Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "Do affordable electric cars exist? In my opinion: NO!" video.

@randomvideosn0where You can tell the EV drivers on the highway too (you probably take I95); they're in the slow lane going 62 mph. They talk about 300 mile range, but if you have the air or heater on you lose 10% of that range. And if you go 70-80 mph, you lose another 20%. So when those EV guys talk about how fast their car is, ask them what the range is at 80 mph, and suddenly they get all moral and complain that "80 is illegal!". So why brag about how fast they can go?
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@mr.darknight416 Correct. Lithium batteries have decent energy density, but there is no way to charge them quickly without destroying them over time. In fact, most of those "can be charged 1,000 times" almost certainly does not include fast charging. The tradeoff is charge time versus range. And if you work through the math, the charge time is the limiting factor for electrics, not the total range on a single charge.
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@Son37Lumiere "These claims are based on the overly simplified idea that everyone will be charging at the same time" You mean like at 5 PM when everybody comes home from work. Right. That's an oversimplified idea. Who could miss your point?
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@A M Since most electricity is still generated by coal and natural gas, it is a moot point. And a smart government would not turn off pipelines and shutdown local drilling AND THEN turn around and ask OPEC to send us more oil. Alas, we have the opposite of a smart government in 2022
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Right now electric cars are interesting, but too expensive and do not have the range or utility of a standard IC car. Take a Honda Accord. With regular maintenance, it will last easily 20 years and over 200,000 miles. It will have a range of between 400-500 miles, and refueling will take 5 minutes with thousands of filling stations virtually anywhere. Initial outlay will be around $30K, after 20 years, you'll still get $5K in residual value. No taxpayer incentives either. As soon as a $30K EV matches those specs and longevity, people will buy. Until then, it's an urban runaround for the upper middle class.
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@linmal2242 You say silly stuff like "macho", but you have no idea what North America is like. You see TV shows from the US and now you know pickup trucks don't make sense.
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@DeeAy09 It's not just the miles, it's the years and charges. Will that battery pack be good for 20 years and 1,000 charges over those 20 years?
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@Mit852 How many miles a week do you drive, and how many times have you charged it in 5 years?
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@A M We were energy independent until January 2020.
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@eclark9965 Lithium Batteries are reaching their limit. It's not an engineering problem, it's a physics problem.
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that's exactly right attitude. You buy something because it works best for you. Electric cars right now have a long tail of pollution in terms of mining rare earth minerals and battery disposal that one suspects are far worse than gasoline and diesel engines.
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