I just listened to a talk by a Canadian battery researcher. He said that if you treat your EV well, by keeping the charge between 20 and 80%, the battery will last far longer than your car.
Yep, that's true. Early EV's suffered a lot with battery degradation. Newer cars a lot less, and Teslas 'LFP' batteries can be charged to 100% regularly with very minimal degradation over time. Amazing how quickly things are improving with battery technology. I charge my 4 year old Model3 to 80% most of the time, and 100% on a few occasions. After 30,000miles, the display suggests a little range loss compared to when it was new, but no bother at all for me
Will, here in the mountains of California, I’m in one of the epicenters for climate change.127 homes burned down on my side of town in August is 2022. 300 pines recently died on my property from our overheating and drying climate. A buddy has a well drilling company. Residential wells are going dry so often that he can’t keep up. It is getting hot here, crazy hot at times, well over 40 C. We’ve always had hot days, but the duration of heat is becoming unbearable to the point that I’m considering selling the beautiful house I built myself and moving north. Fossil fuels are the enemy. Keep up the good work.
Really sorry to hear that. I can't imagine the next decade or two are going to get better for you with those kind of temperatures continually rising. Must be a hell of a tough call to move when you've built your own house though. Good luck either way. Thanks for your support 👍🏼
Wars and conflicts alone makes oil and gas environmentally more hazardous than EVs. Ever wonder why diesel ,which is easier to produce than gasoline, more expensive ? Because they use a lot of it in Ukraine. Wars have a greater carbon footprint than extracting lituim in Chile or cobalt in the Congo
As an EV driver owning a Nissan Leaf since 2018, I can officially say that I have a full set of bars, with no sign of degradation or damage. That was 6 years ago. Well done mate you tell them.🎉🎉🎉
Kind of funny people telling me all the negatives of EVs after I've owned for years & gassers for decades, save it for someone who doesn't know better.
Will, I love your well researched pragmatic videos. Appreciate the largely jargon free (or well explained) manner in which you present your information . You share great knowledge in concise packages to help people debunk the crap smokescreens and fight the good fight, which I’ve been doing for decades. Keep up the wonderful work!!! Cheers from Mark, your new California solar/battery/ev friend!!
You are very kind! Thanks for such a nice comment. I’m just getting started… looking forward to improving and putting out more content! I spent a lot of time in California years ago, damn I miss your weather & beaches! Thanks again 👍🏻
On the subject of cobalt, you should look into what we use cobalt for. Yes some batteries use some cobalt but if you look at the use statistics you will see that 80% to 90% is used in stainless steel production and a lot of that stainless steel is used in petrol production.
LFP does not use Nickle or Cobalt. (Just sayin') And Lithium is common, but refined battery grade lithium is the current shortage. Add in recycling, and you take a hit starting but is very renewable in the long run.
Everyone seems to forget that petrol and diesel do not come out of the ground...crude oil does. It takes more energy to refine crude oil than it does to make electricity.
Then as we look at our phone or tablet, we should ask the same question to the oil industry that uses huge amounts of cobalt to refine the oil that goes in there car, and then that cobalt is useless to anyone else so gets dumped in land fills. What was the question again?
Another excellent video 👍🏻 I was just talking about this subject the other day. About how many people have taken a negative stance on EV cars from old or mis information from the media. This is a great video for me to share with people who have been mis informed, even down to my local idiots who complain about charging points being installed and not used, when they don’t get that the infrastructure needs to be built first. Maybe a video on charging would be great, any info out there about charging a car for the huge housing stock of terrace houses?
Great! Glad you liked it. Of course feel free to share it, although lots of people are not interested in hearing that their opinions might be wrong 🤣 I think there must be something wrong with me, because I don't at all mind finding out I've been wrong from time to time... seems the only way to learn?! There are some strange and wonderful contraptions for 'On street parking' chargers. Yet again, nothing perfect as you can't guarantee your space, and charging cables look a bit rubbish dangling like spaghetti! Pop up ones look tidy. I'll try to do something on this in the future 👍
Comments on cobalt: Glad someone at least is saying that. Africa is going to change more in the next decade or two than anywhere else. I think they'll get electricity as fast as they can, and then some. They don't have any of the silly hesitations about it that a lot of middle-class first world people have.
The problem is that the EV's that first went on sale DID have all sorts of problems the batteries did fail and sometimes burst into flames -especialy in collisions. Just like the first ICE vehicles the systems in the first EVs have been superceeded with safer and cheaper alternatives. The next improvement needed is to charging stations. It's still too easy to arrive at a charge place to find it doesn't work. If you've gone, by an app, to a station reporting that it's open it's hard when you find it's not working and you have 15 miles of range left. Finding a charger that needs a special payment card is also a problem, Contactless card payment should be legally mandated everywhere.
In Phoenix (Arizona it gets to be 126° F=52.222 ) in United States 🇺🇸 a 380 mile range dropped at work, to 90 miles. Companies let go of employment to those who ask to use Energy off Companies. USA 🇺🇸 or the employee leaves. Commutes in States are often 50 to 80 miles, and known some computers do 100.
WRT EV demands on the Grid: With more EVs AND more solar, more and more, the time to charge an EV will be the middle of the day. The EVs will take up the excess solar electricity. There goes your Duck Curve.
I would love to buy my first EV as soon as they get the batteries to perform better than ICE can. I have tried to understand which are the best batteries but the whole thing seem more than confusing. Here are some of the batteries that scientists have discovered so far: Lithium-ion batteries, Fluoride batteries, Graphene sodium-ion and graphene aluminum-ion batteries, SLA (lead-acid) batteries, solid-state batteries, Sodium-ion batteries, Nickel & Manganese batteries, and many more. They are ALL winners, but with their own unique draw-backs. Which one do you think I should buy? (Not all of them are in production and for sale yet).
Hello, I really wouldn't worry about which car to get based on its battery chemistry. Unless of course you particularly didn't want one that contains Cobalt for its 'negative reputation'? but even that's a grey area of confusion (how will the miners make money if no-one want Cobalt anymore?) The standard Teslas use LFP batteries which have no Cobalt or Nickel. I'm not sure I know what you mean regarding 'as soon as they get the batteries to perform better than ICE can'? EV's already outperform by a considerable margin in terms of acceleration. Plus electric motors convert around 90% of electrical energy into mechanical energy, or motion, compared to less than 40% for a gas combustion engine. Which one you should buy depends on your budget, criteria etc. Maybe check out my other video 'Top tips for buying your first Electric car' 😉
@Musk-eteer Tesla yes not the Diesel one driving by and not much to look at not wasting cell phone memory on something that is isn't relative to what I am about. I will never buy an Electric Vehicle ( EV). There are unpaved junkyards, that have EV's in them including newly introduced onse and none of them employees are certified Electric Vehicle techs. Because of how sometimes the batteries in the summer heat the cooling system is active until the battery 🔋 die they would burst and then chemicals and they become unstable when mixed with water 💧. There are videos on UA-cam about Lithium Ion and 💧 water . You investigate I have been Shadow banned by the Google and UA-cam. Good luck 👦🏎🚩
The only real objection to EVs is the mining of rare metals for their manufacture. I sympathize with those unfortunate people who work in cobalt mining in the Congo but that sympathy is no more than the sympathy for the respiratory issues suffered by the victims of air pollution. The air pollution sufferers are much more numerous than the miiners. As battery technology advances and human rights advocacy reaches the Congo, those victims will disappear. Perhaps the batteries that don't need cobalt will be a curse to the miners who have to go back to living on two dollars a day. I will never buy another ICE car. My conscience would bother me.
That's a very good point regarding the number of Worldwide victims of air pollution vs Cobalt miners horrible jobs. Both of which, are terrible. The transition to clean, sustainable energy & battery storage, can't come soon enough!
@@TeslaJigsaw pretty much all of it. I’ve heard ‘em all. “There is’nt enough capacity in the grid!” and “They always catch fire!” …this latter often linked to a stunt on the old “Top Gear”. I like to offer to buy them a roll of film for their next birthday,
Hello, thanks for your comments! (I think?! 😂) We have lots of wind here, and a cleaner & cheaper grid at night. Hence great off peak tariffs overnight. This will continue as more wind farms (and battery storage systems) come online
Some of those comments may be true. I have heard of most of that due to self driving system, battery chemicals, and accidents with electric cars but even if you were to try to make someone dismiss that, the cost of repairs on those and the infrastructure if everyone were to drive one would quickly make this conversation about your own belief a complete waste of time. You don’t have enough personal experience and personal knowledge to bunk or confirm your own views. Many of these electrical toys are so new that they hardly have scratches yet so you can’t disqualify any concern yet. If people feel that you are disrespectful to others because you disagree, many people are not going to give your views any thought. Again, don’t count on your own beliefs! They are too new and if you are personally involved in that type of car, it’s not going to matter what anyone points out, you take it too personal and it sounds like you are personally involved
Just add water 💧 on Lithium-ion, 🚀quite volatile. Look on the Left side of the Periodic Table. Tom Cruise movie at the End of movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 " Knight and Day'"
I just listened to a talk by a Canadian battery researcher. He said that if you treat your EV well, by keeping the charge between 20 and 80%, the battery will last far longer than your car.
Yep, that's true. Early EV's suffered a lot with battery degradation. Newer cars a lot less, and Teslas 'LFP' batteries can be charged to 100% regularly with very minimal degradation over time. Amazing how quickly things are improving with battery technology. I charge my 4 year old Model3 to 80% most of the time, and 100% on a few occasions. After 30,000miles, the display suggests a little range loss compared to when it was new, but no bother at all for me
Probably one of the best videos on EV, ownership, manufacturing I have seen in ages - bloody presentation- cheers Will
Will, here in the mountains of California, I’m in one of the epicenters for climate change.127 homes burned down on my side of town in August is 2022. 300 pines recently died on my property from our overheating and drying climate. A buddy has a well drilling company. Residential wells are going dry so often that he can’t keep up. It is getting hot here, crazy hot at times, well over 40 C. We’ve always had hot days, but the duration of heat is becoming unbearable to the point that I’m considering selling the beautiful house I built myself and moving north. Fossil fuels are the enemy. Keep up the good work.
Really sorry to hear that. I can't imagine the next decade or two are going to get better for you with those kind of temperatures continually rising. Must be a hell of a tough call to move when you've built your own house though. Good luck either way. Thanks for your support 👍🏼
Wars and conflicts alone makes oil and gas environmentally more hazardous than EVs. Ever wonder why diesel ,which is easier to produce than gasoline, more expensive ? Because they use a lot of it in Ukraine. Wars have a greater carbon footprint than extracting lituim in Chile or cobalt in the Congo
Pilchu Bruh… I hope that your like 5 years old, cause lmao
There are no experts on the climate/energy " crisis" only people with conflicting interests.
15:00 Anyone in the UK should find the "dirty coal" claim hilarious. You USED to work the black seam together.
As an EV driver owning a Nissan Leaf since 2018, I can officially say that I have a full set of bars, with no sign of degradation or damage. That was 6 years ago. Well done mate you tell them.🎉🎉🎉
Kind of funny people telling me all the negatives of EVs after I've owned for years & gassers for decades, save it for someone who doesn't know better.
Will, I love your well researched pragmatic videos. Appreciate the largely jargon free (or well explained) manner in which you present your information . You share great knowledge in concise packages to help people debunk the crap smokescreens and fight the good fight, which I’ve been doing for decades. Keep up the wonderful work!!!
Cheers from Mark, your new California solar/battery/ev friend!!
You are very kind! Thanks for such a nice comment. I’m just getting started… looking forward to improving and putting out more content!
I spent a lot of time in California years ago, damn I miss your weather & beaches!
Thanks again 👍🏻
On the subject of cobalt, you should look into what we use cobalt for. Yes some batteries use some cobalt but if you look at the use statistics you will see that 80% to 90% is used in stainless steel production and a lot of that stainless steel is used in petrol production.
LFP does not use Nickle or Cobalt. (Just sayin') And Lithium is common, but refined battery grade lithium is the current shortage. Add in recycling, and you take a hit starting but is very renewable in the long run.
Everyone seems to forget that petrol and diesel do not come out of the ground...crude oil does. It takes more energy to refine crude oil than it does to make electricity.
Then as we look at our phone or tablet, we should ask the same question to the oil industry that uses huge amounts of cobalt to refine the oil that goes in there car, and then that cobalt is useless to anyone else so gets dumped in land fills. What was the question again?
Another excellent video 👍🏻 I was just talking about this subject the other day. About how many people have taken a negative stance on EV cars from old or mis information from the media.
This is a great video for me to share with people who have been mis informed, even down to my local idiots who complain about charging points being installed and not used, when they don’t get that the infrastructure needs to be built first.
Maybe a video on charging would be great, any info out there about charging a car for the huge housing stock of terrace houses?
Great! Glad you liked it. Of course feel free to share it, although lots of people are not interested in hearing that their opinions might be wrong 🤣 I think there must be something wrong with me, because I don't at all mind finding out I've been wrong from time to time... seems the only way to learn?!
There are some strange and wonderful contraptions for 'On street parking' chargers. Yet again, nothing perfect as you can't guarantee your space, and charging cables look a bit rubbish dangling like spaghetti! Pop up ones look tidy. I'll try to do something on this in the future 👍
@RBCO Which Car was that? What went wrong?
Comments on cobalt: Glad someone at least is saying that.
Africa is going to change more in the next decade or two than anywhere else. I think they'll get electricity as fast as they can, and then some. They don't have any of the silly hesitations about it that a lot of middle-class first world people have.
Thanks for a good, comprehensive list. We are 100% EV in our household, and I've been amazed by the dumb questions I hear from well-educated people.
Me too! That's partly why I started the channel to fight the FUD! 👍
The problem is that the EV's that first went on sale DID have all sorts of problems the batteries did fail and sometimes burst into flames -especialy in collisions. Just like the first ICE vehicles the systems in the first EVs have been superceeded with safer and cheaper alternatives. The next improvement needed is to charging stations. It's still too easy to arrive at a charge place to find it doesn't work. If you've gone, by an app, to a station reporting that it's open it's hard when you find it's not working and you have 15 miles of range left. Finding a charger that needs a special payment card is also a problem, Contactless card payment should be legally mandated everywhere.
In Phoenix (Arizona it gets to be 126° F=52.222 ) in United States 🇺🇸 a 380 mile range dropped at work, to 90 miles. Companies let go of employment to those who ask to use Energy off Companies. USA 🇺🇸 or the employee leaves. Commutes in States are often 50 to 80 miles, and known some computers do 100.
LFP new technology = no cobalt
WRT EV demands on the Grid: With more EVs AND more solar, more and more, the time to charge an EV will be the middle of the day. The EVs will take up the excess solar electricity. There goes your Duck Curve.
I would love to buy my first EV as soon as they get the batteries to perform better than ICE can. I have tried to understand which are the best batteries but the whole thing seem more than confusing. Here are some of the batteries that scientists have discovered so far: Lithium-ion batteries, Fluoride batteries, Graphene sodium-ion and graphene aluminum-ion batteries, SLA (lead-acid) batteries, solid-state batteries, Sodium-ion batteries, Nickel & Manganese batteries, and many more. They are ALL winners, but with their own unique draw-backs. Which one do you think I should buy? (Not all of them are in production and for sale yet).
Hello, I really wouldn't worry about which car to get based on its battery chemistry. Unless of course you particularly didn't want one that contains Cobalt for its 'negative reputation'? but even that's a grey area of confusion (how will the miners make money if no-one want Cobalt anymore?) The standard Teslas use LFP batteries which have no Cobalt or Nickel.
I'm not sure I know what you mean regarding 'as soon as they get the batteries to perform better than ICE can'? EV's already outperform by a considerable margin in terms of acceleration. Plus electric motors convert around 90% of electrical energy into mechanical energy, or motion, compared to less than 40% for a gas combustion engine. Which one you should buy depends on your budget, criteria etc. Maybe check out my other video 'Top tips for buying your first Electric car' 😉
Tesla is the next car for you
Charging at night. No more off peak. Cheaper prices.
I seen Super Chargers running off Desiel generators, and 1 Tesla being charged by gas generator on the shoulder on PCH.
no photos???
@Musk-eteer Tesla yes not the Diesel one driving by and not much to look at not wasting cell phone memory on something that is isn't relative to what I am about. I will never buy an Electric Vehicle ( EV).
There are unpaved junkyards, that have EV's in them including newly introduced onse and none of them employees are certified Electric Vehicle techs. Because of how sometimes the batteries in the summer heat the cooling system is active until the battery 🔋 die they would burst and then chemicals and they become unstable when mixed with water 💧. There are videos on UA-cam about Lithium Ion and 💧 water . You investigate
I have been Shadow banned by the Google and UA-cam. Good luck 👦🏎🚩
Good video thank you!
Good work!
Thanks buddy!
The only real objection to EVs is the mining of rare metals for their manufacture. I sympathize with those unfortunate people who work in cobalt mining in the Congo but that sympathy is no more than the sympathy for the respiratory issues suffered by the victims of air pollution. The air pollution sufferers are much more numerous than the miiners. As battery technology advances and human rights advocacy reaches the Congo, those victims will disappear. Perhaps the batteries that don't need cobalt will be a curse to the miners who have to go back to living on two dollars a day. I will never buy another ICE car. My conscience would bother me.
That's a very good point regarding the number of Worldwide victims of air pollution vs Cobalt miners horrible jobs. Both of which, are terrible. The transition to clean, sustainable energy & battery storage, can't come soon enough!
Amazing content!!
Appreciate it! Thanks 🙏
Well said sir!
Thanks! Which bit?
@@TeslaJigsaw pretty much all of it. I’ve heard ‘em all.
“There is’nt enough capacity in the grid!” and “They always catch fire!” …this latter often linked to a stunt on the old “Top Gear”.
I like to offer to buy them a roll of film for their next birthday,
Great vid, Will
10:43 Come on. Don't just throw that out there. That's ridiculous. You were doing great till you did that. Geezzzz.
Hello, thanks for your comments! (I think?! 😂) We have lots of wind here, and a cleaner & cheaper grid at night. Hence great off peak tariffs overnight. This will continue as more wind farms (and battery storage systems) come online
@@beedoox5613 Do you generate enough to cover your needs?
Some of those comments may be true. I have heard of most of that due to self driving system, battery chemicals, and accidents with electric cars but even if you were to try to make someone dismiss that, the cost of repairs on those and the infrastructure if everyone were to drive one would quickly make this conversation about your own belief a complete waste of time. You don’t have enough personal experience and personal knowledge to bunk or confirm your own views. Many of these electrical toys are so new that they hardly have scratches yet so you can’t disqualify any concern yet. If people feel that you are disrespectful to others because you disagree, many people are not going to give your views any thought. Again, don’t count on your own beliefs! They are too new and if you are personally involved in that type of car, it’s not going to matter what anyone points out, you take it too personal and it sounds like you are personally involved
Here's your sign, everything made to make an electric car are extracted for the earth. Just saying...
Everything that's ever been made has come from the Earth in one way or another 🤷♂️
EVs are great if you can afford one. Now, what about all the plebs who can't afford one. Oh yes that's right - they can walk.
Same argument was made in the 1920's.
Just add water 💧 on Lithium-ion, 🚀quite volatile. Look on the Left side of the Periodic Table. Tom Cruise movie at the End of movie 🎬 🎞 🎥
" Knight and Day'"
Man, this sure is the biggest load of rubbish I heard in my life. (This sentence is attributed to Bo Diddley, the Rock and Roll senior general)