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

  2. Is this one of the 220 Model 3’s that Tesla managed to get out of the factory last month ? The hand-built, hand-crafted, bespoke, automobile for the MASSES ?

  5. Some of the earliest vintaage cars were electric. There’s a reason why the Ottawa and Diesel engine prevail.

  7. When Tesla had a display in the shopping centre near where I live in Edmonton, I told the company rep much the same thing. I have to travel between Edmonton and my house in northern B. C. in order to clear it out while I’m settling my father’s estate.
    The trip’s nearly 700 km and it takes me about 7.5 hours from door to door, including 2 stops along the way. Most of the highway goes through isolated country, with roughly 100 km between major population centres.
    With that in mind, I found it hard to justify buying an electric vehicle as not only are charging stations scarce in those parts of Alberta and B. C., there are lots of places where one could buy gasoline or diesel.
    I convinced her that a Tesla wouldn’t be the best vehicle for that purpose, particularly in winter.

  8. You need to be sent to the Gaia-reeducation camp. How DARE you PERSONALLY travel ALL that distance in your gas-guzzline, Gaia-choking, internal combustion automobile. You selfish PIG! You need to LIVE LOCAL. and never travel more than 100mi from your high density urban oasis. You must be punished! Let me guess … you’re Olllllllddddd … right? And whiiiiiiittteee … right? And we already KNOW how deplorable you are … /sarc. /Progressive Pat /UNsexME

  9. And the Wynne government will gladly contribute $14,000 toward the purchase of this gem, see list:
    http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/vehicles/electric/electric-vehicle-incentive-program.shtml
    Also still on the list are the high end Porsche Cayenne and Panamera, but only for $3000.
    In addition to this incentive, Ont will build plug in stations along 401 and generally shovel piles of taxpayer dollars towards this virtuous Green initiative; for a vehicle utterly unsuited for Canadian climate and distances.
    Any Can politician advocating such a vehicle really should be forced to drive one from say Owen Sound to Ottawa on a Feb night through central Ont.

  13. I knows whereof ya speak! I would be a basket case if I had to trust one of these vehicles in a Canadian Winter!
    Back in the early 80’s, we decided to drive to Hinton,Alberta to spend New Years with my sister and her hubby. We drove from Prince George, no problem,spent a few fun days celebrating with family.
    When we attempted to leave on the 2nd or 3rd of January, my Volkswagen diesel rabbit wouldn’t start. We took it to the dealer.The Winter diesel I filled up with in PG had frozen in the lines! Don’t remember how cold it was but it froze Winter diesel. They thawed it out ,added a couple of liters of kerosene,and I made an uneventful trip home.
    After that,whenever I filled up,I first added a liter of kerosene ,just in case.
    Tesla? Only if I win the lotto and move to warmer climes. (and not even then)

  16. If they made very small electric cars, very light ( 1000 to 1500 pounds instead of over 4000 pounds ) the range would probably double
    not only the range in kilometers or miles but the battery would last longer if you were stuck in stop and go traffic where a car uses the most energy to get going.
    of course a smaller car has less room to hide all those batteries, and there are many
    A Tesla has over 7000 batteries the size or your little finger hidden mostly in the floor
    when it is time to replace them after a few years, it is so expensive you may as well buy a new car.
    and we are not even talking about how much energy is used for heating in our Canadian winters
    Sorry but the technology for electric cars is not ready yet
    or they will have to make tiny , very tiny super light cars.

  17. Don’t forget, dream up a name for the “Made In Canada Electric Car”
    Soon that thump you feel driving through a snowbank will be some righteous moron entombed in their, insert brand,made by Bombareir of course.
    For as sure as we are governed by fools and bandits, we will see a government programme sliding taxpayer money to some of their pals.
    Friends of Government graft,?

  18. In 1937, my Dad and his bro. drove a 1930 Model A Ford coupe from Assiniboia, Sask. to Montreal PQ via USA. . Never missed a beat. Interesting to note that when they drove past Weyburn, the temp was 105°F. That same year, at nearby Yellowgrass, temp record rose to 113°F. Hottest ever recorded in Canada. The boys came back the following spring, no breakdowns. Hats off to Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and Texaco.
    Exact same car as this one, except it was black.
    https://youtu.be/3O36_T_sNzA

  19. They do make a tiny car, the Mitsubishi EV. It is one FUGLY car. And it’s being discontinued.
    The virtue Signalling left needs its cars to be sporty and luxurious as well.

  20. The Winter diesel I filled up with in PG had frozen in the lines! Don’t remember how cold it was but it froze Winter diesel.
    Diesel fuel starts waxing at low temperatures as the paraffin begins solidifying. That’s the main reason diesel vehicles have a glow plug. It’s for melting that paraffin, thereby lowering its viscosity, and making it easier to be atomized as well as reducing wear on the atomizer nozzles.

  22. One must still wonder….
    Even if there were recharging stations every 30 km, how would the ‘envisioned’ green grid provide the electricity?
    At this time in history, it is ‘doable’ but not ‘sustainable’.

  23. Umm!
    The glow plugs are for helping with getting enough heat in the combustion chamber to fire the injected diesel.
    Maybe some other electrical heating for the waxing problem

  24. Hey come on now. An electric car can travel just as fast and just as far as and gas guzzler out there. If it is riding on the back of a flatbed truck for the long hauls.

  25. You’ve described a golf cart. Yes, those work very well on electricity. However, I would never drive my family from CA to Detroit in a golf cart. Nope.

  26. Diesel engines, of course, use compression ignition. No spark plug is required to ignite the air-fuel mixture.
    In pre-chambered diesel engines, the glow plug pre-heats the fuel so that it flows easily. Perhaps you were thinking of direct injection diesels in which the glow plug in the combustion chamber itself.

  29. Dan BC and kenji,
    I did not say those cars would sell, that people would like them or even buy them…maybe I should have said it differently
    I was just saying that with today’s electric technology it is the only way electric cars can have decent range, if they are very small and super light…and have almost no “luxury” items like a powerfull soundsystem, or heated seats that use a lot of power etc
    that is why I said; the technology is not ready yet ( to make large cars that people will want to buy)
    Maybe I did not phrase it well…I’m not always right…no problem !

  32. yep, and they were no good then and are a little less than useless now. I read where some idiot politician in the UK wants to eliminate the internal combustion engine by 2032 and have all electric vehicles. One fellow pointed out that they way they are going all of Scotland would have to be covered with wind turbines to charge them.

  33. // OMG, “all the way to Detroit” from California before breaking down??? It truly *is* a revolutionary car for the masses! //
    =
    This has all the technophobic resonance of the “Get a horse!” era.
    And the result will be the same.

  34. “This has all the technophobic resonance of the “Get a horse!” era.”
    You know, it does. I mean, just think of all those Lefty a-holes screaming for their idiotically obsolete sparky cars and bike lanes. Technophobes.
    The sparky car will be a contender against petroleum when a battery has the same energy density per pound as diesel fuel. Until then, no. Right now, nobody is even researching anything close.
    The problem with technology is that it does not bend for feelings and ideology. Mathematics, you know. 2+2=4 whether you like it or not.

  35. Gotcha, I don’t want to write a novel, so I go straight to the point.
    The ecoleft wants to believe that there will be a magical breakthrough in batteries. Problem is, you can’t change physics by wishing it to be so. Yet the left keeps selling that point, wishful thinking, it defines them.
    Even as a second car for local commuting, EVs are a very expensive grocery getter and short range commuter. They are for eco virtue signallers

  36. And the BC ENDPee wants to cancel the Site C dam because it isn’t sustainable power, or some such nonsense.
    The idiot left just can’t fathom the fact that the current grid can’t support a massive change to EVs, without Site C. They want to believe that windmills and solar panels can do it all.
    Idiots

  37. I was just giving you a little (friendly) stick, my friend. You know … that’s something MEN do to each other, when they allow their toxic-levels of testosterone to hijack their feminine side. Nah, I didn’t misunderstand you … I got your reasoned, scientific, point about electrics

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