Comments by "Withnail1969" (@Withnail1969) on "The TRUTH about EV Charging: Why do so many people get it WRONG? | MGUY Australia" video.

  1. The grid is not designed to do what we are trying to do with it.
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  2. That's right and sooner or later it will all fall apart. Can't run a modern economy on sunshine and breezes.
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  3. The equivalent of a small town, the power just isnt there. We can't hook up that kind of power in the middle of, say, Nebraska.
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  4.  @Luka_3D  across the world? where? there are none in the Uk nor will there ever be. even if they are installed, they would only be functioning at a small fraction of their rated output in most places.
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  5. It is possible in China but China has piles of cheap coal powered electricity.
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  6. Either that or very expensive rare earth based alloys.
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  7. You would need expensive rare earth based charging cables to stop them melting. Needless to say those mostly don't exist.
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  8. Yep that would be it for them. Imagine if it was an EV bus full of, say, pensioners.
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  9.  @LT-dn7mt  There is lots of cheap electricity in China which makes fast charging possible, at least in big cities. I wasnt talking about changing the laws of physics.
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  10. I've said before that I feel like EV owers are going to be very very unpopular if blackouts become regular.
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  11.  @Luka_3D  oh sure. then how are you going to use your cars?
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  12.  @rvdb8876  I say 'we' because unfortunately we are stuck on this ride with 'them'.
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  13.  @gerbre1  what if he doesnt have a home office? you realise there are people who don' work from home, right? and you realise there are people who need to carry their tools and supplies with them to work in their vehicle, don't you?
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  14.  @Stepbystep74  They manage without diesel fuel for ploughing fields and delivering food, do they? They manage without steel and cement and fertiliser?
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  15. The Soviet T34 tank ran on diesel and was used in temperatures as low as minus 40 centigrade. so that's not really an issue.
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  16. They need very few employees for wind farms etc and contractors would be specialised repair crews and what not.
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  17.  @Luka_3D  There is absolutely no way those chargers will be delivering 350kw, no matter what the theoretical maximum is. It is simply not possible. Electricity isnt created by magic. I think customers would be very lucky to get 20% of that output.
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  18.  @gerbre1  Oh yeah I'm sure they are running at full capacity too, because Germany has so much cheap abundant electricity.
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  19.  @gerbre1  wind and solar are garbage and do not make electricity cheap. i should know, i'm in the UK. we have more wind than anyone and it does not help us at all.
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  20.  @gerbre1  yes i know all about it. your economy is collapsing without the cheap gas it used to have. you're peddling lies and delusion.
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  21.  @Luka_3D  are you mentally slow or something? ive just told you there is no possible way they are delivering that amount of power. my guess is 20% of that on a good day.
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  22.  @kralg  Good points. All we have at the moment is an essentially niche hobby level of EV ownership. If we try to actually run all our tramsport this way, we will crash straight into reality.
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  23.  @kiae-nirodiariesencore4270  EV's are subsantially heavier than comparable ICE vehicles which will mean twice as many road repairs. They will end up being charged per mile driven. As for your Tesla figures, Enron had pretty good figures too.
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  24.  @kralg  EV owners seem to struggle with the concept of someone only having one car.
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  25.  @gerbre1  charge while parked? how exactly would that be possible? is there something wrong with your mental health? Its clear that you have no idea about ordinary working people or the jobs they do.
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  26.  @Luka_3D  youre not comparing apples with apples. its an undisputed fact that EV's are substantially heavier than EQUIVALENT ICE vehicles. i know you fanboys like to lie and compare apples with oranges.
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  27.  @Luka_3D  you watched someone on TV say they werent worried about needing to double or triple electricty generating capacity. OK.
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  28.  fladave99  the world must be a magical place for EV owners. They think massive amounts of energy can just be conjured up from nowhere.
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  29.  @WhoStoleMyAlias  That's correct. EV fans appear to believe you can plug in an unlimited number of things into the grid and somehow they wll all be powered Personally I think we are going to have problems keeping the lights on even without the massive additional burden of EV's. We should understand that the only reason the grid exists is because we had surplus coal to burn in power stations, and the only reason for that was the adoption of oiil products as transport fuel.
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  30.  @gerbre1  So he's an EV fanboy catering to customers that are also EV fans?
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  31.  @markiangooley  The way its all presented obscures the fact that power that depends on the weather to work is practically worthless.
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  32.  @matthewmenteer5673  the grid cant possibly support them. you dont seem able to grasp that. the capacity is not there.
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  33. Bad ideas are better than no ideas in politics.
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  34. That's how my phone batteries last so long. Never ever fast charge unless you have to.
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  35.  @TheRastacabbage  we had the pandemic fun and games because we believed China? That's funny because it seemed to be my own government that put me under house arrest for a year. Why would we suddenly start believing China?
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  36.  @kiae-nirodiariesencore4270  EV's are a nightmare for the grid. No amount of your lies will change that. Charging providers make big money, do they? Name one that does. (I know none of them do and you are just lying).
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  37.  @kiae-nirodiariesencore4270  sigh. because the grid would need to be many times its current size if we were to switch all vehicles to electric and there is not a cat in hell's chance of that happening. on top of that we would need at least twice as much road manintenance, etc, etc. I know you are lying because your claim that charging providers make big money is a lie.
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  38.  @gerbre1  i couldnt care less. you will soon be stopped from freeloading on the grid. thats happening everywhere to people with their own solar panels.
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  39.  @gerbre1  youre claiming Germany is the third largest economy in the world? maybe on paper but compare your output per year with China and you'll see what a real economy looks like. How do you plan to fight wars in future if you cant produce weapons?
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  40.  @gerbre1  famous last words. doesnt matter how small it is. you are harming the grid so it has to be stopped and will be stopped.
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  41.  @Luka_3D  as i said and as Mguy also constantly says, the headline capacity of the charger means nothing. Oh the Porsche Taycan? the vehicle that holds the record for depreciation, or close to it? Nah I'll pass, thanks. I dont want to set money on fire. if i get a car it will be a Toyota.
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  42.  @Luka_3D  it doesnt have 'its own power supply'. it gets power from the grid and if the grid cant deliver, it doesnt get it.
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  43.  @Luka_3D  so you found a charger with barely any customers that (for now) could deliver the headline charging rate. And? What happens when there are 30 or 40 people waiting?
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  44.  @Luka_3D  fair enough but i dont think that can continue for long even if the situation is great currently for those drivers.
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  45.  @gerbre1  No, i hadnt heard of them. They look like typical youtubers. I would trust nothing they say.
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  46.  @Luka_3D  it certainly would not matter if there were actually any customers to speak of. how long is this charging company going to survive at this rate? i give them a year. they are paying for a lot of power and nowhere near enough business to pay for it. you dont seem to grasp that what youre experiencing now is not a viable business.
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  47.  @gerbre1  as i said i trust nobody like that. you dont know what they are presenting is true.
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  48.  @Luka_3D  the biggest bottlenecks in power delivery are 1) lack of generating capacity and 2) lack of specialist steel for electrical infrastructure, transformers particularly are a major problem worldwide. what you are talking about is the inverter used to convert crappy wind and solar into proper electricity. those dont matter unless we expand wind and solar further, which we can't really afford to do witout severely destabilising the grid. you dont know what youre talking about, that is clear.
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  49.  @WhoStoleMyAlias  he was dumb enough to buy a Porsche Taycan.
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  50.  @Luka_3D  You purchased the vehicle and you shook hands with the whole dealership staff before you left.
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  51.  @gerbre1  And why doesnt it exist? Because it's not a viable business. Those people make their living on youtube.
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  52.  @HomesteadEngineering  you must be quite wealthy. that's not an option for me or most people in the UK.
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  53.  @Stepbystep74  they dont 'manage on elecricity from renewables'. They stagnate. You need to grow the electricity supply per person in a country to have growth. Modern farming is simply impossibly without fossil fuels and without it we will die. You're mentally ill.
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  54.  @Stepbystep74  that doesnt work, transmission distances would be too big.
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  55.  @Stepbystep74  its a game of dominoes, you can only send power somewhere else if someone can send power to you. at some point if you have too many renewables, the chain breaks. we'll be seeing that happen from probably 2025 on.
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  56. Why do you think the government is allowing us to think that they are being swayed by green activists? They are being used as scapegoats. When the mobs come, they'll be coming for Greta not the government.
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  57.  @Luka_3D The capacity is not there. Stop your ridiculous lies.
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  58. you have to be very careful to ensure you arent overloading devices like that. Like with smart plugs, people put a 2 kilowatt electric heater on those without knowing the plug may not be rated for more than 1 kw. I imagine that was user error in his case.
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