Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "The Electric Vehicle Charging Problem" video.
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@theo949 Dude, you got triggered with no reasons. The video is not making a statement that EVs are not there yet, it's an observation that they're not there yet, and it tries to explain why.
You do have some points, and I think that Wendover missed some other factors to influence the tipping point: people's opinion of cost, range and charging needs with EVs.
With more people learning how they work, their needs, in the EV context, will also change, and surely the adoption rate would increase, surely also going over the tipping point.
In any case, I'd say that the production and infrastructure is already going well, and expanding very nicely. What we'll really need soon is a way of electrical grids to be able to sustain the massive increase in power needs as people start converting to EVs.
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@tandemcharge5114 Thunderf00t is not perfect, but his track record is still much better than Elon's is. For me, his worst video is the one which he titled that Tesla's batteries suck, which he then sets to prove that Li-Ion batteries have inherent limitations and are not a one-size-fits-all solution that some think it is. The video itself wasn't that bad, but the title was 100% bad and clickbait. Other than that, he's quite on point, even though his style might not be so pleasing for everybody.
Also, regarding to your initial comments. The Hyperloop is one extremely good example of the MASSIVE bullshit some people like Elon Musk and other billionaires knee-deep in money laundering like to spout. The hyperloop or maglevs-in-near-vacuum-tubes is extremely expensive and unpractical. If you cannot fathom that, it's about the same as every single person on the earth, all 8 billion of us, having a personal airplane and using it daily. That kind of ludicrous. When actual good solutions exist, but are just not implemented.
Maglevs without vacuum tubes are already extremely expensive and only really economically viable in extremely high density population areas. Vacuum tubes increase the cost and complexity by an order of magnitude. Why is it so freaking hard to understand this, when it's so easy and in plain sight ????
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@tandemcharge5114 Hey, thanks for the reply. Sorry if I look like a thread necromancer, but for me 3 months is not that much, and the topic at hand is still relevant.
The "everybody gets to have an airplane", I wasn't explicit enough. It's something like: it would make more sense, economically, for every single person to have a plane, than having, say, 10 000 Km of hyperloop (which, of course, wouldn't benefit all people on the world). I guess it's a silly example, but I'm just trying to illustrate just how enourmous the costs are and just how impractical. Also, if it would be practical in, say, 100 years, it should be marketed as such. It totally isn't. The claims are off-the-charts bullshit.
On the Tf00t vs SpaceX I'm not very sure. I saw one video of Tf00t which critiqued SpaceX and their claims. I had some doubts about it. Then he made a response, and it made sense to me. But I'm still not so convinced (like I am on Hyperloop), so I won't comment there. Cheers!
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