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Its amazing how ice drivers are environment experts

Green eyed monsters all of them.
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Just tell them you don't care about the environment and you bought it because they are cheaper to run, better to drive, faster and smoother than ICE cars. ;)
 
Getting bored with ice drivers telling me how bad my car is for the environment. Its amazing how they are experts in all things ev. When is it going to stop. Ah well, I'll just have to keep telling them to suck their exhaust pipes and see how long they last.
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Aye and don’t forget the brake dust we speeeew out aaalll over the land.
Funny but I’ve just driven Bo’ness- Fort William - Loch Lomond - Tyndrum - Oban in les than 24 hours and I may have caressed the big pedal five or six times in total.
Must’ve used two puffs of breeze and a whole hour’s sunshine to get here mind you 😭 😜
 
Most of the emissions which are bad for the planet arise from the manufacture of the vehicle, not the running, and it's moot how 'green' EVs are. Having said that I'm in full agreement regarding the driving experience, which is far superior.
As I said, try sitting in a closed garage with the engine running and see how long you last, but firstly do it with your MG. 😂
 
Also factor in the disposal of lithium batteries as well as mining the stuff. I'm not against EVs in any shape or form, indeed driving one is a revelation. I'm merely pointing out that they are not as green as you'd think. Having said that there's no question that they are the future, unless a form of non polluting fuel for ICE engines can be found that could be manufactured cheaply, which isn't likely I'd admit.
 
Also factor in the disposal of lithium batteries as well as mining the stuff. I'm not against EVs in any shape or form, indeed driving one is a revelation. I'm merely pointing out that they are not as green as you'd think. Having said that there's no question that they are the future, unless a form of non polluting fuel for ICE engines can be found that could be manufactured cheaply, which isn't likely I'd admit.
Everything has got lithium batteries so mining will continue even if ev's are banned. The batteries in the cars can be reused after the car life is finished and they can also be recycled.
 
I think we'll find alternatives to lithium appearing: sodium-sulfur for example, and I believe IBM are developing batteries extracted from sea water. Anything that drives down the cost and ups the density has got to be good. We live in exciting times that's for sure.
 
Agreed, although the point is made regarding the source of power to produce the electricity
The source of power for electricity is the same as for pumping oil out of the ground.

I refer the jury to a video that was posted earlier, apologies if you have already seen it.

 
I think it was Elon Musk who made the point: even if we do continue burning fossil fuels, it is vastly more efficient to burn them in a power station with all the economies of scale they provide, rather than carting around a small inefficient engine in our cars.
 
"Its amazing how ICE drivers are environment experts"

Without pointing a finger at anyone, would it be fair to say "Its amazing how many ev drivers are electric car experts"?

Dave
 
The bottom line is that a sustainable global civilisation (ie one that respected planetary boundaries and was capable of lasting more than a few hundred years more) would not be able to equip even 1 billion individuals of any human sized mammal species with personal transportation units using any existing human technologies. ie in the future there won't be cars.
How we (and if we even can) get from here to there, and what there would actually look like are the important questions. We have maybe less than ten years to work out the answers and perhaps another twenty years after that to make the transition so long as we actually stop turning resources into pollution more or less immediately.
 
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