Nonsense Thread

[MrBurgundy]

This part made me laugh.........“My husband and I actually fight over who’s going to drive the EV to work,”

My WIFE* and I actually fight over who's going to drive the EV to work,"

[808ETA]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/opini...nos/index.html

This part made me laugh.........“My husband and I actually fight over who’s going to drive the EV to work,”

[varg]

My main issue with "electrify everything" is that it just is not practical from a physical point of view. Bar an immense breakthrough in battery technology (which is perpetually 5-10 years away), batteries will always have laughable energy density in volume and mass. Batteries which approach the energy density of gasoline, will be by the very nature of how batteries work, quite dangerous. We know how volatile Li-poly (basically high current Li-ion) batteries are, you bend one in an RC airplane crash or puncture it and it burns. Chuck it into water as it burns and it keeps burning under water. Imagine if that same battery had 1/4 the energy density of gasoline instead of 1/44th of it. It's a higher potential reaction, which will be more volatile. Ultra batteries aren't going to be like C4; incredibly energetic but so stable it's nearly impossible to trigger the reaction accidentally. EV proponents at least have some misguided sense though. Maybe it's just because I am an engineer in the aerospace industry and a once-pilot, but I find electric airplane proponents to be basically morons. My electric RC airplanes are great, less mess, more convenient, good performance though limited flight time vs gasoline or glow fuel. But the square cube law applies, and real airplanes are not models. Aircraft benefit greatly from the fact that they become lighter as they operate, having a MTOW that is higher than your MLW is great for designing structures and landing gear that don't have to tolerate the same severity of landing forces at MTOW because they will not be regularly operated there. They say a tesla motors Model 3 gets 4.17mi/kWh or 142MPGe, so call that 5.5x as efficient as a 26mpg 2.0T Accord (comparable car). It's 5.5x more efficient but gasoline has 5.86kWh/lb and the battery is 0.134kWh/lb. so even though you have 5.5x the efficiency you have 0.02x the energy density in your "fuel". Quick and dirty thing to do here but think about how these numbers might work for airplanes. Your engine might be lighter (the motor, its gearbox, its speed controller/inverter) but if your efficiency is 5.5x higher and your fuel is 1/44th as dense you get 0.125x the distance per pound. So now to approach the same range with the same weight you need a battery that has 1/8th the energy density of gasoline, not 1/44th. And your airplane still isn't going to get any lighter before you land. And that's reciprocating vs electric, not gas turbine vs electric. Gas turbine engines have better specific output than electric motors.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/opini...nos/index.html

I was never a bully, I was on the receiving end of it, but this guy makes me see where the bully was coming from. I want to tell him "shut up, nerd". Not just a lame opinion, but written in a smug and irritating tone. You can tell this guy is one of the ivory towers types.

Must be nice. Here in Sydney the median price is now over 1.6mil, which is a shade over a million US. I moved back here to go to university, and will likely only be here for my degree.

Major cities are kinda cheating if you're on a whinge about the housing market like I am. They're always ridiculously expensive, bar a sluggish economy.

[MrBurgundy]

You never see someone with a 10 year old iPhone... its just a consumable appliance....

You right, boys.. I shouldn't be a waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffles.. That guy seems like a huge feg

I mean, the provocative abstract is def intentional but still


har har har

[rturbo 930]

It's especially great here because we're supposedly transitioning to all electric cars in the 2030s. So much better to power that car with nice clean electricity.

It's hilarious.
Also the whole ecological return timeline for EV production + use seems longer than most people give it credit for, and the vehicle life span certainly seems to be shorter.

Actually, I've heard the EV frenzy is dying down a bit. Sales seem to be down, and I believe Mercedes has backed off of its original target deadline to drop ICE engines. Harry's Garage did a video about it recently. I'm still convinced this is just a passing phase. Toyota doesn't seem to be convinced that EVs are the end all be all solution either.

As for EV vehicle life span, I can't imagine it's very good. They're electrically very complex, and they have very expensive batteries that have a limited life span. I also haven't heard great things about Tesla build quality, and cars are getting cheaper and more plastic as time goes on. Will anyone want to foot the bill to recondition a 15 year old Tesla? Will it even be worthwhile, or will it be completely obsolete? I wouldn't be surprised if the average lifespan of a Tesla was as little as 10 years.

This guy seems like a huge... ehh- I cant say it on R3v

Damn, has R3V gotten that soft?

[2mAn]

This guy seems like a huge... ehh- I cant say it on R3v

Yes you can... dont be a waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffles

[MrBurgundy]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/opini...nos/index.html

This guy seems like a huge... ehh- I cant say it on R3v

[roguetoaster]

I love seeing an EV with a coal plate. These guys get it.

They seem to be proliferating in the DC area, especially on WV plates. Then again, people do need to look up from their phones to read the plate and appreciate it.

[moatilliatta]

I love seeing an EV with a coal plate. These guys get it.

[Northern]

It's especially great here because we're supposedly transitioning to all electric cars in the 2030s. So much better to power that car with nice clean electricity.




It's hilarious.
Also the whole ecological return timeline for EV production + use seems longer than most people give it credit for, and the vehicle life span certainly seems to be shorter.

[rturbo 930]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/opini...nos/index.html

I think the worst thing about EVs is the people who drive them. Yes, let's give up something that is objectively more enjoyable and engaging for something that is soulless, but efficient, which seems to be the standard these days. Many of the great things of the past can no longer be created anymore because they don't meet a given stat, usually in the interest of "saving the planet" or perhaps it's deemed to be just too much effort. I might be more sympathetic if such measures would actually save the planet, but anyone who thinks that EVs are any kind of solution to an alleged "climate crisis" and that manual transmissions and combustion engines are the leading "climate killers" is simply an idiot.

[moatilliatta]

Just kill it already so E36Ms can triple in price again.

[E30 Wagen]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/opinions/automatic-vs-manual-cars-electric-pollution-hockenos/index.html

[MrBurgundy]

This is a hilarious post. Dude I freakin hate writing service so much. People are dumb. Good call protecting the shop. End up down some half assed rabbit hole job with ching chong parts and then the engine toasts off and youre stuck with it.

I try and keep things simple here... easy to get stuck with a headache because someone wants to be cheap about a 20 year old bmw with a V8.... no thanks..

[econti]

Honestly $500k USD is ~$675k CAD which sounds pretty good to me lol. But our housing issue is pretty bad compared to most. That home insurance bill is insane though

Must be nice. Here in Sydney the median price is now over 1.6mil, which is a shade over a million US. I moved back here to go to university, and will likely only be here for my degree.