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Featured This Weeks' Anti-Electric Car Hit Piece -"The Dirt on Clean Electric Cars"

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by kenmce, Oct 17, 2018.

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  1. 3PriusMike

    3PriusMike Prius owner since 2000, Tesla M3 2018

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    No gasoline smell while refueling.
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  2. El Dobro

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    No spilling gasoline or diesel all over the ground.
     
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  3. kenmce

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    There is a good deal of room. However I want honesty and clarity in the damn presentation. This business of poisoning the well of public discourse with deliberate disinformation is getting out of hand, I get cranky when I bump up against it.

    I don't doubt that building so much as a Leyden jar creates some nastiness. Was this somehow a secret? It's not much of a point.



    It has that smell about it.


    If true, then we need to know- with the information presented honestly.


    Why not over the lifetime of the vehicle? Does the car just go wheels up and die on its tenth birthday?



    'Cause not everybody can afford a Bentley.
     
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  4. bisco

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    co2 is one thing, environmental damage is another. is there any mention of drilling and fracking and refining etc in the article?

    many things need to be taken into consideration
     
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  5. Prius Pete

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    If you buy a big-battery EV as a second car and just use it for short trips and low mileage per year, then you may not save enough CO2 by operating it during your ownership to make up for the manufacturing CO2.
     
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    Along with EVs, do we also give up cell phones and laptops?

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    This is possible, just as winning multiple lotteries in one week is ‘possible’.
    Why buy a big battery EV when using it exclusively for short trips?
    In the US, and probably even more so in Canada, the payback time is typically 10k-30k miles. Even around town that isn’t very long.
     
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    i was thinking how many billion button batteries are produced and thrown away every year. waiting for the full analysis from bloomberg
     
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    I give the old ones to the local library who has them recycled.
     
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    whatever that means.:cool:
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    The battery in such a car will then have a longer life for the second owner than one that saw more miles.
     
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    I recycle the little batteries, like in the remotes.
     
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  13. 3PriusMike

    3PriusMike Prius owner since 2000, Tesla M3 2018

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    During your ownership?
    So then someone else will buy it used from you...since the battery will still have lots of charging cycles remaining and they will get good use from it

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