Was looking at an Electric car and then I read...

Rick 381 said:
The Jaguar CX-75,
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4 electric motors powered by 2 helicopter turbine motors. Only problem was melting the car behind you.
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Again, it only gets attention when they go way too big for any practicality.
 
Keep arguing about cars while the shipping and aviation industries laugh their asses off at you.

I'm excited to see solar and battery technology advances in the next few decades.
 
BlockInlay said:
Keep arguing about cars while the shipping and aviation industries laugh their asses off at you.

I'm excited to see solar and battery technology advances in the next few decades.
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Are the shipping and aviation industries reading this thread you think?


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As tech improves electric vehicles will increase.
And gasoline engines will decrease.
I'm all for removing all gov subsidies from oil and gas, that will speed the process.
I'm also for regulation of all industries "green" and "not green" to mitigate externalities.
Nobody is gonna take my Harley away, I'll pay more for gas, but that's ok.
 
In 1973, I drove a very petite electric car to deliver pizza in Athens, GA. We had 4 & plugged them in at closing & in between deliveries. Athens has hills to climb. My point is, that was 47 years ago & we still haven’t figured out the solutions.
 
CST said:
In 1973, I drove a very petite electric car to deliver pizza in Athens, GA. We had 4 & plugged them in at closing & in between deliveries. Athens has hills to climb. My point is, that was 47 years ago & we still haven’t figured out the solutions.
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Downtown LA is currently littered with rental electric scooters. People leave them everywhere.


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shoeless said:
In a similar story regarding green things...

Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills

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What bugs me about these kinds of stories, it's not that the blades CAN'T be recycled.... it's simply that the blade manufacturer hasn't thought of a good way to do it or a use for it.

If I lived close enough to that pile of old blades, I would buy a pole barn and start with one, figure out how to most effectively break it down to raw materials, and then a use for said material. At that point it would be pretty easy to start a supply chain with whomever is having to bury those blades... you could get the materials for next to nothing (or better yet, they'd PAY you to take them) and then you could turn around and sell the recycled material.... Like imagine wooden fork lift pallets being replaced with white-recycled-blade skids.
 
baimun said:
What bugs me about these kinds of stories, it's not that the blades CAN'T be recycled.... it's simply that the blade manufacturer hasn't thought of a good way to do it or a use for it.

If I lived close enough to that pile of old blades, I would buy a pole barn and start with one, figure out how to most effectively break it down to raw materials, and then a use for said material. At that point it would be pretty easy to start a supply chain with whomever is having to bury those blades... you could get the materials for next to nothing (or better yet, they'd PAY you to take them) and then you could turn around and sell the recycled material.... Like imagine wooden fork lift pallets being replaced with white-recycled-blade skids.
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Agreed, seems like there would be a use for them. I guess it just comes down to it being cheaper/easier to put 'em in a landfill, unfortunately.

What happens to all of those lithium batteries from Prius's, Teslas, etc. once they're spent? Can they be recovered somehow, or do they end up in a landfill too?
 
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shoeless said:
In a similar story regarding green things...

Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills

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Don't have a subscription, so I couldn't read that one, but NPR and the BBC have articles on it too. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51325101

The NPR article says wind farms are still relatively new in the US, so we haven't had to address the blades until recently. Both talk about a recycling process that grinds them up into pellets that can be used in other products.
 
I live in Germany and the people I know here are fairly well off , middle class type families.

Germans are (rightly) proud of their car companies and will buy German made cars nearly all of the time.

I don't know one person that owns an electric vehicle. I don't even know anyone who owns a hybrid either.

The companies that are selling these cars need to do more to get people to actually buy them.
 
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