1) We have PLENTY of power. The only time we lack power is during peak hours. EVs charge during offpeak and would actually help stabalize the grid.

I think you are misunderstanding on WHY brownouts exist. First you have to understand that in electric generation there is such things as peaks and offpeaks. The offpeak generation is mostly done by base power, while peak generation is added on by peaker plants.

No, he is pretty much wrong on every level and shows complete ignorance.

So you mean like most modern cars? especially ones with OnStar and etc?

There is nothing really preventing them from buying up cars and selling them. They can even get 3rd party certification from Tesla which allows them to buy parts and do warranty on behalf of Tesla. Prior to some European markets being open, some…

First of all, you didn’t even touch any actual physics, only your misunderstanding of where we stand in terms of technology and what is required. In these 10 years, energy density of batteries has doubled by the way and continues to improve.

And just an fyi, the parameters for a combat jet is not the same as the…

You can always have a lossless conversion of energy to heat. It is from heat back to something else that cannot be 100% efficient.

So on top of the rest, you’ve demonstrated that you don’t know what a furnace is, and you don’t know how the second law of thermodynamics works. You’re on a roll!

Yes, yes you can. You can make it 100% efficient if you don’t mind breathing exhaust gasses. We’re really good at turning hydrocarbons into heat because it’s trivial.

I completely agree with this, but I’m not sure you understand the scale of the problem.

You actually believe that “EVs aren’t ready to replace all passenger cars” is a minority opinion? Hell I doubt that’s even a minority opinion amongst EV proponents (which I consider my self to be one of). But yeah, it’s an assumption.

Read your link again. “Transportation” does not mean “cars”

Everyone can get an EV without breaking the power grid, actually the opposite, everyone getting an EV would make the powergrid more stable.

I don’t see how it isn’t. We’re talking about batteries replacing fossil fuels for energy storage. You’re the one who brought cars into this. Car haters are so focused on them that they forget they’re only something like 15% of consumption. (We’d have solid numbers, but it’s literally illegal for the EPA to break the…

As someone who has spend decades researching things like this, I guarantee you it is NOT a myth. Even things like Moore’s law was a byproduct of pushing investment, without it Moore’s law would never have happened.

It engages and disengages via lever that is used for cruise control. But you can also take over the wheel.

What you are asking for is impossible. The Google system is driven by people in-house. And via LIDAR they can run simulations and etc. Such things are impossible on a system used by the public with no LIDAR. You simply can not get those numbers. On top of that you have 0 way of knowing for what reason a person took…

The current statistics already includes how people consider autopilot. So there is no reason to claim that the statistics are inaccurate, because all of that is already included.

You mean 1.5 for the average driver, not the Tesla. (backwards)

That depends on what you consider “long term solution”. Aka the time frame. In time batteries will be replaced by other solutions like super capacitors and the like, but you are talking about maybe in 50 years. Batteries are more than capable of meeting our demands until then.

Are you volunteering to give me billions of dollars to become a billionaire like Elon?