18 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”

  1. Who killed the electric car ? Evidently … the poor and middle class taxpayers … who were subsidizing and facilitating the RICH purchasing of electric cars … KILLED the electric car. Not to mention the limited range of electric cars to little more than 18 holes of golf.

  3. Well, prairie towns are seven miles apart, because that is how far you could run a horse. Switching horses every town, you could cover a good distance in a day. I suspect a similar setup is the only way electric cars are truly viable. To drive Saskatoon to Edmonton would require a car switch every half hour to hour at highway speed. So an 8 hour drive will take 16 electric cars to move people at the rate they are accustomed to.

  4. When you have to pay people to make them buy something…it is not good.

  5. Electric cars would work fine at commuting in cities in the summer. Past that they are a waste of time. The golf cart model works, the Tesla model doesn’t. Unfortunately mixing golf carts and regular cars on public roads is unsafe.

  6. Instead of building giant wind turbine, we should make giant hamster wheels and put those angry antifa leftists in them.
    we could show them videos of Trump to make them run faster.
    All that energy should be harnessed.

  7. Admittedly, getting the range of electrics up to that of conventionals is still only part of the issue. Another factor is time required to refuel, which also creates a secondary issue. People buy the most car they can afford, that fulfills a need they only have to address 5% of the time. That’s why a couple with no kids, but who go on a weekend trip with two other couples, once a year, will buy a minivan or 7 passenger SUV. If the payment difference is only $20-25/mo, and a rental will cost $1000 for that one weekend, it makes sense to buy the 7 passenger rig.
    Where that goes to is travel. There are still people who like to road trip. If you’re a bucks-up family in Edmonton, with a vacation home in Kelowna, or even Invermere, your weekend place just became a lot further away, if you have ditched the A6 or the BMW 5-series, for a Tesla S. The Edmonton to Invermere drive has just had a minimum of 20 minutes added to what used to be a non-stop run in the A6. Kelowna is now an hour further, each way.
    If you’re a Calgarian, and think you’ll be using you new all-wheel-drive Tesla to hump you over the hill to Panorama on Friday night, and back on Sunday after two days of skiing, you’ll be sweating bullets for 40 minutes each way, because winter weather means Canmore to Radium is going to stretch your range tighter than a banjo string. That 2 1/2 hour trip is also now a 3 1/2 hour trip.
    So, even if the range issue becomes less of an issue, the time to fill will still be a factor. Our old PT Cruiser got us from Vegas to Red Deer in 21 1/2 hours. Our Dodge Nitro, with an additional 200 km cruising range at a lower fuel economy, shaves over an hour out of the Vegas to Butte portion of that trip, because it not only eliminates two fills, it gives greater flexibility to when you fill. Given that millions of American will make trips well over 1000 km in any given year, and in cars as expensive as a Tesla, the inflexibility of the fueling schedule will still make them a non-starter for most drivers.

  8. Ha ha, you think the range problem can be “solved”. Batteries have been under continuous development for hundreds of years.
    The plain and smple truth is, the batteries are not, and never will be feasible. Any chemist can likely tell you exactly what elements will give you the battery for a 1000 mile range. It is likely these batteries have been well known by everyone for decades. The problem is clearly cost, and safety. I imagine people have known how to construct a cesium ion battery for a long time; they have known equally as long that no one would buy one, and near nuclear battery fires.

  9. But I just read somewhere a study confidently predicting the end of fuel powered cars within the next decade for Canada. It takes a mammoth degree of wishful thinking to quote such nonsense, yet hope springs eternal in the hearts of CBC, the Great Leap Forward branch of NDP, Ont Liberals etc.
    This and similar studies make no concession whatever to the geographical reality of Canada, let alone the climate. And no thought is given to pickup trucks a bedrock of farming and rural transportation, and diesel powered tractors, combines and so on. Oh but of course groceries come from upscale supermarket shelves, how they get there no one gives a moment’s thought.
    To be absolutely blunt about it, fuel powered vehicles will be with us for quite some time yet.

  10. We can’t have Nuclear, even though Nuclear emits no CO2, because we can’t safely store the waste.
    We can have electric cars even though it’s very likely CO2 was emitted by a coal generator or natural gas generator that provided base power or backed up the whirlygigs. Oh and dead electric cars leave behind toxic batteries which we currently have no plans to safely store; plus they can catch on fire and burn things down.
    It’s tiring and tiresome keeping up with Greenie logic.

  11. Electric cars are an answer to a question none but car hating libtards have been asking. There is absolutely nothing wrong with internal combustion engines. It is a simple reliable source of power. Of course it could have been simpler and more reliable had libtards not been messing with fuel economy standards and emissions (and of course stop taxing gas at insane rates). And they do so for no reason whatsoever but to make private transportation more expensive, repairs more complicated and expensive etc. In other words to make people more dependent on inferior filthy publik transit. Witness the current infestation of small engine turbocharged cars that exist only because few years Ogabe’s thugs from EPA came with a new regulation that effectively results in what had a V6 then now being inflicted with a turbo four. You get the same power but you lose reliability, libtard mission accomplished and drivers f***ed again.

  13. God!! It’s refreshing to see people who use their brains once in a while.
    My family owned a filling station in the golden era of motoring. Filling stations, motels, hotels, roadside campgrounds, development of the Trans-Canada Highway and the interstate highway systems in the USA were all part of a plan to get people to go out ans see North America.
    When I want to go on a road trip, I phone my buddy who manages a car rental agency and I tell him, ”time to go, find me a road car.” The last trip I had a Hyundai Tuscon that took me from Moose Jaw, Sask. to Calgary, Drumheller, Waterton Park and several stops in small centers along the way.
    The Tuscon sipped fuel, I was shocked at the mileage I got.

  14. Where will an Airbus 380 Electrik stop to recharge when the batteries run low over the South China sea?? How about a container ship leaving Brisbane, Australia and heading for Wankouver, BC? I wonder how many containers filled with Lithium batteries it would take to run the ship for the trip? Did you know that shipping companies are now throttling back and running as slow as 12 knots in order to save fuel?? At 12 knots from Brisbane to Vancouver, it takes the container ship 22.5 days to get there. How many recharges would that take?? Interesting to note that the famous Cutty Sark that sailed the high seas over 130 years ago was faster than modern container ships!! Dream on Mr. Suzuki!!
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/25/slow-ships-cut-greenhouse-emissions

  15. For shipping, it seems to me like civilian nuclear is not that far off. Navies got rid of their bunker C decades ago. It’s taking a while for reality to catch up with container ships, but it is inevitable. The next step after that would be civilian nuclear on cruise ships.

  16. All this talk about EV’s….and much to be said about their shortcomings.
    But the elephant in the room is this:
    Lets say all 500,000,000 million std. vehicles in North America are now EV.
    How do we charge them up every night.?
    Where does the added BASELOAD electrical capacity come from.?
    Hydro..?? I doubt that very much given it is pretty much maxed out Continent wide as is
    Coal..?? It would be the best answer and the cheapest even with gasification and clean tech…but Greens would have a coronary.
    Solar – haha…LMAO, not a hope in hell
    Wind – hahah…see Solar.
    BioFuels to burn ..?? Not likely given their EROEI at 1:1.3
    so that leaves what exactly..??
    yep…..NUCLEAR. and I’m quite sure that Green Peace and the WWF will support that…!! sarc/off
    And Actually Steve E. We could have Nuclear….if it was Liquid Salt Reactor types fuelled with Thorium (Proven 1940’s Technology) …an abundant fuel that is 100% consumed leaving no waste and not requiring said plants to be built near water for cooling.
    One wonders why we are not building these..?

  17. the elephant in the room is this:
    Consider for a second that we are at the point where all 300,000,00 passenger vehicles in North America are now EV’s. Where do we get the additional BASELOAD electrical power required to re-charge those vehicles up EVERY night.??
    Hydro..?? I doubt that – seems pretty much maxed out continent wide.
    Coal..?? It would be the cheapest and with gasification – clean tech, one of my choices but no greenie would agree
    Nat Gas..? Same – See Coal.
    Wind/Solar.?? LMAO…not a hope In hell.
    BioFuels..?? again see Wind/Solar and with an EROEI of 1:1.3 simply not happening
    This leaves us with only one viable choice: NUCLEAR
    I’m sure this will go oner well with Green Peace and the WWF….right.?
    As to the power source itself, NUCLEAR could be a viable method…if we used Liquid Salt Reactor type Tech from the 1940’s using Thorium as a fuel. No waste – abundant Fuel – water not required. Whats not to like about that..??
    Anyway, Im liking the fact that Diesel is below $1.00/Litre and looks to stay that way for quite a while. Getting 21.5mpg hi way in my 06 Duramax …a truck I will still be driving in 10 years from now….(-:

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