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Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck  | Cliffy: You make a lot of assumptions there. There is very simple reasoning behind my wanting to support emerging technologies to replace the coal
fired thermal plants I began my career in. They are cheaper, cleaner and more efficient. The trips i talked of in my EV are 220 mile round trips and
we do them about once per week on average.
So we save about 87% in energy cost every time we make the round trip. The braking is 80% energy recovered (in the city i seldom use the brake pedal
to come to stops at red lights, almost never to slow to make turns) and the maintenance costs over all are much much cheaper as the motor is far less
expensive and simpler than the gas engine it replaces. Performance wise it accelerates about 30% faster than the gas vehicle. The batteries have a
250,000 mile usable life expectancy, about the same as a gas engine vehicle and are 95% recyclable. I am taking about a 6 year old design here. There
just isn't any downside and they keep improving, the latest from BYD can be recharged in only 5 min at the newest hi speed chargers due to their
battery design improvements.
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I don't doubt the advantages you cite are there for EV cars Its just they are not for everyone.
I tow a lot- boat and travel trailer. EV doesn't work too well for that
I find waiting 20 to 45 mins for a charge along the road to be something I'm not interested in doing,
I can go 600 miles before I need to refuel and be done in less than 10 minutes.
Again I have to say- for an "individual" car owner it may be a perfect fit
Now scale that up by 100 million and the detractions to the technology become apparent. Supply lines for the chargers, commonality between chargers
to fit each make car, where is all that power going to come from, where does the power come from for their manufacture (from cradle to grave) all
these questions are tossed aside in the mantra for EVs.
Let just focus on the mining of minerals for just the batteries. Where will all the mines be if we scale up 100 million times?
How much dino juice will it take to bring the ore to the smelters?
How much dino juice will it take to smelt the ore?
How much dino juice will it take to get the refined product to the battery manufacturer?
Now the kicker- Have there been ANY new mines allowed on US soil in the last decade for battery minerals at a scale big enough to supply a massive
increase in demand?
This is just one of the hurdles that proponents of EVs avoid talking about.
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Quote: Originally posted by Cliffy  | Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck  | Cliffy: You make a lot of assumptions there. There is very simple reasoning behind my wanting to support emerging technologies to replace the coal
fired thermal plants I began my career in. They are cheaper, cleaner and more efficient. The trips i talked of in my EV are 220 mile round trips and
we do them about once per week on average.
So we save about 87% in energy cost every time we make the round trip. The braking is 80% energy recovered (in the city i seldom use the brake pedal
to come to stops at red lights, almost never to slow to make turns) and the maintenance costs over all are much much cheaper as the motor is far less
expensive and simpler than the gas engine it replaces. Performance wise it accelerates about 30% faster than the gas vehicle. The batteries have a
250,000 mile usable life expectancy, about the same as a gas engine vehicle and are 95% recyclable. I am taking about a 6 year old design here. There
just isn't any downside and they keep improving, the latest from BYD can be recharged in only 5 min at the newest hi speed chargers due to their
battery design improvements.
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I don't doubt the advantages you cite are there for EV cars Its just they are not for everyone.
I tow a lot- boat and travel trailer. EV doesn't work too well for that
I find waiting 20 to 45 mins for a charge along the road to be something I'm not interested in doing,
I can go 600 miles before I need to refuel and be done in less than 10 minutes.
Again I have to say- for an "individual" car owner it may be a perfect fit
Now scale that up by 100 million and the detractions to the technology become apparent. Supply lines for the chargers, commonality between chargers
to fit each make car, where is all that power going to come from, where does the power come from for their manufacture (from cradle to grave) all
these questions are tossed aside in the mantra for EVs.
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Cliffy,
Not everyone tows a putt putt, and needs to drive a fullsize pickup to Safeway to pick up high fiber supplements for our irritable bowel. I sometimes
ride my bicycle to the store to get milk, just because it keeps me from being fat and old.
Re your panic about chargers, how can you deal with your household gadgets, cameras and phones that have a dozen different chargers? You would
probably experience a panic attack if you saw my kitchen drawer that probably still has an old charger for a nokia flip phone
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Cliffy: I can only speak for my area where our power comes almost exclusively from hydro dams at 97% renewable overall, which makes it fairly cheap.
Quebec and New Brunswick presently export power to the upper US East Coast at wholesale prices just above .04 per kwh...cheaper yet and also primarily
hydro sourced. I have no idea where the US manufacturers of LiFePO4 batteries get their lithium from as China very busily tied up the majority of
global mines producing it and that may be one of the reasons their LiFePO4 batteries are so much cheaper. 5 min recharges won't be a big problem, I
think you missed that one. As for heavy duty trucks with longer distances, BYD this past year grew their global EV haulers sales by over 1100%, so
quite a few people must find them attractive. It's hard to keep up as they are improving faster than I ever thought they would.
But here's a link for April sales figures:
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/03/byd-commercial-truck-sa...
The only BYD plant presently in the US is n Lancaster and employs about 500 unionized employees manufacturing a range of bus styles for the US and
Canada markets. It might be worthwhile to get them to add a passenger/commercial vehicle plant considering their expertise and range of choices
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/09/byd-electric-truck-sale...
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Did you know that LFP batteries and more lithium than NMC batteries.
The reason LFP batteries are cheaper does not have to do with lithium content.
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Cliffy,
Not everyone tows a putt putt, and needs to drive a fullsize pickup to Safeway to pick up high fiber supplements for our irritable bowel. I sometimes
ride my bicycle to the store to get milk, just because it keeps me from being fat and old.
Re your panic about chargers, how can you deal with your household gadgets, cameras and phones that have a dozen different chargers? You would
probably experience a panic attack if you saw my kitchen drawer that probably still has an old charger for a nokia flip phone Text
Agreed that it is not for everyone just as I have said For some it is a perfect fit. The problem comes in when we scale up. Not against the
technology just the implementation ramifications and reasoning.
Why make it regulatory and mandate acceptance if it is such a good idea?
Why mandate it and not address the down the road costs to implement it?
Chargers ? I'm referring to to electrical supply lines for all the chargers when scaled up 100 million times - the power has to come from somewhere
and our current supply grid is not big enough to supply that amount of power Physics again.
To make a dent in the car market you will need 100 million EVs as there are about 300 million registered vehicles in the US alone.
Hydro power is great BUT when was last hydro dam built? In the USA we are tearing down dams.
As to another question I posed years ago- Can anyone find a report from ANY windmill field operator that shows on a daily basis the generating LOAD
produced by each windmill year round? Combine that with a report showing produced power vs designed power limit (how much electricity does a field
produce compared to how much it was designed to produce ((by the hour year round)). Just how efficient is a windmill field? Does anyone really have
accurate facts except internal documents kept by the field operators?
I've been looking for years for such info and it just isn't published.
How much does each windmill actually produce year round?
How about efficiency-
Are we producing lots of WHs of power with very inefficient generators there by just supporting a manufacturing process rather than the design goal-
to lower world emissions?
What is the emissions footprint of the manufacturing process for windmills?
From cradle to grave. How will we get rid of all those blades?
Does anyone know? Just more unanswered questions-
now scale it up a million times!
Physics again - where do we put all these windmills? Al Gore doesn't want one in his back yard either.
Has anyone here ever flown across the USA low enough to see all the windmills and how they detract from the landscape? I have many times.
Now follow the same thought process as above for solar panels and scale it up a million times- does no one see a problem here?
Not really against the ideas just no one addresses the bigger picture down the line- the physics involved to scale up to what is being pushed
Its treated as a laissez-faire attitude by everyone when its the gorilla in the room.
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Cliffy: My apologies but I just can't answer your questions as fast as you ask them. You will just have to do your own research. Heres my experience
on EV's: It costs long term with no rebates less than 50% for ten years or 150,000 miles to run an EV compared to my gas vehicle. Breakeven comes at
around 3 years with the present new cost differentials factored in, immediately if you buy a 2-3 yr old one as they depreciate far faster due to
technological changes.
A solar powered 5 bedroom 2800 sq ft fully electric home with backup gas generator in Baja and capable of delivering on average 60KWH per day of power
for a 5 bedroom fully electric home and 30kwh battery storage and 2 1/2 tons of air conditioning would cost you today an extra 30,000 dollars
professionally installed and take up 1000 sq ft of roof space for panels. No costs to run power lines or poles to an off grid home and no worries
about the grid going down.
Amazon can likely tell you all the reasons why they are converting to electric delivery vans, and transit systems why they are converting to electric
buses globally. My guess is they are cheaper long term and enhance their profits.
Utilities are shutting down coal fired plants and replacing them with windmills because they are cheaper to install and operate for the power they
produce than any other alternatives and they make more money with them long term. Our company began installing theirs 40 years ago and they are still
producing power. They could probably tell you why they did it if you called them.
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To answer a few of cliffy’s silly questions…
Utility-scale wind and Pv generation is lower cost energy than gas, oil or coal plants.
EVs charged from the grid are more efficient energywise than ICE.
The rivian electric delivery vans are great. Talking to my local amazon drivers, they all love the vans.
Renewable energy is the future. Quit complaining about it.
Average unsubsidized levelized cost of electricity in the United States. With increasingly widespread implementation of sustainable energy sources,
costs for sustainable have declined, most notably for energy generated by solar panels. Cheapest source of fossil fuel generation is double the cost
of utility-scale solar. Solar levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) has fallen to $29 to $92 per MWh, said a report from Lazard.


for Cliffy's light reading:
https://www.lazard.com/media/gjyffoqd/lazards-lcoeplus-june-...
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Fortunately, there are still a few companies in the US that are continuing to cash in on the green industry growth globally. Take a look at the growth
in the GE spinoff GE Vernova GEV for instance. Not everyone is opposed to wind power or increasingly cleaner natural gas combined cycle power
production.
https://www.gevernova.com/news/press-releases/ge-vernova-ann...
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We are still waiting for the ice age we were told was gonna wipe us all out.
It's amazing how many times grown men can be hoodwinked and still believe in something that only exists to make certain people rich and keep them in
power.
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How's that palm tree doing
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It was cut down and replaced with 10 wind turbines. .
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Check out 'Political Primate' on your youtube page. Spot on.
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A fantastic course correction has begun. Stops forcing EV down consumers throats, EVs they don't want and can't afford. 
Ford shifts gears: From electric dreams to gasoline glory
https://www.cbtnews.com/ford-shifts-gears-from-electric-drea...
"For years, Ford’s profits took a hit from federal regulations pushing electric vehicles (EVs). The U.S. government’s Corporate Average Fuel
Economy (CAFE) standards and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rules forced automakers to sell an increasing share of EVs, with mandates aiming for
near-100% EV sales during the 2030s. These policies brought steep fines and costly GHG credits, requiring Ford to subsidize unprofitable EVs with
revenue from gasoline vehicle sales. The result? Higher prices for consumers and fewer of the vehicles Americans actually wanted."
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And yet Ford claims they are accelerating their EV development with the newest smaller pickup design coming out in the US in only two years at
predicted pricing of $30,000. Built on the new multi model shared platform to begin a new initiative for Ford as they meet the future growth in
demand. Over 4,000 new jobs either created or protected as they convert the outmoded plants that were being closed and using their existing EV battery
manufacturing plants.
https://electrek.co/2025/08/14/fords-30000-ev-pickup-signals...
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Ford is intent on catching up with the rest of the world on EV acceptance and innovation, regardless of what the political whims of the day are. The
CEO sees what the future holds and has recently admitted they either adapt or die. Haven't seen what GM or Stellantis have in the pipeline.
Nor has EV battery production in the US died, rather it's just getting going and providing decent paying jobs while it does, subsidies or no
subsidies:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blueoval-sk-begins-ev-battery...
[Edited on 8-20-2025 by JDCanuck]
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Even here in cloudy western Canada we are seeing more and more rooftop solar panels being installed as the initial return on investment in utility
savings is around 6%, and as the grid power is increasingly more expensive as demand for data centres grows rapidly. This means the solar system you
install today will save you more and more as those utility costs accelerate. Add to this the independence from grid outages from storms and fires and
it has become an increasingly good investment.
Our local power utility is now offering substantial rebates as they cannot possibly install enough additional power supply fast enough to meet data
centre demand and this has become their cheapest way to stabilize their grid. The only other alternative is to purchase increasingly more expensive
coal fired power from south of the border to meet the high demands mid day.
Lifetime(even by 5 years of ownership) EVs total cost of operation is well below that of ICE already and also continues to drop in comparison as lower
cost models continue to hit the market without any need for subsidies.
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In addition, Tesla is still promising a newer, cheaper model 2 by the end of this year, with perhaps even greater range, safer and much faster charge
times using newer battery chemistry and priced under $20,000 US. Time will tell if they can deliver as promised this time. Even if under $25,000 it
would be a game changer and drive the lifetime costs of ownership down even more.
The latest news on progress:
https://elonbuzz.com/tesla-model-2-14999-final-on-production...
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Main source of mercury in seafood is releases of mercury from coal combustion.

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The war the Dem Cabal who ran America for 4 years enabled in Ukraine forced Germany to fire up a bunch of coal plants.
Plus how much pollution did the war itself create. Why aren't you condemning that?
If you cared about clean energy you would push nuclear, not inefficient solar and wind that tears up the Earth and requires child labor in Africa.
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