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Scotty, I got my 2018 Toyota Corolla LE stolen then recovered. No license plate and some damage to it. Thinking after it gets out of the auto body shop to trade it. I’m looking between a sports car (mustang eco boost,challenger SXT, charger SXT, Miata, and a GR86/BRZ), and a sporty hatchback or sporty sedan (Camry TRD, Corolla hatchback, GR Corolla, Acura Integra (new model) Toyota crown, Honda civil S or type R) where do I lean towards as a primary commute vehicle driving 20 miles one way to work 3 days a week and being a 28 year old male? And what is a good option in those vehicles?
The EV market reminds me of the time home computers were coming onto the market. There must have been at least 5 different brands with their own systems and if you chose the wrong one chances were it'd end up abandoned by the manufacturer leaving you with software you couldn't update, hardware that you couldn't upgrade and it was all incompatible to new peripheries such as printers and modems. In other words you were left with an enormous paper weight. This time I'm gonna wait see how the market develops.
Like apple operating system, that was so bad..... then they bought part of kernel (unix) make they UI and called it theirs system, but actual their was so terrible, just like their computers, now they use same hardware but price few times more then they are worthy, but stupid ppl buy thems anyway cose they are stylish xD welcome to today wolrds
Roll back time. Things were fine until the early 2000's. Some agreement was signed probably before that. I could give a rat rump how much money the oil company has. The problem is OPEC. Also we got a president who says he's going to get rid of natural gas, oil and all of it. He's a destructionist.
I've got a couple electric bikes, built them myself, made my own batteries too, lithium iron phosphate, both get around a hundred mile range and go 45 mph..Can't beat it, not exactly legal, but I go slow around cops and the bikes have pedals...No license, no insurance, no registration, no inspection, cheap cheap, cheap maintenance, Cost 28 cents to charge the battery, and can keep up with traffic...
Obviously, you don't live where there's snow and cold. Battery power for bikes, hybrid cars and ev's is degraded substantially when cold. I know, I own a Toyota Hybrid and the ICE engine runs substantially more during the cold.
@@dbmn7571 I live in Upstate New York, but go south for the winters usually, to Florida...Ya, the cold degrades batteries, no doubt...You'll get less range...
I used to work at a refinery that made hydrogen. Had to use natural gas mixed with atmospheric air to manufacture, lots of electricity for pumps, etc. and lots of natural gas for large heater (have to heat process up to 1800 degrees). Also have to control CO from heater outlet. Can make from electrolysis from water, but is very inefficient (and it uses huge amounts of electricity).
The biggest problem with hydrogen is its production. Very expensive, produces huge amounts of CO2 or uses huge amounts of electricity. Not currently viable and there is no infrastructure.
@@gabrielrousseau_NM Do you mean to cover the oceans with floating solar panels that get covered in salt and will no longer work? Where would the plant go that produces the hydrogen? How would you transport the hydrogen? I dont think you have thought this through. I dont think you think at all.
Yes , lithium ion batteries. I have much smaller ones in my handheld two way radios. Trickle charge them, takes 12-14 hours. But they’re only powering a radio, not a vehicle.
I rememeber hearing about Hydrogen engines back in the 1980s I also seem to remember that the Gas industry companies were buying them,out bow 4+ decades later they seem to be coming bck
Faced the same choice this month when my old car finally died. Bought a certified one+owner, CA ICE base Highlander at a sort of reasonable price. Avg 23 mpg. About $280 per mo for gas. This is good enough. A base Model 3 or RAV4 hybrid would have cost twice as much. Plus I would need a new, dedicated HD steady-state 30a 240v circuit installed in my garage. Then I would pay PGE 39 cents per kWh, or about $175 per month for the 1200 mi or 400 kWh of electric power. There are no superchargers within 20 miles so that benefit is lost. My occasional 6 hour drive to LA would be increased by 45 minutes to a lazy drive for a few top ups. Won't see me changing until the cost/value equation changes dramatically.
CVTs are not supposed to get hot. I’m 82k deep on my CVT and it has never turned the light on. Even after driving on hilly highways for several hours without stopping. And it’s a Jatco!!!
EVs is a dumb idea when you check our vehicles polite less than any in the world and they would like us to believe it all out fault why should we pay for the rest of the world
I own and drive a Tesla Model Y. It is the perfect car for me as I drive fairly short distances, rarely more than 150 miles a day. I charge it as slowly as possible to about 80 percent most of the time, and when I need more range I charge it up to 100 percent. The heat pump helps a lot in cold weather and warms it up on a cold winter morning.
@@harrymills2770 And for people who actually have a chance of owning a home with their own charger, which is a pipedream for much of the new generation.
@@harrymills2770 Unless your driving from client to client or something like that an EV should get you to work and back with ease. If not think about moving closer to work regardless of what car you drive. 300 miles a day is expensive in terms of age on the car.
One issue with hydrogen is that ignoring other inefficiencies, the current process of generating hydrogen requires a minimum of 6 times the energy going in as you get out in terms of hydrogen energy storage (that is assuming you can use 100% of the energy of the hydrogen). Hydrogen fuel cells are not very efficient. The end result is the cost per mile is significantly higher than gas cars, as well as battery based electric cars.
The most shocking thing about Toyota making a hydrogen fuel-cell car is that they even bothered. 1/3 to 1/4 as energy efficient as an EV. A modern EV with a temp-managed battery and 250 miles of range will easily please 90% of the people who need to buy a car. Within a couple years, those with limited funds will have a plethora of choices on the used market.
Keep up your voice of practical reason. It speaks persuasively for reason and calm in the automotive space against a continual tide of foolishness. Thanks from old, quiet, productive California, a place now of clamor and strong tides of foolishness.
Sadly gas cars are not what they used to be. They are all suffering from recall hell. I suggest a 68 LTD 4 door HT 390 4B with a cruise-o-matic transmission.
In Maine: We used to own a grocery store. The electric bill was in two parts. You got a bill for what you actually used in electricity and a second bill for what you could potentially use. We closed the store, and for a few months we kept getting power bills for over $1000 a month with all the equipment all turned off. After calling the power company, they explained this billing policy. Over 10 years ago, We told them to disconnect the business from the grid to eliminate all potential use and they are still waiting fot us to pay that unfair bill.
My neighbor got two water bills totaling $134 for one gallon of water on an empty unit....... he is lucky he didn't get 3 (LOL) they said it was a minimum to the landlord(one bill) and a minimum to the tenet(bill two) because the meter billing was changed. They may have been a #3 to the departing tenet..
@@speedracer2336 I don’t think there are any hydrogen filling stations near my area. But there are two hydrogen vehicles for sale here in England, the Nexo and Mirai.
On 2015 Subaru had AC blowing hot after 15-20 minutes of driving. Shop charged $125 to evacuate and refill refrigerant. Still the same problem. I fixed it with a $20 relay. Same visit at the shop, over filled the oil, put on cheap generic oil filter, over filled coolant change, left the battery shaking around loose after spark plug change. I was afraid what oil was put in the car so I changed it and the filter immediately, correctly reinstalled the battery, I still worry what spark plugs were put in. Tom's Auto Spring Texas. Tom was a great mechanic. Retired. Mechanic there now? Not so much. Never again.
This brings to mind old cars with 6 volt electrical system and a generator. Replaced by 12 volt system and alternator. Scotty, your correct. What is here now, may be obsolete in 2035.
The problem with Hydrogen is that the infrastructure isn’t there. Car companies have the mentality of ‘we make the car, not the gas station’ and apply it to Hydrogen cars. Honda killed theirs so you’re only left with the Toyota or Hyundai at the moment. Just get a hybrid tbh
@@liontone you mean with the hydrogen semis rolling out to transport the hydrogen energy. Very efficient when you consider it would not put added stress to any power grids would prolly help more than evs when places have to use fossil fuels to power the grid bc of the added need
Scott, hate to update you but EVs are already better in EVERY way. The chargers will be prominent in under 3 years, use your home charger 99% of the time. Charging is cheaper than gas everywhere. Better get with the times.
I have a brand new Toyota Camry, and at first, I was dis-appointed in the air conditioning. Unlike older cars that just cycled the compressor on or off as needed, this AC is different. I can have the temp set on 74 and the air coming out of the vents is cool, but not cold. Then I can turn it all the way down and the temperature of air from the vents become cold. I really do not know exactly how to describe it, but it seems to operate differently with the more modern climate control.
@@sarge1231 You have thermostat controlled AC so it will only get as cold as it needs to meet the cabin temperature you set it for. It's great in theory, but the problem is that in practice, the temperature in a car can be very different in different spots, so it may feel too warm or cold for some passengers while perfect for the driver. My car has that too, but when it's hot and sunny outside, I prefer to just set mine to 60 and then use the fan to regulate the cooling power.
@@Andy-df5fj I too may turn it down all the way at times, but that was not my point really. My point was, that what someone asked about how the temperature changed on their car, might be normal for that model. If it does not get cold when turned all the way down, it could be freon or other issues. It might also be the thermostat. Mine is dual zone between the driver and passenger side, so the temp on each side can be different.
That Charge for Electricity is when you pay according to "Peak Rate" as most large outfits get charged. The highest rate used establishes the rate for the whole bill.
Had the same problem with my '04 Saturn Vue. The air would get cold then not. Has over 150k miles on it and the ac has never been serviced. It got plenty cold in 100° weather, but decided to check the freon level. It was almost in the red on the gauge I bought as a kit at AutoZone. So I added one can of freon 134A, and now it gets really cold, even too cold on the lowest setting. Now I wish I would have left it as it was before.
Great car, the Vue. My 05 has 268,000 miles. I had to over haul the AC in May 2021. 249,000 on the original compressor at that point. This one is the basic 2.2l 5 spd manual. Love it. It was a grandpa car before I got it from Grandpa owner four years ago. Best car I’ve ever owned. And the Honda made engine goes and goes.
Have you ever done a video on when you should buy original equipment parts and when you can get away with aftermarket ones? I know you can't include every situation but maybe the most common ones.
I cheaped out on chinese brake drums. Out of round. Shoes sub par friction material. Electric fuel pump-2 DOA. Switches, non functional. CV axles splines not machined and unable to insert into transmission. 80/20% you will get crap from china.
Those fan blades that failed on the 737s in 2009 and 2018 killing one passenger , were made by a YOU GUESSED IT ! SUPPLIER to Boeing. Same crap that happens to cars being recalled every day.
Scotty, Hello from Urbana, IL. The Casey’s gas station on the edge of town just had 7 or 8 Tesla charging stations installed in the far end of the parking lot 😂😂😂
Scotty, sorry I couldn’t respond earlier. I work for the railroad and can’t have our phones on while working. Love watching your videos. The fact you went to the U of I
I love the Mirai, hydrogen is the future. But we live now, and two weeks ago I got a car - Honda Clarity. I go from a state to state, and stay at any given place for 3 months at the time. Charge my car at the Airbnb (with owner blessing). 3 weeks in, I only burned about half of a gallon of gas. I'm a happy camper.
@@danharold3087 sure, but also think of redundancy as you can go full gas when electric fails and vice versa. even when the batteries die, you fan still drive it on gas.
@@TackKeyNack they also would only have a lot more to repair after approximately 120000 miles. When most people trade in their car anyway… and a lot more repairs is quite a stretch in winter climates evs still need brake jobs because of rust on rotors. That’s really the big savings in that 120000 miles.
Scotty right again! EV's are a good choice for around town maybe twenty miles a day drivers. Best combination is to own an EV and an ICE vehicle. Then a third option is an EV and then rent a ICE car for any long trips.
@@JimBob1937 Unfortunately the vast majority of people cannot afford them. Not to mention the inconvenience of charging them. Where do renters get to charge their vehicles? I foresee big business in mobile vehicle recharging services.
@@ocrapo9327 Not sure about Texas but california voters voted for what they have. Not enough water or electricity buy public mandate. Thinking the people in Texas are displaced from CA.
I've seen lots of posts about EV's but I have yet to see a report which compares the cost of a full tank of gas to the cost of a full "Quick" charge. I did see one report from a guy in London who drove around for a couple of hours just to find a charging station, and when he found one he had another wait while cars ahead of him were charging ... wtf
Scotty, the costs of electricity is only towards the people who consumes it. In this case, it's the electric car owners. So, the more they use the super chargers, they would pay accordingly not the service stations.
Also gas stations make more profit from their food and drinks in store than the fuel itself. Which is why gas stations installing chargers make perfect sense, they wait for the car to charge and end up buying all their food! Win win
Just heard of a place that is making cars that run on compressed air and have a range of 200 miles and another version that has both air and engine and have a range of 500 miles and cost $5,000 to $8,000 sounds like a different way to get around.
If the government really believed what they are spewing, they would provide each family with a free electric car. Because they haven't done that or even talked about that, tells us all we need to know, There is no real climate change caused by people, It's all about money and power.
You forget scotty all the UP FRONT electrical work ...new transformers to handle say 6 200 amp chargers... thats ALLOT of power ...things have to be hardened against electrical heat .... this eill all cost double triple cost per mile over gas
I have heard Nio has a really smart system. Rather than charging your car they swap out your battery with a charged one at the "gas station" so you don't have to wait to charge, you swap and go.
@@danharold3087 I've been at gas stations where they've run out of certain octanes as well. Not a perfect system by any means and I see your point but I still think it's a smart idea to supplementing having to always charge your car
You won't belive it a friend of mine is a bank manager he said a young man made a car which runs with water and made a model car. Someone company made a joint venture with him to go in bulk. My friend went on this joint venture company for inauguration as the bank was involved. After sometime that boy was missing people's list. Got phone call to his parents saying the boy is safe with us. Forwarded as heard
I think hydrogen will be the way vs EV. You can get a lot more miles... Way cleaner than batteries, you don't have to worry about disposing of the battery or have recycling facilities, let alone the cost to replace. It's way greener than an EV.
Jeep Scumpass? Jeep Scummander? 😁 As the saying goes, if an Italian or British car doesen't leak, there's no fluid in it. In the long run, a conventional fluid coupling automatic transmission using a torque converter (perferably, a locking one or dual-pitch, when posible) will be less expensive than a CVT, if the fluid gets changed when required and if the vehicle gets driven normally. AISIN of Japan builds pretty good ones
They don't need to put chargers at every gas station, just charge at home, I couldn't care less about the gas stations profit margins. They only need to put fast charging stations by highways or roundtrip routes. Most likely we will see a lot more public charging stations in front of big stores like Walmart, it brings in customers who have time to kill in the store and they can rely on solar to charge EVs since they only need to have them working during store hours, so operating costs are also minimal.
Imagine your average spanner-twirler down at the local garage discharging your highly explosive hydrogen tank into a storage tank before working on your car Imagine the cost for the infrastructure, the training, the inspection regimes ...... the safety and cost implications
Thanks for putting great information together! I get Toyota is a great manufacturer despite some.recalls. What do you think about Ford escape hybrid?.have you had any experience with them? recommendations? Thank you again i enjoy the educational videos!
In 2013 I cam up with a simple idea that allowed my co. to make an additional $6 million over a 5 yr contract which was documented. They laid me off 18 months later. I wouldn't give them the 1% extra
The second a company comes out with an electric car that’s as cheap to finance as a Chevy spark with a powertrain warranty that lasts the lifetime of the financing period, I will pre order and finance one immediately.
We all now Scotty loves internal combustion engines and hates EV's. At the beginning of the past Century there were only horse carts and just a few gas cars and they asked just the same questions and comments; Where are we gonna fill those cars? There is no infraestructure for those cars they're producing, how are they gonna transport gasoline? How are they gonna storage and handle gasoline? Gasoline is dangerous, and so on. And humanity figured it out! That's exactly what's gonna happen, humanity will figure it out again. There're new challenges/problems, there'll be new solutions. Whether We like it or not, the future will be electric/hydrogen/other.
From what I've read battery powered cars were around before the ICE engines. And now, > 100 years later we have the government forcing the use EV vehicles while the ICE vehicle has been used for 100+ years and is better than ever. And for what? Do we really need EV's. Are we running out of oil to produce gasoline.
@@dbmn7571You're right, I've also read EV's were before ICE. Then in 1996 came the EV1 and 3 years later they shut down the production. Now they're here to stay. I have an old Rav4 and a Prius and I have no plans to get an EV on the mid term.
@@LarryVanz Agree. I trailer a boat, live in a cold climate and don't want to look for a charging station when there's gas stations everywhere. I like freedom and if you drive an EV you're tied to the electric grid.
I have 210kmh rc cars. They use lithium polymer batteries. 8 in series to make 33.6v fully charged when i run them. Scotty was on point. They have ratings on them usually 1x capacity to charge. So if you have a 9000mah lipo you charge at 9 amps of current. I sometimes charge 2x current and the batteries get warm and this kills them. Even when i run the rc car to do 210kmh im pulling around 375 to 400 amps of current acckrding to data logs. The batteries get hot if you do 3 4 pulls like a knob. If you do one they are fine. And the motors even with heat sinks and fans get hot if you do multiple runs. And thats with a 19hp motor in a 18lbs car. These lithium batteries need to be balance charged and having a pack with 5 6 thousand cells like in a testla is imposible to balance charge them all. So they group them together and monitor that way. This sucks because if one of many thousand cells dies it wont be recognized by the charger. The group will but not individual cells. This thus kills more cells. Its a snow ball affect. And then one bank dies and now affects another. Ev cars are "cool" but its not a replacement.
@@jamesvandamme7786 ill give you that. But the balancing still is the issue. Its like when you have a cordless tool and it goes below threshold and do3s t charge any more even though the battery is good just below voltage. And the cooling is not as good as youd think. Its just somewhat around the entire pack and not each cell or even bank. So its actually useless for like 3/4 or the cells.
@@jamesvandamme7786 plus even with cooling like on my.rc boats. I have an aluminum plate that gets lake water pumped through it under the packs isnt enough and thats fresh not cycled water thats cold to.begin with. Batteries still warm.up and swell. Its the amps you are pulling through them that creats heat
I have a 2002 Chevy Malibu, I can't say when the Tranny Fluid was changed, I want to change it, but the Tranny Fluid is ok in Color, I'll change it next month, but just a little worried about it, it's ok as far as I know.
Those fast-chargers do not charge at the rate stated on it. That is a theoretical peak power. I saw them test it charging a Tesla was not delivering 350 it was in the 170s and lower.
Yes that battery can only take so much depending on the chemistry. The battery management unit on the car takes care of the charge rate. As batteries get better the rate should increase. In time it will take less than filling your tank.
The electric vehicle has to have an onboard charging unit that supports the 350kw charge rate! An example would be the Hyundai Ioniq. Not all EV's are created equal. It confuses the uninformed.
Are you sure ? You did not mention the electricity to make the hydrogen, compressing it and transporting it. Storing it. The hydrogen molecule is so small it seeps through metal. Not as easy as you think. There is a reason it has been around since the 60s and not in general use.
@@danharold3087 the process is easier than oil. Pricier yes, but thats lack of infrastructure. And existing infrastructure is already capable of refining and creating hydrogen
@@jace2wheel762 Of course we know how to make and distribute hydrogen. Scaling the infrastructure as you pointed out is the problem. Then hydrogen lost along the way. The infrastructure we have for making hydrogen for what is it (natural gas maybe?) is not green. Just give batteries a few more years and we can use the electricity directly.
@@danharold3087 sorry I keep responding to you but one of the best ways to produce hydrogen is using nuclear energy which produces zero green house gases obviously there are still green house gases used in construction of these plants but same could be said about the construction of Tesla manufacturing plants. And doesn’t require mining precious metals from the ground in dangerous working conditions for workers. North America has this issue of If they can’t see the pollution it’s not there but it is. If an Ev takes three years to create less Emissions than an ice vehicle then what happens when we eliminate all the emissions after building that an ice has by making it hydrogen. Does that mean an ev would never create less emmsions than a hydrogen car ?
I think technology will improve like it did with ice. All good points. Currently hybrids are the best route i see. Like the ford maverick. Of cource no one car is going to please
Scotty, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles seem great in theory, but as you stated, it's difficult to find hydrogen fueling stations. Toyota also discontinued the hydrogen Mirai. What's worse is: while it is possible to have "green hydrogen" (such as from electrolysis powered by hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, etc.) that only accounts for approximately 3% of the industrial hydrogen fuel supply. The vast majority of hydrogen is produced as a biproduct of methane processing, and methane is a significantly more dangerous greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Currently, diesel vehicles release approximately 20% less carbon dioxide and with DEF systems, are cleaner than ever. Not to mention the engines tend to be built to higher tolerances due to how diesel engines rely on higher pressure glow plug combustion instead of spark plugs. There are many reasons commercial trucking & US military vehicles are still predominantly diesel powered, it's not just the economics, it's the Physics.
Yeah there's nowhere to get hydrogen in my entire state publicly. There is a single fuel station at the Air Products company building as they've been working on hydrogen cars and liquid gases for decades. But again, it's not open to the public.
Oh and the increase in effective bio fuels have also reached the point of non issue for ICE vehicles the Air Force has already confirmed they are in the process of switching as are Airlines and commercial shipping. But it's still a process of bringing it to scale.
Okay what about getting an electric pickup and putting a gas portable charger in the bed for range extension . I don't like the idea of hybrid cuz there's too much interconnection. But if you can charge your electric car from a standard portable generator as a stopgap measure why not do it? Irony the generator company is working on providing a high output 220 portable generator?
Nobody ever mentions that transitioning to EV cars is going to require a complete overhaul of the power grid. Charging a car takes as much power as your house uses in one day. We have brownouts from people using their AC just wait it's about to get a lot worse. Is anybody talking about building power plants or updating the distribution network? No, because it's going to cost billions.
The problem with today’s technology is that it is created and not evolved. We should be learning from History, instead, we’re modifying and sanitizing history. I think the sensible way to go is The Hybrid engine.
I am surprised that Scotty did not mention to the woman who has the problem with her ac. To take the car in, and have a vacuum check on the system. If the system does not hold a certain pressure for a given time, then you definitely have a leak.
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Scotty, I got my 2018 Toyota Corolla LE stolen then recovered. No license plate and some damage to it. Thinking after it gets out of the auto body shop to trade it. I’m looking between a sports car (mustang eco boost,challenger SXT, charger SXT, Miata, and a GR86/BRZ), and a sporty hatchback or sporty sedan (Camry TRD, Corolla hatchback, GR Corolla, Acura Integra (new model) Toyota crown, Honda civil S or type R) where do I lean towards as a primary commute vehicle driving 20 miles one way to work 3 days a week and being a 28 year old male? And what is a good option in those vehicles?
I believe hybrids are the way to go for now.
The EV market reminds me of the time home computers were coming onto the market. There must have been at least 5 different brands with their own systems and if you chose the wrong one chances were it'd end up abandoned by the manufacturer leaving you with software you couldn't update, hardware that you couldn't upgrade and it was all incompatible to new peripheries such as printers and modems. In other words you were left with an enormous paper weight.
This time I'm gonna wait see how the market develops.
Like apple operating system, that was so bad..... then they bought part of kernel (unix) make they UI and called it theirs system, but actual their was so terrible, just like their computers, now they use same hardware but price few times more then they are worthy, but stupid ppl buy thems anyway cose they are stylish xD welcome to today wolrds
People forget that Big Oil is never just going to give up and say “we lose”. Never going to happen.
Petroleum has a multitude of uses, our technological society would collapse without oil. They probably won't be building future EVs from wood.
It’s not difficult regarding Hydrogen, as the cheapest source of Hydrogen is still Crude oil and gas wells.
Roll back time. Things were fine until the early 2000's. Some agreement was signed probably before that. I could give a rat rump how much money the oil company has. The problem is OPEC. Also we got a president who says he's going to get rid of natural gas, oil and all of it. He's a destructionist.
Big Oil is made up lmao
Governments dictate most of what oil companies do, and they also reap most of the reward from it
Don't be so simple
NEVER not to mention countries like China
I've got a couple electric bikes, built them myself, made my own batteries too, lithium iron phosphate, both get around a hundred mile range and go 45 mph..Can't beat it, not exactly legal, but I go slow around cops and the bikes have pedals...No license, no insurance, no registration, no inspection, cheap cheap, cheap maintenance, Cost 28 cents to charge the battery, and can keep up with traffic...
Obviously, you don't live where there's snow and cold. Battery power for bikes, hybrid cars and ev's is degraded substantially when cold. I know, I own a Toyota Hybrid and the ICE engine runs substantially more during the cold.
@@dbmn7571 and in the south, heat kills batteries fast too
@@dbmn7571 I live in Upstate New York, but go south for the winters usually, to Florida...Ya, the cold degrades batteries, no doubt...You'll get less range...
@@RogerDavid647 I've heard the heat is bad too. Never experienced it with my hybrid. Only the cold.
have you prepared for a lithium house fire?
Every other day something “shocks the entire automotive industry”
I read about a new ground breaking battery technology almost every week. And that's usually the last I ever hear of it.
Toyota , ford , Honda etc is gonna go out of business !
@@noyourawsome2lol979 you gonna out of business.
They need some shock absorbers. I'll see myself out.
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I always give Scotty a thumbs up before I even watch the video because I know it's good 😁
I’d rather use hydrogen as the next gen fuel for transportation but there are some instances where BEV make sense.
I love your reality check on the automotive industry. You are the voice of experience! Keep these videos coming!
I used to work at a refinery that made hydrogen. Had to use natural gas mixed with atmospheric air to manufacture, lots of electricity for pumps, etc. and lots of natural gas for large heater (have to heat process up to 1800 degrees). Also have to control CO from heater outlet. Can make from electrolysis from water, but is very inefficient (and it uses huge amounts of electricity).
The biggest problem with hydrogen is its production. Very expensive, produces huge amounts of CO2 or uses huge amounts of electricity. Not currently viable and there is no infrastructure.
Elon has mentioned these issues several times over the years..I always trust a guy landing rockets
Plants need a minimum of 150ppm just to survive. They would prefer 1500ppm if they could. It’s under 400 now.
The biggest problem is no matter what, the system cannot motivate a motor under full acceleration by itself, it need a buffer battery to assist it.
We have oceans to hydronate along with their endless solar surface area for the electricity.
@@gabrielrousseau_NM Do you mean to cover the oceans with floating solar panels that get covered in salt and will no longer work? Where would the plant go that produces the hydrogen? How would you transport the hydrogen? I dont think you have thought this through. I dont think you think at all.
For now I converted my 2011 Expedition v8,5.4 v ,to natural gas, gives 37 mpg equivalent petrol here in uae.
Yes , lithium ion batteries. I have much smaller ones in my handheld two way radios. Trickle charge them, takes 12-14 hours. But they’re only powering a radio, not a vehicle.
I rememeber hearing about Hydrogen engines back in the 1980s I also seem to remember that the Gas industry companies were buying them,out bow 4+ decades later they seem to be coming bck
Faced the same choice this month when my old car finally died. Bought a certified one+owner, CA ICE base Highlander at a sort of reasonable price. Avg 23 mpg. About $280 per mo for gas. This is good enough.
A base Model 3 or RAV4 hybrid would have cost twice as much. Plus I would need a new, dedicated HD steady-state 30a 240v circuit installed in my garage. Then I would pay PGE 39 cents per kWh, or about $175 per month for the 1200 mi or 400 kWh of electric power. There are no superchargers within 20 miles so that benefit is lost. My occasional 6 hour drive to LA would be increased by 45 minutes to a lazy drive for a few top ups.
Won't see me changing until the cost/value equation changes dramatically.
I'd take a free Tesla. The things are a fire hazard though. I don't park next to em.
CVTs are not supposed to get hot. I’m 82k deep on my CVT and it has never turned the light on. Even after driving on hilly highways for several hours without stopping. And it’s a Jatco!!!
Keep the logic coming. Love your advice. Please train others to learn the craft.
EVs is a dumb idea when you check our vehicles polite less than any in the world and they would like us to believe it all out fault why should we pay for the rest of the world
I own and drive a Tesla Model Y. It is the perfect car for me as I drive fairly short distances, rarely more than 150 miles a day. I charge it as slowly as possible to about 80 percent most of the time, and when I need more range I charge it up to 100 percent. The heat pump helps a lot in cold weather and warms it up on a cold winter morning.
EVs make a lot of sense for a lot of people who don't have very far to go or don't need a lot of power.
@@harrymills2770 And for people who actually have a chance of owning a home with their own charger, which is a pipedream for much of the new generation.
@@harrymills2770 Unless your driving from client to client or something like that an EV should get you to work and back with ease. If not think about moving closer to work regardless of what car you drive. 300 miles a day is expensive in terms of age on the car.
60000 dollar cars don't make sense for many people.
@@mister_dave1184 yeah we need a 30k Tesla!!!! You said it man!!!
Hydrogen will never take off,the technology is to expensive
One issue with hydrogen is that ignoring other inefficiencies, the current process of generating hydrogen requires a minimum of 6 times the energy going in as you get out in terms of hydrogen energy storage (that is assuming you can use 100% of the energy of the hydrogen). Hydrogen fuel cells are not very efficient. The end result is the cost per mile is significantly higher than gas cars, as well as battery based electric cars.
The most shocking thing about Toyota making a hydrogen fuel-cell car is that they even bothered.
1/3 to 1/4 as energy efficient as an EV.
A modern EV with a temp-managed battery and 250 miles of range will easily please 90% of the people who need to buy a car.
Within a couple years, those with limited funds will have a plethora of choices on the used market.
Keep up your voice of practical reason. It speaks persuasively for reason and calm in the automotive space against a continual tide of foolishness.
Thanks from old, quiet, productive California, a place now of clamor and strong tides of foolishness.
Sadly gas cars are not what they used to be. They are all suffering from recall hell. I suggest a 68 LTD 4 door HT 390 4B with a cruise-o-matic transmission.
Nov. 8th. Gotta vote them out.
Yes sir 👌
The RED tsunami will put the democrats in their place and hopefully reinstate the keystone pipeline.
Protect your ballot boxes
They will cheat again...
November Red is two weeks away! Electric cars can kiss my glass
Both gas and Ev will coexist depending on the application and distance driven.
In Maine: We used to own a grocery store. The electric bill was in two parts. You got a bill for what you actually used in electricity and a second bill for what you could potentially use. We closed the store, and for a few months we kept getting power bills for over $1000 a month with all the equipment all turned off. After calling the power company, they explained this billing policy. Over 10 years ago, We told them to disconnect the business from the grid to eliminate all potential use and they are still waiting fot us to pay that unfair bill.
My neighbor got two water bills totaling $134 for one gallon of water on an empty unit....... he is lucky he didn't get 3 (LOL) they said it was a minimum to the landlord(one bill) and a minimum to the tenet(bill two) because the meter billing was changed. They may have been a #3 to the departing tenet..
I would buy a hydrogen vehicle if there are enough hydrogen filling stations (which isn’t the case today).
Agree, same as electric vehicles. Nearest one to me is 60 miles, I live on the third floor of my building.
@@speedracer2336 I don’t think there are any hydrogen filling stations near my area. But there are two hydrogen vehicles for sale here in England, the Nexo and Mirai.
@@DaveDVideoMaker thanks, UK and US, very close Allies!
In Japan they have more than 160 fuel stations. For a tiny country, it's a big start.
On 2015 Subaru had AC blowing hot after 15-20 minutes of driving. Shop charged $125 to evacuate and refill refrigerant. Still the same problem. I fixed it with a $20 relay. Same visit at the shop, over filled the oil, put on cheap generic oil filter, over filled coolant change, left the battery shaking around loose after spark plug change. I was afraid what oil was put in the car so I changed it and the filter immediately, correctly reinstalled the battery, I still worry what spark plugs were put in. Tom's Auto Spring Texas. Tom was a great mechanic. Retired. Mechanic there now? Not so much. Never again.
This brings to mind old cars with 6 volt electrical system and a generator. Replaced by 12 volt system and alternator. Scotty, your correct. What is here now, may be obsolete in 2035.
Other than ICE ?
The frown of even the 5,10 min gas station visits. Then to think of an EV charge taking a couple hrs equals late for work daily 👎
1:40 Scotty said "s@%t" I've never heard that before!!!!
The problem with Hydrogen is that the infrastructure isn’t there. Car companies have the mentality of ‘we make the car, not the gas station’ and apply it to Hydrogen cars. Honda killed theirs so you’re only left with the Toyota or Hyundai at the moment. Just get a hybrid tbh
or an ICE.
Or an EV unless you can't charge at home or live 200 miles from a town with no chargers.
Appreciate Scotty's honesty.
2:27 almost spat coffee out all over my workstation when you pulled up that toilet paper image... "demand" indeed.
Seems to me a hydrogen-electric car makes a lot more sense than any battery powered one.
Yeah definitely, electric is just not as good if they had equal infrastructure
Not once you factor in all the energy it takes to make, and transport the hydrogen…
It's not as efficient at making the electricity for the car when all things are considered. Not even close.
@@liontone you mean with the hydrogen semis rolling out to transport the hydrogen energy. Very efficient when you consider it would not put added stress to any power grids would prolly help more than evs when places have to use fossil fuels to power the grid bc of the added need
@@Kartkid12345 No added stress on the grid? The production, and storage methods require a lot of energy… 🤷♂️
Scotty needs his own sign language.
Scott, hate to update you but EVs are already better in EVERY way. The chargers will be prominent in under 3 years, use your home charger 99% of the time. Charging is cheaper than gas everywhere. Better get with the times.
Not clicks in supporting EVs. Easier to get clicks from the rest.
Intermittent AC effectiveness could also be too much refrigerant. It's happened to me when I overfilled mine.
I have a brand new Toyota Camry, and at first, I was dis-appointed in the air conditioning. Unlike older cars that just cycled the compressor on or off as needed, this AC is different. I can have the temp set on 74 and the air coming out of the vents is cool, but not cold. Then I can turn it all the way down and the temperature of air from the vents become cold. I really do not know exactly how to describe it, but it seems to operate differently with the more modern climate control.
@@sarge1231
You have thermostat controlled AC so it will only get as cold as it needs to meet the cabin temperature you set it for. It's great in theory, but the problem is that in practice, the temperature in a car can be very different in different spots, so it may feel too warm or cold for some passengers while perfect for the driver. My car has that too, but when it's hot and sunny outside, I prefer to just set mine to 60 and then use the fan to regulate the cooling power.
@@Andy-df5fj I too may turn it down all the way at times, but that was not my point really. My point was, that what someone asked about how the temperature changed on their car, might be normal for that model. If it does not get cold when turned all the way down, it could be freon or other issues. It might also be the thermostat. Mine is dual zone between the driver and passenger side, so the temp on each side can be different.
You don't have to use hydrogen to run a fuel cell. You can use just about any kind of gas to run a fuel cell.
That Charge for Electricity is when you pay according to "Peak Rate" as most large outfits get charged.
The highest rate used establishes the rate for the whole bill.
Had the same problem with my '04 Saturn Vue. The air would get cold then not. Has over 150k miles on it and the ac has never been serviced. It got plenty cold in 100° weather, but decided to check the freon level. It was almost in the red on the gauge I bought as a kit at AutoZone. So I added one can of freon 134A, and now it gets really cold, even too cold on the lowest setting. Now I wish I would have left it as it was before.
How was your Vue of life while driving the Vue ?
Freon gets the air cold, much better than the new stuff. RIP
Great car, the Vue. My 05 has 268,000 miles. I had to over haul the AC in May 2021. 249,000 on the original compressor at that point. This one is the basic 2.2l 5 spd manual. Love it. It was a grandpa car before I got it from Grandpa owner four years ago. Best car I’ve ever owned. And the Honda made engine goes and goes.
if you overcharge the system the cut out pressure switch doesn't switch and causes icing.
Have you ever done a video on when you should buy original equipment parts and when you can get away with aftermarket ones? I know you can't include every situation but maybe the most common ones.
I cheaped out on chinese brake drums. Out of round. Shoes sub par friction material.
Electric fuel pump-2 DOA. Switches, non functional. CV axles splines not machined and unable to insert into transmission.
80/20% you will get crap from china.
Those fan blades that failed on the 737s in 2009 and 2018 killing one passenger , were made by a YOU GUESSED IT ! SUPPLIER to Boeing. Same crap that happens to cars being recalled every day.
Scotty, Hello from Urbana, IL. The Casey’s gas station on the edge of town just had 7 or 8 Tesla charging stations installed in the far end of the parking lot 😂😂😂
Scotty, sorry I couldn’t respond earlier. I work for the railroad and can’t have our phones on while working. Love watching your videos. The fact you went to the U of I
I love the Mirai, hydrogen is the future. But we live now, and two weeks ago I got a car - Honda Clarity. I go from a state to state, and stay at any given place for 3 months at the time. Charge my car at the Airbnb (with owner blessing). 3 weeks in, I only burned about half of a gallon of gas. I'm a happy camper.
the best car to get is a PHEV. electricity gets cheaper? charge. gas gets cheaper? refill. long drive? charge and refill.
maybe. PHEV has a lot more to repair
@@danharold3087 sure, but also think of redundancy as you can go full gas when electric fails and vice versa. even when the batteries die, you fan still drive it on gas.
@@TackKeyNack they also would only have a lot more to repair after approximately 120000 miles. When most people trade in their car anyway… and a lot more repairs is quite a stretch in winter climates evs still need brake jobs because of rust on rotors. That’s really the big savings in that 120000 miles.
Scotty right again! EV's are a good choice for around town maybe twenty miles a day drivers. Best combination is to own an EV and an ICE vehicle. Then a third option is an EV and then rent a ICE car for any long trips.
Imagine when he finds out EVs have ranges measured in the hundreds of miles and can be recharged at home
Yup .... expensive golf carts! lol
@@deltaskyhawk and the technology is improving amazingly... 309-500 miles per charge will soon be a reality with the recently announced technology
@@deltaskyhawk , amazing luxury golf carts that are more convenient and replace ICE vehicles for the vast majority of people's driving.
@@JimBob1937 Unfortunately the vast majority of people cannot afford them. Not to mention the inconvenience of charging them. Where do renters get to charge their vehicles? I foresee big business in mobile vehicle recharging services.
1:20 I watched a video about a potential solution to hydrogen storage was in a powdered form. Its on the Just have a Think podcast. Very interesting.
Another question is will the existing power grid handle the new electric charging demands?
Europe is in a pickle for gas and electricity this winter. Germany edicts cold showers.
The Kilowatt Stormtroopers come pounding on your door at 2am.
No. Look at texas and California. You need coal plants to power the cars.
Nuclear power is aids its a target for attack.
@@fromthebackofmymind that's insane...
@@ocrapo9327 Not sure about Texas but california voters voted for what they have.
Not enough water or electricity buy public mandate.
Thinking the people in Texas are displaced from CA.
Did Scotty really say "sh*t system"? Never heard him curse 😂 Love it 😂😂😂😂
If I bought a jeep, I would either get a new one and then do an engine and transmission swap, or I would get an old Comanche 👌🏼
I don't care what anyone say about fast charging but the fact is fast charging will shorten battery life.
I've seen lots of posts about EV's but I have yet to see a report which compares the cost of a full tank of gas to the cost of a full "Quick" charge. I did see one report from a guy in London who drove around for a couple of hours just to find a charging station, and when he found one he had another wait while cars ahead of him were charging ... wtf
Hey Scotty, should I get Betamax? Or stick with VHS?
go 8 track
@@jjohnson8977 I dunno. Thinkin' 78's might be the best option .
@@williamevans6522 Edison Gramaphone.
SuperBetaHiFi
Scotty, the costs of electricity is only towards the people who consumes it. In this case, it's the electric car owners. So, the more they use the super chargers, they would pay accordingly not the service stations.
Also gas stations make more profit from their food and drinks in store than the fuel itself. Which is why gas stations installing chargers make perfect sense, they wait for the car to charge and end up buying all their food! Win win
Never watched a video of yrs before but man, yr hand movements are way over the top.
Battery EVS are going to be ahead but hydrogen is going to be the last man standing
Said no one ever.
Just heard of a place that is making cars that run on compressed air and have a range of 200 miles and another version that has both air and engine and have a range of 500
miles and cost $5,000 to $8,000 sounds like
a different way to get around.
Bring back the Stanley Steamer!
Hydrogen vehicles are the Stanley Steamers of the modern era.
Heck no the baker electric of 190x
If the government really believed what they are spewing, they would provide each family with a free electric car. Because they haven't done that or even talked about that, tells us all we need to know, There is no real climate change caused by people, It's all about money and power.
You forget scotty all the UP FRONT electrical work ...new transformers to handle say 6 200 amp chargers... thats ALLOT of power ...things have to be hardened against electrical heat .... this eill all cost double triple cost per mile over gas
Scotty, why don't the stations just buy a diesel generators to power the fast chargers? LOL
The same station who can't pump gas or ring up your purchase when the electricity goes out ?
We use big ones to run hospitals during power outages. Diesel saves lives.
I have heard Nio has a really smart system. Rather than charging your car they swap out your battery with a charged one at the "gas station" so you don't have to wait to charge, you swap and go.
And when the guy ahead of you gets the last charged pack?
People need to be paid.
The extra batteries need to be paid for.
May as well buy gas
"Swap Station"
You hear lots of things from the media, but when you research it it really is just the"good". Dig into it a little, I'd did. I'm not impressed.
@@danharold3087 I've been at gas stations where they've run out of certain octanes as well. Not a perfect system by any means and I see your point but I still think it's a smart idea to supplementing having to always charge your car
@@MontanaWelldigger good talking point bro
get solar panels to charge your electric car. Best solution here in california
Ha
A friend does that in the bay. She earns $2KWh every time PG&E turns off her neighbors AC
@@mcc7762 👍 I agree.
Water is the solution where is H2O. Hydrogen 2 parts and oxygen 1 part. This is the only solution and lots of successful test has already made.
You won't belive it a friend of mine is a bank manager he said a young man made a car which runs with water and made a model car. Someone company made a joint venture with him to go in bulk. My friend went on this joint venture company for inauguration as the bank was involved. After sometime that boy was missing people's list. Got phone call to his parents saying the boy is safe with us. Forwarded as heard
Diesel rules OK , my Renault does 50mpg all day long and costs nothing in ‘road tax’….in the UK….
Scotty, you could do a whole video on that ignited fart gas photo! 🤣🤣🤣
I think hydrogen will be the way vs EV. You can get a lot more miles... Way cleaner than batteries, you don't have to worry about disposing of the battery or have recycling facilities, let alone the cost to replace. It's way greener than an EV.
That must be why fuel cell cars are a total failure in California but Tesla is the best selling car.
Lol exactly my thoughts
@@JayMcKinsey You can't buy hydrogen in China, that's why. Democrats are tied to China.
@Pete Tesla Model Y and 3 are the first and second best selling cars in California.
@@JayMcKinsey Y by revenue is the best selling in the world. By car count it may also be by next year.
Hydrogen can permeate steel; it reacts with the carbon within to form intercalated methane which causes embrittlement. It's a real PITA for engineers.
Jeep Scumpass? Jeep Scummander? 😁 As the saying goes, if an Italian or British car doesen't leak, there's no fluid in it.
In the long run, a conventional fluid coupling automatic transmission using a torque converter (perferably, a locking one or dual-pitch, when posible) will be less expensive than a CVT, if the fluid gets changed when required and if the vehicle gets driven normally. AISIN of Japan builds pretty good ones
They don't need to put chargers at every gas station, just charge at home, I couldn't care less about the gas stations profit margins. They only need to put fast charging stations by highways or roundtrip routes. Most likely we will see a lot more public charging stations in front of big stores like Walmart, it brings in customers who have time to kill in the store and they can rely on solar to charge EVs since they only need to have them working during store hours, so operating costs are also minimal.
in my area its impossiblr to go anywhere and not see a tesla..
Scooty sounds sick today
Get well soon
Imagine your average spanner-twirler down at the local garage discharging your highly explosive hydrogen tank into a storage tank before working on your car
Imagine the cost for the infrastructure, the training, the inspection regimes
...... the safety and cost implications
Thanks for putting great information together! I get Toyota is a great manufacturer despite some.recalls. What do you think about Ford escape hybrid?.have you had any experience with them? recommendations?
Thank you again i enjoy the educational videos!
Speaking about increasing wages, I had a boss that gave me a 1% raise once. I made sure they got a 1% effort in return.
In 2013 I cam up with a simple idea that allowed my co. to make an additional $6 million over a 5 yr contract which was documented. They laid me off 18 months later. I wouldn't give them the 1% extra
so 100% + 1%=101% 😂😂
@@sassed12many The Lord knows what they are.
The second a company comes out with an electric car that’s as cheap to finance as a Chevy spark with a powertrain warranty that lasts the lifetime of the financing period, I will pre order and finance one immediately.
The Chevy Bolt should be getting close to that price and the warranty is 8 years.
Chevy bolt bro …
I'm waiting for the day when all transport will be fast and free.
@@roywalker7512 yes I am also waiting for the flinstone mobile .
Thank you Scotty!! So appreciate your content!
You can't always get OEM - especially on a 10+ year old car.
We all now Scotty loves internal combustion engines and hates EV's.
At the beginning of the past Century there were only horse carts and just a few gas cars and they asked just the same questions and comments; Where are we gonna fill those cars? There is no infraestructure for those cars they're producing, how are they gonna transport gasoline? How are they gonna storage and handle gasoline? Gasoline is dangerous, and so on.
And humanity figured it out!
That's exactly what's gonna happen, humanity will figure it out again.
There're new challenges/problems, there'll be new solutions.
Whether We like it or not, the future will be electric/hydrogen/other.
But Electric is not better than Combustion, like the combustion car was better than the horse carts!
From what I've read battery powered cars were around before the ICE engines. And now, > 100 years later we have the government forcing the use EV vehicles while the ICE vehicle has been used for 100+ years and is better than ever. And for what? Do we really need EV's. Are we running out of oil to produce gasoline.
@@dbmn7571You're right, I've also read EV's were before ICE.
Then in 1996 came the EV1 and 3 years later they shut down the production.
Now they're here to stay.
I have an old Rav4 and a Prius and I have no plans to get an EV on the mid term.
@@LarryVanz Agree. I trailer a boat, live in a cold climate and don't want to look for a charging station when there's gas stations everywhere. I like freedom and if you drive an EV you're tied to the electric grid.
I have 210kmh rc cars. They use lithium polymer batteries. 8 in series to make 33.6v fully charged when i run them. Scotty was on point. They have ratings on them usually 1x capacity to charge. So if you have a 9000mah lipo you charge at 9 amps of current. I sometimes charge 2x current and the batteries get warm and this kills them. Even when i run the rc car to do 210kmh im pulling around 375 to 400 amps of current acckrding to data logs. The batteries get hot if you do 3 4 pulls like a knob. If you do one they are fine. And the motors even with heat sinks and fans get hot if you do multiple runs. And thats with a 19hp motor in a 18lbs car. These lithium batteries need to be balance charged and having a pack with 5 6 thousand cells like in a testla is imposible to balance charge them all. So they group them together and monitor that way. This sucks because if one of many thousand cells dies it wont be recognized by the charger. The group will but not individual cells. This thus kills more cells. Its a snow ball affect. And then one bank dies and now affects another. Ev cars are "cool" but its not a replacement.
@@jamesvandamme7786 ill give you that. But the balancing still is the issue. Its like when you have a cordless tool and it goes below threshold and do3s t charge any more even though the battery is good just below voltage. And the cooling is not as good as youd think. Its just somewhat around the entire pack and not each cell or even bank. So its actually useless for like 3/4 or the cells.
@@jamesvandamme7786 plus even with cooling like on my.rc boats. I have an aluminum plate that gets lake water pumped through it under the packs isnt enough and thats fresh not cycled water thats cold to.begin with. Batteries still warm.up and swell. Its the amps you are pulling through them that creats heat
1:41 “ship” system! That’s what he said! 😅😅😅
I have a 2002 Chevy Malibu, I can't say when the Tranny Fluid was changed, I want to change it, but the Tranny Fluid is ok in Color, I'll change it next month, but just a little worried about it, it's ok as far as I know.
Those fast-chargers do not charge at the rate stated on it. That is a theoretical peak power. I saw them test it charging a Tesla was not delivering 350 it was in the 170s and lower.
Yes that battery can only take so much depending on the chemistry. The battery management unit on the car takes care of the charge rate.
As batteries get better the rate should increase.
In time it will take less than filling your tank.
The electric vehicle has to have an onboard charging unit that supports the 350kw charge rate! An example would be the Hyundai Ioniq. Not all EV's are created equal. It confuses the uninformed.
@@joshuamoreno3470 I don't know but I would image the BMU handles charging or at least participates in it.
Scotty is right... battery op cars = NIO
Hell of a lot cheaper to convert petrol gas stations to hydrogen than to retool, rework, and build a whole new infrastructure for electricity.
Are you sure ? You did not mention the electricity to make the hydrogen, compressing it and transporting it. Storing it. The hydrogen molecule is so small it seeps through metal. Not as easy as you think. There is a reason it has been around since the 60s and not in general use.
@@danharold3087 the process is easier than oil. Pricier yes, but thats lack of infrastructure. And existing infrastructure is already capable of refining and creating hydrogen
@@jace2wheel762 Of course we know how to make and distribute hydrogen. Scaling the infrastructure as you pointed out is the problem. Then hydrogen lost along the way.
The infrastructure we have for making hydrogen for what is it (natural gas maybe?) is not green.
Just give batteries a few more years and we can use the electricity directly.
@@danharold3087 sorry I keep responding to you but one of the best ways to produce hydrogen is using nuclear energy which produces zero green house gases obviously there are still green house gases used in construction of these plants but same could be said about the construction of Tesla manufacturing plants. And doesn’t require mining precious metals from the ground in dangerous working conditions for workers. North America has this issue of If they can’t see the pollution it’s not there but it is. If an Ev takes three years to create less Emissions than an ice vehicle then what happens when we eliminate all the emissions after building that an ice has by making it hydrogen. Does that mean an ev would never create less emmsions than a hydrogen car ?
I think technology will improve like it did with ice. All good points. Currently hybrids are the best route i see. Like the ford maverick. Of cource no one car is going to please
Scotty, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles seem great in theory, but as you stated, it's difficult to find hydrogen fueling stations. Toyota also discontinued the hydrogen Mirai. What's worse is: while it is possible to have "green hydrogen" (such as from electrolysis powered by hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, etc.) that only accounts for approximately 3% of the industrial hydrogen fuel supply. The vast majority of hydrogen is produced as a biproduct of methane processing, and methane is a significantly more dangerous greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Currently, diesel vehicles release approximately 20% less carbon dioxide and with DEF systems, are cleaner than ever. Not to mention the engines tend to be built to higher tolerances due to how diesel engines rely on higher pressure glow plug combustion instead of spark plugs. There are many reasons commercial trucking & US military vehicles are still predominantly diesel powered, it's not just the economics, it's the
Physics.
With all the power contradictions I think we'll never move ahead and do the future that's what it feels like we're just being suppressed
Yeah there's nowhere to get hydrogen in my entire state publicly. There is a single fuel station at the Air Products company building as they've been working on hydrogen cars and liquid gases for decades. But again, it's not open to the public.
Unless they can scale the hydrogen stored on a disk or paste scaled hydrogen id dead
@@jamesvandamme7786 And the fools proposing we make it from hydrocarbons.
At 1:39 That was a good one by Scotty 👍
Oh and the increase in effective bio fuels have also reached the point of non issue for ICE vehicles the Air Force has already confirmed they are in the process of switching as are Airlines and commercial shipping. But it's still a process of bringing it to scale.
Okay what about getting an electric pickup and putting a gas portable charger in the bed for range extension . I don't like the idea of hybrid cuz there's too much interconnection. But if you can charge your electric car from a standard portable generator as a stopgap measure why not do it? Irony the generator company is working on providing a high output 220 portable generator?
Nobody ever mentions that transitioning to EV cars is going to require a complete overhaul of the power grid. Charging a car takes as much power as your house uses in one day. We have brownouts from people using their AC just wait it's about to get a lot worse. Is anybody talking about building power plants or updating the distribution network? No, because it's going to cost billions.
The problem with today’s technology is that it is created and not evolved. We should be learning from History, instead, we’re modifying and sanitizing history. I think the sensible way to go is The Hybrid engine.
I'd totally buy a new hydrogen car from Toyota! Hopefully Honda and Mazda have been putting their eggs into this completely viable basket.
I guess nobody tell you hydrogen cars still have to use a buffer battery. There might not be any ICE, but it still operate like a series hybrid.
I am surprised that Scotty did not mention to the woman who has the problem with her ac. To take the car in, and have a vacuum check on the system. If the system does not hold a certain pressure for a given time, then you definitely have a leak.
Scotty has a new sane energy hogs also in Australia. l can understand why petrol stations aren't putting in recharging stations