@HiramHolliday 1. Buy a new house on top of a steep hill in the countryside and then become best mates with a farmer for a tow home.
2. Steal a Mk 48 torpedo and take out the wire coil... attach one end to the car battery and the other to the charging point. You should have a range of about 60 miles.
3. Set fire to the electric car and increase its value by 100%.
One day I might lease my first electric vehicle (EV) hopefully for max 650$ per month. Maybe I'll like it and maybe not. At least I won't be stuck with old technology after the lease is over. I just have to park the car away from others that cause door dents.
It's going to be one wild ride to keep it clean without door dents and with low mileage. So I assume it will cost me another 3000$ at the end of the lease if not more, depending on how many door dents the inspector counts. Maybe I should rent before buying one. That way, I get a good test drive out of it and will have the pleasure trying out different models every month.
@dstne said in #20:
> lol
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> debating is always useless ;) well, at least on the forums of a chess site. I'm not sure what part of my comment clued you into that tho.
Why is there anything to add after this ?!
>lol my comment was more of a joke than anything
Is this another joke? ;-P
@bfchessguy said in #23:
> Why is there anything to add after this ?!
Not sure what you mean by this.
> Is this another joke? ;-P
No..?
youtu.be/5XcKBmdfpWsGeolocation := Mark's Tavern aka Mark's Bar
Electric cars typically burn and otherwise use a lot of fossil fuels and hydrocarbons, too -- both in their manufacture and in their use -- they just do it indirectly and at a distance, so that it isn't easily noticed and everybody can "feel" better about it. And their manufacture and eventual disposal are not without economic, social and environmental challenges of their own, that seem to get decidedly less attention.
China has a massive population and builds coal-fired electric generating plants. Good luck buying an electric car to "save the planet."
Perhaps, in the same spirit, our next project should be to save chickens by deciding not to buy a cat in the city.
If we'd had the will, we could have been producing almost all of America's power without the use of fossil fuels, by now (although things like farm tractors and long-distance trucks and airplanes and ships might still be a problem) -- by generating it with nuclear power. But we were told that nuclear power was icky and made, like, waste, n'stuff, and so in order to "save the planet" we needed to build no more nuke plants, remember?
Just like we were once told, just a few decades ago, to fear the very real possibility of global cooling.
Geopolitics, national politics, practically-hidden, self-interested agendas and a well-meaning but not always foresightful or well-informed idealism muddy the waters continuously. Government was going to build lots and lots of electric charging stations, at huge cost, remember? How many have actually gotten built, other than by Tesla? If you live in an apartment, not a single-family dwelling, are you confident that you can conveniently keep your electric car charged as a practical matter?
We need more accountants and practical engineers, and fewer inexperienced but vocal idealogues. Everybody should be less certain and more GENUINELY trying to understand all perspectives. Sure, I'm part of "everybody," and I don't have all the answers. But I try not to kid myself that I do.
@weplaychess90 said in #10:
> You need to gradually apply carbon taxes, and increase it slowly, globally, and everyone will start to change gasoline cars for electric ones, cause the costs of carbon removal would be added to the value of the fuel, and it would become expensive.
Or you could just encourage nuclear power.
According to the EPA, it was estimated in 2022 that 25% of American CO2 generation was from electricity. Nuclear power happens to produce a lot less CO2 than fossil fuels, and takes less space than renewable forms like wind farms.
