5 Reasons for and against an EV, hybrid, or ICE

Inductive charging will probably scale up to eliminate the cord issues as BEV tech improves.....

 

I do not own a BEV and I can't remember the last time that MY hands smelled like petrol.
I also cannot remember the last time I had to think about refueling options.

I use propane/natgas for my gennys and I was taught how to refuel my cars without spilling petrol.

 

inductive charging without serious losses could be a ways away. you see very few plug in owners compaining about plugging in, because the reality is different from the fud.

 

Yeah, that was my original setup too=perfect. Then, our next plug-in had the port on the opposite side of the vehicle and the fun began.

Umm, OK.

 

my pip was like that, so i made a setup on the ceiling between the cars

 

I just went to a gas station.

I didn't have to leverage 40 years as an electronics technician to figure out the difference between L1 and L2 charging - or what title "SAE Surface Vehicle Recommended Practice J1772, SAE Electric Vehicle Conductive Charge Coupler" meant.

Somebody IN THIS forum once looped me into what hybrids are supposed to REALLY MEAN.
You can drive them like 'an ordinary car....'

Bob's right.
There are still too many people out there who just aren't smart enough (or wealthy enough) to pay the dues and be in the club.

 

i get a big grin everytime i pass a gas station

 

for round trips longer than the vehicles range, it makes sense.

 

2025 will bring new forces to influence new and used EV prices. Who among us will predict what?

 

I don't let ANYTHING 'be a barrier."

I'm a BEV fan - just not a fanatic.
Gas works for me............for now.

Not me.

Gas prices were manipulated before the election, and not we're experiencing market forces doing the same thing.
$2.29 and dropping rapidly locally.
The thing is - BEVs ARE starting to affect per-barrel pricing by reducing demand, and if we can 'drill baby drill' then we will impact the Rooskies' ability to fund a war with the current artificial $60 floor.

I seem to remember that one of P47's advisors is something of a BEV fanatic himself!

Gee....I was thinking about roughly the same metaphor for BEV implementation!
I learned a hard truth as a DOD contractor.
If the dot.gov wants something really bad, sometimes they get it really bad.

 

i doubt we'll see cheap chinese bevs, unless xi can appease trump

chevy equinox ev base price is $35k, and hopefully the bolt family in late '25 starting in the mid to high 20's.
tariff on parts could drive those prices up though:400329917

 

Isn't a magnetosphere sort of 'desirable' for a planet to be habitable?
Not just for the radiation but also for the atmosphere according to our credentialed 'betters???'
Gee I do not know but wouldn't it be easier to just fix the rock we're ON rather than clean-sheet a whole new eco-system?
I get 'infesting' another rock as a land-grab to perpetuate our kind but if we cannot take care of this one, why think that we're going to 'be better' with the otha one.
Is there no end to human chutzpah?

I saw the P45 movie - and so I'm not afraid of the sequel.
I've revised no plans or goals.
There's not very much that's going to be different between P47 and P45/47 except that now the extremists in the otha half of the country will be butt sore for a few years and Alec Baldwin might get to shoot a third person, only on live TV this time, while hundreds are watching.


Meet the new boss.....
Same as the old boss.

 

"I would rather send colonies of extreme bacteria and simpler life samples and see how they evolve." An interesting idea that could be done in parallel with human efforts. Prodding evolution towards extremophiles might give humanity new, improved enemies though. Topics for sci fi writers;

Neither Moon nor Mars are well suited to be humanity's next home. They both suck (playing on low atmospheric pressures). They are both subject to extreme solar activity that might trouble earth's future. Yet they are nearby and one must practice somewhere. Also, subsurfaces on each could be useful repositories for genetic material of humans and our favorite animal species. Analogous to Svalbard seed banking. Come to think of it, Svalbard could be good for that as well, without all the rocketry.

A good second home would be some planet not in need of terraforming at some other star not too terribly far away. No candidates have yet been identified. That does not matter yet, as technology to get there would be developed in far future. We hope.