I find Musk to be an eccentric similar to Howard Hughes in his way of thinking....
...or that of Henry Ford in his hey-day....very eccentric....remember "Fordlandia?"
I could see Musk doing something similar....
EV vehicles
- Thread starter Bumblebee
- Start date
...or that of Henry Ford in his hey-day....very eccentric....remember "Fordlandia?"
I could see Musk doing something similar....
TallTom
Registered
NASA confirms the date of the end of the world that Stephen Hawking predicted
It is one of the questions that arouses the most interest in human beings. Many have the need to know how long we will live on Earth and why the world will end, if at some point...
amp.marca.com
Finally we know.
Maybe we will stop getting offers for extended car warranties!
This the same NASA that bought a junk space craft from Boeing and had to leave 4 astronauts at the space station to fly it unmanned back to earth...NASA confirms the date of the end of the world that Stephen Hawking predicted
It is one of the questions that arouses the most interest in human beings. Many have the need to know how long we will live on Earth and why the world will end, if at some point...
Finally we know.
Maybe we will stop getting offers for extended car warranties!
If so I'd take anything they have to say with a grain of salt...
TallTom
Registered
True. But Stephen Hawkings who predicted the date, is the 2nd smartest guy the world knows. The smartest guy in the world we are so fortunate to have as one of our own here.
TallTom
Registered
This should thrill the few Cybertruck owners out there.
www.torquenews.com
Tesla Adopts a New, Aggressive Cybertruck Sales Strategy, Begins Advertising $74,490 Starting Price
Tesla has adopted a new much more aggressive Cybertruck sales strategy as it tries to reach new buyers. Tesla is directly reaching out to people who have never shown interest towards the all-electric truck and is advertising a lower $74,490 price.
www.torquenews.com
Just watched a show called "The Nature of Things" and they had a scientist on there talking about the vibrations wind turbines in the ocean give off...it's causing whales to beach themselves and killing fish...
That's a cost of saving the planet I guess.....
...and there were other scientists and engineers speaking on the huge issue of trying to recycle these turbines and solar panels....right now there are stacks of broken or worn turbine blades and solar panels piling up with no way to recycle them...there are a few start up companies out there but nowhere near the amount required to do the job...
That's a cost of saving the planet I guess.....
...and there were other scientists and engineers speaking on the huge issue of trying to recycle these turbines and solar panels....right now there are stacks of broken or worn turbine blades and solar panels piling up with no way to recycle them...there are a few start up companies out there but nowhere near the amount required to do the job...
TallTom
Registered
Read up on what is happening with the Chinese Wind turbines. They are creating the largest in the world. And causing dire consequences to nature.
So yeah.....go green.
I was still watching the program and they were talking about the toll to birds and how many get killed each day by these things....there is a company that goes around cleaning up the dead birds....
TallTom
Registered
Cuz LIon batteries don't catch fire.
www.ksdk.com
Large battery plant fire outside Fredericktown prompts evacuations Wednesday
Al Watkins, an lawyer for the facility's parent company, said 75 employees were evacuated safely after the fire started and that there were no injuries.
www.ksdk.com
We've just come back from visiting our son in another province....
He has a Hyundai Santa Fe plug in hybrid and it is a decent machine....if the battery had more range and the gas engine were able to charge it, it would be a great machine...he can go 60kms on strictly battery as long as he is very careful with the accelerator...if you are aggressive even a little, the gas engine kicks on in conjunction with the battery....
However, he is careful and can go a month without putting gas in it...
The air conditioner and heat only work with the gasoline engine running but he will push the envelope by not running the engine for heat....the last trip we went on it was below freezing and he eventually had to break down and run the engine as he was having a hard time seeing out the windows...
I don't believe they quite have the formula right for most hybrids yet.
He has a Hyundai Santa Fe plug in hybrid and it is a decent machine....if the battery had more range and the gas engine were able to charge it, it would be a great machine...he can go 60kms on strictly battery as long as he is very careful with the accelerator...if you are aggressive even a little, the gas engine kicks on in conjunction with the battery....
However, he is careful and can go a month without putting gas in it...
The air conditioner and heat only work with the gasoline engine running but he will push the envelope by not running the engine for heat....the last trip we went on it was below freezing and he eventually had to break down and run the engine as he was having a hard time seeing out the windows...
I don't believe they quite have the formula right for most hybrids yet.
Pretty impressive....
To show where the heart of America is....the F-150 is the highest selling vehicle in the US.....
And the best selling car in the US......the Toyota Camry of all things....
Best selling in Europe makes sense, a person can drive across it in a day or two unlike North Amercia
The size of Europe is pretty close, slightly bigger actually than the USA.
Have a Tundra 5.7L V8, which has been absolutely trouble free, at 140k miles, but getting a bit long in the tooth, starting to hear a wheel bearing hum. Looking at a F150 for the business to replace, rather than paying a chunk of that in taxes. The new Toyota Tundras seems to have a myriad of quality issues, including a recall for complete engine replacement.
I know several people that have made the switch from Tundra to F-150 and were very happy they did....
A good friend of mine waited on a Tundra TRD Pro for months and finally gave up and got a Raptor...
I do like the look of the new Tundras though....
Better get your grid sorted over there Bee.
www.topspeed.com
How Toyota Has Put Every Automaker On Notice With Its 745-Mile Solid-State Battery
Toyota is preparing to expand its dominance from hybrids to EVs, and here's how its solid-state batteries could play a major role.
www.topspeed.com
With the state of our economy......and the shortage of copper, I can't see EV becoming mainstream for quite some time....Better get your grid sorted over there Bee.
How Toyota Has Put Every Automaker On Notice With Its 745-Mile Solid-State Battery
Toyota is preparing to expand its dominance from hybrids to EVs, and here's how its solid-state batteries could play a major role.
TallTom
Registered
Well Ding Ding Ding. Finally someone brings up the copper wall!
Good for you Bee!
I don't read every post in this thread. So perhaps it's been brought up. But I have yet to see all these pro EV fanboys address the fact that there is no way EVs can become the primary means of transport if you can't build them due to material shortages. Copper is finite. There isn't enough mined that can hope to build the number of EVs required to become a large segment.
Even when they work out the math and realize that, it takes about a decade to mine new copper.
And that's assuming they can discover enough new deposits.
I'm pretty sure Elon, Ford, etc know this. They just want to pick the consumers pockets and suck up any govt subsidies they can, until the wall is in sight. And then when everyone else sees it, ker pift, they have moved on to the next train robbery.
And then EVs become a waste product that has to be paid for by taxpayers.
Fear not, with the number of meth-heads we have in this country, they can steal enough copper in no time to jumpstart the industry...
I was speaking to a person who is an engineer with our hydro utility company and he was saying there would have to be significant upgrades to the delivery system in order to meet the demand EV would bring......he was saying the size of the current lines are too small to carry the load.
He mentioned the real issue would be upgrading lines in the major cities as there would have to be a lot of digging as many lines are buried....
He spoke on our own area and said there is enough power coming to the region due to closed factories but the distribution grid isn't robust enough...
Similar threads
