This New Electric Car Has No Battery and Shakes Up the Entire Car Industry

SPC Lyle Montgomery I remember talking with a Earth First 'activist' once about how we needed to transition away from oil and oil based products. This was as he handed me a printed flyer. I looked at him (could have been a her, it was hard to tell. I really had to go by smell) and said then you'll need to give up your computer and your printer first for me to believe you're committed. He said he couldn't do that and asked whyI said those two items. I said they are encased in oil-based plastics. Not to mention the materials mined from the earth. You'd have thought I shot him as I don't believe he had a clue where, or how, his computer was made and of what. That was in the late 1990's and I still laugh about destroying his beliefs.

LTC Trent Klug - I would have enjoyed being a by-stander for that conversation. I guess there aren't very many liberals who understand where paper and plastic come from, or how prevalent plastic is in all of human society. Chairs, clothes, window frames, TV's, game consoles..... The list is practically endless. And yes. There has been a massive reduction in paper products, but we still use paper. Some of the absolute worst culprits are the producers of "junk mail". I remember a story in the news on TV....back in the late 80's(?)....where a citizen collected every piece of junk mail he received for one, solid year. At the end of the year, he had enough junk mail to fill up a standard, average, dump truck!!!!! And I would hazard a guess that the situation is still almost that bad.....judging by how much junk mail I get in my mail box. How about the rest of you?????

Cpl Jason Lang I'm awash in junk mail.

MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. - Makes me wonder how bad the junk mail is in other countries. Anyway.... I've seen articles in the news [recently] where authorities in the automotive world STILL feel that Hydrogen is the answer, because it produces water when used in an ICE engine.

Oh. Another negative to EV's that someone recently reminded me of, that fans of EV's never want to acknowledge, is the damage to roads and tires and suspensions because EV's are so much heavier than gas powered cars. In other words, those batteries are VERY, heavy!!!!!!!!!!......in addition to all the other negatives.....that EV fans never want to acknowledge.

CPL Lang,
I once worked on a remote sensor program for the Army and batteries were one of our big problems. Normal alkaline batteries lose power quickly in very hot or very cold conditions. Using the alkaline batteries would mean breaking a hide position once or twice a day to replace batteries. That would be a very bad thing. And the replacement batteries in the meantime would have to be kept warm or cool, or they would die as well from the temperature. Other type batteries explode or catch fire when they get wet. Some other batteries have stable power supply profiles in extreme temperatures, but their energy density isn't enough to last for the required time period. It was a huge headache that had people yelling at one another. On one occasion a Navy SEAL O-6 called me several unpleasant names because I showed him tech data that the new sensor system he wanted to buy would not work in the places he needed to use it. And these were issues involving small handheld sensors. The power demand problems get really huge when you need to power a multi-thousand pound EV. As you have pointed out very thoroughly, there are a bunch of power-related issues that our "climate change" brethren haven't thought through or simply don't don't understand.

MAJ Hugh Blanchard - I realize that the quote I'm about to quote might not necessarily apply to all democrats, but our conversation would probably have inspired Rush Limbaugh to [again] say: "They're too stupid to know how stupid they are."

MAJ Hugh Blanchard - Oh. I also have experience with, (albeit, small), batteries in reference to working on NVG's, and other flight gear, and we experienced a lot of the same problems you describe.

MAJ Hugh Blanchard - When I was at Irwin as one of the Opfor, we would get 9 volt batteries for our MILES that had got wet and were swollen to the point that the cases were right at the bursting point. Over the years I saw many batteries for prick-77's that were unusable because they had got wet. I just hope we don't have to fight another war like we did in WW2, Korea, or Vietnam, we would be in a world of hurt.

Ahahaha. Thanks for that.

ROFLMAO.