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EV-based road transportation is not viable
tom66:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on January 23, 2024, 02:48:38 am ---That's one of the more determined spam posts I've seen. Didn't think seat manufacturers were that desperate.
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Looks like some kind of ChatGPT large-language model based on the prompt "Sound like an old grandma moaning about 'EV-based road transportation is not viable' and mention my seat company 'X' and how good those seats are".
Sadly, spam like this is only going to get worse.
Also, holy thread necromancy, batman!
pickle9000:
I'd want to own an EV even if it wasn't practical.
SiliconWizard:
But you'll own nothing.
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: tautech on January 23, 2024, 02:42:31 am ---And keep burning coal to charge them.
Or as witnessed in a recent WA trip, most of their power is from gas turbines......
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As opposed to using the same electricity to refine oil into gasoline?
https://www.autoblog.com/amp/2011/10/14/how-gas-cars-use-more-electricity-to-go-100-miles-than-evs-do/
vad:
--- Quote from: tautech on January 23, 2024, 02:42:31 am ---And keep burning coal to charge them.
Or as witnessed in a recent WA trip, most of their power is from gas turbines......
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They are using less and less coal in Europe, often replacing it with renewables. Here's how it works:
A forest is uprooted in the United States, timber is processed into fuel pellets, shipped to another continent, using petrol and diesel fuels for transportation. In Europe, customers burn these fuel pellets, generating power, including for BEVs.
Customers are happy because CO2 from burning renewable biofuels is allegedly better than CO2 from locally mined coal in places like Germany. Perhaps the quantum properties of a carbon atom that comes from a recently alive tree are better than the quantum properties of a carbon atom that comes from coal.
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