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Who believes this crap
Scotty Utube this Horror [ EV Crash Test by UNL's Midwest Roadside Safety Facility University of Nebraska ]
I'm bookmarking this page, to show the truth to EV fanatics. It's too bad you won't likely get any views from that as we all know they will never look at anything that disagrees with their "eco-religion".
The colder things get the less resistance. That is why superconductors need an environment temperature of absolute zero.
The reason the cold affects EV’s is a characteristic of the battery, nothing to do with the cold raising resistance.
When an electric car will run from Denver to St. Louis with one stop in central Kansas for "lunch and a charge", I will consider one. Until then, I'll drive a hybrid while saving enough to get a new Impala (and the Dimocrats may kiss my backside until then).
95% of electric cars are still on the road.... the other 5% made it all the way home 🙂
Or caught fire from the battery being damaged!! 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Commenter_42 Mate, that is top-level stand-up comedy. 😂🤣
I've never heard of it, so If you made it up, you're a genius, but if you didn't, thanks for finding it for us. 👍
@@CNile-se9xw it's an old one. I'm not sure but I think it came from The Onion.
That was great,I am going to use this phrase for years😂😂👍👍👍
So you’re telling me the same issue that batteries have had since they were created is still an issue despite these ones having a Tesla logo on them?
Who could have predicted this... Physics and chemistry acting the same all the time!
WEF is devaluating eveything that you own. They will force you out of your ICE car and force you to buy an EV that will be 10x the price for performance, and when you give up you will ride public transit.
You have no idea how the chemistry has changed in 10 years. And by the way, insurance companies have found that EVs have fewer problems than petrol cars, and they burn less often, proportionally.
@@btn73 Fancy having to stop to fill up 12 times during a 1200 mile journey.....
I drive a vauxhall Corsa Diesel, which returns 70mpg, with a real world 650 miles between fill ups....a fill up takes 5 minutes. The chances of it spontaneaously combusting are NIL....I could go on and on.....
There has to come a time when EV pervs just admit they are a pile of sh*t except for short distance commuting, without carrying weight in the form of passengers & luggage and supposing warm, dry weather.
As regards `insurance companies`.....I think you will find premiums in EVs are doubling & tripling in the wake of how expensive they are if you crash or if the thing suddenly erupts.
@@btn73fewer problems how? Like hell I’m gonna trust insurance companies but where’s the source
After ten years your battery is no good and it’s an immediate 10-12k repair
Extreme temperatures and moisture is death for electronics.
Yet somehow the voltage regulator in your alternator survives. The ECU controlling your engine survives. But if it is an EV it is Imminent Death Waiting Around The Corner!
@@N4HHEexactly like these guys brain dead
@@N4HHE you nailed it 🤩
@@N4HHEthe comment didn't even mention EVs? 😂
@@gary122 this is an EV-hate thread.
Here's something a good friend of mine who owns an insurance company told me. EV's are driving rates through the roof because every single thing that brakes on them is absurdly expensive. One example; A guy had a wiring issue which caused the who car to die. This guy was parked on a second level of a parking garage in the city. When these cars are dead, you can't just put them in neutral and roll them out. They had to have a tow company drag it out, locked in gear in order to get it onto a dolly. Once in the shop, they needed to replace a wire harness leading into the battery which cost.......... $5,000 in total. Another repair he told me about was a $500 repair on a chipped windshield on one of these things. This is in the St. Louis, MO area, not exactly the most expensive area to live in the country, although it's getting there. Imagine what a typical fender bender is going to do to the insurance market with these money buckets on the road.
And my “concept” BMW i3 they’ve been making for 10 years has been perfect for 2 1/2 years. BMW kept calling saying I had to bring it in for the 1 1/2 year inspection. Why? Cause they wanted to charge BMW for SOMETHING to make the sale of the car worth their time😏 Apparently Scotty and service departments don’t like them. I was told they’ll have to lay off mechanics and support staff if electric vehicles take over.
Ya ev’s are worthless
Similar costs to many IcE vehicles with bizarre problems.
Your misinformed on insurance. My son was driving a POS 2012 Hundai Elantra with 160k miles on it bought a 2021 Duel motor model S ..his insurance went up 3 dollars a year
Follow the money people.. You will understand what's happening..
Small correction: resistance doesn't increase at lower temperatures, it actually decreases. That's why superconductors run at cryogenic temperatures.
But lithium batteries don't like the cold. The colder it gets, the slower they can accept charge. Until ultimately if they get too cold they won't accept any charge at all. Then you'll spend quite a while heating the batteries before you can start charging them.
He really needs to be corrected on many things but that's a very obvious start.
It does not work that way. All ev have battery pre conditioning. Itv uses the battery energy to preheat the battery to optimal charging temperature by heating it (cold)or cooling it (hot) Done wile the car is driven before reaching the chargers station. Take only few minutes while driving. . If no pre conditioning is dome then the battery can draw less than 6 amp for about an hr in order to slowly heat the battery to optimal charge rate temperature. Only fools do not do that (like in Chicago)
battery internal resistance increases as temperature decreases :)
If one follows Tesla's guidance to plug in at home every night then the car will prep the battery for the departure time you can set. There is no wait for warming the battery when one has all night.
True. Inverse proportional.. the lower the temp, the higher the current through a given size wire via the lesser resistance at lower temps. Scotty's a mechanic not an Engineer. However he's spot on everywhere else here.
Sellling Carbon Credits, Kinda' Like selling Indulgences.
Thats funny because its true.
Selling none existing product. Used to done by Mafias.🤡
ICE companies paying Tesla to drive themselves out of business quicker. Beautiful thing.
@@dang2055 Perthetic...
except climate change is real and god isn't
In 1940 , Europe at war, my mother regularly took a bus which had a gas generator attached to its rear. This big stove with a proud chimney was fed with burning logs of wood and it reliably produced a gas (Holzgas in German) which fed the traditional engine of the bus. It worked well as substitute for liquid fuels. Scotty, with his uncanny discerning eye, would appreciate the esthetics of the contraption and would suggest such a reliable backpack on Teslas in the winter.
Are you sure they weren't putting four-by-twos in there? 😂
That device is called a Gasifier.
That made me laugh : )@@JohnHughes2002
What made it more efficient - - they occasionally had to stop and stoke the chamber with fresh wood, and the hot coals dumped into the burner. The previous "fuel" became the heat source for the next charge. Wood pyrolysis.
These EVS are like politicians. Worthless😂
😂🤣
Disagree.If EVs and politicians were only useless, I'd be happy. However, they're both damaging at best and dangerous at worst.
Perfectly said!
politicians are the most overrated creatures on the planet. 🌎
They have there purpose.
Our president has zero electric cars in his motorcade. Wonder why
He's not even able to wipe his own butt, let alone drive a car.
Cause there junk , & government is afraid of them breaking down in there motor Cade lol
He doesn't have any at home either!
your president lol
@@mikesecor6074 not MY president. But you’d think he would be an automotive genius since he was there when cars were invented
Another problem that's not addressed: In areas prone to hurricanes such as Florida, they shut down the power grid. I guess they'll have to hitch a ride in an evacuation zone with a car that runs on gasoline.....
Or get their own solar panels like intelligent people do so they're not addicted to the grid
Yeah and people buy up all the gas in emergencies all the time.
Guess you'll be stuck with them.
What is your point? Oh wait you're smart enough to get gas before the hurricane. While this imaginary person isn't smart enough to top their EV?.
I swear you Anti EV people are tools. You have no critical thinking skills or imagination.
Could get solar panels. Could get a generator. See? Problem solved. With solar panels you don't have to rely on anyone, but yourself. Oh, solar panels can work through cloud cover by the way too.
@@darktest If "you" were so intelligent then you'd know most houses in the US with solar panels are still tied to the grid and, therefore, also get no power when the grid goes down. Additionally, a large portion of EV owners (about 20%) can't or don't charge at home (such as EV owners that live in an apartment or condo). What about them? They can't install solar panels, genius.
They shut down the grid??
So people who have don't leave have no power because the power was turned off?
Would you fill-up with gas after the hurricane hits or before?
Makes no sense
@@thomaswilson2917 The hurricane winds shut down the grid by damaging central components.
In the 90's I was an auto insurance adjuster and hated Saab's. Parts took forever to get, cars were delayed in the shops for months. We would often total them out when we factored in the high cost of parts, low resale value and months of rental car fees. Surprisingly most people were glad to see them go but we not so thrilled with how little value they retained.
All airliner turbo-fan-jet engines have built-in alternators so the engines will run EVEN IF the plane loses power. There is also an APU engine in the tail, and they can drop-down a generator if all else fails, that is spun by the high-speed air, even if the plane is gliding. If only BEVs were that smart.
My Focus can be push-started, it's a manual : )
BEV,s that says it all,
BRO it COSTS a lot to put in all that tech and sensors and what not; EV is just a disposable car toy meant to enrich dumb folks like elon
I haven't had any maintenance since June 2020. It cost 1/3 to 1/4 as much as gas in LA. It seldom gets below 40° LA. And I charge at home 90% of the time. Know your situation.
I went to the grocery store yesterday. Saw a line of about 15 Tesla chargers. It was towards the evening. Each charger had an electric car parked in it, look like all Teslas. In each driver seat was a person watching their phone. I think it’s ridiculous. My time is much more valuable than that.
What you didn't see is that those cars are only there for 5-10 minutes.
Why you didn’t see was people catching up on emails and calls or going grocery shopping.. all things you’d legally can’t do while driving. You also didn’t see that 90 of these cars charge at home while they sleep and unlike you they have a full tank every day. Charging at these chargers is rare.
Further, most Tesla drivers stay in their car because there usually isn't enough time to do other things before the car is ready. They get enough charge to continue and get on their way, opening a charger for the next person. Given the options, 5 minutes spent in the car on the phone sure beats the 8 minutes holding a gas nozzle in whatever the weather happens to be and breathing in fumes.
The longest I've had to wait for a Supercharger spot to open up was 2 minutes, and I was the third car in line at an 8-stall charger. 2 minute wait plus a 7 minute charge still had me on my way in less than 10 minutes. In the span of 25 minutes, over 20 cars were charged by 8 chargers. The original group all arrived during my 10-minute drive to the charger (viewable on the in-car map), 2 left on my arrival, letting the two waiting cars to charge. The 3rd left shortly after, allowing me to charge, and the rest of the original group left during my charge. They were replaced by a whole new group, who all left about 5-6 minutes after I did. How did I know? The pin on the car's map was showing 8 stalls available when I checked it a few miles down the road. I doubt that a similar-sized gas station has that rate of turnover.
Per my own charge stats for 2023, 72% of my charging was done at home, 14% at work, 8% at Superchargers, and 6% at public Level 2 stations (opportunity charging). 86% of my charging happened at one of two places I'm regularly at regardless of what vehicle I drive.
But they are saving money......
@@MrTsolar yes, you can defend your decision, a waste of time in my opinion. Good luck with that.
LMAO the Cookie Monster picture was HILARIOUS. You’re a gem Scotty
Love seeing a good Cookie Monster cameo.
When there is an agenda no lie is too big.
Well OEMs have been tampering with the EPA numbers, by providing cars with special software to pass the test. The news appeared yesterday. The polution caused by some of the largest ICE cars manufacturers far exceeds the polution of full countries (this is a different news)
Just ask Scotty
The only agenda here is Scotty.
Driving an EV is different then driving an ICE. it has pros and cons.
He only talks about the cons, and is a hater when it comes to EVs.
He acts like you always get the estimated range for your ICE. You don't. Especially if you aren't keeping up on all the maintence (that EVs don't have).
The agencies realize they need to come up with better standards. I am not a car guy, and know they've talked about it openly. There is no secret agenda.
They only ever test so many cars every year of every type..
They listen to whatever the manufacturer states, and test what they can.
Some EVs get even more range then listed.
But you can't help stupid. I just find it funny some of you think there is an agenda when there isn't. Oh by the way all manufacturers get the credits or subsidize. ICE cars, and the entire Fossil Fuel industry do. So stop using your ignorance as an excuse.
@@dianapennepacker6854 the U.S. government says there will be a law against the sale of ICE vehicles....and you think there is no agenda? Hmmmmm....
@@jackrutherford-1you are the one who’s stupid. If EVs are really good, why does govt need to bribe people to buy them?
Very much like how smartphone makers claim all-day bettery life with most of their products at full charge but after a couple of OS updates it drops to about half that.
Yeah but I am on my 6th year in my smartphone which had warranty of 1 year. The battery has dropped to 77% now..
Just APPLE things
Then buy a gasoline phone instead of a battery powered next time
So how many people you know don't have smart phones?
@@rasimbot this might be the dumbest joke today.
My Scam now has 100,207 miles on it. Considering the low operating cost and high performance, I hope to continue being scammed indefinitely.
At least you can use it up until it's done .. be interesting to see what it's like at 200 000.
That is not the point. EVs are being "oversold" as it relates to equivalent fuel economy. Your "scam" obtained it's energy from somewhere, no? Coal likely? Isn't the intent to "reduce CO2" based on the amazing efficiency offered? Efficiency we now learn is make believe. No one questions they are capable modes of transport. Just not the "green machine" promised.
Great answer. They don't know what they're missing.
I guess until you need to replace the battery
That's just ludicrous !!
Scotty, years ago Top Gear tested 3 diesel sedans to see how many miles per gallon they could achieve. The results were incredible. Why can’t American built diesel cars achieve 60 mpg with our diesels??
Because diesel car manufacturers lied about the emisions made with diesel engines. In the EU diesels were more than 50% of the market, now barely 14% and droping fast to ev.
Top Gear never really tested anything. Everything they presented was forgone opinion. Had they not been able to tweak exceptional MPG from the diesels there would have been no "report". Jeremy Clarkson is more subtile about waving his hands than is Scotty.
Because it doesn't fit the narrative. Diesel will never go away
Probably because it releases deadly fumes
like a burning lithium battery? @@iamworthy1302
Scotty, what's bad is that none of these charging location have a bathroom! If you gotta go, what are you supposed to do?? LOLOL
There are actually some places with a bathroom and there are some charging stations which are at the malls and such. It just depends on where you load a charge.
When it takes so long to charge, you've plenty of time to find a nearby place to eat and make a deposit!
I drove a Tesla for a couple months and I found multiple Sheetz locations had supercharging stations at them. I thought that was the perfect place for them; a place that’s open 24/7 that you can go inside at anytime, day or night and has bathrooms, convenience items and food.
@@gbowersand Buccees
true but modern ev (2023 and up) charge up to 200 miles additional range in about 12 min.@@Unsensitive
Not just evs, but so called normal cars have trouble in winter these days too. Tow driver from finland here and we just had a record breaking amount of work during january because modern cars dont last in -30 celsius. And i dont mean just battery problems. Adblue systems, shitty starters, etc just stop working in cold.
Yeah but combustion car battery costs $100-$200, not $5000-$10000!
You do realize as a tow driver that at some extreme temperature point, no car (ICE or EV) will function, right? Thing is, the temps in Chicago were only around -16 celsius when all these EV owners got stranded. Nowhere near the -30 celsius temperature when "some" ICE cars will start experiencing "some" functionality issues. And you only need to look at many of the news articles and YT content (many from EV owners themselves) lately to know that these EV sub-freezing weather issues aren't just exclusive to Chicago during this most recent polar freeze. BTW, -30 celsius is extremely rare in places where most humans live "AND" operate motorized vehicles.
That said, yes, motorists in ICE cars often do get stranded in winter weather, but usually that's due to poor road conditions caused by snow and/or ice--issues than can often be overcome by winter tires, snow chains, 4WD/AWD, etc. It's rare for an ICE vehicle to get stranded in -16 celsius because the temperature is affecting its functionality.
In Toronto Canada, we get as low as -40Celsius with windchill - so the additives from the gas pumps make even the oldest cars work fine. Japanese cars are the best, but even Diesels are fine here in Canada.
@@lamontjohnson5810 Well said.
I don't do well in -30 C either forget the car! I have experienced colder, I used to work at a grocery store, and we kept our freezer vault, well the gauge went down to -40 F also -40 C and the needle rested on that pin at the bottom. I would stand just at the door, look for what I needed, run grab it and run back out.
I just seen a news report that thieves are cutting the charging cables at the charging stations because of the copper in them.
happens in the UK as well. if it is valuable, there is someone who will steal it. with the breakdown of law and order, the copper stealing will get MUCH worse.
Yeah, eye scene it two!!
oh yeah that is going to be a huge problem. The same thieves are doing this to utility poles.
This will be a huge issue once crack heads find out they can just walk up to side of a house . Cut the cable and have copper also at public charge .
Whatever…those things put out…no clue how many volts but it’s a LOT and yes I know they’re “off” but…well I guess I don’t need the money so I sure wouldn’t chance it.
Ford is working on EVs that do not need charging. But its range is limited by the length of the extension cord.
Scotty, somebody should market a gas powered generator that mounts on the back of those cyber trucks so it can charge while they drive. It would be very entertaining to see those being used!
I saw a video of a dude who had one in his Tesla a few years ago because he didn’t know where he would run out of electricity lol 😂 too funny
How about they just use regenerated braking systems like hybrids?
It’s like alternators on each wheel and will charge while braking
Yes, YOU should definitely do this.
@@jessewynne8193 EVs already use regenerative braking. What are you talking about?
@@jessewynne8193Regenerative braking is exactly why EVs have very long mile ranges, but those ranges don't actually translate properly on the highway because of regenerative braking. So when you are driving in a city and you are constantly braking, they get back so much of their energy that they are way more efficient per mile, where on the highway they have to continuously spend energy to keep moving and fight drag.
Actually, the resistance decreaces as the temperature goes down, if we are talking about electrical current.
Yes but chemical reactions in the battery go to a slower pace. That is when pre conditioning the battery enters the game.
Actually, nobody cares Cliff.
No EV,s for me Scotty I bought a Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro on your recommendations, I got one of the last ones , before the new 4 cylinder turbo hybrid’s come out. This Toyota will outlast me, Thank you Scotty for all of your Videos you have shown me the way, Toyota is the way to go, I’m going to have the Frame coated with Fluid Film because we live in Michigan!!
I looked up what Fluid Film was. Wow man. It's like a wax but it protects even more. Even for places where weather is mild, it might make a lot of sense. Got any thoughts on that?
you the man! I hope these get archived forever!
The worst thing about EV's is not the car. It's the owners.
They're very flamboyant and they think they're better than anybody else
As an owner of 2 ev's and a diesel truck I would agree. Most are pretentious blow hards. Some, like myself, just like their performance. I'm under no illusion I'm saving the planet nonsense
You mean the tiny but very loud EV cultists?
That’s an interesting comment. when you just pissed off $75,000 on a vehicle are you actually going to be trusted to give an accurate appraisal of your purchase?
@@lv4077 I can easily afford it. I'm sorry if you can't. Work harder
Every once in a while, I forget to plug my cell phone in. I still make it to work (45 minute drive), charging my cell phone along the way. If my cars low fuel warning light comes on, I can make it to the next gas station along my route. I have never had to wait more than one or two cars to get to a pump and rarely have to even wait for a pump.
If I drove an EV and forgot to plug it in at night, I wouldn't make it to work on time the next morning.
You're aware most EVs now have 200-300 miles of range right? Most Americans average 40 miles of driving or less in a day, and modern EV owners often only need to charge once a week. You absolutely do not need to plug in most EVs every day.
If you drove an EV and forgot to plug it in at night, it would be a good idea to keep your phone charged, or have a spare power source for it, to have phone reminders to plug your car in, thus saving all the gas station trips you would otherwise need to make without an EV. Soon, wireless charging at home will be a thing, and you can just pull in over the charging mat and let the car figure out when to charge. Good luck!
And why would we need to have this additional stress about plug ins, wireless and so on? Having this wireless mat means millions of tons of garbage on the planet.... if we care about the environment...
@@jojag5
So you own the only EV that goes that distance in the cold cold north?! Amazing 😂
@@jojag5you may not know many EV owners.
My company installs residential chargers in Oregon and California. The vast majority of them require charging every- or every other evening. The average mileage of American drivers is ~ 33 miles per day.
In cold months that requires an EV to be charged almost every evening.
Like in the States, Australian distances make EVs unviable they're OK if you only do city crap 50 km each way, but to drive Melbourne to Sydney (880 km) is a 9 hr ICE trip including a refuelling x1 but in a comparable BMW ICE VS EV test run a reporter took 15 hrs because of the recharges.
I can't warrant what is effectively a 2 day drive for a 3 day trip.
u need HSR
If the Battery falls below 20%, Sentry Mode turns off and the mobile app sends you a notification
I really like Scotty but he is off on this one.
sentry mode is run off the 12 volt battery not the main drive battery.
Also even if it did drain the battery flat, it's not an exclusively EV problem. There have been several recent recalls from different manufacturers' gas vehicles regarding abnormally high 12V battery discharge due to fancy new computerized auxiliary systems, leaving your car dead in the lot... And of course, those are the carmakers self-respecting enough to make a recall or update over such an issue, many cars just have battery drain issues and they... never get fixed
Regardless, if this does happen to you, the good news is that starting an EV or an ICE car with a dead 12V is a very similar process. And some electric cars even DO have an easy quick-access point for the 12V that can be used for starting, not all of them are annoyingly buried deep in the bowels of the car.
a notification that your stupid battery powered car is dead, or near dead AGAIN
@@paperburn Where are your receipts? Sure, Sentry Mode might put some additional strain on a 12V battery (as all auto electronic devices tend to do) but the majority of the power requirement for Sentry Mode comes from the lithium-ion battery pack. Even Tesla owner's manuals state as much. Unless, of course, you know something that Tesla engineers don't.
I know a few that lease EV's & very disappointed in them with charge & they just gave up after a year on a 3 year lease & turned them in & leased a gas powered vehicle.
That is true for GM and Ford ev. If their regular cars after 100+ years of experience manufacturing them are just crap what can make you belieft theair ev are worth a penny?
@@bestjunkyThis is false. Most EV owners never go back to ICE
@@phillipmoore6249just list why you like your Tesla better than a gas car…. Or how Scotty’s wrong… and why… otherwise not sure what you are accomplishing here
@@jamesbekman7400 where I live, the cost of electricity is 73% lower than the national average (Wenatchee, Washington which has two hydroelectric dams on each side). The average person drives less than 200 per day. The average person owns a home to charge at. The average person spends tons of money a year on gas, oil, spark plugs, typical engine maintenance. To say it’s a “scam” is false. I’m only talking about Tesla as all other EV’s suck. Where I live people WANT EV’s.
Actually, resistance decreases with temperature, but the effect would be minimal given the temperature range. Still won't help cold temperature performance of any battery.
I only see one time battery preconditioning light on my Bolt EUV. Temperature was 11°C. Rage droped 25% by using the hested seats, and heted steering wheel. NO Ac since the car has resistant heat and not a het pump.
Scotty your info about Ev’s are very off. Just stick to ICE content please. You are started to sound like an a dumb dumb.
All those Tesla in Chicago got stuck because they all live in apartments and don’t have home chargers. People with the home chargers didn’t have this problem.
Yes, at home, overnight, it doesn't matter if the vehicle spends 30 minutes heating the battery. Plus when charged at home the vehicle can be warm and ready every morning. Tesla provides a timer with "be ready at X:XX" for that purpose. Also if one has an event in iPhone calendar with destination set the Tesla can automatically prepare for that with no other interaction.
Stupid renters lol
How many thousand $ does that cost, and how much does your electric bill increase every month?
@@CarlJacobs-dz2hv $230 for a Tesla Mobile connector that plus into 120v or 240v outlets. Then at my utility rates 3¢/mile. That is same as 90 MPG at $3/gallon. Is a terrible budget-buster. Is why public fast charging is so wrong for EVs.
@@CarlJacobs-dz2hv 1500 to get the wiring done plus the charger. And my electric bill increased 43 dollars.
At 10 cents per kilowatt hour.
I was at a supercharger station and three of their stations were out of service.
@@dandy5091 34 percent
We have loved our Chevy Bolt for local driving and it’s saved us a lot of money from home charging and solar vs paying for gas, but I also have a diesel truck and a 4Runner that we also love and enjoy
Good for you but that doesn't work in a northern climate and it will get most people off the road . You can afford it most people won't be able to is that right?
@@johncameron2241I only have my Tesla and no other cars. It does fine in the Denver winters for me.
In EV can work just fine in a normal climate as long as you don't want to drive it in the coldest of days. Like honestly, they are not bad at second or third vehicles, especially for local commutes and around town driving. But they are not meant to replace gas cars and should never be touted as a replacement for gas cars simply because they are less efficient in highway driving and charging times will always be an issue.
@@johncameron2241 people in the nordic countries say they don't have problems at all; Maybe because they understand how they work versus most people trying to decide how they should work.
During 2023 several manufacturers offered EV at lower price than comparable ICE vehicles even withou the Fed credits. Hyunday and Kia did, Tesla does it too. For 2024 battery prices will drop by 50% making it easier to sell ev wal lower than ICE cars MSRP.@@johncameron2241
Scotty ! i spat my coffee out lol,, you made it into an English newspaper called the Sun .. A little article on stopping car thieves ,, Well done and keep up the great work ,,
All the best to you from the UK .
"southern English" newspaper ,I think sums up the sun
The Sun is about the right quality for this video. Complete trash.
Ah yes, The Sun. The last bastion of common sense and factual information. NOT!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I have 2 Tesla's, model 3 & Y and I have never experienced anything in this video. Wife and I drive less than 100 miles per day and our setup works perfect for us. We charge every 2 or 3 days at home 240v chargers and it cost $5 to fill up each battery.
I like your no-nonsense approach. Good on you. Glenn from Ozz
How safe is it for my wife to hang around these chargers at night? great place to get robbed.
Well she should be charging in your garage at night not a random charging station. Idk how sketchy your garage is mines pretty secure
@@jorgeluiscorrea992 Maybe they haven't got a garage, haven't you thought of that, 🤪🤪is that to difficult to workout.
Absolutely! #1 reason not to get one.
She ain't got to worry about it. Those thugs aren't charging up no ev's. They only drive cadillacs or chargers.
@@jorgeluiscorrea992well not everyone has their own garage. Lots of people live in apartments and condominiums with no garage. Ever think of that??
As a back up, I think the Tesla should have a removable floor board so you could make it go with your feet like on the Flintstones. Of course the battery might make your feet catch on fire.
I like how you think! Good for you,I agree with you!
Why do you reject Tesla? It is a worldwide leader on ev technology and it is a US company. Would you prefer that the leading ev maker were from China. They willtake the wold 10 to places on ev sales if not for Tesla. Legacy automalers willbecome a shadow of what they are today by 2028.
A blind man following another blind man.@@NancySanders-om4ic
you are 100% right , But Resistance goes down in the cold actually. Higher with heat.
Great video, very informative, thanks for posting.
It's like this is the first winter ever for EVs. Norwegians are laughing at Chicago.
Chicago goes easily down to -40F, not your cheesy Oslo -30F can compare😁
Get a clue. Norweigans don't drive EV's in the winter. The EV buses are a total failure in winter in Oslo.
Most toyotas/ICE start in the coldest Chicago winter w/ no problem. Not necessarily on Norwegian Petroleum though:)
It's not all that cold in Oslo. Not that cold in Bergen either. Not that cold in mountain tunnels either.
@@irvinewayne4086 Norway has superior cold weather petro?
We would like to hear about it
Scotty .. I live in Canada and it was -57C with the windchill recently (about -70F) likely about -40C/-40F and hmm, not an EV to be seen. Why ? Cause they suck in cold weather. Here the Toyota dealer told me that they are selling almost all hybrids and no EV's.
hybrids are perfect for most people.
Huge Problem with hybrids is they still have cancer causing emf pouring all over your genitals and into your organs thats realllllly bad if you didnt know somehow
I drive an EV. There are EVs everywhere still when it’s in the negatives. Hybrids are selling more bc more people are renting. It’s best to charge in a garage and extra range from a plug in hybrid is very nice. You’re putting a weird spin on this
and you couldn't start your ice car either
Why don't you ask how much Tesla owners actually pay to charge their cars and how far they can go for the money? You know there are some Tesla owners who don't pay anything. Sometimes it's a free perk from their job or where they live and there are some places that let you charge for free. There are also some people that are off grid and have solar and a battery wall and also charge their cars for free. Just charging an EV overnight from home is cheaper than any combustion engine on the market, there's no question about that.
Excellent honest evaluation of what its really like to own and drive a reasonable distance
Teslas have been around for years. Cold weather has been around since forever . Why are the cold weather problems with EVs just now drawing national attention?
Because Elon isn't in favor with the current administration. Plus it takes enough people to have problems for it get national attention.
Because the government trying to mandate that we all drive them is fairly recent.
For the same reason all those Windmills didn't have De-icers in Texas.
BTW: Blade De-icing has been around for 100 years.
It’s the government trying to push an agenda. Whenever they push their news hard, UA-camrs and the media cover it and begin to lose sight of what’s really going on. UA-camrs and the Media are in it for the money so once the news become mainstream, everyone is going to cover it because it’s an opportunity to make money. Just wait, things will connect eventually. An Agenda will be complete whether it be to push gas price increase, to push more sales on gas vehicles, oil consumption, gas to ev vehicle balance, assist with dealerships to sell vehicles and create more bank loans etc. Someone from the top will push an agenda and meet their goal eventually.
@@spankynater4242 Government regulations are making ICE vehicles piles of garbage. I'm sick of all of it. Enough is enough. Vote these tools out, and vote people in that will scrap all of these stupid laws that are ruining ICE vehicles.
Yes I've experienced the charger issue my self I had to sleep at a police station to charge my rental ev🤔
Remember the movie DUMB & DUMBER?
With my ICE, no range worries. I don't even think about it. When I get below 1/4 tank, I stop at next corner and fill in 5 minutes.. With ICE, I understand you have to start considering the next 'fill' as you leave the charger....
How many people drives more than 200 miles a day? 5% maybe?
Replace the 2nd instance of ICE
In 2015 some PHD did his research for it. I remember numbers were like this “to charge Tesla Model S85D from 0-100%, by burning coal at the plant and accounting for losses, you will emit as much CO2 as burning a 240 litres of diesel” and that gets you supposedly 370 miles. Ever wonder how far will a car go on 240 litres of diesel??? Hint, much, much, much further…
I haven't even thought ones about buying a EV. Even with cordless tools if you use a high draw tool it take Even more battery power
Yep…. When I have to run a lot of screws into thick wood (aka a deck) I plug in my Bosch power drill.. it would take me days with a 20V power pack…
One correction: copper resistance decreases with decreasing temperature
Semiconductors generally decrease resistance as they get hot.
Correct. And the thing is that gas vehicles have just as many electronic gizmos as an electric car. Cold with a "computerized" gasoline car has never been a problem in all of my days.
@@paulstandaert5709 wasn’t always the case with gasoline. Diesel too. They are not inherently immune to cold. EVs don’t have trouble in the cold in Norway, perhaps they have smarter drivers there?
@@N4HHE I have never studied Norway's climate, but being right along the coast, I suspect that it doesn't get particularly cold there.
Getting an old "non-computerized" vehicle started below -20C or colder was quite the accomplishment. Now, its never a problem unless you have a poorly maintained POS.
He's referring to the cold causing the battery itself, not the wires/cables, charging slower in cold(er) temp.
Elon and Tesla hired a huge crew to subdue any complaints over their own customers finding out they only get half of the advertised mileage on a full charge and also parts just breaking down on them, vital, important parts that can even harm you and your family. They then went around and blamed it on their own customer, saying its their fault when they know full well majority of the time it is because of Tesla's bad quality control.
Love your work Scotty, good to hear reviews from someone with a serious practical bent.
I don't always agree with you but I DO agree with you about EV's. I know someone who has a Tesla and a F150 Lightning. He had to have 2 different chargers installed in his garage. He drove his Lightning cross country to watch a game from Dallas to Orlando to Buffalo. He actually spent more time finding a working charger and charging than he did on the Road. He's stuck in a long term contract and couldn't sell it for half of what he owes for it. Literally took 24 + hours to charge at a dealership in NY ! Loves to drive it but hates owning it. I'm a mechanic of 45 years. Tried to tell him. By the time we catch up with the necessary infrastructure for charging and manufacturers get real about driving distance they're just a waste of big bucks. Cost more to insure too ! I'll stick to my trusty 2011 RAM and 2013 Subaru.
Why did your friend need to install two different chargers? He could have installed one and bought an adapter to use with the other car. And why would your friend take the least efficient EV cross country?
Your friend doesn't sound very smart.
@@opb324 That's a rude and insensitive thing to say. He had purchased a higher voltage Ford charger and wanted to be able to charge them separately. My guess friend is those that make insensitive comments are simply uninformed or stupid, in your case I'd bet on both.
Channel Jetters Garage bought his Ford Lightning for ~ $94K. Took a ~ $20K loss when he sold it 6 months later.
@michaelmartin2276 So, your friend made a conscious decision to buy two different EVs with different charge ports, install two separate chargers, and is complaining about it? Or are you complaining about it?
The batteries will only get better by being heavier and bigger they will never work
Yes Scotty and in all the photos of charging stations I’ve never seen restroom facilities, food, a coffee or soft drink bar, highway maps , a windshield wash bucket or a tire pressure station. I guess you have to still have to find a gas station to take advantage of those services. Haha!
I have watched some UA-cam videos where they show trips in EV's the chargers are often installed in the back of a existing parking lot. People will walk to a nearby store for food and take a break. Not exactly a safe location. Some of the chargers will not fast charge due to technical problems.
Great video, thanks 🎉
Scotty, you are 99.99% CORRECT. Keep in mind the SINGULAR PURPOSE of EV's is to PREVENT the herd from moving. If the herd does happen to move, the EV's purpose is then shifted to MONITOR the MOVEMENT details for PATTERN recognition and herd movement details. The 0.01% error is that electricity moves better as temperature drops, think "superconductors" and cryocooling. However, you are 100% correct about batteries themselves dying as they get colder. THANK YOU for your "positive post" no pun intended. Luv'n it!
VW 3.0L Turbo Diesel cars like the Q7 and Cayenne in the 2010's could easily go 600+ miles on a tank. Fill it up to 100% in 5-10 minutes and off you go.
They used to give incentives to buy a diesel in the UK. Oh times have changed.
They’ll be giving incentives for electric until a video surfaced of how terrible the lithium mines are
I spend about 15 seconds filling my car with electricity every 200 miles. Plug it in, walk into the house, unplug it in the morning with a full battery and I didn't have to stand around in a stinky petrol station. Twice a year I charge on the public network and do that while doing other things, like eating, going to the toilet, visiting somewhere on holiday. I spend way less time charging than I ever did filling up.
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The realy bad mines are not for lithium, its for cobalt. Lithium is used on every cell phone , in every laptop. Should you stop using your smartphone or laptop because of the lithium . I guess not. Then why a different yardstick for ev??@@Tropicalfrooploops
But they all drive on tar roads and highways, bitumen , whats left after oil fractionating. Many thanks Scotty.
Gasoline is made by reforming waste material in a petrochemical facility. Gasoline consumption has been declining as ev sales go up. Motor oil consumption will start to drop too..
Oil companies spend NO MONEY on toxic waste disposal. - - they put it ALL into the asphalt and tar, our roads are paved with toxic waste !!
So much so that when a school needs to pave parking lots and playgrounds, they request a special "clean" batch of asphalt the children can play on.
Here in Europe , no dealer will take a second hand EV in any new car trade
Why would they? No one wants a used EV with a dying battery. £43k is the approximate cost for a battery.
good stuff!
tysm!
One thing that is never mentioned is fuel cars can carry a jerry can extending the range by at least a couple of hundred miles
True, but very people do it. Cannon ball runners do it always.
@@EnriqueThiele yes, so fuel car owners have the option to extend their vehicles range with a jerry can. It is impossible for EV owners to have a range extending option
You can carry batteries for teslas as well
@@iamworthy1302 yea, the jury is out on that one. It is such a fringe case and technically difficult. It doesnt have the ease and convenience supplied with a jerry can
It baffles me why they don't at least put some solar cells on EVs to help charge them. People might be a little less worried about being totally stranded somewhere. At least you might have a chance to go far enough to get to a charging station AND extend range. The car could literally charge while you are parked for the day outside.
That’s funny, the corporate media is telling me NOT to buy a Tesla.
Yeah... It's Get Elon time at the UN. (USA's Puppet Master)
They have been doing that since before the roadster was available for sale.. Does not seen to have a big effect since Tesla is now the largest ev manufacturer in the world (BYD can pass it for a shor period of time,until new factories start production.
Exactly, corporate media is telling you exactly that.
On which planet ? The corporate media has been pumping Tesla for a decade
@@jamesclerkmaxwell8020 And yet all is see on the news is negative Tesla stories.
I worked for Cavana for a couple years. When a electric came in dead or died on the lot we would connect a fully charged jump box and lower the hood as much as we could. We'd get them on or off the truck that way. I hate electrics...all of them.
Trailers with generators obvious solution. Oh wait that's a hybrid.
When the Nuke-battery is made & installed. Like in the FallOut game KA-BLOOM! Mimi-NIUKE! lol
The ultimate goal is to make sure us commoners won't be able to travel around easily.
Exactly right and part of thier "Master Plan".
It's not though, you're In tinfoil hat territory. Ev are hot garbage though
It really seems that’s the end goal of every government around the globe lately.
Exactly right
Ah yes the end goal is to not let you drive to chickfila
Thanks for the rant.
I have had a kia ev6 for over two years and have loved it. We mostly charge in our garage but even on road trips we haven''t had a problem. If I couldn't charge at home I would not buy one. We get 300mi in the summer and 270 in the winter. on the highway we only get about 230 but thats enough for us.
Quick charging degrades the battery too.
Ooo that 20% to 80% for L-ion is actually worse than the 0-100% for the newer S-ion batteries.
Hyundai just pattented in the US a solid state battery that is presurized. Has double the energy density, charges faster than Lithium batterieres and cost half of a lithium battery. Wonder if they will make a new SS battery plant in the US. Hyundai have their own technology making ev since 1991.
A couple of things: 1. Resistance of most conductors goes up and down with temperature. The resistance of the battery goes up with decreasing temperature, however, because of the electrolyte conduction chemistry. That is why Teslas could not charge in cold weather. The batteries must first be heated before charging. What is strange is that the supercharger has plenty of power to heat the battery, 2. Electronic equipment can be routinely designed to work down to -65 degrees F. This is not a technology issue.
I’m perfectly happy with my 2013 Nissan leaf that has a 45 mile range because I’m not travelling to Madagascar every day😂
My toyota prius has been an excellent car. I like getting 60 to 70 mpg. It saves me money,so I can fill up my f150 lol
You do not get 60-70 mpg on average. Maybe when you coast. I owned 2 Prius in the past. Very good car but 45-50 is reasonable as estimate without using extreme unrealistic measures. I got close to 60 once but it was not normal driving.
Guess you weren't driving yours correctly.
@@apollo1464Same here. 2017 Prius.
Yup, still better than gas run, people have so much to say without even driven one lol😂
Why would i go to a place to fill up my wagon when i can just feed it grass.
Really dumb analogy.
@@Jimster481 Funny because it was used when the automobile came out. " If I would have asked people what they wanted they would have said a faster horse" Henry Ford
@@Nate-wp9sn ur right, because the first ever cars were EV. They came out in 1861. The batteries weren't rechargeable so it was only for rich people who could physically have the battery replaced every 50 miles. 1867 the rechargeable battery became a thing and by 1872 the cars could be recharged. However the costs were huge and still cars were only for rich people.
As the combustion engine became widely established at the turn of the century; the car became slightly more affordable and range was exponentially increased.
Once Henry Ford created the assembly line; the cars were available for a mass market price and gasoline infrastructure started to be built everywhere.
Before this there were charging stations inside of parking garages and such and people had to leave their cars to charge all day.
Thomas Edisons & Henry Fords biggest failure was trying to create an EV version of the model T. They almost both went bankrupt doing it and Thomas Edison lost his Virginia lab when his EV model T prototype burst into flames.
Ironically there is nothing out there about Nikola Tesla being a proponent of EVs and he is known for popularizing AC energy rather than DC which was Edisons thing. Since AC can travel further across wires and has less power loss.
Dumb analogy because the wagon that fed on grass was way slower than the wagon that needed fuel.
In this case, both wagons go at about the same speed ranges.
Oh, and quick correction (amongst a sea of corrections)...fun fact: As a general rule, only about 12% to 30% of the energy from the fuel you put in a car is actually used to move it down the road. The rest is lost to engine and drivetrain inefficiencies, powering accessories like air conditioning, and overcoming resistance like air drag and rolling friction.
I leased a Tesla just to see how it is, you are right I left sentry mode on when I went on a cruise it was down to 51% from 80% after two days. I was able to shut it off from the cruise ship.
Anyway it got in a bad accident, lost all power. I could not get into it at the junkyard because the port you plug into was destroyed. Managed to pull the emergency release from the vented window using more junk from the junk yard to get the door open.
Anyway yes, probably not the right move… it’s likely totaled but I could not even get a shop to give me an estimate on it!
That is because you are running cameras 24/7. They are recording at all times Hey, guess what if you had an internal combustion engine car and you had 7 cameras, not 1, but 7 cameras recording at all times while you were gone for a couple of days, guess what? The battery might just run down, You know that 12 V battery that you use to crank the car up.😂🤣😅 you people are absolutely amazingly stupid.
One gallon of gasoline contains 33.4 kwH. Max energy density of best batteries is 1 kwH per gallon.
and that's a major problem with ev's.
Lol
They are going to have a hard time getting past those numbers.
@@johncameron2241 Lol
I have a 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 with the 390 and you can leave that thing sitting for a YEAR and get in it and it'll start..
There'll be just enough battery to crank it long enough to pump some fuel into the carburetor and then you give it 10 pumps and crank it again and she's running...
Get off sentry mode in a Tesla and that battery will last you forever
Same with the 360 , police model
@@americanegale697 So you pay for the Sentry mode but you can't use it? It's almost like you can't use a Tesla like they told you you could?
Same with the 1980 F100 I inherited from my dad.
@@americanegale697no it won’t. 1% a day will still kill it unattended 🙄
I liked that picture of an SV towing a genset. That was my joke several weeks ago
Remember that James May video. Joe public cannot work out that fix and would be stuck. It's a pain that the battery loses charge quickly whilst off for days.
Knowing what computer batteries are like, mobiles and tablets, puts me off electric cars. Plus as a low usage driver, petrol makes even more sense.
It would make the most sense to calculate mpg based on the cost of a gallon of gas vs the miles for that value of electricity.
An ev electri bill is about 2.5X lower than using galons of gasoline. Gasoline has a lot more energy that a battery pack, the problem is that 66% of that energy is wasted a heat produced by the combustion and a samll quantity by friction loses. That is why the ev wins in all comparisons to an ice car.
OK, I recently drove my Tesla Model Y LR 47.54 miles around town and charged 13.37 kWh from the grid (consumption listed in-vehicle is from-battery). 281 Wh/mile. My utility billed $0.098390/kWh. That is 2.77¢/mile. At $3/gallon you would have to get 108 MPG to equal.
Weight should be factored in as well.
@@MikeLyons2011 Weight added should be equal. Road taxes are the only thing that should consider weight.
@@MikeLyons2011 why should weight be factored? The car carries whatever weight it needs to get the job done. Then one measures the cost of fuel to move that vehicle with it's payload (occupants). Doesn't matter if 2,000 pounds or 5,000 pounds.
NEVER BUY AN EV. My brother has a Tesla. He lives in Orange County. We were going up to Los Angeles the next day, which is about a 50 mile drive. He had to charge it to at least 80% the night before, which took like 30 min. All these constant planning & charging. It's a headache to me.
Lmao charge it at home… every night 50 amp and you are good to go
You plug it in at home and wake up daily with 300 miles availability…
Not any planning needed!
Wow
Screw EVs.
Lmao, I don't even own an EV but am used to plugging my stuff in to charge over night; razors, cell phones, power drills, etc. This seriously wouldn't be a big deal for most people. Hilarious argument though. I guess driving to a gas station is more convenient for some people who plan to drive😂
Scotty, great job. What is amazing is that soe of these monstrousities are still selling.
Awesome thanks 👍
I will never be forced to buy a EV. They are junk.
that e-junk.
I'll buy a golf cart if they really push me into it. I'd rather be on a bicycle than an electric car. And I would do it now if it wasn't so unsafe.
Then you will not have a car because they will be the only cars to buy. They will force you.
@@julian-genThey can shove them where the sun don't shine.
@@julian-gen I am NOT being forced. No chance.
It's all about "15 minute cities," reduced/no travel and maximum control of our lives.
No it is not, but you are "wise" enought to believe it. Glad you are happy thinking that way.
@@EnriqueThieleget a job
bingo
Our experience is going well partly because we knew the longest one way trip would be less than 200 miles which is no problem for the extended range Model s. We also knew that and a 130 mile trip to visit our chlidren would alway be an overnight stay and they each have level 2 charging in their garage. In highway driving I think that's the max I would go because it's been reported Super Charging shortens the battery life and to this point we've only done it once when my mother in-law had a emergency. We also have a gas vehicle which serves as a backup.
It's a problem worldwide, we're having the same here in Portugal...
My 2019 nissan leaf + is up to 87,000 miles now still not a single repair or warning light, though it does now have a recall, they want to software update something.
An being a very early desing it does not have battery cooling (or thermal management).
@EnriqueThiele I hear ya. It is the 62kwh battery, I live at 10,000 ft elevation and the car has never seen over 82 degrees. Battery still at 12 bars .
Oh thats nice MY 2016 A-45 HAS 400,000KM NO ISSUES GUESS WHO WINS THAT ONE ME
What did you win?@@toyotacorollaaltis8613
What nobody talks about is all the carbon emissions that go into EVs, from raw ore in a mine, to finished vehicles driving out of the factory onto a diesel car hauler to get to a dealer. And that doesn't count the additional carbon emissions that it takes to generate the electricity to charge the EV, or to build the charging infrastructure so that you _can_ charge it.
I think it was UA-camr JerryRigEverything who added it all up, once. Over the life of the vehicle, from raw material to recycling at the end of life, EV's don't even "break even" in carbon emissions. All they do is "shuffle" where the carbon is emitted so that consumers and law makers feel good about it.
Austin TX to Joshua tree cross country? Try northwest CT all the way to Moab UT. It was like 2400 miles one way. I was driving a little 115 hp 2009 Hyundai accent back in 2012, got almost 40mpg on the highway. I had to fill up my less than 10gal tank under 7 times to get all the way from CT to UT(I know obviously you can go further for a cross-country trip). Point is... that's like a 1/3-1/2 country trip mentioned in the video. If anything, that makes your point even more valid.
When telling the truth gets you sacked, you get a whole industry of liars..smh..!
Some of my favourite vids are when Scotty is talking about EV's...
So much crap that they are funny.
Scotty is very entertaining and quite accurate on the EV physics.
I was an electrical engineering student 50 years ago and my dream was to work on electric vehicles. I switched to computer hardware design after a couple years because of all the same issues that faced today’s EV. The Lithium battery is a big reason for today’s EV being practical but the “green” part is not accurate. Given the fact that our electric grid is only 35% efficient, that’s about the same fuel consumption as ICE vehicles. Until we get all our electricity from renewables, you gain nothing by driving EVs. The problems with the battery manufacture are well known not to mention the disposal of toxic chemicals when it expires.
He’s objectively wrong about multiple “EV physics” points in this video alone. You can recycle almost 100% of an EV battery, that’s one of the best parts. Your point about being “green” depends on a lot of things and you’re painting it extremely pessimistically. How electricity is generated depends on region, how long the car stays usable matters a ton (which, EVs are already trending towards lasting longer than ICE cars), and battery tech has been innovating year on year by leaps and bounds
Wrong . World wide studies show that even with the dirtiest energy an ev polutes less than an ICE car. In the US no fossil fuel plant is being made.
For 2023 a total of 51.6GW of energy production was added only by renewables. On the other side retired from production were natural gas plants (36%) and coal plants (62%) were decomized for a total of 14.5 GW. this change is not driven by the ev on the market, It is driven by economic factores. Ease of construction al very low cost and very low maintemance projects compared to fossil fuel energy plants.
Interesting about the solar panel issue in California. We've got exactly the same thing happening here in Australia.