Again as one engineer to another, I could not have articulated the global EV greenwashing as well as you just did. Absolutely 1,000% bang on. Gotta love those awkward facts.

@johnhitchen1279

11 ай бұрын

Alelluia for the man that speaks truth to power.😊

@andymanaus1077

11 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that an engineer has problems with basic maths.

@allanrogers6599

11 ай бұрын

You don't have a clue and neither does he

@seanb9814

11 ай бұрын

@@allanrogers6599 oh really? Please do enlighten us. But try to stick to the facts. We're waiting....

@seanb9814

11 ай бұрын

@@andymanaus1077 classic response from someone who can't assemble a reasoned argument. 🤣

The political and commercial influence behind the dismantling of this country's rail transport industry in favour of the trucking industry is a massive part of the problem. Also, the urbanisation of farmland forcing us to import produce from further and further away is another contributing factor. There is so much more we could have done and can still do. The biggest hurdle we face is a political class whose main concern is staying in power.

@krissteel4074

11 ай бұрын

One of the most annoying things about housing on farmland is that a lot of it tends to also by default, be some kind of floodplain because that's why the soil is so rich. Then we have all the weeping, my shit got washed downstream and 'someone do something' crowd which seems to insist on living in them regardless of knowing what rivers do every decade or so. The other political hurdle we face is the politicians being subsidised by being funded by corporate entities who don't have the public, national security, country, housing and employment interests at heart

@jimgraham6722

11 ай бұрын

Agree, Australia has a lot of wonderful places to live. We don't have to all pile into Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. There is a very good life to be lived elsewhere at much lower cost and much improved lifestyle. Disclosure: I am delighted I don't live in any of those places and further more rarely visit them. When I do I can't wait to get home.

@Thatguy-cb4qs

11 ай бұрын

Anybody headed out to the Hawkesbury recently? Paving fertile, watered farmland to build McMansion farms, no infrastructure, jammed traffic and no trees. It’s impressive, amazing and depressing at the same time.

@interceptor7905

11 ай бұрын

Actually lot of transport is going back on trains lately

@andrewthomas695

11 ай бұрын

Stupid has a price. Luckily, our kids will pay for it. So proud of my generation 💩

I've always thought EVs were a fraud but I'd never thought of the other uses these batteries could have been put to. Spot on mate. Thanks a lot..

@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217

10 ай бұрын

C02 is needed by plants to live, no CO2, all plant life dies. More CO2 greens the earth, CO2 is required for photosynthesis... sigh. It blows my mind how many have been so successfully moronised to believe CO2 is bad for the environment. *"What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition, of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2 the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison."* ~ Richard Lindzen, Ph.D. is an _[Alfred P. Sloan]_ Emeritus Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

@KimMoth

9 ай бұрын

Hey John, if EVs are such a fraud (and you do make a pretty compelling case that we shouldn't have any until every house has a battery) - why then are you pimping the hell out of them on your website?

@michaelmoorrees3585

7 ай бұрын

Even better, because you can use other rechargeable battery technologies at fixed locations, in addition to just lithium. A house doesn't move. Lithium ion virtue is that its more energy dense than other batteries. That's why they're great for EVs, and cell phones. You don't need that at your house. Old fashion lead acid, will do just fine, and enough capacity to take your house off grid, really doesn't take that much space, if you're a house, and not a car. There are other lithium alternatives, too. Such as flow batteries, and sodium ion.

@almclean6041

5 ай бұрын

Not so much a Fraud as a sub-optimal decision. Hydrogen - now there's a proper Fraud

I've always hated EVs. I hate them so much more now. The vehicles are very dangerous and the drivers are utterly obnoxious.

You just gained 1000 horsepower!!! This video is exactly what I've been trying to tell people as an engineer for years!! 🔥🔥🔥

When politicians dictate the direction of the market only a disaster can result based on what history tells us.

@jellybean1976928

11 ай бұрын

100%. Small government that stays out of our lives is the only solution. Instead they betray the people and meddle in their lives. Vehicle emissions standards is yet another deceptive move to gain power, control and take from the average person.

@ericrawson2909

11 ай бұрын

Also a disaster when politicians define "the science" and what doctors are allowed to say and do.

@kylebeetham3679

10 ай бұрын

Totally agree, politicians should stop giving 1Trillion annually of tax payer money to prop up the fundamentally flawed oil and gas industry. They should stop permitting destruction of land to dig for oil and building pipelines, they should stop sending citizens to die to control oil resources. Less government intervention more free market. You are spot on

@ducthman4737

10 ай бұрын

Politicians are just puppets. That's why it doesn't matter who we vote for. Follow the yellow brick road.

Great job, I was a total EV skeptic before seeing your video, but now I’m absolutely on board with your argument! I mean I never really thought how EVs go a long way in ensuring our own energy security from being dictated by those few oil rich countries, and that they only really emit tyre pollution when compared to their combustion engines peers. You are totally right, we need to do something about those huge unregulated polluting trucks on our roads next, they are the real issue!. I’m sold on your suggestion of becoming more self sufficient in my electricity needs, it’s time I join the 30% plus of Australian households who already have solar panels on their homes and the ever increasing record number of home batteries being installed across the country. Getting off the grid will surely only give me even more bragging rights down at the country club. Finally, I would really like to thank you for the trading tips, I’m so going to put all those supercharged hard earned petrochemical shares dividends I have into the next big money making ventures you highlighted, lithium resources and battery recycling! Your right there’s shitloads more money to be made in the pending battery materials boom, and those batteries destined to go to the tip that should instead be going into my wallet, and come to think of it these super big battery guzzling SUVs EVs are only going to help fatten it up even nicer! Thanks again for your brilliant ideas!

@jooproos6559

9 ай бұрын

Another one who thinks these EV's are environmentally good.While it is not the case.The pollution of petrol cars is just replaced to the electric plants!And more heavily than ever!Not to mention the vast building need for more electric plants and outbild of more cables on the country.

@Michael.Chapman

8 ай бұрын

There is no regulatory mandate to recycle those massive, problematic EV batteries. There is currently little market for metals within waste batteries due to the difficulty and dangers of extraction. Your local scrap metal merchant won’t buy and who wants to own or stockpile such potentially dangerous ticking time-bombs until a mass extraction industry is finally established? That recycling industry should have been up and running before release of EVs onto the mass market. The lack of legal mandates upon manufacturers and/ or owners to compel responsible recycling, combined with the fact that there is no established recycling industry, means many batteries will be dumped to landfill, leaching ultra-toxic materials into groundwater-no good for the biosphere, current life or future generations.

@Michael.Chapman

8 ай бұрын

@@jooproos6559 I agree, and the problems are more numerous than those you’ve mentioned…

Agreed John. EVs have their place, but I do fail to see them as a cure all for the Greenie's woes. I don't want one as my secondary car, as my needs are a little to unpredictable for them. As for a daily runabout around the shops and commute, one would be ideal also. Horses for courses.

Thank goodness someone is prepared to tell the truth about EVs.

@ericdolby1622

11 ай бұрын

​@@vasil7410explain yourself. Do facts lie?

@robc9136

11 ай бұрын

​@@vasil7410lol

@mikafiltenborg7572

11 ай бұрын

The truth about EV's: Tesla model Y will be the most sold carmodel on planet Earth in year 2023 and year 2024. 😊

@mikafiltenborg7572

11 ай бұрын

​@@ericdolby1622Tesla model Y will be the most sold carmodel on planet Earth in year 2023 and year 2024 😊😊😊

@whocares264

11 ай бұрын

Yes, a totally unbiased petrol head ....

General public: Fuel prices are going through the roof, people are hurting!! Marie Ationette: Let them drive Teslas...

@buellterrier3596

11 ай бұрын

That’s exactly what former children‘s book writer now-turned-Finance minister of Germany said.

@dc14522

11 ай бұрын

As a three Tesla family I've got to laugh at your comment. While the nay-sayers and skeptics make patently dishonest arguments against EV's and keep paying for expensive gas, my family has been reaping the cost savings of driving electric for almost 5 years now. In other words, people are hurting from high fuel prices because of their own lack of critical thinking.

@frankguernier2280

11 ай бұрын

But ElecElec is also going through the roof and in Oz it's mostly coal fired. Sola panels are forcing kids and Weiga Adults to die in Africa and work as slaves I China. One wind turbine takes 80,000 kg of concrete for its base. Magnets are rare earth from Africa and the blades are balsa wood stripped from trees in the Amazon, coated with petroleum based plastic resins Again NOT RECYCLABLE. It's a disaster.

@schwarzwolfram7925

11 ай бұрын

@@dc14522 Five years? How are the batteries holding up? (Honest question)

@dc14522

11 ай бұрын

@@schwarzwolfram7925 my oldest EV is a long range Model 3 (2018) that’s at 99,800 miles. I gave it to my son about 3 months ago. At that time I estimated that it had lost maybe 5% of its range, although on a daily basis you don’t even notice. From what I’ve read, 1% per year is typical. BTW, the only maintenance I ever paid for (besides tire rotation/replacement) was about $200 to fix the trunk latch. I’ve also had the charge door opener replaced and ultrasonic sensors put back in place when I hit an object in the road. In both cases Tesla came to my house and fixed them for no charge. Also, tire replacements aren’t any more frequent than the Dodge Journey I used to drive. I really can’t exaggerate how terrific my cars, and the company, have been.

Hello, I was a mechanic for 40 years. This is ridiculous. Need another solution.

@SteveEddy-od7fb

23 күн бұрын

Yes me too I was a Ford dealership mechanic for years I'm now retired

I’m an EV owner, and I agree with most of what you’re saying. It’s a fun car and I live in Manitoba where most electricity is hydro, for whatever that is worth. One point you made about national energy security is what I think is quite important.

Great video, the truth about EVs is in public domain, The problem as ever is politicians.

@helend2790

11 ай бұрын

and the lying legacy brainwash media

@andrewthomas695

11 ай бұрын

Actually, the politicians are merely a manifestation of the populace, i.e., us. Blaming the politicians is really a cop out. Though if you'd replaced politicians with marketers, I'd have accepted that.

@Low760

11 ай бұрын

​@@andrewthomas695exactly. The pollies get on board after.

@cjg6364

11 ай бұрын

@@andrewthomas695 Actually, politics and politicians are at the center of most of the world's ills and evils. The heart of the problem is the populace belief that politicians and politics are a source of just, equitable, and efficient solutions to modern problems when they are nothing more than necessary evils to help keep peace in society.

@davidvanderklauw

11 ай бұрын

Voters are to blame.

keep it going John! From here in the US -- these fools plugging in their EV's don't understand what fuels make that electricity. Let alone what your deadass battery does in a landfill. God help our children since they are being programmed to not help themselves.

@marviwilson1853

11 ай бұрын

The change from the fossil fuel age to the electric age is a 100 year+ process. You fail to facto in clean fusion power.

@supercal333

11 ай бұрын

He's not advocating against batteries altogether. Listen to him unfiltered. Geez.

@justinstewart3248

10 ай бұрын

Lol yeah all the batteries will be in landfills. You’re right. There’s not already many recycling companies set up. Well just dump them in landfills and the ocean. And everyone know where their electricity comes from. The key is getting to a point where it doesn’t come from coal - and even when it does it’s STILL more efficient then an ICE car.

@ilovesuisse1

10 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t buy any car that the Chinese are involved in.

@user-mc7ez6lm4x

10 ай бұрын

So don't use EVs in US, move to Scandinavia, move to Australia, New Zealand, or WTF, why not Russia?

I’ve been driving an EV for a little over a year into a 2 year experiment. I’m going back to a gas car at the end. The EV doesn’t save me money or save the planet.

EV's should all have a sticker on the rear window stating...I am powered by Aussie Coal ...

I was always concerned by the environment and I always supported movements to save this planet, but after seeing all this environmental groups (that should know better) promoting the EVs as a solution for this planet I simply stopped to care. This planet is doomed by human stupidity and we can’t help…

@mjcapinto

11 ай бұрын

EV's provide a small contribution to the overall issue of climate crisis. I emphasize small as the biggest contributors are in agriculture, deforestation, fuel burning and even methane from permafrost melting. The biggest drive for EV's is that fossil fuels are going to end in decades, not centuries.

@bestduckyrblx2944

11 ай бұрын

@@mjcapintoThe true long term contribution is to manufacture less vehicles

@mjcapinto

11 ай бұрын

@@bestduckyrblx2944 Is true that we will have to collectively redefine the purpose and use of vehicles. Does that mean produce less? Perhaps.

@holeephuk

11 ай бұрын

Becouse this left green extremists,I stopped recycling. .

@mattjacomos2795

11 ай бұрын

don't forget all the wood burning cooking in the third world, what are THEY going to do?@@mjcapinto

Your EV series has been full of references and facts. Much appreciated!

@MelbourneHandyman

11 ай бұрын

Carbon is not the problem

@Michael.Chapman

10 ай бұрын

@@MelbourneHandyman Isn't the carbon cycle and generation of atmospheric carbon dioxide the target we hope to reduce? If not, we could end up like planet Venus which has had a runaway CO2 greenhouse effect for other reasons and the surface of which is now hot enough to melt lead.

@HarryCallahan72

10 ай бұрын

​​@@Michael.Chapmanat its surface Venus has a pressure 92 times that of Earth's surface pressure. It's 92 times denser, which is why it's so hot. Emissions aren't making our atmosphere denser.

@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217

10 ай бұрын

Thumbs up. CO2 is required for photosynthesis... it's plant food, takes up 0.04% of the atmosphere, it's a miracle molecule required for life on earth. @@MelbourneHandyman

@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217

10 ай бұрын

Thumbs up to you.@@HarryCallahan72

Great post John - you've brought up some excellent points. I bought a used Lexus 300H about 5 years ago - wasn't really looking for a hybrid, but the price was right. After driving this thing for 5 years and putting about 110K miles on it, I don't understand why everyone doesn't buy one over an EV or a regular ICE vehicle. Even with 150K total miles, I still average between 38-40 MPG - the non-hybrid ES 350 averages about 26-28. I really think hybrid technology is the way to go - I really don't see a downside. To be honest, the hybrid technology is integrated so well into the vehicle, I often forget it IS a hybrid. Amazing technology!

@joethi4981

10 ай бұрын

Hybrid is still requiring a battery that has stripped the ground of non renewable resources, but the same problem applies.

@michiel5160

10 ай бұрын

More complicated, thus more things that can break. Heavier, so more brake and tyre wear, worse handling. Battery. Those are the downsides.

@adamdixon2251

10 ай бұрын

Just bought a 250h. Fantastic cars. Brakes wearing out is a bit of bullshit as regen acts as braking offsetting the weight issue

@carltonlee5445

4 ай бұрын

A lightweight plug-in hybrid is the best solution. Distance is unlimited. Driving on a recharged small battery offers savings that an EV car will never provide. A small battery doesn't have the initial high pollution problems or the problems with pollution at the end of life. Note: Joethl4981. A small battery and a small amount of "stripped ground" is the best possible solution.

Recently did the calculations with my home solar panels. I have 18 panels and export 40 kWh per week when there is nobody at home. If I had a top model Tesla 3 with a flat battery and wanted to run the thing on purely renewable power (ie: that which I currently export to the grid) it would take 2 weeks to charge the thing up (assuming it was at home from 8am to 3pm when I am currently exporting to the grid). Given that most of my driving is during daylight hours, the only way I could give that "green electricity" to the car would be if it was stored in a battery, which costs $20,000 to install. Even with all that extra infrastructure cost (and fire risk), the best I could expect is to get 300km/week out of the car. I have concluded I am far more environmentally friendly if I continue to drive my 10 year old V8 Jaguar than to commission the building of a new electric car (with all the carbon footprint that entails) .... the Jag is also lighter on the tarmac than a new BEV.

@vannicrider7953

10 ай бұрын

$20,000?? I have a 33kw solar array and 8kwh battrey for £8600.

@M3au

10 ай бұрын

@@vannicrider7953 that’s about the same in AUD. A powerwall alone costs $12500AUD, let alone installation here.

@adamdixon2251

10 ай бұрын

​@@vannicrider7953which in Australia would equate to$20000

@ShevillMathers

9 ай бұрын

I’ll stay with my early model Mark2 Jaguar, the ‘chick magnet’ my better half calls it.😅

OMG, I just about spit my morning coffee onto the window of my truck. Your sarcastic humor is awesome. You may be based in Australia but your message resonates around the world. BTW, I'm from Canada and drive one of those carbon puking trucks you mentioned. I see these "TWATS" as you eloquently stated driving Teslas more and more. Our winters can be harsh. I'd like to know how much EXTRA electricity they are using just to keep running in the winter. Those cars have to stay running to keep the batteries from freezing. Plus the range decreases by at least 1/4. And don't get me started on the kobalt mining in desolate countries that are akin to labour camps. Sorry for the rant. Love you. I'll keep watching you. Your one of the to few who tell it like it is.

@-IE_it_yourself

11 ай бұрын

well just because they are not ok, doesn't mean you are ok. you are also driving something bigger then you need. i understand you need it (carbon puking trucks, as you put it) for work. but then dont drive it to the store or as a regular mode of transportation please.

Hit the nail on the head again. Significant point hidden in there was the trip to church. Most people don't go anywhere. Short commutes, shopping trips, local journeys mostly. EVs are great at making air in cities less polluted. EVs should be small, lightweight local vehicles, like golf carts. If it rains, fit the sidescreens, and wear another jumper.

@wiseoldfool

11 ай бұрын

No fuckin' way I'm going to do the 7-hour round trip to my nearest capital city in a fuckin' golf cart!

@willdsm08

11 ай бұрын

@@wiseoldfool Which part of "short commutes", and "local vehicles", didn't you understand?

@iliastsiphlidis4607

11 ай бұрын

Fully agree, EV became popular when they started going for performance rather than fit for purpose efficiency. The leaf never went anywhere because it was slow and small. We can’t save ourselves but the marketing makes us feel better….

@duncanbuchanan218

11 ай бұрын

MG3 / Kia Picanto sized EVs have a role if you dont ever need to use one to do more than 200kms at a time. That puts them into a "second car" class that will limit take up unless they are cheap.

@nigelcox1451

11 ай бұрын

@@remakeit2628 So 'You' are not 'Most'. As EVs are expensive, have hard suspension, despite having had heavy ICE cars for decades, and many have raised floors to accomodate the batteries, leaving rear seat passengers with their knees under their chin, i wonder what you have compared yours with, to declare it so much better than an equivalent priced ICE car.

Think you may deserve a noble award for this enlightening conversation. Taking houses of the grid is far easier and effective and convenient than stupid BEVs that no one really wants.

FACTS: Electirc is 77 percent efficient vs 20 percent efficient. It takes about 4 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy to produce 1 gallon of gasoline. The same energy moves a tesla about 16 miles down the road. Australia's renewable energy isn't close to many EU nations but it's on a strong growth curve, with about 33% coming from renewable sources in 2022. I have both an EV and a truck for traveling long distances and hauling things, it's a starting point, but once swappable energy sources and battery density increases I will go fully electric.

You are what this world needs, an individual who has the stones to lay it out minus the sugar coating. A wealth of information, experience, and a solid plan to make a positive impact. Thanks for all that you do, I hope our politicians are pushed out before it's too late.

@oldbatwit5102

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, get rid of all politicians. KZread and TikTok experts could take their place.

@dinosshed

11 ай бұрын

@oldbatwit5102 I think you're missing my point. We need politicians out and people who have a brain with desirable functions in.

@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217

10 ай бұрын

CO2 is plant food, w/o it, you die. Search for this article title on the net: *"Carbon dioxide isn’t a “pollutant” causing global warming, it’s the elixir of life itself"* Here's an excerpt; Without CO2, all plant life would die - which means all humans and animals would also die. CO2 is _plant food,_ after all, facilitating photosynthesis and the life cycle itself. Removing CO2 from the planet like the climate cultists are demanding would render the entire world _barren of life._ It would quickly become a wasteland marked with death and destruction - and would certainly not be a paradise. For the past several years, the corporate-controlled media, Leftist politicians, and members of the Church of Global Warming have been telling us all that CO2 is a "pollutant." Nothing could be further from the truth. _[Related: CO2 has absolutely nothing to do with global temperatures.]_ *"CO2 emissions from industrial processes of the last two centuries have been highly beneficial to plant growth,"* writes Vijay Jayaraj. *"Scientific studies show that CO2 has played a significant role in the re-greening of the earth after abnormally low CO2 levels had limited much of the planet's vegetation due to CO2 starvation."* The massive increase in food production over the past century, which allows for the feeding of eight billion people worldwide, would also not have been possible without CO2 - not to mention slightly warmer temperatures in some areas that are more suited for agriculture. Ironically enough, CO2 is also responsible for keeping the planet green, as in rich and lush with trees, fauna, and other plant life. Without CO2, the entire planet would be brown and barren. For all of their talk about embracing a "green" agenda, the greenies are fighting against the very things that actually keep the planet green in color. Talk about insanity. According to Scientific American, CO2 acts as a fertilizer to keep natural ecosystems intact. Forests, jungles, savannahs, tundra, and everything in between all rely on CO2 to thrive, keeping animals and humans alive as part of the food chain. Amazingly, increases in CO2 from the pre-industrial age until now have allowed for "increased trees" productivity of around 23 percent. This means that CO2 is actively greening the planet and making it more liveable. "For most of the other plants humans eat - including wheat, rice and soybeans - having higher CO2 will help them directly ... Doubling CO2 from pre-industrial levels does boost the productivity of crops like wheat by some 11.5 percent and of those such as corn by around 8.4 percent," says Francis Moore, a professor at the UC Davis. _[end of excerpt]._

Hi John, the issue isn't the free market (which is merely vestigial at this stage), it is the gross distortions of the market caused by "green" government policies.

@BensWorkshop

10 ай бұрын

Correct.

@FishFind3000

10 ай бұрын

Yep, can’t be a free market if your not free to make the choice. Government is forcing company’s to comply and we are left with no other options.

@6Sparx9

10 ай бұрын

When the aviation industry signs onto UN sustainable development goals, which seek to destroy the aviation industry by curtailing the amount of flights globally based on emissions quota, you know they are being subsidized not to provide the service which their very existence depended upon. Clear free market intervention.

@mrcontrarian1416

8 ай бұрын

Can you name one single “green” government policy causing distortions in the markets

@BensWorkshop

8 ай бұрын

@@mrcontrarian1416 You mean like subsidies for "renewable energy"?

In the 90's we saw Lindsay Fox do a deal with the govt which phased out rail transport of goods, favouring trucks to become the main method of transport. They even removed the rails on key transport links and turned them into bike paths, ensuring future govts could not afford to re instate the rail transport network. We now have the most expensive, inefficient and carbon heavy method of goods transport in Australia.

@c.s.charles2102

7 ай бұрын

I think that was done in the States too. I remember my grandfather told me, for we were working in a city where most of the train tracks were abandoned, that the railroads weren't needed anymore because the freight that they carried was transported by semi. Also, we used to have many railroad companies. Some were large corporations, like Union Pacific, and others were small and localized, like the Soo Line. In the 90's however, a few large companies merged into mega corporations (Burlington Northern and Santa Fe became BNSF, while Norfolk and Western and the Southern railroad became Norfolk Southern) and the preexisting major corporations, together with the newly merged BNSF and Norfolk Southern, bought out all of the smaller companies. So now the American railway systems are owned by no less than four corporations: UP, BNSF, NS, and CSX. I'm convinced that it was another move by the powers that be to consolidate all businesses under the control of the federal government. The railroad corporations are quite corrupt too. The tracks and equipment are not maintained the way they once were, and when an accident happens, like the recent Palestine, Ohio derailment, the corporations bribe the city and the press lie about the damage, while they use the most expedient methods to "clean up" the mess.

This was actually not as bad as the headline indicated. Luxury cars, oversized cars, EV or not, is of course never resourceful. Normal sized medium range EV with nickel and cobalt free batteries IS a win. Btw, all essential materials in all types of lithium batteries are 97% recyclable. Process is scaling as we speak.

I don’t care what anyone says about EVs. I love my EV and I use the very best kind. It’s called a Waratah, it’s about 150 metres long and steers like it’s on rails. I don’t even have to wear a seatbelt, and it goes well and truly faster than the road speed limit! It’s truly amazing and I’m super thankful that someone else is doing the driving.

Whenever I try to explain the exact same stuff to EV lovers, they just won't hear any of it. If these people were really wanting to save the planet, they wouldn't need their EV to go 0 to 60 in 3 seconds, which is pissing away huge amounts of power and tearing up the tires, which isn't needed. EVs should be made to be as economical as possible, not rich tw*t speed machines.

@hargeaux

11 ай бұрын

We live in a capitalist society. I hate it, but it's fact. Those super fast twat machines are more profitable than the sub $35k simple EV's we all want to buy, so they're the first to market. Not really much is an argument, unless cheap EV's never exist. And since they're already being sold elsewhere (there are sub $10k USD EV's being sold) you basically don't have an argument.

@mathewrussell1533

11 ай бұрын

Mainly because we don’t care what you have to say because we already know. I hate servos mechanics and car dealers with equal distain. Driving and ev 1500km a week allows me to avoid all 3 of them. All my cars leave me the same way. Which is on the back of a truck to be scrapped because I’ve driven the wheels off it. You can’t be “saving the planet” while also driving 80k a year in any kind of conveyance. But they fit me like a glove.

@ahkl77

11 ай бұрын

Never challenge an evangelist, it is exercise of stolen time.

@godfreypoon5148

11 ай бұрын

@@hargeauxIf you hate it, why don't you move somewhere more to your liking?

@Alvan81

11 ай бұрын

If we can't get behemoth engined hemi-cummings-trackstar😁 utes pickups to accept moderate 0-60 times, why would you think EV buyers should/would. Virtually nobody is willing to make tradeoffs.

As an early EV owner and believer, I agree, I love the performance, no smell comes out of tailpipe (no tailpipe), fewer parts to break down, and quiet operation. Since then I have done the research. Super expensive, current battery tech not good, range inadequate, charging time too long, AC/heating drains bettery, fire concern always worries me. The argument of C02, is stupid. C02 is not pollution. It is not what is causing warming. The sun is far more of a factor. C02 is at a historic low. In the past with much higher Co2 levels, it did not cause run away greenhouse effect. The science actually shows that warming drives C02 not the other way around. C02 is plant food. Plants thrive in more CO2 The whole idea of burning fuel remotely is better for the environment is also ridculous. They tried to ban gas stoves here, so you use natural gas to turn it into electricity, then transmit that electricity to the house, then convert it back into heat. That is pure insanity. The losses in conversion twice, the losses in transmitting it over electrical lines is not helpful. The grid can not handle all these cars charging. They haven't upgraded it in decades.

Bro you're seriously underrated and need more subs. Consider it an honour! Very eloquently put and this needs to be seen by those crazy environmental nutcases.

@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217

10 ай бұрын

One might be as eloquent as possible and one might be as sincere as possible, but one can be sincerely and still sincerely wrong, consider the below of where John get his argument fatally flawed wrong = intellectual suicide; *"What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition, of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2 the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison."* ~ Richard Lindzen, Ph.D. is an _[Alfred P. Sloan]_ Emeritus Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It leave me astounded almost to full silence how Ozzie John missed how CO2 is required for life on this earth, CO2 is part of photosynthesis. It's a miracle molecule taking up only 0.04% of the atmosphere. It's plant food, they take in CO2, then convert to O2/Oxygen we need to live also, it's called a reciprocal relationship with plants. We carbon based life.. Please consider the above quote, and the below also, the quote above is a decades truthful, forthright, honourable experientially, quality well learned scientist. I share this with you so that you might see it is indisputable overt science misinformation or in competence to feed one's viewers that CO2 is supposedly a pollutant and to believe it is proves immensely that such people who would believe that failed basic science class or they are huge liars getting super-rich off a super world scam. Here's more for you; *"Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming."* ---- *"The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism."* ---- *"I'm convinced that after years of studying the phenomenon, global warming is not the real issue of temperature. That is the issue of a new ideology or a new religion. A religion of climate change or a religion of global warming. This is a religion which tells us that the people are responsible for the current, very small increase in temperatures. And they should be punished."* --- *"The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles."* --- *"The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets."* ---- *"Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom."* ~ Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician, served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, and then as the first prime minister of the newly independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998. *"The oceans that surround the world produce 185 billion tons of CO2 per annum. *Man per annum only produces six billion tons, so what could possibly be the concern? One volcano puts out more toxix gases-one volcano-than man makes in a whole year.* And when you look at this "climate change," and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells."* ~ John Raese, American Businessman *"CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term."* ~ Joe Barton, _[R-Texas]_ GOP Congressman

The best thing for climate would be if the new car industry shutdown for 10-25 years and everyone just drove and maintained old cars. But money.

"Remote combustion is still combustion". I agree 100%. As a 'Strayan, I currently own a 5.7L V8 Commodore. It will continue to produce 4 tonnes of CO₂ every year. Every. Year. And nothing can possibly change that. The petrol that I'm burning is also forever gone: it's pumped out of the ground, converted to petrol, then burned to produce energy and pollution. The material dug up to produce batteries is merely incorporated into them; it's not "consumed" by the process. You can recover it, with the recycling that you dismissed as "not Government mandated". Soon, it will be economically mandated, so I'm not worried. According to your figures, if I change to an EV, then I will consume 30kg of CO₂ every charge - meaning I could charge 133 times in a year (once every 2½ days) to produce the same amount of CO₂. The. Same. Amount. And if the electricity producers change a coal-fired plant to a renewable plant, I will automatically produce less CO₂ - and fewer fugitive emissions too. The changeover to renewables has its problems, but the fact is that by centralising power generation and making it renewable, it improves everything - as long as you're not burning the fuel yourself.

@davidnobular9220

11 ай бұрын

I reckon they'll legislate you and your vehicle out of existence, unfortunately. By 2030 or 2035 at the latest.....

@paradiselost9946

11 ай бұрын

and keep this in mind... that same v8, come shtf... theres plenty of ways to keep it running... woodgas, start digging into all that landfill for plastic to melt down, coals abundant in nsw... good luck replacing ECUs and inverters and semiconductors with no grid, no internet, no schematics, no manuals, no idea how those stupid little epoxy encapsulated black boxes actually work... and everything you need to diagnose if you do know... doesnt work. or its a fecking jury rigged contraption that barely works cus suddenly you cant order parts... whereas strapping a makeshift dizzy to ANY engine, figuring out a spark, fuel... thats childs play. points... induction coils... weee. gunna be oxy torches around, workshops, old engines, belts... warehouses full of stuff if you can get to them... ffs, watch the thai guys make engines from old fridges. theres no reason it doesnt work. just an air compressor with fuel and spark. big deal. why you would bother though... prove a point? mad max all the way! ka choonk, ka choonk... bring it on. i know theres shale oil under me? maybe i should start drilling, lol. yeah, northwest sydney. has capped off oil wells. ;) its under there. lots of it. squeezed in beside all the coal... the future is bright! as long as we get a carrington event. screwed otherwise.

@johnadriaan8561

11 ай бұрын

@@davidnobular9220 The current suggested legislation is (paraphrased) "to prevent the sale of new ICE vehicles", to stop the demand on petrol into the future. They're not even beginning to suggest they'll prevent the sale of used cars - in the same way that they haven't prevented the sale of cars without seatbelts. Seatbelts were mandated decades ago, but you can still buy seatbelt-less vehicles precisely because they're classic/vintage. Again, I'm not worried.

@davidnobular9220

11 ай бұрын

@@johnadriaan8561 I hope you're right.

What about the ability of the electrical grid to charge all these EV's????

A, trucking operator I spoke to recently, who runs a fleet of around 20 prime movers, and his own workshop carting B-doubles around, mentioned the front axle load limit. 6 ton in Australia and to benefit electric trucks, 11 ton in the USA (on the same hardware) so they can carry more battery weight up forward. He has been speaking to a representative of Scania about it. Can't find a workable solution.

@grahamcampbell9261

11 ай бұрын

Tyres, brakes and kingpins are engineered to this limit. Add in the load spread amongst axles. Now add in load carrying capacity (reduced) and the need to spread the load differently to comply. Yeah, nah, not happening. EV trucks might work for uban deliveries but never heavy haulage over distances. Imagine how long you would be waiting to charge it at Bundaberg on the way to Cairns. Who is paying the downtime? LOL

@bentullett6068

11 ай бұрын

Seeing a few trucks trialling CNG gas or Natural gas as a fuel in the UK. Also the company who delivers for McDonald's run trucks with bio diesel from recycled cooking oil from the restaurants. All of these options are possibly suitable for long distance haulage vehicles.

@grahamcampbell9261

11 ай бұрын

@@bentullett6068 Unless you are McD - where do you get enough bio fuels? 40l per 100km or do you grow crops with scarce water and harvest with diesel tractors and process it in fossil fuel plants? EV's are only 'Green' because we ignore the manufacturing pollution

@grahamcampbell9261

11 ай бұрын

@charlesmartell4484 where does that 8,000kg come from? AH - reduced load capacity. Yeah. Why does Australia run road trains? more freight per truck/driver/capital cost

@terrydemol5354

11 ай бұрын

I'm presuming most of the battery weight is carried on the rear axles. Pepsi are beta testing 25 or so electric semis and the feedback has been very positive on most aspects from range to drive-ability etc. Apparently the drivers love ém.

It's a shame that LPG cars didn't become fully mainstream. My bicycle is my choice for commuting to work. My LPG car is great at long country drives and towing.

@bentullett6068

11 ай бұрын

It's starting to make a come back. Noticing that they are looking at LPG, CNG and Natural gas options for running trucks here in the UK. Passed a DAF truck the other day and noticed that the diesel fuel tank had been replaced with CNG gas tanks.

@kenwilliams3279

11 ай бұрын

​@bentullett6068 I had a triumph 2500TC that had been converted to CNG.... lols what an adventure that was!

@stusue9733

11 ай бұрын

@@kenwilliams3279 You say that like it wasn't an adventure on petrol.

@JReklis

11 ай бұрын

lpg is dearer than petrol in the regions.. and unfortunately a terrible long distance option unless yyou have multiple tanks, not all service stations sell gas and the pumps have issues in some weather conditions (you get a lot less gas for your money in hot weather and the pumps freeze in winter

@micktaylorwolfcreekmechanical

11 ай бұрын

My 33 year old Landcruiser has been on lpg for 31 years and still going like it was when new, its not very fuel efficient but I can guarantee you its better for the environment than any new ev

My wife and I say “sheeple” each time we see an EV on the road.

The big EV ponzie scheme...nailed it💯🎯

I live in a city where it seems every second car is new twin cab ute, SUV etc. with one passenger. If people cared there would be less of these and more 2nd hand Corollas. Love your work, but we are screwed.

Thanks for speaking out! I’ve been saying just this for the last couple of years!

Facts and Stats talk, but BS seems to get the most amount of traction. For most people sadly, they ain't going to learn these truths, but find out the hard painful expensive way whether it be through inconvenient charge range anxiety and lengthy wait times, expensive lengthy repairs, poor winter performance and the worst of them, run-away fire destroying possibly their house. You work incredibly hard in all your fact finding and calculations. Another true asset to the automotive world not getting what you deserve, but giving to the many others that are interested in the Auto World. ps, me ole camry wagon 5 spd 4 banger now on 454k km's and still going strong..... yes!!!

"Remote combustion is still combustion" is technically correct, but "remote combustion" at combined cycle plants is about twice as efficient as the average internal combustion engine. That difference matters, and it's something you should have mentioned, because people just stupidly assume that there's no difference between burning fossil fuels in a vehicle, and burning them at a power plant.

I run a 22 year old Honda CRV. Cost 3k, been running 2 years and still worth 3k. Now - about that EV. 60k divide by 10 years = $120 a week AND new pollution from making a new one every 10 years AND making new batteries every 7 years. Old cars make less pollution over their economic lifespan and are way cheaper per kilometer

@janstafford1490

11 ай бұрын

. . . and we need this sort of interjecting ad on mainstream tv like youtube interrupts the topic, or just fact cards like for like EV - ICE

@N1rOx

11 ай бұрын

What battery only lasted 7 years? The first gen 1 leafs are over a decade old now and are still running. They use a very outdated cell tech and chemistry too.

@wazza33racer

11 ай бұрын

Plus, there are new gasoline engines available that use 60% less fuel. They exist. EV's can never catch up to that.

@grahamcampbell9261

11 ай бұрын

​@@N1rOx NZ leafs are lasting 7 years. The replacement battery costs 8k on a car worth 7k. USA Teslas are 23k on a 21k car. The battery guarantee is 7 years (8 in the UK) and 160,000km. After that, they are uneconomic to replace. In the UK, any mildly serious accident = writeoff because the battery status is unknown. Then look at whole of life - In 20 years, 2 EVs, 2-3 batteries versus a 40k ICE that will do 260,000+km. Doesn't add up.

@grahamcampbell9261

11 ай бұрын

@@wazza33racer 40l/100km on new Scanias

As an atmospheric chemist I can tell you not all greenhouse emissions are equivalent. This is due to residence time. This is the time from birth to death (emission to sequestration) of a greenhouse gas. Water, the most prevalent greenhouse gas has a residence time of several days to several weeks in most instances. Carbon dioxide has a residence time of around 100 YEARS and methane has a residence time of around a decade. Methane emission from leaky land fills, old oil fields, and coal seams need to be sealed. The EV Chevy Hummer is an abomination at 5 tons. However, we can make light cars like a Tesla Model 3 that are very efficient (approx. 1Kw-hr for 8 km of travel). Using solar electricity at home can run your home electrical needs and change your EV. Your EV also becomes a battery for the grid. Also note that Nickel-Cobalt-Lithium batteries are on the way out. Lithium-Iron-Phosphate batteries are the most current large scale battery technology. Sodium batteries are just coming out and not based on Lithium. Tesla for instance is working on a iron-nitrogen magnet that is many times more powerful magnet than a rare earth magnet for their electrical motors. John your arguments are about Hollywood type influencers greenwashing their habits. For me having an energy efficient home, using solar, and in my instance wind energy as well, charging an EV overnight is the right thing to do. I think you are dead wrong on EVs and hopefully you will come around.

Brilliant. I'm not wasting my time trying to explain it anymore, i'll just Forward This Episode. Thanks J C...

Thanks John for confirming my thoughts on those vehicles. Even though the mines give out methane there are the machines that move and remove the overburden. One large bulldozer would most likely burn 600 or so liters, add in the dump trucks and the co2 gets stacked against electricity further, and I am not a fan of those dumb wind turbines that seem to have a short life. I have more of a tendency toward nuclear as the power stations presently using steam driven turbines are already there, all thats needed is a reactor to make steam, and bingo, away we go, but that won't work because there wouldn't be enough tax money wasted. Oh and someone will bring up Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, well things are very different now and don't say anything about Fukushima, all that area is on a fault line, Australia is in the middle of the plate. If they were serious this would not be an issue, but rockets keep flying to space, if they don't explode first, and bombs in Ukraine keep falling. It's all become a brainwashing exercise to the point of laughter.

Spot on, John. The fundamental issue is energy over consumption, regardless of the source of said energy. We are being sold a bill of goods, to the joy of car manufacturers who are salivating over the once in a generation opportunity to replace the entire fleet. In 20 years, people will be wondering why it didn't fix the problem.

@ehb403

11 ай бұрын

Wrong! It absolutely will NOT take 20 years; 1931 should do it. Europe will hopefully be even quicker to come to their senses.

@bobmcl2406

10 ай бұрын

@@ehb403 hmmm, well think about how long it took Europe to admit its massive blunder on diesels.....

@ehb403

10 ай бұрын

@@bobmcl2406 _True, they were a bit slow on that, but to be fair it was somewhat harder for average joe to see the scope of that blunder at first. We have friends in europe wondering why politicians weren't reacting to diesel pollution at the end, when it was obvious people were dying. I'm thinking THAT history will pressure a quicker response. IDK why otherwise seemingly intelligent U.S. politicians (like A.O.C. and president Biden) are pushing this idiotic E.V. craze; money? Remember, V.W. had the gall to complain that they weren't getting enough U.S. fuel mileage credit for cleaning up the air and money kept that idea afloat even though it was a blatant lie!

@sparks8934

10 ай бұрын

2031 I believe you meant.

@undermuscled7381

10 ай бұрын

I don't understand what you mean by "energy over consumption".

Brilliant! As an enginerd myself, I've been trying to get this message across for years. You just have such a perfect vocabulary, for a 'strailian, where you born there? Keep up the good work, now I have to like and sub!

Thanks for this John. Appreciated the construction of the argument. Absolutely love seeing intelligence at work. As a retired nurse with solar on the roof, battery storage, and a smaller EV I would agree with your condemnation of the huge battery EV offerings. Having read the comments here there are some who I am sure who did not grasp the nuance of the facts laid out and instead somehow stopped at "EVs are a fraud..." We need to do all the things and it bothers me too that some of the most consequential changes are not politically easy and keep being avoided or deferred. Thanks for calling out the bullshit m8!

Still working on my first ex wife John, 25 years of trying to convince her there are better options out there for her. Not only a poor husband but apparently a poor salesperson too.

@nidaldajani728

11 ай бұрын

😂😂. God bless!

@dxbmick

11 ай бұрын

I too have my future first ex-wife. After 30 years, she just won't leave.

@darylwalford8697

11 ай бұрын

LOL, you are just learning at only 30yrs, 49yrs for me with the same wife I married in 1974🙂@@dxbmick

@duncanbuchanan218

11 ай бұрын

I tried farting in bed, she still wont leave. Women are wierd.

The greenest car maker is the one who perfects vehicle to grid technology to allow the EV to soak up the surplus renewable energy around the middle of the day and allow it to go back into the grid at peak time at night. It may even provide more cash flow for the EV owner. There is an opportunity here for govt, electricity grids and car manufacturers to work together to allow the battery to be used for transport as well as to take houses off the grid. You don’t need to split the battery into 6, just allow it to discharge the battery into the grid at peak time.

Not only will EVs wipe out hundreds of thousands of jobs in the automobile manufacturing industry but they will decimate local economies too by wiping out many jobs in fuel transportation, gasoline and diesel sales, repair shops and almost all auto parts stores. Just imagine when there is no more demand for a mechanic because there are no more bad engine mounts, radiators, radiator hoses, heater hoses, engine coolant, mufflers, exhaust systems, drive shafts and U joints or CV joints, fan belts, serpentine belts, oil changes, transmission repairs, etc. What will all those mechanics do for a living? Will they all get jobs changing tires on EVs? Gas/petrol station jobs...gone! Automobile repair shops.....gone! Auto parts stores....gone! What will all those people do for a living?

@fj404

10 ай бұрын

that is the goal

A man after my own heart. You regale to the absurdity and hoodwinkery with aplomb. Unfortunately, the Leftwing/ Climate Crisis factories that purport to be educational establishments, are churning out these little zealots at an alarming rate. Well done though.. your oratory is an ode to being honest, forthright and sensible.

One aspect of EVs which I never see covered is the fact that gasoline is a byproduct of producing heavier hydrocarbons. You have to drive off the natural gasoline portion of the oil to get to the kerosene, diesel, bunker fuel etc. Depending on where the oil was produced, the fraction that is natural gasoline can be very high. So as long as we need the heavier fractions of the oil to be refined, we will get gasoline. This gasoline will be burned whether or not we ourselves burn it or export it to some other country.

@nigelliam153

11 ай бұрын

Great point

@ColinMill1

11 ай бұрын

@@ZREXER1250 This is exactly what happened with all the LPG that was coming out of the North Sea. It was flared off. It would have made sense to power cars with it (despite cylinder-head issues in some cases) but, thanks to lobbying from the European car manufacturers that had invested heavily in diesel engine development Gordon Brown was persuaded to bump up the tax on LPG and in so doing killed off the LPG initiative.

@-IE_it_yourself

11 ай бұрын

did you know when you are refining gasoline, the byproducts are kerosene, diesel and bunker oil. yeah, i need bunker oil, oh wow look at all the gasoline left over. we dont make ships with motors to burn bunker oil, me make bunker oil burn in ships. kerosene and diesel might not fit this example perfectly but i hope you see my point. like all chemical reaction these can be studied both ways.

@finalmckinney4680

10 ай бұрын

@@ColinMill1 we have virtually unlimited LPG in Ireland but our WEF guys in charge recon its best environmentally to leave it and import oil and litter the country with the white elephant windy things

@ColinMill1

10 ай бұрын

@@finalmckinney4680 Yes, it makes you wonder who is passing how much cash to who and in what sized envelopes.

I should generate a QR code link to this. Print it, and hand it to all the Tesla and various other EV owners I get up here in Babylon by the sea. (Byron Bay, catch up). I was astounded at how ordinary the EQA 250 was that I towed on the weekend. $90k odd. Seems to be a $30k whack on top of a GLA for slightly less convenience. Or you could get an EV6 for less.

Dont park your EV fire-trap in my condominium.....or else!

You are so correct. I love your phrase “ Remote combustion vehicle”. So many of these EV zealots refused to admit it. Even the ones who say they charge “off the grid” refuse to admit that it took grid power to build their wind or solar system and the batteries it takes to make them work. Also it will take grid power to repair or replace failed components or systems. Then take grid power to try to recycle or dispose of any failed components. Any type of energy production has a cost, both monetarily and environmentally. Currently no one source is the answer. It needs to be a balance of all sources. 😊😊

I still want to know what is going to be done about limiting the environmental damage of dead lithium batteries, once the virtue signallers have finished with them. Product life cycle is about from the ground and back to it, and from a climate impact perspective I am not convinced about any of this.

Superb essay John. *Remote combustion vehicle* - nail on the head! It will never be efficient to burn fuel remotely from where you need it. The EV has a place, but not in the the recyclable product bin. My fear is EV batteries will become the new asbestos in about 10 years when ICE cars are banned. So ordinary people are effectively imprisoned in their 15 minute cities. As we won’t have cars. At all.

@nosferatut9084

11 ай бұрын

Correction. 15 minute GULAGS.

@mikemoore5929

11 ай бұрын

Mate you are bang on , that is exactly the plan these evil twats have for us shitkickers .

@spiritinthesky572

10 ай бұрын

And maybe that's the plan come to think of it.

@kylebeetham3679

10 ай бұрын

EV batteries are required to be recyclable by law, the components are valuable. CO2, NOX, CO are our new asbestos and these come from shitty inefficient toxic internal combustion vehicles

@hsuccop

10 ай бұрын

External Combustion Engines vs ICE. One requires extra long wires.

My issue with EVs are not that they are inherently bad, per se. It's the fact that not only have people been misled about not only the batteries, but also about the infrastructure needed to get these battery charging places to work in extreme weather changes, such as the heat of summer and the cold of winter. In Colorado, for example, during the winter, a man with a Rivian truck went out in the middle of the night, in the middle of winter, and found that more than 15 chargers had issues where they intermittently worked, or not at all. And this was sampling of over 20 chargers by different manufacturers. The main issue? The power cables would become stiff, and the actual charging connectors wouldn't connect electrically to his Rivian. The other thing is lithium itself. We only have about 50-80 years' worth of raw lithium left, globally. That being said, I still don't understand why fossil fuels are so denigrated, when both fracking and carbon capture, along with synthesizing fuels, has become a lot more common. Even algae eating garbage produces pure diesel fuel. Regardless, the only way EV costs will come down is not because of manufacturing processes, but rather will come down when much more common materials are used for battery packs in cars. Two of the most common materials on Earth is zinc and chlorine -- and Gulf & Western Industries in the 1970s was creating then battery packs for cars (three classes of vehicles), as well as power sub-station locations. While not producing all that many units, they did demonstrate proof of concept, using a battery pack in a 1970s Volkswagen Rabbit. The point is, unless battery packs are using common materials, with power produced from nuclear power plants or hydro plants, EVs will continue to be a novelty, as they were in the early 1900s. Retired American late-night TV show host Jay Leno has examples from all three power sources in the early 1900s: Gas, steam (Stanley Steemer), and EVs (he has a 1908 EV). Gas-powered cars won the Car War back then, because of its convenience coupled with energy density. But at the same time, enivironmentalists have to realize: Energy, like anything else in life, requires a trade-off. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. And no matter how you get it, you'll always have losses. These things are facts, and are irrefutable. Because you cannot get out of a system more energy than you put in. The most you can get out of a system is what you put in. And in order to have an EV society, these things must be taken into account, no different than Power-to-Weight Ratio (PWR) is for fuel efficiency now.

How true, I couldn’t understand the entire advertising. What happens to the used and non rechargeable batteries ?

The assertion consistently made by EV zealots that "battery technology is in its infancy", and their childlike faith that a magical "new battery technology" is just around the corner is frankly pathetic.

Nothing shouts, “efficiency“, quite like ~3000kg of SUV moving ~150kg of humans, and their gear, to school…

@theairstig9164

11 ай бұрын

Must be primary school aged. Mine walk or cycle

It takes the focus and responsibility off the real culprits for climate change - corporations.

Started a degree doing environmental studies conservation etc. as couldn't see how we were going to get over fossil fuel. Half way realised the whole thing was a crockand that the only renewable solution was trees....not electricity. This guy is spot on.

I'm in the UK and was talking to an Australian recently. When I brought up the Australian electricity production from coal, he corrected me saying that it's mostly renewable. He genuinely believes this, so someone is doing a very good greenwashing job down there. Oh by the way, he lives in Canberra!

@hargeaux

11 ай бұрын

Well, sure. Australia wide our grid is largely fed by coal still, but the ACT (and Tasmania) are completely fed by renewables. ACT is the home territory of Canberra. Again, admittedly, the ACT is a bit of accounting spin (they buy renewable energy generated elsewhere on the eastern grid, not necessarily generated within the ACT) but it's absolutely true that they are paying for renewable energy. That's probably what they were thinking.

@sahhull

11 ай бұрын

At one point... It was cheaper to import coal to the UK from Australia than it was digging out of the ground at Kellingley colliery, UK

@danielstapler4315

11 ай бұрын

50% of electricity in Australia comes from coal. 29% from renewables and that percentage is increasing.

@stusue9733

11 ай бұрын

@@hargeaux " but the ACT (and Tasmania) are completely fed by renewables." You left out the "on average" part. plenty of time there is coal being burnt to keep the lights on in ACT.

@ralphtoivonen2071

11 ай бұрын

Well the ACT is 100% renewable energy driven unlike other states and territories.

I've never clicked on a video and liked it so bloody fast! Thank god someone has said it! I've always felt EV's were just a big con, for wealthy people to brag to their wealthy mates that they care about the environment.

@phoenixrising7047

11 ай бұрын

Thank God? Thank John.

@skyline3694

11 ай бұрын

@@phoenixrising7047 Same person aren't they ;)

@XenonJohnD

11 ай бұрын

No, it is simple economics. I have never heard any EV driver bragging about how green they are. You never buy any petrol. Some EV's require almost no servicing. They cost peanuts to run if you use low cost electricity to charge overnight. Purchase costs are coming down, an MG4 is about the same as a base model VW Golf (all cars are expensive these days). Range around 300 miles now common. 20x less likely to catch fire than an ICE car per 100K miles driven, 10 yrs+ data supports this. Latest battery chemistries have no cobalt (as if you ever cared about that when it was being used to refine petrol and diesel). Batteries now expected to outlive the life of the car and even then they retain about 70% of capacity when new so starting to be used as grid storage. Electricity will eventually be really cheap so everything will move in this direction due to simple economics. Your feelings are irrelevant, economics drive everything. Also very useful not to be dependent on oil from very dodgy countries who can hold you to ransom at any time. Less city pollution highly desirable too. 1 in 8 people with lung cancer have never smoked.

@robertbrook1658

11 ай бұрын

EVs are mainly suitable for short journeys and light weight vehicles

I can’t see how EV will work in Australia ,there are enormous distances to travel on long distances,and I doubt if there are electricity sources everywhere,and to be stuck out in the middle of nowhere with a dead battery,can be life threatening .Also I wonder how long those batteries are going to last,and what is going to be done with all the old ones.

please keep educate those innocent & saving the world 1 video @ a time; that's why I subscribed you!

I know this has been said before, quite possibly by myself, but having a small EV for day to day running around (even an early Nissan LEAF @24kWh) doing short runs like most of us acutally do, and another car for 'other' driving jobs is going go work out better. A PHEV is like two cars at the same time while only actually having one. One purchase, one insurance, one rego, one Warrant of Fitness (WoF-NZ) or what you might call it, one parking space, one place to keep all the crap you keep in your car, etc. And the 12 to 20 kWh battery is going to allow many more of them to be built than the 100plus kWh monsters currently being pushed on the range anxious wankers with too much money to burn

@ahkl77

11 ай бұрын

Though one might have to deal with pricing at the bowser like they would with variable bank loan interest rates every time…

@ColinMill1

11 ай бұрын

Here in the UK there is certainly a breed of pure EVangelist who treats the PHEV owner like a bad smell, as if they are some kind of traitor to the cause. Pointing out that the PHEV owner is probably making better use of the available battery capacity than the pure EV owner does not go down well with them.

@nigelb6262

11 ай бұрын

If you have the charging facilities - many units don't - then maybe a good idea, but very heavy and very expensive to buy. Mild hybrids seem to be the way to go - electric assist. Nissan E power, Alfa Tonale and Haval H6

If I fart whilst driving an EV, is that a zero emission trip?

@lukeclifton4392

11 ай бұрын

Probably not… Next thing, they’ll have Red Seaweed dispensers attached to EV chargers!!😂😂 The stuff they give to cattle to reduce methane.

@javelinXH992

11 ай бұрын

Maybe if you have a carbon filter fitted.

@malcolmwolfgram7414

3 ай бұрын

If nobody hears, no emissions take place.

Well said. Most people still haven't grasped the purpose of EVs and "renewables". That purpose isn't to save our climate from collapse. The purpose is to save the prime directive from any potential harm coming from any actions that might result from our concerns about our climate collapsing. The prime directive is of course "thou shalt maintain eternal economic growth". EVs and "renewables" are devices for diverting any will we might have to address climate collapse into tangible symbols of our virtue which, rather than posing any threat to the prime directive, create new impetus for industrial growth.

I don’t always agree with John assessments,but absolutely 100 % behind his assessment on the EV con. I personally would never own an EV and not convinced by anyone who’s trying to sell these EV cons. We could be investing in CO2 sinks such as industrial hemp,which not only make bio fuels , but another 1537 products from a plant that including building materials which are fire retardant and 100percent renewable as the plant regenerates and uses 40 % less water and grows in 90 day cycles. Henry Ford made a car out of and ran it on industrial hemp product in 1942. This would work and current tech ICE cars wouldn’t need to change anything to run this fuel. New cars could also made out this material and lighter and stronger therefore more fuel efficient. Why aren’t these green types looking at a real answer to so called CO2 threat and a boost for our rural economy boost and putting subsidies to farmers to take up this crop as addition to their current crop production. The beauty of Industrial hemp is that it can grow just about anywhere and actually rejuvenates the soil. Our WEF puppet government is a fraud and paid by frauds and both major parties need a clean out of these frauds.

Battery life; tell me if you walked into a dealership and were told "the engine will last (maybe) up to 10 years, then you'll replace it at your own cost, to the tune of somewhere between USD 8k and 50k". You'd 180 out of that showroom. But that's what consumers are being sold. oh, and you can be responsible for "recycling" the old battery pack, at own cost. It's no wonder they push leasing on ignorant trend followers.

Brilliant John, loved it … no beating around the bush like always 👍😉

buying a used EV like a Nissan Leaf has much lower total cost of ownership and past emissions to make it have been partially paid off by first owners... many of us have solar with a battery on our house which can at least in theory charge the old Nissan Leaf for a few hours during sunshine ... in this senario the Green Zero Emissions Electric Dream is very much a real thing

Battery-electric cars suffer from one, and only one problem: *Batteries store no electricity whatsoever.*

I’m going to disappoint you: I totally agree with you :-). Let’s hope at least a few people will understand the EV scam

If an EV could fully charge in 5 minutes, I maybe interested in one.

@whocares264

11 ай бұрын

or you could just charge it at night when electricity is cheap and you are sleeping

@RandomNoob

11 ай бұрын

Depends on the circumstances, I spend far less time "refueling" my EV than I ever did with liquid fuel simply because it's at home, get home and push a plug in takes all of 5 seconds I don't care after that because I am already at home. No longer do I need to detour every week and stand there for 5 mins waiting when I can be at home already.

@stuarthirsch

11 ай бұрын

Microcars and subcompact EVs are great if your major travel is limited range and limited speed applications. Smaller batteries that charge more quickly, cost less , and require less maintenance than ICE engines, and have no exhaust or noise. I would buy one at a reasonable price and use it for around town errand running. It would probably be cheaper to put the mileage on it than my larger ICE vehicle. I would keep my ICE vehicle for my main vehicle. I am under no illusion that I am going to "save the planet" by going EV nor do I want to virtue signal.

@dabrab

11 ай бұрын

Or complete the 400 mile journey I do several times a year without the need to charge up - and do the first half of it in a Scottish winter (lights on, heater and wipers on max!)

@SunRise-ul7ko

11 ай бұрын

@@dabrab Unfortunately 400 miles is not going to cut it in Australia. 3 or 4 times a year I drive out of Sydney & do around 1,300 klm in a day just by myself. I no people who drive upto 2,000 klm in a day when they share the driving. With limited fast charging infestructure outside big cities, these trips are impossible to do.

EV costs will start going up because the governments will want the money they get from owners of ICE vehicles now, through fuel taxes (now 49.6 cents a litre) to pay for roads and maintenance. Governments will have to be charging EV owners somehow, perhaps through taxing cost per kilometre, to cover the costs of roadworks and infrastructure.

agree 100% we are a couple of decades away from it working if it ever does am not convinced they will ever be practical don't think it will ever work for long haul trucks

Thanks for another great clip John. Please keep up your great work. On a daily average our 11KWH solar panels generate 50KWH. We use 8 KWH and export 42KWH into the grid (we get fuck all for them). We are more than doing our bit for Climate Change. I am not planning to buy an EV anytime soon. Lithium fires , inferior range, long charge time and scarce charging stations are all BIG EV NEGATIVES

@simoncrooke1644

11 ай бұрын

11kW panels, I think you'll find.

I've been a software developer for logistic companies in the EU for a very long time and can tell you that they are VERY concerned about the amount of fuel used. Not because of CO2 (unofficially) but rather the massive fuel cost savings they can make on educating drivers in a fuel-efficient driving style. I have implemented a bunch of such software just for that reason. There are even scoring boards for companies where the winning company each year has a lot to gain by saying they are the most fuel efficient company.

@thomasclayton169

11 ай бұрын

A good idea should be teaching that to the general public as well. I see non green stupidity every day binary stop / start driving with no in between. I read the traffic ahead and roll to a stop whenever possible or at least to a safe speed without holding people up. Does wonders driving a commodore large car (2013 vf sv6) with long term fuel averaging slightly less than 10 litres per hundred with a 2/3 mix of suburban and freeway driving using 98 ULP plus at 180,000 km I’ve only done one set of brake pads and still on factory rotors hope to crack 250,000 km at least. Surely keeping my car maintained and not scrapping it for a Tesla I’m doing what I can for my carbon footprint.

@partymanau

11 ай бұрын

Fix roads for max flow and less stop/idle time, synchronize traffic lights, encourage online work, sales and education. that would take more cars off the road than anything else. This EV thing is crap.

@duncanbuchanan218

11 ай бұрын

If you have a fleet & want to save money run some fuel efficient driver training AND competitions with prizes for most fuel efficient drivers. If you can get depots competeing it gets better, we all like to be on a winning team...

@JP-cy1lw

11 ай бұрын

@@thomasclayton169Please, Miles and Gallons make more sense to the bulk of viewers on here who are in the USA and UK.

@MrPzyt

11 ай бұрын

@@partymanau In my city of Warsaw, in Poland those governing idiots do exactly the opposite. They remake streets to be narrower hoping to force people to switch to a public transport. However its ultimate result is never-ending, barely moving, air polluting traffic jam.

There are several reasons why I am not sold on EV’s. 1) The cost. At $60k it put the affordability for the vehicle out of the range of most middle and lower class citizens. 2) The time it takes to recharge the battery. With an average recharging time of 20 minutes and not enough recharging stations in popular or isolated areas. You could be awhile waiting your turn. 3) Replacing the battery is very expensive. Probably costing more than market value of used EV. 4) There is the lack of available electricity during the summer months because of lack of investment into utilities infrastructure. 5) Lithium batteries do work well in very cold or very hot climates.

Great stuff Bud🎉

One thing not taken into account is all the charging stations being installed around the places, these use resources and produce emissions to manufacture. Some will also have solar/battery storage systems installed for that extra green tick. What a great combo to have next to each other - petrol station and a battery storage system charging an EV. What could ever go bad in that situation.

@MrRobertjusher

10 ай бұрын

Once a gas station closes the land is useless due to soil contamination, for ever. Can recycle a battery Can't recycle gas

I just see EV's as soulless appliances. Plus judging by the depreciation values here in the UK if you have a battery fault its just like a appliance throw it away and buy another.

@machinehead6892

11 ай бұрын

That is exactly what the manufactures are counting on, throw it away and buy another one...how green it that huh!

@bentullett6068

11 ай бұрын

@@machinehead6892 plus some will throw them away quicker as they won't have the latest fashion accessory car with the new gizmos to show off to their friends.

@sailingoctopus1

11 ай бұрын

I have a ten year old EV and let me assure you it has bags of character. I smile whenever I look at it. It's a somewhat quirky Peugeot Ion, which is a Peugeot branded Mitsubishi i-MiEV - a Japanese Kei Car, designed for crowded Japanese cities, so it is tall, narrow and long. It is equally suitable for the narrow, twisty and hilly roads in this part of Scotland. I'll concede that many EVs seem soulless, because they've been designed in a wind tunnel, because aerodynamics determine range more than almost anything else. However, as battery technology advances the range constraint will cease to be relevant and so aerodynamics will become less important. The Nio ES6 launching soon will have solid state batteries that give a range of 930 km, which is more than almost anyone will need. It's only a matter of time before these solid state batteries give rise to a whole generation of funky new designs. No doubt you think that the noise made by an internal combustion engine is important to the soul of the car, but I found that it was amazing how quickly I stopped missing the noise. I think soul is whatever we want it to be. Kids learning to drive in modern electric cars will see soul very differently to our generation.

@happyjoyjoy6976

11 ай бұрын

have they found a way to 100& recycle the batteries yet? @@sailingoctopus1

Another GREAT episode. Many thanks. You're really on top of your game today.

Excellent brilliant and eloquently delivered.

Rule of thumb - WHENEVER politicians or the government push an agenda, something is wrong and it needs to be quesrioned.

@malcolmwolfgram7414

3 ай бұрын

Totally. Its the Bovine Equalization Law. The level of bullshit is equal to the amount of political involvement.

I would pay thousands to sit at a dinner table with you and Jeff Buys Cars, and listen to the banter❤😂

@AutoExpertJC

11 ай бұрын

For 'thousands' I'm in.

@alihenderson5910

11 ай бұрын

That could be epic, because I'm sure Jeff doesn't buy into the 'climate catastrophe' lies, like John does.

@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars

11 ай бұрын

@@alihenderson5910 Buy-in is irrelevant. The scientific community says it's a fact.

@ThanhNguyen-ds1kl

11 ай бұрын

​@@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars The "scientific community" also once told us the earth was the centre of the universe...

@alihenderson5910

11 ай бұрын

@@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars The 'scientific community' says whatever it's paymasters tell it to say. Keep boosting, you know it makes sense.

Dude, this is by far my favourite video of yours 👍 Somehow we need it to go viral.

@nigelliam153

11 ай бұрын

Here's a start. Climate change is 0.2 deg C of global Cooling since 900AD. Choosing the end of the little ice age which is one of the coldest periods in the holicene as normal is just a political agenda.

This is just unreal.. Thanks so much for the information 👌

This should be compulsory viewing at Australian parliament, Every politician has to turn up and watch the entire video, Well done John. I thought I was pretty up to date on the EV Bullshittery but I learned a few extra details off you in this video.

@jeremyradford5103

11 ай бұрын

I would try some alternative sources if you want real information about electric vehicles. This guy sucks and is talking out of his rear end..

Always love your commentary! I live in a small town in Kentucky and the only charging stations are for teslas. Anything else you have to drive 100 KM to Louisville for a fill up. If you have the “three pronged suppository “ you have to take it to the dealer for a charge. At least in this part of the world EVs are expensive and inconvenient.

@shiningirisheyes

11 ай бұрын

Thanks but I won't have battery in my home if it caught fire and I lived I could become head in the bed because cobalt made me a crippled gimp for life😮

@BlackhawkPilot

11 ай бұрын

I own a TPS BEV and every time I go to the dealer in the Portland OR area 22:56 the dealer is using the EV and handicapped parking stalls for their vehicles. I complain and they say they will fix it, but it never happened in the eight years of Mercedes BEV ownership.

@vintagehaynesflute

11 ай бұрын

@@shiningirisheyes well being a retired teacher I will NEVER be able to afford one anyway

@stevencooper2339

11 ай бұрын

Every household multiple power points capable of charging an EV. Even with the USAs 120 volts you can still get 60 miles of range overnight which more than covers the average 30 miles per day.

@stevencooper2339

11 ай бұрын

@@phillipbanes5484 I am not saying that EVs are suitable for everyone but they are a good solution for a large proportion of people who have off street parking & do the average commute of 40 miles per day (your number). Of course there are exceptions like someone who wants to tow a 5 ton van 500 miles uphill every day but that's a very small proportion. I do uber & happily charge my car at home & do on average 200 miles per day.

When will someone state the obvious! Consumerism is the issue. Why does everyone need a new car ,phone every year .

@richloves46

11 ай бұрын

Correct and value chains that are carbon intensive. For example, not many people think about the carbon to get bananas grown in Panama to a supermarket in Germany.

@thetombuck

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. We don't need so many new cars. The green option is to buy used and drive em into the ground.

@CA999

11 ай бұрын

"Planned Obsolescence"?

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

11 ай бұрын

​@@CA999 Not a thing in the vast majority of cases. While many brands are boneheaded about making their products repairable, the "products built to last" back in the day were huge expenditures that required family savings, while nowadays people demand cheaper prices but also stylish design. If people were willing to pay more for clunkier and more expensive products brands wouldn't have switched to efficient production with minimum viable product.

Thank you I’ve tried to speak with these people however, they don’t want to get it

Bang on. Why can this not be understood on the world stage? JC for World PM.

Thank you John, great to hear truth for a change. Inconvenient as it is.