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WWIII Saving Ourselves from Ourselves!!!
In the future, market forces (read: what people prefer to buy) will dictate what kind
of products (including cars) are available! Wait…..that’s exactly how it works now.
EVs are inherently much, much simpler machines than ICE-powered vehicles.
Once the major auto manufacturers (not Tesla) also get a few years of large-scale EV’s manufacture under their belts and after charging facilities are more common, anyone who is actually concerned about reliability will buy an EV over an ICE vehicle. The opinion of a mechanical engineer, for what it’s worth.
Your EV takes are incredibly ignorant. You need to look at cost curves. EVs are going to be considerably cheaper than ICE cars. How much were flat big screens TVs when they first came out? How much are they now? EV sales are growing exponentially. When the supply chains and manufacturing matures and competition grows as more manufacturers enter the market the costs will continue to drop. There already are 200+ mile EVs at comparable prices to ICE cars. EVs are a much simpler machine to build so they will be cheaper.
Just a matter of time.
I doubt it!!!!! The current electrical nationwide grids can barely handle what current customers need/require. Second, the cost of an electric car is outrageous $45-60,000
plus paying to have a line installed at your home… God forbid if you live in an apartment, then what?
Apartment complexes don’t have charging stations. The replacement tires are way more than a standard car! $$$ The driving range is terrible. Most dealers don’t have a mechanic fix or repair them. And if a battery goes it’s about $29,000 to replace them. It will never happen. Toyota is already building a hydrogen car in production as we speak. And btw..
if and when the car catches on fire, they can’t extinguish a lithium fire, your car will be a total loss. $$&&$
Oh one more thing, in 1919 an auto small startup company made the electric horseless carriage and it died. Ford made the model, and it went way farther than the EV pos.
So over 100 years they want to bring it back again. You can’t fix stupid. Jay Leno has
one of the original 1919 crap cars hence 100 year later renewables are not carbon free!
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Not the problem that it is made out to be, but hey we all love fairy stories.
All they need to do is figure out how to keep those “super cheap” electric cars from catching on fire. Just because you live in a rural area you should not ignore the majority who don’t. EVs make perfect sense for the small commute that most people use their cars for. On the point of quality, I find Chinese made things I use extremely well made and very cheap to own. My Milwaukee power tools are a joy to use. When I was growing up,
These types of things were going on in the past there just wasn’t and internet to share the information. This all has been a huge plan to keep the rich, rich since the creation of greed.
Progressive23
1 day ago
I lived in a Van 2 to 4 days a week and came back to my condo on the weekend. The outrageous cost of housing forces me to do this, someone who makes a measly 90k a year can’t afford a small house/decent apartment within 1 hours commute of their Seattle job. My Van doesn’t get very good gas mileage but I actually save on gas because I’m only doing the big commute once or twice a week.
Last I checked there weren’t any affordable electric Vans. There is also no way to charge an EV at my condo, EVs don’t have the range I need, they are way outside my budget and I’m worried millions of EVs being plugged in at night will overload the power grid. I study weather as a hobby and really want to stop global warming but I won’t be giving my gas car up anytime soon and forcing me to give up my gas car will only result in riots/voting for the other party.
My 2005 Saturn engine – Search (bing.com) is still running great at 277,000 miles.
2.2 liter, 4cyl, 5speed manual. I’ve heard it’s a Honda engine, and I’ve heard it’s a Toyota engine. Whichever it is, it runs great! No FOB, no ABS, key in the door, key in the ignition. Vue had an optional Honda v6. But the Ecotec 2.2 is a GM product.
GregFisherman
2 days ago
3:33 – Yeah, that CVT sucks but most likely your feeling is known to wear out the
engine mount in front of the engine on the right side near the strut (passenger’s side).
Juan S
2 days ago
I laughed at the 5:45 timestamp “FAT KOK” which reminded me that Confucius
once said that a gentleman going through a turnstile was going to “Bangkok”…
Gloom Weed
15 hours ago (edited)
If you do the math, hybrids get better gas mileage than EVs. Adjusted for a full 1000 range tank, prius will cost $66 if gas is at $3/gal. 22galx45mpg=990 mile range. EVs get 3 miles per kwh. National average is 16 cent per kwh at home. 100kwh=300miles=$16. x3= $48. BUT outlets at home only charge at 2kw per HOUR (6 miles lol). Any supercharger will cost about 24 cents per kwh, which is $72. 6 dollars more than it would cost to fill a prius. All of you EV bros are getting ripped off having to drive something super expensive with less mile fuel range, longer refilling time, and way harder to find stations to charge at.
And a depreciating value faster than Leonardo’s girlfriends.
One view of the “safety” of the 50s cars can be seen in
the YouTube video of a 1959 Chevrolet and a newer Malibu in an offset collision.
I prefer GM cars built in 1971 and later with crumple zones, side beams and KIA-crushing bumpers. I remember when a nice house was $60k and a new car was $4k. My first house was $71k. It wasn’t huge but it was big enough for my wife and I and our son.
We lived in that house for 7 years and sold it for $104k.
They shouldn’t try to force stuff on people. Let the people drive whatever they want, and if the people decide to drive electric, so be it. Likewise, if people decide to drive gas cars, so be it.
What if people are propagandized and lied to so their wants and desires are steered
in a certain direction? This is why appealing to consensus is a fallacy. Doesn’t matter.
People will ultimately do the test run and decide in the long run on whether they want to keep doing gas cars or electric cars. Coercion between the government and corporations.
They always project. It’s called corporatism or fascism.
Scotty is right. I can’t afford to trade cars every few years.
Therefore, I have to keep them for a long time, take care of them, and drive my money out of them. And I’ve been afraid to buy a gasoline car for 3 years now, because I worry that they will tax the stew out of gasoline in order to force people into electric ones.
MeLiSSa
2 days ago
It snows and sometimes gets under 10°F in the winter and over 100°F in the summer here. EV’s wouldn’t charge or hold a charge in this area. Cell phones give messages on the screen when left in the car that it’s too cold or hot to use. Those EV’s are a joke. Hot wheels toys are more reliable.
Larry Mayotte
1 day ago
Then how are all those EVs driving around in Canada and Arizona/Texas? My Ford Mach-E has done as well at 20 degrees as 95. There was a small percentage of range loss at really cold temps, but, drove just fine from Seattle to Portland and most the way back….
Nate Carte
1 day ago
It’s called battery management, antifreeze and heat pumps keep the
batteries happy and functional. ICE vehicles lose range at extremes too.
MeLiSSa
10 hours ago
MY EV started under 20 degrees Fahrenheit! Not 10.
These things ended up stranded on the highway btw
I’d love to see how many are stranded in subzero Fahrenheit temperatures.
They couldn’t make it 50miles in weather at 2-5°F! When they are in suitable
temps they take how many hours to fully charge?
Just heard on the news; many insurance companies are now cancelling homeowners’ coverage if they’ve installed a solar panel array on their roof. Also Turns out the panels,
in some cases, cause roof damage, and to replace the roof, the panels obviously have to be completely removed and then reinstalled. A huge increase in labor and the cost to install the new roof.
Freddie Smith
1 day ago
GM built 50 EVs in the 90s. I think. GM realized that they made huge mistakes and decided to crush all 50 EVs. Relax, it’s just a car… but we don’t have the electrical grid to support 100,000,000 cars charging at one time. There are 278,000,000 registered cars
in the United States. It’s quite possible that 100,000,000 of them would need gas on the same day or electricity if they were E/V’s. Leading us back to the same dilemma, where is all of this juice going to come from and where is the electrical grid to support that load? The short answer is, it doesn’t exist.
I remember when a new car could be financed for 48 mos. Used car for 36 mos. That gave the consumer a chance to pay off the car in a reasonable amount of time, then even go a few months without a payment and prep for the next car. But now, with financing going 72/84 mos, that’s a difficult proposition these days. 5:45 That type of stuff will never fail to make me laugh, haha. Please never stop making these videos, Scotty.
The Volvo P-1800 was a high water mark for engines, for sure.
Another excellent and lasting value has been Ford Mustangs with 6 Cylinder engines.
In Atlantic Canada where sea & road salt rusts cars, Mustangs dating from 1996 onwards are still happily driving down our roads. We see lots from 1999 to 2015. Yes the Mustang, especially with the V6, is a long lasting car. An EV might work as a short trip commuter but don’t expect it to be less costly than a gas vehicle as first off you will pay more for it and it is highly unlikely that the EV will outlast a gas vehicle of the same size.
Once the batteries are weak…it’s finished. A 17-hour drive
In a EV that would normally be a 6–7-hour drive in a gas-powered car
Hey Government, you know where you can stick that charger, don’t you
My niece asked my opinion about a 2013 hybrid. I told her to assume the battery needed to be replaced at that age and the cost was 4 to 7K from what I was seeing. Then I suggested that if she gets a hybrid or EV every 300 miles she puts the equivalent money of $3/gal in the bank toward a battery in the future. Bottom line is pay now or later. There is no free ride and if you drive a Tesla you need to put $4 a gal or you will not save enough.
I don’t see myself buying a used hybrid or EV unless I see an allowance made for battery replacement.
Micheal McNeal
1 day ago
2012 Chevy volt hybrid. Battery still has 97% of original charge. 39 miles and 38 miles now (I can get 45-50 miles if I’m trying)….11 years later. Depends if the batteries are cooled and heated properly. Chevy volts are. Also, I live in Indiana so it experienced everything from -20F to 108°F. I average 650mpg. In the summer I use 0 gas. In the winter I typically use
8 gallons total. I drive 10,500 to 11,500 miles a year.
I think you’re forgetting one thing my friend. It’s called We the People
and if we the people don’t want to buy electric cars we’re not going to
and nobody’s going to make you do anything because we are Americans.
Kevin Mach
2 days ago
5:43 “Fat Kok” LMAO
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mark
1 day ago
Question… if all Americans are going to be forced to sell their
combustion engines and buy electric, who in the f*** are we selling to?!?
wetlandweasel
2 days ago
Over my dead body, they would have to pry the steering wheel of my ICE car
from my dead cold hands. I guess I would have to go by way of Mad Max!
oldsesalt
2 days ago
EVs were still in their infancy. So they aren’t what they should be in performance and reliability. But then again the early gas autos were in their infancy and not what they should be either. If people want to drive electric, then let them.
C.O.G. Forevermore
2 days ago
If everyone has to sell their petroleum fueled vehicles. Who is going to buy them?
Robert
1 day ago
Even a 30 grand electric car requires battery bank replacement 8 – 12 grand every 8 years. No thanks
EDWARD D Beck
2 days ago
Scotty my Nissan did it ,, it was the head gasket going pull up to red light and do jerking thing then head gasket went
JCS
2 days ago
There would be hell on the streets if they forced us to get rid of our gas vehicles.
John Galt
2 days ago
GOVT control OF THE urban core public transit……controlled, tracked, limited.
Phil Zellmer
2 days ago
We would sell the cars to who???……..the scrap yard???…….
Shawn
1 day ago
If ALL Americans sell their gas cars and buy EVs, who buys the used gas cars?
Civilians of foreign countries? It definitely can’t be anyone in Europe.
How are the old cars going to be recycled?
gilbert washburn
2 days ago
Yep I drive a clunker 95 Toyota Avalon runs like a million bucks it’s a hooptie if I had 40
or 60 Grand I’d blow it all on record albums yeah and I threw my backseat away I can haul out of albums in there have a great day thanks for the video
I paid a hundred bucks for it 5 years ago I bought it from a dummy the battery was so corroded it wouldn’t start he thought it was junk you can learn a lot from a dummy have a great day I like your videosJohn Feranchuk
1 hour ago
Circular thinking! If we are forced to sell our internal combustion engine cars because
we are being forced to sell them and then buy an electric car, which we cannot afford, and which there will be no electricity to run them on….who, just who, is going to buy them???
Guderian
2 days ago
I’ll buy a horse carriage before I purchase an electric car.
GameTime
1 day ago
If the government is so gong ho on people getting electric cars they should use tax money and give everyone a ev and battery set up in the house the house is supposed to be for the people not the people for house
jeff p
30 minutes ago
I work for a trucking company right now we are hauling ground stabilization material we are going to all these tremendously huge job sites for Ford and Honda and you would not believe how big these EV plants are for electric cars they’re dumping billions of dollars in them all of it as government money to my understanding so they’re going to be pushing these electric cars very hard what’s funny on the job site you don’t see any electric trucks
Tommy
1 day ago
I would rather walk.
️Steve Eddy
1 day ago
Scotty I just finished a trip from Olympia Washington to Albuquerque NM and back me and my bro only saw 5 Electric car charging stations all the way about 3500 miles thru many cities?? 2 of them were broken? I drive a 94 HONDA Accord with my 300 pd brother and all our stuff in the car we average about 24mpg
Scott Bernard
1 day ago
Overwhelm the electrical grid, which is largely generated by burning coal…
What could go wrong?
Say no to socialism !!!!!
Wannabe Car Channel
2 days ago
The days of the automotive industry cranking cars out like hotcakes and people buying them up I think that it’s maybe not completely over but I believe that it is toned down so a lot of people say well why are the car companies moving towards electric cars if nobody’s really enthusiastic about them at this point in time… There again at some point you’re going to have to start a production if that’s really where it’s headed.
The other thing is automotive industry has always done their best to deal with if not even possibly Dodge EPA regulations to go electric as soon as possible would mitigate a lot of those feel consumption rules now that said that maybe a short-sighted short-term solution because in the future what the hell’s in is the government going to turn around and impose upon electric cars you know we’re going to have to go to paper mache tires at some point?
I mean who knows what they have in store you know I can remember 16 years ago or so when they decided to ramp up the production of corn to make gasohol. And of course everybody was hoping that that would shut up the environmentalist for 5 minutes at the time I predicted that it’s not going to shut them up they’ve pushed for it they believe it’s cleaner etc but once you implement that then they’re going to find all these problems with it which is exactly what they did.
I mean the cost of a new vehicle no matter if it’s gasoline or electric is frankly out of most people’s reach even through financing it’s out of reach I mean we’re talking about you know rent going up on the cheap you can find yourself a hole in the wall apartment located in the ghetto for 8 to 900 dollars even in a place like Central Ohio so where the hell then are you coming up with the other four or $500 a month for a car payment and that’s standard now.
So I think that in the long run the automotive manufacturers are not really concerned with a drop in production simply because we’re already there we’ve been there they’ve basically come around to accepting the fact that their production lines are basically going to slow down so if they can crank out 10,000 cars a year versus 60,000 cars a year and the sales numbers are going to be about the same.
Within say maybe a 5 to 10,000 sales variance there’s no difference the problem would be what it cost to build the electric car versus the gasoline car but of course that’s mitigated through government programs and incentives and that’s a lot of what they’re chasing that’s pretty much who’s going to end up building those production lines the government is going to fund it.
Basically about every industry is subsidized and one form or another at this point so they’re not necessarily worried they still have to make a profit but you know here’s the deal you know it’s the way the income deficiency across the population is and that’s getting worse all the time you know to be honest even GM is headed to a position to where they’re only going to be able to make what 3500 cars a year to realistically sell them so if they switch over to electric and you still have the same 3500 vehicles to sell what’s the difference you’re not in the heyday anymore either way you cut it that’s basically what’s happening so my examples might be bad but I’m hoping that you get at least the gist of what I’m saying!
Tommy Hawks
1 day ago
The average new car price is now over $47,000. The average price of a new EV vehicle is now nearly $59,000. The price of a new petroleum powered truck can easily top $80,000! You should be more honest when you talk about the price of an EV. The truth of the matter is that nearly ALL new vehicles have outrageous pricing.
In reality, the cheaper cars are only cheap by comparison.
People driving clunkers now are just as likely to be a middle class person as they are to be a below middle class person. Were the government to offer financial incentives, in which Congress would have to approve, to trade in a petroleum powered vehicle for an EV vehicle then this would help to lessen some of the financial pain to get into an EV vehicle.
No one has to like it, but EV’s will be a significant part of future personal transportation needs, for no other reason than necessity as fossil fuels keep rising in price. Why don’t you have serious talks as to WHY new vehicles are so expensive these days, Scotty? It is easily due to the fact that it is capitalists practicing capitalism. Capitalism is, BY FAR, the greatest economic system ever devised by man, but it can also be as flawed as man is.
The problem with Socialism is socialism. The problem with Capitalism is capitalists greed.
I live not far from where you used to live when you lived in Houston, Scotty. Over the past 2 years I have seen a noticeable increase in new EV vehicles in the Houston area, and most of them have been Tesla vehicles. It is the future, Scotty. You are right to complain about the cars of today, but we cannot bring back the past. I would love to go back to the days where you could walk into a dealership and order a car with the exact options that you wanted instead of having to buy a “package” to get the one option that you actually wanted. Disclaimer: I do not own an EV vehicle. Not even an electric lawn mower. Here’s Why All Americans are Going to be Forced to Sell Their Cars and Buy Electric Cars – YouTube