They have always been around and before Petrol/Diesel were a thing! Just they were very small and only ok for 10 mile or so round trips. But then, they only had Lead acid batteries for many decades.. Lord knows who thought it a good idea to make them bigger and add on the nasty Lithium battery? I guess it was similar to building the A bomb. They knew it would be a bigger bang, but little idea of how big and the consequences there after! Also Nuclear energy, a brilliant idyllic thing, but no clue about the waste being a real problem to store!
Isolationism didn't work for China and Japan in the past and so won't work for USA today. The world will just carry on around them, bypassing them. You have to be in the game for a chance to win. Cheers
The American right wing believe America is an exceptional nation. They think having the biggest economy for a while means it will always be that way in the future. Rude awakening incoming this century.
There’s even a reasonably recent US example. US steel was protected by tariffs from foreign imports. US industry finally complained that the cost of steel was making their products uncompetitive and got the tariffs cut, at which point their steel industry collapsed in the face of foreign competition who had been fighting each other to cut costs and improve productivity. The isolation from the world market was counterproductive.
I started driving in 1976 first car old Morris 1100 Then cortina Mk2 then a old Ford zodiac Ext Ext for over 40 years until around three years ago. Then brought Model 3 Tesla never looked back No way on earth would I go back driving a combustion engine car.
No going back for me after 10 years EV including a few years PHEV(mistake do not get one). I was lucky enough to own some very nice ICE cars including Porsche, Jaguar several Range rovers etc, but my EV is way superior, not a Tesla.
Elon Musk is obviously well educated and clever man. But his rhetoric as you recognised is damaging sales, will it bring down Tesla of course not. Will Tesla go bust of course not. Will it cost them of course it will. So it tells me he’s more interested in his political future the Tesla’s well being. So future King Musk worries me.
As an American agree with this somewhat.. Elon does like the attention / adulation. However the impact of lower sales, lack of subsidies etc does not bother him - his focus is on scaling AI, Full Self Driving + Cybercab, and robots. He believes these to be the true future of Tesla as a technology company and not simply manufacturing "regular" EVs.
@@erktrek - If the negativity hits Tesla, or more accurately it's shareholders, profit then the Tesla board may well decide to spin out it's more adventourous 'skunk works' activities - FSD, self-driving cars, AI, Robots etc. - into a new company. Perhaps 'suggesting' that Elon departs to take the reins and focus his talents on the new company, wonder if it will be named the _Tyrell Corporation_ or _U.S Robots._
The front camera on my EV sometimes senses obstacles at the side of the road and tells me to brake as did my PHEV. I’ve driven them on the same roads and they detected different ones
No, Stephen, not quite. Hydrogen probably does have a place but not like that and not yet. When the whole grid is renewable and we have masses of battery storage all full and all home batteries are full and all the EVs are plugged in and all full on V2G and have days when we still produce an excess, on those days I have no problem with making hydrogen, and storing it for trains or aircraft but we are a long way off that stage unfortunately
Trump wouldn't pay, he would just issue a special one off NFT card with the image of him on a horse in full armour brandishing Excalibur for his followers to donate to the cause.
I find myself posting links to Dave's channel a fair bit these days, which is kinda funny since I am not sure Dave is particularly fond of a lot of my comments. Still, Dave clearly sees MOST of the world with open eyes and he probably thinks Edison was a decent human being too. HE also moved the world forward, but history tells us the world would have moved forward ANYWAY.
Your reasoning is terribly flawed.. well done. I see a Strawman - setting up supposedly liking Edison as an analog for his supposed feelings about Elon Musk, Appeal to Probability - "Dave clearly sees MOST of the world with open eyes...", False Dilemma - Moving the world forward means being a decent human being, Appeal to Tradition - "but history tells us...", Post Hoc (correlation does not imply causation) - "the world would have moved on anyway", and finally a lack of counterfactual evidence - no way to substantiate your claim without proper evidence.
@davetakesiton hi Dave thanks for replying. It's a survey of 60000 car owners, of course some are better or worse than others, but overall electric fared worse than petrol for faults and time off road.
Also in the news this week Sainsbury’s are closing their cafes which will not encourage drivers to charge their EVs there. Some good news though - there are now more EV AC chargers at National Trust Fountains Abbey I don’t know whether the free of charge ones are still available though (it looks like you can pay with a contactless bank card too)
In my 4th year driving an EV! After driving ICE cars for 35 years all over UK & EU, I wish EV vehicles were around many years ago!
Also my fourth year of driving an EV after driving ICE cars for over 50 years I also wish EVs were around years ago.
They have always been around and before Petrol/Diesel were a thing!
Just they were very small and only ok for 10 mile or so round trips.
But then, they only had Lead acid batteries for many decades..
Lord knows who thought it a good idea to make them bigger and add on the nasty Lithium battery?
I guess it was similar to building the A bomb. They knew it would be a bigger bang, but little idea of how big and the consequences there after!
Also Nuclear energy, a brilliant idyllic thing, but no clue about the waste being a real problem to store!
Isolationism didn't work for China and Japan in the past and so won't work for USA today. The world will just carry on around them, bypassing them. You have to be in the game for a chance to win. Cheers
The American right wing believe America is an exceptional nation. They think having the biggest economy for a while means it will always be that way in the future. Rude awakening incoming this century.
Isolationism didn't work the last time the USA tried it , there was however a World recesssion and a world war.
There’s even a reasonably recent US example. US steel was protected by tariffs from foreign imports. US industry finally complained that the cost of steel was making their products uncompetitive and got the tariffs cut, at which point their steel industry collapsed in the face of foreign competition who had been fighting each other to cut costs and improve productivity. The isolation from the world market was counterproductive.
I started driving in 1976 first car old Morris 1100 Then cortina Mk2 then a old Ford zodiac Ext Ext for over 40 years until around three years ago. Then brought Model 3 Tesla never looked back No way on earth would I go back driving a combustion engine car.
“Ext Ext” ? Do you mean Etc Etc??
No going back for me after 10 years EV including a few years PHEV(mistake do not get one). I was lucky enough to own some very nice ICE cars including Porsche, Jaguar several Range rovers etc, but my EV is way superior, not a Tesla.
Elon Musk is obviously well educated and clever man.
But his rhetoric as you recognised is damaging sales, will it bring down Tesla of course not.
Will Tesla go bust of course not.
Will it cost them of course it will.
So it tells me he’s more interested in his political future the Tesla’s well being.
So future King Musk worries me.
As an American agree with this somewhat.. Elon does like the attention / adulation. However the impact of lower sales, lack of subsidies etc does not bother him - his focus is on scaling AI, Full Self Driving + Cybercab, and robots. He believes these to be the true future of Tesla as a technology company and not simply manufacturing "regular" EVs.
Elon has asperges which is a form of autism, this is very common in high IQ people.
@@erktrek - If the negativity hits Tesla, or more accurately it's shareholders, profit then the Tesla board may well decide to spin out it's more adventourous 'skunk works' activities - FSD, self-driving cars, AI, Robots etc. - into a new company. Perhaps 'suggesting' that Elon departs to take the reins and focus his talents on the new company, wonder if it will be named the _Tyrell Corporation_ or _U.S Robots._
Agreed
@erktrek lay off the Kool aid man. Heil elon
Thanks Dave.
GM gets Billion$ in welfare, spends it on stock buyback. 100% American MBA CEO management.
Phantom breaking seems common on lots of cars. I've certainly had a couple of incidences in my mg4 when it's slammed on the brakes
Yep, I’ve had it in multiple VW vans and cars. It’s a pain in the ass when the car decides it wants to stop.
@@Joeb4iley yeah makes you jump when you aren't expecting it
Yes my Lexus can still make me jump.
I've had the same issue on my MG4 I think the emergence braking system is made by Bosch
Turn off the adaptive cruise
A far as I can find there are no recalls for my Nissan LEAFs.
Picture behind hurts your neutral back ground
I agree but others complain about my bland 70s background and could I spice it up.
The front camera on my EV sometimes senses obstacles at the side of the road and tells me to brake as did my PHEV. I’ve driven them on the same roads and they detected different ones
My rear camera is a full 180 degree view so if the front camera is 3 feet ahead of me it must see more
Hydrogen cars seem to be the automotive Betamax as no one wants to fill up fuelling stations with hydrogen produced by overnight electricity
No, Stephen, not quite. Hydrogen probably does have a place but not like that and not yet. When the whole grid is renewable and we have masses of battery storage all full and all home batteries are full and all the EVs are plugged in and all full on V2G and have days when we still produce an excess, on those days I have no problem with making hydrogen, and storing it for trains or aircraft but we are a long way off that stage unfortunately
I wonder how much Trump would pay to be an honorary knight? 😂
Trump wouldn't pay, he would just issue a special one off NFT card with the image of him on a horse in full armour brandishing Excalibur for his followers to donate to the cause.
I find myself posting links to Dave's channel a fair bit these days, which is kinda funny since I am not sure Dave is particularly fond of a lot of my comments.
Still, Dave clearly sees MOST of the world with open eyes and he probably thinks Edison was a decent human being too. HE also moved the world forward, but history tells us the world would have moved forward ANYWAY.
Your reasoning is terribly flawed.. well done. I see a Strawman - setting up supposedly liking Edison as an analog for his supposed feelings about Elon Musk, Appeal to Probability - "Dave clearly sees MOST of the world with open eyes...", False Dilemma - Moving the world forward means being a decent human being, Appeal to Tradition - "but history tells us...", Post Hoc (correlation does not imply causation) - "the world would have moved on anyway", and finally a lack of counterfactual evidence - no way to substantiate your claim without proper evidence.
Dave the Which 2025 Car Guide shows that EVs are less reliable than petrol cars. Just saying
Seems a bit of a generalisation. Is every single EV brand less reliable than even the most unreliable ICE car brand? Just asking
@davetakesiton hi Dave thanks for replying. It's a survey of 60000 car owners, of course some are better or worse than others, but overall electric fared worse than petrol for faults and time off road.
Also in the news this week Sainsbury’s are closing their cafes which will not encourage drivers to charge their EVs there.
Some good news though - there are now more EV AC chargers at National Trust Fountains Abbey I don’t know whether the free of charge ones are still available though (it looks like you can pay with a contactless bank card too)
Phantom braking...Tesla wants you to hold their beer...