Comments by "" (@advancetotabletop5328) on "Why EVs Aren't The GreenTech Panacea || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. You‘ll save money on gas until OPEC says otherwise. Who here knows who Carter was? :P
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  2. Exactly. Toyoto made the first hybrid, but now greenies say hybrids are verboten as well. I like hybrids because you can find a working gas station if the hotel EV charger isn‘t working! Also, looks like if we had hybrids, we’d have smaller and lighter batteries, so could have a spare battery in the garage (or back trunk!) when the EV needs to be recharged.
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  3. That hat doesn‘t make sense, either. :D I keed. Anyway, technologies go through three stages: Enthusiast, Business, and Consumer. Most Enthusiasts — usually proponents — confuse the Enthusiast and Consumer stages. In the Enthusiast stage, the technology is expensive, and is not as good as the technology it’s meant to replace. So, with EV‘s, they’re expensive and are subsidized, but aren‘t (yet) as convenient as regular cars.Yes, I know that prices are coming down, and ranges are getting longer, but that’s what an Enthusiast would say. A Consumer still complains about the cost and lack of charging stations. After Enthusiast comes Business. Business has the money to buy the technology in large quantities, yet demands lower costs. Business has the economy of scale that neither Enthusiasts nor Consumers have. That‘s why Amazon and the USPS have a fleet of EV’s. These business EV‘s do not need the range of a consumer car, and even have “hot swap” battery charging stations where they have batteries separately charging from the car, and can swap them when an EV has a batteries that need to be recharged. Charging stations are slow compared to swapping in an already charged battery, but battery-swapping isn‘t the convention we use to charge EV cars *today*. Maybe we’ll have it in the future, who knows. Anyway, we‘re better with EV technology than we were ten or twenty years ago, when all we had were golf carts. I still think it‘s premature to shove the technology onto Consumers, and we should look more towards Business use for now. Gimme my Amazon package. :D
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  4. EV‘s are fine as a “second car” for passenger commute, but, here in CA, we have PG&E whose power lines cause annual wildfires, and even warnings not to charge EV’s on Labor Day Weekend. I cringe at the mandate that no ICE will be sold in ten years. Thanks, greenies, for not letting us have hybrids. ):
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