Why do you keep assuming that anyone who disagrees with you must be stupid and/or uninformed?
Not sure who you think I was disagreeing with.
No.
The argument that is made in the Ted Talk I posted is that the "carbon" to build the electric car is significantly higher than a gas vehicle and electric cars won't last long enough to offset that difference (if I'm recalling correctly). Whether you believe it or not its a fascinating watch.
Many people who own electric cars could care less about the environment, they own them for the pure fun of it. Mabye not so much a nissan leaf for the fun factor. Selfishly, not having to stop for gas, changing brakes, fluid changes is convenient. As someone here pointed out earlier, they are not for everyone, especially if you don't reside in a home that can provide you daily/nightly charging. They mostly aren't affordable. But they are fun to drive and ranges have gotten better.
I would go so far as to say that most people don't buy them for environmental reasons.
Yep.
"NOTE FROM TED: This talk only reflects the speaker's personal views and interpretation. Several claims in this talk lack scientific support. We've flagged this talk because it falls outside the content guidelines TED gives TEDx organizers."
Tesla cars are beautiful electric cars and I can say most of my liberal pals who own them feel good about themselves by going electric. They went all in woke so they don't go broke and they kiss so much you know it, it's disgusting and all over their nose. They also got all the jabs ((this is the Vaccine Thread so we should stay on topic, moo!)) + all the boosters and most still wear mask when they drive. I told one of my bff's that the kids that are forced into mining to make these cars is crazy insane and he plugs his ears and goes all, "la la la la, na na na na la la la la" super loud when I bring up the kids and how their being treated like little paid slaves and paid pennies an hour. Horrible and I would never buy one, like never!!! Edison wanted to "charge" us all and Nick Tesla wanted energy to be free for all of us. I can't wait until we go all in with the real stuff. Psychopath's love to control people and use people and then cheat on them, steal from them and then lie through projecting their cheating back to the one's they cheated on.
Nope. I included it. A 25k car has considerably more production emissions than a 15k car. Roughly 5/3 as much.
Sounds like they used the same cheat as the old WSJ piece: assume the electric dies before the break even point.
Your criticizing something you refuse to watch...weak. He actually makes a case for hybrids being the most environmental friendly. His overall conclusion is that at this point is that we need a mix of gas, electric and hybrid cars. That's why he is wearing a shirt that says "The future is eclectic".
