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Ya but what if? What if your stuck in traffic for several hrs in the winter or the power goes out for days because of a tornado & how are you going to charge your car? For that type of situation you better have a gas generator to charge it & I’ve seen people with EV’s have a generator on a receiver hitch rack on the back. EV’s do take longer to charge than filling up a tank with gas. I rather have a plug in hybrid & have that piece of mind knowing I can still get home. It’s like having a E-Bike & if the battery dies just peddle it but the hybrid has a generator. I’m not totally sold on EV’s without some sort of backup. EV’s would be useless as emergency vehicles where all the power is down & have to work at night. The thing we need more than EV’s is cleaner fuels. Isn’t EV’s about saving the environment? Lets start with our homes to have electric lawn equipment & I’m for all that but if I have to go 1000 miles to see my Dad before he passes away I better be getting gas or swap out the batteries in a hurry. I’ve seen small communities use golf carts & that’s not a bad idea like in South Florida but I have hard winters that I don’t want to be driving one in the winter. I don’t need a self driving car & all that garabage. I want it cheap enough to commute to work & do erends. There’s a free bus system where I live & they run on clean fuel. We can’t totally rely on electricity alone without some sort of backup plan. It think all households should have one type of electric car to comute to work & do errands if there cheap enough but still have that other vehicle for traveling. We need to convince people to use electric vehicles to comute to work when they live in range & then plug in at work. If Tesla was smart he could make affordable cars that has 100 mile range that’s goes 55mph. Just need it to run around town.
Liberals idea of saving the world is making electric cars that you throw away at 100k because your scared to dish out 15k when the battery goes out which in turn floods our world with lithium pools where plants and animals can’t survive for miles 👍 way to go liberals.
Scotty i got in a accident had a 2016 nissan sentra and i need a buy a car asap ive beent thinking of buyibg a 2017 2018 chevy cruze do tpu think its a good idea or what afe the problems to that car
Agreed, however, if solar or wind or something develops and improves then maybe we can charge at home and off the grid. Then they can only tax the parts we buy that make up the system for charging. We have to get our charging off grid in order to duck all the taxes government will definitely throw at everyone! I'm surprised we are not taxed for air we breathe!
I went from a 2015 jeep grand cherokee to a tesla model 3 performance. With the jeep I was spending around $400 a month in gas, with the tesla with combined supercharging and home charging I spend about $60-70 a month on electricity for it. The biggest issue America will face with electric cars is the fact that the power grid is about as old as the politicians that run this country.
Sorry, but you are comparing two different cars (size, utility..). For example if you went from Jeep to something similar like Audi e-Tron, Kia EV6, BMW iX... or electric pickup. Tesla model 3 is like for example Toyota Camry/Corolla ( i bet the cost would be much lower).
Down here in Australia the average cost for a new electric vehicle is $80k. I have been driving a $5k Toyota for 10 years and she hasn't missed a trick. No thank you electric.
They'll never let you get away with saving money. Once all cars meet a certain criteria they are looking for - they'll then just move the goal posts. They did it with car tax here in Britain, reduced certain low emission cars to zero tax then that all went out the window after 2017.
Yep, once there's enough they'll jack up rates. They're already going after EV's and hybrids for unpaid road tax. If they're doing it this soon, it'll get way worse.
Yep! I have been saying this to family and friends since the 1st low emissions vehicles were 1st launched and people who bought them started gloating about being tax free but as per usual they're learning the hard way but still wont admit I was right 🤷🏻♂️
They certainly will move the goal-posts. It will be the same as the cause of the financial crisis in 2008. Banks were offereing very low "teaser" interest rates in order to get people to buy mortgages. But the low rates only lasted a short while. And once the initial "low-cost" period expired, then people had to pay the high interest rates, which people couldn't afford, leading many to lose their homes. Remember, this "low cost" energy for EV's can't last because governments get huge amounts of tax from the gas prices, in order to fund the government. If everybody moved over to EV's, the loss of revenue from nobody paying tax on gas would be catastropic for government finances. Hence, they will have to massively increase tax on electricity when enough people have fallen for this scam to move over to EV cars.
I’m getting to the point where I don’t want a vehicle anymore. Just stick with my Ebike and my two older bikes, to get in shape, save a ton of money, and just get a job closer to home.
$60k that you'd spend, anyway on any car. $20k on solar panels you use to power your house year round, that just so happen to power your car for free. Your insurance is higher because the car value is higher. My company, like many others offer free charging. But hey keep complaining if it makes you feel better.
@@glimpsesofmylife7133 Lol. true. All it takes is 1 trip to India, China, or indonesia (or any other developing nation) to laugh at the silly, futile little games white americans play to 'save the planet'. No little virtue game u play with yourself can offset the sheer volume of waste and pollution of the outside world.
Oh you mean like Tesla. You know that the charging stations charging port changes every week to 3 months max right? Also you have to buy the different head of the charger. Also when you sign up for a contract to use those stations you have to sign a non disclosure agreement to what you are renting. Also if you actually read the fine print of "purchasing" a Tesla it clearly states that you are "Renting This Novelty". The contract does not actually legally define a Tesla as a vehicle but as a novelty.
Yeah, public fast chargers in LA have 2 different expensive kinds of ports, neither of which is as small, cheap and effective as the Tesla port. I think Tesla has offered other manufacturers to use their design but they won't. pride goeth before a fall. Only the Tesla ports send the necessary data.
Here in the UK motoring is never going to be cheap, even if they found a way to run cars on fresh air. The motorist is the cash cow that keeps giving & the government is only too happy to keep milking 😠
In the UK we pay car tax and vat when we buy the car new and then pay a road tax based on CO2 and then we pay fuel duty and vat on petrol (gas). Then there is a tax on car insurance. We pay a 'congestion' tax when we drive into London and an additional emmissions tax if the vehicle is diesel or old. TAX TAX TAX!!!
Very good Scotty, superbly explained. Here’s my math: I drive a $12000 Honda Civic. If I now spend $40000 on an EV, I have to come up with another $28000. If I normally expect to pay $3 a gallon for gas and it’s now $5, that 28K would buy me a staggering, long lasting 14000 gallons of gas. It’s a nobrainer that I’m keeping the Civic.
Comparing a 12k civic to a tesla is stupid. Your 12k civic isn't nearly as luxurious as a tesla lol I drive a 2022 Corolla LE with Openpilot and a 2010 Corolla LE. My brand new Corolla isn't nearly as luxurious as a Tesla, but it was much cheaper. Telsa's are considered a luxury car, they're nicer and faster than anything I've ever owned. Teslas are nicer than the majority of the population's vehicles. The software and safety features are also years ahead of anything else. Calling them not luxurious is stupid. I love Teslas, but comparing a 40-50k brand new car to a 12k used car is stupid. Obviously, the used car is going to be more economical. Compare a Model 3 to a new similar priced Toyota, BMW or Audi
It’d be dumb to spend $40,000 if you already have an efficient cheaper car. When you’re in the market for a NEW car, then it would benefit you greatly to go with electric. Otherwise, keep the cheaper car. The more new car buyers that chose electric, the less the demand will be for gasoline. If the price gouging oil companies were held accountable, supply and demand would cause the price of gas to drop. Right now, oil companies are in the pocket of politicians, mostly republicans. They will not hold the oil companies accountable for price gouging because the oil companies are their cash cow and re-election funders. Also, ignorant people are blaming the price gouging on democrats, even though they have no control over these principles of supply and demand that is capitalism.
I shall keep my 97 Toyota thank you, it has done about 240 000 k's and has plenty of life left. As I am on gas and electricity at home there is no point in me getting panels or buying an e.v.
@@kantraxoikol6914 So, you wouldn't replace the battery, you'd just scrap the car.. spend a few extra bucks and get new interior.. that doesn't sound more wasteful at all...... /sarcasm.
The whole “electric cars save the earth” has to be one of the biggest scams of the century. Electric does not create power. Combustion engines do create power wth fuel, water, hydrogen etc. Electric cars will never be self sufficient. They will need a coal plant, nuclear plant etc to create the power. Then think off all of the losses in electricity transferring it to your house, storing electricity, cold weather etc. They just took the ‘combustion’ aspect of a car out of it and leave it at the power plant. I guess ppl that own electric cars don’t consider this part of the cars carbon footprint? I’m okay with electric cars being an option. But them trying to force us to use it is absolutely redic.
Government already knows they're missing out on billions in tax dollars with EVs. They're waiting until they can force the majority into them, then they'll drop the hammer. Great thing about those EVs? Because you need to plug into a computerized charging system, they can easily set it up to report every mile you drive, and tax you for it. Oh, and utilities will be jacking up rates, too, as areas start to experience brownouts due to insufficient generation capacity for those electricity guzzling EVs.
Well, to be completely honest, it's more of production at the profit maximization point for electricity producers than just simply supply and demand. The demand will be basically unlimited, since all cars will eventually be electric. It has everything to do with the marginal cost of creating this extra electricity. They are natural monopolies, subject to government control of decisions. So, short of the long, the gov't will decide the cost in simplistic terms, and we all know how trustworthy they are.
Dear mark its the same here in The Netherlands, at the end ots all about control. What do you spend.... what you will buy and where .....how much you drive in your car.....for me its clear.
All the things you said Mark, are absolutely reasonable and WOULD be true if the bad guys were still in control of the future. But the future isn't the "Old Empire" anymore. The old people running the planet are not in control of our future anymore. The people are not going to allow it anymore - the stealing of their money and suppression of new technologies. There will be a new model that is created, where people are allowed to charge their cars for free in many places, and there will be the option of converting your older car to a non-computerized electric car. There are technologies right now today that can produce nearly free, unlimited power. Like the "Yildiz" magnetic motor. Or the "Rossi E-Cat" low energy fusion reactor. These are patented, real working technologies. There are about 5,000 patents that have been suppressed in order to prevent people from having cheap energy, but this suppression is inevitably going to end abruptly.
One item that is often overlooked. States charge so much per gallon for "road use taxes" These taxes will have to be added to electric vehicles as they become more popular along with the fact that the government incentives will also dry up.
I bet it'll turn into an additional vehicle registration fee on an annual basis. They'll measure how much the average driver drives, how much they spend in road taxes and then double it as an outright fee that's paid yearly.
See if you can spot the oncoming disaster: It takes 84K gallons of fuel to produce EACH EV battery (21 billions gallons per year just to mine the heavy metals required for 250,000 batteries VS 19 billion gallons of fuel for the ENTIRE airline industry WORLDWIDE) - Per the US Dept of Transportation. PS - There is NO CURRENT ability to effectively recycle the used batteries…. The battery in an average Tesla is comprised of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel and plastic… 1000+ pounds of minerals that had to be mined, transported and processed into a battery that stores electricity…. which was generated by oil, gas, coal or water…
Government is largely run by imbeciles. Rather than recognize flawed policy, they will increase taxes where it does the widest economic damage possible: trucking. It's already started.
@@44sundance by your calculations each EV battery will cost more than a million dollars (so your claim are not true), there are 6 mayor battery recycling companies in the US and they all claim that they can recover 92% of the battery materials at a high purity enough to rebuild battery components whit less energy than mining. Companies like BMW in Europe are claiming that by 2025 they will only use renewable energy in all their processes including steel production from its suppliers in Europe.
Some cities ask their residents to turn off their home AC during the summer because the power grid can’t handle it. If everyone goes electric, how are those ten or hundreds of thousands of people suppose to charge their cars on top of that? Seems like the auto industry is far outpacing the electric companies infrastructure. I’ll stick with my 50mpg VW diesel for the time being.
I was thinking of swapping a TDI AHU into my Datsun pickup, its so light it might get 60 mpg. I know it would work. The Jetta donor weighs 35 percent more than the Datsun truck. If I swap to a mechanical injection pump like from a 4BT, I can use partial filtered used motor oil, which is like an effective economic mpg of maybe 75 mpg. I'm kind of a nerd, but it can be done, and is being done. I don't like batteries too much.
Most people will charge at night when the load on the electrical grid is much lower than daytime. Besides, Americans drive an average of 39 miles per day, which will require about 8-10 kWh over as many hours overnight to replenish. 1kW is quite a small load.
The problem with using cost per kwh is it doesn't include various taxes and fees. Also for some the cost per kwh is based on your monthly peak usage. A fast charger will peak that number raising the cost for all your usage.
@@CompelledFungus more amps at a given point in time, meaning the multiplier on your kwh used will be higher, since the electricity provider needed to provide a bigger pipeline of electricity for you than if you were using a smaller # of amps at any given time. E.g. Monthly usage of 1000kwh with peak of 20 amps vs monthly of 1000kwh with peak of 50 amps...the latter will cost you more.
My sister lives in Dallas TX and she endured a wide-spread power outage yesterday, and it wasn't even a hot day. Later on the utility emailed all their customers urging them to cut back on power use or endure more random outages. The realistic landscape looks horrible for EVs.
Whenever enough people drive an EV and all the money is made, they'll probay figure out it doesn't work and isn't green and regulate you out of it. Just like with diesel in Europe, first heavily promoted, then dirty.
Completely agree,they want to control our whole lives, also, i feel scotty ismot being honest about EVin some aspects for fear of his channel being suspended. I could be wrong but critiques are needed
@@Lubben a natural combination and evolution of multiple fuel sources(hybrids) would be the ideal replacement. Forcing EV with federal mandates to car companies whose sole goal is to make a profit......it won't end up with a cleaner earth. If car companies truly cared, they would stop making new vehicles in such mind numbing numbers.
Someone needs to show these self righteous battery owners how much MORE energy it takes to make the battery and the disposal method. These things aren’t anywhere near as green as they’d like us to think.
How do you know its for the climate and not the 24 moving parts and no need for a tranny? Compared to a gas car with 2000 moving parts all determined to fail eventually
Electric cars pay off themselves energy and emissions wise in about 2 years. Lithium ion battery recycling is ramping up aswell. There's many sources to find out all about it. Inform yourself
@@spxdesu ramping up sounds like there’s a bunch of waste out there. They may be getting better, but they’re still a ways away from being environmentally friendly
The Tomtom GPS company (as I recall, but it might be inaccurate) was going to combine FBI crime stats to recommend where to fuel up. That is counter to the false narrative coming out of Washington right now. As an aside: I fueled up at ONE of the sites where Mohammed and Malvo killed a person at random. I often stop at the rest stop in Maryland where they were captured. (The police chief gave out an incorrect description of the car to prevent the public from shooting them)
Another item to consider is tires. EV battery packs come in at 1,000 lbs, give or take. Tesla S suggest tire pressure to be set at 50 psi. With those two factors, tire life due to wear and tear may be cut in half of a gas powered car. We have not had price out replacement tires yet, but I am sure they will cost more than regular rubber.
@@ellau5850 every new technology is expensive at the beginning, flat screen TV costed around $15,000 when they came out 20 years ago, now you can buy a bigger and better TV for less than $500. The price of EV will not come down until all manufacturers start building them in mass scale.
I hate EVs being forced but, usually higher pressures in tires increase lifespan, not reduce. You can get more traction by reducing pressure to an extent, but this will wear your tread out faster. Idk, could be different in this situation. Doesn't matter. Evs bad, high horsepower combustion good
The highest horse power production vehicles are all electric, Rimac Nevera (1,900hp), Lucid Air (1,100hp) Tesla model S plad (1,020hp). That is why this week Doge announced that is ending the production of combustion for its lineup, because if they want to compete in the high horse power arena they have to go electric.
I viewed a video from Europe of 1 of their electric buses from 3 weeks ago that caught fire and was engulfed in 10 seconds. It happened so quick that if anyone was on board would of been engulfed as well. Scary
Why can't we have both? I mean if someone wants a EV, great, if someone else wants gas, that's great too. Why do we have to push something on someone if it's such a great idea. I prefer a 65 Plymouth Valiant with a slant six that gets 25ish mpg. Sometimes less, sometimes more.
Totally agree! Noone should be force to do anything! I have a Grand National, and a Ram 1500. I wouldn't trade them for anything! My wife is on an EV kick now, but as long as there are hybrids, she won't be 100% electric dependant. If anything hybrids make the most sense...IMO
@ JJ's 34 Reset Why can't we have both? Because the left side of politics doesn't do freedom of choice. They want the government deciding every aspect of your life, with no compromise.
You also need to factor in Northern winters. Batteries can lose up to 40% of their efficiencies in sub- freezing temps; not to mention the extra load for heating.
@@DarrylWaterhouse you're not going back far enough, Tesla was a man whose technology was stolen by another man (Edison) who buried the free part of electricity but rather metered it out for profit.
@@darrylgibson3575 Hiya. Cool name and spelling. No, I know the history. I don't see the point of confusing Nicola Tesla, and the Tesla company my friend.
Hello, yeah our parents actually spelled our names right 😁, it's not confusing anything by pointing out that buying a Tesla would be worth it if Tesla wouldn't have been suppressed and electricity was free. It's just ironic that Elon chose that name for the company.
IDK Scotty, I thought the whole goal of electric cars was to be energey independent, charging with solar cells to ellimnate the middle men, not to compete with petrol. Thats how they market it "free energy" but the details show nothing is ever free. Maybe someday.
@@dirrenbb Everything has to scale up ( and fix issues ) at some point. The current tech we have on the market went through the same things. If people would discount any new tech as it comes out, we'd still be in a cave. To some, arguably, that's an interesting proposition. To most, probably not.
Competition is always the goal to improve things No point to improve things if there isn't competition to motivate it Obviously means cost/gains is a part of it
i’m glad you mentioned road taxes… that’s something i’ve talked about but people don’t seem to care or think about. but they will definitely implement it in many different ways to cover a lost income
Without road use taxes on electric cars it creates another incentive by the government for people to switch to EVs. Several years ago Iowa raised it road use taxes to finally finish 4 lane highway construction across Iowa on highway 20. EVs get the use for free now.
In the netherlands theyll be paying gasoline road taxes per 2026. Thatll get expensive with the weight of the battery. Based on weight here. 1500kg gasoline car is 74€/month
@@jamesvandamme7786 yes they are, that's why we pay the highway 2290 heavy highway use tax. Without it we can't run. So please don't blame us truckers if the people you put in office don't put those funds towards the roads.
The big question is “Why are our roads and bridge infrastructure needing two trillion dollars in repairs? Pennsylvania is talking about tolls on bridges to pay for repairs. Congress passed an infrastructure bill for six-hundred-billion dollars, which leaves one-trillion-four-hundred-billion more to fund.” The federal government is now in the same debt situation that most states are concerning debt. America needs to increase productivity which will increase GDP which will allow more resources for infrastructure repairs.
I have a friend who owns an hybrid EV and the battery pack's capacity has already dropped 17% in three (3) years. He still has two (2) years left on his loan.
@@johnkennedy4023 A Toyota Prius hybrid battery costs between $3000-$5000. I am an auto mechanic and 2 of my customers chose to get rid of their cars because it wasn't worth replacing the battery. One was a 2013 Prius that got rid of in 2021. So car was only good for 8 years and then it was scrap.
@@johnkennedy4023 LOL a few hundred? Are you getting your batteries specifically from children ran lithium mines in 3rd world countries? Or are you shopping in China?
I plug in at home, no fast charging needed. I have a 2019 Etron, average 2.7 going to work daily, charge at home, level 2 charger at home. Over 34,000 miles with 320.00 dollars in maintenance so far. Enjoy the great ride, 0 to 60 5.7 , plenty fast for me. Better fit and finish than a Tesla, very quiet ride. Travel 2 to 3 times a year, had trouble with chargers along to way when I first got the car. Since then electrify America has replaced all the chargers, not no problems for my trips. You do have to plan your stops ahead. The Etron has on of the best charging curves. Average 18 to 25 minute stops. Bathroom breaks, snack time fit well into that time charging. Chose the Audi Etron for a local dealer, many parts shared with the Q7 and Q8. Would not have ever purchased a gas powered Audi because of your channel. Mainly looked at all EV’s at the time traded in a car and a truck, need comfortable adjustable seats for my aging back. Love the massaging seats, also ventilated, needed in Florida. Wished there had been a cheaper option at the time, considered a Tesla model Y, Jaguar Ipace, Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan Leaf. None compared to the Etron. Wish it was more efficient, but will keep for at least 8 to 10 years or more.
I don't have access to home charging, but I cover 30k miles per year in my EV. I've saved a fortune in the last year not buying fuel. If you do more than the average school run, or more than the average mileage per year, then an EV will work out. But many can't calculate these things, as we can see on the comments.
That's it Scotty I'm sticking with my 17 year old Toyota corrolla 1.4d4d. 50+mpg. Never spent a penny on it. Still has it's first day battery. The last of the best built car's in the world.
@@The_MEMEphis …funny story; I traded my beloved 06 Forester for a 21’ RAV4. Had a radiator leak that couldn’t be fixed. Too much pressure in the system and probably a blown head gasket to soon follow. Loved that car. Anywho, shortly after driving the RAV4 off the lot I almost flipped it on the freeway. I realized then that I couldn’t drive it the same as my old car. Thinking I might trade it in sooner than later.
50 miles per gallon? My 2021 Toyota corolla with a 1.8L 4 cylinder get 28-30 miles per gallon. Even the always overestimated Toyota advertisement states 33 miles per gallon. My 800cc motorcycle does not get 50 miles per gallon. Is your a hybrid?
Costs me $80 CDN to fill my Civic and $9 CDN to charge my Tesla, both get around 550km per fill/charge. Plus I don’t do synthetic oil changes/filters, transmission oil changes/filter, rad fluid/thermostats, brake pads/rotors, engine air filters, alternators, starters, timing belts, drive belts, water pumps, spark plugs on the Tesla compared to the Civic.
No brakes to stop. No rotors to stop? And with totally toxic batteries. The metals are recyclable. But the chemicals are not. Highly toxic. What happens to that when your batteries go out. Or is that not your problem?
@@timothyhowell4520 batteries are recyclable, there are plenty of valuable materials in a battery. You don’t need to touch your brakes on a Tesla. It can be driven with 1 pedal. Where do the millions of batteries from conventional cars go?
The US electrical grid is stretched extremely thin as is! This is a suicide dive considering adding so many ev charging stations will prove problematic without a major overhaul to our electrical grid itself 10-14kwh is cheap right now as soon as the switch is made you'll see electricity bills go through the roof for your home bill as well as at ev charging stations...
@@liammartin8773 not to mention we'd be refueling our #1 adversarial economy of China by buying their solar panels because we can't manufacture anything in America anymore because everyone like the cheaper prices elsewhere. So we'd reinvigorate china's economy, to get off fossil fuels for unreliable solar power... Seems smart
Don't forget the cold weather affects the batteries. You can't get a full charge. You lose on average 40 to 50% off charge/distance during winter time.
Ridiculous. Look at how many electric cars there are in Norway. They have no complaints. EVs can lose capacity in very cold weather but usually less than 20%.
At the moment your individual energy requirements is split between electricity and fuel. Once you have an EV and essentially only use electricity, they will then increase the cost of electricity (reasoning demand as the cause). Once they do that, not only will your EV cost alot more, but your cost of living will also cost alot more. You will likely be worse off, because unlike the previous case when you consumed 2 x types of energy sources, an increase in electricity will not impact your transportation cost and vise versa.
WTF are you people smoking? I've had an EV for the last 6 years and the car is virtually maintenance free. 1. I went from $160 a week on gas to $12 a week to charge. (I drive a lot for work) 2. No more oil changes. 3. No fuel filters. 4. BRAKES ARE STILL INSTALLED 6 years later because regen braking works great! 5. Autopilot really makes a huge difference on long drives. 6. Fast charging takes 15 min for 200+ miles and most places its like $8-$12 to fill up. 7. Avoided a big insurance bill after Sentry Mode caught some Ah0le scratching my passenger doors on purpose. License plate clearly recorded. The money saved just makes sense. Obviously if you are buying a 10 year old Tesla you better have a good chunk of cash on stand by. Same goes if you buy a 10 year old BMW or Mercedes. Even a Honda or Toyota nowadays can run you a good bill after 10 years. Electric is here to stay 🤷♂️.
Exactly. People need to stop looking at just the price. Just like quality versus quantity. If I get in a crash with a ICE and don't have a dashcam, it's easier to get sued. If you have say a tesla, it has a 360 vision all the time, so you record everything that happens. It has also passed a lot of safety tests, and from the accidents I've seen the outside was damaged badly, but the inside was in perfect or close to perfect shape.
People forget too that all the plastic in cars that makes them lighter and more efficient…..is made from petroleum. And the environmental damage cause by mining and refining lithium for the batteries is massive, but that seems to be ok, since it is mined in places like China where the government just doesn’t care, and neither do the customers because it’s “not in my backyard”.
Funny thing is even with driving a Ev your still dependent upon fossil fuel to charge it. Burning coal is the most common way to produce electricity. Another method is burning natural gas. You're just trading one for the other.
@@h.d.h Wind only works when the wind is blowing and solar only works when the sun is shining - not even all of the daylight hours. There is a natural energy gap with so called renewables, it is not sustainable 24 x 7 365 days a year. And when that is true, then a backup power generation source must be maintained that is equal to the capacity of the so called renewables. That means there must be duplication - redundancy. Two systems of equal capacity to maintain.
@@timothykeith1367, we are pretty damn good at predicting in advance when the wind will blow and the sun will shine. When there is a lull in these production, we are able to use stored electricity or pull more from other regions where there is wind and sun. We can also fire up peaker nat gas plants to ride over these low spots, but this does not change the fact that renewables are currently cheaper and cleaner than any non-renewable energy sources.
After winning a Tesla Model 3 I had to look into charging it. I live in an apartment, and the closest charger was close to 150 miles away, with one one on the waiting list to be installed about 20 miles away maybe next year. But seeing that I don't even drive, I negotiated a cash alternative.
@Eggman We won’t run out of oil and coal for centuries. Wind, solar and hydro produced electricity can not support a fully EV transportation system as well as household use. Solar, wind and batteries are not environmentally sound. You can’t recycle wind turbine vanes. We need multiple sources of energy, including nuclear.
Actually, I wish Tesla would make an EV mower with autonomous function. That'd be cool. I've heard of e-bikes and e-motorcycles, but I'd probably like an e-trike with some sort of capacity for carrying luggage.
@Eggman Oil has been pumped from the ground since 1859, at first many geologists thought that it was impossible for Texas to have oil, but more recoverable oil is currently known than possibly has yet been pumped. A University of Texas study said that there is more recoverable oil in the Gulf of Mexico than has been pumped in the U.S. until now. The UT study said the drilling until now has almost been random. If the nations actually consumed all of the petroleum, then the materials to manufacture EVs will become very costly because there are many petroleum products in an EV - starting with the tires, and the asphalt road surface is also a byproduct of oil refining, a plethora of products are made from petroleum or natural gas, including fertilizers to grow food.
Batteries not only degrade with use but over time. A 10 year old low milage ice will perform close to what it was when it was new. Yet a 10 year old EV will have degraded considerably no matter how many miles it's been driven.
Kinda wrong, batteries degrade with charge cycles, so if you make sure to charge periodically, maybe once every few weeks, leaving it for 10 years, it will not degrade much really.
Not all ICE vehicles perform that same 10 years old as they do new. Please qualify your statement with facts and examples. EV's have fewer moving parts, operating largely on magnetism whilst ICE vehicles have many moving parts that suffer degradation even if they just sit there not being driven.
@@Terrifying people don't charge their phones properly and you think all of a sudden they'll do that for an EV? LOL How many people do you think will charge to 100% even knowing that will degrade the battery? I'm willing to bet at least 75%. How many people will be properly charging their car when the own multiple cars? On average per any EV site EV batteries degrade 2.3% per year when maintained properly . That's over 20% in a ten year old car.
@@nickplenzick2602 Do you have a study that shows how many EV owners make that mistake? It is well known in the Tesla community that you charge to 80-90% for daily use and charge to 100% only before a long road trip. In real life, Tesla's have shown between 10-15% degradation after 8+ years. Even if it degrades by 20%, it is perfectly viable for local use. A Model 3 starts off with a range of 325miles when new. At 80%, that's 260miles which is way more than anybody would reasonably drive (locally) in a day.
I live in Quebec Canada. I mainly charge my Tesla Y at home. Our grid is 100% hydro electric. No fossil fuel required. The residential kWh rate is 7 cents. The efficiency depends on temperature ( as for ICE vehicles). In my experience, you must consider your average daily usage before committing to a Tesla or anything else cause for those that require longer trips exceeding one full charge, you must validate the availability of level 3 and 4 chargers. With Tesla, you can use all suppliers with the appropriate adapter. Scotty is so energetic I wonder if he is fueled with nitro! ;) keep those posts coming.
i will NEVER own an electric vehicle of any type. i have spent a LOT of time researching the cost of electric car ownership and whether an electric vehicle will even be practical to everyone. here's what my hours and hours of research suggest: 1. an electric vehicle is ONLY a practical choice for someone who DOES NOT travel long distances. recharge time, lack of range, and having the trip completely controlled by where chargers are located are NEGATIVE variables that CANNOT be avoided. 2. a person who expects to use an electric pickup in the same manner as a gas/diesel truck will be WILDLY dissatisfied with an electric truck. both hauling heavy loads AND towing a vehicle SIGNIFICANTLY reduces the range of an electric truck. 3. electricity rates are rising nationwide SIGNIFICANTLY! in Pennsylvania, electric rates are expected to rise as much as 45%. this will dramatically increase the cost of owning an electric vehicle. 4. "miles traveled" road taxes WILL be coming for electric vehicles because they will have to replace the "gasoline tax" that has historically been used to pay for road repairs and bridges. once THESE taxes are implemented, the operation costs of an electric vehicle will equal or exceed current gas/diesel operation costs. 5. currently, some 97% of ALL vehicle repair technicians CANNOT work on electric vehicles. current gasoline maintenance repair rates range from $65 to $100 dollars/hour. diesel repair rates are more at around $125/hour. as Tesla has shown, electric vehicle technicians will require more training AND thus will cost along the lines of Tesla's current repair rates of around $200/hour. remember, an electric vehicle owner will be charged this higher rate for ANY work done to the vehicle like fixing the heater or radio or the drive motor, etc. 6. FINALLY - electric vehicles WILL NOT be practical for anyone who lives in the COLD climates of the U.S. several studies by Volvo have shown that an electric vehicle loses up to 40% of its driving range when the temperatures fall below freezing. and of course, you CANNOT tow ANYTHING with an electric car without suffering a similar approximate 40% loss in range. THESE ARE THE CURRENT FACTS about electric vehicles notwithstanding the PROPAGANDA that is being presented about these vehicles.
I installed solar to my 2.000 sq.ft. home about 10 years ago under a lease, I pay $103 a month for my electric, Plus I pay RG&E $25 a month for reverse meter I also installed GEO Thermal for $ 25,000 to supply hot water and heats the floors So For the last 10 years it's $103 a month Plus $25 meter charge a month😊😊 Value to Home went from $175,000, to $249,000 😁
Just one thing regarding your final word in this episode Scotty: that is really interesting that fuel in US has a road tax added to its price, same as Poland for example. On the contrary, UKs road tax is a separate payment and has nothing to do with gas. Do not forget that some people using fuels for farming or electricity generation, or getting work done (machinery use)... So why on earth should they be paying additional money to already expensive fuel...
In the US Agricultural engines do not pay the road tax. Making it part of the refueling price also means that people pay taxes in a direct proportion to how much they drive. There are some weight differentiations too. These will probably increase as all vehicle become a ton or more heavier. There are something on the order of 10,000 bridges that need to be repaired or replaced. My state has several that were destroyed by a Hurricane about 10 years ago that have not been replaced. The last time I looked at Pennsylvania road tax it was over 53 cent (much higher than here).
In Aus, we get hit for rego/compulsory third party insurance etc. Then you have comp insurance. The fuel also has excise duties of around 40 cents + gst on top of that. ( Gas here at the moment is around $2 a litre ( 4 l to the US gallon. AUD$8 for a US gallon. At 70c US to the Aus dollar approx US $5.60C for a US gallon. Hurts the hip pocket big time.
The uk isn't really relevant because it's a bankrupt country. It's currently $10.75 for a gallon of regular fuel. Try explaining to an American that driving a high powered car will cost $760 in road tax and 40% tax on your salary and 20% on anything you buy.
I spent 2K on a used car and about 600 on head work and gaskets to fix a blown head gasket. Since I don't have a payment and full coverage insurance, I think I can afford expensive gas.
Your the best teacher I've ever had, and I've never met you, but I learned alot from you over these years I've been watching your videos, so grateful to have you share your knowledge 🙏
Comparing purposely inflated gas prices to current electric costs . Then when trump gets back into office and gas miraculously drops to half of what it now and the battery in the electric car has to be replaced . You just throw the whole car away .
My first EV is over 10 years old and has over 78% of battery capacity remaining. I charge both of my EVs overnight in about 3 hours at $0.0183 / kwh, a total of about $1.35 for a full tank in my tesla, which gets me 520 km. I have had ZERO mechanical issues with either car.
Love your channel,you tell the truth.when others have a agenda.i owned a used BMW.hahahaha,I paid nothing for it.traded my Hayabusa for it.7500 later.i sold it for next to nothing.$450 for a coolant reservoir? I was done.your videos have saved me from any more really stupid decisions since.thank you
I'm with you . Love my '00 Crown Vic LX & I'm going to literally drive it till the wheels fall off. I meticulously maintain it & it's @ 108k on the clock, so it should be around a good long time. 😲😲😲
That’s true! On the other hand I’ll start to think about the Lucida in case of the Saudi Arabia will manufacture it local…luxury electric car with real competitive price!
Not really. It costs to build a car, but only 20,000 miles worth of pollution. It’s better to get a newer car with better catalytic converters that emits only 1/100th as much pollution as the old car
Scott I enjoy your Tell it like it is videos! After dealing with HV car the last ten + years its amazing how many hidden causes for battery failure and no aftermarket support ! Thats not talked about ! Keep up the good information 👍🏻
Well now that they are getting popular. I’m retired on a fixed income. I’ll never be able to afford one. But i always dreamed of having one. Got an electric bicycle though and that’s something.
I am retired too and I also have several electric bikes. I live in a very rainy area so one of my ebikes has a Windshield with a cover that I have heavily modified. It was a Veltop Classic+ model that I bought online from France but the fiberglass connecting rods broke too often so I replaced the supporting rods with two cut stainless steel whip antennas and that solved the problems. Then I added a lower Lexan shield so that my waist wouldn't get wet and then I wear leg gaiters. Now that ebike is perfect for riding in rainy weather and I don't get wet at all. My other ebike I use for grocery shopping and transportation as well as exercise.
I ain't getting one of these contraptions any time soon. I love the fact I don't have to wait 30 min to "charge" my tank. I don't have to do it alone in the middle of a deserted road (or get stranded) and risk my life and I am not contributing to heavy metal pollution, forest destruction and electricity outages.
Toyota just built a V-8 engine that runs on hydrogen! No emissions but water!! And, it doesn't need those rare/expensive minerals etc. for the batteries, and the battery maintenance!
@@garybulwinkle82 I am all Ford Gasoline SVT V8 w/supercharger. From what I have I read driving aggressively, the range on ev's can be as low as 40 miles. I wish my 2003 has less computers in it. If eventually we are forced to not use gas, hydrogen makes far more sense to me. Would not mind helping out on that engineering journey! Ev's need to pay toward road tax. Especially midwest and up east. Texas roads are better bc people drive so much.
you'll need to find a station to fill up with hydrogen, and / or have an electrolysis generator to produce hydrogen at home. takes lots of electricity ($$) to produce lots of hydrogen needed to power vehicle n not efficient, but costly.
You should do a report on how these EV’s perform in extreme cold climates like Canada! In particular focus on provinces like Manitoba & Saskatchewan where long commutes in cold temperatures of -40C are normal during winter!!
In summary: poorly. You're looking at a decrease in range simply because the battery won't output at the same performance in severe cold, and if it uses power to heat itself to minimum operating temperatures, that's energy not being used to drive the vehicle.
67 percent of all new car sales in Norway are EV's I was surprised at this but Oslo is close to the same latitude as Whitehorse in the Yukon. No problems so far
@@johnparsons3454 I find that a little hard to believe considering I’ve seen reports of EV motorists left dead on the side of the road due to being stuck on the road due to an avalanche for hours & not being able to make it to the next charging station. I suspect Norway has the infrastructure in place for EV’s whereas Canada is way behind.
We will always need gasoline in the foreseeable future (100 years). EV's are good for city transportation, and might help to reduce fossil fuel consumption, but will never replace it.
Gasoline combustion engines will eventually be outlawed by 2030 or soon as 2027 in some states of the US. Even earlier in EU nations. Its already in the works.
@@rattycaddy in EU it will be in 2035 probably, however this relates to new cars only. It means that used cares with combustion engines will be with us even up to 2060 or longer. Unless goverments will "think out something" like fuel crisis with cosmic prices...
The power companies are closing coal fired power plants putting more strain on other power plants that can not produce enough power to charge more anything.
When I was younger I would buy an old used car. The cost was usually under 1K. The car would last 3-4 years before the repair cost was greater than it's value. As I got older my wages went up and I bought cars that cost 3-5K. I never had a car loan untill I was in my 30s. My point is that there is a large segment of the population that requires cheap affordable transportation. The availability of these cheap cars is disappearing. In order to have adorable labor that acts as the backbone of our economy it is mission critical that we have cheap cars that a low wage worker can afford to buy with cash.
Slow charging is better for battery longevity, 80% of consumers charge their vehicles at home which is better and cheaper, fast charging is needed once in a while when one is travelling inter city. Many consumers have charging at their office which is good for top up.
I'm a FedEx driver and I deliver to 3 different towns that are full of residential houses and business and I've maybe seen only a couple charging stations. 1 of them randomly at a target parking lot.
When they make an EV with built in solar panels so I don't have to wait around for my car to charge, I'll consider one. These cars are just gimmicks to me to control more of the masses with a switch of the button. They can just turn you off when you don't comply. Screw that. Not to mention we already have rolling black outs in California for high energy usage. Let's just imagine when 20 million people need to charge their cars everyday. Insanity
A solar panel on the top of your car would do hardly nothing to charge the battery. Gas powered cars already have cpu's in them that can be hacked. That is not exclusive to EV's. I can see you do your research
never happen. Surface area isnt enough on a car to charge it via solar. There is a limit to energy gathered by solar per unit area that is limited by physics (aka, cant be improved upon). I mean, we already have some gimmicky $250,000 cars that apparently charge via inbuilt solar, but there has been no independent review on how reliable the charging is. And the claims made are the car can recharge 40 miles a day via solar, but everyones guess is that is based on near perfect weather and temperature if even true.
15 years lol. We all know that’s not true. Made worse by the fact most folk won’t look after the battery. And the fast charge will also hugely shorten life. You’ll be luck to see 4-5 years. Replacement cost? Environmental impact? In the UK, to use fast chargers for a trip say 350 miles, you’d be looking at £75, whereas petrol was similar or slightly less and diesel a step less still.
I had solar panels installed and I have never payed for electricity in 5 years and that’s including charging my two Teslas everyday. Pre 2022 the charger that came with new Teslas have a 120-240V Multi-voltage capability. Just buy the $50 NEMA adaptor and plug it into a 240V outlet and you’ll get 35mph of charging. If you only drive 100 miles per day, the $500 charger is not necessary.
For my work I drive over 300 miles per day. I am not trusting public charging stations to deliver all the time. It is not eco friendly with charging ev’s as this is proven that it is either a Diesel generator or a coal fired electric plant to charge a ev.
@@malakisands8180 then at this current time, EV cars aren't up to the task for your current usage. But for sure in the future it will meet and exceed that 300 miles you use daily, while the ICE vehicles will barely improve in MPG in the same time frame. Also, there are absolutely Zero fossil fuel diesel powered charging stations in America or Europe or Asia. I don't know where ICE people get that from. 🤣 And yes, the majority of power plants are fossil fuel (60%) but a majority of that is natural gas and only 21% is coal. But 100% of ICE vehicles use 100% fossil fuels.
Scotty, Tesla has increased the price per KWh in the daytime at its fast chargers to more than 0.50 cents per KWh in the USA. At this price, the most economical EV, a Tesla 3, at 4.4 mile per KWh is identical in the price of its energy consumption with a Toyota Prius 4th generation that has an average gas consumption of 53 miles per gallon. I invite the ones who don't believe this to do the calculations themselves. Then where are the savings anymore? In maintainance? No, not at all! Four Tesla tires are around minimum $800 dollars, and 4 tires of Totota Prius are around $250 on the internet, for the same durability and usage ( miles driven before needing a new set of them ). The monthly insurance is also way disproportionate, the one for Tesla being 5-6 times more expensive than the one for a Toyota hybrid. The same pattern with almost everything in this case. Etc, etc. So, then, what's the reason anymore to buy an EV ?!? ahhh... just to bleed more money?!? 😡 I like to contribute to reducing the pollution but not like this... We're not stupids!
You seem to have missed the point that the vast majority of EV owners including myself charge the vast majority of the time at home. I mean, if you want to make a straw man go ahead, but if that's what you really think it will only cost you money in the future. There was once a time where people were against Japanese cars and now we live in a time where Ford has basically conceded the car market to Toyota and Honda.
@@maslowfirstlevelenergycomp7033 Unfortunately (sincerely stated) that won't last forever. It's why prices for electric here in the UK have just jumped by 50% in one hit .. with another hit in the same 12 months expected in October. They have force fed smart chargers on millions that will detect the current draw and have another tariff for car charging at home . I suspect this will force people into fast chargers (to keep fuel companies happy)... but even then the costs will rise in order to balance out the loss of fuel duty and vat from petrol powered vehicles.
I think ill just keep on driving my 2012 Camry with 157k miles that i have spent a total of $425 to replace an alternator in the 10 years ive owned it. And ive replaced the battery twice at a total cost of $400 over 10 years. Love my Camry.
One EV car uses: 85 Kilos copper, 56 Kilos nickel, 7 Kilos cobalt, 7 Kilos maganese. With say an average of 7.5M new cars sold on average per year, where do we get 637.5M Kilos of copper, 420M Kilos of nickel, 52.5M Kilos of both cobalt and maganese per year? This doesn't even address the infrastructure needs to provide power for these EVs. The goal appears to be outlaw petro vehicles, and make it impossible to replace them. Already, there is no new real production of new cars as there is a chip shortage. Additionally, parts to repair existing vehicles have very low quality or are not available.
They are pushing the problem on the people for sure. Cars are just unsustainable in general. Enthusiasts should get to keep them but let's make more room on the road by making public transit infrastructure better
I think electric vehicle technology is most suitable for vehicles that have frequent start-stop movement with loads, such as city trucks or buses. During braking, kinetic energy is wasted as heat at brakes. It is just a waste. My honest opinion is regenerative braking is the most practical solution and electric vehicles are the most suitable ones to use. But I think for personal usage, smaller internal combustion engines with a turbo are the most adequate solution. It is cheaper and experienced staff and infrastructure are readily available. Electric vehicles' biggest problem is their batteries. Batteries use rare-earth material. "Rare" means something problematic. Production of those materials is a crucial problem.
Rare elements are just temporary. EV's with their batteries are evolving and gets better, vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICE) don't. They optimized horse and wagon, the wagon itself was improved several times. But you've to move on... btw internal combustion engines vehicles use rare elements too like palladium, rhodium, cerium, and/or platinum..
See if you can spot the oncoming disaster: It takes 84K gallons of fuel to produce EACH EV battery (21 billions gallons per year just to mine the heavy metals required for 250,000 batteries VS 19 billion gallons of fuel for the ENTIRE airline industry WORLDWIDE) - Per the US Dept of Transportation. PS - There is NO CURRENT ability to effectively recycle the used batteries…. The battery in an average Tesla is comprised of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel and plastic… 1000+ pounds of minerals that had to be mined, transported and processed into a battery that stores electricity…. which was generated by oil, gas, coal or water…
Thats is where Sodium Ion batteries come in. It has easier to come by materials, has more power and is allot cheaper. It is also more evironmentally friendly that Lithium batteries. Sodium batteries can endure both high and low temperatures. It also charges way faster than Lithium batteries can. The big downside of it right now is it's lifespan and they take more effort to make. If you would like to know more about them theres a company called CATL in China that is trying to perfect the batteries and they happen to work with Tesla which is promising!
Supply and demand. Once overnight charging of electric cars reaches a degree where the power companies do not see a drop in demand, the cost of electricity will go out of sight.
Supply and demand have nothing to do with electricity. Engineers can make all the electricty we want at whatever price we want. Solar is continuing to get cheaper, and if President JFK's MSR Nuclear reactor didn't get shut down by a corrupt oil President Nixon, we would have been carbon-neutral by the year 2000. The energy industry worries about declines in profit if the price it too cheap. If we want it cheaper we need to buy more, and they might give us a volume discount.
My Ford Fiesta gets 40 MPG (in town driving, more for long haul driving) I fill my tank up once a month. The new combustion engine is more fuel efficient and cleaner burning than any EV on the market. And they don't have the issue of where the battery comes from or where to store it once it does wear out.
One important thing you left out, who would buy a second hand E V when the battery costs so much to replace when it is worn out ? Secondly, how much will a new E V depreciate in value considering the cost to replace a worn out battery ? I think I will just keep my regular car, at least it doesn't cost a fortune to repair.
I completely agree with you, climate change and global warming is a hoax. The problem is, people are being told this is happening everytime they turn on the radio or TV, or read the newspaper. Tell people a lie often and for long enough, they start to believe it. Usually those who are not critical thinkers, that, unfortunately, is most of them.
seems like a great way to stop people moving around doesn't it ;-) - you know how they want us all in 'super cities' where we dont need cars, and independence etc....hello...
@@movinbutnotshakin there's already a third more houses where I live with no extra sewage treatments,no etra power station or even sub stations im already feeling the effects of short power cuts ,yes they are MORONS and paying political people a huge back hander to pass laws their way
@@crisbowman compared to metropolitan roads/streets in California, your roads are tougher. I was in Wisconsin for a year and it was grooved concrete for the public roads. I'm assuming Minnesota roads are similar.
Dangerous bluddy things - have a bad accident, damage the batteries, they internally fuse, and whoof, up goes the car, on fire, with you maybe still in it
I have a nine-year-old Tesla that has free supercharging for life. It has the original battery with only 5% degradation over that time. And it still does 0 to 60 in four seconds, best car I’ve ever owned
As of October 2021, there are 30 States have an Electric Vehicle Fee charging EV owners to offset lost revenue in gas taxes. Pretty much sure that more states will follow and assess EV Fee.
Don’t forget, electricity prices everywhere including your house electricity bills will be greatly increased too. It will be increasing just as fast as gas prices.
No, no it won't be increasing just as fast as gas prices (how's that going by the way?). At least with electricity the competition is endless (wind/solar farms, hydro, wave, etc.). You can also install solar and your rate will stay constant (over the length of your loan/life of panels) so that you're not relying on anyone else.
Using a lot of electricity; charging devices, charging cars, turning on the lights, playing video games, using computers for work etc. That’s going to give you HIGH electricity bills. I know electricity bills already cost MONEY, but charging and using every electronic related item including your own car is going to greatly increase your electricity bill. I doubt anyone wants to be paying so much for electricity. People will hate paying so much for electricity just like how people hate paying so much for gas. I can tell you right now, the people with EV’s are paying much more for electricity.
@@rodrell1075, here in the USA, the general rule of thumb in the industry is basic fourth-grade math on national averages. It costs three to four cents to fuel an EV, and about ten cents to fuel a gas-powered car (before the recent rise in gas prices). Every peer-reviewed life cycle case study has similar numbers.
@@rodrell1075, you made no point. You merely stated, without any facts, data, or evidence, that electricity bills (rates) will be "greatly increased." The fact is that through recessions and wars, electric rates have for many decades risen with inflation. In the last year, the national average went from 13.7 cents per KWH to 13.8 cents per KWH, and is expected to soon reach 14.0 cents per KWH. Where I live (SMUD territory), off-peak is 11.0 cents per KWH, but they recently created a deal for EV owners that works out to 9.5 cents per KWH.
The worst part of electric car is the battery starting to lose charge , replacing the battery could start at $20.000 dollars. These prouduct are Limited right now .
Oil companies are in fact the biggest buyers of cobalt worldwide. They brag with that on their own websites lol Additionally, more and more EVs use LFP battery packs that do not contain any cobalt in the first place.
Well here’s my story. I have a Tesla model 3 that is coming up to being 4 years old & still feels fresh. One of the best cars I have every bought. I love no extra buttons to break & love the ventilation system. Just wish I had the biohazard filters on it. I do wish it had a higher standard of materials used inside plus electric frunk & trunk. Wow, what were they thinking for a luxury EV! Sound system is great & great zero to 60 time for me. When I bought it, I bought it with everything possible offered. Of course don’t know if I will have FSD but patiently waiting. I charge at home 95% of time using level 2 charger & charge during day utilizing my full large array of solar panels. California electricity prices are all over the map& depends we’re you live. My average kWh is .23 but it cost me at least 1/4 what I would be paying for gas using my previous car. I used the supercharge system when ion trips but convenient & plentiful. Of course still not at abundance like gasoline stations but no more smelling of toxic fumes like benzene! Where you pay a price is on insurance! Registration is also high. Luckily repairs have been a minimum so overall it low cost to operate. Owning an EV is based on personal preference. No one should be force to give up their ICE vehicle but once a person that drive an ice vehicle, drives an EV, they’re surprised of acceleration & ride & end up buying one. I do know that our King in Sacramento may one day tax us to increase his surplus in road taxes. We had to vote 3 times for politicians to keep their hands out of the gas tax cookie jar to balance their enormous budget! I guess the price you pay for bring the fifth largest economy of the world. Who knows what coming but I will keep my EV & hope that Elon is right & that the motor will last a million miles & battery pack 350-500K miles. I do have a 128K power train warranty. It should outlast me.
@@brokenspell4851 Not sure what he paid 4 years ago, but I bought mine for 44K in December 2020 brand new. They had models for 35-36K. But mine has 350 miles on a single charge, only takes like 25-30 minutes to charge. 0-60 is 4 seconds.
Why am I the only one that’s driven a model 3 and wasn’t impressed. It was boring and quick but not fast. I think you guys compare cars that shouldn’t be compared. Go drive an m3 and a model 3 and tell me which is more fun? It’s a no brainer the bmw
the price of electricity would skyrocket / go through the roof, if there were EVs charging all over the place, n there would be outages, brownouts , dropouts n fires.
@@h.d.h Yeah, and hardly anyone charges at night becaue EVs are not yet very common. But, when everybody had an EV charging at night, then your logic is in the dumpster.
OR,.. buy a Cheaper Electric. Say a 2023 Leaf for under 30k. Get your incentives and drop that price by another 5grand. Get your solar power incentives too. Then, work out your Tax Breaks for owning an electric car. Your insurance is pretty much based on the worth/cost of the vehicle, so really isn't an issue. THEN. As these cars curb some of the climate change factors. Maybe you can enjoy cheaper electricity,.. BEFORE, electric companies know you'll be needing their Juice,.. for those Dozen Air Conditioners you have to run, 24/7.
Considering the cost of battery replacement, I think for the time being ice engine is better for me. Since rebuilding an ice engine costs less then half of new battery and besides if you take good care of it, you rarely have to rebuild the traditional piston engine.
-----> "besides if you take good care of it..." Meaning regular super-expensive maintenance trips to the dealer? Or getting upsold by unscrupulous gas station mechanics? How about gas and oil expenses? There's over 2000 parts in an ICE. Think about it - all these things do not exist in an EV Radiators Water Pumps Alternators Spark Plugs Gaskets Belts Transmission Tail Pipe Muffler Catalytic Convertor Fuel Injectors No doubt the initial expense for an EV is high but they are becoming more competitive. As are battery replacement costs. Tesla batteries are warrantied for 8 years but expected to last longer. I've had my Tesla over 4 years with zero maintenance costs. I suppose you have to count windshield wiper fluid once in a while and putting air in the tires. And maybe new brake pads every 100,000 miles. I would never go back to an ICE.
@@paul4020 excuse me but by regular maintenance I don't mean super expensive trips to dealerships or some rare quality motor oil. Whose goes to dealerships just for an oil change? You can easily change oil by yourself, if of course you know how to do it. And you most definitely don't change transmission oil after every trip. changing gear oil after 30k kilometers doesn't hurt your pocket that much, depending upon the car of course. And I also was talking about myself not about everyone. I said Tesla doesn't suit me yet I never said Tesla isn't suitable for anyone. Tesla might be an economical choice in u.s but in other countries it's not much reliable then traditional ice engines yet. And I don't belong to u.s.
@@malik7221 electric vehicles are suited to cl0wns like Paul, who depend on others for simple things like an oil change but tries to show competence by naming every expensive REPAIR job possible and pretend you said they were regular maintenance. They sure go hard sniffing their own farts...probably considers people killed by self driving cars ok since it will be a convenience for him.
First thing, when I was driving my gas cars to work, I was spending $120 a week on gas alone. That was before gas was even $5 a gallon. Now gas is over $6.25 a gallon for the cheapest gas. Last time I filled up one of my cars, it was over $80 for 3/4 of a tank. With my Chevy bolt I haven't spent on gas for it in over a year. (My wife will use our gas cars to get our kids, whose school is about 3 miles from our house. So she went through a lot of the school year without filling it back up) that already saved a few thousand minimum. In just 1 year. The Bolt was only 27k. Compared to my Mazda CX-5 which was 45k when we bought it, and our Honda Accord, which was 30k used. It's the lowest price car we've had in the past 14 years. The battery may lose its charge after 10 years. But I'm not worried about that since first I get a replacement battery that will be put in free of charge, because of Chevy's recall on all their batteries for all Bolts. So when it gets put in, I will have a new warranty on the battery from that point. So it will be something like a new 10 year or 150,000 mile warranty. If I don't get it put in for another 3 years, I essentially have 13 more years with my car before the warranty goes out, and the battery is no longer covered. In the next 13 years, I likely would have got a new car anyways. But let's say the battery starts to decay after 10 years, and I'm still using the car. As long as it gets me to and from work, which is a 70 mile trip per day, then it doesn't matter. Supposedly the decay on bolts after approx 10 years is supposed to be a 5-10% decay in milage. But the range is already 250+ miles. So that 5-10% wouldn't affect my daily use. I'm sure electricity will be going up. But it will never get to the point where it would cost $100+ to recharge the car. (Plus my company offers free charging ports at work, which were installed years before I started working there, so it's not like they starting deducting from my paycheck when I got an EV. I haven't had to use much electricity at home, because I just fill up at work while I go about my normal day.) Estimated electricity to fully charge a battery is less than $10. Considering we have computers running 24 hrs a day, (my wife works from home now, and her computers and monitors are on all day and night, we have our kids playing video games most of the day on multiple consoles and computers, and all our appliances that are using power non-stop. The cost to charge my car costs less than all those things. The tires will need to be replaced eventually, same as all cars, but I was looking up prices, and the tires are cheaper than the ones I had for my other cars ($120.99 per tire) supposedly there is a risk the battery could catch on fire (which sparked the bolt recalls) but less than 20 bolts caught fire, out of over 140,000 sold. People made it seem like if you owned an EV, it was going to catch on fire. That not even close to the actual percentage. EVs are not good for people who like to go on road trips, or love cruising around with nothing else to do. And I would never recommend an EV to anyone who wants to do those things. But to anyone who wants a car to get to and from workalone, or just do local driving. An EV can be a great choice. Just don't buy into the idea, that an EV MUST be a high end Tesla or something like that. Because it doesn't.
That was INTENTIONAL, brah! See if you can spot the oncoming disaster: It takes 84K gallons of fuel to produce EACH EV battery (21 billions gallons per year just to mine the heavy metals required for 250,000 batteries VS 19 billion gallons of fuel for the ENTIRE airline industry WORLDWIDE) - Per the US Dept of Transportation. PS - There is NO CURRENT ability to effectively recycle the used batteries…. The battery in an average Tesla is comprised of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel and plastic… 1000+ pounds of minerals that had to be mined, transported and processed into a battery that stores electricity…. which was generated by oil, gas, coal or water…
EVs are useless in largely rural areas as the southwest USA, Alaska, Montana etc. Imagine electric emergency and law enforcement vehicles. In this lifetime it just doesn’t work.
@@freedomforever6718 Gas mileage drops nearly 20% in winter, and regen downhill is usually 40-75kW. I'm not sure if that'll power a hairdryer as I don't use one.
What I would like to know is how much electricity will go up in cost if everyone was trying to charge 2 electric vehicles and would the electric grid withstand the loads caused by this. There’s also the cost of recycling and/or disposing of batteries. In a few years there will be thousands of used electric cars which no one will buy due to the high cost of replacing the batteries.
Hi Scotty . Love your channel . you hit it right on the head but I will never give up my gas powered car . old Traditionals I say . Own a Prius 2008 260000 miles and with a recent test on the system still 96% or better in the original drive battery . With good maintenance she just keeps humming along . Best car I have ever owned will drive it tell the rims fall off . just put a new set of brakes on her only the second set at that . why would I want to by all electric Paine in the behind .
I am going to switch over to an electric car when I buy a house with a garage, but I also have a 2008 prius and it's a champ, I think I've only ever changed the oil, tires and brakes, and this thing keeps on going. Toyota made a full electric car, but it's hideously expensive.
My issue with EV vehicles is where I live in Northern Saskatchewan winter gets down to -40 or colder. Them batteries won't stand a chance. And because we can and do get up to 8 feet of snow we all drive or have trucks. EV is great but they only think about California never anyone else.
@Jan J There was one case, where the driver didn't know how to open his door. He kicked out the window eventually. In truth, Teslas HATE to catch on fire, and they rarely do it.
I wish someone would have made a video like this when we went from riding horses for transport to driving cars. There were no gas stations, service centers or even good roads. I would have just kept riding my horse.
The government wasn't trying to force people to use a car instead of a horse. People began using them because they were more efficient and gave them more freedom.
Great video Scotty. I charge at home 98% of the time. I save about $350-400 a month over the cost of gas. I drive about 2800 km (1750 mi) per month. Price of gas today is $2.14/litre ($8.10 a gallon)
@@protonneutron9046 I just filled up with regular 87 octane shell gas. $2.23 per litre. British Columbia, Canada, on an Island in the Pacific ocean. Not the hell hole you think it is. It's the price you pay to live in paradise.
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Ya but what if? What if your stuck in traffic for several hrs in the winter or the power goes out for days because of a tornado & how are you going to charge your car? For that type of situation you better have a gas generator to charge it & I’ve seen people with EV’s have a generator on a receiver hitch rack on the back. EV’s do take longer to charge than filling up a tank with gas. I rather have a plug in hybrid & have that piece of mind knowing I can still get home. It’s like having a E-Bike & if the battery dies just peddle it but the hybrid has a generator. I’m not totally sold on EV’s without some sort of backup. EV’s would be useless as emergency vehicles where all the power is down & have to work at night. The thing we need more than EV’s is cleaner fuels. Isn’t EV’s about saving the environment? Lets start with our homes to have electric lawn equipment & I’m for all that but if I have to go 1000 miles to see my Dad before he passes away I better be getting gas or swap out the batteries in a hurry. I’ve seen small communities use golf carts & that’s not a bad idea like in South Florida but I have hard winters that I don’t want to be driving one in the winter. I don’t need a self driving car & all that garabage. I want it cheap enough to commute to work & do erends. There’s a free bus system where I live & they run on clean fuel. We can’t totally rely on electricity alone without some sort of backup plan. It think all households should have one type of electric car to comute to work & do errands if there cheap enough but still have that other vehicle for traveling. We need to convince people to use electric vehicles to comute to work when they live in range & then plug in at work. If Tesla was smart he could make affordable cars that has 100 mile range that’s goes 55mph. Just need it to run around town.
In Scotty I trust , congratulations with 5 million subscribers!
Liberals idea of saving the world is making electric cars that you throw away at 100k because your scared to dish out 15k when the battery goes out which in turn floods our world with lithium pools where plants and animals can’t survive for miles 👍 way to go liberals.
Scotty i got in a accident had a 2016 nissan sentra and i need a buy a car asap ive beent thinking of buyibg a 2017 2018 chevy cruze do tpu think its a good idea or what afe the problems to that car
Mark my words, as soon as all cars go to electric in the US, the cost of electricity will go through the roof and cost more than gas does now.
You are absolutely correct. Supply and demand.
Agreed, however, if solar or wind or something develops and improves then maybe we can charge at home and off the grid. Then they can only tax the parts we buy that make up the system for charging. We have to get our charging off grid in order to duck all the taxes government will definitely throw at everyone! I'm surprised we are not taxed for air we breathe!
@@MilVetGaming the solution to saving money is always to spend more money
@@MilVetGaming they don't want you to make your own power
Maybe, but they will take the Norway approach of taxing gasoline so that it costs nearly $10/gal.
I went from a 2015 jeep grand cherokee to a tesla model 3 performance. With the jeep I was spending around $400 a month in gas, with the tesla with combined supercharging and home charging I spend about $60-70 a month on electricity for it. The biggest issue America will face with electric cars is the fact that the power grid is about as old as the politicians that run this country.
There will certainly be some sort of "tax" involved. Can't be a greedy politician without trying to be greedy.
How long did you own yor electric Tonka. ( 2 months)
@Jasen Vernor The range is there already for a commuter EV car. Most people don't drive 200 miles to work.
Sorry, but you are comparing two different cars (size, utility..). For example if you went from Jeep to something similar like Audi e-Tron, Kia EV6, BMW iX... or electric pickup. Tesla model 3 is like for example Toyota Camry/Corolla ( i bet the cost would be much lower).
You pay that now when demand is low, it will raise as soon as everyone gets on board then its through the roof, cha-ching.
Down here in Australia the average cost for a new electric vehicle is $80k. I have been driving a $5k Toyota for 10 years and she hasn't missed a trick. No thank you electric.
Stick your silly EV where the sun dont shine.
That Toyota will last another 30 years
I have 24 year old Toyota Landcruiser, it’s done 500,000km and still going strong
They'll never let you get away with saving money. Once all cars meet a certain criteria they are looking for - they'll then just move the goal posts.
They did it with car tax here in Britain, reduced certain low emission cars to zero tax then that all went out the window after 2017.
Yep, once there's enough they'll jack up rates. They're already going after EV's and hybrids for unpaid road tax. If they're doing it this soon, it'll get way worse.
Yep! I have been saying this to family and friends since the 1st low emissions vehicles were 1st launched and people who bought them started gloating about being tax free but as per usual they're learning the hard way but still wont admit I was right 🤷🏻♂️
YES
They certainly will move the goal-posts. It will be the same as the cause of the financial crisis in 2008. Banks were offereing very low "teaser" interest rates in order to get people to buy mortgages. But the low rates only lasted a short while. And once the initial "low-cost" period expired, then people had to pay the high interest rates, which people couldn't afford, leading many to lose their homes. Remember, this "low cost" energy for EV's can't last because governments get huge amounts of tax from the gas prices, in order to fund the government. If everybody moved over to EV's, the loss of revenue from nobody paying tax on gas would be catastropic for government finances. Hence, they will have to massively increase tax on electricity when enough people have fallen for this scam to move over to EV cars.
Innovation ALWAYS outpaces regulation. Tesla is moving too fast and already replacing EVs with FSD.
I’m getting to the point where I don’t want a vehicle anymore. Just stick with my Ebike and my two older bikes, to get in shape, save a ton of money, and just get a job closer to home.
Some people need vehicles. If you aren't one, you're lucky. Make the most of it!
Just like that.
Wishing I could do that. I hate the feeling of "motion restriction" and "highway robbery" that comes with current gas prices.
@@DarrylWaterhouse I do. I’m in Wisconsin. About 5 months of winter. And my job is 15 miles away. And I don’t have a place to lock up the Ebike.
Ebike is technically a vehicle...
I would not want to be in a strange place having to wait 6 hours for my car to charge. It’s just not my cup of tea.
"Let's go up to that old abandoned place up there and see if they've got a power socket"
Then you ain’t black
How about a off road vehicle, stuck out in the middle of nowhere, need a can of gas, no I need a charge, good luck buddy. tow that baby in.
@@colinmacdonald5732 Not a bad idea actually xD. Just sneak up to an outlet in a parking garage
Nothing like an unrealistic scenario to cover for the fact you'll never get one simply because you can't afford one.
So I just have to spend $60K for a car, $20K for solar panels, $600 for Level 2, and double what I'm paying for insurance so I can save money?
Yep. That's politician math for you. Spend your way into saving.
It makes perfect sense if you don't question it or look into it. 😉
No so you can save the planet 😂😂
@@glimpsesofmylife7133 us paying through the nose to save the planet, like farting in a tornado
$60k that you'd spend, anyway on any car.
$20k on solar panels you use to power your house year round, that just so happen to power your car for free.
Your insurance is higher because the car value is higher.
My company, like many others offer free charging.
But hey keep complaining if it makes you feel better.
@@glimpsesofmylife7133 Lol. true. All it takes is 1 trip to India, China, or indonesia (or any other developing nation) to laugh at the silly, futile little games white americans play to 'save the planet'. No little virtue game u play with yourself can offset the sheer volume of waste and pollution of the outside world.
Imagine Apple make their own electric car, and every version you will have to change the charging port. Lol
Actually there’s about three different standards for charging Ports on electric cars.
Oh you mean like Tesla. You know that the charging stations charging port changes every week to 3 months max right? Also you have to buy the different head of the charger. Also when you sign up for a contract to use those stations you have to sign a non disclosure agreement to what you are renting. Also if you actually read the fine print of "purchasing" a Tesla it clearly states that you are "Renting This Novelty". The contract does not actually legally define a Tesla as a vehicle but as a novelty.
@@jordancambridge4106
Can you prove any one of the outlandish allegations that you’ve just made?
Yeah, public fast chargers in LA have 2 different expensive kinds of ports, neither of which is as small, cheap and effective as the Tesla port. I think Tesla has offered other manufacturers to use their design but they won't. pride goeth before a fall. Only the Tesla ports send the necessary data.
@soul man and they would slow down after 11 months
Here in the UK motoring is never going to be cheap, even if they found a way to run cars on fresh air. The motorist is the cash cow that keeps giving & the government is only too happy to keep milking 😠
Same here in Sweden 👍
The new government idea to tax per mile on EVs is just disgusting and proves again the British government doesn’t really care about the environment
In the UK we pay car tax and vat when we buy the car new and then pay a road tax based on CO2 and then we pay fuel duty and vat on petrol (gas). Then there is a tax on car insurance. We pay a 'congestion' tax when we drive into London and an additional emmissions tax if the vehicle is diesel or old. TAX TAX TAX!!!
Same here lol.
Solution: Get rid of the damn, greedy govt.
Very good Scotty, superbly explained. Here’s my math: I drive a $12000 Honda Civic. If I now spend $40000 on an EV, I have to come up with another $28000. If I normally expect to pay $3 a gallon for gas and it’s now $5, that 28K would buy me a staggering, long lasting 14000 gallons of gas. It’s a nobrainer that I’m keeping the Civic.
Approximately 900 tanks of gasoline, 1 tank per week equals nearly 17 years worth fuel. 👍🏻
Comparing a 12k civic to a tesla is stupid. Your 12k civic isn't nearly as luxurious as a tesla lol
I drive a 2022 Corolla LE with Openpilot and a 2010 Corolla LE. My brand new Corolla isn't nearly as luxurious as a Tesla, but it was much cheaper. Telsa's are considered a luxury car, they're nicer and faster than anything I've ever owned. Teslas are nicer than the majority of the population's vehicles. The software and safety features are also years ahead of anything else. Calling them not luxurious is stupid. I love Teslas, but comparing a 40-50k brand new car to a 12k used car is stupid. Obviously, the used car is going to be more economical. Compare a Model 3 to a new similar priced Toyota, BMW or Audi
It’d be dumb to spend $40,000 if you already have an efficient cheaper car. When you’re in the market for a NEW car, then it would benefit you greatly to go with electric. Otherwise, keep the cheaper car.
The more new car buyers that chose electric, the less the demand will be for gasoline. If the price gouging oil companies were held accountable, supply and demand would cause the price of gas to drop.
Right now, oil companies are in the pocket of politicians, mostly republicans. They will not hold the oil companies accountable for price gouging because the oil companies are their cash cow and re-election funders. Also, ignorant people are blaming the price gouging on democrats, even though they have no control over these principles of supply and demand that is capitalism.
I shall keep my 97 Toyota thank you, it has done about 240 000 k's and has plenty of life left. As I am on gas and electricity at home there is no point in me getting panels or buying an e.v.
@@christopherwilson2272 So? what does luxury matter in a car?
$15,000.00 for a replacement battery? Hell no! I’ll never buy an electric car for that reason alone.
Wait until people find out what happens to the lithium in those batteries when it gets wet.
the BATTERY IS PRACTICALLY THE WHOLE CAR.....what did you pay for your car?
@@kantraxoikol6914 So, you wouldn't replace the battery, you'd just scrap the car.. spend a few extra bucks and get new interior.. that doesn't sound more wasteful at all...... /sarcasm.
The whole “electric cars save the earth” has to be one of the biggest scams of the century. Electric does not create power. Combustion engines do create power wth fuel, water, hydrogen etc. Electric cars will never be self sufficient. They will need a coal plant, nuclear plant etc to create the power. Then think off all of the losses in electricity transferring it to your house, storing electricity, cold weather etc. They just took the ‘combustion’ aspect of a car out of it and leave it at the power plant. I guess ppl that own electric cars don’t consider this part of the cars carbon footprint? I’m okay with electric cars being an option. But them trying to force us to use it is absolutely redic.
@@flyhayst
And people park them in garages built into their homes.
Government already knows they're missing out on billions in tax dollars with EVs. They're waiting until they can force the majority into them, then they'll drop the hammer. Great thing about those EVs? Because you need to plug into a computerized charging system, they can easily set it up to report every mile you drive, and tax you for it.
Oh, and utilities will be jacking up rates, too, as areas start to experience brownouts due to insufficient generation capacity for those electricity guzzling EVs.
Best explaining of why they suck ,thank you
Well, to be completely honest, it's more of production at the profit maximization point for electricity producers than just simply supply and demand. The demand will be basically unlimited, since all cars will eventually be electric. It has everything to do with the marginal cost of creating this extra electricity. They are natural monopolies, subject to government control of decisions. So, short of the long, the gov't will decide the cost in simplistic terms, and we all know how trustworthy they are.
Dear mark its the same here in The Netherlands, at the end ots all about control.
What do you spend.... what you will buy and where .....how much you drive in your car.....for me its clear.
especially with a grid run by green energy.. what a catastrophe!
All the things you said Mark, are absolutely reasonable and WOULD be true if the bad guys were still in control of the future. But the future isn't the "Old Empire" anymore. The old people running the planet are not in control of our future anymore. The people are not going to allow it anymore - the stealing of their money and suppression of new technologies. There will be a new model that is created, where people are allowed to charge their cars for free in many places, and there will be the option of converting your older car to a non-computerized electric car. There are technologies right now today that can produce nearly free, unlimited power. Like the "Yildiz" magnetic motor. Or the "Rossi E-Cat" low energy fusion reactor. These are patented, real working technologies. There are about 5,000 patents that have been suppressed in order to prevent people from having cheap energy, but this suppression is inevitably going to end abruptly.
One item that is often overlooked. States charge so much per gallon for "road use taxes" These taxes will have to be added to electric vehicles as they become more popular along with the fact that the government incentives will also dry up.
I bet it'll turn into an additional vehicle registration fee on an annual basis. They'll measure how much the average driver drives, how much they spend in road taxes and then double it as an outright fee that's paid yearly.
@@DaGARCE1 yep, they're already doing that in many states
See if you can spot the oncoming disaster: It takes 84K gallons of fuel to produce EACH EV battery (21 billions gallons per year just to mine the heavy metals required for 250,000 batteries VS 19 billion gallons of fuel for the ENTIRE airline industry WORLDWIDE) - Per the US Dept of Transportation. PS - There is NO CURRENT ability to effectively recycle the used batteries…. The battery in an average Tesla is comprised of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel and plastic… 1000+ pounds of minerals that had to be mined, transported and processed into a battery that stores electricity…. which was generated by oil, gas, coal or water…
Government is largely run by imbeciles. Rather than recognize flawed policy, they will increase taxes where it does the widest economic damage possible: trucking. It's already started.
@@44sundance by your calculations each EV battery will cost more than a million dollars (so your claim are not true), there are 6 mayor battery recycling companies in the US and they all claim that they can recover 92% of the battery materials at a high purity enough to rebuild battery components whit less energy than mining. Companies like BMW in Europe are claiming that by 2025 they will only use renewable energy in all their processes including steel production from its suppliers in Europe.
Some cities ask their residents to turn off their home AC during the summer because the power grid can’t handle it. If everyone goes electric, how are those ten or hundreds of thousands of people suppose to charge their cars on top of that? Seems like the auto industry is far outpacing the electric companies infrastructure. I’ll stick with my 50mpg VW diesel for the time being.
I was thinking of swapping a TDI AHU into my Datsun pickup, its so light it might get 60 mpg. I know it would work. The Jetta donor weighs 35 percent more than the Datsun truck. If I swap to a mechanical injection pump like from a 4BT, I can use partial filtered used motor oil, which is like an effective economic mpg of maybe 75 mpg. I'm kind of a nerd, but it can be done, and is being done. I don't like batteries too much.
skoda octavia 1.9 tdi here . a saving monster
Most people will charge at night when the load on the electrical grid is much lower than daytime. Besides, Americans drive an average of 39 miles per day, which will require about 8-10 kWh over as many hours overnight to replenish. 1kW is quite a small load.
@@bikeman7982 the us has a population of over 320 million……
Update the power grid🤪
The problem with using cost per kwh is it doesn't include various taxes and fees.
Also for some the cost per kwh is based on your monthly peak usage. A fast charger will peak that number raising the cost for all your usage.
I'm from Ireland, can you explain how the fast charger peaks the monthly number please?
Your power bill breaks down the cost. And there are apps that track cost.
@@CompelledFungus more amps at a given point in time, meaning the multiplier on your kwh used will be higher, since the electricity provider needed to provide a bigger pipeline of electricity for you than if you were using a smaller # of amps at any given time. E.g. Monthly usage of 1000kwh with peak of 20 amps vs monthly of 1000kwh with peak of 50 amps...the latter will cost you more.
My sister lives in Dallas TX and she endured a wide-spread power outage yesterday, and it wasn't even a hot day. Later on the utility emailed all their customers urging them to cut back on power use or endure more random outages. The realistic landscape looks horrible for EVs.
@@markplott4820 What is inflation? Unregulated taxation
Whenever enough people drive an EV and all the money is made, they'll probay figure out it doesn't work and isn't green and regulate you out of it.
Just like with diesel in Europe, first heavily promoted, then dirty.
True.....Im from The Netherlands and some cars are not alowwed to go in some city's
What you're really saying is that, At the end of the day they don't want you to have independent freedom of movement anymore.
Completely agree,they want to control our whole lives, also, i feel scotty ismot being honest about EVin some aspects for fear of his channel being suspended. I could be wrong but critiques are needed
So which energy source do you suggest that we should use as fuel?
@@Lubben a natural combination and evolution of multiple fuel sources(hybrids) would be the ideal replacement.
Forcing EV with federal mandates to car companies whose sole goal is to make a profit......it won't end up with a cleaner earth.
If car companies truly cared, they would stop making new vehicles in such mind numbing numbers.
Someone needs to show these self righteous battery owners how much MORE energy it takes to make the battery and the disposal method. These things aren’t anywhere near as green as they’d like us to think.
How do you know its for the climate and not the 24 moving parts and no need for a tranny? Compared to a gas car with 2000 moving parts all determined to fail eventually
Electric cars pay off themselves energy and emissions wise in about 2 years. Lithium ion battery recycling is ramping up aswell. There's many sources to find out all about it. Inform yourself
@@spxdesu ramping up sounds like there’s a bunch of waste out there. They may be getting better, but they’re still a ways away from being environmentally friendly
@@crackbabystemcell6887 because that’s what everyone sells it as and as long as it has a part it will fail eventually.
These batteries are designed to be recycled. They can salvage 95% of the material after a battery needs replacing at 200-300k miles
I think I will trade my car in for a horse and buggy. Once that road tax hits EV owners, they will start screaming.
The Amish can help with a total package, horse, harness and wagon.
Hey! Shovel ready emissions.
I'm waiting for that day. 😂
and there will be a lot more fees than that
A nice buggy will cost you 30k, but it will last a life time.
The plan is to tax per mile traveled on all vehicles and remove the gas tax
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Biased garbage to save his profession/
Sarcasm?
The Tomtom GPS company (as I recall, but it might be inaccurate) was going to combine FBI crime stats to recommend where to fuel up. That is counter to the false narrative coming out of Washington right now.
As an aside: I fueled up at ONE of the sites where Mohammed and Malvo killed a person at random. I often stop at the rest stop in Maryland where they were captured. (The police chief gave out an incorrect description of the car to prevent the public from shooting them)
Is Chevy Cruze a pos? 2017
The thumb nail image is a Tesla that had a bullet fired into it`s battery pack... thus causing the fire.
Another item to consider is tires. EV battery packs come in at 1,000 lbs, give or take. Tesla S suggest tire pressure to be set at 50 psi. With those two factors, tire life due to wear and tear may be cut in half of a gas powered car. We have not had price out replacement tires yet, but I am sure they will cost more than regular rubber.
EV Are Too expensive for most people
@@ellau5850 every new technology is expensive at the beginning, flat screen TV costed around $15,000 when they came out 20 years ago, now you can buy a bigger and better TV for less than $500. The price of EV will not come down until all manufacturers start building them in mass scale.
I hate EVs being forced but, usually higher pressures in tires increase lifespan, not reduce. You can get more traction by reducing pressure to an extent, but this will wear your tread out faster. Idk, could be different in this situation.
Doesn't matter. Evs bad, high horsepower combustion good
The highest horse power production vehicles are all electric, Rimac Nevera (1,900hp), Lucid Air (1,100hp) Tesla model S plad (1,020hp). That is why this week Doge announced that is ending the production of combustion for its lineup, because if they want to compete in the high horse power arena they have to go electric.
@@renezr70 , Facts the radiation from a electric car especially when you park it in the sun is 100 times dangerous you are actually driving ?????
I viewed a video from Europe of 1 of their electric buses from 3 weeks ago that caught fire and was engulfed in 10 seconds. It happened so quick that if anyone was on board would of been engulfed as well. Scary
1 of their electric buses, but how often does that happen? How many times has a gas powered bus caught fire ?
@@ibn-khaldun-al-hadrami this study has already been done. The gas to electric fire ratio is 61 gas Fires for every 1 Electric. Think about that.
Very hard to put out those fires.
@@2Ryled it's because people and fire departments are tooled for gas fires. E fires are extinguishable but you just need different equipment.
The replay of the video may not have reflected real time in occurrence, since there was breaks in the sequence.!.!. You were fooled.!.!
Why can't we have both? I mean if someone wants a EV, great, if someone else wants gas, that's great too. Why do we have to push something on someone if it's such a great idea. I prefer a 65 Plymouth Valiant with a slant six that gets 25ish mpg. Sometimes less, sometimes more.
Totally agree! Noone should be force to do anything! I have a Grand National, and a Ram 1500. I wouldn't trade them for anything! My wife is on an EV kick now, but as long as there are hybrids, she won't be 100% electric dependant. If anything hybrids make the most sense...IMO
yeah
@ JJ's 34 Reset Why can't we have both? Because the left side of politics doesn't do freedom of choice. They want the government deciding every aspect of your life, with no compromise.
Neighbour was just in a crash with his Tesla, they’ve told him it’ll be about a year before it’s repaired due to wait times for parts.
Well that sucks
At least they didn't tell him to get a new one, or maybe they did and he said "No".
He shouldn't have crashed.
@@timothykeith1367 Probably still a year to get a new one. These supply chain issues really need to be sorted out.
@@mitchellc4502 I thought Tesla cars were supposed to magically avoid crashes.
You also need to factor in Northern winters. Batteries can lose up to 40% of their efficiencies in sub- freezing temps; not to mention the extra load for heating.
Tesla was for free energy… not buying electricity. It’s such an insult to the name
yeah, Tesla has been transformed into Edison without changing the name 🤔
Tesla are a technology company, not a utility provider.
@@DarrylWaterhouse you're not going back far enough, Tesla was a man whose technology was stolen by another man (Edison) who buried the free part of electricity but rather metered it out for profit.
@@darrylgibson3575 Hiya. Cool name and spelling. No, I know the history. I don't see the point of confusing Nicola Tesla, and the Tesla company my friend.
Hello, yeah our parents actually spelled our names right 😁, it's not confusing anything by pointing out that buying a Tesla would be worth it if Tesla wouldn't have been suppressed and electricity was free.
It's just ironic that Elon chose that name for the company.
IDK Scotty, I thought the whole goal of electric cars was to be energey independent, charging with solar cells to ellimnate the middle men, not to compete with petrol. Thats how they market it "free energy" but the details show nothing is ever free. Maybe someday.
Right an electric car that does not have a built in solar panel is a scam
Also who digging up those "Rocks"
Green energy is the new "Blood Diamond "..
The batteries are mined by blood of peasants. Lithium and other minerals are not regulated industry like petrol/hydrocarbons
@@dirrenbb Everything has to scale up ( and fix issues ) at some point. The current tech we have on the market went through the same things. If people would discount any new tech as it comes out, we'd still be in a cave. To some, arguably, that's an interesting proposition. To most, probably not.
Competition is always the goal to improve things
No point to improve things if there isn't competition to motivate it
Obviously means cost/gains is a part of it
i’m glad you mentioned road taxes… that’s something i’ve talked about but people don’t seem to care or think about. but they will definitely implement it in many different ways to cover a lost income
Without road use taxes on electric cars it creates another incentive by the government for people to switch to EVs. Several years ago Iowa raised it road use taxes to finally finish 4 lane highway construction across Iowa on highway 20. EVs get the use for free now.
NOT free since Iowa added a second EV fee during annual registration. It meant to compensate for loss of gas taxes
In the netherlands theyll be paying gasoline road taxes per 2026. Thatll get expensive with the weight of the battery. Based on weight here.
1500kg gasoline car is 74€/month
@@jamesvandamme7786 yes they are, that's why we pay the highway 2290 heavy highway use tax. Without it we can't run. So please don't blame us truckers if the people you put in office don't put those funds towards the roads.
The big question is “Why are our roads and bridge infrastructure needing two trillion dollars in repairs? Pennsylvania is talking about tolls on bridges to pay for repairs. Congress passed an infrastructure bill for six-hundred-billion dollars, which leaves one-trillion-four-hundred-billion more to fund.” The federal government is now in the same debt situation that most states are concerning debt. America needs to increase productivity which will increase GDP which will allow more resources for infrastructure repairs.
I have a friend who owns an hybrid EV and the battery pack's capacity has already dropped 17% in three (3) years. He still has two (2) years left on his loan.
But hybrid batteries are just a couple hundred dollars to replace
@@johnkennedy4023 A Toyota Prius hybrid battery costs between $3000-$5000. I am an auto mechanic and 2 of my customers chose to get rid of their cars because it wasn't worth replacing the battery. One was a 2013 Prius that got rid of in 2021. So car was only good for 8 years and then it was scrap.
Recently a person that owns a Chevy volt received a bill of $29k for a replacement battery.
@@johnkennedy4023 LOL a few hundred? Are you getting your batteries specifically from children ran lithium mines in 3rd world countries? Or are you shopping in China?
Buying a hybrid is a bad idea. They combine the worst of both worlds.
Buy an EV or an ICE.
I plug in at home, no fast charging needed. I have a 2019 Etron, average 2.7 going to work daily, charge at home, level 2 charger at home. Over 34,000 miles with 320.00 dollars in maintenance so far. Enjoy the great ride, 0 to 60 5.7 , plenty fast for me. Better fit and finish than a Tesla, very quiet ride. Travel 2 to 3 times a year, had trouble with chargers along to way when I first got the car. Since then electrify America has replaced all the chargers, not no problems for my trips. You do have to plan your stops ahead. The Etron has on of the best charging curves. Average 18 to 25 minute stops. Bathroom breaks, snack time fit well into that time charging. Chose the Audi Etron for a local dealer, many parts shared with the Q7 and Q8. Would not have ever purchased a gas powered Audi because of your channel. Mainly looked at all EV’s at the time traded in a car and a truck, need comfortable adjustable seats for my aging back. Love the massaging seats, also ventilated, needed in Florida. Wished there had been a cheaper option at the time, considered a Tesla model Y, Jaguar Ipace, Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan Leaf. None compared to the Etron. Wish it was more efficient, but will keep for at least 8 to 10 years or more.
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@@micahcastillo9113 ?
@@tbone9405 😂😂
I don't have access to home charging, but I cover 30k miles per year in my EV. I've saved a fortune in the last year not buying fuel. If you do more than the average school run, or more than the average mileage per year, then an EV will work out. But many can't calculate these things, as we can see on the comments.
That's it Scotty I'm sticking with my 17 year old Toyota corrolla 1.4d4d. 50+mpg. Never spent a penny on it. Still has it's first day battery. The last of the best built car's in the world.
yeah that's just Toyota in general I drive an 09 Camry and I'll never get anything other than Toyota as a daily driver
@@The_MEMEphis …funny story; I traded my beloved 06 Forester for a 21’ RAV4. Had a radiator leak that couldn’t be fixed. Too much pressure in the system and probably a blown head gasket to soon follow. Loved that car. Anywho, shortly after driving the RAV4 off the lot I almost flipped it on the freeway. I realized then that I couldn’t drive it the same as my old car. Thinking I might trade it in sooner than later.
I've never seen a battery last over 10 years. Hard to believe
50 miles per gallon?
My 2021 Toyota corolla with a 1.8L 4 cylinder get 28-30 miles per gallon.
Even the always overestimated Toyota advertisement states 33 miles per gallon.
My 800cc motorcycle does not get 50 miles per gallon.
Is your a hybrid?
@@jtunedproductions4818 my 2007 bmw 3 series still has the production battery on it and it’s made in Germany
Costs me $80 CDN to fill my Civic and $9 CDN to charge my Tesla, both get around 550km per fill/charge.
Plus I don’t do synthetic oil changes/filters, transmission oil changes/filter, rad fluid/thermostats, brake pads/rotors, engine air filters, alternators, starters, timing belts, drive belts, water pumps, spark plugs on the Tesla compared to the Civic.
Truth!
No brakes to stop. No rotors to stop? And with totally toxic batteries. The metals are recyclable. But the chemicals are not. Highly toxic. What happens to that when your batteries go out. Or is that not your problem?
But you haven't mention the cost of the vehicle and the depreciation of a Tesla,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Ya, that $12,000 battery replacement will take care of that.
@@timothyhowell4520 batteries are recyclable, there are plenty of valuable materials in a battery. You don’t need to touch your brakes on a Tesla. It can be driven with 1 pedal.
Where do the millions of batteries from conventional cars go?
The US electrical grid is stretched extremely thin as is! This is a suicide dive considering adding so many ev charging stations will prove problematic without a major overhaul to our electrical grid itself 10-14kwh is cheap right now as soon as the switch is made you'll see electricity bills go through the roof for your home bill as well as at ev charging stations...
nah ur wrong. theres this cool thing they invented called solar panels you should look into it bud.
@@liammartin8773 not to mention we'd be refueling our #1 adversarial economy of China by buying their solar panels because we can't manufacture anything in America anymore because everyone like the cheaper prices elsewhere. So we'd reinvigorate china's economy, to get off fossil fuels for unreliable solar power... Seems smart
Don't forget the cold weather affects the batteries. You can't get a full charge. You lose on average 40 to 50% off charge/distance during winter time.
Ridiculous. Look at how many electric cars there are in Norway. They have no complaints. EVs can lose capacity in very cold weather but usually less than 20%.
At the moment your individual energy requirements is split between electricity and fuel.
Once you have an EV and essentially only use electricity, they will then increase the cost of electricity (reasoning demand as the cause).
Once they do that, not only will your EV cost alot more, but your cost of living will also cost alot more.
You will likely be worse off, because unlike the previous case when you consumed 2 x types of energy sources, an increase in electricity will not impact your transportation cost and vise versa.
Already our electricity cost has doubled just in 2022
WTF are you people smoking? I've had an EV for the last 6 years and the car is virtually maintenance free.
1. I went from $160 a week on gas to $12 a week to charge. (I drive a lot for work)
2. No more oil changes.
3. No fuel filters.
4. BRAKES ARE STILL INSTALLED 6 years later because regen braking works great!
5. Autopilot really makes a huge difference on long drives.
6. Fast charging takes 15 min for 200+ miles and most places its like $8-$12 to fill up.
7. Avoided a big insurance bill after Sentry Mode caught some Ah0le scratching my passenger doors on purpose. License plate clearly recorded.
The money saved just makes sense. Obviously if you are buying a 10 year old Tesla you better have a good chunk of cash on stand by. Same goes if you buy a 10 year old BMW or Mercedes. Even a Honda or Toyota nowadays can run you a good bill after 10 years.
Electric is here to stay 🤷♂️.
Most people in the US must know it is f'ed as 99% of people purchasing cars REJECT EVs as a choice. ..
Exactly. People need to stop looking at just the price. Just like quality versus quantity. If I get in a crash with a ICE and don't have a dashcam, it's easier to get sued. If you have say a tesla, it has a 360 vision all the time, so you record everything that happens. It has also passed a lot of safety tests, and from the accidents I've seen the outside was damaged badly, but the inside was in perfect or close to perfect shape.
People forget too that all the plastic in cars that makes them lighter and more efficient…..is made from petroleum. And the environmental damage cause by mining and refining lithium for the batteries is massive, but that seems to be ok, since it is mined in places like China where the government just doesn’t care, and neither do the customers because it’s “not in my backyard”.
Funny thing is even with driving a Ev your still dependent upon fossil fuel to charge it. Burning coal is the most common way to produce electricity. Another method is burning natural gas. You're just trading one for the other.
In BC Canada it's all hydro electric
That's not true. Coal is not #1 and is rapidly declining across the USA. Nat gas is taking over coal's share, but renewables is growing quickly.
@@johnparsons3454 Yeah but most of the rest of Canada is coal.
@@h.d.h Wind only works when the wind is blowing and solar only works when the sun is shining - not even all of the daylight hours. There is a natural energy gap with so called renewables, it is not sustainable 24 x 7 365 days a year. And when that is true, then a backup power generation source must be maintained that is equal to the capacity of the so called renewables. That means there must be duplication - redundancy. Two systems of equal capacity to maintain.
@@timothykeith1367, we are pretty damn good at predicting in advance when the wind will blow and the sun will shine. When there is a lull in these production, we are able to use stored electricity or pull more from other regions where there is wind and sun. We can also fire up peaker nat gas plants to ride over these low spots, but this does not change the fact that renewables are currently cheaper and cleaner than any non-renewable energy sources.
After winning a Tesla Model 3 I had to look into charging it. I live in an apartment, and the closest charger was close to 150 miles away, with one one on the waiting list to be installed about 20 miles away maybe next year. But seeing that I don't even drive, I negotiated a cash alternative.
Good job
So…. You don’t even drive but won a Tesla. Sounds about right. I can’t remember ever winning anything in my entire life.
A smart human, you're a rare breed!
If you're 150 miles away from a charger you live in a small town. Just use 110 trickle charging
@@johnparsons3454 said they live in an APT so not an option. N that's the biggest issue with EVs...not practical for people that live in apartments
I still have no interest in EV, except for my riding mower.
There is nothing "green" about making an electric vehicle.
@Eggman If I'm still alive 200 years from now (when the world runs out of cheap oil), I'll worry about it. (Plus, there's always bio-fuel.)
@Eggman We won’t run out of oil and coal for centuries. Wind, solar and hydro produced electricity can not support a fully EV transportation system as well as household use. Solar, wind and batteries are not environmentally sound. You can’t recycle wind turbine vanes. We need multiple sources of energy, including nuclear.
@@TheNortheastAl 🤣 exactly there is a catch to everything
Actually, I wish Tesla would make an EV mower with autonomous function. That'd be cool. I've heard of e-bikes and e-motorcycles, but I'd probably like an e-trike with some sort of capacity for carrying luggage.
@Eggman Oil has been pumped from the ground since 1859, at first many geologists thought that it was impossible for Texas to have oil, but more recoverable oil is currently known than possibly has yet been pumped. A University of Texas study said that there is more recoverable oil in the Gulf of Mexico than has been pumped in the U.S. until now. The UT study said the drilling until now has almost been random. If the nations actually consumed all of the petroleum, then the materials to manufacture EVs will become very costly because there are many petroleum products in an EV - starting with the tires, and the asphalt road surface is also a byproduct of oil refining, a plethora of products are made from petroleum or natural gas, including fertilizers to grow food.
Meanwhile, the queues to charge up cars which take 30 minutes as opposed to filling up a gas car which takes 5 minutes to charge up are ridiculous.
And I dont see how you can avoid heat damage on those batteries with the superchargers.
“Queues” there are none unless you’re in a dense area like California which are always adding more and more stations.
Batteries not only degrade with use but over time. A 10 year old low milage ice will perform close to what it was when it was new. Yet a 10 year old EV will have degraded considerably no matter how many miles it's been driven.
Kinda wrong, batteries degrade with charge cycles, so if you make sure to charge periodically, maybe once every few weeks, leaving it for 10 years, it will not degrade much really.
Not all ICE vehicles perform that same 10 years old as they do new. Please qualify your statement with facts and examples. EV's have fewer moving parts, operating largely on magnetism whilst ICE vehicles have many moving parts that suffer degradation even if they just sit there not being driven.
@@Terrifying people don't charge their phones properly and you think all of a sudden they'll do that for an EV? LOL How many people do you think will charge to 100% even knowing that will degrade the battery? I'm willing to bet at least 75%. How many people will be properly charging their car when the own multiple cars? On average per any EV site EV batteries degrade 2.3% per year when maintained properly . That's over 20% in a ten year old car.
@@nickplenzick2602 Do you have a study that shows how many EV owners make that mistake? It is well known in the Tesla community that you charge to 80-90% for daily use and charge to 100% only before a long road trip. In real life, Tesla's have shown between 10-15% degradation after 8+ years. Even if it degrades by 20%, it is perfectly viable for local use. A Model 3 starts off with a range of 325miles when new. At 80%, that's 260miles which is way more than anybody would reasonably drive (locally) in a day.
I live in Quebec Canada. I mainly charge my Tesla Y at home. Our grid is 100% hydro electric. No fossil fuel required. The residential kWh rate is 7 cents. The efficiency depends on temperature ( as for ICE vehicles). In my experience, you must consider your average daily usage before committing to a Tesla or anything else cause for those that require longer trips exceeding one full charge, you must validate the availability of level 3 and 4 chargers. With Tesla, you can use all suppliers with the appropriate adapter. Scotty is so energetic I wonder if he is fueled with nitro! ;) keep those posts coming.
i will NEVER own an electric vehicle of any type. i have spent a LOT of time researching the cost of electric car ownership and whether an electric vehicle will even be practical to everyone. here's what my hours and hours of research suggest: 1. an electric vehicle is ONLY a practical choice for someone who DOES NOT travel long distances. recharge time, lack of range, and having the trip completely controlled by where chargers are located are NEGATIVE variables that CANNOT be avoided. 2. a person who expects to use an electric pickup in the same manner as a gas/diesel truck will be WILDLY dissatisfied with an electric truck. both hauling heavy loads AND towing a vehicle SIGNIFICANTLY reduces the range of an electric truck. 3. electricity rates are rising nationwide SIGNIFICANTLY! in Pennsylvania, electric rates are expected to rise as much as 45%. this will dramatically increase the cost of owning an electric vehicle. 4. "miles traveled" road taxes WILL be coming for electric vehicles because they will have to replace the "gasoline tax" that has historically been used to pay for road repairs and bridges. once THESE taxes are implemented, the operation costs of an electric vehicle will equal or exceed current gas/diesel operation costs. 5. currently, some 97% of ALL vehicle repair technicians CANNOT work on electric vehicles. current gasoline maintenance repair rates range from $65 to $100 dollars/hour. diesel repair rates are more at around $125/hour. as Tesla has shown, electric vehicle technicians will require more training AND thus will cost along the lines of Tesla's current repair rates of around $200/hour. remember, an electric vehicle owner will be charged this higher rate for ANY work done to the vehicle like fixing the heater or radio or the drive motor, etc. 6. FINALLY - electric vehicles WILL NOT be practical for anyone who lives in the COLD climates of the U.S. several studies by Volvo have shown that an electric vehicle loses up to 40% of its driving range when the temperatures fall below freezing. and of course, you CANNOT tow ANYTHING with an electric car without suffering a similar approximate 40% loss in range. THESE ARE THE CURRENT FACTS about electric vehicles notwithstanding the PROPAGANDA that is being presented about these vehicles.
Excellent!!!
@@timothykeith1367 thank you Timothy...
Brilliant. 200 an hour is ridiculous for elons crap!
@@larryc835 thank you Larry...
I installed solar to my 2.000 sq.ft. home about 10 years ago under a lease, I pay $103 a month for my electric, Plus I pay RG&E $25 a month for reverse meter
I also installed GEO Thermal for $ 25,000 to supply hot water and heats the floors
So For the last 10 years it's $103 a month Plus $25 meter charge a month😊😊
Value to Home went from $175,000, to $249,000 😁
You sure are a good little green man.
Just one thing regarding your final word in this episode Scotty: that is really interesting that fuel in US has a road tax added to its price, same as Poland for example. On the contrary, UKs road tax is a separate payment and has nothing to do with gas. Do not forget that some people using fuels for farming or electricity generation, or getting work done (machinery use)... So why on earth should they be paying additional money to already expensive fuel...
Farmers get gas and diesel cheaper than pump prices. It also has dye in it so it can be detected if used in passenger cars or trucks.
In the US Agricultural engines do not pay the road tax. Making it part of the refueling price also means that people pay taxes in a direct proportion to how much they drive. There are some weight differentiations too. These will probably increase as all vehicle become a ton or more heavier. There are something on the order of 10,000 bridges that need to be repaired or replaced. My state has several that were destroyed by a Hurricane about 10 years ago that have not been replaced. The last time I looked at Pennsylvania road tax it was over 53 cent (much higher than here).
In Aus, we get hit for rego/compulsory third party insurance etc. Then you have comp insurance. The fuel also has excise duties of around 40 cents + gst on top of that. ( Gas here at the moment is around $2 a litre ( 4 l to the US gallon. AUD$8 for a US gallon. At 70c US to the Aus dollar approx US $5.60C for a US gallon. Hurts the hip pocket big time.
@@hogtownhenry yea but the British government has there hands in there to
The uk isn't really relevant because it's a bankrupt country. It's currently $10.75 for a gallon of regular fuel. Try explaining to an American that driving a high powered car will cost $760 in road tax and 40% tax on your salary and 20% on anything you buy.
I spent 2K on a used car and about 600 on head work and gaskets to fix a blown head gasket. Since I don't have a payment and full coverage insurance, I think I can afford expensive gas.
Or you could afford cheap gas and expensive wine…
Selfish attitude!
@@brenwicks Um what that makes no sense🤦♂️
Can you fill your car at home with gas ?
Lol I've my used car paid off for a while which is great. I can focus on student loans instead. .....
Your the best teacher I've ever had, and I've never met you, but I learned alot from you over these years I've been watching your videos, so grateful to have you share your knowledge 🙏
Here's some more teaching, it's "you're" the best teacher, not "your". Study up on your contraction usage.
@Praise Jesus, Repent or Likewise Perish - You mean in his Butt, don't you. I condemn your phraseology.
Comparing purposely inflated gas prices to current electric costs . Then when trump gets back into office and gas miraculously drops to half of what it now and the battery in the electric car has to be replaced . You just throw the whole car away .
@@truthserum5310 I think he proved his point, didn’t he? 😆
Not just that all these Evs are unreliable. Several people I know who own Tesla have had massive issues and bills
Of course you not everyone can work on them
My first EV is over 10 years old and has over 78% of battery capacity remaining. I charge both of my EVs overnight in about 3 hours at $0.0183 / kwh, a total of about $1.35 for a full tank in my tesla, which gets me 520 km. I have had ZERO mechanical issues with either car.
How many miles on those cars?
@@JDMinoong 20,000 lol
@@JDMinoong about 100k and 10k respectively. i charge them to 100% without trying to baby th em.
No, these gear heads refuse to believe anything positive about EV's. They hate EV's so much they don't want other people to own them
Jesus, where do you live getting energy that cheap?
Love your channel,you tell the truth.when others have a agenda.i owned a used BMW.hahahaha,I paid nothing for it.traded my Hayabusa for it.7500 later.i sold it for next to nothing.$450 for a coolant reservoir? I was done.your videos have saved me from any more really stupid decisions since.thank you
I like my crown Victoria!
8 cylinders …old school
I don’t care about gasoline and I’m happy with it!
those old cars that last forever are probably the greenest thing going.
I'm with you . Love my '00 Crown Vic LX & I'm going to literally drive it till the wheels fall off. I meticulously maintain it & it's @ 108k on the clock, so it should be around a good long time. 😲😲😲
That’s true! On the other hand I’ll start to think about the Lucida in case of the Saudi Arabia will manufacture it local…luxury electric car with real competitive price!
That's a handsome old v8 beauty. Keep it! The old police muscle car
Not really. It costs to build a car, but only 20,000 miles worth of pollution. It’s better to get a newer car with better catalytic converters that emits only 1/100th as much pollution as the old car
Scott I enjoy your Tell it like it is videos! After dealing with HV car the last ten + years its amazing how many hidden causes for battery failure and no aftermarket support ! Thats not talked about ! Keep up the good information 👍🏻
take me back to the good old days when 🚗 cars were metal and 💪 strong and when ⛽ gas was cheap
Build a time machine
You're more than welcomed to move to a third world country 😉
@Jan J powered by a gas generator
Cars were built strong but they were hilariously inefficient. Nothing like getting 175hp/tq from a 7.0L v8 lol all while the car weights 5k
Well now that they are getting popular. I’m retired on a fixed income. I’ll never be able to afford one. But i always dreamed of having one. Got an electric bicycle though and that’s something.
I am retired too and I also have several electric bikes. I live in a very rainy area so one of my ebikes has a Windshield with a cover that I have heavily modified. It was a Veltop Classic+ model that I bought online from France but the fiberglass connecting rods broke too often so I replaced the supporting rods with two cut stainless steel whip antennas and that solved the problems. Then I added a lower Lexan shield so that my waist wouldn't get wet and then I wear leg gaiters. Now that ebike is perfect for riding in rainy weather and I don't get wet at all. My other ebike I use for grocery shopping and transportation as well as exercise.
Charging at home and the 0-100 acceleration are attractive, but still prefer going ol' combustion and probably always will.
Screw that. I blow away Lamborghinis Porsches Ferraris Hellcats while paying 11 cents a kWh.
budget 8k per year extra to keep your ice car
@@johnparsons3454 I’ll never buy another ICE.
I ain't getting one of these contraptions any time soon. I love the fact I don't have to wait 30 min to "charge" my tank. I don't have to do it alone in the middle of a deserted road (or get stranded) and risk my life and I am not contributing to heavy metal pollution, forest destruction and electricity outages.
Not to mention the poor children who live in Africa who dig up the mines for lithium who only get paid a dollar to put toward the electric cars.
I'm sticking with trucks and motorcycles. Simple. A cell in my 24v kobalt li-ion battery just leaked and acid all over, so that is a no for EVs.
Toyota just built a V-8 engine that runs on hydrogen! No emissions but water!! And, it doesn't need those rare/expensive minerals etc. for the batteries, and the battery maintenance!
All take a 4X4 DODGE 🐐 RAMCHARGER gas ⛽ hog 🐷 with a 440 over any TESLA any day of the week 😊 as well as motorized dirt bikes and or Rambo bicycles 🚲
@@garybulwinkle82 😲 Wow that's awesome 😎
@@garybulwinkle82 I am all Ford Gasoline SVT V8 w/supercharger. From what I have I read driving aggressively, the range on ev's can be as low as 40 miles. I wish my 2003 has less computers in it. If eventually we are forced to not use gas, hydrogen makes far more sense to me. Would not mind helping out on that engineering journey!
Ev's need to pay toward road tax. Especially midwest and up east. Texas roads are better bc people drive so much.
you'll need to find a station to fill up with hydrogen, and / or have an electrolysis generator to produce hydrogen at home. takes lots of electricity ($$) to produce lots of hydrogen needed to power vehicle
n not efficient, but costly.
You should do a report on how these EV’s perform in extreme cold climates like Canada! In particular focus on provinces like Manitoba & Saskatchewan where long commutes in cold temperatures of -40C are normal during winter!!
In Texas a cooling system operates in the Tesla even when the EV is parked because overheating can occur even when the vehicle is not being used.
In summary: poorly. You're looking at a decrease in range simply because the battery won't output at the same performance in severe cold, and if it uses power to heat itself to minimum operating temperatures, that's energy not being used to drive the vehicle.
67 percent of all new car sales in Norway are EV's I was surprised at this but Oslo is close to the same latitude as Whitehorse in the Yukon. No problems so far
@@johnparsons3454 I find that a little hard to believe considering I’ve seen reports of EV motorists left dead on the side of the road due to being stuck on the road due to an avalanche for hours & not being able to make it to the next charging station. I suspect Norway has the infrastructure in place for EV’s whereas Canada is way behind.
Talk to the Norwegians that live way further north of Winnipeg. 70 percent of all sales there are EV
I'm still driving my 1983 Chevrolet Celebrity. I will never buy an electric car. I believe gasoline will still be available when my heart gives out.
We will always need gasoline in the foreseeable future (100 years). EV's are good for city transportation, and might help to reduce fossil fuel consumption, but will never replace it.
Gasoline combustion engines will eventually be outlawed by 2030 or soon as 2027 in some states of the US. Even earlier in EU nations. Its already in the works.
@@rattycaddy they’ll backpedal if they know what’s good for them.
@@rattycaddy in EU it will be in 2035 probably, however this relates to new cars only. It means that used cares with combustion engines will be with us even up to 2060 or longer. Unless goverments will "think out something" like fuel crisis with cosmic prices...
The power companies are closing coal fired power plants putting more strain on other power plants that can not produce enough power to charge more anything.
When I was younger I would buy an old used car. The cost was usually under 1K. The car would last 3-4 years before the repair cost was greater than it's value. As I got older my wages went up and I bought cars that cost 3-5K. I never had a car loan untill I was in my 30s. My point is that there is a large segment of the population that requires cheap affordable transportation. The availability of these cheap cars is disappearing. In order to have adorable labor that acts as the backbone of our economy it is mission critical that we have cheap cars that a low wage worker can afford to buy with cash.
adorable labor? 🐻😚😊
Autocorrect?
Ha ha, your point is still true!
Autocorrect knows what I mean even if it's not. Lol
@@Starry_Night_Sky7455 I meant adorable, hot chicks drive cheap cars. Cheap chicks drive hot cars. Lol
Slow charging is better for battery longevity, 80% of consumers charge their vehicles at home which is better and cheaper, fast charging is needed once in a while when one is travelling inter city. Many consumers have charging at their office which is good for top up.
I'm a FedEx driver and I deliver to 3 different towns that are full of residential houses and business and I've maybe seen only a couple charging stations. 1 of them randomly at a target parking lot.
When they make an EV with built in solar panels so I don't have to wait around for my car to charge, I'll consider one. These cars are just gimmicks to me to control more of the masses with a switch of the button. They can just turn you off when you don't comply. Screw that. Not to mention we already have rolling black outs in California for high energy usage. Let's just imagine when 20 million people need to charge their cars everyday. Insanity
A solar panel on the top of your car would do hardly nothing to charge the battery. Gas powered cars already have cpu's in them that can be hacked. That is not exclusive to EV's. I can see you do your research
never happen. Surface area isnt enough on a car to charge it via solar. There is a limit to energy gathered by solar per unit area that is limited by physics (aka, cant be improved upon). I mean, we already have some gimmicky $250,000 cars that apparently charge via inbuilt solar, but there has been no independent review on how reliable the charging is. And the claims made are the car can recharge 40 miles a day via solar, but everyones guess is that is based on near perfect weather and temperature if even true.
That has already been tried and it failed. Remember the Fisker Karma?
@@mikemccormick8115 There is a new one, don't know the name. But good luck reliably getting anywhere without charging.
Sorry my carburetor car has no CPU’s or computers in it. Can’t be hacked!!
15 years lol.
We all know that’s not true.
Made worse by the fact most folk won’t look after the battery.
And the fast charge will also hugely shorten life.
You’ll be luck to see 4-5 years.
Replacement cost?
Environmental impact?
In the UK, to use fast chargers for a trip say 350 miles, you’d be looking at £75, whereas petrol was similar or slightly less and diesel a step less still.
I had solar panels installed and I have never payed for electricity in 5 years and that’s including charging my two Teslas everyday. Pre 2022 the charger that came with new Teslas have a 120-240V Multi-voltage capability. Just buy the $50 NEMA adaptor and plug it into a 240V outlet and you’ll get 35mph of charging. If you only drive 100 miles per day, the $500 charger is not necessary.
How do you store the electricity for home use?
Yep Scottys making it sound more expensive. In reality, you just plug the stock charger into a drier plug outlet.
Don't worry, the miles driven tax will take care of any savings you were getting. Plus, it's cloudy pretty much 9 months of the year here.
For my work I drive over 300 miles per day. I am not trusting public charging stations to deliver all the time. It is not eco friendly with charging ev’s as this is proven that it is either a Diesel generator or a coal fired electric plant to charge a ev.
@@malakisands8180 then at this current time, EV cars aren't up to the task for your current usage. But for sure in the future it will meet and exceed that 300 miles you use daily, while the ICE vehicles will barely improve in MPG in the same time frame. Also, there are absolutely Zero fossil fuel diesel powered charging stations in America or Europe or Asia. I don't know where ICE people get that from. 🤣
And yes, the majority of power plants are fossil fuel (60%) but a majority of that is natural gas and only 21% is coal. But 100% of ICE vehicles use 100% fossil fuels.
Scotty, Tesla has increased the price per KWh in the daytime at its fast chargers to more than 0.50 cents per KWh in the USA.
At this price, the most economical EV, a Tesla 3, at 4.4 mile per KWh is identical in the price of its energy consumption with a Toyota Prius 4th generation that has an average gas consumption of 53 miles per gallon.
I invite the ones who don't believe this to do the calculations themselves.
Then where are the savings anymore?
In maintainance? No, not at all!
Four Tesla tires are around minimum $800 dollars, and 4 tires of Totota Prius are around $250 on the internet, for the same durability and usage ( miles driven before needing a new set of them ).
The monthly insurance is also way disproportionate, the one for Tesla being 5-6 times more expensive than the one for a Toyota hybrid.
The same pattern with almost everything in this case.
Etc, etc.
So, then, what's the reason anymore to buy an EV ?!? ahhh... just to bleed more money?!? 😡
I like to contribute to reducing the pollution but not like this...
We're not stupids!
Battery's are not environmentally friendly? Clean coal in us still(?) to charge your tesla. Sounds pretty clean.
You seem to have missed the point that the vast majority of EV owners including myself charge the vast majority of the time at home.
I mean, if you want to make a straw man go ahead, but if that's what you really think it will only cost you money in the future.
There was once a time where people were against Japanese cars and now we live in a time where Ford has basically conceded the car market to Toyota and Honda.
EVs are MORE harmful to the environment than gas
@@maslowfirstlevelenergycomp7033 Unfortunately (sincerely stated) that won't last forever. It's why prices for electric here in the UK have just jumped by 50% in one hit .. with another hit in the same 12 months expected in October. They have force fed smart chargers on millions that will detect the current draw and have another tariff for car charging at home . I suspect this will force people into fast chargers (to keep fuel companies happy)... but even then the costs will rise in order to balance out the loss of fuel duty and vat from petrol powered vehicles.
I am literally charging at a supercharger right now at $0.21/kWh, daytime rate is $0.34/kWh at the rest of the Tesla superchargers in the area (FL)
I think ill just keep on driving my 2012 Camry with 157k miles that i have spent a total of $425 to replace an alternator in the 10 years ive owned it. And ive replaced the battery twice at a total cost of $400 over 10 years. Love my Camry.
2006 Camry owner here... Bought it 5 years ago with 254K miles. I'll hit 288K miles soon. Great little car!
The Camry has long been one of the most reliable cars available......
As a Norwegian with 2 electric cars (Or at least my family has) we does not need to pay for fast charging
Kult
One EV car uses: 85 Kilos copper, 56 Kilos nickel, 7 Kilos cobalt, 7 Kilos maganese. With say an average of 7.5M new cars sold on average per year, where do we get 637.5M Kilos of copper, 420M Kilos of nickel, 52.5M Kilos of both cobalt and maganese per year? This doesn't even address the infrastructure needs to provide power for these EVs. The goal appears to be outlaw petro vehicles, and make it impossible to replace them. Already, there is no new real production of new cars as there is a chip shortage. Additionally, parts to repair existing vehicles have very low quality or are not available.
Most Tesla vehicles do not use nickel, cobalt, or manganese.
They are pushing the problem on the people for sure. Cars are just unsustainable in general. Enthusiasts should get to keep them but let's make more room on the road by making public transit infrastructure better
plus you'll need to replace the motor or motors every 100k miles. id rather change the timing belt and drive it til 300k when ud need a new battery
@@StormsparkPegasus No but they use plenty of Lithium. A fairly rare element.
@@thomasr1051 ya because everyone lives in the city
I think electric vehicle technology is most suitable for vehicles that have frequent start-stop movement with loads, such as city trucks or buses. During braking, kinetic energy is wasted as heat at brakes. It is just a waste. My honest opinion is regenerative braking is the most practical solution and electric vehicles are the most suitable ones to use. But I think for personal usage, smaller internal combustion engines with a turbo are the most adequate solution. It is cheaper and experienced staff and infrastructure are readily available.
Electric vehicles' biggest problem is their batteries. Batteries use rare-earth material. "Rare" means something problematic. Production of those materials is a crucial problem.
Rare elements are just temporary. EV's with their batteries are evolving and gets better, vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICE) don't. They optimized horse and wagon, the wagon itself was improved several times. But you've to move on... btw internal combustion engines vehicles use rare elements too like palladium, rhodium, cerium, and/or platinum..
See if you can spot the oncoming disaster: It takes 84K gallons of fuel to produce EACH EV battery (21 billions gallons per year just to mine the heavy metals required for 250,000 batteries VS 19 billion gallons of fuel for the ENTIRE airline industry WORLDWIDE) - Per the US Dept of Transportation. PS - There is NO CURRENT ability to effectively recycle the used batteries…. The battery in an average Tesla is comprised of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel and plastic… 1000+ pounds of minerals that had to be mined, transported and processed into a battery that stores electricity…. which was generated by oil, gas, coal or water…
Thats is where Sodium Ion batteries come in. It has easier to come by materials, has more power and is allot cheaper. It is also more evironmentally friendly that Lithium batteries.
Sodium batteries can endure both high and low temperatures. It also charges way faster than Lithium batteries can.
The big downside of it right now is it's lifespan and they take more effort to make. If you would like to know more about them theres a company called CATL in China that is trying to perfect the batteries and they happen to work with Tesla which is promising!
Supply and demand. Once overnight charging of electric cars reaches a degree where the power companies do not see a drop in demand, the cost of electricity will go out of sight.
Supply and demand have nothing to do with electricity. Engineers can make all the electricty we want at whatever price we want. Solar is continuing to get cheaper, and if President JFK's MSR Nuclear reactor didn't get shut down by a corrupt oil President Nixon, we would have been carbon-neutral by the year 2000.
The energy industry worries about declines in profit if the price it too cheap. If we want it cheaper we need to buy more, and they might give us a volume discount.
@@grumpystiltskin I am an engineer, and I assure you that is not possible.
My Ford Fiesta gets 40 MPG (in town driving, more for long haul driving) I fill my tank up once a month. The new combustion engine is more fuel efficient and cleaner burning than any EV on the market. And they don't have the issue of where the battery comes from or where to store it once it does wear out.
One important thing you left out, who would buy a second hand E V when the battery costs so much to replace when it is worn out ? Secondly, how much will a new E V depreciate in value considering the cost to replace a worn out battery ?
I think I will just keep my regular car, at least it doesn't cost a fortune to repair.
There is no global warming or sea level rise. Watch 20 minute TH-cam video "the sensible environmentalist". PhD totally debunks it all.
I completely agree with you, climate change and global warming is a hoax.
The problem is, people are being told this is happening everytime they turn on the radio or TV, or read the newspaper. Tell people a lie often and for long enough, they start to believe it.
Usually those who are not critical thinkers, that, unfortunately, is most of them.
A $16,000 used Tesla Model S actually costs about $48,000 in all the repairs the previous owner is pawning off on you to deal with.
If everyone was to switch to electric cars the grid would never cope there would be power Outages Galore!!!
Assuming utilities are absolute morons and don't ever increase production over how many years that takes.
seems like a great way to stop people moving around doesn't it ;-) - you know how they want us all in 'super cities' where we dont need cars, and independence etc....hello...
I’m so glad you brought up this impossible thing that will never happen.
@@movinbutnotshakin there's already a third more houses where I live with no extra sewage treatments,no etra power station or even sub stations im already feeling the effects of short power cuts ,yes they are MORONS and paying political people a huge back hander to pass laws their way
Minnesota already has an annual road tax included as part of the annual vehicle license renewal. If memory serves it’s $200 annually.
Wow that’s what voting will do. In my free state it’s $25 and we still complain about that.
That's insane, $200 could get me over 6 months worth of gas even at today's insane prices. That EV road tax would kill any savings I get over gas.
Don't roads there have to be tougher to withstand the climate and the snowplows?
@@MotoroidARFC Snowplows yes, the climate, not necessarily. If they use the proper compounds the salt/brine is the majority of the problem.
@@crisbowman compared to metropolitan roads/streets in California, your roads are tougher. I was in Wisconsin for a year and it was grooved concrete for the public roads. I'm assuming Minnesota roads are similar.
Dangerous bluddy things - have a bad accident, damage the batteries, they internally fuse, and whoof, up goes the car, on fire, with you maybe still in it
I have a nine-year-old Tesla that has free supercharging for life. It has the original battery with only 5% degradation over that time. And it still does 0 to 60 in four seconds, best car I’ve ever owned
Wait till have to change the battery and parts are on back order
@@kg5325 LOL
This guy in the exception not the rule. Batteries are slavery.
@@FT4Freedom Paying for gasoline every week is slavery
@@kg5325 Nine year old battery still going strong
As of October 2021, there are 30 States have an Electric Vehicle Fee charging EV owners to offset lost revenue in gas taxes. Pretty much sure that more states will follow and assess EV Fee.
Don’t forget, electricity prices everywhere including your house electricity bills will be greatly increased too.
It will be increasing just as fast as gas prices.
No, no it won't be increasing just as fast as gas prices (how's that going by the way?). At least with electricity the competition is endless (wind/solar farms, hydro, wave, etc.). You can also install solar and your rate will stay constant (over the length of your loan/life of panels) so that you're not relying on anyone else.
Using a lot of electricity; charging devices, charging cars, turning on the lights, playing video games, using computers for work etc. That’s going to give you HIGH electricity bills. I know electricity bills already cost MONEY, but charging and using every electronic related item including your own car is going to greatly increase your electricity bill. I doubt anyone wants to be paying so much for electricity.
People will hate paying so much for electricity just like how people hate paying so much for gas.
I can tell you right now, the people with EV’s are paying much more for electricity.
@@rodrell1075, here in the USA, the general rule of thumb in the industry is basic fourth-grade math on national averages. It costs three to four cents to fuel an EV, and about ten cents to fuel a gas-powered car (before the recent rise in gas prices). Every peer-reviewed life cycle case study has similar numbers.
@@km6xu Thank you for proving my point.
@@rodrell1075, you made no point. You merely stated, without any facts, data, or evidence, that electricity bills (rates) will be "greatly increased." The fact is that through recessions and wars, electric rates have for many decades risen with inflation. In the last year, the national average went from 13.7 cents per KWH to 13.8 cents per KWH, and is expected to soon reach 14.0 cents per KWH. Where I live (SMUD territory), off-peak is 11.0 cents per KWH, but they recently created a deal for EV owners that works out to 9.5 cents per KWH.
The worst part of electric car is the battery starting to lose charge , replacing the battery could start at $20.000 dollars.
These prouduct are Limited right now .
Buying a motorcycle is starting to make sense now
not with 10 feet of snow !
@@EDD519 that’s true, but I live in the Bay Area so that’s not a problem. I’m sure Miami doesn’t have that problem either. Geography matters you know.
Cobalt is used in the Diesel refining process as well, so if you drive a diesel vehicle kids are working for you also
Oil companies are in fact the biggest buyers of cobalt worldwide. They brag with that on their own websites lol
Additionally, more and more EVs use LFP battery packs that do not contain any cobalt in the first place.
Well here’s my story. I have a Tesla model 3 that is coming up to being 4 years old & still feels fresh. One of the best cars I have every bought. I love no extra buttons to break & love the ventilation system. Just wish I had the biohazard filters on it. I do wish it had a higher standard of materials used inside plus electric frunk & trunk. Wow, what were they thinking for a luxury EV! Sound system is great & great zero to 60 time for me. When I bought it, I bought it with everything possible offered. Of course don’t know if I will have FSD but patiently waiting. I charge at home 95% of time using level 2 charger & charge during day utilizing my full large array of solar panels. California electricity prices are all over the map& depends we’re you live. My average kWh is .23 but it cost me at least 1/4 what I would be paying for gas using my previous car. I used the supercharge system when ion trips but convenient & plentiful. Of course still not at abundance like gasoline stations but no more smelling of toxic fumes like benzene! Where you pay a price is on insurance! Registration is also high. Luckily repairs have been a minimum so overall it low cost to operate. Owning an EV is based on personal preference. No one should be force to give up their ICE vehicle but once a person that drive an ice vehicle, drives an EV, they’re surprised of acceleration & ride & end up buying one. I do know that our King in Sacramento may one day tax us to increase his surplus in road taxes. We had to vote 3 times for politicians to keep their hands out of the gas tax cookie jar to balance their enormous budget! I guess the price you pay for bring the fifth largest economy of the world. Who knows what coming but I will keep my EV & hope that Elon is right & that the motor will last a million miles & battery pack 350-500K miles. I do have a 128K power train warranty. It should outlast me.
How many recalls on your Tesla
What did you pay for it?
@@enlightenthis3749 I also have a Tesla Model 3 and it's had no recalls. If there is an issue they just fix it with an over the air update.
@@brokenspell4851 Not sure what he paid 4 years ago, but I bought mine for 44K in December 2020 brand new. They had models for 35-36K. But mine has 350 miles on a single charge, only takes like 25-30 minutes to charge. 0-60 is 4 seconds.
Why am I the only one that’s driven a model 3 and wasn’t impressed. It was boring and quick but not fast. I think you guys compare cars that shouldn’t be compared. Go drive an m3 and a model 3 and tell me which is more fun? It’s a no brainer the bmw
I love the sound of 8-cylinders in the morning!
Scott you're the man,
Congrats on your 5-M subs. 👏
Congratulations on 5 million Scotty 🎉
There are electric usage price tiers also. Price almost triples per kilowatt once you go beyond the base usage in a billing cycle
the price of electricity would skyrocket / go through the roof, if there were EVs charging all over the place, n there would be outages, brownouts , dropouts n fires.
@@markplott4820 Can you please request a courtesy call from the from desk at 3am for me? I don't want to miss it! 😉
Yeah, most people charge their car at night, which is off-peak electricity usage. Go away troll.
@@markplott4820 When everyone has an EV it will always be peak times.
@@h.d.h Yeah, and hardly anyone charges at night becaue EVs are not yet very common. But, when everybody had an EV charging at night, then your logic is in the dumpster.
OR,..
buy a Cheaper Electric. Say a 2023 Leaf for under 30k. Get your incentives and drop that price by another 5grand. Get your solar power incentives too.
Then, work out your Tax Breaks for owning an electric car.
Your insurance is pretty much based on the worth/cost of the vehicle, so really isn't an issue.
THEN. As these cars curb some of the climate change factors. Maybe you can enjoy cheaper electricity,.. BEFORE, electric companies know you'll be needing their Juice,.. for those Dozen Air Conditioners you have to run, 24/7.
Considering the cost of battery replacement, I think for the time being ice engine is better for me. Since rebuilding an ice engine costs less then half of new battery and besides if you take good care of it, you rarely have to rebuild the traditional piston engine.
-----> "besides if you take good care of it..."
Meaning regular super-expensive maintenance trips to the dealer? Or getting upsold by unscrupulous gas station mechanics? How about gas and oil expenses? There's over 2000 parts in an ICE. Think about it - all these things do not exist in an EV
Radiators
Water Pumps
Alternators
Spark Plugs
Gaskets
Belts
Transmission
Tail Pipe
Muffler
Catalytic Convertor
Fuel Injectors
No doubt the initial expense for an EV is high but they are becoming more competitive. As are battery replacement costs. Tesla batteries are warrantied for 8 years but expected to last longer. I've had my Tesla over 4 years with zero maintenance costs. I suppose you have to count windshield wiper fluid once in a while and putting air in the tires. And maybe new brake pads every 100,000 miles. I would never go back to an ICE.
@@paul4020 excuse me but by regular maintenance I don't mean super expensive trips to dealerships or some rare quality motor oil. Whose goes to dealerships just for an oil change? You can easily change oil by yourself, if of course you know how to do it. And you most definitely don't change transmission oil after every trip. changing gear oil after 30k kilometers doesn't hurt your pocket that much, depending upon the car of course. And I also was talking about myself not about everyone. I said Tesla doesn't suit me yet I never said Tesla isn't suitable for anyone. Tesla might be an economical choice in u.s but in other countries it's not much reliable then traditional ice engines yet. And I don't belong to u.s.
@@malik7221 electric vehicles are suited to cl0wns like Paul, who depend on others for simple things like an oil change but tries to show competence by naming every expensive REPAIR job possible and pretend you said they were regular maintenance. They sure go hard sniffing their own farts...probably considers people killed by self driving cars ok since it will be a convenience for him.
@@paul4020 I can tell you clearly don't know anything about cars. Tail pipe maintenance. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
First thing, when I was driving my gas cars to work, I was spending $120 a week on gas alone. That was before gas was even $5 a gallon. Now gas is over $6.25 a gallon for the cheapest gas. Last time I filled up one of my cars, it was over $80 for 3/4 of a tank. With my Chevy bolt I haven't spent on gas for it in over a year. (My wife will use our gas cars to get our kids, whose school is about 3 miles from our house. So she went through a lot of the school year without filling it back up) that already saved a few thousand minimum. In just 1 year. The Bolt was only 27k. Compared to my Mazda CX-5 which was 45k when we bought it, and our Honda Accord, which was 30k used. It's the lowest price car we've had in the past 14 years. The battery may lose its charge after 10 years. But I'm not worried about that since first I get a replacement battery that will be put in free of charge, because of Chevy's recall on all their batteries for all Bolts. So when it gets put in, I will have a new warranty on the battery from that point. So it will be something like a new 10 year or 150,000 mile warranty. If I don't get it put in for another 3 years, I essentially have 13 more years with my car before the warranty goes out, and the battery is no longer covered. In the next 13 years, I likely would have got a new car anyways. But let's say the battery starts to decay after 10 years, and I'm still using the car. As long as it gets me to and from work, which is a 70 mile trip per day, then it doesn't matter. Supposedly the decay on bolts after approx 10 years is supposed to be a 5-10% decay in milage. But the range is already 250+ miles. So that 5-10% wouldn't affect my daily use. I'm sure electricity will be going up. But it will never get to the point where it would cost $100+ to recharge the car. (Plus my company offers free charging ports at work, which were installed years before I started working there, so it's not like they starting deducting from my paycheck when I got an EV. I haven't had to use much electricity at home, because I just fill up at work while I go about my normal day.) Estimated electricity to fully charge a battery is less than $10. Considering we have computers running 24 hrs a day, (my wife works from home now, and her computers and monitors are on all day and night, we have our kids playing video games most of the day on multiple consoles and computers, and all our appliances that are using power non-stop. The cost to charge my car costs less than all those things. The tires will need to be replaced eventually, same as all cars, but I was looking up prices, and the tires are cheaper than the ones I had for my other cars ($120.99 per tire) supposedly there is a risk the battery could catch on fire (which sparked the bolt recalls) but less than 20 bolts caught fire, out of over 140,000 sold. People made it seem like if you owned an EV, it was going to catch on fire. That not even close to the actual percentage.
EVs are not good for people who like to go on road trips, or love cruising around with nothing else to do. And I would never recommend an EV to anyone who wants to do those things. But to anyone who wants a car to get to and from workalone, or just do local driving. An EV can be a great choice. Just don't buy into the idea, that an EV MUST be a high end Tesla or something like that. Because it doesn't.
That was INTENTIONAL, brah! See if you can spot the oncoming disaster: It takes 84K gallons of fuel to produce EACH EV battery (21 billions gallons per year just to mine the heavy metals required for 250,000 batteries VS 19 billion gallons of fuel for the ENTIRE airline industry WORLDWIDE) - Per the US Dept of Transportation. PS - There is NO CURRENT ability to effectively recycle the used batteries…. The battery in an average Tesla is comprised of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel and plastic… 1000+ pounds of minerals that had to be mined, transported and processed into a battery that stores electricity…. which was generated by oil, gas, coal or water…
subcompact hatchback vs SUV , that's a good comparison, maybe a yaris would be better
Could you please explain how you intend to contribute to the upkeep of the roads you are using now that you are not paying the gas tax?
@@44sundance Little green men don't care at all about the facts.
EVs are useless in largely rural areas as the southwest USA, Alaska, Montana etc. Imagine electric emergency and law enforcement vehicles. In this lifetime it just doesn’t work.
another cost: It takes far more CO2 to build an electric car versus a gas car.
What about resale value, who wants to buy your 12yo Tesla for $12K when it may soon need a $15K battery replacement ?
Winter driving in mountain country reduces battery range considerably.
Reduces miles per gallon as well. Driving downhill in an EV puts energy back into the battery just FYI.
@@TheAdventureAuto ,
Nonsense about ICE losing range in winter. And the electricity produced by EV'S going downhill wouldn't run a hairdryer. Lol.
@@freedomforever6718 Gas mileage drops nearly 20% in winter, and regen downhill is usually 40-75kW. I'm not sure if that'll power a hairdryer as I don't use one.
@@TheAdventureAuto ,
You live in a world of make-believe. Lmfao.
@@freedomforever6718 It's fine if you don't want to believe facts lmfao.
What I would like to know is how much electricity will go up in cost if everyone was trying to charge 2 electric vehicles and would the electric grid withstand the loads caused by this. There’s also the cost of recycling and/or disposing of batteries. In a few years there will be thousands of used electric cars which no one will buy due to the high cost of replacing the batteries.
Especially in the night when solar and wind produce next to zero!
Charging an EV uses the same amount or less of electricity than a clothes dryer. The grids already handling it and will continue to handle it.
Scrap lithium is worth $5 a pound, for a completely toast battery pack. Used packs that are still functional are worth a lot more.
Hi Scotty . Love your channel . you hit it right on the head but I will never give up my gas powered car . old Traditionals I say . Own a Prius 2008 260000 miles and with a recent test on the system still 96% or better in the original drive battery . With good maintenance she just keeps humming along . Best car I have ever owned will drive it tell the rims fall off . just put a new set of brakes on her only the second set at that . why would I want to by all electric Paine in the behind .
I think ev cars are gonna cost too much in the end. I'll stay with my camry, about 33 or more mpg, all gas.
I am going to switch over to an electric car when I buy a house with a garage, but I also have a 2008 prius and it's a champ, I think I've only ever changed the oil, tires and brakes, and this thing keeps on going. Toyota made a full electric car, but it's hideously expensive.
My issue with EV vehicles is where I live in Northern Saskatchewan winter gets down to -40 or colder. Them batteries won't stand a chance. And because we can and do get up to 8 feet of snow we all drive or have trucks. EV is great but they only think about California never anyone else.
The best part is teslas randomly like to catch on fire , locking the drivers inside
ICE vehicles catch fire at a higher rate. 💨
@Jan J There was one case, where the driver didn't know how to open his door. He kicked out the window eventually.
In truth, Teslas HATE to catch on fire, and they rarely do it.
FACT!!!
@yahhz wrong dummy
I'd be more worried about immolation if I were in a KIA.
I wish someone would have made a video like this when we went from riding horses for transport to driving cars. There were no gas stations, service centers or even good roads. I would have just kept riding my horse.
The government wasn't trying to force people to use a car instead of a horse. People began using them because they were more efficient and gave them more freedom.
riding a horse for miles is not comfortable at all but you will save $$$
Great video Scotty.
I charge at home 98% of the time. I save about $350-400 a month over the cost of gas. I drive about 2800 km (1750 mi) per month. Price of gas today is $2.14/litre ($8.10 a gallon)
It suks
$2.14/liter? What hell hole country do you live in?
Again, no mention of battery replacement, I'm not impressed.
@@protonneutron9046 I just filled up with regular 87 octane shell gas. $2.23 per litre. British Columbia, Canada, on an Island in the Pacific ocean. Not the hell hole you think it is. It's the price you pay to live in paradise.
@@bikermann42 at those prices a hell hole. Yep. your gov't is gang r@ping you in the a$$