Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "Logically Answered" channel.

@user-kc1tf7zm3b when the half of all new cars sales are EVs Most people alive today will be in the ground in a pine box before that happens. It's far more likely EVs settle into less than a 5% niche of the market.
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@manu.yt25 ....and yet Consumer Reports found in the real world that Toyota Hybrids are the most reliable cars on the road.
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b The US is one of the largest markets for cars and EVs and they have already worn out their welcome. Sales are falling through the floor.
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b It's been a trend a for quite a while in the US. The model 3 Tesla needs to come down to $25K USD, and have 50% more range than it does not to be a replacement for a gas powered car. Right now, the problem with EVs is you have to drive with one eye on the temperature and another eye on how you're going to charge it once you get close to 20% charge.
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Jim Farley is the wrong CEO for the times. He was depending on government loaning Ford lots of money for battery plants (despite the fact building a battery plant in a guaranteed loser) and for electric cars. Their first EVs were below mediocre, and haven't gotten a lot better since. Worse, the cars people wanted (gas powered cars), they raised the price to make up for the losses on EVs. If Ford would dump EVs, and lowered the prices on their real cars, their stock would go up significantly. What he should do is spin the battery plants to an independent company and then shut the plan down.
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The reason car prices are so expensive is the push for electric cars is premature. No EV currently makes a profit, they are subsidized by the government at the point of manufacturing and at the point of purchase by the government. So every car maker is pushing the losses onto gas/diesel powered cars. So nothing is cheap. The best thing to do right now is eliminate all subsidies for EVs and let them succeed or fail on their merits not taxpayer-forced largess.
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b All you're doing is pointing out the differences between US and Australian drivers. As a going-to-work car they're fine, but most of the people buying them so far are doing so as a 2nd car to go to work. Which is a very expensive way to save money.
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b Lifetime costs for an EV are higher in every metric. Usually the EV fanatics forget to take into account resale of EVs because used EVs are unsellable. Mostly the fanatics want to talk about "I haven't bought gas in years", which is great, but when you look at that depreciation and inability to sell in the private market, it doesn't mean that much (cost of gas is one of the smallest costs for normal cars).
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b An Australian household with 2 EVs, one for each adult, saves a massive AUD $84,000 over 20 years That's a nice fairie story, but no EV will last 20 years, since the battery is only designed for 15 years. Then you buy another EV.
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b How can you say your EV will last 20 years when you've not even had it 5 years? No EV battery has been around for 20 years. Seems like you're the one BS'ing here. And you're being unintentionally hilarious about it too. P.S. It's not about mileage, it's about age, how it's charged etc., The manufacturers will admit they are at best 15 year batteries.
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b You're being silly now. An EV is far more expensive over 5, 10 and definitely a 15 year period. Primarily because resale is nil. The problem with EV fanatics is they believe their own imagination and they're not really willing to run the numbers.
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b Gasoline in the US is $3.25 a gallon, and it's expected to go lower. But even if it was more expensive, the most expensive cost of a car is depreciation, second is insurance and third is fuel.
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b Yes, an no roadsters are running on their original battery. They've either been junked, or they have a range of 50 miles.
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@sebastiangeorge7714 According to Consumer Reports, Hybrids from Toyota and Lexus are actually far more reliable than EVs or Gas cars.
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You still can repair yourself, but you do need a two-way scanner which will cost you around $400-600 to diagnose.
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He should have been fired the week after the disgraceful Gemini launch. Microsoft is crushing Google when it comes to AI adoption and usability. This will be the month that you can mark that Google began to fail. The woke mind virus has infected Google so much that it's not clear they can ever recover without firing most of the workforce.
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdLdh68ddv4
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The normal people hate it because it doesn't show accurate information, not because it won't show white people.
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@baratthuj "woke" is a belief that there are systemic forces in society the oppress people with certain skin colors, and is so pernicious that society should not be color-blind, but rather should give preference and deference to oppressed people, even if it causes discrimination against people with other skin colors. Anti-woke is the believe that all the above is utter-bull** and that the adoption and practice of such beliefs is not rooted in any science or is provable in any quantitative way, but is rather about feelings and culture that drive human behaviors.
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Toyota was the only carmaker with common sense about EVs. The funniest part was people in comment sections (and you know who you are) was EV fanatics saying Toyota was going to be out of business.
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Was NewEgg related at all to Egghead Software? Anyway, I purchased an expensive Hard Drive that was listed as full retail (meaning it had the manufacturer's full warranty) and it arrived, I checked the serial number and it was an OEM drive (meaning no warranty). I complained and they claimed I ordered the OEM drive. I was done with NewEgg at that point.
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