apart from the surface pumps shown in the video, crude oil is not pumped out of the ground. it's naturally under pressure and it shoots out on its own. like when you shake a cola bottle, and then open it, more than half of all the oil stays in the ground. imagine if that cola bottle was a mile below the surface - how would you pump the content out? there's no feasible way to do it.
These comparisons always get me because ICE vehicles haven't really improved, except for the addition of EV hybrids. Yet EV batteries keep getting better. You're not just buying something a little better today with an EV, you're encouraging the automakers to deliver much-better EVs tomorrow.
As always; highlight only the bad sides of fossil fuels and praise the good ones of "green" energy, totally glossing over all of the hidden downsides of it. Pearl at the end: calling this a "DEEP dive"
@@michaelthomas7898 can you distinguish between a question and a statement? Even expert have hard time getting all of the data on the real world impact of EV due the extremely complex production network and inaccurate claims by energy and manufacturing industry
Yeah, this video was a MASSIVE disappointment. I expected to hear a deep break-down of the actual environmental costs of an EV. Numbers, etc. Instead, the entire "con" side for EVs was "batteries get mined, but companies are getting better at it, we promise". In contrast, the incredibly deep break down of the extra costs of gasoline production are just what I wanted to see in a video like this. Talk about lobsided. He ONLY went highly detailed on one side of the argument. The other he just glossed over and then even gave the "and it's getting better!" on top of it.
A good video but goes into lots of details on the oil refining process but less than 5 seconds about mining? Feels a bit one sided to point out the impact of transporting oil but not a thing about transporting batteries
Transporting batteries would equate to a wash for all the parts you don't need any more an EV. Think fuel system and exhaust system, either way it's a wash.
ruclips.net/video/b69rjXonXWE/видео.htmlsi=Ehy0K-DspIXdKcXh&t=412 Nowhere in your video did you mention that there is a minimum amount of driving you need to exceed for EV's to be a better choice for the environment. My two MAGA Motors EV owning neighbor slashed all the tires on my cargo van that I use to maintain my house because I "was killing the environment" by burning a few tanks a year with my cargo van. As if forcing me to buy a set of 8 ply truck tires is good for the environment. While Ford's eTransit is a great electric van, it will never make environmental sense for me to replace my cargo van with one, as my limited use of it never justify the environmental costs of manufacture of a new van, electric or gasoline powered... As for the car I use for personal transportation, because I burn about twelve gallons of gas a month, it won't pay off for the environment for me to replace it with an EV or Hybrid. There is a minimum annual mileage needed to justify the special environmental costs of EV's or even new cars... If your commercial vehicle travels many short distances a day with constant starts and stops then an EV will likely make more sense as this use destroys internal combustion engines, automatic transmissions and emissions control systems. Another is if your commercial vehicle is often operated indoors, as the exhaust fans needed to remove the fumes from internal combustion engines use a lot of power... Or in short, EV's are better for the environment if you drive an hour or more on your daily commute, own a fleet of vans or light trucks and you only replace most of them with EV's, operate a "many short stop commercial vehicle", etc. But if everyone simply replaced their car with an EV, there would be a massive environmental cost of manufacture & eventual recycling as well as we would actually use more fossil fuels than in the ideal solution... Also your video clip of "smoke" coming out of the tailpipe of an ICE car was actually steam...
Transfering electricity results in lost electricity, so does charging, and then using that again from baterry to spin electrical motor. At least dont make up numbers and do ur proper research.
Transmission losses exist in both cases because oil rigs, pumps etc need that energy somehow, also the same losses or worse can be argued about industrial electrical motors moving the huge pumps needed for all the aforementioned processes, this time with a lack of regenerative breaking. The only electric losses EVs have that gasoline production and transport doesn't have are charging losses, which are in the range of the upper 90%s for the most efficent charges.
@@ΑντώνιοςΕυάγγελοςΒασιλειάδης you are correct but the video misleadigly tocuses on the inefficiency of gas cars compared to evs. Also ev short comings are barely mantioned and immediately after that they start to talk about how mining companies are doing green mining and stuff. Hinestly this is not an objective video it is a propaganda piece. The little focus on the batteries issue and how bad the process of recycling thos is and what waste is left after recycling is clear. Batteries are not 100% reciclable and to recycle and salvage whatever can be salvaged some pretty nasty chemicals are used.
apart from the surface pumps shown in the video, crude oil is not pumped out of the ground.
it's naturally under pressure and it shoots out on its own. like when you shake a cola bottle, and then open it, more than half of all the oil stays in the ground. imagine if that cola bottle was a mile below the surface - how would you pump the content out? there's no feasible way to do it.
These comparisons always get me because ICE vehicles haven't really improved, except for the addition of EV hybrids. Yet EV batteries keep getting better. You're not just buying something a little better today with an EV, you're encouraging the automakers to deliver much-better EVs tomorrow.
As always; highlight only the bad sides of fossil fuels and praise the good ones of "green" energy, totally glossing over all of the hidden downsides of it. Pearl at the end: calling this a "DEEP dive"
I believe the title was " Are electric cars better for the environment". What downside did he miss?
@@michaelthomas7898 can you distinguish between a question and a statement?
Even expert have hard time getting all of the data on the real world impact of EV due the extremely complex production network and inaccurate claims by energy and manufacturing industry
@@Vilhund Absolutely, do you know how to answer a question.
It’s not “green” energy. EVs don’t run on wind and solar, they run on whatever the grid is using. But they do make dramatically fewer emissions.
Hmmm I wonder what side of the argument the creator was on?
Yeah, this video was a MASSIVE disappointment. I expected to hear a deep break-down of the actual environmental costs of an EV. Numbers, etc. Instead, the entire "con" side for EVs was "batteries get mined, but companies are getting better at it, we promise".
In contrast, the incredibly deep break down of the extra costs of gasoline production are just what I wanted to see in a video like this. Talk about lobsided. He ONLY went highly detailed on one side of the argument. The other he just glossed over and then even gave the "and it's getting better!" on top of it.
A good video but goes into lots of details on the oil refining process but less than 5 seconds about mining? Feels a bit one sided to point out the impact of transporting oil but not a thing about transporting batteries
Transporting batteries would equate to a wash for all the parts you don't need any more an EV. Think fuel system and exhaust system, either way it's a wash.
Is EV better for the environment? Watch the video and find out!
ruclips.net/video/b69rjXonXWE/видео.htmlsi=Ehy0K-DspIXdKcXh&t=412 Nowhere in your video did you mention that there is a minimum amount of driving you need to exceed for EV's to be a better choice for the environment. My two MAGA Motors EV owning neighbor slashed all the tires on my cargo van that I use to maintain my house because I "was killing the environment" by burning a few tanks a year with my cargo van. As if forcing me to buy a set of 8 ply truck tires is good for the environment. While Ford's eTransit is a great electric van, it will never make environmental sense for me to replace my cargo van with one, as my limited use of it never justify the environmental costs of manufacture of a new van, electric or gasoline powered...
As for the car I use for personal transportation, because I burn about twelve gallons of gas a month, it won't pay off for the environment for me to replace it with an EV or Hybrid. There is a minimum annual mileage needed to justify the special environmental costs of EV's or even new cars...
If your commercial vehicle travels many short distances a day with constant starts and stops then an EV will likely make more sense as this use destroys internal combustion engines, automatic transmissions and emissions control systems. Another is if your commercial vehicle is often operated indoors, as the exhaust fans needed to remove the fumes from internal combustion engines use a lot of power...
Or in short, EV's are better for the environment if you drive an hour or more on your daily commute, own a fleet of vans or light trucks and you only replace most of them with EV's, operate a "many short stop commercial vehicle", etc. But if everyone simply replaced their car with an EV, there would be a massive environmental cost of manufacture & eventual recycling as well as we would actually use more fossil fuels than in the ideal solution...
Also your video clip of "smoke" coming out of the tailpipe of an ICE car was actually steam...
Not to mention that the oil industry is the biggest consumer of cobalt (to remove sulfur), a mineral that the EV industry have lamented for using!
Don't forget the platinum in the catalytic converters.
Lie, it's batteries by far.
Not a bad video, but you could have gone into mining a bit more. You left the door open there a bit for the nay sayers.
Transfering electricity results in lost electricity, so does charging, and then using that again from baterry to spin electrical motor. At least dont make up numbers and do ur proper research.
Transmission losses exist in both cases because oil rigs, pumps etc need that energy somehow, also the same losses or worse can be argued about industrial electrical motors moving the huge pumps needed for all the aforementioned processes, this time with a lack of regenerative breaking. The only electric losses EVs have that gasoline production and transport doesn't have are charging losses, which are in the range of the upper 90%s for the most efficent charges.
@@ΑντώνιοςΕυάγγελοςΒασιλειάδης you are correct but the video misleadigly tocuses on the inefficiency of gas cars compared to evs. Also ev short comings are barely mantioned and immediately after that they start to talk about how mining companies are doing green mining and stuff. Hinestly this is not an objective video it is a propaganda piece. The little focus on the batteries issue and how bad the process of recycling thos is and what waste is left after recycling is clear. Batteries are not 100% reciclable and to recycle and salvage whatever can be salvaged some pretty nasty chemicals are used.
a bunch of pro-EV bullsh!t