Things are about to get strange

[mopar 3 B]

She would freeze her buns here. The thermostat is set at 65 for the winter.

 

[joemish]

Drive your collectible combustion engine cars as much as you can guys. A lot of electric automotive industry movement in the last couple of days. Just today, I casually heard a GM plant in Lordstown, OH is being converted to an all electric car plant. Also heard today, a electric car plant had just been purchased in my poor economic area.
Like many people, I’m sure. Thought about the reality of how far off this topic is upon us over the past couple of years. Knew it was very close, but also thought it would be several years in reality. The reality is, it’s here now. Things are about to change drastically concerning combustion engines. We have to remember, how much faster technology increases times of change today. It’s going to be extremely interesting to see how these things transition from one to the next. I hope they don’t sell one damn car !

OK Chicken Little, please call 911.

 

[Greg Ballard]

Drive your collectible combustion engine cars as much as you can guys. A lot of electric automotive industry movement in the last couple of days. Just today, I casually heard a GM plant in Lordstown, OH is being converted to an all electric car plant. Also heard today, a electric car plant had just been purchased in my poor economic area.
Like many people, I’m sure. Thought about the reality of how far off this topic is upon us over the past couple of years. Knew it was very close, but also thought it would be several years in reality. The reality is, it’s here now. Things are about to change drastically concerning combustion engines. We have to remember, how much faster technology increases times of change today. It’s going to be extremely interesting to see how these things transition from one to the next. I hope they don’t sell one damn car !

I agree. Let's drive these beast!

 

[Trench]

Unfortunately I think electric cars are here to stay. The super high torque of an electric motor makes it idea for large machinery. I could see trucks and farm equipment taking the route of trains and going with an internal combustion engine as the prime mover and using electric traction motors coupled to the wheels.

 

[mopar 3 B]

Unfortunately I think electric cars are here to stay. The super high torque of an electric motor makes it idea for large machinery. I could see trucks and farm equipment taking the route of trains and going with an internal combustion engine as the prime mover and using electric traction motors coupled to the wheels.

Some one will have to figure out how to control the weight on trucks for that to happen.

 

[Trench]

Some one will have to figure out how to control the weight on trucks for that to happen.

A small diesel or gas motor with traction motors would not weigh any more than a large diesel engine does now. If you are talking about payload, by using phased power you can make an electric motor run at max power at all speeds.

 

[Danny Tuel]

Sorry you California guys are misinformed! We are turning corn into gas as we speak by the trainload. .you will never see a modern piece of farm equipment run on a dumb battery or a big rig for that matter. . .the country
We may never see it in our lifetime but some of us don't have that much time left LOL. The trend is towards electric cars and it will happen. In 10 years if that long half of the commuter cars will be electric. As one guy said technology is making things move fast. As far as having enough power to charge them, Have we ever worried about things like that before? We make the product and figure out the problems and worry about the repercussions later. It's the American way

 

[gus318]

I won't need to buy any more I ve got three cars I'll just sit on these

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Did you know there are only two countries in the world not on the metric system. USA and a small African country with less than 100,000 people.

 

[AJ/FormS]

It is all bullshit. It won't happen.

 

[AJ/FormS]

Where does everyone think electric comes from? It has to be generated some where and those plants run on some kind of fuel........

Exactamudo

 

[Robert Simpson]

It is all bullshit. It won't happen.
Remember when we were supposed to convert to the metric system???

The rest of the world did..........!

 

[AJ/FormS]

They say electric heat is 100% efficient. That's because it is the standard against which all other forms of heat are measured against.
yella71 said: ↑
Where does everyone think electric comes from? It has to be generated some where and those plants run on some kind of fuel........
And that's exactly it.
Electricity is handy because (here in Manitoba at least) we can generate it hundreds and hundreds of miles away, send it down a wire, and then reconvert it into energy at this end to run something.
Beats the heck out of harvesting firewood... which used to cost next to nothing, cuz we got mountains of wood. So whereas it used to cost me a couple of hundred bucks for to heat my house all winter; now it costs me more than $2400..... in after tax dollars, and then they stack another 13% tax onto the $2400..... so in the end it costs me $3900 in wages or over 200 hours.
I used to cut,split, haul, and stack 12 cords in about 40 hours. So now, electricity costs me 5 times as much. I call that 20% efficient, lol.
But seriously, anytime you convert one form of energy to another, you lose a bunch of it. We'd be far better off to burn some form of fossil fuel,in a water boiler system. Fire is the real 100% efficient way to heat your house. Plus it's practically instant whole house heat, compared to electrical resistance heating.

What has that got to do with electric cars?
Think about it.
The only way electric cars are gonna make it, is if we buy them, which I will never ever do. If I have to, I'll buy a horse.
And the only way electric cars will come to market is, if some already fat cat can figure out a way to get rich off them...... and that leads straight to subsidized purchases so that a portion of the purchase comes straight out of tax dollars, whereby every taxpayer, whether or not he knows it, chips in for the neighbors new electricmobile..
That is just corruption in action.
Everybody, en mas, should just quit working and go on welfare. That'll fix 'em. I wonder how long it would take for the system to tank?

We are a captive market.
Every citizen with a SS number has a gross worth of X amount of dollars... per year; that the government is continuously figuring out how to cheat you out of. That's just what they do. We get just enough to subsist on, they get the rest. And it ain't because they need the money; rather they are proving the point that we are slaves to the fattest cats at the top of the heap. And what do those fat cats do with the cash? My guess is that they burn it to keep themselves warm in their fat-cat mansions, while they all fat-cat party, and fat-pat themselves on their fat-backs for figuring out new and sneakier ways to steal our futures.
Ok seriously, what are they doing with all the cash? When something like less than 1% of all the people in the world, own 95% or more, of the wealth of all the world; seriously, of what value is all that wealth? Whaddaya do with warehouse after warehouse of cash, jewels, and precious metals. What do you do with the all the businesses, and countries, and ciizens, that you own? And all the slaves you own?
Seriously, do you just forcechit on them and cackle with glee. Chit like electricity thru a wire to the meter in your house. Like gas guzzling cars that cost 100's of times more today than 50 years ago and still, at the very best, have only doubled in fuel economy. What's it all coming to?
What it's coming to is;
.................... a loaf of bread for a day's wages ...............

 

[Kern Dog]

The rest of the world did..........!

THere are TWO kinds of countries in this world.
The kind that has been to the moon and then Everyone else.
America has been to the moon.

 

[Nearpar]

Just in.... Calfornia will now ban all-electric cars under proposition 65 stating that the materials in electric cars cause cancer in the state of California.

 

[Duke15]

<a href="">uncle tonys garage electric car youtube video</a>

I saw this video on YouTube on why electric cars wont catch on, and tend to agree with his view.

 

[Moparitis]

SKYNET is REAL... WHY is everything being converted to digital,so AI and SKYNET can monitor, back in the 20th century still analog,2000-10 conversion,2020 Everything is digital. AI will have NO use for humans...
Paranoid? Conspiracy nut?
Realist..

 

[12icer]

The man made climate change idiots are not smart enough to be able to lessen ANY type of pollution. They don’t know enough about science to formulate a workable plan. When you investigate all of the different types of energy sources, their ideas cause many times more pollutants than even an old Plymouth wagon sporting a 440 with two 800 Holley double pumpers with double Rios and 80 plus jets all around and a 4:88 Dana

 

[Kern Dog]

Just in.... Calfornia will now ban all-electric cars under proposition 65 stating that the materials in electric cars cause cancer in the state of California.

Wishful thinking!

 

[mopar 3 B]

Wonder if California has an EV disposal plan?

 

[GetX'd]

Of course we do - dump it Sacramento where it originated.....