Comments by "Joe Qi" (@i6power30) on "" video.

@RyanWilliams222 Just use a propane heater in your EV instead of wasting batteries for heating. Batteries should be used for kenetics, not thermo-generation. Nothing wrong with burning fuel for heat in winter. Just be realistic and don't get all wrapped up in environmentalism.
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@RyanWilliams222 it depends on your usage and location. If you are in northern Canada and have to wait to pickup someone and not moving, but still have to keep car warm. Yes burning fuel can be more environmentally friendly. Also if your electricity comes from coal or natural gas plants then it is even more so. By the time it gets into you car you already lost 50© of energy due to transmission and generation. The waste heat is simply wasted into environment and should be ideally used to warm inside you car. In that sense a propane heater would be vault vastly less emission then resistive heating element in your EV. Sure you can better that with biofuel and ethanol. It adds complexity and cost.. And more importantly most people into EVs don't think holistically and only care about zero emission at their vehicle level
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@RyanWilliams222 yeah it's true there are too few of us living in the North to warrant big EV makers to integrate some kind of fuel based heater system even as an option. I recently read a piece about electric school bus in Alaska can't keep kids warm enough during harsh winter. The driver has to choose between being able to complete his trip or keeping inside the bus comfortably warm. Imagine what happens if it ever breaks down or get stuck in bad snow storm. I definitely think it needs some kind of fuel based heater even just add a safety precaution. These days people only focus on efficiency but redundancy is sometimes needed.
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@michaelc2254 all these obsession about efficiency is fool's errand.
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Too bad we don't get any Chinese EVs like funky cat, Nio, MG5 like they do in Europe and Australia. They are better than any of these over priced Korean and Ford crap.
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