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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
... Your desperation to disparage all things electric is sad and pathetic. You make yourself look stupid.
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You are clueless.
back in the early 90's I was finishing up my Mech Engineering degree. I was big into automotive so I got in on a Hybrid Electric car project. At the time, the regenerative motor we had was super cool. And, I saw the energy on the table that regen brings. Great stuff. But here's the thing, learning about the metrics of various tech gives a real understanding of the trade-offs of the various tech.
What I've seen since has been massive hype... extracting hundreds of billions to build a resource intensive technology. -not just EV's but in wind power, PV farms...
Electric vehicles are nothing new. See Porsche and Edison in the early 1900's. Windmills are nothing new. PV - best things ever for satellites and even space stations burned up long ago. . It's great that we live in a time that we can be so sloppy with our resources. All of those techs brought to us by old fashion reliable energy supplies.
So here we are throwing massive resources and scale to fundamentally expensive solutions. I keep saying, electric cars will rock once we develop better capacitance solutions. Until then, they are ridiculously resource intensive. Great toys for sure, as is. But not cheap.
The i3 - very cool carbon fiber body! Who does that? A buddy has one. I like it. but I also see a carbon-freaking-fiber body. How much does that cost, all in an effort to make the tech somewhat viable.... These things are MASSIVELY subsidized. not just in tax credits govt $ but by the manufacturers who want the fleet mileage credits.
My only message is to say be careful in believing that EV's pencil out when using
actual cost per mile.
I don't
hate electric motors. To say so is just crazy talk of a bitter old Patrick.