I think calling them luddites is a gross exaggeration. I may want an EV purely for convenience, but EVs are not right for everyone. They have gross systemic issues that many can not stomach and they have next to no true benefit to the environment. It's mainly marketing that people believe that at all. That's the whole point of this video to point out how hypocritical people are when they think "I'm doing my part". You would have done an even better part by not getting rid of your old car till it was unsalvageable.
@@Skylancer727 , the average person does not NEED an ICE vehicle or an EV vehicle, they need a conveyance. Any other position is foolish. If a person NEEDS a vehicle for a particular purpose then they aren't average, they are a specialized person completing specialized tasks. When the telegraph came upon the scene, or the cotton gin, or steam powered looms, or any other technological transformation of any market happened, there were systemic problems throughout society worldwide. Safety issues, efficiency issues, cost/benefit issues, you name it, but it happened anyway. And the old technology found its niche and maybe survived. Currently the world is transitioning away from fossil fuels as primary energy. For many reasons, the most important being saving the ecosphere in some presently recognizable form for our species. What we're really witnessing is the fight of Capital to retain its profit and to position itself to benefit from the transition. It's not conspiracy, it's just the system.
Thank you for this wonderful video! I have incurred so much losses trading on my own....I trade well on demo but I think the real market is manipulated.... Can anyone help me out or at least tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Is nobody going to talk about the fact that they spend soooo much time and resources on their graphics? So much effort for a parody video. That is why we love Roger.
My tech bro in law got his tesla first, talked his granola yuppy father into one and they are both trying to get my soccer mom wife to get one. This was so spot on its not even funny, its scary. Cheers 🍻
I dunno why, but the "anxious environmentally-conscious parent" reminds me so much of those ScienceMoms ads that play on TV every now and then, what a bunch of dumb bleeding-hearts. xD
@@somedude6683 late 80s, early 90s. And the theme song is something that would haunt your nightmares for all eternity, near 3 decades and I can still hear that theme song in my head perfectly and it plays every time Captain Planet is brought up.
Isn't this pretty much how all ads work? They realized around the 1960s that it worked a lot better to discourage the customer from thinking rather than encouraging them to think. It's eye opening to read old magazines and see these advertisements appealing to my logic and good sense to buy their quality product which is durable and efficient and a good value for the cost. You literally never see any of that in modern advertising.
That's because literally nobody makes products that are "durable and efficient and a good value for the cost" anymore. So, they don't want you thinking about those things, or you might realize how lacking all products are in all those metrics. Instead, they'll get you to buy their shitty product over their competitors' shitty product by looking more trendy, advanced, or just pull on your nostalgia or fear to invoke a strong emotional connection to their brand.
@@kinderdm EVs are all of those things. A current Tesla battery will typically last 200,000 - 300,000 miles at ~90% capacity, & the battery is guaranteed for 8 years in the US, 10 in California. When run on renewable energy, EVs are 10 times more efficient than ICVs, well-to-wheel-40-60% vs. 5%. Since EVs emit a fraction of the GHGs & other pollution of ICVs, & the cleaner grids, mining, & transport are the cleaner the EV is, & since all those are getting cleaner, even old EVs are running cleaner as time goes on. And yes, fossil fuel, ICV, & other corporations & the far right are playing the part of the used car sellers employing all those tactics & more to keep people hooked on old cars & their fuel. Above all, the lies in this video are the lies spread everywhere by the far right’s science denial & disinformation industry.
@@abrahamdsl 1960s? ad saying "Give your throat a vacation; Smoke a fresh cigarette” with a guy in white wearing a surgical reflective lamp, holding a pack of cigarettes. Sure. It’s so much worse now.
Yep, I am doing more for the planet keeping my old 2005 Camry in good working order. Use less, repair more. If the answer to an environmental problem is more consumption be suspicious.
Yeah EVs would have to be extraordinarily better per mile to make up for building a whole new car. People really don't understand that "reduce, reuse, recycle" applies to all things, not just water bottles.
@@Skylancer727 Well...if we dont count that most "reusable" bottles go to waste anyway, cause sorting them from rest of plastic is too much of a problem.
If they see what you said they would install screens with exterior cameras feeding to them just so they wouldn't have windows and then charge you a monthly fee to use each one. LOL
@@danger-derpI can already see it. Ai-enhanced 8k retina vision. It does the seeing for you. Why stop at that, it'll even drive the car for you! Just so long as you agree to not to hold them liable in the case of an accident.
Tell that to the people who replace their cars every few years, and that's a lot of people. They think 5 years is old. I laugh and tell them I drive a 2000 Jeep Cherokee.
My cars are 30 and 20 years old, so I agree fully. The best thing for the environment (and not the dealerships/ manufacturers) is to keep a well running car on the road, especially if it gets decent mpg.
2014 Chevy Volt is going strong, a lot less in maintenance cost than my previous car - a 1998 Subaru Legacy wagon. Both of those have been great in the Michigan winter.
Dang, this one hit so hard. The closer the writing gets to the truth, the funnier it is. Mining and manufacturing the dirty pieces on the other side of the planet so we don't see it is something everyone wants to forget about...
"See that little leaf in the logo there? That's important to me." That's my favorite part because it sums up the greenie mentality perfectly. They get to pat themselves on the back for thinking they are actually "saving the planet." And the advertisers know their gullible customers will buy into it hook, line and sinker.
I'm really impressed by the bold line they put on the side of the car. I'm sold! And the fancy digital console shows there is advanced technology at work!
In a way sure humor, but I'd never have imagined such deviancy beside the seemingly benign allusion subtle implication & atrocity that happens, but what's that business imagineering media, even hear about some of the messages being presented for kids so ...😒
@@Stephen-to7jx Watch the news without thinking, protest w/out thinking. Buy everything, w/out thinking. Losing freedom to not only speak out, but to think in the first place is going to become the initial crime.
Except its just a lazy excuses for selfish fossilfuel d*ckheads to keep doing nothing. The time it takes to offset the enviromental cost is 2-4 years not 7.
I love how all the dipshits lording in their superiority over EV drivers have all swallowed oil and legacy car manufacturer propaganda, hook, line and sinker. Expressing this opinion just confirms that you lack basic critical thinking skills.
@@Mr_Joe_B_619 yup. I believe that george orwell had a say on this. I believe it was called "wrong-think". In a future we're rapidly approaching at a alarming rate, the ability to think outside of what the party, or the government wants you to think of, will be considered as "wrong-think", and you'd get arrested for it. They want you to buy without thinking. Protesting without thinking. Joining an war on some foreign country without thinking. Watching the news and... You guessed it, not thinking. Essentially, their ultimate wetdream is by making people borg drones. Capable of sustaining the hive and the queen, without any shred of individuality on them. Just... Pure robots. And is it a surprise that we're seeing this getting normalized nowadays? It's their endgame goal after all, but they need to normalize people into it first. And it is working flawlessly! Ironically, they might even invent some bogus nonsense to make people more divided than ever, since that way, they can be conquered, like saying that thinking somehow makes you pollute a gazillion, octomillion, quajuillion times more than the carbon footprint of all EVs, even though, this is a complete nonsense that shouldn't be taken seriously. Yet, "convince" (aka buy them) some politician and some "health professional" and some "experts", and watch as the masses swallow that up and go after these people who are thinking, because they are "destroying the planet" just by thinking alone!
This commercial is spot on. They could probably run it as is, and it would sell thousands of these cars to these EXACT types of people. They wouldn't even see the irony.
Not true. EVs are powered by what powers the local grid. 30% is the average in the US for renewables. In Calif it is 60% clean energy and 100% during sunlit hours. Also many EV owners charger their cars with the solar on their roofs. Raising my hand. It's your s h i t gas cars that run on 100% filth fuel as you just acknowledged it is. Plus EVs are three times more efficient meaning they cost less and use even less dirty fuel than gas cars when charged by fossil fuels. They are lying to you to keep their hand in your wallet.
@@cre8tvedge the grid is powered by fossil fuel, at night no sunlight, battery technology isnt there yet, wind is unreliable, water cant be built anywhere, btw at daytime solar must be not all connected because excess strain on the grid, YOU ARE LYING AND MISLEADING
Not sure what was more humorous, the Honest Ad or the fact I got an EV commercial right afterwards for one of the biggest offenders in EV production. Well written content, nice satire, and a few kernels of balanced truth about the EV industry that was actually factual.
Not everything they said is wrong, but at the very least it's misleading. Maybe your car is one of these misleading, luxury cars. But not all EVs have these problems. The only extremely problematic battery material is cobalt, but that isn't even a component of LFP batteries, the battery on most new, baseline EVs. Only the extended range ones (above about 250 miles), or older EVs use that. Lithium mining is basically a non issue, and they intentionally misconstrued the two. And plug in hybrids exist. They can drive mostly on electric, but don't have to use as many resources in the battery.
EVs don't save the planet. They are damaging it less than ICE cars. No single measure will slow down and halt climate change. A lot of things have to be done. Replacing ICE cars with EVs just happens to be one of the easier problems to solve. We also need to modernize our grids, electrify heating and other power usage, clean up power generation and solve a bunch of other problems. Modernizing cars from old gas guzzlers to modern battery tech is just a puzzle piece. We need all the pieces.
@@NimbleBard48 Sure. That would be best. But as long as that doesn't happen EV beats ICE. Because otherwise we keep burning fossils and pollute the air and produce more noise than necessary.
@@reasonablespeculation3893 And that's why Venus ist lnown as a jungle planet and not an overheated hellhole. Just because some amount of CO2 is an important resource for plants doesn't mean excessive amounts are good. You need water to live, but too much is bad.
1:48 Source? Also, as the contribution of renewables to industry and the grid keeps increasing and as better manufacturing processes and tech are implemented, I predict that this "argument" won't age well. Also, taking a shot at electric cars because their manufacturing process generates emissions, while omitting the fact that they don't generate emissions themselves, is something I'd expect from the FF industry (and car companies reluctant to make the switch), did they join you on Patreon? Also, EV = financing the Taliban? 🤣, yup, the FF industry definitely joined you on Patreon. But even if that were the case, it would be in line with the old American tradition of supporting dictators and terrorists, nothing new there. The implication that electric cars are the only things that use lithium batteries is also hilarious. Anyway, back to combustion cars...how long does it take for a combustion car to offset its emissions? Is it 5 years, 10 years... never? Sticking with combustion cars definitely seems like the best option... you get emissions and pollution from the factory to the scrapyard, business as usual for the FF industry, the car industry doesn't have to change, what's there not to love? Any problems, from mining rare earths, to the disposal of batteries, to the source of the electricity used to recharge batteries, to battery performance, etc. all of these are opportunities to find better ways, to push for change in these industries, to incentivize research of better tech. What should be obvious to everyone is that combustion cars are a worse option in almost every way, except for cost and range (which will get better over time). It's not just that combustion cars emit CO2, they also pollute the air, feed the FF industry and are also a big contributor to noise pollution.
@Gore Yes, well said. Except EVs’ TCO (lifetime cost per mile) is less than ICVs, & many EVs are already equal in purchase price to supposedly comparable, actually vastly inferior ICVs. EVs have now reached 620 mile range; within a year or 2 will be at 800. How far can you drive without peeing or falling asleep? Burning fossil fuels emits dozens of substances like lead, mercury, cadmium, sulfates, PM 2.5, & more, that cause more than a hundred serious or deadly physical, cognitive, emotional, & ecological conditions.
Also ' don't think' about the break down car total ("It's more expensive to fix than it's worth, so better to junk it") will arrive 5-10 years sooner than a gas vehicle, further accelerating the consumerism turnover effect (thus more greenhouse effect)
That's why I'm really excited for the Aptura EV. They actually encourage keeping that thing running forever and even have QR codes on parts showing you how to repair or replace them yourself. Plus, you can charge it from a standard wall outlet. Plus it's so lightweight it can actually get charge from solar panels. So the amount of time you need to actually charge it is significantly lessened. It just makes so much sense to optimize the hell out of the car to be as efficient as possible.@@MikeBarbarossa
My boyfriend and I have been rebuilding a 1995 Toyota Corolla for this reason, and because newer cars are a nightmare to work on. Thing has 300,000 miles on it, and since we replaced or rebuilt almost everything in it from the engine to the relays, barring any accidents, it'll be on the road for a lot more.
This vid was spot on. If only we had something that run on steel wheels and steel rails that could be powered by electricity without a battery and carry lots of people at very high speeds efficiently. Oh wait we do, it's called trains.
Or trams. Or trolleybuses. Mostly scrapped and abandoned, barely alive just because soviets make them stupidly durable. Replaced by a brand-new electric buses, that are broken half of a time.
Like everything we need a mix of different means of transportation. Try living in a rural community without a car. It wouldn't be practical, nor ecologically responsible, nor economically viable to have a train run through every remote village with 150 inhabitants. Also we need road vehicles to get goods around and from the train station to super markets and other stores. Not everyone lives in a city with great public transport infrastructure. Also, the ecological impact of an EV is far greater then its petrol counterpart and IMHO it would have been much better to invest the money which was put towards EV to research cleaner and more efficient fuel which can power existing vehicles. People tend to forget that the electricity which is put in EVs and trains has to be generated and if that electricity is made with coal, the point for EVs is moot and it reduces to a the ecological advantage for trains as well. Just my two cents.
We don't have those where I live, and they can't be built since there is no available space to build them. Of course they could always remove the freeways... The biggest problem of course, is other people are annoying aholes, so I freely admit I don't want to associate with other people's bad behavior on things like subways and trains. Maybe if Americans start acting decently like Japanese people, then I will ride the train.
The mining issue feels like the most important to me as it touches EVERYTHING we own. No one wants children to die buried alive in mines they forcibly dug just to have a brand new phone.
I find the misuse of a limited resource more alarming. The anti-human labor practices do make me sad though. Thought companies would have started teaching and training them, the kids, for specialized work while living in good conditions, motivation, with company tied benefits by now. Such a waste of a sustainable resource.
Apparently everyone else does. Makes me laugh when soy boys tell me how great their ev is or how good of a person they are because they're vegan while using a device w literal dead childrens bodies on it
Sounds like the motto of some, not all, Baby Boomers. Don't think, get married. Don't think, have kids, don't think, be pro-life, don't think, you can always support something, that doesn't exist Yet. Don't think, assume public, officials know, already have grasp on complexity processes. Don't think, your not lying, your just being socially inconsistent. Don't think, keep using micro aggressions. Don't Think, Just Assume and Comply. Don't Think, keep saying, " Do what I say, and not as I do", instead of , "Follow what I say and Watch what I Do." # accountability # U.S. Military Still Teaches, Lead by Example. Don't Think, Always remain regretting your actions. ...Just Don't Think. (Omaha, Nebraska)🌽✨
No... gas & fossil fuel industry basically kill more people than wwii did.. every single year. Even if lithium mines were as bad as he suggests (they aren't)... theres no way evs even cone close. This video is like a rich person complaining because you dropped an 8oz glass of water and wasted it. All while filling 1000000 swimming pools... and then emptying all of them. Its so absurd. Its offensive.
As others have said: LFP batteries, the ones that are most used and are going to dominate the market, don't use any cobalt. And the new electric vehicles have very good safety ratings, especially Teslas. So a lot more children's lives are going to be saved.
If you’re talking about talent you probably mean Jack Hunter (the actor portraying the character) not Roger Horton (a stand-in for everything wrong with the world)
Too many lies - including THE BIG LIE ABOUT HYDROGEN*. Toyota much? If you were honest, you'd be better informed. I don't like lies, whether or not they are accidental. * Twice as dear as battery electric, but 10X as dangerous also. Hydrogen cars in underground car parks, particularly.
But I am saving the world according to politicians and my liberal arts professor. Sorry, I need this vehicle to tell others how much better I am than them.
"Don't think; just drive." Exactly. My 1995 Saturn gets about 40mpg and since I keep it on the road, I reduce the industrial impact created by not needing a new car. Years ago, when the Prius came out, I did the math, and yes it takes at least 7 years to break even on the gas savings. "I need your money, now."
how very clever. So your solution is "never buy a new car". you plan to die soon ? Geez... A few very easy info / analysis on the matter: if you sell your car, unless it's so crappy and has no market, it will be used by someone else. So no, it's not a "destroy my car and buy a new one every year" equation. So buying a new car and going to newer technologies very often help reducing CO2 costs to the planet. You're not reducing any impact by keeping the same car. Indeed, if ALL persons were doing the same, you would see that it does not get better. People changing cars with better (greener) ones is what is creating a change. Be it EVs, or even with newer generation gasoline cars (more efficient on that matter)
Yep! And my 1995 Honda Civic got just over 40 mpg. It didn't have a computer to monitor mpg, so I did things the old-fashioned way, recording all gasoline purchases (cost per gallon, miles driven, gallons purchased) in a spreadsheet. Of course, the company where I worked a decade or so ago would not let me park my car in the "green slots" reserved for... ahem... "green cars" that were "friendly" to the environment. I pointed out two errors in their banning me from that special parking area: 1. My car got better mpg than many of the so-called "green" cars using the special parking spots, and 2. My Honda was in fact painted a nice dark green! "Get outta my office," was the response from the person in charge of parking. Oh well.... lose some and lose some! 🤣
Hey now! That has helped many companies generate millions from coming up with solutions to these new problems! Don't snatch the 24k carrot from Roger III's high chair tray! 😃
And maybe the fact that ICE cars also catch fire. Around 300 ICE cars catch fire each day in Britain, and the NTSB in the US recorded 180'000 ICE car fires during 2022. Tesla's own statistics show that out of 6 million EV's produced over 11 years, only around 250 have caught fire Worldwide. The press like to blow this out of all proportion, and people like you believe it all...
Meh, entertaining sure, but takes a lot of liberties with actual truth. The “ten years before offsetting initial carbon footprint” is bogus. The rest is pretty close to accurate.
@@ryanhicks3080 Closer than you think. 75,000 miles before the BEV draws even with the ICE vehicle for CO2. The massive 7.5 TONS of CO2 just to make the pack for the BEV is just too big to overcome.
@solomongrundy145 Even when they asked why people bought the Prius when it was new. Environment was very low on the list. Notice how the tesla owners brag their car can go from 0 - 100 in .03 seconds and never brag it supposedly saves the environment???
I like at the end he pointed out that in theory the concept is still viable for reducing pollution but it just needs more work and a more ethical approach from the industry. He hit the nail right on the head with runaway consumerism being the main culprit.
Agreed, but we actually had the technology like twenty years ago (damn near 60 if you count the Chevy Electrovan). If we had played our cards right, hydrogen cars that were filled by electrolysis (putting electricity through water to split bonds between hydrogen and oxygen) on a grid powered by nuclear, the automotive industry could have been near carbon neutral today.
Unfortunately the main way technology gets funded for development is if it is profitable. No one is sinking millions of research dollars into better EV’s unless they can make money on it. So in that way it’s a good thing that the cars are selling. Better ROI for investors means more money spent on efficiencies and R&D.
@@HandsomeDanVacationRentals Problem is, the market is highly distorted by subsidies and other incentives, which means the existing technology has an unfair edge above potentially better alternatives, such as hydrogen engines. Car manufacturers still have incentives to make their cars better and cheaper, because that's always worthwhile, but there isn't currently much reason to invest in a groundbreaking future technology.
@@KroganCharr jcb are doing a lot of work on hydrogen powered engines for their diggers and tractors. They seem to be doing it on their own though, apart from Toyota, who have dabbled with hydrogen and haven't gone all in with evs. Evs have been politically fashionable and received all the help. If hydrogen had received half the amount and encouragement who knows where we'd be with it. Check out what JCB are doing if you can.
That was actually a cop out to the climate nutbags. We wouldn’t want to upset them completely, right? Electric cars will never be appreciably better for the environment when you take the entire supply chain into consideration. And the industry will continue to add features and “efficiencies” into the mix that will create more slave labor and toxic waste.
As someone in the industry if you want to save the environment just drive a smaller car. Doesn't matter want pushes it along just don't drive a huge car if you are the only thing in it 99% of the time. Buy a beater SUV for those time you need more than just a small car but don't drive it everyday. The best car for the environment is a Miata.
most people could get by on a gas scooter, like a Lance Cabo 200i... they'd save $2000 a year in insurance and gas while also lowering their carbon footprint by atleast 50%
@@gravelpit5680When I am solo driving - my motorcycle gets 60 mpg and is better on the environment than any EV. Can you imagine every one on scooters and motorcycles. Traffic issues would be solved over night.
@@e4gail yep, these indulgent people commuting 15 miles a day in an $80,000 SUV are the definition of wasteful and ignorant. They're losing several thousand dollars a year for no reason. And as clueless as they are, the EV nutters are even more lost and brain dead. LONG OIL STOCKS ...
Forgot to mention how when you get into a smallish type accident, there is a high likelihood that the manufacturer will lock down the car to make it undriveable since the lithium battery is susceptible to a spontaneous fire since you can't examine the battery packs for cracking. Or when your electric vehicle catches fire, it costs the town about $10000 in Hazmat and firemen deployment to contain the hazard while directing traffic to go past it-- which then for some reason doesn't get reported whatsoever on the town's community incident page. Yep, witnessed that too.
I rarely see any car crashes or fires reported in the news. The only times they really do is when it seriously impacts the integrity of things like highway bridges.
I know its just a parody but surely they want to speak the truth. Therefore it would be important to use the correct numbers. For Example it doesn't take a decade to drive off the increased emissions from the battery production more like 2-3 years, calculated with 15 000km a year but the time changes a bit depending on the specific car. From that point on an electric cars saves emissions compared to a ice car even when driven with only 50% renewable electricity. I find it very disappointing to hear such false statements because they further delay the convertion from ice cars to battery electric cars, thus leading to more greenhouse gases being released. Also I like the videos of this channel therefore I was very frustrated. It could be lazy research or simply falling for the propaganda of the oil industry. In addition it is well known that hydrogen is not a good option for cars because of the low efficency of producing it and is better used in sectors where the electricity can't directly be used for example in ships, planes and the steel industry.
You've been mislead. Musk came to Canada with nothing. He worked the lowest of jobs, showered at the YMCA, slept in the office, and is self-made. And speaking as a technician who has absorbed all media on him possible, he is a brilliant engineer.
@@ryankozak99 That has to be ironic. There is no way within the laws of physics that someone could be so specific about stating the exact opposite of the truth in seriousness.
And don't think about the fact that the electricity you use to charge them is generated by burning fossil fuels so you're literally still fueling your car with fossil fuels, you just don't have to look at it!
Even if you're going to use fossil fuels either way, EV is the way to go. EVs are far more efficient even if the electricity they're using comes from fossil fuels. And burning fossil fuels at a central facility is far more efficient -- and cleaner -- than burning them in thousands of individual internal combustion engines.
@@LtPowers... 🤔 I'm not sure why but I'm almost sure that's not true. EVs use magnetic induction motors (electric motors), which, as the name suggests, uses magnetism which works at a distance, which makes it less efficient. If I'm not mistaken, it can be 50% efficient, while gas is 20-30%. It's not that big of a difference as you think, considering gas cars have also lot more drag to deal with since they're working with many more mechanical parts and they're still that efficient. Not to mention that the point of the method of combustion is to make fire, and that fire is used to expand the air which pushes the pistons. So let's think about it: A gas car uses direct contact parts (flywheel, clutch, pistons, valves, camshafts, lobes, piston rings, etc etc) and they also use a method of which only the secondary effect is harvested to make the engine/car move, something that should be extremely inefficient, and they still can make it just 20% less efficient than an EV? That's embarrassing as fck for the EVs man
@@SpeedsGamer If EVs are 50% efficient while ICE vehicles are 25% efficient, that’s a huge difference. It’s a factor of 2. But when you add in vehicle manufacturing, replacement parts such as tires, roadway upkeep, both ICE and EVs are awful for the environment, with EVs being only slightly better. Not a huge difference overall.
@@SpeedsGamer "EVs use magnetic induction motors [which] uses magnetism which works at a distance, which makes it less efficient" LOL you just kneed your credibility in the groin, with this nonsensical inference "If I'm not mistaken, it can be 50% efficient, while gas is 20-30%." You are mistaken. Electric motors are more like 80 - 90% efficient. Further, as of 2018 Tesla has started using permanent-magnet (PM) rather than the slightly less efficient induction motors. "So let's think about it: " Translation: Let's make some uninformed, first guess common-sense hypotheses, then proclaim I am more credible than expert researchers with thousands of man-years of experience
@@antera77 lol wtf 80%-90% efficient? Are you for real? :/ Does transmitting power at a distance really sound that efficient to you? Seriously? You really see nothing wrong with that there? So the vents they make in the motors must be just for show then, since they barely waste any energy and are so damn efficient 🤔
Too bad that 90% of your factoids are wrong. Too bad you have to resort to being crude to distract from your facts being wrong. You're not funny, you just shock people.
Even the most agrivating of dude-bros can feel even more superior to you with the brand new 'Rog Goliath'. Now you can join in the virtue signaling while driving around in military tank, because "you're a real man damnit"
You basically described the Cybertruck. Hell, it being "bulletproof" is part of the marketing, FFS. Definitely targeted towards your tech-bro man-child.
If only they knew that you can get 105mm APDSF proof beast with range of 200 miles, amazing speed and even more amazing storage area for free, and even get paid for it. You just need to sign-up today, at any enlistment point in your nearest city.
@@ruidelgado888The AR-15 is a normal gun. The round is much smaller than in most hunting rifles, which combined with the stock (vs a pistol) helps the shooter make accurate shots in quick succession. The AR-15 is one of the most practical guns to own for home defense, especially if you live in a rural area (and already own a pistol for everyday carry). The ammunition and the gun itself are relatively affordable.
@@Emppu_T. Yes. Naïve me always thought those charging stations would be heavily subsidized, but that is definitely not the case. They can charge (reasonably) quickly (although rapid charging isn't great for battery lifespan), however the cost per charge is hardly peanuts. You CAN have a rapid charger installed at home (I've seen advertised costs in the $6000 range), but such systems also need a three phase supply (added cost if not available), and so on. Buying an already expensive EV is only the start of the rather costly "ownership experience" ( and I say this as an electric bicycle user).
My father was a small town auto mechanic and he bought m my first car in 1998 and paid $80 for it. In fact, the first 3 cars I owned I paid less than $150 each for. They were the greatest cars I ever owned because I knew that if anything happened to them I was out not even half a paycheck working part time at mcdonalds.
My daughter is driving the 2000 minivan we bought in 2002 with 70,000 miles. It's now approaching 200,000 and has never had a major repair. That's what electric cars can't offer. No way those batteries would survive being parked for 5 years after running the roads for 15 and still just top off fluids and go.
I didn't see any of the children mining the cobalt for the "green" batteries though. Amazing that still gets a pass in 2023 but it's ok I guess young children are considered renewable to them. Not as import as appearing to care it seems.
@@cardinaloflannagancr8929the same lithium mining was a-ok as well when it was just going into hundreds of millions of smartphones and pretty much every other battery-operated device. Thankfully with the EV revolution, scientists are scrambling and many companies coming up trying to design solid-state, lithium salt, iron-air batteries etc. Just the same way WWII dramatically increased innovation, so is the advent of EV's. And a quick Google search will show you it averages much less than this video says to achieve environmental impact parity compared to a gas car (not to mention that the U.S. grid now uses more renewable energy than coal in the mix as of late): "It takes a typical EV about one year in operation to achieve "carbon parity" with an ICE vehicle. If the EV draws electricity from a coal/fired grid, however, the catchup period stretches to more than five years. If the grid is powered by carbon/free hydroelectricity, the catchup period is about six months" - Cotes.com
I can't believe he left out the issue of the electricity used to charge your car not being green. In most places in the US, a lot of electricity comes from fossil fuels and coal. So, using it to charge your EV still harms the environment.
That's the least of the problems with electric cars, so it's fair enough it's not mentioned. In terms of emissions, the emissions from a fossil fuel power plant to generate the electricity to power an electric car for 100 miles are pretty similar to the emissions from a reasonably efficient fossil fuel vehicle covering the same distance. The benefit is that this emissions are taken out of urban areas - in fact there is a benefit here in that electric cars are at their best in urban areas (At least when they're not on fire), while fossil fuel cars are at their best cruising at speed between cities, where their pollution is irrelevant as there isn't a high enough density of people nearby to be exposed to it. The elephant in the room is the assumption that cars should be used for every trip made in urban areas in the first place, which is rarely questioned in this narrative, in no small part due to the deliberate design decisions made, particularly in the US via zoning and parking space provision laws, to make every daily trip impossible, or at the very least dangerous and impractical, without a car.
@@ShannonBarber78 Fusion power has been coming for at least the last 60 years. There's no point in delaying replacing fossil fuel while hoping it suddenly becomes viable when renewable and fission options already exist that can be deployed right now. Looking at the comments people who actually know about nuclear power have on each new 'game changing' fusion development comes with a very strong reality check. Most of the fusion startups are far closer in hype over content terms to hyperloop, spin launch and and full self driving than they'd like to admit.
Only 17% of US electricity came from coal in 2023, and that percentage is probably going to fall to 0% by 2035 if current trends continue. According to EMBER, 92.5% of new global electrical generation in H1 2023 was renewable energy, whereas only 3.8% was from fossil fuels, so the world is changing very fast to renewable energy, and the GHG emissions of EVs are going to keep falling as we switch to more renewables.
Ya know those gas pumps use electricity to pump gas. And those gas cars are only 1/2 as efficient as ev's. For me it was simple. It costs just over 5 bucks to go 100 miles.
@@leshigger6517 At the current price of around €1.70 for a liter of diesel where I live, I'll get about 40 miles for €5. However, on road trips it will cost me about the same per mile as driving at home, with a lot less time spent praying I'll find somewhere to charge it or tailoring my stops to charging. At the prices some electric car charging companies are charging, it's becoming cheaper per mile using diesel than electric unless you can do most trips on home charging on discount electricity rates. The total I paid to buy my car at 3 years old and the cost to tax, insure, service and fuel it for the 10 years I've owned it might just about add up to the cost of buying a bottom of the range Model 3 at this point (Which would be nearly 40% more powerful but less comfortable for long trips and have less cargo and passenger space). The best thing is that at 13 years old, if driven at legal speeds intercity, it'll still cover 600 miles on a tank of fuel.
Now we need a video on combustion engines and the resources required for extraction & refinement from oil well to gas pump ⛽ ...Or how those resources are for a single use commodity that develops into a noxious gas when it is used in a dismally inefficient engine 💨 ...Or how the profits from oil production are used to further deepen the corporate inertia to maintain the status quo 🔄
This video is great! I can't believe UA-cam is letting it air!!! Maybe the humor and facts enclosed will get to more people to think before buying EV's!
@@freshprince3891 For one, that it takes 10 years for the initial production costs to be paid off. For instance, in the USA a new Tesla Model 3 needs to be driven about 13500 miles to become greener than a Toyota Corolla, and in Norway it would take about 8400 miles. And it is all getting greener as time goes by. So that 10 years figure is totally unrealistic. Then there are things like lower maintenance costs. And the battery has a useful life even after it is used up as far as the EV is concerned - though that itself takes a long time.
No joke, I bought a Nissan Leaf and the money I saved on gas is astronomical. It can’t drive anywhere further than an hour away without getting stuck charging for a long time, and a multiple hour road trip gets many hours longer in it, but most of the driving I do is local anyway
I think EVs are great for certain lifestyles and most definitely have their place. Like I'm really happy for you that yours does great for you and saves you money. I am just sick and tired of the brow beating over gas vehicles being horrible for the environment when EVs really aren't any better, and the idea that we are going to arbitrarily force everyone to replace gas vehicles by strangling the auto industry and making fuel outrageously expensive. We need to be making gas and diesel better and better, not lying to ourselves that they're obsolete. That's not gonna happen in our lifetimes.
@@tankerd1847 How can an electric car that doesn't pollute nor generate emissions during its service life be just as bad for the environment as a combustion car that does? Right, it's because of their absolutely terrible manufacturing footprint... that's not a terror story that the fossil fuel industry likes to peddle.
@@tankerd1847 EVs & renewable energy are inextricable, just like ICVs & fossil fuels, & RE+EVs are absolutely many many many times better in every important way. ICVs ARE obsolete. And destroying civilization & nature. Fortunately, EVs are taking over exponentially everywhere in an S-curve, like they have in Norway, Iceland, & Sweden, (2023 EV market shares 94%, 76%+, 74%) & are about to throughout Europe & China. BEVs are taking over the EV market as they advance, & people stop falling for the right wing’s fear-mongering lies. Nederland 51%, 44% BEV, doubling time of 1⅓ years Denmark 50% 43% BEV China 42%, 27% BEV, 2021 & 2022 doubling time 1 year Japan 40.5% 2022 Germany 31%, 18% BEV EU (⅔ China’s V market) 23%, BEV 14% UK 23% Europe 23%, 17% BEV France 30%, 15% BEV Finland 31% " Germany 31% " Switzerland 22% " Portugal 20% " World 19% 2023 US 13% because of relentless right wing lies in the echo chamber “A Fossil Fuel Economy Requires 535x More Mining Than a Clean Energy Economy” Michael Thomas, Distilled, March 29, 2023 “New Video: Clean Energy = Less Mining” This Is Not Cool, September 15, 2022 "Mining quantities for low-carbon energy is hundreds to thousands of times lower than mining for fossil fuels” Hannah Ritchie, Jan. 18, 2023 “Setting the Record Straight About Renewable Energy” Susan Tierney & Lori Bird, May 12, 2020 I’m looking forward to the day when right wing trolls are either banned or gone so they keep their idiot paranoid conspiracy theories to themselves.
Mine is an Ioniq 5 and I love it, 95% of the time I recharge at home and when needed I put a full charge and go to my trip without worries, I appréciate the charging time because it give me free time to look arround, eat, go to store and have a pleasant trip without stress. The EV need a little more planning but not so mutch, I can drive 250 miles so many destination are in range and charging stations are beginning to be everywhere.
Hybrid engines were a great idea. Imagine an engine that requires half the gas of a standard ICE, can charge its own, secondary electric engine, and then travel more than twice the distance with zero emissions. But... ...since those don't rely on the grid for power, they promptly "fell out of fashion", just like everything else that ever gave the peasants any semblance of control over their own lives.
how convenient isnt it? not profitabel as these so they go under..im nto a fan of electric power in general Hybrids or EVs but Hybroid seems more sense than a straight ev...but in reality id rather do straight gas ..Batteries cant be trusted or relied on especially in extreme heat or cold
@@sonnyc3826 that’s right, soo many dead teslas on the road this winter and Alberta issued an emergency alert for everyone to not use power so the grid doesn’t go down due to all the EVs that were hooked up but not charging cuz -55 Celsius is too cold for much outside of diesel engines to operate. I hate that they roll this shit out before fixing the flaws.
The worst part is that EVs are even worse than they're portrayed in this video - even if the energy to power them comes from renewables, considerable emissions and pollution go into the production of those "renewables". All EVs really are is emissions obfuscation. The only way to actually enact meaningful climate action is to reduce energy consumption. Bikes, trains, and walkable communities are part of that.
He just said "it's not perfect yet" in the video. I still see it all the time and I would mostly agree. I think it's more those people aren't looking for content on the topic as often.
Because innovation got wrapped up in environmentalism and virtue signaling. Most of the time the only people who buy immature technologies are wealthy enthusiasts, who want to be on the cutting edge and are willing to deal with growing pains either to be on that edge, or to patronize the development. With EVs, buying them got posed as a moral good, so way more people buy into them.
Except that whole argument ignores the fact that to refine oil into gas ALSO takes electricity to make. And how much electricity does it take to refine one gallon of gas? About the same amount I use to drive 24 miles. So before an ICE car has driven one foot, I'm already 24 miles down the road.
@@thatjeff7550 Yeah I strongly suspect these claims are exaggerations. Remember that we've somehow been running the entire grid off oil and gas nearly exclusively. If it takes so much power to make the stuff we burn, then how have we been actually making power this whole time? From what I've found it uses about 8.7kwh of power to refine an entire barrel of oil into 19.5 gallons of gas. That's about 2kwh per gallon of gas which themselves contain around 37kwh. That math makes a lot more sense. That means the energy to make one gallon of gas at best would drive an EV 9 miles. Maybe 24 is you count all the extraction and transport.
@@Skylancer727 Yes, I think they put all the energy consumption on only one derivative of a gallon of oil, ignoring all the other products you get from that gallon, like the rest is waste. heating oil, gasoil, jet fuel, gasoline, bitumen,...
@@2LegHumanist well maybe if you really wanted to save the planet you could car pool in a prius. Or you could sell your car and move into a tiny cabin and raise your own food. At least I'm not a hypocrite that claims to be saving the world while living in a nice house and spending huge sums on all the latest consumer crap.
@@jimfarmer7811 That's the dumbest attempt atvtu quoque fallacy I've ever seen. You're basically arguing that people shouldn't reduce their carbon footprint because to do so makes them hypocrites somehow. And congrats for falling for stereotypes. It was just used for comedic effect in the video, but you actually believe only rich people drive EVs 🤣. All those looks I get from jealous road users when I'm out cruising in my 2015 Nissan Leaf. Idiot.
Touchy are we? Maybe I hit a little too close to home? By the way only the rich can take advantage of the $7,500 tax credit. The rest of us get to pay for it with higher taxes and energy costs. The rich elite won't be happy until the rest of us are crammed into tiny dark appartments with nothing to eat but tofu burgers. Meanwhile they will be jetting around the world laughing at our naivety.
"Don't think!" and "I need your money!" are suitable as slogans for a plethora of branches, such as governments, private companies and polictical parties.
The only transportation method that’s proven to be cleaner than driving in pretty much every dimension, and cheaper, more flexible, and cleaner than the public transportation that probably doesn’t exist where you live, is to get on a bicycle. Most Americans could use the exercise.
i grew up in anchorage and we had really awesome bike trails. you could get anywhere in town maybe crossing at most 2 roads. unfortunately if you wanted to use them in winter, you would need cross country skis and it would take twice as long.
@@stefandotp no. I'm not talking horses. I'm talking about how we build cities and highways for cars nothing else like bikes, trains, and buses. We have built a lot of very wasteful concrete and tarmac that has no other use than cars. Furthermore, we wouldn't have to go so far if we didn't have such gigantic parking lots between everything which accomplishes nothing but empty space for cars to sit when you aren't using them. A lot of places don't even provide sidewalks. I'm not saying totally get rid of cars, just that we need more ways to get around that don't involve them.
I agree with tou in principle, but the truth is our infrastructure, work-life structure, and economy are in way too deep to make that change. It'd be like trying to remove a persons digestive tract and still expecting them to function.
"Well intentioned legislation" lol, that's good sarcasm right there. You also forgot to advertise the battery fires that takes thousands of gallons of water to temporarily put out, create lithium poisoned water runoff that goes who knows where.
@@emeguta8651replacing? You mean throwing away the car and buying a new one since the refurb batteries are usually worth more than the car with a failing battery.
@@emeguta8651lol no it doesn’t. Tesla batteries statistically last 300-500k miles, longer than most engines. By that point it’s not worth replacing, it’s time for a new car anyway.
It’s true that the production of an EV creates more emissions than a gas poweredcar. However, it’s not true that it takes a decade to offset the emissions. It varies, but it’s less than that on average. EVs emit less overall. Nevertheless, I get the criticism EVs are not the solution to the climate crisis. We must make actual changes to our lifestyle. With transportation, it would be more walkable and bike friendly cities, and lots of train options like they have in Europe between cities.
@tim I agree. Of course they’re not the solution to the climate crisis. They are however an absolutely crucial part of the solution & with efficiency; renewable energy; public transit including high speed rail; other electrification so all primary energy (direct use of fuels in industry, transportation & buildings) can be renewablized; organic permaculture; radical economic & political equality; & healing the complex psychological illness causing all our problems...will get us through this devastating calamity if we implement them strongly, massively, & immediately enough with the power of truly democratic government.
Never lol but children aren’t dying in mines to produce gasoline cars also the byproduct of cobalt mines are wayyyyyy worse for the environment than steel mining. And where do you think the electricity for charging the electric cars comes from
Infinite, because they can offset exactly nothing. But that's not the point being made. The EV has *extra* emissions costs, which takes longer than the lifespan of the vehicle to offset. So the EV lands in the same hole - it can't offset its own production, just like the ICE. This is also then coupled to the power system having a lifespan of 70 to 80 percent as much as the ICE. So you're constantly racking up an even larger emissions deficit that you can't ever catch. I don't want to be seen as one of those buttholes that parks a brodozer at the supercharger or makes irrelevant or inaccurate claims as to the sexual preference of an EV owner. I wish the damn things worked. Sadly, they don't.
I know someone who is an industrial hygenist who worked for the US government doing research into the environmental, health, and humanitarian impacts of EV'S and she says that if the general public knew the truth about them that they would be globally banned.
The "Don't Think" part is so scarily accurate in today's world. Kneel, comply, stop thinking, be a good follower, ostracize the non-followers who think for being "low information" people over there with their mean, evil "critical thought." Grrr...
But, that might make people feel bad about stuff that happened before they were born. Better to burn it down or ban it. Something Something "parental rights", even though they're not really raising their kids anyway.
@@DemonicAdj The parental rights crowd isn't the one into burning things down or banning them, they just want you to stop pumping their kids full of your leftist agenda. Also, the left is the one that "feels bad about stuff." The terms left and right are basically a biblical reference. The people on the left asked "does it feel good?" where the people on the right were "does it DO good?" You can't accurately apply that to political parties today, other than to say it's the left that leans into feeling bad, burning, banning and rioting when their feelings aren't tended to. I'm with the parental rights people 100%.
What study are you citing for the 70% claim and 10 years offset and those are for which vehicle, I see none in the description or as a pinned comment. My cursory glance through the literature seems to find this completely unsubstantiated.
@la That’s right. Don’t know what the 70% thing is but it actually takes about 1½ years to pay back the energy, carbon, & other pollution costs of construction for a typical EV. Then it’s virtually carbon & pollution-free living for 200,000 or more miles, at much lower fuel & maintenance costs.
@jacobclement8150 It may be that much on a total lifecycle basis but that’s double counting manufacturing, given the question here. The insane right wing in the US has endlessly delayed renewables with lies, buying politicians & governments, destroying democracy, & other tactics. For their trolls to now endlessly whine that EVs aren’t much better than ICVs because they run on dirty grids is doubling down on underhanded & despicable.
It may be that much on a total lifecycle basis but that’s double counting manufacturing, given the question here. The insane right wing in the US has endlessly delayed renewables with lies, buying politicians & governments, destroying democracy, & other tactics. For their trolls to now endlessly whine that EVs aren’t much better than ICVs because they run on dirty grids is doubling down on underhanded & despicable.
@jacobclement8150 I think your figures are off. Given the question here, that’s double-counting manufacturing. The insane right wing in the US has endlessly delayed renewables with lies, buying politicians & governments, destroying democracy, & other tactics. For them to now endlessly whine that EVs aren’t much better than ICVs because they run on dirty grids is doubling down on underhanded & despicable. EVs are already a lot better, & improving on carbon, other pollution, & more all the time. Most EVs are in places with a higher-than-average renewable grid-blue states & cities, progressive countries… & EVs get a lot more of their energy from renewables than their grids provide. 80% of EV owners charge at home, mostly at night when expensive fossil fuels are idled, & wind, hydro, geothermal, CSP provide a higher percent & are growing fast. ⅓ of US & ½ of EU owners have solar panels. Solar PV is increasing exponentially, as are wind & batteries. Fleets are electrifying & renewablizing fast. And even existing EVs improve as their grids improve, which almost all are. In Norway, (94% EV market share (EVMS) because of long-standing government policies) Iceland (75%), Costa Rica, Belize, Ethiopia, Laos, Scotland, Uruguay, Kenya, Uganda, & more than a dozen other countries at or near 100% renewable grids, 60 others with mostly renewable grids (including Germany, 4th largest economy in the world, the Iberian grid, Brazil, Colombia, Georgia, New Zealand, Austria, Kenya, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, Sweden (74% EVMS), Switzerland, Venezuela, Nicaragua; Peru, Chile, & others getting close, grids are getting better. Not fast enough, though, we need to fix that by removing the right wing from power & wealth.
The folks over at Horton Industries did a great job on this video. Im on my way to get myself in a Rogvolt now. Thanks Roger! But in all seriousness, I did appreciate the brief moment of hesitant optimism among all the tongue in cheek criticism of the auto industry. Overall the video was very informative. For people looking to decrease their automotive carbon footprint now, from what I understand hybrids are currently the way to go. As Roger said, we're still at the "getting there" point of EVs
And even better way to lower one 's carbon footprint would be to use trains and subways instead of cars or at least lobby your government hard to build said public transit infrastructure.
@@ajiththomas2465 Problem around here is the local "teens" and homeless people of non-specific ethnic and racial background make taking public transpo impossible for most of the population. So public transpo, when not usable, is a TERRIBLE way to spend precious tax dollars if you want to conserve resources or the environment.
@@jfruser Objectively wrong. Study after study has conclusively proven that investing in public infrastructure like public transit is not only a great investment of public resources but in addition to the societal productivity, cities make more money back as well. The more people use public transit, the less cars there will be on the street and this traffic goes down a lot as well. Your fear mongering about the homeless and minorities are just a nonsense excuse to kick down and to not try to improve things. Screw off.
No, the way to go is electric bicycles and scooters, because the batteries required are far smaller, and they also don't tear up the road. But no fat ass American is going to give up their 5k pounds of metal to pick up a gallon of milk.
"The planet is fine, its the People that are fucked"
George Carlin
RIP
As well as smokey the bear by groot apparently
I believe he said -‘mother nature will rid the Earth of mankind, the same way a dog shakes water off its back’-
A tsunami of fire swept across half of the planet's surface. Incinerating every living thing but yet we are still here.
Humans should’ve taken the hint a long time ago. Take birth control or swallow, whoes.
If it were the other way around, there'd be no reason to care
As an auto industry insider, this is pretty much spot on.
ICE or EV auto industry?
Just modify your car to be like Fred Flintstone’s car, get a pair of bongos to bang when you run with it.
Like a chimpanzee?
Just give Roger money.
Also: I knew the Luddites would come out of the woodwork! (see comments)
I think calling them luddites is a gross exaggeration. I may want an EV purely for convenience, but EVs are not right for everyone. They have gross systemic issues that many can not stomach and they have next to no true benefit to the environment. It's mainly marketing that people believe that at all. That's the whole point of this video to point out how hypocritical people are when they think "I'm doing my part". You would have done an even better part by not getting rid of your old car till it was unsalvageable.
@@Skylancer727 , the average person does not NEED an ICE vehicle or an EV vehicle, they need a conveyance. Any other position is foolish. If a person NEEDS a vehicle for a particular purpose then they aren't average, they are a specialized person completing specialized tasks.
When the telegraph came upon the scene, or the cotton gin, or steam powered looms, or any other technological transformation of any market happened, there were systemic problems throughout society worldwide. Safety issues, efficiency issues, cost/benefit issues, you name it, but it happened anyway. And the old technology found its niche and maybe survived.
Currently the world is transitioning away from fossil fuels as primary energy. For many reasons, the most important being saving the ecosphere in some presently recognizable form for our species. What we're really witnessing is the fight of Capital to retain its profit and to position itself to benefit from the transition. It's not conspiracy, it's just the system.
The parody is that almost none of what is said here is true. lol
Proof?
@@TheCharleseye the proof is reality.
@@icy1007 Way to back up your claim with...nothing. You're sure to be taken seriously...
This video should be shown in schools.
Someone needs to look into Roger’s business ventures. This bro in every industry 😂
sounds legit.
Like a Bezos that makes you laugh instead of crying.
Smells like monopoly :D
So are a lot (or a few) companies.
Elon not liking criticism! Elon not happy! ELON SMASH!! 😠🤭🤭
Thank you for this wonderful video! I have incurred so much losses trading on my own....I trade well on demo but I think the real market is manipulated.... Can anyone help me out or at least tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Same here, My portfolio has been going down the drain while I try trading,l just don't know what I do wrong
Wow I'm just shock you mentioned and recommended Expert Mrs Janet,I thought I'm the only trading with her
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Wish it were a parody.
OH YEAH! THE REAL TRUTH HURTS LIKE HELL GRANOLA BOY!
This isn’t a parody, it’s more of a public service announcement
maybe if youre stupid
Only if you have an IQ less than 90.
Teslas are so fucking rad!
@@canieto1 I guess for tech bros, they sure are
@canieto1 they are sitting round in lots bc temperatures in Chicago dropped to freezing 😂. They're worthless...like Cruise missiles during sandstorms
Is nobody going to talk about the fact that they spend soooo much time and resources on their graphics? So much effort for a parody video. That is why we love Roger.
Why does anyone need to talk about it?
It's stock footage and, mostly, graphics from real companies
but is it a parody? ;)
Funding the Taliban by buying electric, who are we funding now with our gas power cars?
I don't know, why does your mom talk about me?@@Chad-zv5jf
THE ALMIGHTY URETHRA OF ZEUS????
We love these writers, don't we folks?
@@ProgressiveBandidobetter writers than most comedy tv shows 👏🏿😅
Associated with the control of lightning. (Electricity) I think that was the jumping off point for what followed...
@@peterlang777 , electric urine. The ultimate in showering!
@@paineoftheworld GMG manufacturing in Australia is making graphene aluminum batteries that kick lithium ion ass !
anyone ever seen the movie "idiocracy"? we are living it folks.
😭
I love the scene when the guy is trying to put the blocks into the shaped holes lol
I don't know whether to laugh at that movie for it's comedy, or cry because it's pointing the way to what just might become reality.
Who needs to think when you have management telling you what to do
But Michelle Obama isn’t president yet
The "granola yuppy" the "tech bro" and the "anxious soccer mom" my god these stereotypes are SO well observed and true to life I just can't! 😆
I was waiting for the homosexual athiest
My tech bro in law got his tesla first, talked his granola yuppy father into one and they are both trying to get my soccer mom wife to get one. This was so spot on its not even funny, its scary. Cheers 🍻
Roger understands the people, he cares about us. 🥰
@@MadScienTESTi can just imagine what the topic is on the dinner table.
I dunno why, but the "anxious environmentally-conscious parent" reminds me so much of those ScienceMoms ads that play on TV every now and then, what a bunch of dumb bleeding-hearts. xD
"With torque so powerful you feel like you are getting bottomed by Captain Planet" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That Captain Planet reference killed me! What a blast from the past..!
Was drinking coffee during that and almost died. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Didn't Captain Planet used to be a 1980s cartoon???
@@somedude6683 late 80s, early 90s. And the theme song is something that would haunt your nightmares for all eternity, near 3 decades and I can still hear that theme song in my head perfectly and it plays every time Captain Planet is brought up.
...and not the cartoon version but the Don Cheadle version!
“I’m Roger, by the way” never forgets to tell us😂😂😂
At least we won't forget
I’ve been Roger
Never
It's his full name, Roger Horton Bytheway.
I forgot about Dre, but I'll never forget about Roger
Isn't this pretty much how all ads work? They realized around the 1960s that it worked a lot better to discourage the customer from thinking rather than encouraging them to think. It's eye opening to read old magazines and see these advertisements appealing to my logic and good sense to buy their quality product which is durable and efficient and a good value for the cost. You literally never see any of that in modern advertising.
Except for cars. We've always been told, do your research before purchase. Remember consumer reports. Not anymore.
That's because literally nobody makes products that are "durable and efficient and a good value for the cost" anymore. So, they don't want you thinking about those things, or you might realize how lacking all products are in all those metrics. Instead, they'll get you to buy their shitty product over their competitors' shitty product by looking more trendy, advanced, or just pull on your nostalgia or fear to invoke a strong emotional connection to their brand.
@@kinderdm EVs are all of those things.
A current Tesla battery will typically last 200,000 - 300,000 miles at ~90% capacity, & the battery is guaranteed for 8 years in the US, 10 in California. When run on renewable energy, EVs are 10 times more efficient than ICVs, well-to-wheel-40-60% vs. 5%. Since EVs emit a fraction of the GHGs & other pollution of ICVs, & the cleaner grids, mining, & transport are the cleaner the EV is, & since all those are getting cleaner, even old EVs are running cleaner as time goes on.
And yes, fossil fuel, ICV, & other corporations & the far right are playing the part of the used car sellers employing all those tactics & more to keep people hooked on old cars & their fuel. Above all, the lies in this video are the lies spread everywhere by the far right’s science denial & disinformation industry.
Deym. I came across Time Magazine copies from 1958-1961 two weeks ago and you're spot on with those adverts
@@abrahamdsl 1960s? ad saying "Give your throat a vacation; Smoke a fresh cigarette” with a guy in white wearing a surgical reflective lamp, holding a pack of cigarettes. Sure. It’s so much worse now.
Yep, I am doing more for the planet keeping my old 2005 Camry in good working order. Use less, repair more. If the answer to an environmental problem is more consumption be suspicious.
Same with buying a used car in general
About the only smart thing said so far in this EV v. ICE debate.
Nearly a quarter million miles on my old Nissan pickup. Taking care of what you got is taking care of the earth.
Yeah EVs would have to be extraordinarily better per mile to make up for building a whole new car. People really don't understand that "reduce, reuse, recycle" applies to all things, not just water bottles.
@@Skylancer727 Well...if we dont count that most "reusable" bottles go to waste anyway, cause sorting them from rest of plastic is too much of a problem.
Question: If Apple Corporation makes an electric car will it have Windows? ⚡ 🚗
(pun intended)
If they see what you said they would install screens with exterior cameras feeding to them just so they wouldn't have windows and then charge you a monthly fee to use each one. LOL
@@danger-derpI can already see it. Ai-enhanced 8k retina vision. It does the seeing for you. Why stop at that, it'll even drive the car for you! Just so long as you agree to not to hold them liable in the case of an accident.
Will it have Firewall Tires?
@@ravenloransLol 😂 hahaha
No, they would have iHoles.
Jokes asides, a car should be driven at least for 10 years.
As if the battery could last that long. And by car, he really means the battery.
Tell that to the people who replace their cars every few years, and that's a lot of people. They think 5 years is old. I laugh and tell them I drive a 2000 Jeep Cherokee.
@@WastedTalent- That the consumption culture in short. And its everywhere.
My cars are 30 and 20 years old, so I agree fully. The best thing for the environment (and not the dealerships/ manufacturers) is to keep a well running car on the road, especially if it gets decent mpg.
2014 Chevy Volt is going strong, a lot less in maintenance cost than my previous car - a 1998 Subaru Legacy wagon. Both of those have been great in the Michigan winter.
"wanna feel better about yourself" That pretty much sums it up. Look here don't look over there.
Dang, this one hit so hard. The closer the writing gets to the truth, the funnier it is. Mining and manufacturing the dirty pieces on the other side of the planet so we don't see it is something everyone wants to forget about...
When did he get anywhere near truth?
@@2LegHumanist
It's not like you're pointing out the lies and proving him wrong.
Lies have never been funny. Good comedy is to tell the truth in an unexpected manner.
@@stabakoder
As if you'd allow facts and evidence to ruin your little circle jerk here.
@@2LegHumanist What were the lies?
"See that little leaf in the logo there? That's important to me."
That's my favorite part because it sums up the greenie mentality perfectly. They get to pat themselves on the back for thinking they are actually "saving the planet." And the advertisers know their gullible customers will buy into it hook, line and sinker.
I'm a Greenie and vote as such. But I wouldn't touch an EV with a ten metre barge pole and I am also into nuclear energy.
Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺
@@freeman10000EVs are still better than gasoline cars if you want to buy one or the other
And those clowns in their clown shoes get triggered when we dont buy all electric.
@jakewillits4678 youre looking pretty triggered
I'm really impressed by the bold line they put on the side of the car. I'm sold!
And the fancy digital console shows there is advanced technology at work!
I was rolling from the line: “while Smokey the Bear gets a tug job from Groot”! 🤣🤣🤣
In a way sure humor, but I'd never have imagined such deviancy beside the seemingly benign allusion subtle implication & atrocity that happens, but what's that business imagineering media, even hear about some of the messages being presented for kids so ...😒
If that's what it takes.
😂😂😂
Dude I burst out laughing when he said that. This one had some gem one liners in it!
People of deviantART get your pencils and paint ready
2:43 if you worry about the working conditions of every product you buy you would literally never buy anything ever again.
That's true.
That's remarkably easy for any American to say. But remarkably hard for any American to do.
Roger better be careful before UA-cam cancels him for being too honest!
There is no risk of being too honest.
UA-cam no like truthlube
is this a joke
He may get deleted for Hate Speech for being honest
@@truthiscensored There is nothing honest about what he is saying.
I love how the drivers get more stupid as the commercial goes on. NO THINKY JUST DRIVEY hahahahahahahahaha
Brilliant. Thank you, Roger.
It's what the companies want you to do, drive without thinking about it
@@Stephen-to7jx Watch the news without thinking, protest w/out thinking. Buy everything, w/out thinking. Losing freedom to not only speak out, but to think in the first place is going to become the initial crime.
Except its just a lazy excuses for selfish fossilfuel d*ckheads to keep doing nothing. The time it takes to offset the enviromental cost is 2-4 years not 7.
I love how all the dipshits lording in their superiority over EV drivers have all swallowed oil and legacy car manufacturer propaganda, hook, line and sinker.
Expressing this opinion just confirms that you lack basic critical thinking skills.
@@Mr_Joe_B_619 yup. I believe that george orwell had a say on this. I believe it was called "wrong-think".
In a future we're rapidly approaching at a alarming rate, the ability to think outside of what the party, or the government wants you to think of, will be considered as "wrong-think", and you'd get arrested for it.
They want you to buy without thinking. Protesting without thinking. Joining an war on some foreign country without thinking. Watching the news and... You guessed it, not thinking.
Essentially, their ultimate wetdream is by making people borg drones. Capable of sustaining the hive and the queen, without any shred of individuality on them. Just... Pure robots.
And is it a surprise that we're seeing this getting normalized nowadays? It's their endgame goal after all, but they need to normalize people into it first. And it is working flawlessly!
Ironically, they might even invent some bogus nonsense to make people more divided than ever, since that way, they can be conquered, like saying that thinking somehow makes you pollute a gazillion, octomillion, quajuillion times more than the carbon footprint of all EVs, even though, this is a complete nonsense that shouldn't be taken seriously.
Yet, "convince" (aka buy them) some politician and some "health professional" and some "experts", and watch as the masses swallow that up and go after these people who are thinking, because they are "destroying the planet" just by thinking alone!
This commercial is spot on. They could probably run it as is, and it would sell thousands of these cars to these EXACT types of people. They wouldn't even see the irony.
No it isn't. I'll tell you as a tesla owner NO ONE who buys one does so because of the climate BS.
@@deanpruit4216 we know. You buy one for the same reason why you buy overpriced iphone. So, yes, it is, it is.
@@z08840 boy you sure told him
Bro don't act like wars haven't been fought over oil for the last hundred years.
@BradKwfc now we'll be fighting them over rare earth metals!
Wish they mentioned how the actual electricity is produced. You know, all that oil, gas, and coal getting burned.
I thought the idea was to do honesty, not the talking points from an opposing industries CEO.
Not true. EVs are powered by what powers the local grid. 30% is the average in the US for renewables. In Calif it is 60% clean energy and 100% during sunlit hours. Also many EV owners charger their cars with the solar on their roofs. Raising my hand. It's your s h i t gas cars that run on 100% filth fuel as you just acknowledged it is. Plus EVs are three times more efficient meaning they cost less and use even less dirty fuel than gas cars when charged by fossil fuels. They are lying to you to keep their hand in your wallet.
You are the one the ad is making fun of. @@cre8tvedge
@@cre8tvedge LIES its mostly petroleum fossil fuiels my dude
@@cre8tvedge the grid is powered by fossil fuel, at night no sunlight, battery technology isnt there yet, wind is unreliable, water cant be built anywhere, btw at daytime solar must be not all connected because excess strain on the grid, YOU ARE LYING AND MISLEADING
Not sure what was more humorous, the Honest Ad or the fact I got an EV commercial right afterwards for one of the biggest offenders in EV production. Well written content, nice satire, and a few kernels of balanced truth about the EV industry that was actually factual.
They are not, its just contratian BS
Factual? 🤣🤣🤣
How do you decide something is fact? It confirms your biases.
Not everything they said is wrong, but at the very least it's misleading. Maybe your car is one of these misleading, luxury cars. But not all EVs have these problems.
The only extremely problematic battery material is cobalt, but that isn't even a component of LFP batteries, the battery on most new, baseline EVs. Only the extended range ones (above about 250 miles), or older EVs use that. Lithium mining is basically a non issue, and they intentionally misconstrued the two.
And plug in hybrids exist. They can drive mostly on electric, but don't have to use as many resources in the battery.
I got a Ford Mach-E ad right before it
Nothing about this is factual. Replace ev with gas. Lithium with fossil fuel. Boom. Now you have facts.
Now if only Saturday Night Live could do comedy like this ......they dont think at all 😂😂😂
Those days are long long gone
Actually, the bad boys in power have too much influence in show business and won't allow it.
They kinda do but it’s the “Dishonest Ad lib-tard “ sketch.
I remember back when SNL was actually funny. Yes, I'm that old. :)
They did when Woody Harrelson was on a while back
Buying an EV to save the planet is like flying private to a climate seminar.
EVs don't save the planet. They are damaging it less than ICE cars.
No single measure will slow down and halt climate change. A lot of things have to be done. Replacing ICE cars with EVs just happens to be one of the easier problems to solve.
We also need to modernize our grids, electrify heating and other power usage, clean up power generation and solve a bunch of other problems.
Modernizing cars from old gas guzzlers to modern battery tech is just a puzzle piece. We need all the pieces.
Not buying a car at all is the solution.
@@NimbleBard48 Sure. That would be best. But as long as that doesn't happen EV beats ICE. Because otherwise we keep burning fossils and pollute the air and produce more noise than necessary.
Nothing GREENS the planet like CO2
@@reasonablespeculation3893 And that's why Venus ist lnown as a jungle planet and not an overheated hellhole.
Just because some amount of CO2 is an important resource for plants doesn't mean excessive amounts are good.
You need water to live, but too much is bad.
1:48 Source?
Also, as the contribution of renewables to industry and the grid keeps increasing and as better manufacturing processes and tech are implemented, I predict that this "argument" won't age well.
Also, taking a shot at electric cars because their manufacturing process generates emissions, while omitting the fact that they don't generate emissions themselves, is something I'd expect from the FF industry (and car companies reluctant to make the switch), did they join you on Patreon?
Also, EV = financing the Taliban? 🤣, yup, the FF industry definitely joined you on Patreon. But even if that were the case, it would be in line with the old American tradition of supporting dictators and terrorists, nothing new there.
The implication that electric cars are the only things that use lithium batteries is also hilarious.
Anyway, back to combustion cars...how long does it take for a combustion car to offset its emissions? Is it 5 years, 10 years... never?
Sticking with combustion cars definitely seems like the best option... you get emissions and pollution from the factory to the scrapyard, business as usual for the FF industry, the car industry doesn't have to change, what's there not to love?
Any problems, from mining rare earths, to the disposal of batteries, to the source of the electricity used to recharge batteries, to battery performance, etc. all of these are opportunities to find better ways, to push for change in these industries, to incentivize research of better tech.
What should be obvious to everyone is that combustion cars are a worse option in almost every way, except for cost and range (which will get better over time).
It's not just that combustion cars emit CO2, they also pollute the air, feed the FF industry and are also a big contributor to noise pollution.
@Gore Yes, well said.
Except EVs’ TCO (lifetime cost per mile) is less than ICVs, & many EVs are already equal in purchase price to supposedly comparable, actually vastly inferior ICVs.
EVs have now reached 620 mile range; within a year or 2 will be at 800. How far can you drive without peeing or falling asleep?
Burning fossil fuels emits dozens of substances like lead, mercury, cadmium, sulfates, PM 2.5, & more, that cause more than a hundred serious or deadly physical, cognitive, emotional, & ecological conditions.
"Don't think, just drive" -- 4 little words that explain an entire industry.
Also ' don't think' about the break down car total ("It's more expensive to fix than it's worth, so better to junk it") will arrive 5-10 years sooner than a gas vehicle, further accelerating the consumerism turnover effect (thus more greenhouse effect)
Dont think, just consume product and get exited for next product...dont think!
That's why I'm really excited for the Aptura EV. They actually encourage keeping that thing running forever and even have QR codes on parts showing you how to repair or replace them yourself. Plus, you can charge it from a standard wall outlet. Plus it's so lightweight it can actually get charge from solar panels. So the amount of time you need to actually charge it is significantly lessened. It just makes so much sense to optimize the hell out of the car to be as efficient as possible.@@MikeBarbarossa
I don’t drive an M3P to save the planet. I drive one because it goes 0-60 in 3.1 and because it costs me around 6$ a charge 😂but sure
The same could be said about ICE cars. Every manufacturer wants you to just buy their product and don't think too much.
Do "if 90's Japanese economy cars were honest"
Because they were and still are
And they often float
My boyfriend and I have been rebuilding a 1995 Toyota Corolla for this reason, and because newer cars are a nightmare to work on. Thing has 300,000 miles on it, and since we replaced or rebuilt almost everything in it from the engine to the relays, barring any accidents, it'll be on the road for a lot more.
@@AngryReptileKeeper great to hear. A car that serves you not a car that serves it distribution center.
@@AngryReptileKeeper
Ready to be outlawed because it doesn't have the mandatory remote kill switch?? FJB.
They were ugly as all get out but they were so simple that they lasted pretty well. I owned one very briefly
This vid was spot on. If only we had something that run on steel wheels and steel rails that could be powered by electricity without a battery and carry lots of people at very high speeds efficiently. Oh wait we do, it's called trains.
Or trams. Or trolleybuses. Mostly scrapped and abandoned, barely alive just because soviets make them stupidly durable. Replaced by a brand-new electric buses, that are broken half of a time.
Like everything we need a mix of different means of transportation. Try living in a rural community without a car. It wouldn't be practical, nor ecologically responsible, nor economically viable to have a train run through every remote village with 150 inhabitants. Also we need road vehicles to get goods around and from the train station to super markets and other stores. Not everyone lives in a city with great public transport infrastructure.
Also, the ecological impact of an EV is far greater then its petrol counterpart and IMHO it would have been much better to invest the money which was put towards EV to research cleaner and more efficient fuel which can power existing vehicles.
People tend to forget that the electricity which is put in EVs and trains has to be generated and if that electricity is made with coal, the point for EVs is moot and it reduces to a the ecological advantage for trains as well.
Just my two cents.
We don't have those where I live, and they can't be built since there is no available space to build them. Of course they could always remove the freeways... The biggest problem of course, is other people are annoying aholes, so I freely admit I don't want to associate with other people's bad behavior on things like subways and trains. Maybe if Americans start acting decently like Japanese people, then I will ride the train.
@@BNBPhotofr Horses. They're literally fueled by hay.
@@Retrograde_cat Yay. 😅 Nice one.
The mining issue feels like the most important to me as it touches EVERYTHING we own. No one wants children to die buried alive in mines they forcibly dug just to have a brand new phone.
I find the misuse of a limited resource more alarming. The anti-human labor practices do make me sad though. Thought companies would have started teaching and training them, the kids, for specialized work while living in good conditions, motivation, with company tied benefits by now. Such a waste of a sustainable resource.
I dunno, man... I really like my phone.
Apparently everyone else does. Makes me laugh when soy boys tell me how great their ev is or how good of a person they are because they're vegan while using a device w literal dead childrens bodies on it
it is bullshit go look into it
as you plug your phone in to charge it
"Don't think."
"Don't think."
"GET IN THE CAR!"
GET INTO THE CHOPPA! lol
Right 😂
Sounds like the motto of some, not all, Baby Boomers. Don't think, get married.
Don't think, have kids, don't think, be pro-life, don't think, you can always support something, that doesn't exist Yet. Don't think, assume public, officials know, already have grasp on complexity processes. Don't think, your not lying, your just being socially inconsistent. Don't think, keep using micro aggressions. Don't Think, Just Assume and Comply. Don't Think, keep saying, " Do what I say, and not as I do", instead of , "Follow what I say and Watch what I Do." # accountability # U.S. Military Still Teaches, Lead by Example. Don't Think, Always remain regretting your actions. ...Just Don't Think.
(Omaha, Nebraska)🌽✨
“GET OUT OF MY CAR NOW.”
@@CapsizedCloud reference
I don't care how many children lose their lives, the electric cars need to be built.
~ Politicians.....probably.
No... gas & fossil fuel industry basically kill more people than wwii did.. every single year. Even if lithium mines were as bad as he suggests (they aren't)... theres no way evs even cone close. This video is like a rich person complaining because you dropped an 8oz glass of water and wasted it. All while filling 1000000 swimming pools... and then emptying all of them. Its so absurd. Its offensive.
More like EV manufacturers.
They pay politicians to not care.
Lazy thinking... definitely.
As others have said: LFP batteries, the ones that are most used and are going to dominate the market, don't use any cobalt. And the new electric vehicles have very good safety ratings, especially Teslas. So a lot more children's lives are going to be saved.
...don't look at what's in your phone battery, or who built it...
Roger is a real talent. All the videos are hilarious, depressive, friendly, intimidating. At the same time. And deadly honest
If you’re talking about talent you probably mean Jack Hunter (the actor portraying the character) not Roger Horton (a stand-in for everything wrong with the world)
Not honest. The claims are false and ten years old. They have been studied and debunked.
Too many lies - including THE BIG LIE ABOUT HYDROGEN*. Toyota much? If you were honest, you'd be better informed. I don't like lies, whether or not they are accidental.
* Twice as dear as battery electric, but 10X as dangerous also. Hydrogen cars in underground car parks, particularly.
But I am saving the world according to politicians and my liberal arts professor. Sorry, I need this vehicle to tell others how much better I am than them.
if your liberal arts professor isn't advocating for pedestrians, bikes, buses, and trains, then he's not a liberal arts professor.
I am a liberal arts professor, and I don't much care what students drive.
"Don't think, just drive." As a truck driver, I can tell you this is already happening. We're there, baby.
Lorry drivers and Bikers, the only two groups of motorist I fully respect on the road. (I'm just a car driver, but I try.)
Sadly Society Was there 30 years ago when i did 18 wheels.
"Don't think; just drive." Exactly. My 1995 Saturn gets about 40mpg and since I keep it on the road, I reduce the industrial impact created by not needing a new car.
Years ago, when the Prius came out, I did the math, and yes it takes at least 7 years to break even on the gas savings.
"I need your money, now."
40mpg since 95 is pretty solid in the first place. Props.
Datsun B210's got 40 MPG in the 1970's.
how very clever. So your solution is "never buy a new car". you plan to die soon ?
Geez...
A few very easy info / analysis on the matter: if you sell your car, unless it's so crappy and has no market, it will be used by someone else. So no, it's not a "destroy my car and buy a new one every year" equation.
So buying a new car and going to newer technologies very often help reducing CO2 costs to the planet.
You're not reducing any impact by keeping the same car. Indeed, if ALL persons were doing the same, you would see that it does not get better. People changing cars with better (greener) ones is what is creating a change. Be it EVs, or even with newer generation gasoline cars (more efficient on that matter)
@@Lirky77 - I'll be happy to drive a EV if you'll buy me one.
Yep! And my 1995 Honda Civic got just over 40 mpg. It didn't have a computer to monitor mpg, so I did things the old-fashioned way, recording all gasoline purchases (cost per gallon, miles driven, gallons purchased) in a spreadsheet. Of course, the company where I worked a decade or so ago would not let me park my car in the "green slots" reserved for... ahem... "green cars" that were "friendly" to the environment. I pointed out two errors in their banning me from that special parking area: 1. My car got better mpg than many of the so-called "green" cars using the special parking spots, and 2. My Honda was in fact painted a nice dark green! "Get outta my office," was the response from the person in charge of parking. Oh well.... lose some and lose some! 🤣
He should have mentioned something about the spontaneous combustion of some electric cars.
Also how they can reignite themselves after being submerged in water for a week😊
Hey now! That has helped many companies generate millions from coming up with solutions to these new problems! Don't snatch the 24k carrot from Roger III's high chair tray! 😃
You sad cause they didn't get enough lies into the video? Funny. It's gas cars that burn at well more than ten times the rate of electrics.
And maybe the fact that ICE cars also catch fire. Around 300 ICE cars catch fire each day in Britain, and the NTSB in the US recorded 180'000 ICE car fires during 2022. Tesla's own statistics show that out of 6 million EV's produced over 11 years, only around 250 have caught fire Worldwide. The press like to blow this out of all proportion, and people like you believe it all...
Comedy is usually closer to the truth than anything. This is totally accurate.
@@ShannonBarber78 Thank goodness no "conformist lying front to back" took place then.
@@ShannonBarber78It's also much harder to, say, "block" humor video instead of factual one. Also more views.
Many a truth is said in jest
Meh, entertaining sure, but takes a lot of liberties with actual truth. The “ten years before offsetting initial carbon footprint” is bogus. The rest is pretty close to accurate.
@@ryanhicks3080 Closer than you think. 75,000 miles before the BEV draws even with the ICE vehicle for CO2. The massive 7.5 TONS of CO2 just to make the pack for the BEV is just too big to overcome.
48% of the pollution is created by the 1'1% richest people, but if I buy a Rogvolt I'll be saving the planet!
Truth. The fossil fuels burnt for consumer transportation make up less than 5% of America's carbon footprint per year.
That's the spirit!!!! Also, remember to recycle.
@@Lonovavir It actually sucks that there is very little done in the way of actual recycling (mostly because of cost and energy requirements).
@solomongrundy145 Even when they asked why people bought the Prius when it was new. Environment was very low on the list.
Notice how the tesla owners brag their car can go from 0 - 100 in .03 seconds and never brag it supposedly saves the environment???
And Kerry fly's on a private jet to Iceland to receive yet another environmental award, and offsets any gain you achieve.
What a load of outdatet/wrong prejudices about BEVs ... and the best: "Big Oil wants to sell us BEVs" 🤣- I guess big oil pays his bills
Big oil indeed invested a lot of money in charging stations.
I like at the end he pointed out that in theory the concept is still viable for reducing pollution but it just needs more work and a more ethical approach from the industry. He hit the nail right on the head with runaway consumerism being the main culprit.
Agreed, but we actually had the technology like twenty years ago (damn near 60 if you count the Chevy Electrovan). If we had played our cards right, hydrogen cars that were filled by electrolysis (putting electricity through water to split bonds between hydrogen and oxygen) on a grid powered by nuclear, the automotive industry could have been near carbon neutral today.
Unfortunately the main way technology gets funded for development is if it is profitable. No one is sinking millions of research dollars into better EV’s unless they can make money on it. So in that way it’s a good thing that the cars are selling. Better ROI for investors means more money spent on efficiencies and R&D.
@@HandsomeDanVacationRentals Problem is, the market is highly distorted by subsidies and other incentives, which means the existing technology has an unfair edge above potentially better alternatives, such as hydrogen engines. Car manufacturers still have incentives to make their cars better and cheaper, because that's always worthwhile, but there isn't currently much reason to invest in a groundbreaking future technology.
@@KroganCharr jcb are doing a lot of work on hydrogen powered engines for their diggers and tractors. They seem to be doing it on their own though, apart from Toyota, who have dabbled with hydrogen and haven't gone all in with evs.
Evs have been politically fashionable and received all the help. If hydrogen had received half the amount and encouragement who knows where we'd be with it. Check out what JCB are doing if you can.
That was actually a cop out to the climate nutbags. We wouldn’t want to upset them completely, right? Electric cars will never be appreciably better for the environment when you take the entire supply chain into consideration. And the industry will continue to add features and “efficiencies” into the mix that will create more slave labor and toxic waste.
As someone in the industry if you want to save the environment just drive a smaller car. Doesn't matter want pushes it along just don't drive a huge car if you are the only thing in it 99% of the time. Buy a beater SUV for those time you need more than just a small car but don't drive it everyday. The best car for the environment is a Miata.
most people could get by on a gas scooter, like a Lance Cabo 200i... they'd save $2000 a year in insurance and gas while also lowering their carbon footprint by atleast 50%
I drive a cute little Kia Forte, so that offsets my annual tire burning celebration.
@@gravelpit5680When I am solo driving - my motorcycle gets 60 mpg and is better on the environment than any EV. Can you imagine every one on scooters and motorcycles. Traffic issues would be solved over night.
@@e4gail yep, these indulgent people commuting 15 miles a day in an $80,000 SUV are the definition of wasteful and ignorant. They're losing several thousand dollars a year for no reason. And as clueless as they are, the EV nutters are even more lost and brain dead. LONG OIL STOCKS ...
Elderly folks and those who are handicapped cannot use scooters or anything so little.
Forgot to mention how when you get into a smallish type accident, there is a high likelihood that the manufacturer will lock down the car to make it undriveable since the lithium battery is susceptible to a spontaneous fire since you can't examine the battery packs for cracking.
Or when your electric vehicle catches fire, it costs the town about $10000 in Hazmat and firemen deployment to contain the hazard while directing traffic to go past it-- which then for some reason doesn't get reported whatsoever on the town's community incident page. Yep, witnessed that too.
I rarely see any car crashes or fires reported in the news. The only times they really do is when it seriously impacts the integrity of things like highway bridges.
You're 10 times more likely to have your car catch fire if it has an internal combustion engine. Nobody reports ICE fires because they're commonplace.
That's a total load of BS. ICE catch fire way way more than battery cars.
I know its just a parody but surely they want to speak the truth. Therefore it would be important to use the correct numbers. For Example it doesn't take a decade to drive off the increased emissions from the battery production more like 2-3 years, calculated with 15 000km a year but the time changes a bit depending on the specific car. From that point on an electric cars saves emissions compared to a ice car even when driven with only 50% renewable electricity. I find it very disappointing to hear such false statements because they further delay the convertion from ice cars to battery electric cars, thus leading to more greenhouse gases being released. Also I like the videos of this channel therefore I was very frustrated. It could be lazy research or simply falling for the propaganda of the oil industry. In addition it is well known that hydrogen is not a good option for cars because of the low efficency of producing it and is better used in sectors where the electricity can't directly be used for example in ships, planes and the steel industry.
0:34 elon musk is the modern day thomas edison... you know because they both used their preexisting fortunes to steal credit for other people's work.
applause
You've been mislead. Musk came to Canada with nothing. He worked the lowest of jobs, showered at the YMCA, slept in the office, and is self-made. And speaking as a technician who has absorbed all media on him possible, he is a brilliant engineer.
@@ryankozak99
Get help.
@@ryankozak99 That has to be ironic. There is no way within the laws of physics that someone could be so specific about stating the exact opposite of the truth in seriousness.
@ryankozak99 Translation: he may have, at one point, sang "YMCA" by The Village People.
That's about the most HONEST "ad" for an EV I've ever seen.
Looks like you have had too much to think.
@ru HONEST GOVERNMENT AD | EVs by Juice Media
Only if you get all your EV knowledge from Facebook.
And don't think about the fact that the electricity you use to charge them is generated by burning fossil fuels so you're literally still fueling your car with fossil fuels, you just don't have to look at it!
Even if you're going to use fossil fuels either way, EV is the way to go. EVs are far more efficient even if the electricity they're using comes from fossil fuels. And burning fossil fuels at a central facility is far more efficient -- and cleaner -- than burning them in thousands of individual internal combustion engines.
@@LtPowers... 🤔
I'm not sure why but I'm almost sure that's not true.
EVs use magnetic induction motors (electric motors), which, as the name suggests, uses magnetism which works at a distance, which makes it less efficient. If I'm not mistaken, it can be 50% efficient, while gas is 20-30%. It's not that big of a difference as you think, considering gas cars have also lot more drag to deal with since they're working with many more mechanical parts and they're still that efficient. Not to mention that the point of the method of combustion is to make fire, and that fire is used to expand the air which pushes the pistons. So let's think about it: A gas car uses direct contact parts (flywheel, clutch, pistons, valves, camshafts, lobes, piston rings, etc etc) and they also use a method of which only the secondary effect is harvested to make the engine/car move, something that should be extremely inefficient, and they still can make it just 20% less efficient than an EV?
That's embarrassing as fck for the EVs man
@@SpeedsGamer If EVs are 50% efficient while ICE vehicles are 25% efficient, that’s a huge difference. It’s a factor of 2. But when you add in vehicle manufacturing, replacement parts such as tires, roadway upkeep, both ICE and EVs are awful for the environment, with EVs being only slightly better. Not a huge difference overall.
@@SpeedsGamer "EVs use magnetic induction motors [which] uses magnetism which works at a distance, which makes it less efficient"
LOL you just kneed your credibility in the groin, with this nonsensical inference
"If I'm not mistaken, it can be 50% efficient, while gas is 20-30%."
You are mistaken. Electric motors are more like 80 - 90% efficient.
Further, as of 2018 Tesla has started using permanent-magnet (PM) rather than the slightly less efficient induction motors.
"So let's think about it: "
Translation: Let's make some uninformed, first guess common-sense hypotheses, then proclaim I am more credible than expert researchers with thousands of man-years of experience
@@antera77 lol wtf
80%-90% efficient? Are you for real? :/
Does transmitting power at a distance really sound that efficient to you? Seriously? You really see nothing wrong with that there?
So the vents they make in the motors must be just for show then, since they barely waste any energy and are so damn efficient 🤔
Too bad that 90% of your factoids are wrong. Too bad you have to resort to being crude to distract from your facts being wrong. You're not funny, you just shock people.
Even the most agrivating of dude-bros can feel even more superior to you with the brand new 'Rog Goliath'. Now you can join in the virtue signaling while driving around in military tank, because "you're a real man damnit"
You basically described the Cybertruck. Hell, it being "bulletproof" is part of the marketing, FFS. Definitely targeted towards your tech-bro man-child.
If only they knew that you can get 105mm APDSF proof beast with range of 200 miles, amazing speed and even more amazing storage area for free, and even get paid for it. You just need to sign-up today, at any enlistment point in your nearest city.
@@kilppa I wonder how it would have held up against a decent gun like an AR15, for example :)
@arokh72 as if being bulletproof against "normal" guns wasn't useless enough 😂
Maybe with an upgrade, you get it bulletproof against a bazooka 😂😂
@@ruidelgado888The AR-15 is a normal gun. The round is much smaller than in most hunting rifles, which combined with the stock (vs a pistol) helps the shooter make accurate shots in quick succession. The AR-15 is one of the most practical guns to own for home defense, especially if you live in a rural area (and already own a pistol for everyday carry). The ammunition and the gun itself are relatively affordable.
You could've also emphasized on the joys of charging time and range anxiety.
Tyre replacement (frequency and cost) is another significant (and recurrent) financial negative.
@@phils4634 not to mention how much you get charged for mile on a pay charger
@@Emppu_T. Yes. Naïve me always thought those charging stations would be heavily subsidized, but that is definitely not the case. They can charge (reasonably) quickly (although rapid charging isn't great for battery lifespan), however the cost per charge is hardly peanuts. You CAN have a rapid charger installed at home (I've seen advertised costs in the $6000 range), but such systems also need a three phase supply (added cost if not available), and so on. Buying an already expensive EV is only the start of the rather costly "ownership experience" ( and I say this as an electric bicycle user).
I have a fire anxiety about those things
Range anxiety not a problem. By 2026 most EVs will have adapter cords to tap your phone for more range, and foam hitchhiking thumbs in the glovebox
"No we are not turning back now!"
Subtle but so, so powerful.
Funny... what about all the gas that is burned after the fuel car is produced. Sorry, I'm thinking.
"The almighty urethra of Zues"
The ultimate BDE
My father was a small town auto mechanic and he bought m my first car in 1998 and paid $80 for it. In fact, the first 3 cars I owned I paid less than $150 each for. They were the greatest cars I ever owned because I knew that if anything happened to them I was out not even half a paycheck working part time at mcdonalds.
My daughter is driving the 2000 minivan we bought in 2002 with 70,000 miles. It's now approaching 200,000 and has never had a major repair. That's what electric cars can't offer. No way those batteries would survive being parked for 5 years after running the roads for 15 and still just top off fluids and go.
I didn't see any of the children mining the cobalt for the "green" batteries though. Amazing that still gets a pass in 2023 but it's ok I guess young children are considered renewable to them. Not as import as appearing to care it seems.
@@cardinaloflannagancr8929the same lithium mining was a-ok as well when it was just going into hundreds of millions of smartphones and pretty much every other battery-operated device. Thankfully with the EV revolution, scientists are scrambling and many companies coming up trying to design solid-state, lithium salt, iron-air batteries etc. Just the same way WWII dramatically increased innovation, so is the advent of EV's. And a quick Google search will show you it averages much less than this video says to achieve environmental impact parity compared to a gas car (not to mention that the U.S. grid now uses more renewable energy than coal in the mix as of late): "It takes a typical EV about one year in operation to achieve "carbon parity" with an ICE vehicle. If the EV draws electricity from a coal/fired grid, however, the catchup period stretches to more than five years. If the grid is powered by carbon/free hydroelectricity, the catchup period is about six months" - Cotes.com
So what is the point
The nicest car I ever owned cost $300, a mint 1972 olds with a 450. Oh the old day's. 😢
Don't forget to add auto pilot so you don't have to think about anything at all just keep your hands on the wheel and smile
@@Mr_Spock512 also, similar amount of dead kids as at the fair
Is he Rogering himself?
How many shares in petroleum do you have?
Way to use the most negative forecasts and figures to justify a poor argument.
I can't believe he left out the issue of the electricity used to charge your car not being green. In most places in the US, a lot of electricity comes from fossil fuels and coal. So, using it to charge your EV still harms the environment.
That's the least of the problems with electric cars, so it's fair enough it's not mentioned. In terms of emissions, the emissions from a fossil fuel power plant to generate the electricity to power an electric car for 100 miles are pretty similar to the emissions from a reasonably efficient fossil fuel vehicle covering the same distance. The benefit is that this emissions are taken out of urban areas - in fact there is a benefit here in that electric cars are at their best in urban areas (At least when they're not on fire), while fossil fuel cars are at their best cruising at speed between cities, where their pollution is irrelevant as there isn't a high enough density of people nearby to be exposed to it.
The elephant in the room is the assumption that cars should be used for every trip made in urban areas in the first place, which is rarely questioned in this narrative, in no small part due to the deliberate design decisions made, particularly in the US via zoning and parking space provision laws, to make every daily trip impossible, or at the very least dangerous and impractical, without a car.
@@ShannonBarber78 Fusion power has been coming for at least the last 60 years. There's no point in delaying replacing fossil fuel while hoping it suddenly becomes viable when renewable and fission options already exist that can be deployed right now.
Looking at the comments people who actually know about nuclear power have on each new 'game changing' fusion development comes with a very strong reality check. Most of the fusion startups are far closer in hype over content terms to hyperloop, spin launch and and full self driving than they'd like to admit.
Only 17% of US electricity came from coal in 2023, and that percentage is probably going to fall to 0% by 2035 if current trends continue. According to EMBER, 92.5% of new global electrical generation in H1 2023 was renewable energy, whereas only 3.8% was from fossil fuels, so the world is changing very fast to renewable energy, and the GHG emissions of EVs are going to keep falling as we switch to more renewables.
Ya know those gas pumps use electricity to pump gas. And those gas cars are only 1/2 as efficient as ev's. For me it was simple. It costs just over 5 bucks to go 100 miles.
@@leshigger6517 At the current price of around €1.70 for a liter of diesel where I live, I'll get about 40 miles for €5. However, on road trips it will cost me about the same per mile as driving at home, with a lot less time spent praying I'll find somewhere to charge it or tailoring my stops to charging. At the prices some electric car charging companies are charging, it's becoming cheaper per mile using diesel than electric unless you can do most trips on home charging on discount electricity rates.
The total I paid to buy my car at 3 years old and the cost to tax, insure, service and fuel it for the 10 years I've owned it might just about add up to the cost of buying a bottom of the range Model 3 at this point (Which would be nearly 40% more powerful but less comfortable for long trips and have less cargo and passenger space). The best thing is that at 13 years old, if driven at legal speeds intercity, it'll still cover 600 miles on a tank of fuel.
Now we need a video on combustion engines and the resources required for extraction & refinement from oil well to gas pump ⛽
...Or how those resources are for a single use commodity that develops into a noxious gas when it is used in a dismally inefficient engine 💨
...Or how the profits from oil production are used to further deepen the corporate inertia to maintain the status quo 🔄
This video is great! I can't believe UA-cam is letting it air!!! Maybe the humor and facts enclosed will get to more people to think before buying EV's!
BS, anti EV propaganda. 😂
Actually, many of the 'facts' in this video are not facts at all.
What facts are wrong?
@@freshprince3891 For one, that it takes 10 years for the initial production costs to be paid off. For instance, in the USA a new Tesla Model 3 needs to be driven about 13500 miles to become greener than a Toyota Corolla, and in Norway it would take about 8400 miles. And it is all getting greener as time goes by. So that 10 years figure is totally unrealistic.
Then there are things like lower maintenance costs.
And the battery has a useful life even after it is used up as far as the EV is concerned - though that itself takes a long time.
This is just pretending to be critical while pushing the climate crisis hoax.
No joke, I bought a Nissan Leaf and the money I saved on gas is astronomical. It can’t drive anywhere further than an hour away without getting stuck charging for a long time, and a multiple hour road trip gets many hours longer in it, but most of the driving I do is local anyway
I think EVs are great for certain lifestyles and most definitely have their place. Like I'm really happy for you that yours does great for you and saves you money. I am just sick and tired of the brow beating over gas vehicles being horrible for the environment when EVs really aren't any better, and the idea that we are going to arbitrarily force everyone to replace gas vehicles by strangling the auto industry and making fuel outrageously expensive. We need to be making gas and diesel better and better, not lying to ourselves that they're obsolete. That's not gonna happen in our lifetimes.
@@tankerd1847
How can an electric car that doesn't pollute nor generate emissions during its service life be just as bad for the environment as a combustion car that does?
Right, it's because of their absolutely terrible manufacturing footprint... that's not a terror story that the fossil fuel industry likes to peddle.
No offence, but Nissan Leaf is terrible car.
@@tankerd1847 EVs & renewable energy are inextricable, just like ICVs & fossil fuels, & RE+EVs are absolutely many many many times better in every important way.
ICVs ARE obsolete. And destroying civilization & nature. Fortunately, EVs are taking over exponentially everywhere in an S-curve, like they have in Norway, Iceland, & Sweden, (2023 EV market shares 94%, 76%+, 74%) & are about to throughout Europe & China. BEVs are taking over the EV market as they advance, & people stop falling for the right wing’s fear-mongering lies.
Nederland 51%, 44% BEV,
doubling time of 1⅓ years
Denmark 50% 43% BEV
China 42%, 27% BEV,
2021 & 2022 doubling time 1 year
Japan 40.5% 2022
Germany 31%, 18% BEV
EU (⅔ China’s V market) 23%, BEV 14%
UK 23%
Europe 23%, 17% BEV
France 30%, 15% BEV
Finland 31% "
Germany 31% "
Switzerland 22% "
Portugal 20% "
World 19% 2023
US 13% because of relentless right wing lies in the echo chamber
“A Fossil Fuel Economy Requires 535x More Mining Than a Clean Energy Economy”
Michael Thomas, Distilled, March 29, 2023
“New Video: Clean Energy = Less Mining”
This Is Not Cool, September 15, 2022
"Mining quantities for low-carbon energy is hundreds to thousands of times lower than mining for fossil fuels”
Hannah Ritchie, Jan. 18, 2023
“Setting the Record Straight About Renewable Energy”
Susan Tierney & Lori Bird, May 12, 2020
I’m looking forward to the day when right wing trolls are either banned or gone so they keep their idiot paranoid conspiracy theories to themselves.
Mine is an Ioniq 5 and I love it, 95% of the time I recharge at home and when needed I put a full charge and go to my trip without worries, I appréciate the charging time because it give me free time to look arround, eat, go to store and have a pleasant trip without stress. The EV need a little more planning but not so mutch, I can drive 250 miles so many destination are in range and charging stations are beginning to be everywhere.
Funny!! Can you make a parody of Tesla Cybertruck?? :)
done deal thanks to billionaire pothead.
@@Zebra_3 Also the US congress because their spouses have tech stocks in TESLA.
@@elmer7star sell! sell! sell! I say...Tesla will eventually return to a niche EV co. w/ accounting done in Mexico.
There's no need for that as the Cybertruck is its own parody.
And there's Smokey the Bear, and the entire science of botany torn out of my childhood, then.
Was Smokey Canadian? Is he even a legal citizen of any country? I suspect he's an anarchist!
Me, someone who almost entirely uses pedestrian/public transit infrastructure for transport when some EV driver starts lecturing:
Yeah the majority of the US is too lazy or blind to accept that into their lives.
How do you get your boat to the ramp? 😅
1:38 "with torque so powerful it'll feel like you're getting bottomed by Captain goddamn Planet"
OH and the required upgrades to the aging electrical grid that is already showing signs of collapse.
Well, that what you get for abandoning its development for decade or two due to reduction in energy consumption.
That's totally going to be free right? We totally won't get screwed by rising utilities prices or the taxes paid to subsidize that, right? /s
Hybrid engines were a great idea. Imagine an engine that requires half the gas of a standard ICE, can charge its own, secondary electric engine, and then travel more than twice the distance with zero emissions.
But...
...since those don't rely on the grid for power, they promptly "fell out of fashion", just like everything else that ever gave the peasants any semblance of control over their own lives.
I agree
True story! BTW, I love my hybrid car!
how convenient isnt it? not profitabel as these so they go under..im nto a fan of electric power in general Hybrids or EVs but Hybroid seems more sense than a straight ev...but in reality id rather do straight gas ..Batteries cant be trusted or relied on especially in extreme heat or cold
@@sonnyc3826 that’s right, soo many dead teslas on the road this winter and Alberta issued an emergency alert for everyone to not use power so the grid doesn’t go down due to all the EVs that were hooked up but not charging cuz -55 Celsius is too cold for much outside of diesel engines to operate. I hate that they roll this shit out before fixing the flaws.
@TheMoose126
People with common sense saw this a mile away
The worst part is that EVs are even worse than they're portrayed in this video - even if the energy to power them comes from renewables, considerable emissions and pollution go into the production of those "renewables". All EVs really are is emissions obfuscation.
The only way to actually enact meaningful climate action is to reduce energy consumption. Bikes, trains, and walkable communities are part of that.
Who ever is the writer for this is genius.
Whatever happened to “not buying because it’s not perfected yet”. Used to hear that a lot but not any more.
He just said "it's not perfect yet" in the video. I still see it all the time and I would mostly agree. I think it's more those people aren't looking for content on the topic as often.
see also "c0v1d vaxxines"
@@Skylancer727 growing up every kid used to hear that from their father when asking for a color TV. “It’s not perfected yet”
Because innovation got wrapped up in environmentalism and virtue signaling. Most of the time the only people who buy immature technologies are wealthy enthusiasts, who want to be on the cutting edge and are willing to deal with growing pains either to be on that edge, or to patronize the development. With EVs, buying them got posed as a moral good, so way more people buy into them.
Just like milk comes from the supermarket, electricity comes out of the wall, therefore it is clean.
(As clean as coal)
Except that whole argument ignores the fact that to refine oil into gas ALSO takes electricity to make. And how much electricity does it take to refine one gallon of gas? About the same amount I use to drive 24 miles. So before an ICE car has driven one foot, I'm already 24 miles down the road.
@@thatjeff7550 Yeah I strongly suspect these claims are exaggerations. Remember that we've somehow been running the entire grid off oil and gas nearly exclusively. If it takes so much power to make the stuff we burn, then how have we been actually making power this whole time?
From what I've found it uses about 8.7kwh of power to refine an entire barrel of oil into 19.5 gallons of gas. That's about 2kwh per gallon of gas which themselves contain around 37kwh. That math makes a lot more sense. That means the energy to make one gallon of gas at best would drive an EV 9 miles. Maybe 24 is you count all the extraction and transport.
@@Skylancer727
That's because you're an idiot and incapable of checking facts, sp you just go with whatever confirms your biases.
@@thatjeff7550 Your farts must smell very nice. Us plebs will never appreciate the full aroma of them.
@@Skylancer727 Yes, I think they put all the energy consumption on only one derivative of a gallon of oil, ignoring all the other products you get from that gallon, like the rest is waste.
heating oil, gasoil, jet fuel, gasoline, bitumen,...
i hate how much Don't Think, Just Drive sounds like a real unedited slogan
Oof, sounds like the oil companies are getting scared.
Cringe!
Don't think about riding a bike or taking mass transit either. We need you to buy the RogVolt (RV) Futura!
It always amazed me that people commuting to work in a 6,000 lb electric car think they were saving the planet.
That's because you're ignorant of the Wells to wheels efficiency of an EV relative to ICE vehicles.
The average vehicle I see on my daily commute is a 4,000+ lb SUV, usually with a single occupant.
@@2LegHumanist well maybe if you really wanted to save the planet you could car pool in a prius. Or you could sell your car and move into a tiny cabin and raise your own food. At least I'm not a hypocrite that claims to be saving the world while living in a nice house and spending huge sums on all the latest consumer crap.
@@jimfarmer7811
That's the dumbest attempt atvtu quoque fallacy I've ever seen.
You're basically arguing that people shouldn't reduce their carbon footprint because to do so makes them hypocrites somehow.
And congrats for falling for stereotypes. It was just used for comedic effect in the video, but you actually believe only rich people drive EVs 🤣. All those looks I get from jealous road users when I'm out cruising in my 2015 Nissan Leaf. Idiot.
Touchy are we? Maybe I hit a little too close to home? By the way only the rich can take advantage of the $7,500 tax credit. The rest of us get to pay for it with higher taxes and energy costs.
The rich elite won't be happy until the rest of us are crammed into tiny dark appartments with nothing to eat but tofu burgers. Meanwhile they will be jetting around the world laughing at our naivety.
See that leaf logo? It means alot to me. Buwhahwhahahah! 😅
"Don't think!" and "I need your money!" are suitable as slogans for a plethora of branches, such as governments, private companies and polictical parties.
I love my new electric BMW haven’t spent a penny on fuel since I bought it. Charge it a work for free. NEVER GOING BACK.
"My friends call me that, not as a joke." LMAO
The soccer mom was hilarious 😂 😂😂😂
She’s a decent actress because she came across as very annoying.
I like how woman look with a seat belt across their chest! lol
and gorgeous
The only transportation method that’s proven to be cleaner than driving in pretty much every dimension, and cheaper, more flexible, and cleaner than the public transportation that probably doesn’t exist where you live, is to get on a bicycle. Most Americans could use the exercise.
i grew up in anchorage and we had really awesome bike trails. you could get anywhere in town maybe crossing at most 2 roads. unfortunately if you wanted to use them in winter, you would need cross country skis and it would take twice as long.
Maybe we should stop worrying about building more EV cars and just make a world where we don't need cars? Oh well...too late for that.
Didn't you listen. Don't think
That makes to much sense!
Back to riding horses?
@@stefandotp no. I'm not talking horses. I'm talking about how we build cities and highways for cars nothing else like bikes, trains, and buses. We have built a lot of very wasteful concrete and tarmac that has no other use than cars. Furthermore, we wouldn't have to go so far if we didn't have such gigantic parking lots between everything which accomplishes nothing but empty space for cars to sit when you aren't using them. A lot of places don't even provide sidewalks.
I'm not saying totally get rid of cars, just that we need more ways to get around that don't involve them.
I agree with tou in principle, but the truth is our infrastructure, work-life structure, and economy are in way too deep to make that change. It'd be like trying to remove a persons digestive tract and still expecting them to function.
You had me at Monkey Brain..... I say that often
So so true …
so accurate! i love it! i do believe ill be sticking to my original 1971 c 10 good ole 350 that will still running in another 52 years. :)
"Well intentioned legislation" lol, that's good sarcasm right there. You also forgot to advertise the battery fires that takes thousands of gallons of water to temporarily put out, create lithium poisoned water runoff that goes who knows where.
And the battery needs replacing frequently.
@@emeguta8651replacing? You mean throwing away the car and buying a new one since the refurb batteries are usually worth more than the car with a failing battery.
No it's true get a brain
@@emeguta8651and how much they are to replace
@@emeguta8651lol no it doesn’t. Tesla batteries statistically last 300-500k miles, longer than most engines. By that point it’s not worth replacing, it’s time for a new car anyway.
It’s true that the production of an EV creates more emissions than a gas poweredcar. However, it’s not true that it takes a decade to offset the emissions. It varies, but it’s less than that on average. EVs emit less overall.
Nevertheless, I get the criticism EVs are not the solution to the climate crisis. We must make actual changes to our lifestyle. With transportation, it would be more walkable and bike friendly cities, and lots of train options like they have in Europe between cities.
@tim I agree. Of course they’re not the solution to the climate crisis. They are however an absolutely crucial part of the solution & with efficiency; renewable energy; public transit including high speed rail; other electrification so all primary energy (direct use of fuels in industry, transportation & buildings) can be renewablized; organic permaculture; radical economic & political equality; & healing the complex psychological illness causing all our problems...will get us through this devastating calamity if we implement them strongly, massively, & immediately enough with the power of truly democratic government.
How many years it takes to offset production of gas powered vehicles?
Never lol but children aren’t dying in mines to produce gasoline cars also the byproduct of cobalt mines are wayyyyyy worse for the environment than steel mining. And where do you think the electricity for charging the electric cars comes from
@@johndoe-vl3yechildren are dying in wars over oil🤷🏾♂️
Infinite, because they can offset exactly nothing. But that's not the point being made. The EV has *extra* emissions costs, which takes longer than the lifespan of the vehicle to offset. So the EV lands in the same hole - it can't offset its own production, just like the ICE. This is also then coupled to the power system having a lifespan of 70 to 80 percent as much as the ICE. So you're constantly racking up an even larger emissions deficit that you can't ever catch.
I don't want to be seen as one of those buttholes that parks a brodozer at the supercharger or makes irrelevant or inaccurate claims as to the sexual preference of an EV owner. I wish the damn things worked. Sadly, they don't.
I know someone who is an industrial hygenist who worked for the US government doing research into the environmental, health, and humanitarian impacts of EV'S and she says that if the general public knew the truth about them that they would be globally banned.
The "Don't Think" part is so scarily accurate in today's world. Kneel, comply, stop thinking, be a good follower, ostracize the non-followers who think for being "low information" people over there with their mean, evil "critical thought." Grrr...
But, that might make people feel bad about stuff that happened before they were born.
Better to burn it down or ban it.
Something Something "parental rights", even though they're not really raising their kids anyway.
@@DemonicAdj The parental rights crowd isn't the one into burning things down or banning them, they just want you to stop pumping their kids full of your leftist agenda. Also, the left is the one that "feels bad about stuff." The terms left and right are basically a biblical reference. The people on the left asked "does it feel good?" where the people on the right were "does it DO good?" You can't accurately apply that to political parties today, other than to say it's the left that leans into feeling bad, burning, banning and rioting when their feelings aren't tended to. I'm with the parental rights people 100%.
What study are you citing for the 70% claim and 10 years offset and those are for which vehicle, I see none in the description or as a pinned comment. My cursory glance through the literature seems to find this completely unsubstantiated.
@la That’s right. Don’t know what the 70% thing is but it actually takes about 1½ years to pay back the energy, carbon, & other pollution costs of construction for a typical EV. Then it’s virtually carbon & pollution-free living for 200,000 or more miles, at much lower fuel & maintenance costs.
@jacobclement8150 It may be that much on a total lifecycle basis but that’s double counting manufacturing, given the question here.
The insane right wing in the US has endlessly delayed renewables with lies, buying politicians & governments, destroying democracy, & other tactics. For their trolls to now endlessly whine that EVs aren’t much better than ICVs because they run on dirty grids is doubling down on underhanded & despicable.
It may be that much on a total lifecycle basis but that’s double counting manufacturing, given the question here.
The insane right wing in the US has endlessly delayed renewables with lies, buying politicians & governments, destroying democracy, & other tactics. For their trolls to now endlessly whine that EVs aren’t much better than ICVs because they run on dirty grids is doubling down on underhanded & despicable.
@jacobclement8150 I think your figures are off. Given the question here, that’s double-counting manufacturing.
The insane right wing in the US has endlessly delayed renewables with lies, buying politicians & governments, destroying democracy, & other tactics. For them to now endlessly whine that EVs aren’t much better than ICVs because they run on dirty grids is doubling down on underhanded & despicable.
EVs are already a lot better, & improving on carbon, other pollution, & more all the time. Most EVs are in places with a higher-than-average renewable grid-blue states & cities, progressive countries… & EVs get a lot more of their energy from renewables than their grids provide. 80% of EV owners charge at home, mostly at night when expensive fossil fuels are idled, & wind, hydro, geothermal, CSP provide a higher percent & are growing fast. ⅓ of US & ½ of EU owners have solar panels.
Solar PV is increasing exponentially, as are wind & batteries. Fleets are electrifying & renewablizing fast. And even existing EVs improve as their grids improve, which almost all are. In Norway, (94% EV market share (EVMS) because of long-standing government policies) Iceland (75%), Costa Rica, Belize, Ethiopia, Laos, Scotland, Uruguay, Kenya, Uganda, & more than a dozen other countries at or near 100% renewable grids, 60 others with mostly renewable grids (including Germany, 4th largest economy in the world, the Iberian grid, Brazil, Colombia, Georgia, New Zealand, Austria, Kenya, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, Sweden (74% EVMS), Switzerland, Venezuela, Nicaragua; Peru, Chile, & others getting close, grids are getting better. Not fast enough, though, we need to fix that by removing the right wing from power & wealth.
they would rather make cars running on human souls than build a fucking functional rail network
well argent energy does have a nice glow.
@@zarthemad8386That's a much better reason to try and land people on Mars.
had to watch it again, this time from my model y.
The folks over at Horton Industries did a great job on this video. Im on my way to get myself in a Rogvolt now. Thanks Roger!
But in all seriousness, I did appreciate the brief moment of hesitant optimism among all the tongue in cheek criticism of the auto industry. Overall the video was very informative.
For people looking to decrease their automotive carbon footprint now, from what I understand hybrids are currently the way to go. As Roger said, we're still at the "getting there" point of EVs
Best thing anyone can do for the environment is keep driving the hooptie they currently own
And even better way to lower one 's carbon footprint would be to use trains and subways instead of cars or at least lobby your government hard to build said public transit infrastructure.
@@ajiththomas2465 Problem around here is the local "teens" and homeless people of non-specific ethnic and racial background make taking public transpo impossible for most of the population. So public transpo, when not usable, is a TERRIBLE way to spend precious tax dollars if you want to conserve resources or the environment.
@@jfruser Objectively wrong. Study after study has conclusively proven that investing in public infrastructure like public transit is not only a great investment of public resources but in addition to the societal productivity, cities make more money back as well. The more people use public transit, the less cars there will be on the street and this traffic goes down a lot as well. Your fear mongering about the homeless and minorities are just a nonsense excuse to kick down and to not try to improve things. Screw off.
No, the way to go is electric bicycles and scooters, because the batteries required are far smaller, and they also don't tear up the road. But no fat ass American is going to give up their 5k pounds of metal to pick up a gallon of milk.