Comments by "Sarcasm Unlimited" (@sarcasmunlimited1570) on "MGUY Australia" channel.

  1. What do they mean "No known problems with the car"? The car was electric, wasn't it!? Well that's a problem right there.
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  2. They called 911, and when the operator asked which do you need, police, ambulance or fire department, the caller realized that he would be calling himself and hung up.
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  3. The heat signature of a burning battery will be visible from afar.
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  4. Obviously, Bijay Pandey of Irving, Texas, secretly hates his wife, otherwise he would have never purchased that EV for her. And he did it on the cheap, the scoundrel. The battery pack was damaged, and the car "wasn't reading voltage correctly," which might be because it was reading in another language.
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  5. That would include crowded cities.
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  6. This sort of thing can be rather discouraging.
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  7. Obviously, there will be a shortage ICE vehicles, which will drive ICE car prices up for both new and used vehicles. There could be a new market developing for used ICE cars imported from other countries, but the government might try to interfere with that.
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  8. They are Malthusians, with a twist. They want you to reduce use of resources, but not themselves.
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  9. I have a better idea. Let the new Jaguar build military vehicles, in all the new colours. Jaguar is going all electric, so production of self-propelled artillery vehicles will dovetail nicely with manufacture of their fancy new cars. For that matter, have Jaguar create military uniforms in the style they introduced in their recent ad.
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  10. The managers responsible for switching to EV buses have not done their research, and should be retrained for another city job, like dog catcher. By 5 years ago, there was plenty of evidence that heavy things cannot run on batteries and stll operate to the same standards as ICE vehicles. And not all of the cities were forced to go electric by state or federal governments.
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  11. Taking delivery of a classic ICE car is as electrifying as it gets and cannot be improved upon.
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  12. Or they are calling you stupid.
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  13. One more reason. In places that receive a lot of snow, it's fairly common to have a long column of vehicles stuck for hours on the freeway. Heaters in EVs will drain the battery, and some may run out of charge completely. Once snow plows clear the road and ICE vehicles begin to move on, dead EVs will sit there and block everyone else behind them. As an EV owner, this is not how you want to make new friends with the other drivers stuck behind you.
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  14. That no-renewable weather condition already has a name in English - the Doldrums.
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  15. That's one way to fix things.
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  16. "Looney by any other name would be just as bonkers."
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  17. The EV battery industry has nothing on technologies like Quantum Computing, where very clever theorists and engineers have for many decades maintained exciting hopes and expectations with ever increasing benefits that could transform civilization. Compared to Quantum Computing devotees, EV battery researchers are amateurs.
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  18. In taxing cars by weight, the authorities should include the driver's weight in the calculation. If weight makes a difference, then using total weight makes sense, plus it would motivate people to stay fit.
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  19. Road rage will now include charging rage. Tempers will flare if someone else plugs in his EV car and adds another 30 minutes to your charging time.
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  20. That was the whole idea right from the start.
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  21. ​ @madeinaustralia2020  Same in the US and Canada, unless you only go to the nearest RV park.
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  22. Charging it is generally bad for the battery.
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  23. They already planned for that. First of all, diesel generators won't be allowed. And you won't be able to get fuel unless you are putting it into your car. And that's not all they can do, as "The Cat in the Hat" likes to say.
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  24. We also want a dashcam POV of the whole thing.
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  25. It could be a Woke car, and demand that the cop uses proper pronouns, like they/them.
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  26. It's painfully obvious that EVs are only for people with lots of time and money on their hands. People who really don't have to be anywhere at any specified time, like the homeless. But then the government could finance the homeless and get them off the street at the same time.
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  27.  @Taff2493  That was for anyone not yet aware of it, of whom there are still many.
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  28. Not here. Maybe somewhere else.
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  29. Yes, but it's all worth it, because after us the Billionaires will have the Earth to themselves.
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  30. It works a little bit in Tasmania. It's a small place, and has a lot of dams producing hydro power.
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  31. Buy two. You eventually won't be able to buy spare parts if the push to Net-Zero continues.
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  32. They would also have to supply very long skewers.
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  33. The concept of EV demonstrator cars is rather amusing. Why would you want to demonstrate for potential customers the inherent impracticality and inconvenience of owning an EV. But I guess those things are not revealed during a 10 minute test drive. A fair test drive ought to include a pit stop at a charging station, running out of juice in the countryside, and an occasional battery fire.
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  34. It's plainly obvious that the questioner is smart, and the respondents are not.
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  35. Also a battery on fire light, so you don't have to wonder why it's so hot in the car.
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  36. I think that Tavares is actually aware of what's what, but he has got to skate through the current political environment to move the company forward.
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  37. Unfortunately the adage "he who laughs last laughs the best" still applies in this case.
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  38.  @KoudZ  That would mean farm workers could only work half days at best
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  39.  @hibongs804  I refuse to pronounce pronouns.
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  40. ​ @doncarlodivargas5497  Since India owns it, they should have named it JaGaur, to honour the Gaur along with jaguar.
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  41. India is virtue signaling at UK's expense. "Look, India is Green."
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  42. Will Ferrari provide headphones for a more realistic experience?
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  43. What they didn't say is that Santa can only go 130 miles one way, and he will have to jettison some weight to even get that far. It looks like he will be stuck in Nunavut to charge his batteries, and then pretend on Boxing Day that Amazon was late making deliveries.
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  44. And you can go even further if you offload any plus sized passengers at the start of every hill and wait for them at the top of the hill.
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  45. Once upon a time it also happened in cars at a drive-in theater with a new girlfriend.
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  46. Many EV owners didn't own up to hating their electric vehicle for various reasons, vanity being just one of them. The real number of EV owners who desperately want to revert back to ICE vehicles is at least 60%, and will keep growing because many are recent EV owners and haven't yet had the pleasure of experiencing the full monty of what electric vehicles have to offer.
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  47. So a lot of poor elderly people with mobility challenges will not be able to rely on their transportation system. I suppose the government believe that they weren't going anywhere important and didn't have to get there on time.
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  48. But you've got to admit, anything could happen.
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  49. At a G20 dinner attended by South Korean Prime Minister, it would probably be a faux pas to serve duck soup.
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  50. If that Danish article is correct, Jaguar would be pricing their 2026 cars at over USD 140 thousand. That's around the price range of the failed upscale Audi EV. It's possible that the electric Jaguar company will reassess their strategy and the actual vehicles will be affordable for the masses, while still having a sport luxury feel and look. We'll see.
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  51. @nottmfunguy  You probably don't go to see stand-up comedy.
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  52. And as a cherry on top of a giant inconvenience, governments are forcing us to accept this problem on wheels.
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  53. Some car manufacturer should name one model "Major Inconvenience." There should be a market for it among people with a quirky sense of humor.
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  54. As others must have considered, if other non-fossil fuels were better or cheaper to use, people would have done so en masse before Climate Hysteria even started.
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  55. Flux capacitors are in a state of flux as we speak.
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  56. So maybe EV technology might have military applications after all.
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  57. EV battery innovation has become a permanent industry in itself, where no real progress is ever made and in some cases cannot be made for various technological or scientific reasons. Researchers, engineers, and specialized scientists perpetually keep promising a breakthrough or at least significant progress "just around the corner," and get to work 9-5 for their entire career and feed their families. We have seen this kind of permanent industry in cancer research, quantum computing, string theory, cold fusion, and in fact in physics itself where there haven't been meaningful advances or breakthroughs since 1970. Practitioners for the most part have lost faith in their enterprise, but there aren't other realistic opportunities for employment so they maintain the appearance of progress, every now and then announcing imminent breakthroughs that will be game changers.
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  58. At first I thought that someone will steal it. Then I thought again. Nobody in their right mind would want anything that has anything to do with EVs.
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  59. The news caption says the truck "is on its way from Austria." Another news item announced it will arrive later this year. I surmise the boat carrying the EVIE is taking the long way around the globe.
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  60. When AI enthusiasts say "learning," that really is just memorization of existing events, real or artificially created. Some human learning involves rote memory, like studying for an exam, but most human learning occurs from real-world events and experiences - from living. All animal brains are capable of generalization, and a gazelle doesn't need a prior experience of a particular lion to recognize that it is a lion and, in the words of that Kenny Rogers song about gambling, the gazelle knows when to walk away and it knows when to run.
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  61. There is an EV that probably does work the way majority of owners are happy with, and that is an E-bicycle or E-scooter. They are not intended for long journeys, and if they run out of battery power, one can ride them manually. And you can charge them inside your home with an accessory charger.
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  62. Yes, China is a threat, in many ways.
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  63. It works better than ordinary kindling. You don't have to blow at it.
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  64. I bet they could do 0-60 mph in a hurry.
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  65. Ursula von der Leyen recently reconfirmed EU's commitment to the EU Green New Deal. It sounds like a death knell for the economy, if not the inhabitants.
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  66. For anyone who once had a sports car like the 1966 MGB, an EV is no fun to drive. I have watched numerous videos filmed from the POV of a passenger and also as a driver, and I have concluded that I hate every single thing about EVs. I even don't like that it's quiet. And don't get me started about the battery and charging nightmare. As far as self-driving EVs are concerned, instead of the awe and admiration that many creators express, I experience incessant frustration while watching it. If a real-life taxi driver drove like that, I would ask to be let out and would call for another cab.
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  67. After the initial power grid coverage across the country, Electrify America started out modestly with the electric chair, only to culminate in seating people in an electric tin can to transport them in a less than electrifying style.
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  68. @lesdundas4869  That has happened over here too on occasion, but there is the concern that someone might still be inside. Plow, not plough, is standard spelling in North America. My guess is that everywhere else they use British spelling.
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  69. @mickjoebills  I was basing the comment on the knowledge that EVs often are close to not making it to the next charging station. You might claim that that is because of poor planning by the EV driver. While this might be true, it is still a safe assumption that there will be EVs with little left in the battery that will become stuck on a highway in heavy snow conditions.
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  70. I can see a business opportunity for drive-in theatres. Since cars are already stuck for a long time in one spot, why not charge their EVs at the same time. This could be particularly useful for people living in apartment buildings or anyone who doesn't have a charging mechanism at home. Drive-in theatres will get more business, electric companies will get more business (presumably with more powerful chargers), and the EV drivers can combine several life chores simultaneously. Even food delivery companies could get in on this. Of course it won't be useful for people living in downtown New York.
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  71. My family once hoped to immigrate into Australia. It's decades ago. Traveling from Sydney to Perth would be difficult even for petrol cars. Maybe spend a few days in Adelaide before going further.
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  72. How easy is it to buy a cheap used EV and convert it into an ICE vehicle? Might this be a feasible method of getting a normal car in these political times?
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  73. If and when Democrats get back into power, they will restart the madness all over again.
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  74. It's funny when production numbers and plans are touted as good news. Production is not what brings in money, only sales matter. If many people pre-order with a sufficiently high deposit, only then production numbers can be an indicator of success if they match what is expected to become sales.
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  75. Can an inspection of the fleet of EV buses discover flaws indicating that a particular battery might soon self-combust? The way I understand it, there wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary found upon a visual inspection of a faulty battery pack. An internal anomaly might be detected by measuring certain electrical properties during charging and discharging cycles of the batteries, and potentially also by tracking temperature changes in the batteries during such cycles or during various driving conditions. Could someone with knowledge of these things comment on any of this?
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  76.  @HomesickforAlaska  Interesting. I wonder if the bus company is only inspecting the 300 buses just to allay public concerns, while knowing it doesn't have the ability to detect battery problems.
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  77. My worry is the other way. China is going to make the West dependent on batteries because of their cheap production, and the stupidest idiots we have for our governments are make it law.
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  78. Will the longevity of the battery be reduced by using a 1 MW charger?
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  79. I am waiting for EAVs (electric air vehicles) used for commercial transportation. Not because of schadenfreude, but because it will publicly expose the fact that anything battery-powered cannot be 100% (or even close to 100%) reliable.
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  80. McDonald's would install EV chargers, but their business model doesn't want anyone staying on their property that long.
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  81. Maybe some entrepreneurial businessmen can introduce specialized services at charging parks. The first one that comes to mind is matrimonial services, including rental of appropriate attire and a multi-denominational man of the cloth. There is no end to the business opportunities at charging parks. Most of them will have to get a bigger lot.
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  82. "Those, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you buy an electric automobile." --- Voltaire's nephew
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  83. I would rather not move 1 Newton 1 metre, especially after he has eaten that apple. Furthermore, I don't want this to be measured over a time interval. Let me have a day to do it, and not right after dinner.
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  84. Shell is likely to only convert a few sites in areas where there is potential for EV business. It's not a big commitment toward the electrification industry.
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  85. If nuclear power added less electricity generation than solar and wind, then that's only because not enough nuclear power plants have been built, while government and private money mostly went to renewables build-up.
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  86. There once was a man from Nantucket who spent his cash on a shiny bucket... I don't know if in this limerick his daughter also ran away with the bucket.
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  87. My favourite self-driving EV scenario is driving high up on a winding dirt road without guard rails, somewhere on the side of a mountain in Peru or Bolivia with a 2000 foot vertical cliff inches from the tires. And then you encounter one of their overcrowded buses coming towards you, with chickens and goats on top.
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  88. It's not enough to provide numerical conversion factors among "things" they themselves aren't defined in terms of something real. Start talking in terms of bricks. Everyone can visualize an average brick, and knows how far he can throw it, and thereby a person can understand the force, energy, power required to act upon the mass of a brick being moved.
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  89. Whenever a futuristic article talks about some technology someone is working on or just dreaming about, I usually don't finish reading it. And once the writer starts using phrases like "will be able to..." or "can do so and so...," I lose all interest in the news. You can't use the words "will be able to..." when talking about something that doesn't exist.
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  90. The mandated conversion to EVs will not only decimate European and North American automakers, it will depress their countries' economies and keep them below what would have been if no forced electrification occurred. Increasingly, more people will not be able to afford a vehicle, and those who still can will find that using EVs severely reduces efficiency due to all the known problems arising out of operating EVs.
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  91. The article says the Jerry battery "can deliver" considerable energy... The device can deliver nothing if it doesn't exist. As is the case with all future and hopeful technologies, enthusiasts talk as if the device was already here. These types of futuristic news are best ignored, because there is nothing you can do with such information. So what if someone is planning something. One can hardly use that in how they conduct their life because of the uncertainty of plans being realized.
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  92. If China pays enough in bribes to the right people, it will dominate the European EV market for as long as it keeps paying. That's how Pfizer did it.
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  93. So now corporations act like the government, threatening legal action against people whose opinion offends them. For this alone, there ought to be a worldwide boycott of Jaguar products, including their silly apparel accessories.
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  94. Leftists worldwide have somehow all evolved to think that their ideas and beliefs are absolutely true, and that it is impossible to hold an opposing view. Their intolerance of dissent is so zealous and blind that they are compelled to prevent opposing views from being publicly expressed, and failing that they will discredit contrary opinions and/or attack the source by claiming they are driven by nefarious actors and motives.
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  95. I know how to make an EV trip work smoothly. Only travel downwind and downhill at all times, wherever that takes you. It will be an adventure, and you'll see new places you never thought you would ever visit.
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  96. EV car manufacturers don't have to build in a protection function for the battery. What they have to do is to program a protection function for the car. The warning should go something like this: "You are hereby advised that you have stepped into a vehicle which may not provide any expected benefits of travel. In particular, you may not be able to get "there," or it will require an extraordinary effort to make all the provisions to get you there. Have a pleasant ride."
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  97. There was nothing to play with on that station, and I can't see children doing anything with it. What would help is to make it such that children could zap each other with the handle, or there should be an electrified fence to give children a jolt for excitement.
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  98. That's not the worst of it. China could continually replay Kamala Harris's speeches on the LCD screen in the car, and the car wouldn't run without it.
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  99. If it doesn't include cars, it's not Inclusive.
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  100. That sounds like 🎶...New York, New York...
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  101. In the US, such a bank would be boycotted.
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  102. To destroy car racing completely, those EV race cars should all be RC remote controlled. The next progression would be to switch from expensive big cars to small RC scale models, and allow RC hobbyists to participate.
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  103. But they are saving the planet.
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  104. EVs aren't the only things that are "safe and effective."
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  105. One thing the ad got right is linking Wokesim to the Green Agenda, since they both are a manifestation of a shared and insidious ideology - Globalism. If you drew the US VP's Venn diagram of the two, it would be nearly the same single circle. The ad should have concluded with: Keir Starmer approves of this message.
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  106. Rolls Royce seems to have adopted the slogan "Powering Sustainable Flight." I'd rather that they didn't strive for sustained flight, and land from time to time in accordance with their schedules.
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  107. The Waitrose worker ascertained it was a petrol or a diesel car that was on fire. The Telegraph forgot to mention that it wasn't a DEI vehicle, so now people will assume it must have been, for that very reason. Not everyone will appreciate this humour, especially not woke libtards.
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  108. Trudeau is a first class Woke idiot, and he follows WEF instructions to the letter.
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  109. If the UK storage sites are now only half full, then they must also be half empty.
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  110. Yeah, but Progressives are even more dense, and don't want to accept reality.
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  111.  @clintthomas1854  Wouldn't uranium (or other similar material) hold more energy, pound for pound?
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  112. If EVs made sense, people would have built and bought them before Climate Hysteria.
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  113. "There will be one cap for smaller cars and another for light commercial vehicles...," and a dunce cap for Bowen and Albanese.
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  114. Some drivers (owner operators) are paid per mile driven.
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  115. No wonder Globalist governments want 15-minute cities. That's about as far as one can hope to safely and reliably operate an EV.
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  116. If governments continue their Net-Zero push, eventually people will have no choice but to buy inconvenience on wheels, because there won't be enough cars available for purchase. So what will happen is that those who can afford it will buy electric, and those who can't will use public transport. Both of these options reduce productivity by the value of wasted time workers spend on travel and maintenence of their EVs. It will bury the UK economy, but that's what Starmer has been commissioned to do by the WEF, and all those migrants current and in this century will contribute to UK's demise.
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  117. @raypitts4880  If you had the roof attached to a huge helium balloon, it could have been even lighter.
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  118. @Colours01-c5r  Bugs will cause bulimia in most of us.
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  119. Even though the risk is small, it is totally unnecessary. A rational person will simply avoid it, and stay away from large lithium batteries.
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  120. Does burning biomass produce more CO2 than burning natural gas? If so, how was that deemed to be a "Green" alternative?
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  121. I would hope it doesn't take till 2025 to charge to 80%, despite what that heading says about the Porsche Taycan.
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  122. There must be a silent segment among EV owners who are too vain to confess they have made a terrible mistake, and they will add to the growing numbers of EV deserters.
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  123. I just saw an ad for an EV claiming to have a range of 483 km. Of course that's derived from controlled lab tests simulating ideal conditions, using up 100% of a full charge. Of course, if you actually drove like that, you'd end up stopped probably in the middle of nowhere with a dead battery. You can't drive till the battery dies, so the quoted range should be calculated by setting the limit at 20% of battery charge to be left in reserve, or some other reasonable number.
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  124. An EV car might get lost in meaningless banter with another EV and forget to watch the road, leading to tragic consequences.
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  125. Hollywood should capitalize on this theme and produce a horror movie where a self-driving car stalks a hapless pedestrian chosen by the vehicle's AI. The car would be so cunning that it would follow the pedestrian wherever he went and outsmart him every time. If he walks into a shopping mall and comes out the back, the car is waiting there and turns its lights on as soon as he steps off the sidewalk. Script writers could have a field day with this.
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  126.  @robertkubrick3738  Something like that.
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  127. One might say "it was hoist with its own petard."
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  128. After seeing how Australia's governments totally mis-handled Covid response, it unsurprising to see them act even more disastrously in dealing with Climate non-Emergency by introducing Climate Hysteria.
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  129. That solar farm photo is actually quite encouraging. Look at all the greenery suddenly breaking through after the hailstorm.
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  130. Saving the planet, but killing the people. The planet doesn't need saving. It will always be here no matter what anyone does, and regardless of whether or not humanity is still around.
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  131. Vehicle manufacturers should just keep making 2031 (and call it 2031) models in successive years so they never produce a 2032 or later model, thus beating the EPA dictate. Look ma, there is no 2032 model. They could keep this up until a sane government comes into power.
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  132. That is not the entire line. The line extends between Perth and Sydney, with about 2 thousand miles in between without charging stations.
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  133. The very fact of being Leftist is a sign of a predisposition to dementia.
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  134. If not EVs, we can rely on vaccines to save us from a hurricane, flood, or fire. Biden is on record declaring that the most important thing people should do when a hurricane approaches is get vaccinated or boosted. And I figure if vaccines work on hurricanes, they must also work on floods and fires. After all, they are natural disasters of a sort.
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  135. The planet is not in any danger, and it will be here no matter what we do. So there is no such thing as "saving the planet," and everyone should stop saying it's to save the planet. As to saving humans and other living things, there is no scenario or model which actually predicts their demise, and even then no model has yet made a valid (true) prediction in the past, so there is no reason to believe any current prediction will be realized. Even the IPCC study of extreme weather events hasn't found any increase in the frequency or severity of such things.
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  136. Dozens of car manufacturers are planning to only produce EVs by 2030. That same number will go bankrupt in a year or two after that, or they will have reverted back to gasoline/diesel and hybrid (not plug in hybrid).
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  137. The Globalists have this figured out. If new petrol cars become scarce, forcing citizens to hang onto existing petrol cars, governments will just introduce measures to make used cars unaffordable to operate. The whole thing is heading into economic collapse.
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  138.  @speedyserbian  I didn't know Dodge produced any 8s.
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  139. The Climate Change propagandists picked the wrong target. Instead of the weather having more frequent and more severe adverse events, it's the Climate Change EVs. Note: Even the IPCC's own study showed that extreme weather events aren't getting more frequent nor more severe.
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  140. Social ideology has no place in business decisions.
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  141. In that stand-off scenario, the US commanders could ask the Chinese for a reprieve to recharge their batteries using wind and solar. The Chinese would be sympathetic, as long as the US side agreed to purchase Chinese batteries and related products. In the meantime, the two sides could share meals and have barbecues. Unfortunately the food would not include steak, because that wouldn't be environmentally friendly.
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  142. A nuclear weapon can also experience a thermal event, and can be seen from miles away.
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  143. Maybe those EV buses can be used in warmer parts of the USA only.
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  144. Probably the reason Maserati named its EV Folgore is that it is a Folgorne conclusion that it will suck.
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  145. Tesla could save the day by altering the technology and renaming it Smart Summons. A printer under the glove compartment will print out a summons every time the self-driving feature detects that the driver has committed a traffic violation.
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  146. The solution is simple. Provide live sex shows at each charging farm. And for the fairer sex, get them shopping online.
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  147. EVs ought to be equipped with an eject feature, like fighter jets. But instead of a parachute, a ball self inflates around the ejected person before he hits the ground. This might not be optimal in garages that have a ceiling.
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  148. Police won't have an advantage after emergency and other public services organizations switch to EVs. Then all a suspect has to do is head out into hilly countryside and after an hour the Police EV will be done. This is because they will be driving at extreme speeds and the EV most likely won't have a full charge to begin with.
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  149. Suppose you are renting a car. You show up at the counter and are offered an EV. Your goal is to camp somewhere near Alice Springs. You have no confidence you will actually get there on a battery, so you rent an ICE car instead. Now people in Europe, like those in Liechtenstein, may not have the same problem because they think "how many times do I drive to the Riviera?" The thing is, that the one time you do want to drive to the Riviera will turn out to be a major inconvenience.
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  150. To get to Net-Zero, Google should buy carbon credits from Bill Gates. Gates has hoarded huge supplies of carbon credits so he could keep polluting with abandon and without any limits.
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  151.  @robertkubrick3738  I haven't heard of any safety incidents regarding E-bike batteries. Have you? Mobile phone batteries don't have a clean track record, but everyone still charges them at home.
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  152. Example for consideration: if the theoretical range is 300 and the car can only go 180 km, that would be an overestimation by 67%, because the real range is 180.
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  153. Let the Globalist Green countries drive their economies into the ground.
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  154. BYD stands for Bring your own idiot.
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  155. I imagine there are going to be a lot of pissed off government employees or ex-employees. Probably most of them with Woke paraphernalia.
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  156. Both could be caused by racism according to Jane Fonda and other Woke Progressives. Some even go as far as proposing that Climate Change is racist.
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  157. Instead of cars, passports should be required for illegal migrants so it's easier to tell if they are escaping war and persecution.
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  158. The energy stored by the sun, not battery but by gravity when they turn turbines, (yes, think this through) will be there forever. Evaporation and rain is never going to stop. The limitation is where this energy can be gathered and sent economically to other places. Right now, Tasmania and Norway are the only two places that can do it.
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  159.  @bettymarshall2702  No. But I need more time in sunny places.
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  160. The battery passport omits demographic information like ethnicity, political affiliation, and marital status.
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  161.  @robertkubrick3738  There could be racism in there. Jane Fonda believes racism causes Climate Change, and vice versa. In either case, white people are to blame and dark people suffer the most.
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  162. I will never put a large lithium battery under a mattress.
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  163. The advantage of a non-EV is that you can open the door from inside when the vehicle is on fire.
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  164. Futuristic articles should be treated as literary fiction or science fiction. It's for entertainment only. Until a technology is used and makes economic sense, there is no point talking about it.
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  165. This message is quite convincing and conclusive.
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  166. There are many kinds of rare earth minerals. Norway's rare earth deposits might be of a limited number of types, while the article heralds it as "potentially" replacing China's rare earth supply. These kinds of hopeful news always pretend the potential is already realized and is at maximum possible.
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  167.  @robertkubrick3738  What can a person use magnetite for? I have seen ads for neodymium magnets to be used to find something valuable at the bottom of ponds and creeks, and I am sure these magnets would gather a lot of magnetite.
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  168. The robot idea is absurd. If the AI in self-driving vehicles cannot drive safely, what would make a robot do so? It would have to have an even "smarter" AI than EVs, but if that were possible, why wouldn't people have already installed it in existing EVs? Besides, a robot doesn't (normally) have a self-preservation instinct and might stop the car on train tracks if it sees a squirrel in the way.
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  169. Instead of carbon offsets or credits, the government should start selling Woke credits. Woke credits would capture everything, like Climate, indigenous land, gender social justice, carbon emissions etc. Then a company like Ben & Jerry's, who laments about being on stolen indigenous land and yet has no plans to give it back to the Indians, could pay its dues by handing out free ice-cream to people confused about their sex. The only uncertainty would be in assessing what amount of free ice-cream might be of equivalent value to the land Ben & Jerry's putatively stole.
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  170. That decommissioned control room at the nuclear power plant being restarted looks a lot like the one in the 1970s movie "The China Syndrome." The Chinese might now be concerned about a hot nuclear reactor suddenly surfacing in downtown Beijing. They need not worry because the spot diametrically opposite to Beijing is said to be somewhere in Argentina.
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  171. This will cause all sorts of inefficiencies, resulting in decreased productivity and a downward permanent turn for the economy. Governments have lots of methods to make life miserable for ICE vehicle owners, such as increasing fuel taxes, or increasing taxes on any industry involved in the "oil" business, who will pass the cost onto consumers. Ultimately, it will destroy the country's standard of living, and between the Green Agenda and incessant mega-migration, Britain has one hell of a future ahead.
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  172. It only remains to be seen which car makers will survive. Toyota seems to understand the situation, and will work against Globalists. Governments will give us Hobson's Choice where the only car you can buy is an electric one.
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  173. Mendoza was negligent, as attested to by him choosing to buy an EV.
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  174. Most of the news about Tesla's faults came from MSM. And while the reports could have been accurate, the investigation hasn't been comprehensive enough to draw general conclusions. There is an all out war against Musk by the Democrats and Globalists, and we should withhold final conclusions about anything connected to Elon Musk until a greater aggregate of facts becomes available, and until it is coming from politically unbiased sources.
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  175.  @annyer262  It sounds Byzantine.
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  176.  @1982dsc  You didn't read my comment which appears just above yours.
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  177. Those devices will get stolen and be used for other purposes.
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  178. The adage used to go "the trouble with socialism is that eventually the system runs out of other people's money." Today, the reality of Democratic governments is that they are the same as the socialists, except that they run out of other people's money because they hand it over to billionaires.
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  179. The free beer during charging intermissions does make EV racing more tolerable. It's just too bad the same convenience cannot be arranged at charging stations across the country. Ideally, every charging car park would have a sports bar with an Internet Cafe, and maybe you could get your nails done or get a haircut at the same time.
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  180. Even without DEI, going 100% electric will lead to bankruptcy.
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  181. And if they reduce enough of us, they themselves will get to Net-Zero. We have to get to Net-Zero even if it kills us, but at least it will save the planet.
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  182.  @thewellnesswarriors-truth  Yeah but the planet will be saved. We might not be around to appreciate it, but the elites will be and they will thank us.
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  183. There is one case where electric cars are better. Electric bumper cars at places like Disneyland. You wouldn't want ICE cars there.
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  184. I don't believe Globalist Woke people understand irony.
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  185. One could countenance the Cybertruck if it at least looked good. But it looks awful. And Australia's military won't need to use EV armored vehicles because no enemy will bring its own military land vehicles to Australia. It's just not practical. The only way the army's EVs will get used is when an unfortunate 3rd country engaged in war gets a shipment of EVs from Australia, contributing to its hastened demise.
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  186. You have to pay to play, or choose "skip."
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  187. EVs can also be hijacked for nefarious business purposes. Say a fast food franchise owner remotely commandeers your EV, and forces it to go into his drive-through lane. What are you going to do when the intercom asks you what you would like to order? Are you going to say "sorry ma'am, I don't know why I am here..."?
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  188. Even ML doesn't have the human ability to generalize into what could be called fuzzy logic rules (not rigidly algorithmic). Instead ML uses millions of practical real life experiences available in its database, which it then compares to reality it perceives on the road, and selects the action that had been successful in presumably same circumstances (which in reality might not be the same). Not only does ML not generalize, it lacks a human understanding of the world and of human social norms and expectations, all of which affect the interpretation of perceived reality while driving. It lacks context.
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  189. The fundamental advantage of fossil based energy is that it is portable and compact. You can take a tankfull of it with you plus a reserve, and virtually anywhere you go you will find a storage (station) from which you can refill. With EVs, you can take stored energy in a battery with you, but when you stray from built-up areas, there will be nothing there to get more energy from. And if you install a charger at every gas/petrol station, it will have to be the overnight charging kind, or new electrical wiring will have to be run to that gas station. It will still take very inconveniently long to charge, and sufficient space has to be created at each station. If you run out of electricity in the countryside, there is no portable jerrycan and the vehicle either has to be towed or an emergency service vehicle has to get there to recharge the battery. I believe the foregoing paragraph is definition number 3 of "nightmare."
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  190.  @elinor6525  I have never needed 10 minutes to fill up my car. It takes between three and five minutes, depending on how much fuel is desired or needed, and how fast the pump works. The only person I know who might take 10 minutes is my brother because he doesn't use his card at the pump. He goes inside the office to pay.
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  191. That Waymo struggling to stay in its lane was obviously drunk.
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  192. The infrared safety technology was "forward looking," so it didn't realize the disaster would come around and bite it in the ass.
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  193. That's an impressive lineup of car manufacturers about to go out of business.
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  194. With a continued EV mandate, some buyers will be forced to buy an EV, while others will bear the cost and inconvenience of maintaining their old cars. Others still, will not have a car and take public or shared transportation everywhere. Increasingly, this will decimate the economy by making transportation more expensive and more time-consuming, while depressing worker productivity as commuting to and from work will take much longer and less reliably. And if the EV policy is enforced on vehicles engaged in commerce, then you are looking at catastrophic increases in cost and time spent on the road, in many cases resulting in an outright inability to perform the required trips.
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  195.  @Gazza-rv8ud  The same people who want you dead.
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  196. Once upon a time, I too attempted to buy an MG Midget from a private individual. Unfortunately the motor didn't start as the temperature was below freezing, so I gave up on it and bought an MGB instead. That too had starting problems in very cold weather, but since we live in a civilized country, you can spray ether directly into the carburetor.
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  197. "Unscrupulous organizations and media (MSM)..." But then you are just repeating yourself...
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  198. The passport might be intended to prevent imports of cheap EVs from places like China.
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  199. The Odd Couple should have known that buying a "fairweather vehicle" will require special care and extra expenses. Even a hussy knows that. Could the same problem also be caused by frequent car washes?
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  200. In the old days, it was not recommended to charge the 12 volt acid-lead batteries in the house or in confined spaces where humans might be exposed to fumes (vapours?) from the battery. I wonder if any dangerous fumes emanate from EV batteries while charging in a garage or discharging while driving. If yes, could those fumes enter the cabin and harm the vehicle's occupants? Or, while charging inside a garage, might any fumes enter the living area of the home?
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  201. That's very selfish of you.
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  202. ​ @Bryan-Hensley  All of these assistance tools are already available, and have been for some time. Probably not on cheaper cars, and even on more expensive cars you may have to pay extra if not standard equipment.
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  203.  @Bryan-Hensley  In a unionized environment, the company may install additional safety systems at the behest of the union. Other than that, some branch of the government would have to issue regulations to do that for the industry.
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  204. Despite monetary incentives, there is likely to be low interest in getting an EV, even under propitious financing terms.
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  205. It shows that many, if not most, get EVs because of their political ideology, and not for pragmatic utility reasons.
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  206. Lunaz is aptly named for the lunacy it represents.
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  207. A power generation company will only invest in a new power plant if it can be more or less guaranteed that there will be demand for that additional capacity. With EV's, there is no guarantee that any projections of future demand will be realized, as consumers might not switch to EVs no matter what governments mandate. People and businesses still won't be able to afford the cost and inconvenience of EVs, which in any case would result in overall collapse of efficiency and productivity, leading to a permanent return to a smaller economy (initially seen as economic depression).
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  208. The increasing scarcity of new ICE vehicles is likely to drive prices right up to the level where it will be cheaper to buy EVs.
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  209. Even people in the AI business seem to not understand that today's Artificial Intelligence isn't really intelligence in the human sense. What programs like ChatGPT do is simulate intelligence by finding existing knowledge in a database like the Internet, and formatting a reply with unique characteristics stipulated by the user. No AI in use today does any actual thinking in the human sense, except for systems using neural networks. In theory, neural networks could actually emulate human thought, but to do that, they would have to have the number of connections human brains have, AND go through a life learning process in the real world, sort of like what a child goes through.
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  210.  @davidvanderklauw  That is what the latest self-driving AI does. I was talking about the more general AI (like ChatGPT) that the WEF thinks will replace people, or at least people will be attached to, in Harari's (WEF) vision for the future.
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  211. Conceptually, a smart meter can only save you money is by providing the household with less heat or less cooling than had been the case before the smart meter was installed. This means that the only way you would want that is if you had been wasting heating and cooling energy, and whatever comfort existed prior to the smart meter can still be maintained at the same level with the smart meter. It certainly is possible that maybe you kept the settings for heat high or air-conditioning too low while out at work for much of the day. But other than that, it's difficult to envision circumstances where you were at home and kept the temperature too high or too low for your personal comfort.
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