I can’t believe you guys got sucked into all the media and blog distortions of fact.
FACTS
Electric cars have much less tendency to cause fires than their gasoline-powered counterparts. That’s according to a recent study by AutoInsuranceEZ, which compiled data from several government agencies. Out of 100,000 vehicles, 1,530 thermals caught fire, against 25 for the electric.
Tesla's electric vehicles not only achieved a 5-star rating in every category of NHTSA's crash tests but Model 3, Model S and Model X are the top three cars with the lowest probability of injury to occupants that NHTSA has ever tested.
In 2023, Tesla delivered 1.2 million Model Ys, making it the world's best-selling vehicle that year, surpassing Toyota Corolla and becoming the first electric vehicle to claim that title.[12] With at least 2.16 million units
8 Charts Showing Tesla’s Fast Continued Sales Growth
Superchargers are the fastest charging option when you’re away from home, allowing you to charge your vehicle up to 200 miles in 15 minutes. Designed to get you charged and back on the road as quickly as possible, we own and operate over 50,000 global Superchargers that are accessible on a 24/7 basis, located on major routes near convenient amenities.
Tesla Model Y Cheaper Than Ever in USA. Model Y was essentially $10,000 cheaper than the average selling price of a new car in the US, which is $47,244.
JACQUELYN….i’ll take you for a ride in my new Cybertruck I am waiting to be delivered.
Detailed Owner Lead Tesla Cybertruck Review - Everything You Need To Kno...👍😊
All mobile phones can be tracked…even the throw always. Our Government is scheduled to band ICE sales and continue to make them more expensive to even own.
Some people are moving away from smart phones. If they are to be used as tracking devices and to charge us money for moving around why would people want them? We have had electric vehicles for years but they never caught on. No reason to think they will now. Sales only worked because they were a status symbol and then heavily subsidised.
You have entirely missed the environmental impact of manufacturing electric batteries, the safety of them and the reuse/recycling. The weight of the vehicles is destructive. You have to generate electricity to charge the battery. The time it takes to charge them is silly.
The safety issues are alarming and I will stick my neck out, at risk of future ridicule, to say they will be banned from cities and built up areas within 10 yrs.
China have developed flying cars. I am more of the view that the current ev's are like the old fashioned tape to tape recorders they will be superceded quite quickly for cold fusion power and flying vehicles.
Tech always has a good and bad side. As tech grows, these advantages and disadvantages do the same.
Humans are not digital, yet this is what tech is leaning to make us. I see a point, and IMHO, we have already reached it, where tech's negative traits become too much for humans. We lose our valuable human characteristics. We will become biological slobs, unable to engage in the simplest endeavors our ancestors routinely engaged in that trained our minds and bodies.
Same as nuclear power, self driving cars will have to innovate some new paradigm that I can not even envision because they rely on the good will of neighbours.
In the USA there has been no real new nuclear fission power station build for decades. Many reasons will slow it down but there are two that are showstoppers that are seldom discussed.
Firstly the issue with waste disposal. It requires an impossible commitment of millennia to look after it and I believe it may be the straw that breaks the camels back for many countries when they have to find some way to store it and the cost is too high to bear. Finland is the first country to have started construction on a permanent waste repository that will contain al the waste from the existing power stations over their +-100 year lifespan and store it for 30'000 years. If you look at the numbers you will realise that a new repository has to be built every hundred years and you could in 30'000 start reusing the first one of 300. Society will have to monitor and guard the 300 sites for eternity while fission is in use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWadizC8AQ
Secondly is the issue with the cost of safety. After 3Mile-Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima it is clear that accidents can happen. In the USA and probably many other places the insurance company has decided that it will simply not insure the power stations because it is unbounded potential risk. This means that the state has to carry the risk but that really means that every citizen is going to carry the risk. It is all very well to say the international community will help because it is such a large risk but still rare. The point is that if every national and global citizen is to carry the risk why is it that the profits go to a small group of manufacturers and investors.
With self driving cars we have two serious issues that can be solved but there is no obscene profits to be had from solving them. They relate to externalised costs again. Firstly at this time the driver or the owner (remote monitoring these days) of a self driving vehicle is responsible for the damage it causes. If partial mode the driver has to supervise the car, this will end in tears a number of times before people say what is the point in delegating driving skills if you carry all the risk and Elon profits from you using his software. The next step will be to say that because self driving cars are safer (less accidents) they will be allowed and perhaps even mandated on the roads without supervision, the risk will then be carried by the state like recommended (often mandated) childhood vaccines that in the end the manufacturer profits and the citizens who finance the state have to carry the risk of side effects. The only way to solve this problem is to have open source software in self driving cars, that could actually be a blessing for humanity as the development could be rapid and if everyone has the opportunity to examine and improve the code then everyone can be justifiably be expected to carry the risk of such cars on the road. Mandating them is still a BAD idea in the same way as vaccines. Placing all eggs in one basket is just stupid. The second problem with self driving cars is that they are ideologically tied to electric cars at this point and the electric ideology has to go away so that it can come back on its merits competing fairly with H2, hybrid fossil, Ethanol, Bio Fuel, fuel cell and any other that are developed over time. Forcing people to use a tracking device with externalised energy generation harm is not a social benefit, it is a draconian subsidy to certain markets.
The reasons we are even talking about self drive right now is because of the mountains of money involved that will be directed into a few pockets from many pockets.
I can’t believe you guys got sucked into all the media and blog distortions of fact.
FACTS
Electric cars have much less tendency to cause fires than their gasoline-powered counterparts. That’s according to a recent study by AutoInsuranceEZ, which compiled data from several government agencies. Out of 100,000 vehicles, 1,530 thermals caught fire, against 25 for the electric.
Tesla's electric vehicles not only achieved a 5-star rating in every category of NHTSA's crash tests but Model 3, Model S and Model X are the top three cars with the lowest probability of injury to occupants that NHTSA has ever tested.
In 2023, Tesla delivered 1.2 million Model Ys, making it the world's best-selling vehicle that year, surpassing Toyota Corolla and becoming the first electric vehicle to claim that title.[12] With at least 2.16 million units
8 Charts Showing Tesla’s Fast Continued Sales Growth
https://cleantechnica.com/files/2023/01/Tesla-quarterly-vehicle-sales-Q4-2022-logo.png
Superchargers
Superchargers are the fastest charging option when you’re away from home, allowing you to charge your vehicle up to 200 miles in 15 minutes. Designed to get you charged and back on the road as quickly as possible, we own and operate over 50,000 global Superchargers that are accessible on a 24/7 basis, located on major routes near convenient amenities.
Tesla Model Y Cheaper Than Ever in USA. Model Y was essentially $10,000 cheaper than the average selling price of a new car in the US, which is $47,244.
JACQUELYN….i’ll take you for a ride in my new Cybertruck I am waiting to be delivered.
Detailed Owner Lead Tesla Cybertruck Review - Everything You Need To Kno...👍😊
https://youtu.be/XxOh12Uhg08?si=11diWBBYff6yps4H
All mobile phones can be tracked…even the throw always. Our Government is scheduled to band ICE sales and continue to make them more expensive to even own.
I. will. never. get. in. one. They are known for spectacular failures, deaths. You can go first.
NO…WAY.
Some people are moving away from smart phones. If they are to be used as tracking devices and to charge us money for moving around why would people want them? We have had electric vehicles for years but they never caught on. No reason to think they will now. Sales only worked because they were a status symbol and then heavily subsidised.
You have entirely missed the environmental impact of manufacturing electric batteries, the safety of them and the reuse/recycling. The weight of the vehicles is destructive. You have to generate electricity to charge the battery. The time it takes to charge them is silly.
The safety issues are alarming and I will stick my neck out, at risk of future ridicule, to say they will be banned from cities and built up areas within 10 yrs.
China have developed flying cars. I am more of the view that the current ev's are like the old fashioned tape to tape recorders they will be superceded quite quickly for cold fusion power and flying vehicles.
https://www.livescience.com/technology/electric-vehicles/china-green-lights-mass-production-of-autonomous-flying-taxis-with-commercial-flights-set-for-2025
Flying cars would not require lots of roads :-)
Tech always has a good and bad side. As tech grows, these advantages and disadvantages do the same.
Humans are not digital, yet this is what tech is leaning to make us. I see a point, and IMHO, we have already reached it, where tech's negative traits become too much for humans. We lose our valuable human characteristics. We will become biological slobs, unable to engage in the simplest endeavors our ancestors routinely engaged in that trained our minds and bodies.
This song has aged well.
https://youtu.be/aMY-GZYAyIU?feature=shared
Same as nuclear power, self driving cars will have to innovate some new paradigm that I can not even envision because they rely on the good will of neighbours.
In the USA there has been no real new nuclear fission power station build for decades. Many reasons will slow it down but there are two that are showstoppers that are seldom discussed.
Firstly the issue with waste disposal. It requires an impossible commitment of millennia to look after it and I believe it may be the straw that breaks the camels back for many countries when they have to find some way to store it and the cost is too high to bear. Finland is the first country to have started construction on a permanent waste repository that will contain al the waste from the existing power stations over their +-100 year lifespan and store it for 30'000 years. If you look at the numbers you will realise that a new repository has to be built every hundred years and you could in 30'000 start reusing the first one of 300. Society will have to monitor and guard the 300 sites for eternity while fission is in use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWadizC8AQ
Secondly is the issue with the cost of safety. After 3Mile-Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima it is clear that accidents can happen. In the USA and probably many other places the insurance company has decided that it will simply not insure the power stations because it is unbounded potential risk. This means that the state has to carry the risk but that really means that every citizen is going to carry the risk. It is all very well to say the international community will help because it is such a large risk but still rare. The point is that if every national and global citizen is to carry the risk why is it that the profits go to a small group of manufacturers and investors.
With self driving cars we have two serious issues that can be solved but there is no obscene profits to be had from solving them. They relate to externalised costs again. Firstly at this time the driver or the owner (remote monitoring these days) of a self driving vehicle is responsible for the damage it causes. If partial mode the driver has to supervise the car, this will end in tears a number of times before people say what is the point in delegating driving skills if you carry all the risk and Elon profits from you using his software. The next step will be to say that because self driving cars are safer (less accidents) they will be allowed and perhaps even mandated on the roads without supervision, the risk will then be carried by the state like recommended (often mandated) childhood vaccines that in the end the manufacturer profits and the citizens who finance the state have to carry the risk of side effects. The only way to solve this problem is to have open source software in self driving cars, that could actually be a blessing for humanity as the development could be rapid and if everyone has the opportunity to examine and improve the code then everyone can be justifiably be expected to carry the risk of such cars on the road. Mandating them is still a BAD idea in the same way as vaccines. Placing all eggs in one basket is just stupid. The second problem with self driving cars is that they are ideologically tied to electric cars at this point and the electric ideology has to go away so that it can come back on its merits competing fairly with H2, hybrid fossil, Ethanol, Bio Fuel, fuel cell and any other that are developed over time. Forcing people to use a tracking device with externalised energy generation harm is not a social benefit, it is a draconian subsidy to certain markets.
The reasons we are even talking about self drive right now is because of the mountains of money involved that will be directed into a few pockets from many pockets.