Comments by "Simon" (@Simon-dm8zv) on "Will electric cars kill gas stations?" video.

  1.  @penskepc2374  You are simply wrong. Combustion engines are over. And no, efficiency will not improve significantly anymore. It's just physics. Here in Europe the sales of new ICE cars will be forbidden from 2030 and that's a great thing.
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  2. It is.
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  3.  @penskepc2374  Governments wouldn’t allow that
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  4. CNG and LNG are fossil fuels.
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  5. Lol until you realise that hydrogen cars require three to four times as much electric energy.
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  6. It's not. Hydrogen is mind mindbogglingly inefficient.
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  7. They have been getting less expensive every year.
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  8. It's about the total emissions produced during the car's entire life. Which is clearly a lot lower for an EV.
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  9. Over here in Europe Shell and BP are already heavily involved in installing fast chargers at their stations.
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  10. Not at all. Synthetic fuels required many times more electric energy.
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  11.  @VintageCars999  Still not anywhere close to battery electric and will never be.
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  12.  @VintageCars999  You are claiming that ‘synthetic fuels will be better’ which they are obviously not. Large scale investment in synth fuels would be an insane waste of money, resources and energy. EVs are the only way forward.
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  13.  @VintageCars999  For occasional use of classic cars it seems acceptable. For broad general adoption absolutely not because the CO2 emissions caused by the enormous amounts of electricity required would be insane. A car on synth fuel consumes about 5 to 6 times more electricity per mile.
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  14.  @VintageCars999  It doesn't work that way. There won't be an abundance of renewable energy in 2030, neither in 2040. Using renewables for synthetic fuels is a horrible waste. If we all went down the synthetic fuel route we would need 6 times as many wind turbines and solar panels in the world. This would slow down the energy transition a lot which is unacceptable because of the climate emergency like you described yourself. It doensn't prove anything that Porsche and BMW like to invenst in synthetic fuels. They just want to keep selling combustion engines.
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  15. It's not the amount of electric energy that is the problem. It's about spreading the load. That will probably be no problem at all because EVs only need about 10 kWh per day on average.
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  16. Nope
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  17. Has been tried in the past by the company Better Place (look it up on wikipedia). The problem is that battery swapping infrastructure is A LOT more expensive than fast charging infrastructure. Also, fast charging is already so fast that it wont justify paying more for a swap.
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  18.  @penskepc2374  Yup. I am sure you will get there too.
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  19.  @noelgibson5956  That’s great.
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  20. No it won't. Hydrogen is terribly inefficient.
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  21. Not really. Norway has been doing fine for 10 years as world's leading EV country.
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  22.  @DUlmer  No problem at all.
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  23. Like you said, parkings will be (and already are) equipped with EV chargers. Over night charging covers 90% of all charging. For the sporadic a fast charge current gas stations will definitely play a role. This normally doesn't need to take longer than 15 to 20 minutes which is very acceptable I think.
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  24.  @ericlotze7724  Sure, but those systems have a terribly low efficiency.
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