read a little about the owner of vinfast, and you won't be feeling as much sympathy.
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Whats with all the anti-EV stories recently on here?
First, if you aren’t listing WHICH vehicles are failing, you are just generating clickbait. My guess, some old clapped out Nissan Leaf with an air cooled battery. Or maybe the F-150's abysmal battery/drivetrain cooling system is biting owners in the ass (see towing issues).
>> However, Recurrent did say that all four of Tesla’s vehicles had the smallest range degradation, but they also had the widest gap between their real-world range and the EPA’s estimates. Part of the reason for their resistance to range loss may be because of their heat pumps, Recurrent’s CEO Scott Case told AutoNe…
What the hell. The range loss has nothing to do with the battery temperature. The car is going to maintain the desired battery temperature regardless. High temps are actually good for battery range because they reduce the cell internal resistance, improving efficiency. Either way, the car is going to maintain the…
Last weekend my wife and I drove from Las Vegas (115°) to Valley of Fire (119°), to Zion National Park (110°) in our 2023 Tesla Model Y Performance. While we had the AC blasting the whole time, our need to stop and charge each direction didn’t really change, and we were able to Charge at the campsite. In the V8 Jeep…
Same with gas cars. In Fairbanks Alaska, there are 120v plugs all over the dang place and people drive around with extension cords hanging out of their hood and wrapped around the side mirror. They plug in all over town to run electric engine block heaters. Which is pretty funny because that means there’s already a…
I vaguely recall being a kid in the 90s and my dad had to run the heat in his pickup truck on really hot days because otherwise the engine would overheat!
What happens to ICEs at extremely high temps?
ICE car took 70 years to finally get to a point were they work fine in extreme temperatures.
So everyone complains about how towing destroys EV range, but everyone forgets it also destroys ICE range... do we just ignore that? Or does that not fit the narrative of “gas/diesel good, electricity bad”
The shocking revelation that it takes more energy to move more mass. We must alert the scientific community!
Oh, the “loud pipes save lives” argument. Sure.
Now imagine how amazing electric motorcycles can be! (They are!)
When you find something that proves mining is worse than oil extraction, I’ll include it.
From another study by the same source:
“Comparing an average midsize midrange BEV with an average midsize gasoline-powered car, it takes just 4,900 miles of driving to “pay back”—i.e., offset—the extra global warming emissions from producing the BEV.”
Here’s an excerpt from a study from the same source from 2018.
No single technology is going to save the world. Cars are a factor, ships are a factory, electricity generation is a factor. We’re going to have to fix a lot of things to actually solve the climate crisis.
There are far fewer moving parts in an electric car than in a gasoline engine car. Aside from tires, consumables like brake pads last longer. There are Nissan Leafs (leaves?) that are ten years old and while they suck, they don’t suck more than any other decade old economy car.
If you consider hybrids, the oldest…