Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "driving 4 answers" channel.

  1. Missing from this is "cracking". When gasoline became popular, a lot of research went into increasing the amount of gasoline that came out of the oil refining process. The result was "cracking", which produced more gasoline, and thus less diesel from the input oil. The tradeoff was that it took more energy to crack the fuel. Gasoline is a more expensive fuel than diesel, besides being less efficient. The theory was that more use of diesel would not only create more use of the normal diesel output of refineries, but also allow them to reduce use of cracking to produce more diesel and less gasoline, and better fuel efficiency to boot. What was the price of that? More air pollution, of course.
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  2. FInally gets to the friggin' point about 2:30.
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  3. So 5:00. Take fueling time for gas cars, take recharge time for EVs and extrapolate. This assumes people wait around to charge their cars like they wait around to fill their gas cars. I have an EV, the amount of time I spend charging my car is 0. 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, because I have home charging. I come home, I plug in, I go about my life. Do I use on the road chargers? Sure, then I use fast chargers. So the right mix is slow chargers at home, fast chargers for trips. This rant from the video author assumes worst case. So everyone does not have home charging right? Sure. There is no particular reason the vast majority of car users cannot do so. In Canadian north, cars have to plug in to heaters or they die, because it is cold. So you have a stall at your apartment that has a plug. Wiring is not that expensive, and most apartment buildings with covered car areas can be equipped with plugs. Note PLUGS. Giving everyone an internet connected charger controller is unnecessary and expensive. Should everyone be forced to drive an EV? Of course not. But the issues with EV are way way (way) overblown. I charge my EV perhaps 2-3 times a week for my commute, and my employer has 6kw plugs. Thus I could charge without having any home charging at all. We (the EV community) are very familiar with these lists of "why EVs can't work". They all have a common feature: the author does not have an EV and does not know how they work.
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