Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "MGUY Australia" channel.

  1. many who already have one, regret it.
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  2.  @Spar_Hawk  battery failures are in teh news every single day. I don't see ICE faults burning down entire parking garages, destroying entire ship haulers at sea, etc. How many ICE double decker buses in London started on fire in the past 30ys compared to EVs in the past year?
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  3. Even when I can't buy an ICE vehicle, I'll become a criminal and drive an illegal ICE vehicle anyways. I'm an American, and I don't need gov permission to travel. If they try to dictate my life to me, then they are an illegitimate gov.
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  4. Been saying this for years. people don't listen.
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  5. CO2 levels cause the planet to regreen all by itself faster than all the trees planted by humans in all of recorded human history.....
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  6. that's socialism for you. gov telling people what they can buy, sell, and own.
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  7. What better way to spread the truth to the ignorant masses and wake them up to the truth than by having their public transit cancelled due to the realities of electric vehicles.
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  8. I have a 16gal fuel tank, and filling it without doing anything else, would not take even 5min. But I get that you are trying to stack the deck in EV favor to get the point across. But the reality can be so much worse.
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  9. lithium batteries have been around in widespread use for MANY decades. nobody has solved the thermal runaway issue with them. you have to use a different battery altogether.
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  10.  @gppsoftware  batteries in RC cars were exploding many years prior to that. we just took measures to be safe with them. the non-RC community learned very late, with the phones on planes issue being a major moment for them, yes. Aside from lithium coin batteries, the RC community was a big player in early lithium batteries.
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  11.  @gppsoftware  that's irrelevant to the discussion. Have you ever seen an RC car battery explode while charging? Or explode on the track in the middle of a very competitive race? It goes like a hand grenade. RC batteries have multiple cells, and it only takes one to fail. The discussion is about lithium batteries and thermal runaway and fire hazard. the only way to eliminate that hazard, is to stop using such lithium batteries altogether. it has always been a fire risk with lithium, always will be. And we've know this for many decades in the RC community and learned to deal with it. but you can't just "deal" with it EV car applications as lives are at very real risk, not to mention secondary risks of lighting Other people's cars/buildings on fire.
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  12.  @gppsoftware  Traxxas RC was not high end racing like I grew up around. It's fun for sure. But I grew up racing with my Dad on weekends in the 1980s and 1990s in a 3-state racing league. Racing pan cars, off-road trucks and buggies, starting back when the RC10 gold pan was the knew hot item. The high performance racing machines and tuned motors, and guys were running so hot they knew almost to within a few seconds of how long their battery would last for the gear ratios they were running. I've de-soldered the wires from the motors mid-race from running so hot. I've pushed RC on-road race cars so hard in the corners that we'd shatter the wheel rims and suspension parts from the forces (cornering, and down force). We'd be going so fast with pan cars or touring cars that a change to the plastic body/wing aerodynamics would massively upset the handling of your car and cause you to crash from loss of grip (unable to turn or too loose and spin out). And people were far more serious about it than we were. When pushing cars that hard you get fires. I still have many of my cars. I have multiple carbon fiber racing chassis that alone (no motor, electronics, wheels, body, radio, etc.) cost more than you would spend on an entire Traxxas truck with everything included to run it. I don't race much now. But my point is that I'm talking about high end racing, to professional level RC racing. And how we used to run NiCd, then Nimh, then Lithium batteries over the years as technology changed. The RC aircraft guys switched to lithium first of course, due to weight, and I fly RC too. My dad and I always ran electric RC, neither of us ever got into nitro, and in the early days nitro was the thing due to power and run time. But eventually electric took over and now dominates. We were early advocates of electric and I'd debate other RC guys constantly and would show them electric was dominating. Used to be a struggle to convince the nitro guys, but a few decades ago the nitro guys could no longer deny they'd been whipped as all the records were being held by electric cars and by a wide margin. But the RC community are unsung pioneers of battery technologies. They were always early adopters of the latest battery technologies. Largely due to their scale making such technologies more accessible earlier on, and their low risk if things went wrong.
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  13. CO2 levels cause the planet to regreen all by itself faster than all the trees planted by humans in all of recorded human history.....
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  14. parked at work, at schools, in parking garages, at airports, at stores and shopping malls, etc....
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  15.  @paulhayes7746  I spent $8k to buy a 2004 Buick Lesabre with 25k miles on it still under warranty from a Ford Dealership. I average $60/month in gas and averaging 12k miles driven per year. I do my own oil changes for $15 each. I replaced all 4 shocks/struts myself for $600 in parts. I've put a new set of tires on it once since buying it. I've had some regular checkups on it a few times. Still gets 36mpg, and I've gotten as high as 44mpg on road trips. Between car, gas, maintenance, etc. over the past 9yrs I've owned it, I've spent around $18k on it total. And it has a lot of life left in it.
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  16. EV mandates are socialism and anti-freedom
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  17.  @andyman8630  yes! I forgot to say that.
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  18. that doesn't look like any cement truck I've ever seen.
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  19. aluminum air batteries is about as good as is possible. but not rechargable.
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  20. since when does Biden have the authority to make law?
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  21. Why don't they tell them to charge their EVs using wind turbine incinerators? Then we can at least deal with the wind turbine waste and landfills at the same time.
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  22. My Buick is 20yrs old and still almost like new. And i could get more for it used today than I paid for it used a decade ago. EV car: lasts 10yrs tops and then worth nothing.
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  23. they also parked on the curb...
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  24.  @tigertoo01  wow, you really drank the koolaid. you're such a good "useless idiot" for your communist overlords. There have been HUNDREDS of buildings burned in recent years by EVs and EV charging. A simple search will give you plenty of cases.
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  25.  @javelinXH992  you could do it too if you doubt it.
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  26.  @javelinXH992  "I would like to see the evidence behind your claim, nothing more, nothing less." then look it up. you already told me you know how. stop being a child. I don't care if you beleive me or not.
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  27. the alarmist nonsense started in the 1880s with the dawn of the industrial revolution.
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  28. Prius has been available for decades.
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  29.  @davidglad  many of my coworkers have Priuses, and most are repeat owners. I'll stick to ICE myself, but I'm with you on needing to be able to do 400mi+, even 1000mi+ trips. charging ads an extra day or two of travel.
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  30. soy plastics is still an oil-based hydrocarbon product.
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  31. and I bet they'll burn fuel to melt the ice. ironic really.
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  32. some of us have been saying it all along.
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  33.  @Galerak1  interesting point. I did not know that's how they calculated it. My Buick Lesabre, for example, gets up to 44mpg. And my most fuel efficient speeds are at ~45mph and ~75mph. And part of that also comes down to gearing, rpms, and other factors as you mention. I used to have a manual ranger, and I'd get 27mpg out of it even in town due to how I drove it. no one else could get that good out of it. But I played tricks with how i drove it, related to the things you mentioned. So if they are sabotaging the data by picking unrealistically slow speeds, that's incredibly dishonest and invalid scientifically. How many roads have a speed limit lower than 25mph? And even the roads where they are 25mph people are often going 5-10mph faster.
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  34. batteries at a charging station in NO WAY solves teh lack of grid energy. if you can't charge the batteries in the EVs, then you definitely can't charge even larger batteries under the charge station.
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  35.  @tigertoo01  there is nothing stupid about what I said. EVs need generators, why not power them with wind turbine waste. EV owners beleive in Wind Energy too, so let them prove it. "Gas or diesel vehicles are still just sitting on the side of the road." because they are parked. You can burn nearly anything in diesels. Oil, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel, biodesiel, etc. You can also burn ethanol/alcohol or wood gas in gasoline engines. And a ICE vehicle out of gas on teh freeway can be filled with gas to keep going in mere seconds. You can just bring gas cans to the empty vehicles. EVS have to be towed and charged for hours to do the same.
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  36.  @OM617a  container ships are a very efficient form of transport compared to alternatives.
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  37. .......golf carts? Lead acid batteries aren't nearly as dangerous. partially due to lower energy density and more stable chemistry.
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  38.  @maszkalman3676  sure, but Lead Acid have worked fine for decades and are cheaper. I once designed a Tesla Powerwall equivalent system back when they were all the rage. Using Lead Acid, and oversizing the capacity to compensate for the lead acid limitations, I was still able to build an equivalent system for only $2,500 that had the exact same real-world usable capacity as Tesla's $17k system, and was far safer and far easier to wire up and maintain. And since it is stationary in a house, weight wasn't a factor. And I also did lifetime service cost analysis and proved that the lifetime repair and maintenance cost of my lead acid system were FAR cheaper too. I assumed the Lead acid batteries would have to be replaced 100% every 8-10 years, and yet, even if I included the lifetime service costs for the rest of my life along with the initial build cost, my system was a fraction of a Tesla Powerwall by using Lead Acid. And FAR safer. It still came out to be less than about $4k for the rest of my life. Don't underestimate Lead Acid when used properly.
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  39. neither Biden nor his puppet masters have authority to make laws.
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  40.  @alankemp1970  yes, a diesel powered hybrid, and the videos clearly showed a battery fire where teh battery was located, not where the diesel fuel was stored. "“Almost all modern cars are significantly larger and contain much greater amounts of plastic than ever before,” observed Ali Perry, CEO at BAFSA. “They produce fires which are larger and propagate much faster than was previously possible.”" only ignorant fools didn't realize this by now. everyone knew this decades ago. We were taught this as children in elementary school.
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  41.  @allangibson8494  diesel doesn't burn the way that vehicle burned. anyone who's seen a few fires would know the difference just by looking. you're arguing plastics spread teh fire. I don't care. I'm discussing what STARTED the fire.
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  42.  @allangibson8494  the first started at the rear of the vehicle by the battery, not in the engine compartment. also, aluminum is not self-igniting, nor will it sustain combustion n its own.
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  43. golf carts use/used lead acid batteries.
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  44.  @bentullett6068  but historically, we've not seen cart fires as they never used lithium till now. that's my point.
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  45. EV Fire: incendiary bomb ICE Fire: can b put out with a simple hand held fire extinguisher.
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  46. that's socialism for you. gov telling people what they can buy, sell, and own.
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  47. a "community" of certifiably stupid people. not the kind of company I'd want to keep.
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  48. Petroleum Plastics: oil-based hydrocarbon material Soy Plastics: oil-based hydrocarbon material (that is also edible apparently)
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  49.  @casperhansen826  "oh it will, everyone will want an EV including you! " wrong. you know why? because i'm decades ahead of you. I wanted an EV decades ago, when I was younger and more naive. then EVs became real, and suddenly all teh realities came out, and we realized it's not the hype it's made out to be. A few years ago an Youtuber did two >2000mi trips in his Tesla. My car did the same trips 8hrs faster and cost $7 less in gas for the trip than he paid to charge his Tesla. And that was before electric prices went up in recent years. my car also doesn't have kill switches, wire tapping of my phones, I can fix it myself easily, no gov monitoring me while I drive, no corporate software updates, etc. "Soon your local car dealer will close, the service center," never needed them before, why do I need them now? "your favorite car brand will most likely go bankrupt within this decade." that happened already decades ago. same is true for your favorite EV company.... gas stations will not close. not any time soon. also, I can make my own fuel if necessary. regarding teh topic of EVs and cars in general, you're incredibly ignorant, naive, uninformed, uneducated, or some combination of those.
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  50.  @sullivanrachael  yup, communism
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