. 9 1/2 hour drive!!! He was bragging till he got here. The wife was furious. He tried to spin it as fine saying he met people at the charging stations to chat with! 😂😂😂😂😂
@@stevewest131 Ha, ha, nice. It is good to have a car that is warm and the windows free of snow and ice when you step out of the house, jump in and go to work, past all the other people wasting money idling their engines, scraping away and spraying chemicals over their windows.
The VW camper has been an iconic vehicle for freedom loving, hippy, surfer types to travel America & Australia...who ever thought putting a battery in it instead of diesel engine needs locking up😂
Compared to the cheapest Norwegian price for electricity power, ours here in Denmark is 93 times higher! All real engineers know that all the "green transition" is madness! And for no use.
But Denmark is a wonderful example of socialism and gives EVERYONE about $30,000 a year of free money, they stole from your rich neighbor. Socialism is great until you run out of others people money to spend.😂
Norway’s electricity is 98% renewable power. Most is hydroelectric. ….Hmmmmm why is their electricity so cheap if they use almost 100% renewable power?
100%. I simply don't get it???? These numbers make no sense at all. Why are we doing this? Solar panel manufacturing is terrible for the planet. Another example of 'green' being applied only after the metals, chemicals and infrastructure have all been put in using mining and heavy machinery. Contractors loading their bulldozers, diggers and left over copper mains cables into their trucks... "See you in 20 years when we do all this again to replace this lot, or of course, if there is any wind or hail. We get to see you sooner! Heck of a drive back to the gate to get outta here. Can stare at the starving people lined along the fence for entertainment. Someone should find some land to house and feed them". 🙂
There are several solar panel fields around rural Minnesota. I always notice that they are fenced in, and the grass/weeds are mowed. If they don’t have some kind of rodent prevention to keep them from chewing wires or building nests in panels, then I’d be shocked. It’s the people from the suburbs/cities that think this is good. I’m sure they also think golf courses are wonderful examples of “nature”.
you have to use non-logic to understand the solution. as expensive as possible + the least amount of use possible = good green solution. makes total non-sense... 😁
Someone is definitely paying the eclectic vikink to spruik their bullshit. Sandy Munroe must be on the same payroll...his sucking up to Tesla is cringeworthy. 🙄
That and the fact that only a few zealots want the evs, cuz everyone else has figured it out. EVs sucked a century ago when they were blown out of the market the first time. Now they still suck for the same reasons as a century ago, plus the flash fires, being blatantly lied to about range, costs, etc and the fact that the Chinese are trying to crash the auto industry in every other country around the world to ruin the economy if the west, and why would you even bother? Btw, the Chinese have threatened to withhold the parts and raw materials for manufacturing evs because of the tariffs. GOOD! Start today, don’t wait. We don’t want evs, particularly the cheap ass junk you are spreading around the world. Keep them to yourselves, and watch out for the fires! Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. You’re doomed, sorry Chinese.!
Automakers are in crisis because they conspired to withhold innovation to protect profits and are now being outplayed by China - who have ten years head start. EVs are cheaper over lifetime and some models are cheaper to purchase than fuel equivalents - and EVs continue to get cheaper
A nuclear/gas/coal power plant will also survive multiple severe storms, high winds, and hail storms over it's lifetime. Can wind turbines or solar panels say the same? Not from what I've seen.
The climate problem is that there is a great big orange thing that comes up everyday and been doing it for 4.5 billion years causing all this weather problems, TOUGH.
Same as the East part of a certain country, behind the Berlin wall. And the Northern part of a certain Asian country. And a certain South American country starting with "V". Or an island country in the Caribbean starting with "C". That's what happens with that certain political system running things. (Someone has paid YT to censor mentioning those countries' names here...tells us how rotten all of this is)
@@nickmalone3143& they're still fiddling the figures with all the December pre registrations here in the UK. Even doing that, they still didn't meet the mandate & now have to shift all those cars as used. Someone is losing a lot of money.
This Christmas driving around the Gold Coast I noticed a significant drop in houses that went all out with Christmas lights. It looks like expensive electricity is killing people’s Christmas spirit.
A few years ago I did some work on wind turbine management system software. I can tell you there is a fine line to the operation of these turbines. They use wind measurement just to control whether the turbine can be used or not. Too much wind it sets the brake hard (so no power generation), too little wind and the obvious happens even with the startup assistance from a diesel generator they won't do much (no power generated). UK off shore wind turbines are often set with the brake hard 70% of the time.
i took a different approach with my lil off grid setup... brakes make heat, endless hot water... except when theres no wind. cant avoid that aspect... to try and generate electricity directly? nonsensical.
I've always wondered why they brake the things in high winds, when I know full well that they are variable pitch and can be 'feathered' such that even in high winds they should still be usable? It strikes me that we're all being conned.
@@Tekwyzard feathering means that you arent actually harnessing the wind. its exactly the same as braking. what energy there is is going to waste, doing nothing. i subscribe to the "extract the energy up to the aerodynamic limits possible" theory. as heat. brakes make heat. brakes can be modulated.
I would never put my life & safety in a self driving vehicle. One thing goes wrong and it will drive into oncoming traffic or off a cliff 😱 I’d rather walk😤
I'd buy a new hybrid with 5-7 years warranty and sell it with at least 12 months of that warranty left. Keeping it longer will see it's value fall off a cliff.
I looked at buying a BMW ActiveHybrid 7 a while back as I've seen them really cheap with a dead battery. When I looked into it, a new battery was around £10k and a random used ebay battery was £3-5k. Totally not worth it.
Electric cars are the first mass-produced machines of any type since industrialisation that can't be stored or 'mothballed'. It's an insane squandering of manufacturing resources.
I heard a 'motoring expert' on the ABC a day or so back trying to explain away the falling EV sales by claiming there was "a lot of misinformation being spread online about EVs". Yet even he had to admit they were really only practical for owners with off-street parking who only drove short journeys. That's the problem! No misinformation needed.
@@every1665 most modern EVs do 200 plus miles that's nearly 30 miles a day and guess what?you can charge your car when you sleep or when you go shopping at the supermarket
Check out the 'strike price' for the new nuke power station at Hinkley. A strike price is the guaranteed figure that an electricity generator will be paid for supplying the grid. The figure for that plant is astronomical. That figure will need to be paid by bill payers so expect your electricity bill to be even higher soon..
so the full price for a "380km" leaf was $20,000 more than a full spec Juke. Oh just for comparison while it was more than $20k but using that figure at $1.80 that different is over 190,000 km of fuel so beyond the battery warranty
Funnily enough, while watching this I noticed a thumbnail of an Electric Viking video on the right hand panel about the Nissan Leaf so I went over to take a look. As I expected he only talked about what a great deal this was but the idea that it might be a sign of an unsustainable market didn't appear to enter his mind.
The alarmist claim that we can't afford to do nothing. Unfortunately all their proposed solutions make the cost look like doing absolutely nothing is not only the cheapest but by far the cleanest and best option. God save us from people who want to save us.
If we all had EV milkfloats the grid would melt. Have you noticed all the car reviews are now all EV's, because that's all manufacturers are releasing to be reviewed, and reviewers know if they give a poor review that will be the last car they are loaned
It's not the manufacturers fault. It's your governments draconian laws that issue fines to manufacturers that don't build and sell an ever increasing percentage of electric fantasy machines
@BillyBob-rm3ve Give me insight we are not aware of. Are you purchasing a high-end pushcycle, or are you going for the horse and cart. Steptoe recycling has some available. Like it or not, overpopulation of this planet will force us all to return to the dark ages aided by the Muslim caliphate steadily taking over the west. Thank My Lord Jesus, I won't be on this Godforsaken planet. Resources are being depleted faster than a school of piranhas can strip a carcass to the bone..
Maybe they're slashing prices on those EVs to try to get to people that buy them but the other end of the equation is that before the price slashes the manufacturers were losing 5 digit figures on each one they sold.
At least most hybrids have the high power battery located in the trunk, not below the vehicle where they got mistreated by gravel, water, dirt, salt etc.
Best thing is the upbeat ev car adverts either side of the video, which begs the question did the marketing agency do this on purpose, or a morbid sence of humour 😜
I enjoy your videos so much and love it when an EV evangelist steps in and says how great they are. Then I ask them to refute even just one of your arguments. Crickets.
Been driving for over 50 years and have only had to queue twice for petrol/diesel and those occasions due to upset in the markets so a pretty decent run of 2 minute refuelling 😂😂😂😂
@@annyer262 It's like when they told us that de-regulation would mean lower prices. and as soon as it is de-regulated, the prices go way up. Same thing with green energy. They promised lower prices and then prices doubled!
If we look at worldwide EV sales, we find this: 2023: 11 Million EVs sold (+30-35% up from 2022) 2024: 13-14 Million EVs sold (exact final numbers still not yet available), that is 20-30% up from 2023.
The world has but the government will continue insisting. All car manufacturers are show signs of problems because no one wants EVs but the governments insist on the switch over.
Hybrids are NOT a viable option. It's bad enough here in the UK dragging around AC for the life of the vehicle. However dragging around a huge EV battery when I'd guess most of the time the ICE engine would be used, is insane.
@@offshoretinker Honestly, yes. I have driven cars without AC in the past and during rainy days it would sometimes be dangerous because the side windows would completely fog up.
We all know the numerous downsides of EV ownership. I have not seen much on the elephant in the room... The degradation of the battery. If you purchase a second-hand EV, it is you that will bear the greatest cost.. In not so many years, you may as well dig a ditch and bury the damned thing. It will not be viable to replace the batteries. Until they solve even that one humongous issue, this little lapdog will not be purchasing an EV anytime soon...
@stevewest131 Absolute rubbish. Prove it! I dare you to keep your crapmobile for 10 years. No, you won't. You'll sell it within 3 years and let some sucker take a far far greater loss than you. If they were as good as you say the manufacturers should warranty their Duracell evangelist vehicles for 20 years. You are so naive.
I did reply, but the overlords that you blindly support said, "Not allowed." I'll just ask for your psychiatrists name. He is obviously a grand brainwasher..
Our son in law bought a second hand Leaf for NZ $6000.....nice wee car but already had lost big % of range.....when it dropped to little more than 40km all it was worth was what we paid him for the near new tyres....he now has a hybrid. ....I'd rather have a fully restored Morris 1000 from 1962....…in royal blue.
just got a 9 month old petrol car (well, mild hybrid for what its worth), poor mpg and £600 road tax a year, EV's have lost their subsidies and are now also road taxed to £200
Well taken care of older cars are much better value than new cars. New cars lack survivability. There's so many parts and systems and useless technology buried in new cars that getting parts is difficult and will only get worse with time. This includes newer ICE cars. You know all the classic cars you see driving around right now? The cars are building now will be gone before they are classics. Newer vehicles are disposable.
The weird thing here in the UK is I see lots of conflicting news articles. I see some where they are saying EV sales are exceeding the mandatory 22% of all cars must be EVs. Then I see other articles that say car manufacturers are rationing cars because they haven't met the 22% mandatory sales. Nobody seems to be able to agree. What I do hear anecdotally is that very few people want EVs.
Just like daily mail telling you in 2019 eating 1 egg a day lowers your chance of type 2 diabetes and 2020 they say 1 egg a day increase your chance by 60 % 😂
Saw a video of a cross country in new VW micro van. It was a nightmare. VW has 90kW battery but gets 2 miles/kW. Ha ha. He tried to use EV Go, Electrify America, and Shell. Broken, not available.
This past Sunday I woke up, grabbed a coffee and hopped in my big 9000lbs diesel truck... when I left the house the car said it was 14'F outside. I stopped by the gas station on the way out of town and topped off one of my two fuel tanks... drove three hours away and loaded up 5x 40" tires and wheels (about 110lbs each) and strapped them to my roof rack, then drove home another 3 hours. Made it home around 3:30PM with plenty of time before dinner. It was 18'F when I got home. This trip would NOT have been possible in any EV.
Is that the average use case for a vehicle is it. Most people I know are commuting to work, dropping their kids at school or at after school actvitiies or driving to the shops and back.
The VW "BEEP" finally got to the US, but NO INSURANCE COMPANY will insure it!!! The "Golf EV" can't be sold in the US or the "affordable" ($67,000) Audi A5a. Nine states are considering banning Tesla's from public roads due to the fire hazard, and 15 states won't let you park one inside your garage and charge it due to the fire/explosion hazard. Hmm...Detroit Electric (DelCo) and Hammond had the SAME PROBLEMS 110 years ago...
If you take it as given that the long game is to remove access to private motor transport and dismantle the auto industry, electric cars have been a huge success.
Perth here , we have had 2 Lithium Iron battery fires that have taken out 2 houses here as of my typing this 7th Janurary 2025 ! 2 in 7 days !!! The news is phones and drones ? True this is what the few covering this are saying ,,, Where are channel 7 or 9 or ABC or SBS ? silence is golden !
Germany is having a taste of what we go through in the Caribbean that Jamaica brownout not enough electricity and then they want us to drive electric car and they wonder why people are pushing back and say no because we don’t even have enough electricity for our normal appliances, much less electric car I’m happy they’re going through good for them back to the Stone Age Germany
So, solar panels become sails in high winds. On top of that, bolts and supports can fail due to tension, torsion, and sheer forces. I'm so very, very shocked. Wait. No I'm not, because I actually passed physics, statics, and dynamics.
@@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt Perhaps you could explain exactly how my point is a reach rather than resorting to being insulting? I was specifically looking at the wind-related damage to the Croatian solar facility. I can only judge from what I'm seeing in the video and text from the link provided--or any other information I can dig up. Solar panels still have to be fixed to frames, and that's usually with nuts and bolts--at least on mobile and field units that can be rotated or have their angle changed in the field. Yes, I would expect most of the framing to be welded as much as possible, but you're going to need some mechanism to change the angle of the panels. That means things like nuts, bolts, and pins somewhere in the assembly. (If they've figured out another way to do this, then I'm all ears.) So, as an example of what I was driving at: if the wind is at the right angle to start pushing the solar panel in its frame, then a bolt or pin somewhere is going to have a lateral force placed on it, i.e. == || F1>|| ||
I’ve just driven my Volvo V70 D5 for 300 miles in sub zero temps in the UK, I still had 500 mile range available at the end of the drive. It was an easy, stress free drive. I watched the bun fight at the motorway EV charge points with great amusement….
If only they kept the vehicles simple. But they're stuffed with super expensive technology, gadgets, and gizmos like all modern cars. There are no more cheap/affordable cars. Even Dacia has become expensive.
In the UK it's already written into the (ridiculous) law that the manufacture and sale of new (private owned and use) hybrids will be banned, five years I believe, after the same ban for ICE comes into force in 2030. (Which was amended to 2035 by the previous government but apparently reversed by the current crop of useful idiots and globalist traitors). Either way, the elimination of private car ownership is, and always has been, the end goal.
Hybrid versus ICE. Let's look at it. C8 stingray, 495 HP, 0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds. Lamborghini Temarario, hybrid, 960 HP, if I remember correctly, 0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds. So basically, you create a hybrid, the weight goes up and you need to at least double the horsepower to get similar performance. Hybrids are junk.
I feel that your vid on the 'EV Q' needs posting Everywhere because the reality is that if they continue to push the purchase then those Q's will become a total hinderence to the World, 😊😉👍
Yes and the current atmospheric CO2 levels are actually somewhat low historically relative to the well established minimum amount required for plants to thrive.....
They already have rationing in Germany- a couple of years ago it was 80F in Frankfurt, our hotel room facing the sun, I couldn't turn the AC on and they told me it was only allowed in July & August! (this was early September). This wasn't a rustic old inn, it was a chain airport hotel.
Building EVs is already killing the manufacturers. They build them at a great loss and are trying to offset that by raising the prices on the gasoline powered vehicles but have now priced those out of most people's reach. They are effectively painted into a corner. The only thing to do is pull the plug on EVs and call the governments' bluff regarding mandating these things.
Got my old 2009 2.0 Tdi Seat Alhambra (7 seater) . Get just over 600 miles to a tank which currently costs me around £88 to fill. That 600 miles also includes all my heated seats and steering wheel on constantly too. The car has done 150,000 miles and good for another 150,000 easy. Why would I want anything else 🤷♂️
Absolutely - those things should go on forever if properly maintained. I have a slightly older VW based diesel. It has under 100k (miles) on the clock, 600+ mile range and I hope to keep it forever. Certainly don't want anything newer.
@@Midiman14 indeed. Also, best way to save the planet (Not that it needs saving of course as it’s perfectly fine) is to buy a car that’s already been made and keep it as long as possible 🙂👍
My car had 50 miles of range left. Pulled into a gas station. Tapped credit card at pump removed gas cap. Pumped 11 gallons of gas into car, replaced gas cap. Started up car and had 405 miles range. Took me 2.5 minutes!!
And it works even if you left it unattended for many years. Put a fresh 12V battery, refue, turn the key and vroom...
If you let you EV or hybrid unattended for 3 to 4 months it's a brick.
"How dare you " 😅 just think of all those poor dead dinosaur's 🦕
Here's an issue not talked about, EVs are said to be emissions free, but the truth is the emissions are front loaded in the manufacturing of the batteries and generators. So the emissions are released into the atmosphere before a wheel on an EV has turned. With an ICE car the emissions are released over the 20 years of its life, therefore we are pushing more CO2 into the atmosphere quicker just by making EVs, not even selling them. They just get worse after you sell them and they use gas powered electric madness and people fall for it
even better is the fact you can use cash and no app required as well as it nearly always being covered and you see a real person if you pay at the till.. So you are not on your own when filling up in the middle of nowhere...
You are a freaking genius
If Australia can't even rely on at least 50% solar, then what snow balls chance in hell does the rest of the world have?
The plan is 82% renewables by 2030. I've lived I two states that were 100% renewable and my current state gets to 60% most days. There is more solar than the grid can currently handle.
@@jasonhutcheon5991 The 'problem' is storage - the only mid term storage is thermal plants, coal or nuclear. AND where is that investment?
instant storage - batteries
short term storage - discretionary loads ie aluminium plants
long term storage - pumped hydro
@@carly09et That why the initial plan is gas firming. Once coal goes offline, nighttime use will drop significantly
@@jasonhutcheon5991 Don't follow you. A lot of coal is already offline and gas is unavailable - electric cars are upping nighttime use. And we are at the limit of loadsheding.
Texas is or was 29% wind and hundreds of thousands were stranded without power one winter and that is AFTER they gloated about it. I imagine they were eating crow the next few days after that incident. I know I would be due to how embarrassing that was.
Having a smart meter allows somebody else to have their finger on your ON/OFF switch.
They will have to come with a warrant & police to install a smart meter in our house..then I will buy a Faraday box to go over it!
Having digital cash is worse
It really smarts!
NO EATING TILL AFTER 11 am and BEFORE11:30 am
My brother has both a smart meter and an EV.
You can't spell evil without EV
nor can you spell evolution
You can't spell Mega-expensive without ICE
nICE pickup
@stevewest131 and a G&T is not good without ICE and a slice.
What about Scunthorpe ???
Any government that forces people into EV's should be held accountable to any fires or depreciation on these ev's
That'll end up being the taxpayers then.
@@McVaio Right!
Doubt it. They have not been held accountable for the kung flu yet.
@@jeffolley2712 Does the same apply to the more frequent fires that you see with ice.
@@brianbarcroft9167 Nonsense argument and clutching at the wrong metric!
When an ICE catches fire it might take itself out and a vehicle either side of it. When an EV catches fire, it takes out an entire car lot (dozens, if not 100's of cars) and the structure of the building. You should be looking at the collateral damage metric - it is way worse for an EV.
A farmer friend (UK) has seen some of his leased land being given over to a solar farm. The land agents have offered him the use of the ground beneath the panels for raising sheep. My friend refused the offer, the reason being that should a storm damage the panels, the fragments will harm the sheep. The sheep would also need a new place to graze. He refused to be drawn into the fake image that a solar farm is good and can have dual purpose.
You must be such a lover of sheep. Perhaps too much of a lover of sheep. Just make sure they love you back, you little devil.
A solar farm in the UK? That’s gotta be wishful thinking for sure.😂
@@mikeholling8830there are a few!.Storm Darragh sorted one in wales out quite nicely though!
My boss rents ground under solar panels for sheep and it's not fun chasing the sods about beneath them. One thing he found is after the solar farm come to the end of life you can claim it's industrial land and sell it for house building which increases it's value so much they can retire very comfortably. Just outside Melksham Wiltshire
@cedhome7945 if you claim land as industrial land it then is classed and Brown field land and therefore cannot be used for houses for quiet some time.. So that blows a hole in your story...
My brother in law lives in Pheonix AZ. We are in San Marcos CA. He came to visit this weekend. He bought new Ford EV. It's a 5 hour drive normally.
9 1/2 hour drive!!! He was bragging till he got here. The wife was furious. He tried to spin it as fine saying he met people at the charging stations to chat with! 😂😂😂😂😂
Car now for sale?
Green Energy is like driving in circles in a Waymo Taxi, you will never get anywhere.
What is waymo?
No we get brown farts
NO EATING TILL AFTER 11 am and BEFORE11:30 am
And that's on a good clear 🌞 day.
EV Exploding Vehicle
What a bell comment !
Okay you win the internet for today!!!👍👍👍🤣😂🤣
Where are the insurance company lobbyists
Exactly. Keep the combustion inside guys.
Don't you mean External-combustion Vehicle?
As George Carlin said
The planet doesn’t need saving its humanity thats fucked
You're right. The planet will right itself over time.
Time doesnt exist for the planet,neither do humans or anything living ..
And he added "the planet isn't going anywhere, WE ARE, so pack your shit folks, we're going away".
@ forever miss George
@@anthonykenny1320 der…..we will all die because it will become unliveable….have a think about that Einstein
It’s snowing here in the UK, it’s really funny - I don’t see many EVs out on the road, I wonder why… 😂
Because they got to work 20 mins quicker than ICE car owners
@@stevewest131 How do they manage that?
@@stevewest131 Yes! They go by train and bus in the winter.
Its snowing in Norway.
I see a lot of EV's!! 😃👍👍👍
@@stevewest131 Ha, ha, nice. It is good to have a car that is warm and the windows free of snow and ice when you step out of the house, jump in and go to work, past all the other people wasting money idling their engines, scraping away and spraying chemicals over their windows.
After 25 years of teasing potential buyers, now VW can’t sell the Buzz because it’s electric.
If they put an ICE engine in that thing there would waiting lists for it and wouldn’t be able to keep up with demand.
It’s so sad
The VW camper has been an iconic vehicle for freedom loving, hippy, surfer types to travel America & Australia...who ever thought putting a battery in it instead of diesel engine needs locking up😂
VW can't sell EVs because they are inferior and overpriced. Their debt has recently surpassed Toyota - their days are numbered.
It's overpriced, doomed from the start, regardless of what powers it.
Compared to the cheapest Norwegian price for electricity power, ours here in Denmark is 93 times higher! All real engineers know that all the "green transition" is madness! And for no use.
but...but....but...the "nowegians" are your scandinavian viking brothers.....aren't they...??
Ok which of these countries is _socialist?_
Зелёный переход для человечества может быть только в могилу!!!
But Denmark is a wonderful example of socialism and gives EVERYONE about $30,000 a year of free money, they stole from your rich neighbor. Socialism is great until you run out of others people money to spend.😂
Norway’s electricity is 98% renewable power. Most is hydroelectric. ….Hmmmmm why is their electricity so cheap if they use almost 100% renewable power?
In Canada Volkswagen I.D. Buzz costs $85,000 !!! and you only get 200 mile range .
is that range before or after you take into account all the battery care advice and the cold/heat/loaded weight lol
Mt daughter lives 1,500 mile from me it will take a week to do a 15 hr journey. 😱
Good thing Canada has tropical weather and nobody in Canada ever needs to drive long distances...oh, wait...
Crazy!!
Justin Trudeau is resigning - Make Canada Great Again!
14.5 hectares of land driving out all wildlife and 5 million euros to solar power 3500 houses. How can that possibly be considered “green”
100%. I simply don't get it???? These numbers make no sense at all. Why are we doing this? Solar panel manufacturing is terrible for the planet. Another example of 'green' being applied only after the metals, chemicals and infrastructure have all been put in using mining and heavy machinery.
Contractors loading their bulldozers, diggers and left over copper mains cables into their trucks... "See you in 20 years when we do all this again to replace this lot, or of course, if there is any wind or hail. We get to see you sooner! Heck of a drive back to the gate to get outta here. Can stare at the starving people lined along the fence for entertainment. Someone should find some land to house and feed them". 🙂
There are several solar panel fields around rural Minnesota. I always notice that they are fenced in, and the grass/weeds are mowed. If they don’t have some kind of rodent prevention to keep them from chewing wires or building nests in panels, then I’d be shocked. It’s the people from the suburbs/cities that think this is good. I’m sure they also think golf courses are wonderful examples of “nature”.
Also they usually choose good farmland that could have been used to produce food.
you have to use non-logic to understand the solution. as expensive as possible + the least amount of use possible = good green solution. makes total non-sense... 😁
But the Electric Viking says that BEV sales are up 1 billion percent! O_O
Electric Viking, he is the only person who believes what he continues to say. And of course the people paying him to say this crap.
He's not the only one talking out of rear. Anyone who is pro EVs is either a charlatan or a twit!
Someone is definitely paying the eclectic vikink to spruik their bullshit. Sandy Munroe must be on the same payroll...his sucking up to Tesla is cringeworthy. 🙄
He is simply a dreamer.
I guess he has found a way to an alternate universe with zero point energy
EVs cost way too much and then you wonder why automakers are in crisis .
That and the fact that only a few zealots want the evs, cuz everyone else has figured it out. EVs sucked a century ago when they were blown out of the market the first time. Now they still suck for the same reasons as a century ago, plus the flash fires, being blatantly lied to about range, costs, etc and the fact that the Chinese are trying to crash the auto industry in every other country around the world to ruin the economy if the west, and why would you even bother? Btw, the Chinese have threatened to withhold the parts and raw materials for manufacturing evs because of the tariffs. GOOD! Start today, don’t wait. We don’t want evs, particularly the cheap ass junk you are spreading around the world. Keep them to yourselves, and watch out for the fires! Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. You’re doomed, sorry Chinese.!
Automakers are in crisis because they conspired to withhold innovation to protect profits and are now being outplayed by China - who have ten years head start.
EVs are cheaper over lifetime and some models are cheaper to purchase than fuel equivalents - and EVs continue to get cheaper
@@jasonhutcheon5991 how are they cheaper? Better production methods?
Their Government subsidizes the EV industry, that's how they are cheap.
Check the price of the latest Frontera EV ,same as the petrol version
A nuclear/gas/coal power plant can last 50 years so you can amortize the cost over far longer than wind/solar.
50 years is only the average. Many are older and still going.
A nuclear/gas/coal power plant will also survive multiple severe storms, high winds, and hail storms over it's lifetime. Can wind turbines or solar panels say the same? Not from what I've seen.
Amortize
Nice word
Will have to look it up
There are no coal fired stations left in the UK. They are knocking down the last one as we speak
@@anthonykenny1320 Me too.😃
The climate problem is that there is a great big orange thing that comes up everyday and been doing it for 4.5 billion years causing all this weather problems, TOUGH.
How cynical 😂but how true 👍
. We are being gaslit with their 'eco' agenda. All about money and control !!!!
Hey now, Trump is old but he's not that old. Be kind to the guy.
Nice one Jimmy
Also the sun is yellow not orange
@@stevemarshall3986😂
EV's are a fad that is fading fast.
It was NEVER a fad but a mandate.The mainstream media obliged putting out propaghanda the EVs were "booming"
Same as the East part of a certain country, behind the Berlin wall. And the Northern part of a certain Asian country. And a certain South American country starting with "V". Or an island country in the Caribbean starting with "C". That's what happens with that certain political system running things.
(Someone has paid YT to censor mentioning those countries' names here...tells us how rotten all of this is)
@@nickmalone3143& they're still fiddling the figures with all the December pre registrations here in the UK. Even doing that, they still didn't meet the mandate & now have to shift all those cars as used. Someone is losing a lot of money.
You've spelt growing wrong mate
@@stevewest131 Negative growth
This Christmas driving around the Gold Coast I noticed a significant drop in houses that went all out with Christmas lights. It looks like expensive electricity is killing people’s Christmas spirit.
@@ian9toes no it’s because they’re spending all their money on PULP for their ford raptors
A few years ago I did some work on wind turbine management system software. I can tell you there is a fine line to the operation of these turbines. They use wind measurement just to control whether the turbine can be used or not. Too much wind it sets the brake hard (so no power generation), too little wind and the obvious happens even with the startup assistance from a diesel generator they won't do much (no power generated). UK off shore wind turbines are often set with the brake hard 70% of the time.
i took a different approach with my lil off grid setup... brakes make heat, endless hot water... except when theres no wind. cant avoid that aspect...
to try and generate electricity directly? nonsensical.
It's all just one big rort isn't. Those wind turbines aren't contributing jack shit. It's all just gaslighting, literally almost.
I've always wondered why they brake the things in high winds, when I know full well that they are variable pitch and can be 'feathered' such that even in high winds they should still be usable? It strikes me that we're all being conned.
They would be feathered, Shirley?
@@Tekwyzard feathering means that you arent actually harnessing the wind. its exactly the same as braking. what energy there is is going to waste, doing nothing.
i subscribe to the "extract the energy up to the aerodynamic limits possible" theory. as heat. brakes make heat. brakes can be modulated.
The correct pronunciation of those Croatian locations is "those two places". You nailed it!
I fact checked that, and you are correct.
@@killmozzies go home bot
@@YouilAushana Go home bot that is fake accusing commenters of being a bot
I would never put my life & safety in a self driving vehicle.
One thing goes wrong and it will drive into oncoming traffic or off a cliff 😱
I’d rather walk😤
Or someone may want to eliminate you, they will just chalk it up to software error 🤔
Here is az the waymo cars are better than most drivers. Just my observation
A tesla did that a month ago on rooftop carpark in sydney, decided to just drive off the 3rd level on its own.
@@axeya366 Did it; has that information now been released, or did you just decide to put your own spin on it.
@@GDM22 It was on the news.
Bets off for EV's!
Even hybrid car batteries cost $8000. Good luck when you go to sell it! Nobody will want them!
My 2016 Prius c battery would cost $4k to replace.
Actually my Prius NHW20 battery can be replaced for about $2K plus its nickel hydride. Hybrids rock EVs SUCK!!!
I'd buy a new hybrid with 5-7 years warranty and sell it with at least 12 months of that warranty left. Keeping it longer will see it's value fall off a cliff.
@aliendroneservices6621 thats insane!
I looked at buying a BMW ActiveHybrid 7 a while back as I've seen them really cheap with a dead battery. When I looked into it, a new battery was around £10k and a random used ebay battery was £3-5k. Totally not worth it.
Electric cars are the first mass-produced machines of any type since industrialisation that can't be stored or 'mothballed'. It's an insane squandering of manufacturing resources.
Why would you buy a car and mothball it?
@stevewest manufacturers often mothball new fleets of cars until they're ready to be sold.
@@Rajamak You have literally just made all that up. Why?
Government subsidies
…and they’re sh1t 🤣
I heard a 'motoring expert' on the ABC a day or so back trying to explain away the falling EV sales by claiming there was "a lot of misinformation being spread online about EVs". Yet even he had to admit they were really only practical for owners with off-street parking who only drove short journeys. That's the problem! No misinformation needed.
Most people's average journey is 20 miles.how many people drive over 200 miles in one go??once a year on holiday maybe
@@michealridgway7607 Yes, but many people do lots of short journeys within a few days. Having to charge your car up frequently is inconvenient.
@@every1665 most modern EVs do 200 plus miles that's nearly 30 miles a day and guess what?you can charge your car when you sleep or when you go shopping at the supermarket
@@michealridgway7607 Well then - enjoy your EV.
I wouldn’t touch an EV with a 10 meter cattle prod.
Or a 39 1/2 foot pole (apologies to Dr Seuss)
awwww ... I bet you tell all the girls that
Actually... that could be hilarious. Go on... DO IT
The UK has the highest electricity prices in the world and they want everyone to drive EVs and install heat pumps in their homes. 🙄
I think here in freakin Gaymany it's worse.
Germans are brainwashed by NWO propaganda.
Check out Electric Viking! He claims that the UK has free electricity😅😅😅
You will own nothing and be happy - Why - No money for anything else
@@shaboom8787 Thats what I was going to say!
Check out the 'strike price' for the new nuke power station at Hinkley. A strike price is the guaranteed figure that an electricity generator will be paid for supplying the grid. The figure for that plant is astronomical. That figure will need to be paid by bill payers so expect your electricity bill to be even higher soon..
so the full price for a "380km" leaf was $20,000 more than a full spec Juke.
Oh just for comparison while it was more than $20k but using that figure at $1.80 that different is over 190,000 km of fuel so beyond the battery warranty
Funnily enough, while watching this I noticed a thumbnail of an Electric Viking video on the right hand panel about the Nissan Leaf so I went over to take a look. As I expected he only talked about what a great deal this was but the idea that it might be a sign of an unsustainable market didn't appear to enter his mind.
He`s a Chinese bot.🤣
Yes ..... 2 channels ..... one an electrical engineer, one a salesman .... now, let me see, who would know more about electricity ...... : )
The alarmist claim that we can't afford to do nothing.
Unfortunately all their proposed solutions make the cost look like doing absolutely nothing is not only the cheapest but by far the cleanest and best option.
God save us from people who want to save us.
Dacia has bought out a city car EV for £12,500 in the UK, and still nobody wants them I'm glad to say
If we all had EV milkfloats the grid would melt. Have you noticed all the car reviews are now all EV's, because that's all manufacturers are releasing to be reviewed, and reviewers know if they give a poor review that will be the last car they are loaned
It's not the manufacturers fault. It's your governments draconian laws that issue fines to manufacturers that don't build and sell an ever increasing percentage of electric fantasy machines
That’s not the plan though. Your government doesn’t want you driving anything!
@BillyBob-rm3ve Give me insight we are not aware of. Are you purchasing a high-end pushcycle, or are you going for the horse and cart. Steptoe recycling has some available. Like it or not, overpopulation of this planet will force us all to return to the dark ages aided by the Muslim caliphate steadily taking over the west. Thank My Lord Jesus, I won't be on this Godforsaken planet. Resources are being depleted faster than a school of piranhas can strip a carcass to the bone..
@@BillyBob-rm3ve You will own nothing and be happy.
Take a look at the comments on those EV car reviews. Unless they have turned the comments off it says it all.
EV. Evaporating value :)
Spot on!
ICE. Becoming extinct
Even at $35,000 a Nissan Leaf is still $20,000 too high! My 2019 Jetta cost $17,000... NEW!
Maybe they're slashing prices on those EVs to try to get to people that buy them but the other end of the equation is that before the price slashes the manufacturers were losing 5 digit figures on each one they sold.
Are they slashing the price of EVs or are they too expensive? Make your mind up
@@stevewest131 Easy. They are both
Buying an EV is like buying all your fuel up front.
And the risks of storing it all home.
And when you have used all the fuel, what's left is worthless!
And only being able to use only 60% of what you've bought because the battery has degraded, won't charge to 100%, and range is seriously reduced too.
With a HOLE in the fuel tank
Tell that to the people who are forced to spend bug bucks at commercial fast chargers!
Golf, Bora, Scirocco, Passat. Volkswagen car names after winds... Fun fact!👍🏻🇬🇧
Maserati too. Bora,merak,shamal,khamsin...
At least most hybrids have the high power battery located in the trunk, not below the vehicle where they got mistreated by gravel, water, dirt, salt etc.
Least there is that...
AND ...
Petrol so you are Not Strandid....
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Best thing is the upbeat ev car adverts either side of the video, which begs the question did the marketing agency do this on purpose, or a morbid sence of humour 😜
All the mixed race young couples are buying EVs in droves!
@@reiisthebestgirl White flight to ICE cars?
I enjoy your videos so much and love it when an EV evangelist steps in and says how great they are. Then I ask them to refute even just one of your arguments. Crickets.
The just propaganda and fake news
Keeping my 2002 Subaru Forester and getting a Ford Ranger Raptor!
Thanks for the Macrobusiness shout out. Appreciated.
Been driving for over 50 years and have only had to queue twice for petrol/diesel and those occasions due to upset in the markets so a pretty decent run of 2 minute refuelling 😂😂😂😂
You obviously don't have price cycles like Australia, where prices can vary by 50c a litre over a seven day period.
Thanks to the green mafia, my electric rates went from 17 cents per Kwh, to 37 cents per Kwh.
Crazy! I pay 9 cents in Oregon, USA.
I hit the dislike button as I dislike this price, not the comment!
@@melissasmess2773 I so envy you.
@@annyer262 It's like when they told us that de-regulation would mean lower prices. and as soon as it is de-regulated, the prices go way up. Same thing with green energy. They promised lower prices and then prices doubled!
My old Ford is in fact electric if I want. Put it in first gear and run the starter - it will move a few meters. Just like modern EV's!!!
But the media in the UK including GBNews have stated daily that British drivers have "shunned" ICE cars.
GBeebies..... a great source of information 🤣
Same in the US. “90% of EV owners plan to buy another EV”, for example (from last week on MSN).
The "Great" propaganda machines...
Ole karl would be So Proud.
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Crap!
I love my Tdi 4x4, it's great! 😁👍
If we look at worldwide EV sales, we find this:
2023: 11 Million EVs sold (+30-35% up from 2022)
2024: 13-14 Million EVs sold (exact final numbers still not yet available), that is 20-30% up from 2023.
Do not buy an EV.....Boycott EV manufacturers
Every major car manufacturer makes EVs or has one in development - even Toyota
😂😂😂😂
Tesla model Y was the Best selling carmodel on planet Earth in year 2023 🎉🎉🎉
CYBERTRUCK = Best selling EV pick-up truck in USA 🎉🎉🎉
@@mikafiltenborg7572There are lots of stupid people on planet earth 🤣 but even they will learn
The world has but the government will continue insisting. All car manufacturers are show signs of problems because no one wants EVs but the governments insist on the switch over.
Thanks for your great videos. 100k subscribers soon. Happy 2025
Hybrids are NOT a viable option. It's bad enough here in the UK dragging around AC for the life of the vehicle. However dragging around a huge EV battery when I'd guess most of the time the ICE engine would be used, is insane.
AC also helps demysting in the rain
@@McVaio Would you insist on having one installed for that reason?
@@offshoretinker Honestly, yes. I have driven cars without AC in the past and during rainy days it would sometimes be dangerous because the side windows would completely fog up.
Study regenerative braking and study Atkinson cycle.
Worst of both worlds
We’ll be having German style power rationing/ power cuts here in UK soon if idiot Miliband remains in post .God help Britain 🇬🇧.
I enjoy your great work. All the best to you! I hope all of those that watch you will subscribe!
We all know the numerous downsides of EV ownership. I have not seen much on the elephant in the room... The degradation of the battery. If you purchase a second-hand EV, it is you that will bear the greatest cost.. In not so many years, you may as well dig a ditch and bury the damned thing. It will not be viable to replace the batteries. Until they solve even that one humongous issue, this little lapdog will not be purchasing an EV anytime soon...
EVs will last over 500,000 miles. An ICE car with that kind of mileage would burn more oil than petrol
@stevewest131 Absolute rubbish. Prove it! I dare you to keep your crapmobile for 10 years. No, you won't. You'll sell it within 3 years and let some sucker take a far far greater loss than you. If they were as good as you say the manufacturers should warranty their Duracell evangelist vehicles for 20 years. You are so naive.
I did reply, but the overlords that you blindly support said, "Not allowed." I'll just ask for your psychiatrists name. He is obviously a grand brainwasher..
Our son in law bought a second hand Leaf for NZ $6000.....nice wee car but already had lost big % of range.....when it dropped to little more than 40km all it was worth was what we paid him for the near new tyres....he now has a hybrid. ....I'd rather have a fully restored Morris 1000 from 1962....…in royal blue.
@@neville132bbkI'm with you. I'm sticking to my 2010 Holden...
I love this video you put out. You don't even try to bag out EV, these articles do it for you.
just got a 9 month old petrol car (well, mild hybrid for what its worth), poor mpg and £600 road tax a year, EV's have lost their subsidies and are now also road taxed to £200
Well taken care of older cars are much better value than new cars. New cars lack survivability. There's so many parts and systems and useless technology buried in new cars that getting parts is difficult and will only get worse with time. This includes newer ICE cars. You know all the classic cars you see driving around right now? The cars are building now will be gone before they are classics. Newer vehicles are disposable.
and you helped burst it - love you for that !
The weird thing here in the UK is I see lots of conflicting news articles. I see some where they are saying EV sales are exceeding the mandatory 22% of all cars must be EVs. Then I see other articles that say car manufacturers are rationing cars because they haven't met the 22% mandatory sales. Nobody seems to be able to agree. What I do hear anecdotally is that very few people want EVs.
Just like daily mail telling you in 2019 eating 1 egg a day lowers your chance of type 2 diabetes and 2020 they say 1 egg a day increase your chance by 60 % 😂
Believe the evidence of your eyes and ears not what`s written in news articles.😉😉
@@leaulife569 Are they supposed to go from dealership to dealership every week counting cars?
@@JoeOvercoat They print whatever the narrative tells them to print.
There’s a lot of fiddling of the figures…Also, company car sales (forced in EV by tax) skew the figures.
9:21 The real *_sustained_* cost of solar (and wind) is actually *_infinite._*
You have technology that has a ideal lifevof 20 years.But you never get your ROI
Saw a video of a cross country in new VW micro van. It was a nightmare. VW has 90kW battery but gets 2 miles/kW. Ha ha. He tried to use EV Go, Electrify America, and Shell. Broken, not available.
This past Sunday I woke up, grabbed a coffee and hopped in my big 9000lbs diesel truck... when I left the house the car said it was 14'F outside. I stopped by the gas station on the way out of town and topped off one of my two fuel tanks... drove three hours away and loaded up 5x 40" tires and wheels (about 110lbs each) and strapped them to my roof rack, then drove home another 3 hours. Made it home around 3:30PM with plenty of time before dinner. It was 18'F when I got home. This trip would NOT have been possible in any EV.
Is that the average use case for a vehicle is it. Most people I know are commuting to work, dropping their kids at school or at after school actvitiies or driving to the shops and back.
Our Aussie friend spewing truth 🎉
I’ve taken numerous Waymo rides in San Francisco with no issue. Pretty cool stuff and perfect application for EV .
Katabatic winds happen at the poles and are caused by cold air going downhill and being replaced by warmer ( relatively ) air.
i cannot believe that folk actually get into driverless cars
I agree! Too dangerous...
Brainless/ driverless...same thing!
Many hybrids use a nickel battery (power battery).
They don't need an energy battery (lithium) as the gasoline provides all the energy.
The VW "BEEP" finally got to the US, but NO INSURANCE COMPANY will insure it!!! The "Golf EV" can't be sold in the US or the "affordable" ($67,000) Audi A5a. Nine states are considering banning Tesla's from public roads due to the fire hazard, and 15 states won't let you park one inside your garage and charge it due to the fire/explosion hazard. Hmm...Detroit Electric (DelCo) and Hammond had the SAME PROBLEMS 110 years ago...
Thats fantastic stuff. I hope more states ban EVs soon.
If you take it as given that the long game is to remove access to private motor transport and dismantle the auto industry, electric cars have been a huge success.
If I want an electric car I'll get a Tamia radio control model.
Perth here , we have had 2 Lithium Iron battery fires that have taken out 2 houses here as of my typing this 7th Janurary 2025 ! 2 in 7 days !!!
The news is phones and drones ? True this is what the few covering this are saying ,,,
Where are channel 7 or 9 or ABC or SBS ? silence is golden !
Germany is having a taste of what we go through in the Caribbean that Jamaica brownout not enough electricity and then they want us to drive electric car and they wonder why people are pushing back and say no because we don’t even have enough electricity for our normal appliances, much less electric car I’m happy they’re going through good for them back to the Stone Age Germany
So, solar panels become sails in high winds. On top of that, bolts and supports can fail due to tension, torsion, and sheer forces. I'm so very, very shocked. Wait. No I'm not, because I actually passed physics, statics, and dynamics.
So do house and shed roofs. Your point is a bit of reach there ol boy. Congrats on passing your studies, please don't work for me.
@@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt Perhaps you could explain exactly how my point is a reach rather than resorting to being insulting?
I was specifically looking at the wind-related damage to the Croatian solar facility. I can only judge from what I'm seeing in the video and text from the link provided--or any other information I can dig up. Solar panels still have to be fixed to frames, and that's usually with nuts and bolts--at least on mobile and field units that can be rotated or have their angle changed in the field. Yes, I would expect most of the framing to be welded as much as possible, but you're going to need some mechanism to change the angle of the panels. That means things like nuts, bolts, and pins somewhere in the assembly. (If they've figured out another way to do this, then I'm all ears.) So, as an example of what I was driving at: if the wind is at the right angle to start pushing the solar panel in its frame, then a bolt or pin somewhere is going to have a lateral force placed on it, i.e.
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@@CShirkPaladin Grow up.
I’ve just driven my Volvo V70 D5 for 300 miles in sub zero temps in the UK, I still had 500 mile range available at the end of the drive. It was an easy, stress free drive. I watched the bun fight at the motorway EV charge points with great amusement….
The big question is.... what are the mark-ups? What are the unit build costs? They should be cheaper. 🤔
If only they kept the vehicles simple.
But they're stuffed with super expensive technology, gadgets, and gizmos like all modern cars.
There are no more cheap/affordable cars.
Even Dacia has become expensive.
The price some European nations are paying for electricity is mind blowing. It's a tremendous competitive disadvantage in manufacturing.
It was over in 2023.
Surprising number of people didn't know it in 2024.
A brand new Nissan Leaf EV for $34,99,00 Australian Dollars [discounted from $54,990.00.
Wow! It's still an emphatic "No" from me.
How many coffees can you drink?
ALL OF THEM. LoL 😝
Yes.
@@hellsfirefreedomtube6984 😂
He never sleeps 😂
He's a engineer so he probably has a coffee power car 😁😁😁
The hybrides would be the next to go, be sure of that!
In the UK it's already written into the (ridiculous) law that the manufacture and sale of new (private owned and use) hybrids will be banned, five years I believe, after the same ban for ICE comes into force in 2030. (Which was amended to 2035 by the previous government but apparently reversed by the current crop of useful idiots and globalist traitors).
Either way, the elimination of private car ownership is, and always has been, the end goal.
Hybrid versus ICE. Let's look at it.
C8 stingray, 495 HP, 0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds.
Lamborghini Temarario, hybrid, 960 HP, if I remember correctly, 0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds.
So basically, you create a hybrid, the weight goes up and you need to at least double the horsepower to get similar performance.
Hybrids are junk.
Great video Mguy . You're an engineer and know how it is 👍
@@GraceGroves-q5p he isn’t really an engineer
Was stranded in my Tesla the other day got stuck in the storm and I ran out of charge
We'll show you, no more battery materials! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My local GM dealer has over 70 used Chevy Bolts used on a back lot. They only have 3 used ones on the lot for sale.
I feel that your vid on the 'EV Q' needs posting Everywhere because the reality is that if they continue to push the purchase then those Q's will become a total hinderence to the World, 😊😉👍
I don't even want an Electric leaf blower, never mind an Electric vehicle.
People need to wake up concerning CO2. There is no CO2 problem, nature needs CO2 to grow. More CO2 means more Oxygen.
Yes and the current atmospheric CO2 levels are actually somewhat low historically relative to the well established minimum amount required for plants to thrive.....
They already have rationing in Germany- a couple of years ago it was 80F in Frankfurt, our hotel room facing the sun, I couldn't turn the AC on and they told me it was only allowed in July & August! (this was early September). This wasn't a rustic old inn, it was a chain airport hotel.
The falling prices of EVs kills resale values and if the price falls below the cost of production it will kill manufacturers.
Building EVs is already killing the manufacturers. They build them at a great loss and are trying to offset that by raising the prices on the gasoline powered vehicles but have now priced those out of most people's reach. They are effectively painted into a corner. The only thing to do is pull the plug on EVs and call the governments' bluff regarding mandating these things.
Thorough clean up of the solar panel debris would probably cost about same as replacing the panels.
I'm surprised it not down more because these Cars are junk, VW has always been Risky
Got my old 2009 2.0 Tdi Seat Alhambra (7 seater) . Get just over 600 miles to a tank which currently costs me around £88 to fill. That 600 miles also includes all my heated seats and steering wheel on constantly too. The car has done 150,000 miles and good for another 150,000 easy. Why would I want anything else 🤷♂️
Absolutely - those things should go on forever if properly maintained. I have a slightly older VW based diesel. It has under 100k (miles) on the clock, 600+ mile range and I hope to keep it forever. Certainly don't want anything newer.
@@Midiman14 indeed. Also, best way to save the planet (Not that it needs saving of course as it’s perfectly fine) is to buy a car that’s already been made and keep it as long as possible 🙂👍
Blackout Bowen closed his X account.
Another well presented and informative episode. I had very little interest in cars but since subscribing I've learnt a lot. Thank you! ❤
That leaf with 270km range "wltp" is probably around 200km real world.
Not in the mountains...
@@Hope_Boat "A leaf in rhe mountains" sounds so poethical and bucolic.... or pathetical is a better word?
20kms
Haha keep your old iron.
They were that scared of Bjorn Lomberg since he had alternative views he was not allowed to have an institute at one of the W.A. universities!
Hybrids are at best a joke,, a weeny little petrol engine with a weenier little electric engine. All the risks of an EV with absolutely NO advantage.
Excellent fuel economy is an advantage.
My 3.5 litre Lexus RX hybrid is hurt by that ‘weeny little engine’ BS