This topic comes up in the garage quite regularly. I personally think the majority of that article will happen sooner that many of us think. If there was an affordable midsize electric car on the market today I would buy one.
Yes there is enough truth in the article for which some is already happened that you have to wonder about the rest of the things they are claiming.. pretty hard to imagine a nice Deuce 3 window powered by an electric motor.
Well I just hope I live long enough that, I can still be a friend of the Deciples of Speed so I can smell burning rubber and not the smell of an electric motor all burned up.. I hope I don't ever have an electric Car.. I will leave that for my grand-pups.. I like the smell of a combustion explosion and burning tires and I especially love a nice cackle and all the noise from a good set of pipes.. I want to be buried in a street rod.. But, I do beleive we are already in the next revolution in the economy and in the way we live.. Some things are good and some things suck in my opinion..
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I have to agree with everyone's opinion so far as hot-rodding is an intensely personal en-devour.
But....there are automobiles being built as we speak that have enhanced or artificially produced exhaust tones - so you'll be okay Chuck, lol. You could own any manufacturer's model with an electric motor that will produce more instantaneous torque than your tires or neck can handle. Just ask Garlits. And it can sound the part.
I too like the smell in my barn when I fire up one of the convertibles...and there is NOTHING like burnt rubber and racing fuel wafting through the air at a race track but again - artificial scents can be produced - or neutralized, just drive downwind from your local dump/refuse/re-cycling plant.
My oldest son teaches Re-newable Energies in a local College. He's an Electrical Engineer so I think he's capable of rendering an opinion. He tells me that a lot of the suggestions in the article above have merit but some are still lagging in the technologies to be real.....today. With advances in those technologies the same might not be true tomorrow so, get ready folks. It's going to be interesting.
My two cents?....I love the smell, sound, vibrations in our Falcon when I fire her up to take my Grand-daughter for a spin.....but I'd also like to leave her's and future generations a cleaner world to live in so I'll need to adjust.
like he said above, were all going to have to make some adjustments before too long, i think, probably sooner than later my guess. i seen on the boob tube something a week or so ago from the u.s. government that if we don't do something now to fix stuff environmentally that there will be some bad things happening within the next 100 years here in north america and around the world as a whole. it is a mandated review that takes place every x? number of years by a collection of scientists and what caught my attention was the 100 year number and knowing trump had pulled out of the kyoto accord. humph! the 100 year number caught me because it is a number that puts this environment stuff onto my kids laps and definitely the grand kids and it got me thinking. last september i was a pall bearer for my last aunt on dads side who passed at the age of 99 just 1 month short of the 100 mark. at the reception after the funeral some of the discussion got into what all she had seen change in her lifetime and someone mentioned what all her dad, grand-pop, had seen in his 87 yrs also. there weren't many cars around in 1885 and he lived long enough to see a man walking on the moon. 1885 to 1972, moonwalk 1969 and i know he still had his smarts up till just before he passed. they were talking some very serious things happening in the mid-west and southern states with-in the next 100 yrs if things don't change and that's when i remembered the talk at the reception about what all they had seen change and and it's not really that long ago in the big picture.
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A gasoline engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has
20. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are only
repaired by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an
electric motor. Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the
dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them
with robots. Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you
drive up to what looks like a Jiffy-auto wash, and your car is towed
through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a
new electric motor!
I don't think so, there is no way a gas engine has that many parts, I've a few a apart. Not to mention modern engines don't break it's everything around them that does.
Brakes, tires, A/c repairs etc will still need to be fixed.
Gas stations will go away. Parking meters will be replaced by meters
that dispense electricity. Companies will install electrical
recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started. You can find
them at select Dunkin Donuts locations.
Until they can come up with a more efficient way of storing electricity and charging batteries, not going to happen.
Most (the smart) major auto manufacturers have already designated
money to start building new plants that only build electric cars.
Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away.
Drilling for oil will stop. So say goodbye to OPEC!
The world runs on diesel. At any time in North America there is approximately 1,000,000 semi trucks on the road (that's moving,not counting the sitting ones). Each one will burn about 100 gallons of diesel each day.
That's 100,000,000 gallons of diesel burnt each day. These trucks only account for about 15% of the diesel burned.
Remember, if you bought it, a truck brought it!
Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of
Tesla and so they should be. Look at all the companies offering all
electric vehicles. That was unheard of, only a few years ago.
Tesla still hasn't made a profit, how long will that continue?
Electric stuff certainly has evolved but how much more will it improve. The Browning 1911 hand gun is over 100 years, still produced today, and many copy versions.
Airplane design hasn't changed much in 50 -60 years.
Bottom line is stuff has to be moved around the country, it takes energy in some form to do it. If gas and diesel stops it has to be replaced by a equal amount of something else.
If we could capture lighting and store it some how we would have more than enough electricity to run the world. But we haven't got any thing that's close to be able to do that.
My whole life has revolved around the petroleum industry. 30 years as a mechanic, now hauling fuel for a living. To all the fun things I like to do, hot rodding, riding motorcycles etc.
I can predict one thing for sure, If I work hard today, I will have a job tomorrow.
A gasoline engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has
20. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are only
repaired by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an
electric motor. Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the
dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them
with robots. Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you
drive up to what looks like a Jiffy-auto wash, and your car is towed
through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a
new electric motor!
I don't think so, there is no way a gas engine has that many parts, I've a few a apart. Not to mention modern engines don't break it's everything around them that does.
Brakes, tires, A/c repairs etc will still need to be fixed.
Gas stations will go away. Parking meters will be replaced by meters
that dispense electricity. Companies will install electrical
recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started. You can find
them at select Dunkin Donuts locations.
Until they can come up with a more efficient way of storing electricity and charging batteries, not going to happen.
Most (the smart) major auto manufacturers have already designated
money to start building new plants that only build electric cars.
Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away.
Drilling for oil will stop. So say goodbye to OPEC!
The world runs on diesel. At any time in North America there is approximately 1,000,000 semi trucks on the road (that's moving,not counting the sitting ones). Each one will burn about 100 gallons of diesel each day.
That's 100,000,000 gallons of diesel burnt each day. These trucks only account for about 15% of the diesel burned.
Remember, if you bought it, a truck brought it!
Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of
Tesla and so they should be. Look at all the companies offering all
electric vehicles. That was unheard of, only a few years ago.
Tesla still hasn't made a profit, how long will that continue?
Electric stuff certainly has evolved but how much more will it improve. The Browning 1911 hand gun is over 100 years, still produced today, and many copy versions.
Airplane design hasn't changed much in 50 -60 years.
Bottom line is stuff has to be moved around the country, it takes energy in some form to do it. If gas and diesel stops it has to be replaced by a equal amount of something else.
If we could capture lighting and store it some how we would have more than enough electricity to run the world. But we haven't got any thing that's close to be able to do that.
My whole life has revolved around the petroleum industry. 30 years as a mechanic, now hauling fuel for a living. To all the fun things I like to do, hot rodding, riding motorcycles etc.
I can predict one thing for sure, If I work hard today, I will have a job tomorrow.
Just my 2 cents.
I agree with Lightspeed Mike; only until the 1% decide that they have had enough wealth and want to save the 'planet' will these things happen.
junior
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Interesting thoughts for sure. Changing is always difficult but we need to adapt. Some of this will create new jobs as well. The way I see it,a lot of success in electric cars will depend on the cost of electricity. At one time we were encouraged to switch to electric heat,then the price went way up. Currently it is under priced based on future people paying off the deficit. As an interesting side note. A friend of mine has 2 Tesla's. One he's had for a year. He's a geek and tracked the cost for one for the first year he had it. Drove approximately 29000 km. He spent approximately$700 in electricity. This was monitored using some device on his panel. If he used gas at $1.15 per litre he would have spent approximately$3400. The second car he just got so will see how that works out
