Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "Hertz USA say NO to EV... Dumps 20,000 Tesla Cars" video.

@incomingincoming1133 Clearly those people have no lives and never do anything because they have the time to literally sit for hours everywhere waiting to charge their EV. Whether the EVangelists like it or not, ICE vehicles will ALWAYS be faster to refuel and easier to go on long trips with as extra fuel can be carried. The other thing everyone ignores is that EV's are commonly 2-4 times heavier than their ICE counterparts which means much more expensive annual registration (as its done by weight), they're banned from most tunnels in most of CANZUK and CUNA just like placarded loads (for the same safety reasons) and they destroy the roads faster due to their increased weight. Then there's the issue of them not being insurable due to the risks and harms of EV fires - insurance companies just won't take the chance anymore in an ever increasing number of areas. Also, most people refuse to pay $80,000+ for a vehicle (this is the real price of most EV's when you ignore the taxpayer funded "incentives" and subsidies that only exist in "woke" areas) PLUS the $25,000 required to go to 3-phase power as most normal people don't have the time to waste hoping the EV will charge overnight fully. Also, with ICE vehicles there's no need to sit and plan your travel to ensure you can find working chargers, you just go out and know that you're always near a servo and if not, you chuck a Jerrycan in the boot. You're making the 250 miles a day number up because that ignores AC on full blast due to 35-40 degree Celsius weather, pulling a trailer or sitting in traffic - EV's suck at doing these things that the AC & pulling trailers kills the battery much quicker than just driving the EV only. 150-250 miles a day is a quiet day's worth of driving for most people in USA, CAN & AU. Seriously - what tiny EU country do you live in? You claim you only have to charge your EV twice a month - do you never drive to the supermarket or anywhere else? Do you not live in a tiny freezing cold winter which drains batteries rapidly? Just going to the supermarket is 25km each way. The shopping centre is 30km each way. Work is 80km each way. That's AU for you. EV's might work in the pathetically small EU countries but in real countries USA, CAN, AU they every will and are completely impractical. Also, most people can't afford to own more than one vehicle so the one vehicle must be usable around town and out in the bush camping (usually a 1 week or longer trip without returning to town) - EV's just don't work. Also, you can use close to the same amount of fuel in constant stop-start traffic like the traffic caused by the ever decreasing speed limits and road narrowings. Claiming that people who need to drive a lot are "rare" is like saying people are "rare" on this planet. Every time someone tells me "you're the exception" to literally everything on every topic, I always tell them "if I and everyone I know is always the exception, that you're the only one who thinks otherwise, then you're the exception and we're the majority".
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@BubuRuzu Bullshit - come to Australia, the govt do whatever the hell they like. They've outlawed new gas connections in VIC and have almost double the price of electricity as they're forcing many people to go 100% electric. Then there's the huge surcharges thanks to all the useless solar - the grid can't handle everyone having solar so they're forever infinitely "upgrading" the grid and charging a 25% surcharge to everyone for that. Oh and solar is limited to 4.5kW and 10kW of battery storage if you're connected to the grid so that's utterly pointless to waste the money on. I've never understood their issue with you having more storage (OHS laws permit 100kW of batteries) - I guess they want to make you use the grid so they don't lose their tyrannical cashcow.
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@tokoloshimampara9932 It is absolutely a scam. They require everything to be "smart" so they can control it remotely - too many people wanting to go on holiday, better turn off all chargers so no one can run their EV, too many using HVAC, better remotely lock the thermostats to a high temperature to reduce grid draw, etc. Referring to home supply, you're dreaming - no one has 220-240VAC @ 100A! Residential supplies in CANZUK and CUNA countries is 63A for single phase (used to be 80A) and 32A per phase at 415V for 3-Phase (i.e. 96A across 3-phases). 100 supply isn't possible in residential areas as none of the grids were ever designed that way. Industrial areas usually run 25kVA lines to "box-type" substations where multiple lines can be combined to give industrial facilities all the power they need. Given that induction cookers, HVAC and ovens each want 32A its basically impossible to use them all fully at the same time. With gas (which they're trying to ban) you can run every burner, the oven and the HVAC (heating) on the standard supply. To properly charge an EV requires a dedicated 415V 80A 3-phase circuit and that takes a few hours to properly charge a large EV completely - "fast charging" ruins the life of the batteries and causes increased cell temperatures which risk thermal run-away (i.e. EV fire). The only way for EV's and for everything to be electric would be for every house to be connected to the grid as if each house were a factory in an industrial area and for 200 nuclear power plants to be built. Short of that, the whole electric everything crap just doesn't work.
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