Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts, Part 2

Activists and politicians love electric cars so much so that they want to take away your other choices
But their green dream is just a fantasy.
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Electric cars are cool. I’d buy one if I could only get the Tesla dealer to call me back.
But when it comes to the environment, electric cars aren’t even close to what activists and politicians promise.
In this video, I continue where part I left off, with 3 more inconvenient facts about electric cars.
Part 1 is here: • Electric Cars: Inconve...

[@StosselTV]

The original version of this video has been updated. We originally said that covering "the entire continental United States with solar panels would not supply half of America’s electricity.” But the study we cited for this fact has been updated. Therefore our reference to it has been removed.

[@alans9806]

Well it's all over the web which a simple search will tell you. depends on insolation and who much is electric energy versus other types of power. Here in Australia it's about a thousand sq km for total electrical load.

[@lachlanB323]

Wait what? Then how is 20% of electricity renewable!? Is 40% of America covered in solar panels!? Are you trying to mislead people?

[@decaprio7421]

You should had left that solar panel video. All that free electricity paying it self again and again would have been an hilarious backfire to your gas and oil employers Lol 😆 😂 🤣

[@derrickdavis7524]

John, what are the advantages? How about a full story from both sides. Give us the facts and let us determine our opinions.

[@markhutton6055]

Double the electricity grid to provide the charging capacity for BEVs. How much to replace the heating with oil and gas with inefficient heat pumps. The UK government wants to fit a million heat pumps a year over the next decade. The UK National Grid says we only have capacity in the grid for 900,000 total.

[@catcollision8371]

It's not a transition to electric, it's a transition to end of vehicle ownership, end of property ownership, end of consumption, end of privacy, and global totalitarian control.

[@chrismay2298]

Yep. John the gatekeeper has to stick to the controlled opposition plan...

[@bvegannow1936]

Yes! They want peasants to quit driving and be cold in winter and hot in summer, while they fly on private jets all over the world for vacations alot and go in their mansions... If gov really care about env, Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies. And maybe gov should start with gov cutting back since gov is one of the top polluters and energy/oil/gas/and electricity users. Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly.

[@demodemoncrat441]

This person gets it.

[@catsthinkmynameisclaude6955]

Cat collision, you have a good point. Our crazy, corrupt politicians want our money and our lives to CONTROL all...

[@MrArtist7777]

No, it's a path to freedom by generation your own power and driving with it, as I do with my solar panels and EV. I haven't paid for slave gasoline in several years and pay no power bill. Totalitarian control is when the few oil companies and power utilities OWN your ass.

[@big.g.fromohio3546]

Simple solution: stop listening to politicians. They really don’t care about anything or anyone except their bank account.

[@bvegannow1936]

👍. Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly. Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies.

[@mgtowdadYouTubeSucksCoxks]

Wrong! Listen to politicians. Just because you hear someone's words, that doesn't mean you have to go and jump off of the ledge they just said you need to jump off of. But every once in awhile, you can accidentally stumble upon an honest politician, or a good person who is a politician. And you do it by doing the same thing. Listening.

[@mgtowdadYouTubeSucksCoxks]

@@bvegannow1936 or. Stop Desiring or expecting or finding yourself needing anything from the government. Because even in giving that to you, they will screw it up and screw you over.

[@83licata]

and bureaucrats!

[@mikeforte7585]

@@mgtowdadKZbinSucksCoxks honest politicians either lose elections or are slandered by the MSN..

[@scottjohnson7780]

The grid is limited, but I guarantee you that Newsom will never be shivering or sweating when that rationing occurs. Nor will any of the high-profile politicians pushing this madness. Believe me, they will be comfortable.

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

Correct,they will isolate themselves while the poor suffer.We already see this with crime and immigration,they have armed guards and kicked ilegal aliens from Martha's Vineyard very quickly.

[@samuelberry7183]

I still have appreciation for whoever invented the steam engine. Brilliant

[@ThomasLee123]

Englishman, Thomas Savery!

[@maddhatter3564]

@@ThomasLee123 longer ago than that, i believe it was arcemedes. the steam jet turbine, just a prototype to prove theory but still a stem engine.

[@jswhosoever4533]

But not enough appreciation to know his name?😏

[@maddhatter3564]

@@jswhosoever4533 do you know the inventors name on every product you like??

[@jswhosoever4533]

@@maddhatter3564 sure don't...but I don't leave comments about them either...the irony was funny to me. It wasn't serious as shown by the emoji I left with my comment.😜

[@tlowe9796]

In early 2020, when I started seeing politicians became scientists and scientists became politicians, I knew the world is really screwed.

[@MalachiWhite-tw7hl]

Insightful clever comment.

[@jimcaldwell2755]

The same thing has been happening with medical care politicians thinking that they are doctors

[@COSMACELF1802]

@@jimcaldwell2755 Don't forget the real doctors that have to agree with those employers that are funding them!

[@crforfreedom7407]

@@jimcaldwell2755 It's totally mercenary: The elites are creating an energy monopoly. It doesn't matter if it works for the people, it just needs to maximize profits for the few... And WAY too many of us refuse to see what's right in front of us.

[@lolaclyde7915]

now the politicians think they are doctors by deciding if a pregnancy should be terminated or not.

[@JB-yr6qt]

One thing to remember: Politician's by and large are not elected because they are competent at governing. They are elected because they are good at campaigning, fund raising, pandering, and cutting back room deals. In other words, we are largely governed by the world's Marketing Department. And "going green" is good PR, even if the facts don't support it.

[@aubreydebliquy8051]

You forgot to mention opaque elections with secret proprietary voting machines easily manipulated in either direction in a two party system.

[@whyjnot420]

This is why I hold a distinction between a politician and a statesman. Politicians are more or less as you say. Statesmen are those who old the same political positions as politicians, but care more about doing their job than getting reelected (and before anyone says anything, no, JFK was not a statesman). edit: Minor addendum, a statesman might be good or bad at their job, but at the very least, they are actually trying to do their job.

[@brianensign7638]

@@whyjnot420 Either way, you’re still gonna run into the problem of the well-intentioned statesman causing more problems than they solve. Unfortunately, good intentions are no shield against bad results.

[@Southprong59]

you forgot "they are elected because they are good at . . . lying and cheating".

[@alexd.6551]

hmm, actually it depends very much on which facts fool you the most. For instance the fact that you would need 2x of US area covered in solar panels to produce all the energy used in US, or the fact that 12% of used energy in US is already renewable and if that number is multiplied just by 8, the entire US energy needs would be met; or the fact that specifically for all electricity used in US you would only need 1000 sq.mi of solar panels to produce. ...all are true, but just the first is mentioned in this video. Another easier to understand fact: off grid, with a modest 5kWh solar panel system you would be able charge your electric car the equivalent of 100miles every sunny day for free.

[@julimaenza9346]

John Stossel your good at your job. I always enjoyed your reporting.

[@doggy911]

Yeah, if you like BS

[@robertrohde4579]

John uses simple commonsense to deliver the truth!

[@geesutton1399]

Why not hold those politicians accountable

[@jtwilliams8895]

No gas stoves, no wood stoves, no gasoline- basically all the lifelines if the power goes out for days. Last winter we had an ice storm in the middle of winter and the power was off for 3-5 days. At least you could run a generator, build a fire, or sit in your car if worst came to worse. These environmentalists are really anti human sadists

[@jimcaldwell2755]

I’ve come to the conclusion that the government won’t be happy until we’re living in caves again

[@ThomasLee123]

True. This is what Joey and Kamala have in store for us all.

[@DeputyNordburg]

This is why the government will only pay for 75% of your solar panels.

[@larrybruce4856]

You're lucky you had other options of heat and warmth. Had those natural gas and gasoline powered options NOT been available, you may not be here to voice your concerns. Thanks for the update. We need options and NOT mandated "electric only" appliances/vehicles.

[@JollyRed0045]

Most of them are just useful idiots at this point.

[@rachelrasmussen1101]

So, it's going to be another one of those things where experts shout reality for years and then years later the politicians cry "we just didn't know!"

[@standtall7646]

Yes. And, OF COURSE, steal more taxpayer money to pay for THEIR GREED AND IGNORANCE.

[@wtfserpico]

I'm sure they'll tell us all we need to forgive each other. Green Energy Amnesty has quite the ring to it, doesn't it?

[@standtall7646]

@@wtfserpico Ring, Ring.., just like Xi Ping?

[@ileftholland]

My Dad told me when I was 13, "the ONLY good politician is a DEAD one". I did not know what he was trying to tell me, NOW I know. :(

[@socasack]

They are doing it now with Covid...

[@cmwHisArtist]

The truckers testified that if they’re forced to use electric trucks, the time it would take to recharge to go even a couple hundred miles would make the food and supplies they are carrying much much more expensive. Never mind the size and weight of the ev batteries added to their heavy load using more power and wrecking roads and endangering bridge weight limits.

[@wetlifesports]

Don't worry, the electric trucks won't have "Truckers" to testify...

[@jdmb03]

I live on the outskirts of an urban area and we couldn't keep the electricity going during the sub-zero weather this week. Good luck with the power grid when everyone is trying to stay warm.

[@JimmyMarrow]

This isn't about efficiency.... It's about control.

[@banjerpicker5273]

I wish all the lemmings would do some research and come to this conclusion. You, my friend,are correct!

[@ItalianMetalHED]

youtube and legacy media ensure these educated idiots dont get the info they need lol. Many these days lack the common sense to boil water let alone read an analog clock.

[@headstashmusic3897]

Not about efficiency? More gas huffer babble. Only 12% to 30% of the energy in gasoline is used to move a vehicle, with most of the remaining energy lost as heat. With EVs, over 77% of the energy in electricity is converted into movement when including regenerative braking. Now, your turn. Explain in a coherent way, with evidence, how a different way to turn wheels is some sort of plot for a one world order.

[@sasanach8]

and oils wasnt about control?? they control the world with oil they dictate when your economy goes up and down to suit them

[@Zeriel00]

@@headstashmusic3897 How much does mining of precious metals consume fuel and affect the environment? or producing the batteries? or discarding them or recycling them? and how much fuel do you need to create the energy to charge your car? how long does the car even last when the battery goes bad and is cheaper to buy a new one? I could go on and on. I think its time for you to go and get boosted.

[@bigtiny1102]

It's just another way for politicians to separate people and have something to fight over. Having a solution to the problem we don't have by creating a bigger problem is not the answer

[@JH-ex6mb]

Divide and conquer.

[@bvegannow1936]

Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly. Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies.

[@sevenman9672]

I believe it was Eisenhower who said "whenever I am confronted by a tricky problem, I simply make it bigger".

[@timothykeith1367]

for politicians to separate people from their money ...

[@tcg9877]

@@JH-ex6mb pull the reverse uno card. Divide & conquer THEM

[@GunNut37086]

I can sum up a lot of this world's current problems in one expression: Feelings > Facts

[@RoyBoy2019]

That goes for both sides of the discussion. 400 years to build all the batteries implies that we are unable to build more battery factories; and some items like industrial power won't use traditional batteries, more likely thermal batteries or even inefficient hydrogen.

[@gregorycooper1335]

My favourite reporter. Insightful, to the point, and well researched. Tackling issues the mainstream media are ignoring.

[@TXMEDRGR]

The best line of the video is, "we had our energy systems designed by bureaucrats instead of by engineers."

[@timsmith2525]

And that explains the problem.

[@bryceables2319]

As an engineer this made me smile.

[@IndependentThoughts911]

I disagree. I think the best line is "we're going to need everything," which includes EVs. The world only has 45 years of Proven crude oil reserves left at current consumption levels. (EIA) Tesla was launched in 2001. It took 22 years to get where we are with EVs and there's a long way to go. Anyone who cares would want to conserve crude as much as possible.

[@timsmith2525]

@@IndependentThoughts911 "The world only has 45 years of Proven crude oil reserves left at current consumption levels." Utter nonsense! In 1979, it was predicted that we only had 65 years of oil. In 1999, it was again predicted that we had only 65 years of oil. No one knows how much oil there is, and no one knows what technologies will be invented to locate and extract more oil.

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

That explains everything

[@perropulgoso3351]

California: get you electric vehicles but don't charge them, sit, don't move, come here, go there, don't eat that, don't breath, don't think....mission accomplished 😈

[@yeudoi66]

You forgot $15 hr to make a BIG Mac 😊

[@russellkeeling4387]

In california they want to take everyone's firearm so they can force the citizens to buy ev's.

[@winnon992]

I think a Big Mac just went to $20.

[@yeudoi66]

i dont like the culture that go to MCd so i learned not to eat that craps it not worth the time to shit it out

[@user-fz6qv4ve8v]

Except the illegals and the welfare minorities.

[@helifynoe9930]

Electric cars are very useful. For example, if there is a major flood, the electric cars will remind you later on to make changes to prevent flooding in the future. They do so by suddenly bursting into flames due to the water having damaged the battery system.

[@TheFrenchPug]

Hahahaha😆

[@gw4pjq]

I have never seen an electric car on fire and neither have you.

[@TheFrenchPug]

@@gw4pjq I have. Plenty of them. I live in Orange County, CA. I saw one 3 weeks ago on the 55 south fwy.

[@RoyBoy2019]

@@TheFrenchPug The emergency department sees far more ICE cars 1,529 on fire vs BEV 25.1 for every 100k sold according to insurance companies. BEV's are much hotter & harder to put out, but far less often; and even this will downtrend with LFP / solid state batteries. Which I concede it has to as any seemingly ok car catching fire in a garage is unacceptable, happens more with BEV due to damage delayed thermal runaway.

[@TheFrenchPug]

@@RoyBoy2019 Yes. But look at how ICE vehicles dominate the landscape. Think if it was the other way around. EVs would be exploding almost every day somewhere.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

I have owned four electric cars and and one electric scooter over the last 40 years and have been promoting their use. However, the way the Greenies are pushing them will be a total disaster.

[@dreamweaver1603]

They are meant to be a secondary vehicle, not your only one. They're great for driving to work every day as long as you can charge them at home every night.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@dreamweaver1603 That's the absolute best advice, but governments want to force them on everyone as their only vehicle.

[@Cheiron19]

I worked for a major public utility in Southern California for over 22 years. When deregulation was proposed and accepted, this utility was fully on-board and sold a number of its power plants in the LA Basin to companies outside the region. It significantly reduced their yearly costs from a personnel and maintenance perspective. A few of these were base load plants but the majority were what we called "spinning reserve." It allowed the authority that addressed the shifting daily needs of the region to provide the needed power. At times even this spinning reserve was not enough to meet the daily demand, and thus power from external sources was needed to make up the difference. But power was available and rarely were there any brownouts or full blackouts. Then the companies that had purchased the power plants, who were required to make them available for baseload and spinning reserve, played a game taking them down for maintenance and other issues. Of course, they supplied power from their other generating facilities outside the state on the spot market, at a higher price point. Then the state stepped in and prohibited the use of once-through cooling using natural resource water, so ocean, lake, and river water were no longer available for cooling the plant and the older facilities would need to build cooling towers to provide the needed heat sink. Of course, some of these plants were built in the 30s, 40s, and 50s and no land had been set aside to build that type of infrastructure. In addition, building those type of facilities are expensive and when you are operating on thin margins, to begin with, the cost-benefit is not there and the regulatory hoops that you would need to jump through were significant, see California Coastal Commission, Environmental Impact Reports, and potential neighbor opposition. So, what happened? Shut those plants down, and we will purchase power from other power generators outside the region. Increase in electricity costs and rolling blackouts. Generators outside the region are required to service their regional customers first and any surplus can be placed on the spot market, but if you are at capacity for your local distribution, no surplus and the others that need additional energy are just out of luck. No major electrical generating facilities have been built in California for a number of years and in fact, more have been shut down. This is a trend across the country and until someone with a backbone steps up, it will only get worse. All of the alternative narratives around solar, wind, and other alternative sources will not replace baseload requirements, particularly when the sun goes down or the wind stops blowing. The ignorance of the general public about this issue is frightening as is the overwhelming noise from the alternative energy voices that drowns out those trying to deal with this from a realistic perspective. I'm an old guy and won't be around that much longer, but I wonder what my children's lives will be like. I think I lived in a sort of golden age and the future looks like 💩.

[@dragonhold4]

(5:17) _systems designed by bureaucrats instead of by engineers_

[@junkerzn7312]

Except California basically has no base load requirements any more and hasn't for some years. Its not even a question... its in the data. Have you looked at the duck curves on the CAISO? Particularly in spring? There are periods where traditional base-load-capable sources fall below 3GW of generation with evening ramps that are insane. For example, take a spring day... May 10th 2022. About 27GW of peak demand. 16GW 3-hour ramp starting at 5pm and only 5GW of traditional base-load-capable generation on. Not to mention 80% renewables across the mid-day with non-renewable sources falling to 3GW. That is what the system is capable of doing now. And its doing it essentially without any real base load requirements. The state doesn't even need to carefully match traditional generation sources (mostly natural gas and imports) against load during the peak evening ramp, even though the traditional sources are handling most of the ramp. It just needs to be within a gigawatt or so and the 3GW worth of batteries with what I'm guessing are around 20mS response times take care of the rest. Literally. This isn't the grid you knew 22 years ago.

[@jamescalifornia2964]

The ignorance of the populace in general is frightening . Just look how we vote !! Our children and grandchildren will never see the America us older folks experienced ...

[@victorluke5816]

The problem of peaker plants was solved in Australia with huge batteries reserves. California is building battery reserves that will dwarf the Australian ones. All that excess solar and wind power that doesn't get used can be stored to take the place of spot spikes in energy usage when the sun is down and wind isn't blowing. Golden age is already here. We just haven't gotten to the middle where everything is gold.

[@franklinmartin8103]

And those battery storage facilities are pretty expensive for the power they store. Yes, it is better than nothing and should be used as a bridge to the future, when better electrical storage means become available, but the cost to extract, refine and produce the battery active material to build storage batteries will be pretty large and it will damage the environment. Digging ore from the ground always does.

[@terencebelprez8158]

As Thomas Sowell once said, "There are no solutions, only trade-offs". The more I watch Stossel, the more apparent that statement becomes. Thank you sir!

[@optimisticpessimist484]

Finally someone talking sense about this carbon and energy stupidity. Good work and now I'm a subscriber.

[@erdishzane472]

What they don’t mention is most people won’t be allowed a car, and if you do, you will be rationed as our homes will soon be

[@steampunk888]

The politicians are little more than salesmen. The people actually making up these policies know full-well what the effects will be. Electric cars mean driving becomes a special occasion for most people. “Net zero” means air travel becomes a rare event, for most people. For heaven’s sake, at least look at what you are actually being told.

[@bvegannow1936]

Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly. Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies.

[@timothykeith1367]

@@bvegannow1936 I'd love to grow my own food, except that's what we call a "farmer" . It is a full.timr occupation

[@drewgoodman7932]

With this logic they would have stopped making cell phones in the 80’s and flat screens in the 2000’s just because they started out expensive. Technology adoption follows falling cost curves until its affordable for everyone. Read Crossing the Chasm to understand this better.

[@demodemoncrat441]

@@drewgoodman7932 Cell phones and flat screens weren't mandated by govt. They were chosen by the market.

[@StillLivinginthewoods]

@@bvegannow1936 Who is stopping you from growing food on an acre of land? Must be California or Oregon.

[@cshomes302]

Thank heavens people are finally saying these things that us rational people have been saying for years.

[@dankelly5150]

Ya well this is what you get when no nothing children are in charge of running the country!! 🙄😡

[@dmacm]

@Advanced Driving Yes, the most idiotic claim in this video is that we need to cover the entire U.S. with solar panels to meet our energy needs. The true number is a tiny portion of one of the 50 states. Anyone with a fully electric car and home does not need to even cover their entire roof to meet the energy needs, let alone their entire yard, let alone the entire expansive empty space in the country.

[@georgetsokanis3542]

We could easily fix this problem by "plugging in" all the eco-activists into the Matrix that could provide free electricity to the rest of us while they "live" in their computer created fantasy world.

[@Zure467]

@@dmacm looking into it, I found estimates all over the place.

[@jetman1115]

@Advanced Driving Pick a time slot?!?! I don't want to take time to "schedule" a time to charge my car. What if my plans change? What if I have something important come up? When I need power I want it on my schedule not the charging station! And have you been on the major hi ways lately? They are busy busy busy, with thousands of cars across the nation traveling our great interstate system. They aren't charging at home. Charging at third party chargers is inconsistant and very slow. If the charger even works at all.

[@user-ws2jw6wg7f]

I have had a Tesla for 2 years. Done about 50k miles. They work, are cheap, and reliable. Not very exiting or comfortable or good to drive. They are not for everyone and everything but they fill a gap. If people put solar panels on homework and offices to charge them then they also take pressure off precious resources past peak oil. It’s a mix not binary

[@Jim007baker]

Finally someone talking sense. It seems we live at a time when if we don't like something (oil) we can just will it away. Politicians seem to play directly into that belief, It's like a big Alice in wonderland.

[@j.r.576]

Imagine something getting worse once politicians get involved.....

[@bulletsbothways3836]

something=everything

[@gregkramer5588]

The truth is the anticlimactic deniers are holding the country back at great harm to the US. Luckily we helped fund Tesla or we would be even farther behind. Less than 6% of new cars in the US are EVs but the climate change / science deniers are having a conniption! BTW China is a 36% of new cars and Europe is over 19%. But people like John Stossel think they are some kind of conspiracy. He is too dumb to know he is trying to harm our country.

[@j.r.576]

@@gregkramer5588 Fool. Your govt is taking all of your freedoms from you based on lies which you obviously believe. Tell me, why hasn't the ocean levels buried the coastlines all over the globe? Why do they manipulate climate data to obtain an outcome? Why are carbon levels barely above where they were hundreds or thousands of years ago when testing ancient artifacts? Truth is you're being manipulated and it's YOU who is causing the destruction of the world as we know it. Do some research of the strip mining needed if everyone were to drive electric vehicles. Of vourse feel free to respond but do not expect me to reply, people like you are lost causes and won't realize they've been duped until it's too late. Oh yeah, govt screws up everything they touch. If they didn't then why do they have to make back room deals and pass laws under the dark of night? It's because they can't pass them on merit because they are based on bologna. Good day.

[@tombworld9012]

'Infantile' is the best description for the eco-nuts. I'm glad someone finally said it on a produced segment.

[@caveatlector2671]

Unfortunately, government successfully infantilized an alarmingly high proportion of the population (infants abhor reality and cling to emotionally pacifying fairy tales... violently, if necessary, so as to maintain the codling illusions that assuage their fears, and they feel morally superior in doing so), which then empowers the sociopaths running the government to increase and perpetuate the infantilization in order to cement and grow their power.

[@Chicken_Little_Syndrome]

When "Science" becomes God, you know you are in for quite the propaganda-fueled ride!

[@broznar1019]

I liked the part when the girl threw soup at a painting and saved the planet

[@justoncheney7172]

I agree with this statement, but it doesn't justify the MANY inaccura ies in the video. We should be using accurate facts unlike the nuts he's attacting, not equally stupid exaggerations like he has in this video.

[@dk-bw4gk]

@@justoncheney7172 What are the inaccuracies?

[@robbierobbie4777]

Forcing us to convert to all electric while other entire continents don't give a crap about going green. Makes perfect sense.

[@RANDOMUNFOCUSED]

the state of Washington is converting their entire ferry system to run on electric batteries. can you imagine the mess that will be.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

im an engineer.. weve been shouting these things for over 50 years..its incredible where we have come with worldwide insanity

[@socoj2]

your an engineer and you couldnt spot the falsifications in this?

[@Zure467]

@@socoj2 like what?

[@adrianv.v.4445]

@@Zure467 I would tell you to read my comment but I think it's just better if I copypaste it there for you to easily skim through it: =*=*=*= The majority of the claims made here against renewable energy are disingenuous at best and some are outright lies. A few examples: · 1. The solar panel claim is completely false. The most the US grid has demanded in an hour is 720 gigawatthours. Even in winter, which is obviously the season with the least sun, an average square meter of US land will get around 3kWh energy/day from the sun (on summer, it's more like 8 and the numbers are obviously higher for sunnier states like Arizona). 3kW/h per day is 125 Wh. Now, accounting for the fact that solar panels harvest around 15% of the solar energy they receive and even accounting for the fact that some space would have to be left for other infraestructure to support solar (let's be quite pessimistic and say only 75% percent of solar infraestructure area is solar panels), the total area required would be: 720,000,000,000 Wh / (125 Wh/m^2 * 0.15 * 0.75) = 51,200,000,000 m^2 = 51,200 Km^2. And the US is 9,834,000 Km^2 big. In fact, Texas alone for example is 695,662 Km^2 big. So, even if we put ourselves at the worst-case scenario (record demand in december with innefficiently placed and badly located solar panels), all the solar panels required to cover the demand would fit in 0.5% on the US or like less than a twelfth of Texas. I've just checked and my result agrees with studies such as a 2013 study by the National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL), which estimated (with 2013 efficiency numbers) that the area required is around 55,037 Km^2. Not that you would want to do that, it would be stupid to only use a single energy resource and call it a day, but it demonstrates how big of a lie the statement was. Solar is more than efficient enough to be viable · 2. No person that actually knows something about energy will tell you that we need to cover all of our storage needs with lithium-ion batteries. Batteries work well on a small scale (like phones, laptops, housing appliances, cars or maybe even as backups for homes). Despite of that, they are really innefficient and expensive on a larger scale. There are other methods (like gravity-based water pumping, electrolizers or air compresion, just to name a few) that are much better suited for the task of storing large amounts of energy, and those are the ones that would be used as energy storage and taken into account in a clean electrical grid. · 3. "But wind and solar are so unstable and that makes them unviable". Wind and solar, are not the only CO2-free tools that we have. In addition to the energy storage already mentioned, nuclear and hydroelectric energy (and with less importance, geothermal energy) provide a stable stream of electicity at a competitive cost while generating practically no CO2 emissions. Studies such as N. Sepulveda J. D. Jenkins et al. (2018), "The Role of Firm Low-Carbon Electricity Resources in Deep Decarbonization of Power Generation" have concluded that combining renewables such as solar and wind with energy storage (like the ones mentioned in 2) and with these stable sources of power would be confortambly be able to cover 100% of the elecricity demand while producing practically no CO2 and while not raising the costs of electricity. In fact, given the war in Ukraine, how OPEC is jacking up fossil fuel prices and other geopolitical factors that won't fade away soon, we'd be much better of if our main source of electricity weren't fossil fuels. Renewable electricity prices have now been consistently cheaper for many years, but specially now. And there's many more things that I've seen being wrongly claimed in your videos, but this one was the straw that broke the camel's back, almost nothing contained in it was based on reality, but in a false imaginary world taht we don't live in. If you want to keep making content like this, fine, you can do so, but know that you are simply promoting lies and false information to your audience. It's never too late to accept a mistake like this. I personally also think that electric cars aren't a good solution for transporting people, but because cars themselves aren't a good option and have never been (that's another thing that the US doesn't get). In my opinion, you are defending the right thing but based on completely wrong premises and information. Electric cars won't solve climate change, they probably won't even help that much at all. But don't defend that with lies; you are just making it easy for those that think they are useful for dealing with climate change (or at least they say so in order to appear 'green' or for personal or monetary gain) to defend their (quite wrong) position. =*=*=*= That should clear it up

[@socoj2]

the blantant miss statement that if we covered the entire US in solar panels it would only cover half our energy needs. Was an erroneous report put out by EPRINC then corrected but they never pulled hte paper so people like Milis can run with false information and people never check it.

[@weesmokeythe2strokey352]

@@adrianv.v.4445 All this doesn't matter as co2 is not a problem and not likely to be any time soon there's no climate catastrophe comming soon due to global warming, just natural cycles that we should adapt for and have plenty time to so.

[@grantduke318]

I’d like to see another inconvenient fact of solar panels and batteries primarily made in China due to cheap labor and ENERGY… due to massive amounts of coal plants. It’s about 75% of the global market, ALL made in China.

[@pablopicaro7649]

and also many extremely dangerous chemicals are used to make solar panel, in China NO regulations are followed to dispose of those extremely dangerous compounds

[@JayVal90]

@@pablopicaro7649 Every time you hear about solar panels becoming cheaper, just know that it’s a lot cheaper to dump chemicals into waterways and force children to work in your factories than hire Union workers in the US.

[@VladK-1]

Economies of scale-as China mass-producing anything the price per unit goes down. Outcompeting China is impossible without actual will to invest billions in local production and resource extraction. Instead they're invested in purchasing panels and getting kickbacks, and to lobby these decisions.

[@grantduke318]

@@VladK-1 it’s also impossible due to the restrictions countries like the U.S. have on energy and other environmental agency restrictions that don’t exist in China. Which allows their startup companies to be more profitable (on top of cheap labor and tariff rates) at the get go, before taking into account of the resulting economies of scale.

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

@@grantduke318 Democrats and RINOs have been slowly strangling our sources of energy for decades. Nuclear reactors would solve many of these issues but that is just one more thing, those who have a blood lust to control us, have killed off.

[@bpxl53yewz29]

I bet if you posted this on Facebook, they’d label it as “misinformation”. That’s what happened to me when I posted a very well written article from The Guardian (pretty liberal news outlet) on improvements EVs need and their downside. It was, in fact, written by an EV supporter and owner.

[@kmoore3458]

Use to have a robotic vacuum. Loved it one year until battery refused to charge and learned price of new battery was same as new vbacuum. Now use broom and spend the money to buy groceries

[@396375a]

I watched a video a month or so ago about a guy that bought a brand-new Ford EV pickup truck. He hooked up a very small camper, and then drove about 80 miles and soon discovered he had to find a place to recharge the batteries. Enough said!!!!

[@williamparker1085]

and what did it cost him to re-charge.......lots of complaints about that where I live

[@davesevens7286]

Not to mention the time waiting around to charge

[@chfpontiac5849]

​@@davesevens7286Or finding a place with either a pull-through charger so you just can power up and go or enough space to disconnect and park your trailer (always fun!) so you can back your truck into a charging space.

[@TheFrenchPug]

I saw that too. He didn't realize the power drain it would have on the battery. Btw, have you seen the 9k lb EV Hummer?

[@TheFrenchPug]

​@@chfpontiac5849As a matter of fact, I think he may have mentioned having to unhitch to go charge.

[@darcam]

In Arizona it was strange how quiet they kept about a fire at a battery storage facility that burned for nearly two weeks, not much said about it afterwards either. This wasn't even the first one to happen, they'd had these battery farms where they store power go up in flames multiple times, but they don't say much about the harmful side effects to the area or the environment afterwards when all the junk needs cleaned up, their a wee bit shy of saying anything that will upset the cart.

[@skippylippy547]

Dar - We love they way you folks run your elections. LOL. 🤣

[@darcam]

@@skippylippy547 Chaotic beaucracy at its best 👌

[@dugroz]

It's like wind farms. Apparently about 3 in 1,000 windmills just burst into flames each year - though that is almost never mentioned. Look when taking a road trip, you'll see charred ones.

[@1KentKent]

Where was this 2 week battery fire?

[@darcam]

@@1KentKent In Chandler, AZ at a SRP project site with AES Battery Warehouse

[@bpxl53yewz29]

California is switching to EV in several years. It’s law. It’s unfair because EVs are so expensive, not only the initial purchase, but to replace the battery which is $7000 - $20,000. How are middle and low income families supposed to afford that? So CA has made owning cars a class privilege where only the rich can have. So the rest of us can’t drive to work, pick up our kids from school, etc.? Someone with clout, please bring attention to this in CA. It’s an unfair law!

[@cpK054L]

EVs plummet in value faster than ICE just buy a 3 year old vehicle for 70% discount

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

First the energy has to be created! Solar and Wind can't cut it!

[@LecherousLizard]

They have electric buses in my city. The transport company is has to replace batteries every ~3 years or 1000 charges. A battery for a bus. Imagine how huge THAT is.

[@dreamweaver1603]

And where did those old batteries end up?

[@LecherousLizard]

@@dreamweaver1603 Who knows, maybe Africa?

[@torylynne]

Wow

[@HeinzGuderian_]

Don't worry...The areas the Govt and it's high end employees live in will never be without anything. Shortages are just for you, not them.

[@williamfreeman6935]

Yup. They'll also still be eating high end steaks while we "enjoy" our veggie burgers.

[@flyoverstateresident2890]

95% of all EVs are still on the road, the other 5% made it home.

[@SuperRistopaha]

​@@williamfreeman6935 you will have nothing and we'll be happy?

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

They can break pandemic rules too 😔

[@davecooper3238]

@@williamfreeman6935 The world population has more than tripled in my lifetime. Keep breeding then way we are and a larger part of the population will need to be on veggie burgers.

[@odalisvalencia7233]

When you take people out of the equation, this policies would work.

[@SAM-dm5qg]

Thank You For Sharing 🇺🇸

[@wayneyadams]

1:33 I am so glad to hear someone actually say that no amount of engineering will allow batteries, or anything else for that matter, to violate the laws of Physics.

[@mj8495]

I know... to think people could fly or go faster than a horse is literally.... oh wait, science overcame those problems 😊

[@maddhatter3564]

yes without a major breakthrough battery tech is close to its peak.

[@wayneyadams]

@@mj8495 The difference is that none of those violated any laws of Physics. I've seen arguments just like this dozens of times and it is fallacious.

[@eddybrevet6816]

My simple idea is spin the battery, compensate 4 weight,

[@gavinjames8749]

​@@mj8495Science based on those laws of physics,none of which were violated.Your point was?

[@wramsey2656]

As a retired power utility CEO and electric power engineer in the power sector for 36 years, i can say the following. During the Obama administration there began an all out effort to ignore the input of power company CEOs and engineers (even non-profit utilities like the ones I worked for). It came down to this, these politicians thought they knew best and always assumed we in the industry had some political angle or agenda. However, i would tell them that electrons are neither blue nor red but they power the same grid for all people. Eliminating fossil fuels (coal and NG) and limiting nuclear will have devastating consequences starting in 10-15 years (quote from 2008), we are about to begin a lot of hardships not seen since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Even if the oceans rise many people will end up freezing to death or overheating due to lack of affordable electric power, not to say anything about having a decent job and able to buy products at an affordable price. No coal plants can be built in America and nuclear takes 10 years to build. With pressure now to not build nat-gas plants, there is no base-load power generation left. When we hit rock bottom it will take years to turn it around. As the coal and nuclear plants continue to retire this problem will grow worse and there is not enough affordable nat-gas to replace them all. I pray for America as I believe we will have to go through a painful learning curve that will last years. By the way electrons are color neutral, which is what the politicians should be and let the experts power and run the grid. Strange no one is saying anything about riding in a car that emits constant electro-magnetic fields. Most of the time intermittent absorption is not a problem, but driving such a vehicle for many years no one really knows. We never had a clamoring for people wanting to live next to our high-voltage transmission lines. John thank you for covering this topic, maybe it will help sound the alarm to many who lost their hearing years ago.

[@drendebe10]

Thank you for your rational, clear informed response. Two term limits. First term office Second term life imprisonment

[@hubertwalters4300]

I agree with you 100%,these know all government policy wonks,almost all of them Democrats, need to sit down and shut up,and let the people who know what they are doing,actually producing electric power, run things,most of these policy wonks have never had a real job producing anything,and are least qualified to speak on anything.

[@wramsey2656]

@@hubertwalters4300 Thank you Hubert :)

[@prometheus5700]

I agree. ignoring experts, our "leaders" have unnecessarily put us through pain over and over.

[@charlestemple634]

"Fossil fuels (coal, oil and NG)" are making up all kinds of lies, bad policies, and even outright threats to avoid fighting pollution and to maintain their huge profits. I'm from Texas and have personally seen the damage to our atmosphere, water, soil, agriculture, and infrastructure that the petroleum industry does

[@phil8165]

In Ca. Every summer we rolling black outs . How in the hell can this this state go exclusively to e cars when the e grid won't hold up ?

[@johnwalker3473]

Until we solve the technical issues concerning room temperature super-conductivity, our current battery technology is sophomoric at best.

[@marviwilson1853]

The Mercedes EQXX does 1000 Km on a single charge of its 100 KwHr battery and 1200 Km if driven more carefully. That is with todays battery technology. Think what will be with us soon with solid state sodium batteries announced by Toyota for 2027.

[@TheCharleseye]

PG&E cut power in my town for several days, once. Gas powered cars and generators were how we got through it. Several of us lent and donated generators to people who couldn't afford them. We wouldn't have been able to do that with solar arrays and battery banks. We gave each other rides in cars we were filling with gas cans, rather than sitting around, waiting for EV batteries to charge. Electric isn't there yet and I have no intention of moving backwards, while waiting for it to catch up.

[@SHREDTILLDEAD]

Windmills and solar panels are only good for smaller populations. Very small populations. Why do you think the great die off has been enacted.

[@xtiphuny89]

sounds familiar! We had a whole city near me without power for two weeks. Generator installs blew up after that fiasco (my husband’s an electrician). People were struggling after the first week, thankfully communities helped each other out. But there is no excuse for leaving people without power for that long in a state like CA.

[@daveassanowicz186]

I live in SWFL, when Hurricane Ian hit the electric went out all over. No pumps. No traffic lights. It was total chaos. It was great for me cause I ride an ebike and didn't have to wait at the intersections for minutes like usual

[@humbughumbughumbug]

Yeah they don't tell you that for the safety of linemen working on your wires during a blackout, your grid-tied solar panels are shut off unless you have a battery back up for the whole house.

[@libertarian4323]

"We wouldn't have been able to do that with solar arrays and battery banks." Huh? If you had solar power, you could not only run your household electric, you could charge your eV as well. During the "snowpocalypse" in Texas a couple of years back, when power went out for days, we had no problem running our household electric and charging our Tesla. I can't figure out why you think someone who uses solar power would give a damn if "PG&E" (or any other power company) cut power since we rarely or never use grid power? For people who have solar, the local "grid" is nothing more than a place to sell excess capacity and maybe use as a backup. And I'm not sure what any of this has to do with generators? You can have a generator with or without an eV. I've got two Teslas and two gas generators.

[@pallidbustofpallas4679]

Stossel once again reminding us what actual journalism looks like. We need more like him.

[@jackson5116]

why do you think ABC wanted him gone?

[@Mrbfgray]

Be skeptical of everyone including Stossel. Think for yourself as difficult as it is.

[@tyronmegawatts6580]

I have solar panels on my house and my electric bill is less, but I don’t think I can plug in a car.

[@Mrbfgray]

@@tyronmegawatts6580 I'm bit of a petrol head, crotch rockets of my youth to 'old fangled' BMW M3 with screaming 9k revving V8 today. Petrol is still crucial and I hope to be able to afford it in 2030, but for the 1st time since the automobile took American streets, the cost per mile changes, will drop by 4X (roughly--depending on local petrol vs electric costs) and you just plug in at home happy to never visit a gas station nor oil change or other maintenance. Mid class and lower will be chief beneficiaries of reduced transport costs.

[@Mrbfgray]

@@tyronmegawatts6580 IDK your situation but I expect to power home and BEV off roof solar for new home build here in N. Commifornia sun.

[@borg386]

They should downsize vehicles. You don't need a 3000lb steel machine to carry a 150lb person from point a to point b. That being said, let people buy what they want.

[@HubertHeller]

I charge my electric car after midnight, when the electricity demand is low and the electricity is cheap. Electric cars are not overloading the grid. That can even help balancing the grid in the future.

[@maddyg3208]

My mate stopped by my house and stayed for a day when he was on his way to visit his mother for Christmas. Took him forever to get to my house because of his electric car's limited range and recharge time. Good to see him though. He asked if I minded if he used some electricity. Thinking he wanted to charge his phone I agreed, but then he plugged a cable into one of my electricity sockets and started charging his car.12 hours later the car was fully charged. Turns out it used twice as much power as my normal daily family consumption. Was a bit miffed by his failure to at least offer me a token payment in return before he went on his merry way. No wonder he always says it's a cheap car to run.

[@maddyg3208]

@@ilovepinktacos I'm not in NJ, I'm not even in the same country (or for that matter, hemisphere), so don't tell me what's true or not in my life please mate

[@ilovepinktacos]

Sorry then, mostly people who watch as Stossel are in the North America. But then again, poor infrastructure is not good for EV cars, hence I purchased a Tesla and they infrastructure is the best so far. I get at least 200 miles per 80% charge. I think you buddy had a Nissan leaf that gives only 30 to 40 miles per charge. They would need to think about trip planning if they were to make a road trip in a EV vehicle. Have a great day.

[@maddyg3208]

@@ilovepinktacos No problem, thanks for your kind and considered response, you have a good day too. I'm in Australia, my friend was driving from Canberra to Melbourne, my house is about 50 miles from Melb. I don't know what car he has. I'm also not sure what my daily cost of electricity is, but my wife has an app that showed the big spike

[@theberserker9285]

@@ilovepinktacos 200 miles on 80% charge ? How many days would it take you to travel 500 miles ?

[@Xeej0]

@@ilovepinktacos yeah but teslas are the luxury cars of electric cars, not everyone can afford them

[@Gitn2it]

The really sad thing is when we change from primarily using fossil fuels to primarily using renewables is that it does nothing to stop tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods. They will still occur in various degrees of severity as they always have.

[@bvegannow1936]

Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies. Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly.

[@blondejon5538]

Yup. Only brainwashed, low intelligent, uneducated idiots think that c02 controls weather patterns and makes them more intense. Yet, they have no factual evidence/proof to support their claims. Just another case of the hysterical blind leading the blind.

[@mudbucket1650]

And when one of them rips through a solar or wind farm etc, the results will be intense.

[@Bob_Adkins]

Bad weather is no sadder than it's always been. What is really sad is that all the chaos and destruction being caused by switching is making things worse.

[@ronbennett7885]

@@bvegannow1936 Sounds good in theory, but reality is it would be very inefficient. Also, many plants can't be grown all year, if at all depending on one's location. 180 million households would require 180 million acres or 281,250 square miles (an area larger than Texas). That doesn't include roads and other overhead that would likely double that. Not realistic for everyone to own an acre of land. If anything, the future is denser living, larger scale agriculture, and synthetic foods (ie. lab made meat).

[@gregmccoy4782]

I was talking to a guy that was in the car dealership industry and he told me that if a petrol engine car catches fire it takes about 5000 litres of water to put the fire out, then he said it’s takes 80,000 litres to put fire out in a electric car.

[@bobmex5362]

Yes you have to update the grid, It's called infrastructure.

[@Outofbox11]

this is one of those perfect examples of politicians and some people just pushing and pushing their only point of view and not understanding its entirety.

[@northrockboy]

They unverstand very well. They plan on owning it themselves and gouging forever.

[@stevelufc64]

They no exactly what the plan is and it's not to replace it's to remove entirely for the average man

[@mindblast3901]

AL Gore🤡

[@pretorious700]

Politicians survive on catchphrases and willful public ignorance

[@andyman8630]

pollyticians undersdtand nothing about nothing - except what is required to garner votes - end of!

[@Joshua_Hammer777]

Stossel takes me back to the old days as a kid watching him on msm in the 90s I remember as a kid knowing I liked how he stood out thanks reason tv God bless ✌️🇺🇸

[@jackson5116]

80's too, but not as boldly as he is now- he was more reserved then.

[@dontrend5956]

@@jackson5116 He was restricted by the network then.

[@stephenshelton4267]

It's funny, I wasn't truly aware of media bias until the late 90s, and even then I thought Katie Couric was a good journalist, but I always knew Stossel was different. When I watch him I knew I was about to see some truth bombs.

[@Flemingsound]

Each year since 2017, John Stossel’s company, JFS Productions, received a half million dollars to do media contract work for the Charles Koch Institute. From 2017-2019, Koch payments to JFS Productions total $1,541,715. Koch subsidiaries are involved in crude oil supply and refining, chemical production, exploration and production, and wholesale marketing of fuel oil.

[@ChannelNews1]

Why do you say that?

[@Flemingsound]

@@ChannelNews1 I say that because it's true. Just look it up.

[@nyki7fykxtjxyi]

Oil works ev don’t sorry

[@Flemingsound]

@@nyki7fykxtjxyi Oil kills. EVs don't. How sorry is that?

[@Flemingsound]

@@nyki7fykxtjxyi Fossil fuel has been proven to be harmful to the environment, electricity does not. I am not sorry.

[@wolffo999]

never a dime for social security

[@demsyciu]

California governor basically said to people buy electric cars, but don't charge them 🤣🤣

[@timothykeith1367]

That is the rationing part of electricity

[@waywardgeologist2520]

And he never mentions charging from batteries at home.

[@bvegannow1936]

While he flys on private jets all over and goes in his mansion...

[@demsyciu]

@@waywardgeologist2520 if the public charging stations haven't enough electricity, moreover electricity for homes

[@GeneralChangOfDanang]

I'm assuming that would be the end goal. We would have all these useless cars that can only be driven when the government allows it.

[@crow8283]

In south Africa we dobt have electricity for 12 hours everyday they call it load shedding . It started in 2007

[@doris2793]

Being able to shut down the power grid or limit to 15-minute cities where you can control the travel of people could be another huge political power trip... Is that why politicians have such a focus on Electric Vehicles?

[@marviwilson1853]

Future EV's will do 1000 Km on a single charge. You will never need to charge during the day or even look for a charger. Charging will happen slowly at night when everyone is fast asleep and all those cookers, kettles and TV's are switched off. Finally we can make use of all that electrical generating capacity that is under utilized through the day.

[@ronsmith4325]

@@marviwilson1853No they won't.

[@marviwilson1853]

Oh yes they will!@@ronsmith4325

[@kirylkiryienka6910]

Gas and oil is absolutely the same problem in terms of ownership and control, do You understand it? Do You own a single oil well? no. And You'll never will. And where so You take money? from who? Noting changes. There is no global material progress. Material progress itself is like fetter itself

[@marviwilson1853]

Learn from history.@@ronsmith4325

[@scooterbuck7501]

This two-part series needs to be shown in every classroom and every tv in the world. Please help share it to the masses.

[@shawnhampshirehick101]

Exactly!

[@zetamangads]

But unfortunately depending on the teacher it won't happen

[@LAGuitarnetwork]

Classrooms are government propaganda centers. They won’t be told this.

[@iamkesha.]

Unfortunately, the programming have been to effective and this country is too deep into the stupid category to listen to alternate information. Did you see what happened last week? Millions of people voted for high prices, inflation, crime ridden neighborhoods, killing their parents/grandparents, ruining their businesses, sexualizing their children and all of the craziness happening. The western world will have to learn the hard way.

[@scooterbuck7501]

@@MichaelBushey Already have.

[@chris87690]

I work for a power company, when they run through their 20 year plan to go green it's just dumb. It's basically a mystery box of some future battery technology.

[@tt_widowmaker4838]

we need public funded resources that feed the profit back into its community not filling the pockets of the few

[@ChannelNews1]

Why do you say that?

[@tt_widowmaker4838]

​@@ChannelNews1 We are paying money to politician and MPs to do a job not enforce agendas. Anyone with common sense should of never moved from fossil fuels till we had a better option to move forward with but instead we are all being extorted by energy companies to pay fees that don't match what it cost to produce will billions in profit each year while people struggle to make ends meet. We were all forced into a better energy and cleaner energy but the truth was we just sold out are market and give them the cards to play with and us no options could you imagine if the money was to go back into the places it destroyed while mining these materials the world would be a different place but we are letting people extort billions in just profit alone and that's over a short period of time.

[@davidwayneprins]

the irony of California requiring electric vehicles is that they had rolling blackouts several years ago.

[@ChannelNews1]

I interviewed a top energy expert on my home page vid. He warns EV conversion will not happen and oil can never be replaced.

[@maxcloutier5285]

In Quebec we run on hydro-electricity so you would think that it's the best place to have electric cars. Well, first of all battery autonomy is considerably reduced with cold weather. Then, when there is an icestorm, there is no more power to charge those batteries and you stay where you are and pray.

[@marviwilson1853]

Well if the State is full of electric cars connected to the grid then that is unlikely to happen again given all that stored electrical energy!

[@scottjohnson7780]

And they were still using fossil fuels for power.

[@RoyBoy2019]

The rationing & blackouts was in part due to heat waves & droughts, so less hydro power.

[@legs_11.82]

It's easier to sell a dystopia then it is to present an improved version of real life.

[@redgrengrumbholdt2671]

Utopia* not dystopia

[@bwizzle4194]

@@redgrengrumbholdt2671 He said it right you read it wrong.

[@redgrengrumbholdt2671]

But I don't understand it. Why would it be easier to sell an " an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic" than a better version of real life?

[@supremecut7168]

You forgot to talk about all the fossil fuels it takes to mine the lithium out of the ground AND how the ground is never the same where it was mined out. If anyone has ever seen a lithium mine it's just a mile deep hole that won't be filled back in.

[@doctorgadgetix4887]

Inconvinient Answers: 4: the power needed to heat houses doesnt need to be stored in mobile batteries!? (-> 400years to make them) .. pumping water uphill also stores energy f.ex. ;) 5: „Rationing“ means to just mostly charge the cars at night one after the other and not all at once at 6pm.. simple software solution with no inconvinience But you are right about the rest 👍

[@rdhunkins]

Until I can have a truck that will tow a boat 300+ miles on one charge and recharge in 5 minutes I won’t even consider it.

[@bvegannow1936]

True. At least a hybrid would make more sense than electric for many, but ya. They want peasants to quit driving and just be cold in winter and hot in summer, while they fly on private jets all over the world for vacations alot and go in their mansions which probably use way more energy than average americans... If gov really care about env, Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies. And maybe gov should start with gov cutting back since gov is the or one of the top polluters and energy/oil/gas/and electricity users. Especially regarding wars and military. Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly.

[@jimmaag4274]

You may consider it earlier if it ends up costing you $400 to fill up your tank. The free market will decide, and the future is indeed electric, regardless of what any politician wants.

[@groob33]

@@jimmaag4274 IF it were left up to the free market (which it's not) the future would most certainly not be electric.

[@bikeradam]

That would be an amazing amount of power to transfer to a battery in 5 min.

[@canihave1dab724]

@@jimmaag4274 the free market? You obviously don’t have any idea what that term means considering there hasn’t been anything remotely resembling a “free market” regarding electric cars. Government subsidies allowed Tesla to exist at all, rebates allow for the somewhat decent sales numbers and the social/political pressure campaigns have all but shamed any who point out that this isn’t the best solution.

[@PCGonline]

i plow snow in the winter. This truck runs for 48 - 60 hours at a time sometimes. with a plow and salter drawing power there is absolutely no way an electric truck could do what this ICE truck does

[@michaelbrinks8089]

No matter how many times you try to explain that to people like Greta, they'll refuse to believe it. Electric cars can be very beneficial in certain applications & really help out but only an idiot thinks everything can run off wind & solar right now. Small cheap electric commuter cars charged from rooftop solar panels (& backup wall charger) is a great idea for saving gas money commuting to work. But not for an electric snow plow that needs to run 48 hours or trying to tow something cross country in an electric truck with no tow range.

[@andyman8630]

@@michaelbrinks8089 just producing the battery costs more pollution than making an entire ICE vehicle including running it for 4 yrs

[@douglasolsen6861]

Yikes! Global warming means no snow! What?!

[@andyman8630]

@@douglasolsen6861 it's Global Warning!

[@stephenhammond1656]

Oh well mabey we'll have to keep some diesel powered vehicles for a while, der, that's pretty rare, but most trucks have to stop regularly, and most cars don't travel more than 100km per day. So we shouldn't try to get rid of all the polluting vehicles cos some trucks have to run for a long time???

[@stevec9669]

"Zero emission", nuclear power is the realistic answer.

[@ChannelNews1]

Why do you say that?

[@BroncoJoeAK]

I’m already working on building a methanol still and converting my truck over to methanol. No gasoline taxes, no electricity. The still is going on my camping trailer so I’m exempt from property taxes. I will avoid public roads as much as possible, and only travel off-road or on privately owned roadways. The majority of my food will come from hunting. Currently, I only work under the table. I’m just so sick of government interference in my life and charging me for the right to live, that I’m taking drastic steps to ensure my autonomy. And guess what? Someday it will be completely illegal to do everything I plan to do because I won’t be controllable.

[@Vandalay1125]

Stossel is an under-appreciated legend.

[@kenik2023]

Definitely!👍🏿

[@fiendwithout]

As a kid I couldn't wait to see his segment on 20/20 w Braba Wawa.

[@KKandEV]

Did you say Leg End?

[@danielb2571]

Here here

[@greg6655]

A national treasure

[@stevematthews684]

Stossel - A voice of reason in a crazy clown world.

[@grahamcook9289]

Really? You must be a shill.

[@big3123]

Love this information. I know someone with an all electric vehicle, and they told me you cant use your air conditioner, radio, or other electric powered devices in the car because it uses up your battery. Then when the battery runs low you have to stop and charge it for about 45 minutes. To me, I cant see this working out in the future.

[@RoyBoy2019]

2nd gen LFP (2024) can operate at -20C to 80C and charge to 80% in 10mins with less wear. Solid state batteries will do even better, but work in progress.

[@josa9902]

I live in the city of Adelaide South Australia. We a population of just over 1M people. Our green government has poured millions into PV and wind generators and still not enough power. I bad days no wind and no solar they use diesel generators to make up any short fall in power. So much for green power. By the way they blew up our existing coal fired power station. Also, we have the most expensive power bills in the world, not just Australia. A great example of what not to do.Fell fee to fact check.

[@marklechman2225]

Someone once said being a liberal was a like standing on your head and yelling at everyone else for being upside down.

[@nickbonvino2292]

Couldn’t have said it better

[@michaelbowden7695]

Bravo !

[@paulgarcia2887]

One thing you did not mention is right to repair. Companies are using the switch to electric as a way of taking back control. Requiring consumers to go through them for any type of repair.

[@Dan16673]

Yup. That's true

[@justsomeguy934]

Absolutely false. I've had my EV 8 years now, had significant damage in an accident, the manufacturer never saw the vehicle. Please do some research before you spread information that you cannot prove.

[@Dan16673]

@@justsomeguy934 prolly varies per company

[@justsomeguy934]

@@Dan16673 All I can tell you is that I had electric motors replaced, suspension parts replaced and the manufacturer never touched the vehicle. The right-to-repair scare is just that, a scare created by the oil industry.

[@Dan16673]

@@justsomeguy934 what make is your car? because tesla will void the warranty

[@reiniergarcia]

Iron Man and Terminator didn’t had a “battery”. Iron Man had a single core weird reactor and terminator had two mini nuclear reactors.

[@user-sw1mt8ii5j]

I think about buying one and parking it in my garage, then collecting the insurance when it burns down 😂😂😂

[@mmurph2686]

The “inconvenient truth” that our politicians and media don’t want us to hear. Thank you for this informative report.

[@lisakaler4121]

Yes!

[@Mrbfgray]

This is condescending elementary view of subject. ECONOMICS will rule and that's proven to be BEVs, simply a matter of pennies per mile. Doesn't matter if you disagree the market place will tell the truth. Relax, let it play out.

[@mmurph2686]

@@Mrbfgray The point of this issue is that our politicians aren't letting the market place set the standard. In California, where I unfortunately live under the dictatorship of a Democrat supermajority with Far Left ideologies, only electric vehicles will be available by 2035 while the power grid infrastructure can't handle the few EVs we have on the road now.

[@Mrbfgray]

@@mmurph2686 Yeah like when the scourge of air conditioning was released on the USA, massive increase in grid demand over a decade. I imagine we can continue to survive change for the better.

[@Mrbfgray]

@@mmurph2686 The political climate is abysmal here in Commifornia. The 3035 mandate is a joke, the transition will happen before then anyway but tyrant Newsom will claim credit for what he had nothing good to do with. No one will want a new ICE in a few yrs. The grid will adapt just as it did when air conditioning was adopted over a ten yr period requiring 30% more electric. I intend to power everything off my own roof as will many.

[@neilbunting8692]

As an engineer I listen to the politicians trying to make decisions about the future and electric vehicles, are we going to write these people off who have no electricity but still need vehicles. I feel that we are on the edge of a monumental disaster. We as engineers should say stop you are right to they politicians

[@neilbunting8692]

It should say wrong to the politicians

[@marviwilson1853]

I think you are probably a mechanic or technician. All engineers know that EV's are the future - purely from an engineering point of view. Engineers like the word "efficiency" and a 35% efficient ICE engine does not float their boat.

[@hunteroftruth4986]

Thank you John!

[@nicholaspiscitelli7685]

In parts of Europe They turn the power off, If you go to Italy, for example, see how much power they use compared to what we use.

[@ChannelNews1]

Why do you say that?

[@OmegaTou]

The other physics problem that people don't talk about is that whatever energy you store has the potential to come out VERY quickly if the battery fails. So even if they did build some sort of Ironman/Terminator super battery, you'd be making a superbomb. If you think battery fires are bad right now, imagine if they had 10X the energy density.

[@waywardgeologist2520]

Imagine a gasoline tank breaking….

[@dafunkmonster]

@@waywardgeologist2520 Thing is, we know how to keep gasoline from igniting. Preventing a gasoline fire is a lot easier than preventing spontaneous auto-ignition of a lithium battery.

[@pablopicaro7649]

@@dafunkmonster There are billions of batteries not auto-igniting. Problem is more the Runaway decomposition and burning that is difficult to stop

[@JayVal90]

@@pablopicaro7649 There are hundreds more batteries auto-igniting than gasoline cans auto igniting.

[@jlambson82]

I imagine a battery farm fire that turns into a natural disaster when fire fighters can't put it out. Imagine how dangerous all that energy would be coming out all at once.

[@madebylife]

Love these series! You are brave to put yourself out there on the web. Of course, this is what you have always done. Thanks for the service you provide to the world.

[@ebayaccount675]

Two words one company. Dominion/smartmatic, never again will the people win. We use the machines used in Venezuela to make it a socialist paradise.

[@Dedread]

You love series with vague, sweeping statements with no mathor references to back up their words?

[@kingdomofvinland8827]

I like the idea of going green but the greens are often anti nuclear

[@rustyshaklferd1897]

The electricity comes from 40% coal and 37% oil and gas.

[@rpercifieldjr]

As an engineer, the basic calculations for all of the requirements for conversion of any significant amount of the energy system to electricity are staggering. As your guest has stated even the best case back of the envelope estimates are huge. Unfortunately, low resolution thinking allows people to ignore the massive scale required to make this happen. Magical thinking also allows for them to believe we can violate the laws of physics by just waiting a little longer for the next breakthrough. They do not understand the physics behind a battery, and the limits of using ion transfer to make a rechargeable battery. Politicians, and the Green Zealots are looking for the Harry Potter Magic Wand to be able to wave it and say some lame half word to make it all work. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Economics and Engineering have to work in the real world and not a make believe one accessed by train through an arch.

[@Dedread]

I would love to see some math to back up your statement. Similar to this video, no references and no math don't cut it with me.

[@wallacejeffery5786]

Absolutely

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

Politicians, because so many are scum of the earth lawyers, think because they write laws, they can write laws to repeal the laws of physics.

[@maurice22ravel]

@@Dedread 1st, you’re not smart enough to understand the math. 2nd, the videos that support what you believe don’t show any math either, it’s just your confirmation bias pretending that they have some kind of objectivity. 3rd, if you actually cared for the environment, you‘d do the research yourself instead of whining that nobody is good enough to educate you.

[@BobSmith-iu3hx]

Yes, you are right !.

[@coolhawk2003]

Just imagine walk out to the parking lot and battery in one car starts a fire. Then the whole lot is gone plus the smoke kill everyone around. Make toxic rain. Plus the fire cant be stopped so you may loose the city.

[@paul4835]

They say that lithium ion battery fires are rare. But several months ago a cargo ship off Portugal was gutted by a fire, reportedly by an EV car. The ship was carrying over 1000 cars gas powered & EVs. There is new battery technology being developed that should eliminate the ;potential risk Also some current batteries are safer than lithium ion.. ( Read about potential causes of lithium battery fires : short circuits, battery damage, charging when battery is hot. electrical system faults, salt water flooding in Florida There have been rare incidences of spontaneous fires . Not sure if I have all potential causes . Check out Chevy Bolt fires and recalls .) Technology advances.

[@sokacsavok]

Good thing gasoline can't burn. I put out all fires with gasoline.

[@coolhawk2003]

@sokacsavok lol gas makes fire . Lipo battery burns/melts hotter than the welder that made the car. Gas car takes one fire trucks water to put out. Electric car they need to hook up the water main and could be there for hours. Have to warp the car in a special blanket. Then fire trucks have to follow the truck, taking the car away because it can just light up again . Even at the yard, they need to keep to ev at least a more than a car space away because it can light up days after . Good chatting

[@larryfinley9221]

Gasoline cars can catch on fire too. I’ve seen them burn, just driving down the road. The driver pulled over, but the car was completely engulfed in flames within 60 to 80 seconds.

[@coolhawk2003]

@@larryfinley9221 different is seconds vs minutes.

[@Chuck-lh4fx]

That wrestler that slapped you off your feet had the Iron Man power supply 😅

[@Packaroo]

The stupidity of saying he likes electric cars in the video negates everything shown.

[@arinerm1331]

I don't remember whether it was mentioned in Part 1, and Part 2 almost got here, but my question is, "What is the environment impact of the disposal of the batteries when they need to be replaced, or when the car reaches its end of life?"

[@chasemsutton]

Tesla already has plants to recycle ~90% of the material from their used batteries

[@davecross5317]

@@chasemsutton Unless Tesla can change material sciences to something the rest of the world doesn't know about only about 50% of a battery can be recycled. Yet another inconvenient fact about this subject...

[@richb2229]

Batteries used in Tesla vehicles have 20 year lifetimes (in the vehicle) and can be reused in the power storage for another 20 years before being recycled. Batteries are almost 100% recyclable. Other BEV makers will probably go straight to the recycler.

[@davecross5317]

@@richb2229 The only one claiming that the tesla batteries are 100% recyclable is Tesla! You're hearing from a marketing department. There is NOTHING manufactured on earth that is 100% recyclable, absolutely nothing! There are ALWAYS waste products. Stop listening to the marketing man. I'm all for innovation and moving forward, but believing the hype doesn't do us any good.

[@chasemsutton]

@@davecross5317 did KZbin block my last comment? I think I put a source link in there maybe that’s why they blocked it. Anyway Tesla currently can recycle 92% of raw materials from their batteries based on all available sources. Not sure where your 50% claim comes from but maybe look into that more, or comment your source and I can look into it and maybe have my mind changed!

[@Cadiangrunt99]

They know what they are doing. We are the carbon they want to reduce in the end.

[@prometheus5700]

Precisely

[@jtnoodle]

@@ReconditeDeity 2A says: Try it, prick. Watch what happens.

[@shadowbanned5164]

Donald Trumps answer to a journalist asking what the first thing he would do if he became President again was "DRILL BABY DRILL"

[@ouiroc]

Thank John keeps spreading the truth

[@JoeKrol]

It’s not about the environment it’s about who is controlling who. If they can stop you from controlling when you can or cannot leave and if you can stay warm they own you, and that is the goal.

[@hoboonwheels9289]

Oil and gas can be controlled too.

[@herrschaftg35]

@@hoboonwheels9289: Yes it can, like right now in the USA where the government has sabotaged oil production. Which is an attack on the US citizens since energy costs have increased across the nation. All while billions of dollars are laundered in the name of "renewable energy". Cheap energy helps bring prosperity.

[@harrymills2770]

I think it's just cascading stupidity and greed. But yeah, it all leads to authoritarian rule and deprivation for the average person.

[@MajDuty]

That's funny because when Tesla came on scene nobody was on board with them. Not even the government. Now legacy auto manufacturers see the demand for them and all the sudden now it's a government agenda, derp

[@justsomeguy934]

Oil is a single-source energy medium with a fragile, delicate global supply chain. Maybe if we drove cars that didn't burn the stuff, we'd save lots for other things...