OT. EV Extra Road Damage

Jun 29, 2023 Last reply: 3 years ago 27 Replies

I haven't seen any evidence of that happening.

Exactly, and that's why I'm surprised that gas has been about $2.75 a gallon here in MS for about the past 8-9 months. How does a finite form of energy maintain a stable (and low!) price over the long term? Sooner or later, something has to give and prices have to reflect reality.

Just in the past month I've seen a pair of articles, one that said scientists are on the brink of a change in battery construction that would double the available range of EV batteries without significantly affecting the cost of production. It apparently worked in the lab and now it needs to be tweaked for widescale production. The other article that comes to mind was talking about a new way to charge EV batteries that gives you most of a full charge in just a few minutes. Same as above, possibly not ready for production but the point is that today's technology will look primitive at some point.

Quite possibly here, as well.

Extending the discussion to solar energy, a while back when the Texas energy grid failed in the winter and people died, Gov Abbott falsely blamed the grid failure on green (solar) energy. Now Texas is in the midst of record breaking heat and what has been the saving grace in generating the energy needed to keep people alive? Solar, of course, coupled with storage batteries to help smooth the demand.

And yet, there are still people who claim, against all reality, "climate change? what climate change?"

Yes, they didn't apply to trucks (and that's reasonable because truck have to be heavy-duty) and so they built suv's on truck chassis and said they qualified as trucks, even though the vast majority were and are sold as passenger cars and not for use in business or farming etc.

I understand their not forsseing this but they've had 40 or so years to change the rules so that you have to show it will used in business as a truck to get a low mpg car. I can only guess who's stopping that.

Sorry, I can't read your post. Tears in my eyes from the Canadian wildfire smoke.

Ed's dry wit is sometimes difficult to identify.

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Cars with "5 mph bumpers" were such a quaint idea.

Now you're lucky if there's no damage with a 0.5 (half a) mph bumplet.

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I don't suppose you were around for that one...

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As usal a little bonfire in Chicago got all the headlines.

We're breaking heat records down here in MS.

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