Comments by "The Slick" (@THESLlCK) on "Are Electric Cars Worse For The Environment? Myth Busted" video.

  1. Steve Steve Even though your grammar is crap you make good points.
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  2. Robert Hyson “touched”. Not enough that’s for sure.
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  3. Juxozo yeah for nothing. They make visible smoke and everyone freaks the hell out. Meanwhile particulate matter from diesel is less harmful than gasoline emissions.
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  4. Gabriel Barros like gold, chlorine and water are used to extract and purify the lithium while it’s still in the ground. With gold they use chlorine and cyanide, but they do it in a tank, rather than in the ground of the quarries. That’s a moral wrong as far as I’m concerned. It’s like fracking but it’s actually bad.
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  5. The Abominable Squid not true. They have one solar field that they use to sell electricity to power grids.
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  6. Michael Wilson unfortunately true.
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  7. John Geier exactly. Honestly diesel is polluting the environment less right now. Those engines are getting so damn efficient. My dads VW diesel Passat from a few years back mad 10MPG more than the EPA rated it. It got 50MPG. NUTS.
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  8. Colin Frampton that’s why diesel is better. Almost zero refinery, more power per gallon, and now as clean as gas
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  9. Peter Bestajovsky that’s baloney. Car efficiency has been skyrocketing for decades, we haven’t even come close to their max efficiency
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  10. Peter Bestajovsky buddy not a single truck on the road today is forced induction. At that displacement, they could be making heaps more power at much less of a size, or at least burn more efficiently. There’s plenty of room for improvement.
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  11. Peter Bestajovsky hey buddy you forget how electric engines get power. BATTERIES. Batteries are the most efficient way to store energy, but that’s not impressive considering it’s not even 50%. They store CREATED energy. They don’t make it. Electric motors are more effective than batteries. That’s why diesel hybrids are better than electrics. Electric isn’t the future until it’s actually useful.
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  12. Peter Bestajovsky oh my freaking god. Forced induction is compressing air to make an engine more powerful with less fuel consumption and a smaller size. That means that an engine that’s 3 liters can make the same power as a 6 liter and be 3 times as fuel efficient. It’s not about durability. And regarding hybrids, they don’t need lithium batteries that degrade so quickly. They can use regular car batteries that last up to 6 or 7 years.
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  13. AlbertOrnstein WOW. That put things in perspective holy Toledo. Elon musk bounce OUT.
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  14. Abel Carden diesel is even better, but hydrogen is the absolute best. Biofuels are cool until you realize you could have an interchangeable gas tank the size of a fire extinguisher. BMW made a hydrogen powered i8 prototype, manages 350hp and 35-40 mpg. That’s better than any gas or diesel car on the planet.
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  15. ThatOneWindow ! But they aren’t that low honestly.
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  16. XvAvX lol that’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a while. People have generators, they don’t need power lines.
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  17. Harris W no this guy has a degree that relates to what he’s doing. Bill Nye is LITERALLY a paid actor. It could not be more ironic.
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  18. Harris W I know I know but seriously people shouldn’t trust the guy. It’s wrong. A children’s show host is being touted as a world renowned climate scientist. And he’s an engineer. He made buildings and machinery.
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  19. davekirk100 electric cars are doing worse by releasing chloride into the atmosphere from their batteries. And the lithium mining process that they use currently should be absolutely banned.
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  20. Clemens Wels um who cares about battery. That’s storage not power creation. You’re conflating storage with power creation.
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