Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "MGUY Australia" channel.

  1. You'd have to see the irony of a fire truck being more of a hazard than the fire it's there to put out.
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  2.  @hokroeger They don't want you.
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  3.  @chrismuller2780  the grid itself is becoming irrelevant You may be right about this, but that day is probably a century away. This is an example of magical thinking .
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  4.  @davidparker7920  Most of it isn't "nonsense", it's just that your use case is different than other people. If all you do is go to the market; maybe an occasional afternoon drive to the country with your EV, they make a lot of sense. For others not so much. And it's not that EVs are bad, new technology is always interesting, but it's not for everybody, and certainly what's been produced to date is all first generation stuff with a lot of compromises versus petrol/diesel cars. Surely it will get better and cheaper. And that's the point that it will be worth buying. But not today.
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  5.  @Hitstirrer  You are happy to spend getting on for £100 filling your car Well, closer to £31 in the US
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  6.  @brianbarcroft9167  What the hell has it got to do with you Not sure if that is a British-ism, but you bragged that you don't even have to charge very much, so I asked how many miles do you drive a day. Because your claim can't be evaluated unless we know how much you actually drive. I have a gas EV that only has to be filled up every 2 months. That is a true statement, but by saying that I am begging the questions of daily use and how much I drive per day on average.
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  7.  iscadean3607  If your gas cars are smelly and smoking it sounds like you didn't do proper maintenance on them. Even my wife knows maintenance is necessary on her car.
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  8.  @GrandChessboard  Reagan said it would "trickle down" one day... Electricity isn't going up because of deregulation, it's going up because government regulations that they must use "renewable" energy even if it's more expensive.
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  9.  @bezza4271  that's true although it's cheaper to replace a gas engine than the battery on an EV
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  10.  @DanThomas-n1e  California bought into the whole green thing and now the state is falling apart.
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  11. An EV is the politicians way to send us a message that this is the age of diminished expectations.
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  12.  @kiae-nirodiariesencore4270  " In 2022 the oil, gas and coal industries received $7 trillion in subsidies globally." Can you list those subsidies? Or is this something you just read someplace without attribution. Lithium mining is really bad for the environment. So much so that I it would be better if we stopped doing it. It's bad for the water supply, it does terrible things to the environment where it's often strip mined, and most of that damage happens to poor, 3rd world countries.
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  13. wait... we're supposed to turn off the A/C in the summer? and turn off the seat heater in winter? This is the future? Paying more to get less?
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  14. No-one asked the customers what they wanted A sure path to bankruptcy.
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  15.  @strypzee  unless we........well, you know Yes. Vote them out find candidates who don't support the madness.
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  16.  @sithseven  I love when you try to use science and you miss the point. You get an "E" for effort, sir. Generally gasoline in cars catches fire because of a flaw in the fuel system (e.g. fuel line dripping fuel on a hot manifold); most of these fires happen while the vehicle is operating, and they burn at roughly 800 C which will surely burn up the car unless you or someone around you has a fire extinguisher. The difference is with an EV fire is that it can happen at any time, with no warning or as a byproduct of an accident (which is most common) there's no practical way to put it out. Even immersing the entire car in a lake will not put the fire out. So when an EV catches fire, not only does it burn, it burns at a temperature of almost 2800 C meaning that it will start to melt steel in proximity and cause secondary fires So while the incidence of fire in EVs is far less, the consequences of an EV fire is significantly worse.
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  17. Not a fan of the cybertruck (a few people have them in my area... they are friggin ugly), but that's how bullet-proof glass is supposed to react to a heavy weight.
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  18.  @eclark9965  Most do not weight 2 tons. A Camry weigh 3,300 pounds. A Honda Accord weighs 3,200 pounds. That's the sweet spot of the market. By contrast, a Tesla Y weighs 4,416 lbs, A model X weighs 5,390 lbs, a model 3 two motors weights 4,000 pounds. EVs are porky because of the heavy lithium batteries. They wear out their tires much faster. This is well documented. And the tires are expensive, far more expensive than the tires for an Accord or Camry.
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  19.  @davidvanderklauw  He's right. Manufacturers are raising the price of IC cars to subsidize the losses on EVs. In the US, even with a total subsidy estimated at $55K (US) per vehicle, they're still too expensive.
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  20. we have the wrong kinds of people in government, and as we're the voters, we're at fault. Put business men and women in charge of government, and we'd have far more rational policy.
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  21.  @paul756uk2  Not just government mandates, 100's of Billions of dollars (if not trillions) for government picking a technology. When has government ever chosen the "right" technology for consumers?
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  22. They will know to fire at the EV batteries on these cars.
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  23.  @evfactsnotliesplease  According to reliability reports, Toyota hybrids are the most reliable car in the industry regardless of propulsion type. Most EVs are mid-pack in terms of reliability.
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  24.  @TeaBreak.  "Electricity is all around us and easily obtained" Only at home. You cannot drive into a shopping center and get electricity unless someone specifically makes it available to you, which is uncommon. If it is made available, there is a long wait because you need to wait upwards of 2-3 hours if the chargers are busy, and that doesn't include your own charging time. By contrast, there are gas stations everywhere, they always work because they have backup diesel generators, and you you can pay by cash if you wish to be anonymous or you can pay by card. You fill up in literally 2.5 minutes and commonly you get ranges of 400-500 miles. If you forget to fill up on the way back from work, you can fill up in the morning on the way to work. Which means that if I'm commuting I fill up once every 2-3 weeks. EVs are for people who don't really value their time or the flexibility to take 500 mile trips in your car to visit national parks or other cities.
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  25.  @notme1488tp  Musk even said the subsidies for EVs must be stopped.
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  26.  @my3dviews  California has been given a special exemption by the EPA to have their own pollution standards. The president can stop that exemption.
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  27.  @raypalmer7733  The chinese evs so far are not price competitive either. You'd only buy a Chinese EV is there were less than $10K US because you know two things will be true: 1) The support will be poor 2) Parts availability after 5 years will be non-existent.
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  28.  @robri87-hh4gr  "Most modern cars dont have a handbrake. It's electric." "most"? "some" is a better adverb here.
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  29.  @derekcable  Making that the default mode is silly. When you drive the car you are the captain of the ship. It should do exactly what you want it to do.
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  30.  @derekcable  That's completely untrue. Most cars with these types of nannies let you turn them off. The reality is most cars don't have these types of nannies.
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  31. There are no real "longer-range" EVs because the weight of the lithium batteries rises much quicker than the range it produces making it a losing proposition. It's why EVs are engineered around a 380-450 km range which is optimal from a weight/cost/range standpoint. That will not increase significantly until a new battery chemistry is developed.
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  32. Especially when you can buy a Honda Civic for $20K new and it will run for two decades.
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  33.  @bikersoncall  Mostly because of a fuel leak dripping on the exhaust headers.
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  34. Nice.
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  35.  @mguytv  Well, depends on what you mean "best". VHS was better in consumer eyes because it could get 6 hours on a single tape, which is what most consumers wanted.
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  36. Maybe they used low-flashpoint steel and aluminum in the bus and a stray cigarette butt made the whole bus go up. Could happen, right?
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  37. In the US, the government has built 7 chargers after two years. We should have the 50,000 chargers promised in approximately 14,285 years.
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  38. There is a certain reluctance of EV owners to admit the charging networks need to make a profit to continue to operate.
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  39.  @kallekas8551  Do you not see the contradiction You used the word contradiction . It does not mean what you think it means.
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  40.  @badchefi  Well, an apple trade-in if an apple trade-in was €60K
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  41.  @johnrosner8964  It is, however, a main component of modern electric motor technology.
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  42. Liberals will be liberals. Pure emotion, driven by rage. And of course, they see their consumer choices as a way to signal their virtue and feel superior to other people.
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  43.  @CynthiaRockroth  You can't make it mandatory for multi-story flats in cities, the roof area won't begin to support the needs of these buildings.
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  44.  @terjeoseberg990  In reverse they make the weird whirring sound. On purpose.
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  45.  @mechanic2121  So you can't name a single tax break the oil companies get that any other industry doesn't get, but you're sure I'm a paid by Exxon. Do you always just talk in slogans?
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  46.  @badchefi  Well, only the banana boat ones.
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  47. If people had to pay the actual cost of developing and building EV's the cost of most of them would be about $120K
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  48.  iscadean3607  According to the WSJ, we're shutting down more electric production in the country right now than we're creating due to these types of regulations. They also point out that for solar and wind, whatever the generation capacity is, you can only ever count on it producing at 50%, so if you're replacing a 2 megawatt coal plant you need a 4 megawatt solar array.
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  49.  @williammeek4078  Not in the US. They've plateaued. Ford and GM have effectively shut down EV production. These are first gen products still and will be until they get rid of the problematic lithium batteries.
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  50.  @williammeek4078  Well, they are abandoning it. GM and Ford have "paused" EV manufacturing. To put it in PC terms, this is equivalent of 1971 for personal computers. The time horizon that seems likely for wholesale change to EV is probably 30 years away after they've solve the significant problems with this generation. If you like your EV, nobody is stopping you from enjoying it. And there's nothing that's been written here that most people would find even a little controversial.
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