#ElectricCars produce twice as much #CO2 as #trains, says #rail group data | #RailIndustry | The Guardian
#MassTransit is preferable to individual transport.
#electriccars
Jason Momoa's 1929 Rolls-Royce converted to electric by Kidlington company
China’s BYD surpasses Tesla as leading electric car seller
For the first time, Chinese automaker BYD has overtaken Tesla, as the world's best-selling producer of electric vehicles.It delivered more than its US-based ...#BYD #Chineseelectricvehicles #EVbatteryshortage #EVtechnology #Electricvehicles #Tesla #automotiveindustry #china #chipmaking #electriccars #evbatteryindustry #microchips #powerchips #powerchipindustry #semiconductors #techwars #unitedstates #uschinatradewar #ussanctionsonchina #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews
China’s BYD surpasses Tesla as leading electric car seller
Do #ElectricCars really produce fewer #CarbonEmissions than #petrol or #diesel #vehicles? | #Business | The Guardian
Tesla owners fuming as they are hit with £17,000 bill to fix car after 'driving in rain'
"After complaints from me, we received a call at 5.30pm on the Wednesday saying the battery was damaged due to water ingress and it was unfortunately not covered by the battery’s 8-year warranty and so the repair would be around £17,500. Did I wish to proceed?? I was flabbergasted and couldn’t really find my words."
John said he pressed representatives of #Tesla on whether he or Rob were at fault for the damage, to which he claims he was told that it was a weather issue. He added: "They said that the battery is effectively submerged in water. How can that be our fault?
"After finally getting to speak to a manager, he told me it had water in it due to the fact the weather in Scotland has been so bad. That was the issue. They said it’s not necessarily my fault but it’s not Tesla’s to pay under warranty. He reminded me there was a yellow weather warning in some parts of Scotland.
"I pushed him on this and said I've never heard or something like this happening. He said it can happen with Range Rovers and Mercs but I'm just not buying it. To date, it's been a disaster of a service and the stress and worry of this is excruciating.
"I said to the manager, ‘so, my understanding is, Teslas are unfit for purpose in Scotland?.” I’ve been driving for 30 years and this is my most premium car to date and this is what it does when Edinburgh’s roads get puddles or a little wet!"
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Is a new geopolitical battle developing over Electric Vehicles? | Inside Story
The US President is backing striking auto workers - worried about jobs and wages in the shift to electric vehicles.The EU meanwhile is investigating China's ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Chineseelectricvehicles #EVbatteryindustry #EVbatteryshortage #EVtechnology #Electricvehicles #Europeanunion #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #automotiveindustry #byd #china #electriccars #evbatteryindustry #geopolitics #microchips #tesla #unitedstates #uschinatradewar #ussanctionsonchina #europeanunion
Is a new geopolitical battle developing over Electric Vehicles? | Inside Story
#Tesla exaggerated #EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken - and then, inundated with complaints, they created a"Diversion Team" to cancel appointments.
Tesla years ago began exaggerating its vehicles’ potential driving distance – by rigging their range-estimating software. The company decided about a decade ago, for marketing purposes, to write algorithms for its range meter that would show drivers “rosy” projections for the distance it could travel on a full battery, according to a person familiar with an early design of the software for its in-dash readouts.
Then, when the battery fell below 50% of its maximum charge, the algorithm would show drivers more realistic projections for their remaining driving range.
The directive to present the optimistic range estimates came from Tesla Chief Executive Elmo Skum, according to a Reuters source.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXCTXxL5lr0
Yeah but... http://speedace.info/solar_van.htm peter perkins showed us the way with his solar powered van over a decade ago. And he did this with a strip of solar (and a tiny turbine). The entire surface of the van could be coated in photovoltaic paint. Windows could even have photovoltaic dye. These technologies have existed since the early 00s. Long journeys viable. 10grand components back then.
posted my comment here, since yt seem to auto-censor that comment. :3
#solarpoweredvan #electricconversion #cars #electriccars #solarcars
We need affordable reliable trolley buses or trolley/hybrid buses in every city.
♲ The War on Cars - 2023-01-24 14:47:50 GMT
"If Americans continue to depend on cars at the current rate, by 2050 the US alone would need triple the amount of lithium currently produced for the entire global market, which would have dire consequences for water and food supplies, biodiversity, and Indigenous rights."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research
Politician be like "we need to subsidies electric cars".
The biggest scam of fooling people that our politicians care about us or the environment keeps getting shinier and more luxurious BS shape.
#Environment #economy #transport #electriccars #politics #TomorrowIsTooLate
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Today the @telegraaf (largest Dutch newspaper) printed a large opinion piece by MP @Rob_Roos, exhorting the EU to vote against the ban on combustion cars by 2035 under the heading:
"Electrification car park will become a nightmare"
Let me explain why his arguments are wrong.
Comment Big Oil a conquis le monde entier ? Part 1/2
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"...everyone can enjoy health, comfort, and safety through... DDT"
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How Big Oil Conquered The World
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Oil. From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the petrochemical industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world.
Parts of that story are well-known: Rockefeller and Standard Oil; the internal combustion engine and the transformation of global transport; the House of Saud and the oil wars in the Middle East.
Other parts are more obscure: the quest for oil and the outbreak of World War I; the petrochemical interests behind modern medicine; the Big Oil money behind the “Green Revolution” and the “Gene Revolution.”...
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Trust the Scientism
Scientism Knows Better Than You
Don't Question the Scientism
The Scientism Knows All
Scientism is Absolute Truth
Scientism is Unquestionable
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You are Not as Smart as Scientism
You are Insignificant Compared to Scientism
Obey the Scientism
You are Bad to Question the Scientism
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You do Not Deserve to Question the Scientism
You are Disobedient to Question the Scientism
You are Disrespectful to Question the Scientism
You are a Bad Citizen to Question the Scientism
You are Not Worthy to Question the Scientism
You are Not a Worthy Community Member if You Question the Scientism
The Scientism is Better Than You
You are Not Good Enough to Question the Scientism
The Scientism Will Reject You
You Will Be Shamed
You Will Be Shunned
You are Inferior to the Scientism
You are a Failure if You Question the Scientism
You are Stupid if You Do Not Believe the Scientism
Follow the Scientism
You are a Fool if You Do Not Follow the Scientism
Only an Idiot Questions the Scientism
You are Backwards if You Question the Scientism
You are Unsophisticated if You Question the Scientism
You are a Loser if you Question the Scientism
Scientism is the Solution
People who Disobey the Scientism are The Problem
You Need the Scientism
You Must Not Displease the Scientism
Scientism is High Tech
High Tech is Scientism
Scientism is the Future
You Cannot Win Without the Scientism
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Only the Scientism Can Keep You Safe
You Want the Scientism
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You Are Stupid to Dislike the Scientism
Scientism is the Only Way
Smart People Follow Scientism
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Your Ancestors Trusted #Scientism
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...scrapping streetcars and tearing up railways to replace them with GM's own buses running on Standard Oil supplied diesel.
By the end of the 1940s, GM had bought and scrapped over one hundred municipal electric transit systems in 45 cities and put gas-burning GM buses on the streets in their place. By 1955 almost 90% of the electric streetcar lines in the United States had been ripped out or otherwise eliminated.
...Another existential threat to the vast fortunes of the early oiligarchs was to require an even greater effort at social engineering: public transportation.
By the end of World War I, private car ownership was still a relative rarity; only one in ten Americans owned a car. Rail was still the transportation of choice for the vast majority of the public, and city-dwellers in most major cities relied on electric trolley networks to transport them around town. In 1936, General Motors formed a front company, "National City Lines," along with Firestone Tire and Standard Oil of California, to implement a process of "bustitution": scrapping streetcars and tearing up railways to replace them with GM's own buses running on Standard Oil-supplied diesel. The plan was remarkably successful.
As historian and researcher F. William Engdahl notes in "Myths, Lies and Oil Wars":
"By the end of the 1940s, GM had bought and scrapped over one hundred municipal electric transit systems in 45 cities and put gas-burning GM buses on the streets in their place. By 1955 almost 90% of the electric streetcar lines in the United States had been ripped out or otherwise eliminated."
The cartel had been careful to hide their involvement in National City Lines, but it was revealed to the public in 1946 by an enterprising retired naval lieutenant commander, Edwin J. Quinby. He wrote a manifesto exposing what he called "a careful, deliberately planned campaign to swindle you out of your most important and valuable public utilities — your Electric Railway System." He uncovered the oiligarchs' stock ownership of National City Lines and its subsidiaries and detailed how they had, step by step, bought up and destroyed the public transportation lines in Baltimore, Los Angeles, St. Louis and other major urban centres.
Quinby's warning caught the attention of federal prosecutors, and in 1947 National City Lines was indicted for conspiring to form a transportation monopoly and conspiring to monopolize sales of buses and supplies. In 1949, GM, Firestone, Standard Oil of California and their officers and corporate associates were convicted on the second count of conspiracy. The punishment for buying up and dismantling America's public transportation infrastructure? A $5,000 fine. H. C. Grossman, who had been the director of Pacific City Lines when it oversaw the scrapping of LA's $100 million Pacific Electric system, was fined exactly $1.
Unsurprisingly, GM and its associates did not remain in the doghouse for long. In 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Charles Wilson, then the President of General Motors, as Secretary of Defense. Wilson, with Francis DuPont of the Rockefeller-connected DuPont family as Chief Administrator of Federal Highways, oversaw one of the largest public works projects in American history: the creation of the interstate highway system. With a war-era excise tax on train tickets still in place and federally funded highways and airports providing cheaper alternatives, rail travel declined a startling 84% between 1945 and 1964.
This social engineering paid off well for Standard Oil and its growing list of petrochemical associates. In the two-and-a-half decades after the outbreak of World War II, vehicle production in Detroit almost tripled, from 4.5 million cars a year in 1940 to over 11 million in 1965. As a result, sales of refined gasoline over the same period rose 300%.
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-310-rise-of-the-oiligarchs/
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