Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "EV vs PETROL Range Test - MacMaster vs Geoff - BMW 528i vs Porsche Taycan - Range Anxiety Special" video.

@djtaylorutube What are you smoking - a petrol can (jerrycan) getting only 30 miles or so? I have 8 jerrycans of fuel stored legally on my property in Australia (it's a farm) with STA-BIL (a fuel stabiliser for storage of fuel). Each can will get my small car (for short trips) 400km of range, each can will get my large vehicle (moving farm supplies, machine parts, etc.) 150km of range (however this vehicle has a 120L tank and has jerrycan holders on it). The point that @Thefab5150 was making is that you can't recharge an EV like you can refuel an ICE vehicle from a jerrycan. Also, good luck running a generator to charge your EV - they're not efficient (the generators) and the generators most people buy aren't capable of outputting enough power to charge most EV's (most are 1200-1500W, you need 2500W+ to charge an EV, especially before the fuel runs out). As for your comment about power outages being very short - just wait, once every appliance that was gas gets changed to electric and once everyone has an EV, those short outages will become common long lasting "brownouts" as load balancing gets performed due to generation not being able to keep up. Already seeing this in Australia where they're rushing the "transition" and then finding out that the "green tech" doesn't work as well as it was supposed to.
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Whilst currently free in the UK, don't be surprised when you have to pay tax per km (which costs more than the taxes on fuel for ICE vehicles because there's also the GST charged on the electricity plus the greater tariff for increased consumption of electricity at the house) by reporting and photographing (or by the EV reporting km's to the state). Think it can't happen - look at Victoria, Australia - no EV subsidies (prices are $70,000+ for anything that isn't junk), per km tax (must be reported through govt app with photo weekly - if you don't your call will be unregistered and to re-register that requires a Vicroads inspection of the vehicle. If you go on holidays and don't tell them flight details, you'll come back to an unregistered vehicle). Oh yeah - most home chargers that will charge in under a day will require changing from single phase power to three phase power due to the tiny (63A) single phase limit each house is allowed and because electric heating, cooling, cooktops, etc. are required in all new homes in Australia. Then there's the part where insurance companies won't cover property at risk of damage caused by any large lithium type battery that's being stored or charged at either your property or the neighbours (thankfully the neighbous can't afford EV's and like ICE cars) due to fire risk and since this is a blanket rule by the insurance companies, why get an EV just to void house and contents insurance and car insurance.
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@entropy5431 nothing fair about it though. The amount is 2x what fuel excise is and then there's the GST and EV infrastructure tax that are on the power bill. Also, the reporting km thing is too invasive and something I'll never do, also having to report when I'm going away is none of their business.
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@entropy5431 what your describing is what sane people would do. What I described, including the amounts is what is official and enforced in Victoria, Australia.
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@jeremyradford5103 Yeah that's in the UK, my comments specifically said what's already being done in Australia - only mentioned as a warning. Your rubbish about air pollution is an outright lie that comes from the UK govt. There are plenty of videos on YouTube showing the air to be well within safe limits, the danger however is the air in the London Underground which is beyond safe limits and is so dangerous that it should be shutdown until the air can be made safe. CO2 does NOT cause climate change - CO2 causes cooling, methane causes warming. The Vostok Ice Cores prove this and that is exactly why they are ignored. Remove CO2 and the plants die and then there's no air to breathe - if the plants are turning yellow when they should be green that's proof that they aren't getting enough CO2. Increase CO2 by a factor of 5 and you'll get 12x plant biomass and a heap more breathable air. As for why the weather is going crazy - its two things: * Cloud seeding (the UK, CAN, AU, NZ, USA, Russia and China have all publicly admitted to doing so) which takes moisture from one area and moves it to another. Do this too much and the balance of nature gets destroyed and the weather becomes extreme (what the movie Geostorm tries to cover) * High sunspot activity which occurs when the sun is in its closest orbit to the earth whilst the earth is tilting towards it (Milkanovitch cycles). This is relevant because it signifies a pole shift which occurs when a warm age or an ice age is coming to an end; the weather goes to extremes during pole shifts as a result of a severely weakened magnetosphere (weakened due to major pole drift exceeding 5 degrees of shift in a year). Those same oil companies are the ones who produce all the "green tech" at much higher profit margins than they get from oil. The worlds largest producer of solar panels and wind turbines is BP. By "going green" you're literally funding big oil. Time is not running out. You have been brainwashed and gaslit to believe the lies of people who literally get rich off "going green", these same people want to dictate everything you do. Look at the real facts such as the Vostok Ice Cores, look at the actual experts who got defunded and forced out of work because the actual research they did (such as studying ice cores), didn't fit the "green agenda". This is just like all the past hysteria: 1960's - Oil gone in 10yrs 1970's - Another Ice age in 10yrs 1980's - Acid rain will destroy all crops in 10yrs 1990's - Ozone layer will be gone in 10yrs 2000's - The icecaps will be gone in 10yrs None of this ever happened but each scare resulted in more taxes and more govt control over our lives.
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@jeremyradford5103 And here you are spouting the same ridiculous tropes that the pro-EV crowd love to spout simply because they were told them without looking at the reality - production scaling, different chemistries and recycling. Production of batteries isn't being scaled for two reasons - safety (production is dangerous except in small batches - OHS laws and regulators prohibited scaling and large manufacturing facilities) and lack of materials (most of the countries where the mining occurs have banned the export of the minerals and metals due to child labour and unsafe conditions. Different chemistries is a pipe dream that only a few universities are hypothesising - no actual meaningful results have been achieved to date. As for recycling - its unsustainable, not actually recycling and only viable when fully govt subsidised through ever increasing taxation. Current recycling either just stores the batteries waiting for a viable process to recycle them to be created (after 5yrs they're legally allowed to be declared "recycled"), or, they are shredded in a fluid that prevents them from burning/exploding and then the shredded bits are stored in bags in warehouses until a way of recycling those bits is created. There are no financially viable ways to recover the precious metals that are both environmentally friendly and that comply with all existing OHS laws and regulations. Lead-acid and AGM batteries however can be fully recycled safely and affordably. EV batteries are worthless once taken from their original car as they are cycle damaged (i.e. near the max number of cycles), have degraded range and because precious metals can't be recovered from them. Also, most EV batteries due to being charged too slowly, too fast or due to being allowed to be at a charge percent outside the ideal range "38% - 92%", suffer degradation which results in them never lasting as long as the warranty claims. Even with the warranty, replacement is still easily $15,000 - $25,000 (battery plus labour cost and disposal costs) which is more than most cars cost brand new. And before you say I'm against EV's - I'm not - my issue is these problems haven't and aren't being addressed. When EV's are as safe, as light as their ICE equivalents, not taxed per km (they currently are at a rate higher than fuel excise is, where I live in Australia), as quick to charge as ICE vehicles are to refuel (2 minutes) without expensive charging network subscriptions (required in Australia to charge when out and about), when they don't lose charge sitting parked (ICE vehicles don't lose range sitting parked for weeks) whilst having a week camping in the forest (250km out of town) and when they can tow a 3.5t trailer with ease without losing more range than an ICE equivalent, I'll happily get an EV, but not before, providing the govt change my houses power supply from single phase to three phase at no cost to me - I'm not gonna pay $25,000+ for the trenching, connection and rewiring required just to have an EV as I currently use all 63A available from single phase power.
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