Five FUNDAMENTAL misconceptions about EVs | MGUY Australia

[@tomiasthexder7673]

EV’s don’t run on electricity, they run on subsidies, like all “renewable” energies.

[@jasonthompson7230]

Cars run on subsidies period. Oil is hugely subsidized. Cars have been subsidized and everything aranged around them since the first rich guy figured out he couldn't drive through the mountains without the government building a road.

[@robertkubrick3738]

@@jasonthompson7230 Battery cars drive on roads they didn't share in the paying to build.

[@tomiasthexder7673]

@ remove all subsidies and people will still purchase vehicles as they are incredibly convenient. They won’t purchase EV’s.

[@romanpolanski4928]

Like a lot of EV fanbois, you fail to understand the fundamental distinction between a subsidy and a tax break. Oil and Gas receive zero subsidies, but they do write off investments against tax, like any other business. These are tax breaks.

[@OM617a]

@jasonthompson7230 Oil production is not subsidised, exploration is sometimes subsidised due to the huge returns in tax revenue. EV'S return nothing, only lost productivity and recession.

[@peetsnort]

Just back from London and 6 hours driving. 35 quid worth of diesel. Lots of heater use It's 2 celcius and I didn't have any range anxiety or refilling problems.

[@mikebreen2890]

Did the same with my EV, no problem at all. This guy is a prick. " air engines" indeed.

[@TroySavary]

6 hours of city driving is easily doable in most EVs. Stop and go traffic is where they have the largest advantage over ICE. Also, 2C isn't even close to being cold.

[@geirvinje2556]

I drive a Tesla in Norway. I just vipe of the snow in the winter mornings, and go. Back when I had a fossil car, I had to heat up the engine to get the defroster to work. That was 15 minutts wasted every morning, at least. 2 degrees 😂😂😂😂😂, in Norway it's usually -6 to - 20 in the winter....

[@Jamessansome]

If you look at the journey you could probably have done it in an EV for less. Did you stop at any point during those 6 hours? Was it 3 hours there, 3 hours back? How many miles did you cover?

[@iankuah8606]

@@TroySavary And then you have to recharge it - somewhere in a city!

[@klimatbluffen]

If we are forced to drive electric cars, the countryside and sparsely populated areas will die out completely, and that is exactly what they want.

[@paradiselost9946]

food supply will be interesting... very interesting... its mostly those remote areas that produce it. dont see too many farms, be they plant, dairy, or meat, in the suburbs, or inner city regions. see even fewer _mines_ or factories producing products that mostly drive our so called "economy"...

[@klimatbluffen]

@paradiselost9946 If you just look at how it looks in Scandinavia, there are very few gas stations when you get outside the urban area and you have to plan when you travel by car.It will definitely not be more dense with charging posts than gas stations and with the poor range that electric cars have, it will be impossible to live with electric cars.

[@WillCamx]

It's all about control and limiting people's ability to travel where and when they want to.

[@klimatbluffen]

@WillCamx Exactly 👍

[@paradiselost9946]

@@klimatbluffen lol, even where i live, which is barely outside of sydney... its a good 15km to the closest station... if i choose to travel in the other direction... its 40 or more. yet i only know of one charging point in either radius... we are so developed out here, that the people that live another 200M up the road rely on a truck to deliver water... im on the end of the line :) one tank of fuel, he can spend all day driving up and down, maybe twenty deliveries. it doesnt take long to fill with water either, most of his day is spent driving. battery? most of the day will be spent sitting at that sole charging point for what? one or two deliveries at best? so they install a so called "megacharger" at the hydrant? we already have a limited capacity on our powerlines here... no factories or heavy consumers allowed. he is already at the load limit of our roads... throw in a battery, and thats his payload reduced by half... has to do twice the number of deliveries... areas such as ours dont register on the sights of our overlords in their ivory towers... theyve had almost a century to put more water mains in... hasnt happened. a few more km and theyre all offgrid too. power lines end... i said limited capacity. it is! just as the water was privatised and never expanded, so was our electricity grid... and thats never been expanded. lot of city slickers move in and build mcmansions, then they quickly wind up for sale as they realise they have stupid distances to commute with ever more congested roads, they have to watch the water use, and they have no power to splurge on lighting up their landscaped gardens at night (that are all dying from lack of water)... or drive the AC on their homes that are unliveable without it... gets hot. also gets reasonably chilly.

[@DennisMahaney-n3w]

Canada gave away 52 billion on EVs and it's all falling apart.

[@ginog5037]

Keep voting liberal that seems to be working...

[@pistonburner6448]

Wrong. MUCH more than 52 billion. How did you come up with only 52 billion?

[@paulodisano502]

This is what happens when you elect an incompetent, dictator idiot, our great leader Justin Trudeau who knows absolutely nothing about everything! God help us Canadians. 🇨🇦

[@JasonsNONYANonaOfYaFuckingBusi]

It's all so "efficient and good" that governments have to pour unimaginable amounts of money in this cam in order to be peddled every chance they get.

[@JasonsNONYANonaOfYaFuckingBusi]

@@ginog5037 One Nation might be a better answer although at this stage i believe when i see it.

[@user4ak90uzk]

They just want less people to have a car, which results in less people have their relative freedom.

[@kennztube]

Which I truly believe is the end goal. All evidence points that way.

[@MarkB-33]

​@@kennztube stake holder economy and total control. Yes.

[@shanelewis617]

They want less people!

[@Poorlineforeva]

Kooker konspiracy fantasy

[@williamkeith8740]

Cashing in on our stupidity - so true.

[@techjunkie68smusicandtech56]

The stupidity created in the education systems of western countries

[@techjunkie68smusicandtech56]

And worse still we're all paying for this stupidity, even people who see through this BS through taxes and we don't want an EV ourselves!

[@chrisgregory4796]

Sadly, “they” have plenty of material to work with in Australia.

[@TroySavary]

Yes, Simon is cashing in on your stupidity.

[@foppo100]

Have you driven a EV for starters? The stupidity is you william live with it.

[@PaulDavis-ep6tn]

Some areas of the UK limit the number of households having a EV chargers because the national grid in that area simply cannot cope with the extra load so some have purchased electric cars only to find out later that the charging facility they were promised cannot be provided. So if everyone had a EV in the UK the national electricity grid wouldn’t cope

[@Harrythehun]

Has the grid companies come out with this information?

[@sahhull]

​@@Harrythehunyes. But they only tell you when you want an EV charger fitting

[@robertkubrick3738]

@@Harrythehun Not the grid companies job, they don't sell cars or chargers, and you will have to get electricity somewhere so it's not in the interest of the grid companies to announce it.

[@petertraveller6421]

That's UK problem, Norway, Sweden and Finland don't have these problems, our grid is just fine, about 93% clean energy.

[@jeremylister89]

This is true. My street, like thousands of others has 60 houses and 50 year old small gauge cables underground. Simply not up to the job. A survey would not allow everyone in my street to fit charger unless the substation, and all underground cables are upgraded at a cost of millions...for just one street! Incidentally in 2022, the feed to my house failed open circuit with less than 200 watts load. That's how fragile they can be. The engineers who fixed it were shaking their heads when I asked about future EV (and heat pump) loading. They have already had explosions underneath pavements due to the massive load increase!! Those in power need to wake up!

[@karlhulme8014]

I can’t be the only one who’s talked to an EV owner who states that they’re “ doing their bit for the environment “ and then won’t discuss the matter any further.

[@Spectrum-of-Truth]

@@karlhulme8014 The G reen scam!

[@MarkB-33]

The truth cannot be argued with. Spot on.

[@davidinch2804]

@@karlhulme8014 I had a discussion in a parking lot yesterday and the environment never came up. Lots of stories of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt from his side... All way over-exaggerated. Keeping an EV charged is like keeping your phone charged. You just have to have some awareness.

[@karlhulme8014]

@@davidinch2804 well, if people are prepared to do that then fair enough, I’m happy not to have the hassle.

[@markseehawer3762]

EV Zealots can not be converted, it's a religion to them.

[@Spectrum-of-Truth]

The charging station are nightmares, if there is more than one car charging, you will know about it!

[@unnamedchannel1237]

I won't. Bought my self one of the last model ICE cars when i got my last car will be hanging on to that for along time. Not brandnew about 2018 but that was very new for me.

[@robertcampbell6521]

Yes people can't or do not want to know that a 100kw charging station that has 3 charges in use is actually only capable of 33kw

[@vanzell1912]

Not only that, but charging stations are becoming crime scenes for robbery and various types of assault. It’s always dangerous to be stuck anywhere in public for hours.

[@unnamedchannel1237]

@ it’s ok fusion is only 10 years away

[@Spectrum-of-Truth]

@@unnamedchannel1237 love it lol 😆

[@ewanhollis7810]

This is the best clip you have ever done absolutely outstanding. I’m will be writing to my Labour MP here in the UK and I’m going to be touching on some of these points to try and get across the fact that the UK is heading towards disaster because of this very thing.

[@davidvanderklauw]

Don't forget to mention that you will NOT be voting for your Labour MP. That is the only thing that motivates them to do anything for you.

[@ewanhollis7810]

@ very good point David and even more so given the fact that his majority was literally about 200 votes over the unseated former Conservative MP.

[@DanRyan-v5y]

You could also point out that over the last few days in UK ,the power generated from renewables has been seriously underwhelming. Approximately 5% of demand for wind and neglegiable from solar due to the foggy and still weather. Similar to the week long spell we had around November 5th. If we had been more reliant on renewables like the bacon chomper wants, we would all have been sat in the dark for a week or more

[@davedrake5769]

Furthermore the cost lost to convert a/c to d/c at the charger is any thing between 10-30% so you not only pay for what you cannot get but also can only charge from 20% to 80%. What a fine state of affairs.

[@MrStevecrasher]

They won’t take any notice.

[@Pomdownuder]

Soon people will be charged "refuelling" time on their on site services, if I'm coming to service your boiler at your farm, you will be getting a bill for travel time plus an hour charging en route

[@davidinch2804]

I wouldn't hire a boiler repairman who wasn't smart enough to plug their vehicle in the night before.

[@andyroden8537]

​@@davidinch2804 so if it were charged the night before, you would be paying for it to be charged up after your job. I guess on that basis you think the boiler engineer with an ICE van doesn't include refuelling within your final bill🙄 Whether it's powered by petrol, diesel, electric, or hygrogen it's an overhead and inluded in the final bill.

[@peterjackson2625]

Surely you didn't buy a battery- powered van for carrying out servicing?

[@stephenprince340]

Another problem with EV’s is that when involved in a multiple piles up the additional weight of the battery, average a one ton, would cause a far more damage to the car on impact, let alone the huge risk of a serious fire. EV’s are truly a step backwards !!! . Keep Up The Honest Work

[@jackneuman5108]

Got to love reasoning. "I choose my car how it behaves in a pile up" 😂😂😂

[@DanThomas-n1e]

Its a TIME MACHINE, right back to the 1800's

[@chrisward5626]

So the fact that most American cars and trucks are bigger than other countries isn’t a problem??? It’s just ev 🤦‍♂️

[@romanpolanski4928]

You want to drive a car which is dangerous in an accident?

[@J.Green-Rx]

​@@jackneuman5108 What, you don't pay attention to crash safety data when you buy a car? How effen stupid is that!?

[@matttravers5764]

It's about time someone said this. I've been saying for years that electricity isn't an energy source.😊

[@theodavies8754]

The electricity distribution networks are where to put your excess wealth to guarantee chunky dividends. It was never about anything but the money.

[@jackiefisher1820]

You've hit the nail on the head! In my opinion there are ,fibbers,liars and greens! AND as my old dad used to say "give me a thief over a liar, at least they're honest in their intentions" ! Lots of love from Wolverhampton.

[@tomiasthexder7673]

@@theodavies8754 correct, buy the oil and energy company stocks. The woke people won’t buy them for “ethical” purposes but they’ll pay massive dividends whilst all the greenies continue using fossil fuel when convenient to do so.

[@flyingcircus808]

Apart from the cost the main drawbacks of renewables is energy storage for use at peak times. The go to solution for politicians is large complicated , expensive and dangerous batteries while ignoring the real solution (pun intended} - water. A water reservoir is less complicated, safe , low maintenance and over the long run low cost . Normally a reservoir is created by damming a river which in the past has caused all sorts of environmental issues. However what if you could create a reservoir without damming or only partially damming or temporarily diverting the river during the wettest season when it is high or in spate and making a closed system independent of the river. The water is reused after turning the turbines and returned to the reservoir by using windmills among other things. Wind power is generated by hundreds of windmills each with their own expensive generator but if you reverted to dumb windmills, as in the Netherlands or in parts of England to pump the water back to the reservoir. Added bonus that instead of being stark and soulless they could be more traditional and homes.homes.

[@axeman2638]

not about money at all, the people in power have all the money already, it's about control.

[@theodavies8754]

@axeman2638 It's about controlling the money. Your logic is sound enough but control is something you can buy. Politicians are relatively cheap, so are scientists.

[@scoobyflew]

Ages ago I did the calcs you did for the 60 cars per hour, and you missed an important point, the EV "fill up" only give half the range, so they have to fill up twice as often, so you need 180 charging stations to cover the same 60 cars per hour.

[@valuemastery]

Could you give me some more insight into that calculation? Our car charges in half an hour. So each charging point could charge two cars per hour. So to charge 60 cars per hour, 30 charging points would be needed instead of 180. What do I miss here?

[@familyhelpdeskhelpdesk270]

​@@valuemasteryone word: range. My car takes 3 minutes to give me 450 miles of range. The 30 minutes you are talking about is NOT for an empty to full charge.

[@aabsc]

@@valuemastery The faster you charge your EV, the faster the battery will fail and need replacement. Some manufacturers even programmed a limit and will say something like "The limit of fast charging for the week has been reached, only slow charging will be available for the next 6 days."

[@scoobyflew]

@@valuemastery Hi, so the original calc was based on slower charging time, I'll grant you that 150KW charger would be able to charge a car in 30 minutes. But to charge 30 cars at this rate would require a 4.5MW power supply, equivalent to the power requirements for 1,100 homes. a handful of cars might get 150KW, but the charging would the throttled, as it is now. So assuming 1 hour to charge, 50KW still classed as fast charging, that gives you a range of 250 miles, an ICE car would get 500 to 700 miles, maybe more. So the EVs will be charging twice as often, so 120 chargers would be needed to cover the same range. Then factor in that not all cars or drivers will choose to fast charge, as it degrades the battery or the car doesn't support it, so a charger maybe in use for 2 hours or more. Then factor in chargers not in service and 180 charging points starts to feel a little light. And the motorway service area would need a 9MW supply just to cover 50KW charging stations, 2,200 houses worth of power. Imagine if the EV and ICE timelines were reversed, so EVs came before ICE, when ICE comes to market, "Double the range", "Fill up in 5 minutes", "No lithium mines and leaching pits", "no child labour in Congo", "Completely recyclable", "No loss of range over time", "Fires easily extinguished", "More repairable", "Fewer write-offs", "emergency fuel in a can", "works in emergency situations", "Not reliant on China", etc. You wouldn't need subsidies to sell the all new ICE cars.....

[@LadyLynne]

⁠@@scoobyflew please copy your comment to all the EV delusional platforms… starting at “imagine if” You have made the most commonsense comment I have ever seen. The truth will blow them away.

[@David8n]

The notion that you can charge your car from solar panels on your roof is a total nonsense for most people. In Scotland, in December, on a good day we generate about half a kilowatt hr.

[@mrradman2986]

My panels can produce up to 4.5KWh here in N Yorkshire in mid summer which is enough to slowly charge a 10KWh battery in the garage and supply the low daytime domestic consumption with enough left over to charge my Volvo hybrid which only demands 3.6 KWh. This is only possible because I am semi retired and hence able to work from home to have it plugged in during the day when the sun is shining. This is only true for around three months in mid summer. From late September onwards the output rapidly falls away and I use a low cost overnight tariff to charge both. So the scenario only works for those with the lifestyle required to adapt to these requirements and only for less than half the year. I would not even consider a pure EV.

[@chrisward5626]

So you are upset some can’t charge with solar ? Will you be even more upset when you find out people like me have large solar systems and allow people to charge for free during the day ? When was the last time you got a free tank of gas ?

[@David8n]

@@chrisward5626 No, that's fine. I'm glad for you. What I'm upset about is all the adverts on TV, the cinema, on KZbin paid for by the Scottish government that specifically say: "Why doesn't everyone in Scotland have solar panels on their roofs? It's a myth that they need direct sunlight. They work just fine in the murky Scottish winter." It's just not true. My solar panels will never pay for themselves. I'm upset at being lied to.

[@bigfist255]

Were those solar panels free 😂​@@chrisward5626

[@majesticjester1]

@@David8n Just think when you actually need the power they produce you are at work and when you get home it dark lol

[@eldontyrellcorp]

In Europe, they intend to maintain this stupid goal of 100% EV's by 2035. Look at the fines the car manufacturers will have to pay next year, it will be billions of €. The side effect is that they will have to restrict the number of ice cars and artificially increase the number of EV's by pre-registrating them (that's what we already observe in the UK). That's crazy and frightening. They really want the death of all the European car manufacturers... Most amazing thing is that Von Der Leyen recently said that we should be proud of our European car industry. But at the same time, the same Europe is destroying it.

[@doom4067]

They want to prevent people from moving about freely. This is the most politically acceptable way to achieve that goal.

[@gerbre1]

The car industry wants to build and sell EVs not fossil cars.

[@eldontyrellcorp]

@gerbre1 No, they still want to sell ICE cars but they are forced by Europe to sell EV's.

[@gerbre1]

@@eldontyrellcorp The main market is China. China wants EVs.

[@eldontyrellcorp]

@gerbre1 Indeed ! But the rest of the world is not interested, it seems

[@Prodigio7790]

I traded in my Tesla Model Y for a petrol BMW

[@Lightning77305]

Good.

[@shanemallinson7644]

Smart move 👌

[@Prodigio7790]

@ It drove me nuts being hijacked by the car and charging stations. After charging, the car (and all Teslas) starts blowing out freezing cold air from the vents. Why is nobody talking about the fact that when you charge your car at a charging station, you have no clue what you’re paying? Not even talking about the battery leaking in hot or cold weather. Imagine filling up your petrol car at a gas station and not knowing the price per liter.

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

Based 😎

[@valuemastery]

@@Prodigio7790 Sorry to hear you have such a bad infrastructure where you live. I'm driving a Tesla in Germany. The car displays the price per kWh for all Superchargers, even before I'm there. When charging, kWhs charged and price paid is displayed on the screen of the car (or in the App) while charging, So i know exactly how much I have already spent. When sitting in the car while charging, our vents also blow perfectly climated air, just as when we're driving, so its perfectly comfortable. Something must be wrong with your car. What's the problem with your leaking battery? You should get that fixed. Our battery does not leak.

[@evilkittyofdoom195]

When the power goes out at the mill I work at when it's -17 out I'm glad the old dodge has a full tank...

[@Spectrum-of-Truth]

If you repair one cell, it will just degrade other cells quicker, it will be a temporary fix!

[@farnthboy]

Bit like whack a mole.

[@valuemastery]

The other cells will simply continue their degredation as if nothing had happend. Why would a replaced cell have an effect on the others?

[@ghunt9146]

​@valuemastery cells need to be balanced to all flow in harmony. You're told not to replace just 1 battery out of 3 or 4 in everyday products, or haven't you noticed this?

[@Spectrum-of-Truth]

@@valuemastery When you replace one cell in a battery, the other cells can potentially "die" because of a phenomenon called cell imbalance

[@valuemastery]

@@ghunt9146 @Spectrum-of-Truth Yes, I am very aware of this fact. I used to build model cars and helicopters, and did cell balancing for the LiIoN cells there as well. However, an EV has a battery management system where all modules are monitored separately, and which also takes care of balancing. Granted, replacing a singe cell in one of those modules would not be a good idea, since the BMS monitores not on cell level, but on module level. This is why on defective batteries, modules can be replaced. No need to replace the whole pack. Of course, the weakest module will determine the total capacity of the pack, otherwise one module might get too much discharged. That's why, when replacing a module in the battery, normaly modules of similar age or degredation are used.

[@Spectrum-of-Truth]

My car estimates 40 mins to charge at a station to full from empty, but in reality it could be over an hour!

[@NOYFB]

But you are only allowed to charge to 75% capacity.

[@Wee_Langside]

​@NOYFB I thought it was to 80% after which the charging speed was reduced. Ignoring any restrictions at the charging restrictions at location.

[@Epic3032]

Meanwhile my car takes up to 4 minutes to fuel up and have longer range.

[@lucamaggiolini5062]

And you need a smartphone - why? why the fuck you need a fucking smartphone to fill up your car???? come on, if during trip I accidentally drop my phone and break it (shit happens) I would not be able to recharge my car and got stuck? Are you joking? Let's ignore for now that anyone who has access to the software of the car can control anything on it with or without your consent.

[@valuemastery]

@@NOYFB Says who?

[@5amH45lam]

Respectfully, I don't believe for one minute that western administrations have swallowed the idea that transitioning to EVs is essential. It's the myriad revenue streams - increased taxation, eye-watering government contracts for buddies, and such - that _fuels_ their enthusiasm for EVs. Plus, climatw-alarmism, with EVs as a solution, provides an excellent... ahem... _vehicle_ to enact all sorts of tighter regulation. Where pen meets paper, I don't think they care a jot about the future of the planet.

[@timothykeith1367]

The government EV agenda is almost like money laundering.because insiders win the bids.

[@nineteen8486]

truth

[@davidheath2427]

No polition's care much other than the next election.

[@weredrivinghere]

Oil companies have way more money than any renewable tech or EV companies. Oil companies are fighting hard against the general public finding out the consequences of using the products these giant companies are selling.. It's not the first time, check out how arsenic and tobacco sellers were lying to people.

[@johnwalker5366]

Right on the mark! But its not just EVs its, windturbines ,solar panels , By controlling and owning resources , the elite will not change there lifestyle for the"greater good" while majority will become serfs ie- "you will own nothing and be happy"

[@captainnutzlos3816]

Charging stations are also unreliable !! If theres a error in the software the charge wont start or stop for safety reasons.

[@rocketeerPM2500]

They call that "progress" haha. Go back to ICE and the REAL world.

[@tomcatley5227]

Yeah 0 charging fires in Australia. Many petrol station fires. Still a risk but safer option is charging.

[@That-Guy_]

You mean non-Tesla chargers are unreliable.

[@arthurh5707]

Most days I wake up, make coffee and tune into your channel - which you upload almost daily. It is a pleasant routine to start the day with someone who has rationale that I can understand, and who points out the absurdity of the world in which we now live. A near daily affirmation that keeps me sane. Thank you!

[@jackneuman5108]

Rationale ? Using words like "always" and "air engine" How about something actually rational ? Like which ICE car company you would invest your money in for future profits ? Props for honesty that you only seek affirmation and not actual facts - as sad as that is.

[@HuFlungDung2]

​@@jackneuman5108Oil use will not go away regardless of your virtue signalling. CO2 is one half of the gases of life. O2 is the other. I'm so glad you are willing to put up with all the inconvenience of EVs while your power is being created by burning trainloads of electric car fuel in someone else's neighborhood.

[@bikersoncall]

@@jackneuman5108 Well said Gretta! 😄

[@foppo100]

Most days I wake up and go to the toilet first .

[@bikersoncall]

@@foppo100 You're doing it here too.

[@sirjohng1]

Well done but EV owners will not watch such a video as they are in denial too in Cloud Cuckoo Land. Adding the massive depreciation of EV's and the huge cost of replacement batteries would have been the crowning glory😎

[@zvonimirbonanza7286]

I’m an EV owner 😂

[@Gus11445]

Yeah, I own all types of cars including a high end EV. Literally only ever 120v charge and have only used a charging station a couple times in 3 years. $5 dollars to fill up and practically no maintenance or thousands of ice parts that go bad. Im also an amateur mechanic and work in the trades, not an Ev fan boy. People are bias and go to the extreme in videos like these. 99% of ev owners have chargers at home and never use charging stations except on rare occasions.

[@mikehunt-w8u]

EVs are fast becoming a throw away item.With cheap piles of junk from China will ensure this.They will become land fill.An environmental disaster waiting to happen that will be a massive catastrophe.

[@Gus11445]

Depreciation is given for any car and battery replacement is extremely rare and prices are actually not too bad. $5000 or less typically and are going down fast. That said most only lose 10% capacity over 200,000 miles which is acceptable and on par with an ice car.

[@Fluxkompressor]

@@zvonimirbonanza7286 Me too Mine has 98% capacity left after 8 years and 50.000 miles I charge at home, only used a public charging station 4 times so far (took 20 minutes) That car saves me about 1300€ in fuel and about 300€ in maintenance and inspection every year

[@DanRyan-v5y]

Nice points,. I like that you emphasised that it is co2 that is supposedly the threat to the climate and not carbon that is continually comflated with caron dioxide. I think it needs to be empbaside more often, as using the carbon label just allows the miscreants more latitude to misinform and expand their "mission".

[@andyharman3022]

Yes. For those people, we're the carbon that they want to regulate.

[@giggiles8886]

You moron! CO2 is made of carbon!

[@NOYFB]

My local council is using my rates money to build and run “free” EV charging stations for wealthy EV owners. How is that even legal?

[@Aperazzo_Salsa_Pics]

One of the best reality checks on EV I’ve seen so far. This clip should be shown on schools globally and be part of an exam or so. 🎉

[@weredrivinghere]

Are you suggesting we have propaganda classes? B.. please, this guy won't even give us any actual examples of calculations of co2 output of an average EV versus average ICE. Spoiler alert: EVs will never emit more than 60 tonnes of co2 over the lifetime of let's say 300k miles. Realistically under 45 tonnes in the U.S. Under 20-25 tonnes in countries like Austria where most of electricity comes from renewables. While an average ICE will emit at least 70-100 tonnes from the tailpipe alone, and we can easily double that amount because extraction, transportation, refining and oil wars are not co2-exempt processes.

[@adriaanvantulpenbaard1740]

@@weredrivinghere Auto expert John Cadogan done the calculations for Australia and it is not good for EV's. In Tasmania or Norway, they have clean energy what makes it a lot cleaner!

[@Aperazzo_Salsa_Pics]

@ There are many propaganda classes being given already. Being it on gender issues, religious/ evolution topics or greenwashing. So I’d say it makes a tremendous amount of sense to have the opposite meaning/ opinion/ information being told as well. Why is it that only woke voices are so often deemed worthy to be allowed to speak? BTW, fun to see once again that all pollution during making EV is forgotten about, as well as the issues that come with recycling EV. There seems to be an awful lot of PTFE needed to produces the batteries…

[@sebastianmessina31]

Yesterday I purchased a new Toyota Fortuna because it still is not full of too much tech & is not bloody electric.😊

[@fredfred2363]

Today, I decided to keep my 22YO super efficient diesel car that is road tax free 🤣😂🤣

[@JaseyRae]

While my one is just creeping towards 100k km after nearly 4 years of ownership, I never have range anxiety driving it, and I only spend a few mins in the servo and go to where I need.

[@bluestreak2701]

A post I had on another site was about the weight of an EV vehicle. This guy was saying it was a myth. Research says they are at least 30% heavier. Have you tried to lift one 12v battery. Vehicles are loaded with them.

[@valuemastery]

It's not a myth at all. The battery of an EV typically weighs about 500 kg. But to be fair, additional weight in EVs does not contribute to consumption in the same way it would with a ICE, because of recuperation. Eack kg of weight has kinetic energy when the car moves, and when braking, in an ICE car all of that energy is lost. While an EV gains back about 70% of it, so the added weight only contributes a small part to energy consumption.

[@dave3657]

The biggest issue with a heavy vehicle is physics. An object in motion will stay in motion. So in corners and accidents the mass of the vehicle makes it harder to handle and causing more damage in accidents.

[@pistonburner6448]

@@dave3657 Yes, and they factually therefore cause more injuries and deaths.

[@valuemastery]

@@dave3657 Yes, there are disadvantages to heavy vehicles. I think you have a very good point with damage in an accident. However, handling I did not find to be an issue. Changed from a BMW diesel to a Tesla, and found the Tesla to handle a lot better in corners. Might have to do with very low center of gravity due to the battery, and nearly 50/50 weight distribution, like in middle-motor sports cars.

[@jsh6952]

The Hummer EV's battery weighs as much as the average ICE car, 3800lbs. On the home 240 voltage charger, it takes almost 8 days to fully charge the pig.

[@DisFantasy]

Being dependent on the electric grid just seems like a bad idea to me.

[@northdakotaham1752]

People in South Carolina would definitely agree with you!

[@Piecenotwar]

@@northdakotaham1752People in Texas would argue differently about that now they have battery backup.

[@robertkubrick3738]

@@Piecenotwar But how many people in Texas have battery backup? Less than 1%?

[@weredrivinghere]

On the other hand, being dependent on the grid offering products that are extracted from the earth by some of the richest companies in the world sounds like an excellent idea.. There are plenty more of oil wars and projects like "The line" or "Palm islands" to be funded by your hard-earned money. Here in Austria, our power grid is amazing and the electricity I consume comes from renewables, 100% of it.

[@northdakotaham1752]

@@robertkubrick3738 battery backup?? Lol!....and how many hours does that last while running electric heat? A UPS with battery backup here in ND will run your computer, recharge your phone....but no air conditioning and for heat, you better have oil, natural gas or LP. Maybe wood burner.

[@paradiselost9946]

all ICE are "hot air engines". they consume air, compress it, increase its temperature in some manner, that then causes an increase in pressure and that pressure then produces a force on a piston that finally transfers to the wheels, and propels us along. the fuel does nothing but produce heat, rapidly. our forebears found that the combustion of an atomised fuel was the easiest and most practical method, the most EFFICIENT method, of heating the air as required. all other methods involve "middlemen" with inherent losses... steam is one of the worst, replacing the air with water then having the unavoidable losses of latent heat, the energy required to boil water... yet, at the time, it was the easiest method available, and led to the further development of ICE, and industry, and the human race as a whole. once progress, and industry allowed for reliable ignition systems, gasification of coal and consuming said gas in an ICE almost instantly led to the demise of the reciprocating steam engine as a mainstay (the turbine is slightly different and dont talk to me about how almost all modern powerstations rely on steam... i KNOW they do. it has certain advantages at such massive power levels...) with certain advances in various materials that our ancestors didnt have, materials and technology that only came about due to their hard work and intelligence, the direction we should be working in is to improve the hot air engine. not solely the ICE, but some of the other approaches that failed to become dominant at the time mostly due to technological limitations. the ericsson cycle, for instance. we have materials that can take far higher pressures and temperatures, along with manufacturing processes and skills to improve things such as heat exchangers, than our predecessors could ever dream about... they reduce the problem of aforementioned "middlemen"... dont eliminate them, but make them less of an issue.

[@tebitt]

Excellent summary!

[@jimbo3075]

Even if u had solar panels an EV will NEVER be zero emission......What energy was used to manufacture the solar panels and how did they get from origin to roof

[@RavenAutoPartsCo]

I think it was Michael Shellenberger in a Ted talk that pointed out it would take at least 10 years and 150,000km for a battery car to repay it's carbon deficit...but I can't remember if it was grid charged or solar charged. That sucks!

[@Fluxkompressor]

@@RavenAutoPartsCo It is 50.000km. 150.000 was 20 years ago, but technology developed since then But only IF your battery was produced in china next to a coal power plant and IF you are plugging that car only into said power plant It is less in every other case and becomes less as we transition our electricity to renewables

[@sahhull]

​​@@Fluxkompressorrenewables.. lol. With short life wind turbines. They never break even with the eco damage they cause. Many fail way short of the 10 to 15 year life span. The blades are non recyclable landfill fillers and many after fail within 5 years of their marketed 10 year lifespan .

[@robertkubrick3738]

@@Fluxkompressor Volvo says it's 70,000 MILES and I would believe the actual manufacturer before cult members.

[@VK4VO]

@@RavenAutoPartsCo How do you charge off solar panels????? Solar panels are not a source of power for you to use if you have them on your roof. I have 6.6kw of solar panels, I do not get to use ANY of that power. It feeds the grid and I get a small offset on my power bill. If the grid goes down i'm still screwed, inverter is shut down as well. Its fuel generator time when grid supply fails.

[@TheVagolfer]

I've said this for years...Electrical cars will be limited to a maximum of 10% of cars until something better than gas cars comes along. The infrastructure is just not logistically possible.

[@ironhorsehero1988]

Our 12 soon to be 13yo diesel car takes a few minutes to fill from almost empty, that gives us 650+ miles of range. It gets serviced every two years (as recommended) and regularly achieves 58+ mpg. It doesn’t have every tech gadget under the sun so there’s less to go wrong, it’s still a dam good car and will be for the foreseeable future.

[@weredrivinghere]

I drive a 20 year old diesel but I fill it up with HVO to reduce co2 output. The car has already emitted 120+ tonnes of co2 over its lifetime. And we aren't even counting extraction, refining, transportation, oil wars and car production. An equivalent EV would fit into 20 tonnes of co2 if driven here in Austria with 100% of electricity coming from renewables.

[@EmilyHastings-s9x]

Your channel is where every video is a true work of art. Thank you for your creative energy and passion!💋😎💯

[@steve_is_my_name]

Bottle bot bot

[@JurivonStolzenberg14]

As UK HGv driver I see a lot of private EV drivers " living in cloud kokooland"😅, mostly from their driving skills perspective. I think most of those EV drivers must be in jobs where they just live all day on a 2 dimensional computer screen and have poor skills in 4 dimensions on the roads. Poor spatial awareness and observation skills and busy with a flat screen in front of their noses.😅 There was a UK neurosurgeon whi worked out with MRI brain scans that part of brain ( limbic system) shrinks when teenies spend too much time online.

[@hudsonbear5038]

Have you noticed that there seems too be an increase in accidents at road junctions that involve EV's?? We have and I am an EMT(paramedic) in blighty. We have notice more and more incidents involving EVs and nearly always at road junctions too due to them thinking they can accelerate out of them quicker than on coming traffic.

[@stephenvelden295]

In Australia those drivers drive Camrys. My friends and I call them Camry Kamikazes.

[@JM00-v9c]

100% correct

[@JurivonStolzenberg14]

@hudsonbear5038 yes, the eletric engineering is allowing that motorcar a faster response than their brain can process . How are your EV paramedic response vehicles? Any use?

[@hudsonbear5038]

@@JurivonStolzenberg14 Where we are we trialled them and after a week (actually less) we stopped using them... old requirements for an ambo used to be a min of 400miles range FULLY loaded but that req was dropped for EVs and they barely did 70miles on a good day lol are average distance too a hospital by the way is 60 miles and thats one way.. They will cost lives but the NHS eco bosses don't care mate..

[@Rune_G]

A standard fuel pump here in norway pumps 30-40l of fuel in a minute. On my 10 year old, loan free civic it will take slightly 1-2 minutes to fill up the tank, and i will have over 800km of range before the warning light comes on. then a new 1-2 minute wait.. 😅 I just laugh when i see all the ev boys sitting in their cars, wasting time, waiting for ever for their super expensive cars to "fill" up, to get 400-500km range. 😂

[@hudsonbear5038]

you also forget that when that warning light comes on you will have upto 50kms and more in range still.. unlike the ev battery that coiuld just die even when it says 10-5% lol

[@Rune_G]

@ yes. And cold temperatures does not kill the range with gas cars. I can have the ac on full blast 🙂

[@DanRyan-v5y]

And the battery has to be heated to charge it properly in cold weather , so you are burning some of the energy you are supposed to be charging with. Imagine if you had to burn a load of petrol/ diesel at the pumps in order to keep your fuel tank warm enough to accept the diesel going into it!😊

[@martinleavitt6094]

Yupp...🤟🤣👌

[@Rune_G]

@@DanRyan-v5y 😂👌

[@MariaMays-o6d]

Your ideas are always fresh and original. Thank you for the inspiration!🚦📸👒

[@angusog5227]

Would be great if your videos were shown in the Australian Parliament.

[@davegoldspink5354]

Yeah could imagine how that would go you’d have the likes of Blackout Bowen, Adam Bandt and of course Albo with their fingers in their ears and eyes closed like entitled 2 year olds calling the videos “misinformation, disinformation and propaganda and calling for blood you look at how ignorant and corrupt most politicians and bureaucrats are you have more hope educating a house brick about the pitfalls of EVs and what a waste they truly are.

[@robertanderson5796]

They wouldn’t allow it!

[@angusog5227]

@robertanderson5796 Because the Truth would set them free.

[@Tony-eb5kh]

They wouldn’t care as they’re such narrow minded pricks!

[@AusTankieGaming]

It's not Naive it's pure fiction, and the sheeple are sucking it up.

[@TheHonestJock]

Exceptional video, this whole charade of EV cars has frustrated me from it's very beginning. Battery powered cars are the automotive equivalent of mini disk players. They seem like the bright best future we could have but they simply aren't and are nothing more than a half step.

[@davannaleah]

But this is ok. When you have governments that don't want people driving at all, the best first step is to con people out of their beloved ICE cars to something that doesn't work.

[@davidvanderklauw]

No. Before that they need to get millions of dopey people rote-voting for them each election.

[@AlanRoberts-xy4wu]

You explained all that so clearly, it really helps put this big EV experiment into prospective. Thanks for your great videos 👍🇬🇧🇦🇺

[@RomanShein1978]

A century ago years ago there were people who fought against automobiles, and before that, there was a nihilism against trains. We know how it ended.

[@fredfred2363]

"Perspective"

[@malp78]

Big business is growing fat on this ideology i.e. mining, battery makers, car manufacturers, Banks, Insurers, Infrastructure builders and advertisers. Unfortunately all this "wealth" is false and disappears in a puff of smoke when the market decides that it was all based on a lie and is not the new Nirvana.

[@northdakotaham1752]

Car manufacturers are losing billions of dollars. If they don't change course soon there will be no auto manufacturers other than China.

[@JoeOvercoat]

No, *new* businesses are garnering the majority of Govt subsidies & credits (i.e. crony capitalism). The Western world is destroying its automotive industry in the name of EVs.

[@canadiandeplorable6413]

Videos of people learning the “real life experience” of EV ownership the hard way are very entertaining to me. Also it’s a good public service to warn others not to fall in the same eco-trap. Every EV that doesn’t get purchased is a win.

[@davetaylor4741]

A few points to add. You can't keep increasing the input to these batteries to make them charge faster. They have a design limit. They will either just not charge faster. Or catch fire with the overload. Electric bike batteries are good at the latter. Charging from your solar. To charge from your solar you would need to be home during daylight hours. And still unlikely to be generating enough power to be charging your EV without grid input, given the vast demand for power. And house batteries at night no chance. I live in a rural area. I know a lot of people off grid. Tens of thousands of dollars of solar systems and batteries. All have to be careful with electric. And all resort to a generator in bad weather. And the concept of powering the grid from your car is crap. Firstly only some models can discharge electricity in this manner. And secondly it would be a spit in the ocean. Bess systems also useless. My little town of about 2.5 thousand people. 512 40ft shipping containers of batteries. Just for average house usage. 4 hours supply. So not many cars getting charged there. The carbon footprint of the EV is so large by the time it is knackered you are just making a difference. 10 years to pay back on the carbon embedded in the manufacture. What does it take to make governments understand the truth. Don't understand.

[@lucamaggiolini5062]

Charging an EV with solar panel is just...mental. Considering the vast majority of people live in the northern hemisphere, I assume that you need 6-7 square meters of silicon panels per kWh - to fully charge an EV with a 60 kW battery in an hour you need 360 - 400 square meters of panels. If you have a normal house and an Al Gore's one, you will have 3 kWh or 4 kWh installed. So, you will need 20 or 15 hours to charge that car - hoping the sun will shine, which is not always the case in Liverpool or Seattle, doesn't it?

[@hudsonbear5038]

@@lucamaggiolini5062 YOu are spot on there amnd yet the ev ludites claim they fully charge their ev's with solar lol there is even one(forgot his name ) that comments here that says he lives in Sweden and charges his ev via solar which is pure poppycock. But they they need to live via Munchhausens/Waltermitty to live there lives lol

[@Fluxkompressor]

@@lucamaggiolini5062 Where did you get these numbers from?! 400m² would be about an 80kWp solar array, that is huge! I have 6kWp or 30m² of solar and I use zero grid power from early Mai till late September. That includes charging the car as well as running the AC, making hot water and so on I drive for free during that time!

[@MrMartinious]

So true! We live totally off grid with around $25000 worth of solar infrastructure, it works great in the summer down here in Tasmania, but during the winter we need to supplement it with a generator. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like to try and charge an ev! We own a Land Cruiser prado which gets around 1400ks per tank of diesel! Not even slightly interested in an ev!

[@svr5423]

@@Fluxkompressor so to power a single megawatt charger, you need more than 4000m^2 of solar cells?

[@JerryWalker001]

Excellent video. I have been trying to get this across for years. Other points to consider are the dangers of EV batteries where they store all the 'burnt' (converted) fuel rather than the fuel itself (aka a bomb) and this is why EV fires are so dangerous. As you say ICE's are actually 'air' engines. Even most mechanics seem to think that engines work due to expanding fuel by burning it. This is not how engines work, They use the fuel to heat the air and therefore increase its volume and pressure. If it was just expanding fuel then a typical engine would need to inject around 0.5cc of fuel per cycle and in my 3l 6 cyl engine this would require around 1cc per revolution and so at 1000 rpm it would use 1 litre of fuel per minute which it does not.

[@drcovell]

Former Diesel Generator mechanic and operator here(aka the “Cranky Yank”). Just the *fuel* of a massive genset to create 350Kw (my experience was years with a 12-71 Detroit Diesel), running at what James May of *Top Gear* called “Full Chat,” was about 60 gallons per hour, running a rock crusher in a TX Gravel Pit. That’s a gallon per minute, not just fuel, but the resulting CO2, the burden of which is on the EVs being charged. So, that for a 70 Kw battery, you could charge 5 of them up to 35 KW in one hour or so, each one requiring 10+ gallons of diesel. How much range does a modern Diesel engine achieve in MPG vs. the equivalent half-charge of a 70 Kw EV? Now, my *very old* 79 Diesel Cadillac Seville would get 35-40 MPG depending on the terrain and my driving speed. With a 20-gallon tank, that was 700-900 miles. My *only* concern with fueling was to make sure I had “Cold Weather” fuel or it would “Gel” if the outside temps dipped too low! (When an EV battery is in an environment below 0 C, it loses half of its potential.) If a 70Kw-hour battery can get 250 miles of range in ordinary conditions, meaning no AC/Heater use, it can still only achieve something more than HALF of the efficiency of my old, 300K+ - mile Seville. (Please check my math on this-pretty sure that is right.) Before anyone calls me a liar, the VW “Rabbit” sold in the USA could, under optimal conditions, achieve 50 MPG, which was demonstrated by driving one around the flat land of Texas. NOT saying Diesel is cleaner, as the two “Meet in the middle” on CO2 after 10 years, but certainly equally, if not more efficient: EVs are the ultimate NIMBY of the rich! PS A properly made/maintained diesel engine may need to be rebuilt after 200K miles, or 10 YEARS of a hard work life, for a small fraction of the cost of a new vehicle purchase. I have yet to see an EV battery that can last for 100K miles and it’s CHEAPER to buy *another car* than replace the battery pack!😢😢😢😢😢

[@johngalt7382]

Finally some real number crunching, my numbers aren't anywhere near as generous as yours, you were kind. A mention of the hundreds of amperes needed for those fast charges, and the copper weight required to carry it, leading to increasing temptation towards profitable copper theft would be the cherry on top, misconceptions # 6 and 7 even.

[@jonathoncalabrese2035]

I like myguy better than electric Viking. That bloke follow Wef orders

[@timothykeith1367]

Sam Evans' background is marketing. An EV is a STEM problem. The Viking is an optimist, I give. him that much credit. I just don't see many EVs here in rural Texas and I'd bet that is more true in Australia - it's a huge.ciuntry with fewer population than Texas. The EV that blows the lid off - will be one that works well in rural conditions, it will then be popular in cities.

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

oiiiiii veyyyyyyyyy

[@JanKowalski-vj9py]

Most disgusting bullshiter is "Piston Pundit". Despite the name it's amost constant though subtle pro-EV propaganda.

[@hudsonbear5038]

@@timothykeith1367 same in the UK mate. You will see the odd one or two but the vast majority are road major towns and cities and on major roads.... Round me there used to be half a dozen folk with EV's but all but one has returned too ICE due to how impractical they are in the countryside...

[@iankuah8606]

Viking is not a qualified engineer.

[@marcusaureliusanonymous]

Unlike an ICE vehicle, EV vehicle is a disaster for the economy (including Chinese): EV needs huge subsidies from manufacturing to acquisition to running. EV battery manufacturing to disposal are going to make many parts of earth toxic waste land. EVs will potentially increase insurance for everyone when many of these starts getting old and burning down entire apartment complexes.. ticking timebomb

[@jackiefisher1820]

Sauron!

[@pistonburner6448]

Much more: EVs also require millions of chargers to be built, installed, connected to the grid, then maintained and replaced. EVs also require us to replace all those trillions of tax revenue which ICE vehicles generate for society...they are incredibly cheap to buy and run, and still generate massive amounts of tax revenue. EVs don't create any (net) tax revenue, and instead we will have to increase other taxation absolutely massively to cover what ICE users used to pay...plus all the subsidies and tax breaks for EVs. Note: even car manufacturers don't pay taxes anymore, since they don't make profits with EVs.

[@garymalone547]

Crazy how our 'leaders' refuse to stop picking winners despite the carnage caused by interfering over and over.

[@garrybowers414]

Should be checking their bank accounts🤔

[@davidvanderklauw]

The majority of voters are the ones picking the winners (badly)

[@tubewayarmy2]

One obvious mistake was to make charging station like car parking spaces, so you have no way of queueing without argument, and have to unhitch a caravan before charging. Designed to fail.

[@mrcarney3]

One point to make regarding fuel vehicles..... is the amount of electricity it takes to refine the fuel, and the fuel it takes to transport the fuel. The average EV gets between 2.5 to 5 miles (or 4-8 km) per KWH consumed. (on average, factors such as speed and temperature will factor in, as they do with MPG/KPG of fuel cars) The electricity required to refine a gallon of gas vary widely but are around 4 to 10 KWH of electricity. Assuming 4KWH on the low end, and 5mi/kwh it means that just to refine one gallon of gasoline/diesel, an EV could travel 20 miles or 32 km, just on the energy used to refine the gasoline. (Not including other factors like transporting, drilling, pumping, etc) It is easy to make very logical arguments on either side of the "argument" if one does not take into account all the factors at play. Certainly, right now, EV's are not the end all solution to transportation... When I need to tow something, chances are my diesel truck will be used. But there is a growing niche where they are effective transportation solutions. Oh, and if you think that Gas companies are not subsidized by the government, please do your own research but look into things like (in US) how much oil and drilling rights on public lands costs the oil companies, compared to the value of what is extracted. So, I encourage you all to do your own research into the numbers I put above, and consider the source of the numbers in your estimation of how much they can be trusted. We can no longer rely on our "news" sources to give us facts.... they give us carefully selected information and biased interpretations of those facts in order to form our opinions, not to inform our opinions. Both "sides" the fence do this just in opposite directions.

[@MrCaduru]

Air-engine: one of the best explanations for why the batteries fundamentally can't get anywhere close to the energy density of gasoline.

[@declanfaughey8471]

Here in Ireland, public charging is a nightmare their are different companies that run the charging stations, so you need an app for each or an nfc card, and some will charge ( no pun intended) you a monthly fee on top of the electricity you use.

[@actualfacts1055]

Too complicated for most people, it makes their brain hurt.

[@fredfred2363]

Yep. Or just "boring" as kids used to say at school. I wonder if people get why science is actually quite useful, speaking as an engineer.

[@actualfacts1055]

​@@fredfred2363 They are just lazy and blindly believe the lefties.

[@leonardgibney2997]

I always worried about crossing Death Valley in an EV where there are no charging points.

[@tommiller7177]

There is a nice stretch of I-70 in Utah. Over 100 miles of no services. A couple of overlook pull outs to admire the views.

[@JurivonStolzenberg14]

We need more physics and chemistry education in school, not EVs. And more people using pavements. Pavements in Uk are empty and roads in UK full of eletric obese SUVs 😅

[@jackiefisher1820]

I remember the day! But back then we were free from the fear of robbery and worse! Cars are seen as a safe space ! 55 months to go!

[@LookEast-p4e]

We are very lucky in the UK - we have Ed Milliband.......oh

[@sirjohng1]

But he is raking it in so not the fool we may believe?

[@ginog5037]

We have President Trump back, thank God.

[@WillCamx]

Reeves, Rayner, Lammy, Milliband and Starmer. Labour really have excelled themselves when it comes to having idiots in positions of power.

[@davebarron5939]

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help" ... YIKES! RUN!

[@Youtube_deleted_my_favourites]

EVs are not green, the manufacturing cost to the climate out weighs any co2 saving during use. 40 million cars on the UK roads, imagine even half of that charging up overnight - the grid would melt. The greenness of energy companies varies, and some are not as green as they appear: Greenwashing: Some companies use a process called "greenwashing" to make it seem like they are greener than they actually are. This can involve using fossil fuels and then "offsetting" them for a small price. Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGOs): Some companies buy REGOs, which are certificates that verify that a megawatt hour of electricity comes from a renewable source. However, companies can buy REGOs for electricity that's already available, rather than generating new renewable energy. National grid: Unless you have your own renewable generation, like solar panels, your electricity comes from the same national grid as everyone else. This means that the carbon footprint of your electricity is the same, regardless of which company you buy from.

[@weredrivinghere]

> EVs are not green, the manufacturing cost to the climate out weighs any co2 saving during use. Not factual. The author of the video can't even present any actual data, e.g. he says there are no co2 savings from switching to EVs - which is absolutely false. EVs will never emit more than 60 tonnes of co2 over the lifetime of let's say 300k miles. Probably most will stay under 40 even with a battery replacement. Under 20-25 tonnes in countries like Austria where almost all of the electricity comes from renewables. An average ICE will emit at least 70-100 tonnes from the tailpipe alone, and we can easily double that amount because extraction, transportation, refining and oil wars are not co2-exempt processes. Even in the U.K. things aren't as bad as you're painting them and the grid one day will be ready to cover all the electricity needs no problem. Morocco is being filled with solar panels and cables to Europe are being installed. It's a solvable problem. Maybe battery production results in some other chemicals being released into nature, but those emissions are local and can't result in extinction events like what we've seen in the past with co2 concentrations at 3000 or 5000 ppm.

[@Cotictimmy]

Is it also true that the faster the charging process, the shorter the overall life of the battery?

[@johnl5316]

CO2 is not notably affecting the temperature

[@ivortoad]

EVs can't exist without huge, thirsty diesel engines.

[@weredrivinghere]

> EVs can't exist without huge, thirsty diesel engines. Not factual. More and more grids are switching to renewables. The electricity I'm consuming is 100% renewables. On the other hand, co2 concentration spikes correlate with extinction events and we're pushing ourselves towards one. The author of the video can't even present any actual data, e.g. he says there are no co2 savings from switching to EVs - which is absolutely false. EVs will never emit more than 60 tonnes of co2 over the lifetime of let's say 300k miles. Probably most will stay under 40 even with a battery replacement. Under 20-25 tonnes in countries like Austria where almost all of the electricity comes from renewables. An average ICE will emit at least 70-100 tonnes from the tailpipe alone, and we can easily double that amount because extraction, transportation, refining and oil wars are not co2-exempt processes.

[@armandmartinez7110]

@@weredrivinghere "co2 concentration spikes correlate with extinction events" - totally and utterly WRONG! CO2 is the gas of life and does NOT correlate with any extinction event in the past! It also doesn´t correlate with temperature increase at all! We should have not 419ppm but rather 1000ppm-2000ppm as it has been long ago with a very green and lush earth, everything growing perfectly well! These are the real science facts, not the WEF pseudo science that has no basis in reality!

[@softwarephil1709]

The battery shell is impact RESISTANT, not impact PROOF.

[@CJBradley]

Brainwashing and Ignorance is the real problem, I won't ever go over to it in it's present form. If the battery was 80% lighter and stores two or three time the energy I might consider it, but charging will always be an Issue.

[@richarddoherty5987]

As numerate person with an engineering background your video talks perfect sense. Wishful but idiotic thinking from the 'net zero' fantasists does not change the maths.

[@johnlarsson6029]

Watching an iconic car company after car company fold, then say it's because of china's "great" electric vehicles, is one of the craziest things to see.

[@paradiselost9946]

i always see it as a simple "supply and demand" issue. theres LOTS of cars. and they build LOTS of cars. and only so many cars are ever rendered completely unuseable... rather than build cars to a demand, they oversupply then try to convince us to buy these oversized shiny plastic baubles with flashy advertising...

[@kenthesparky178]

To allow for losses of around 12% for charging an ev you would have to use 72kw from the grid to charge a 60kw battery a fact that most users fail to understand.

[@nicolagianaroli2024]

Good point. There is hardly any loss in the delivery chain if u fill petrol

[@pistonburner6448]

And 12% of losses is the very minimum, which only few EVs can achieve. And only in perfect weather. I base this on research done by ADAC and others. Losses of 24% (some Teslas) and higher, even numbers higher than 30% were popping up in their studies!

[@Piecenotwar]

@@nicolagianaroli2024😂there’s a fuel truck, oil tanker, drilling platform, refinery, processing plant, chemical additives, electric to run the fuel pumps, labour to drive and maintain all these assets plus ship it around the globe. You conveniently forgot that

[@nicolagianaroli2024]

@ you also forgot that good chunck of electricity is Produced with oil. In percentage how much oil got lost once extracted? Far far less than 12%

[@kenthesparky178]

​@@Piecenotwar​@nicolagianaroli2024 no I didn't forget it,it has nothing to do with my statement.

[@thetoymanator7723]

Interesting facts I found: we need about five gallons of oil to produce the synthetic rubbers required for a single tyre. The whole tyre manufacturing process that follows requires two additional gallons of oil. The manufacturing process uses it to fuel the energy required to prepare the materials and assemble the whole tyre. Bigger tyres such as truck or bus tyres require even more, averaging 22 gallons of oil. Summary: EV's will always require fossil fuels to make the tyres they run on. Green? Environmentally friendly?

[@paradiselost9946]

thats JUST the rubber. bear in mind the rubber is vulcanised, to make it hard... that requires sulfur. so its not so easy to then take that rubber back to the base hydrocarbon that went into making it. the sulfur came from somewhere... then theres the steel bands in the beads and under the tread... mined. refined. smelted... using coal as its not steel unless it contains a certain proportion of carbon... melted, drawn into wire. shipped. sent to factories running on electricity, that has to come from somewhere... and how much of the tyre is used in average use, how much is left over and disposed of? and every step of the way theres left overs. byproducts. you dont get iron ore of 100%... you get 30, 50% at best... lot of rock being dumped in piles afterwards. the aluminium rims... bauxite ore. chryolite "electrolyte" (a mineral containing large amounts of fluorine...). massive amounts of electricity as the only way to extract it, to refine it to a useful purity, is by "electroplating"...same deal as copper in that regard....

[@weredrivinghere]

I take it regular cars don't use tires? Of course any movement, even a bowel movement will produce co2. It's a matter of reducing co2 outptut. The video author can't even present actual data, in the last chapter he says there's no co2 reduction and the source is "trust me bro". EVs will never emit more than 60 tonnes of co2 over the lifetime of let's say 300k miles. Probably most will stay under 40 even with a battery replacement. Under 25 tonnes in countries like here in Austria where most of electricity comes from renewables. While an average ICE will emit at least 70-100 tonnes from the tailpipe alone, and we can easily double that amount because extraction, transportation, refining and oil wars are not co2-exempt processes. And if you drive a truly fast car, on par with modern EVs, something that emits like 400g/km of co2, you're responsible for much more co2.

[@geoffhaviland]

Thanks!

[@thesolver1970]

on boxing day watched 8 EVs charge at the new Tesla station at Raymond Terrace woolies. It was 30 odd degrees and all I could hear was loud cooling fans from both the EVs and charging transformer. And the heat being generated - it was so hot around them! These idiots leave the air conditioning on while they charge. We had done our shopping and gone while the EV people were still sitting around with their dogs outside or inside their cars. What a waste of time and energy.

[@AmericaFirstFLL]

Listening to your common sense explanation is a joy. You should be a stock investor. Your deep understanding of realities are just what it takes to know when it's the right time to purchase a value stock. Thank you.

[@timothykeith1367]

Electric vehicles have the inconveniences that killed mass transit in the USA. I don't mind riding the bus, I don't want to waste two hours a day waiting for bus transfer routes - or even twenty minutes charging on a trip to Houston. EVs could mature during the next decade, but in 2025 nope! I'm not confident that battery chemistry will evolve any more than gasoline chemistry will evolve. The electrons will move only so fast at charging stations

[@clivehaynes2183]

One thing worth a mention is that the faster you charge a lithium battery the more you shorten it's life.

[@oscarzepeda1558]

Get ‘ em Simon !!!!! Love your facial expressions on your thumb nail pics. !!!! It does help me click on your latest video and to comment !!!! Happy New Year Simon !!!!!!

[@Itsallgoodtogo]

I love it how you can find a subculture for everything on youtube. Who would have thought you could make a living out of hating on electric cars. Trully a market for everything.

[@hmcdonald3164]

On point as usual Simon, thanks mate. Happy New Year everyone.

[@davidinch2804]

MGUY makes it sound like every EV owner has to stand around for a half hour every day to charge their car with black electricity. I fill my F150 EV at night for 5 cents a kWh (about 1.5 cents per km), using excess nuclear, wind and hydro that would probably be wasted otherwise. 1/10th the price of gas in my old gas F150. Takes 3 seconds of my time and not millions of dollars of infrastructure. I don't have to spend an hour every couple of months getting an oil change or lining up at Costco for 20 minutes every week to put almost $200 worth of gas in my truck and I have a quieter, smoother ride with over 500 hp of power and 700 ft-lbs of torque when I want some excitement. Can't tow a trailer for hundreds of kms, but that's not how I (and most people) use a vehicle. Once a month when I do have to top up at a public charger, it's usually for about 15 minutes. I don't need 700 kWs to do that. Yes, there's thousands of solder points in an EV battery, but not thousands of parts constantly wearing themselves out by friction, fighting each other, while trying to throw themselves apart. You only have to lift the lid on an ICE to see the complexity... cables, spark plugs, pulleys, serpentine belts, wires, pumps, ignition coils, and a battery! ... it's such a mess that they put plastic covers over it nowadays to make it look nice. That's only the part that you can see. Crankshafts, pistons, valves, springs, gears, sparkplugs, timing chains, oil pumps.... To get power to the wheels, you need a transmission, differential a handful of u-joints. And if the computer on either vehicle quits, the result is exactly the same. All to extract only 30% of the available energy from the gas. Speaking of which, gas cars are 8 times more likely to catch fire (per 1000 vehicles) than EVs. EV's have only been around, realistically, for a dozen years or so. Think of how far the ICE car has come in the hundred years since the Model T was a dozen years old. Battery technology has improved immensely since the first EVs and gets better every year. My EV has a better base warranty on the battery than any ICE car's drivetrain warranty. 160,000 kms. So, you can bash 'em, but they're here to stay. Almost everyone who buys one loves it, provided their usage is appropriate for an EV... which is about 90% of drivers.

[@koggism]

Another thing not mentioed, is they recommend NOT putting a full charge on the battery unless really needed. 80% seems to be recommened due to fire risk and battery degredation. So given ev's already have short range fully charged, charging only 80% capacity means even shorter range and even more charging. And another is condensation. If a ev is kept in a warm garage then taken outside on a cold day condensation can build up inside the battery. This can accellerate battery degradation and cause risk of short circuit and fire EV's are not eh future!!

[@litestuffllc7249]

What IF - BEVs had to provide their own power. What if in order to avoid overwhelming your existing grid - it was a law that BEVs had to build and maintain their own power and pay for any upgrades to get the power to charging stations? That is how it worked for petrol cars - the government didn't pay for oil fields and oil transport. BEVs depend on taxayers to provide most of the cost of making them work. The point being - Taxpayers BEV owners or not will be forced to pay for this "transition". BEV makers won't make their own power plants nor upgrade the grid to transmit all the needed power - even if there was enough of them. BEVs have massive hidden costs via taxes due.

[@paradiselost9946]

that whole WWII era, with ration cards and limited supplies, when people were busy producing their own "fuel"... wood based gasification, strapped right on the back of the vehicle itself... i remember one amusing one in the outback... "3 mulga bushes to the mile" type thing... the lucky people living in areas like the hunter region, or wollongong, or any coal mining region, they could skip the timber and make even more gas, with more calorific content for more power or better mileage as the coal was (and is) just lying there on the ground, free for the taking...

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

We've just spent a fortnight in Greece and no one seems to have told them about Net Zero. They're putting charge points on the motorways but even in Athens, less than one car in 15 is an EV.

[@oscarzepeda1558]

If we have another -15 below zero temps ( which it will) that might be the the final nail into their EV Coffin !!!! Hopefully it won’t be “ Thermal Runaway Cremation !!!! “. 98% of the EV’s here in Chicago was stranded, while waiting for the tow truck they were getting frozen !!!!

[@KabukeeJo]

I laughed hard when I saw an EV charging station that was directly attached to a Diesel generator! And I can't wait for governments to mandate that EV's can only be charged at night and only when the grind is not under heavy loads thus forcing EV owners to use public transit because their EV's have zero charge.

[@shattered115]

In case of a power outage, EV charging stations go dead. A petrol station can use an emergency generator, drawing fuel from the storage tanks to operate the pumps for the whole station. After storms, especially in the USA, power can be out for days and even weeks.

[@svr5423]

part of my emergency provisions is being able to move into my gasoline car. it has heating/cooling and electricity for the laptop, smartphone, ham and cb radio as well as the emergency iridium (satellite) device

[@albinklein7680]

​@@svr5423I am also absolutely sure that, in a "real" emergency scenario, nobody would care if you put heating oil in your car. I have more than 10,000 liters at home, which means that I could drive about 200,000 kilometres with that.

[@David-fj5lz]

How can an ambulance, fire engine cope with all their vehicles, when will we see supermarkets being cut-off with no food as their wagons shut down

[@newman653]

Forrest Gumps mama said " stupid is as stupid does "

[@brandonfromlondonuk3484]

My friend ran someone over in his Electric car The police have said he will be Charged with Battery

[@jamesm.5455]

You might have saved the world by spreading the truth to people who were thinking the governments are not corrupt.

[@Richard4point6]

Thank you for my daily lesson in technical training combined with common sense. You provide a valuable public service!

[@anthonybaiocchi3028]

Maybe a bit off topic but I was recently watching a vid on the Skeleton coast, Namibia. Some of the wrecks along the infamous coast are up to half a kilometre away from the coastline. Global warming / sea rising?? 🤔 Crime@change!

[@MacXpert74]

All good points! What should be added is that the power grid can’t handle the power requirements of every car being an EV. We already see massive problems in the power grids around the world currently. Let alone if we would attempt to replace all cars with EVs. It’s impossible!

[@SS-ec2tu]

Yes, they are trying to turn us back into hunter gatherers and cannibals.

[@dchubworldsharenetwork]

4:34 - That's right, I don't watch the news about batteries that can be charged in 10 minutes either. These "charging time" are always from 30% - 80%, anyway. 20 cars would charge the battery with 700 kW 🤣🤣 Already now, some charging stations are limited to, for example, 150 kW even though it says 250 kW or previously they were limited to 250 kW and now they are 150 kW. There used to be 5 charging stations, now there are 10 or maybe more and of course the charging speed has been reduced! A minimum of 300 kW charging speed is required for normal EV use. If only 10 cars are charging, it is 3 MW. For the advertised 600-700 kW charging speed, 6-7 MWs would be needed for only 10 cars. 🤣🤣 Charging: 300 kW Capacity: 100 kWh Level: 30 -> 80% Time: 12 min Charging: 740 kW Capacity: 100 kWh Level: 0 -> 100% Time: 10 min Level: 20 -> 100% Time: 6 min Level: 30 -> 80% Time: 5 min Charging: 350 kW Capacity: 100 kWh Level: 30 -> 80% Time: 10 min

[@hmao4466]

If petrol stations are going out of business in Australia why are they being built all along the east coast of Australia? (where I live). Haven't the oil companies got the memo yet?

[@albinklein7680]

That is about the most ridiculous thing in my opinion. "Just wait five years and you won't be able to get gas or diesel anywhere". How delusional do you have to be to believe that? I live in Germany and the average age of cars is about 11 years statistically.

[@pookatim]

Do a search for the Country that is the number one user of coal. Yes, it is China, by a long shot.

[@mikeslater6246]

Great video as usual. But I must take exception at 8:10 in the video when you make the statement that the batteries are in an impact "proof" and water "proof" case. The case is neither impact "proof" nor water "proof," they are "resistant" to those elements but do not stop the effect to them as the word "proof" would suggest.

[@barneyrubble9309]

Politicians : the living proof of Dunning Kruger.