Tsingtao
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The following is the actual text of an e-mail I received from an elderly colleague (radicalized by Fox News and OAN) who felt compelled to forward it to me after I gave him a ride in my Taycan.
It is wonderful that concerned citizens/fossil fuel advocates are here to protect Taycan drivers from ourselves. Had I not read this article, I may have been tempted to crank up the heat and/or my 800 volt car radio when trying to outrun an August hurricane that was chasing me hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles inland!
Rather than debate any of the "facts" in the anti-EV e-mail (way too much to unpack), all I could do was reply that it certainly appears that Darwinism is hard at work and we should all sit back and see how this plays out.
It is wonderful that concerned citizens/fossil fuel advocates are here to protect Taycan drivers from ourselves. Had I not read this article, I may have been tempted to crank up the heat and/or my 800 volt car radio when trying to outrun an August hurricane that was chasing me hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles inland!
Rather than debate any of the "facts" in the anti-EV e-mail (way too much to unpack), all I could do was reply that it certainly appears that Darwinism is hard at work and we should all sit back and see how this plays out.
Note: In case you had not heard about all the French taxis with dead batteries (I had not), the following is a link to a Reuters ("liberal press"?) factcheck:Begin forwarded message:
What's a person to do?
Imagine Florida with a hurricane coming toward Miami. The Governor orders an evacuation. All cars head north. They all need to be charged in Jacksonville. How does that work? Has anyone thought about this? If all cars were electric, and were caught up in a three-hour traffic jam with dead batteries, then what? Not to mention that there is virtually no heating or air conditioning in an electric vehicle because of high battery consumption.
If you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no heating, no windshield wipers, no radio, no GPS (all these drain the batteries), all you can do is try calling 911 to take women and children to safety. But they cannot come to help you because all roads are blocked, and they will probably require all police cars will be electric also. When the roads become unblocked no one can move! Their batteries are dead.
How do you charge the thousands of cars in the traffic jam when it takes 20 minutes to charge an EV? Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of traffic jams. There would be virtually no air conditioning in an electric vehicle. It would drain the batteries quickly. Where is this electricity going to come from? Today's grid barely handles users' needs. Can't use nuclear, natural gas is quickly running out. Oil fired is out of the question, then where?
What will be done with billions of dead batteries, can’t bury them in the soil, can’t go to landfills.
The cart is way ahead of the horse. No thought whatsoever to handle any of the problems that batteries can cause. Plus reports have been written that there is not enough rare minerals in the ground to make all the batteries we would require.
The liberal press doesn't want to talk or report on any of this.
In France, thousands of taxis are now stored as inoperable because the batteries are dead and to replace them would cost more
than the value of the vehicle itself!
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