Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Axial Flux Motors Will Change CARS - Here's Why" video.
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@AdodgerWho - “what do you mean…”
My previous car was 19 years old, bought new @ $10k price, only died after a wreck. Great car, no maintenance with exception of consumables (ie oil, tires, brakes.) Manual everything (transmission, windows, seat), cloth interior.
This car was slightly more, Automatic everything (transmission, windows, seat), bought 1 year old, leather interior.
This whole $30k for a car, that will likely need a battery before 20 years & 200k miles, is a rip off… especially when gas @$2.50 a gallon costs as much as buying electricity at a charging station. (Sure, a year or two of “free” electricity at a charging station is nice for the filthy rich, but most cars are used longer than that… and 30% of people renting means they will need charging stations.)
“pretty much standard for nearly 20 years”
Yep… use of a car is far less for the filthy rich.
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@AdodgerWho - good for you!
At the 10’s of thousands of apartments around me, it’s not going to happen any time soon.
Big Oil knows it, and every building along the main drag is getting demolished, with gas stations taking their place, paid for by government subsidies.
Who knows where the power will come from, for these people charging their cars before & after work, on rapid chargers.
The days of a few gas stations near by the interstate are rapidly coming to an end, as gas stations are being build miles away from the interstate, along every former store front, for 30 year old apartments that are everywhere here.
Massive power lines will eventually have to be constructed, where there are none… but that is not their problem, that eye sore will be our problem.
Lottery tickets, beer, cigarettes, and charging will be the cash cow for Big Oil, since they made virtually no money selling gas.
Government has taken out loans in our names to make Big Oil the gate keepers for EV’s for at least a third of the US population, likely more when people will be traveling longer distances.
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@geemy9675 - “gasoline receives way more tax incentives than EVs do”
You are on drugs. The number of gas stations on our main drag tripled… it is not because more apartments were built, not because more gasoline was needed, it is because energy companies are jockeying for real estate to open charging stations, and those are driven by EV infrastructure subsidies.
“Put politics aside”
But we can’t, because China is in every politicians back pocket right now
“better to remove $20B/y of fossil fuel subsidies”
You mean all those Clean Energy subsidies funding all the fossil fuel gas stations opening everywhere, so they will have EV charging stations because 1/3’rd of America is renting & can’t charge at home?
Once those subsidies are gone, there will be no funding for EV infrastructure… but they know that, because they don’t make their money off of Fossil Fuels… but human addictions will be increasingly needed to support the increasing footprint required by EV infrastructure.
There is a bizarre thought that somehow energy companies are fossil fuel companies. There is nothing farther than the truth. They make virtually no money on oil/gasoline at the pump… their money is in vaping, beer, lottery tickets, tobacco, marijuana, and next will be EV charging stations.
“semis pay for the road they are destroying”
And the EV’s pay for the road they are destroying, since they are heavier than fuel based cars, per tire footprint. EV’s are getting a pass on their fair share of road they are destroying.
“Fossil fuel air pollution on healthcare”
We have cleaner air than any time in the past 100 years? Health care spending has been rising both per capita & in aggregate. Life expectancy has been decreasing. There is a more important pattern to see.
“Air pollution cost… per people”
With life expectancy decreasing of people and air pollution decreasing, no one gives a proverbial pile of steaming doggie squeeze 💩 when this [suspect] number is not what is killing people. Clearly, number is either wrong or chasing this is a bad investment of societal resources. In essence, it is irrelevant.
“48K is the average new car price”
Nope 👎🏽
Not without child labor in Africa.
Not without slave labor in China.
Not without government subsidies.
Not without Genocide in East Turkistan.
Not without coal plants being built across Asia at a pace that people can’t comprehend.
EV’s are driving this, unfortunately, and the exorbitant price per car comes at an exorbitant human & environmental price.
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