I can't tell you how many times gasoline-powered cars have broken down on my roadtrips - an experience that most can probably relate to... Those very parts that constantly break down are non-existent on electric cars.
Submariners do patrols often lasting many months at levels of CO2 up to 20 times normal atmospheric levels with (to date) no recorded ill effects whatsoever
You need better cars, or lessons about maintenance.
I think he buys very cheap cars, never maintains them and then complain when they fail.
:mrgreen:
I will suggest that most people who got into them in the first place didn't need the range or frequency of use that most car owners have. Now if this was forced on the population in general, I think the No's would be in that 90+% range with the current technology.
Another climate change thread. OK.
First off let me say most people are completely mistaken as to what climate change really is. And I really don't have the time or the inclination to make a huge post educating anyone, so in the most simplistic of terms:
Ice core samples have shown that approximately every 150,000 years the Earth peaks then cools. Then peaks, then cools. And so forth.
The Earth is not getting hotter.
It's peaked.
The temperature is not increasing it's just not getting cooler. Think of it like an ice cube slowing melting at room temperature rather than in an oven.
The problem is we should be in the cooling trend. We are not, we are still peaking.
This clearly is caused by the rapid increase in population and manufacturing.
How long we stay peaking will determine things like glacier melting ( see ice cube above ).
The heating rate that we are seeing today is unprecedented. See this link...
Interactive: Climate time machine – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
This color-coded map shows a progression of changing global surface temperatures since 1884. Dark blue indicates areas cooler than average. Dark red indicates areas warmer than average.
Data source: NASA/GISS
Credit: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Technology progresses in acceptable stages based on demand.Is your gas tank full of these fuels yet? My electric car is ready to go!
The heating rate that we are seeing today is unprecedented. See this link...
Interactive: Climate time machine – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
This color-coded map shows a progression of changing global surface temperatures since 1884. Dark blue indicates areas cooler than average. Dark red indicates areas warmer than average.
Data source: NASA/GISS
Credit: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Sure. So much better that it's no longer being made.
Hey ... given that post I can re-ask what I asked you earlier on this thread before you ran off.
Regarding your thread title "Global temperatures in March were second hottest on record" ... how long is that record? Should you answer, why would that short amount of time be significant?
Considering that it continued through April, which was the 2nd hottest April on record, eventually these trends become significant. Consider that it is occurring year-after-year is even more significant.
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But the key is that it is no longer being made to focus on 100% electric vehicles. Yeah Baby!!!
Not true. Focus is on trucks and SUV's.
Considering that it continued through April, which was the 2nd hottest April on record, eventually these trends become significant. Consider that it is occurring year-after-year is even more significant.
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You avoided the question again.
How long is the record?
Your post at #309 had the answer.
So I ask again, does fewer than 150 years seem like a very long record to you considering the earth's life span of over 4 billion years?
You can shorten it a whole lot from billions but it still wouldn't make 150 years a significant record or one defensible as alarming.
Would it?
I'll go with what the company spokesperson stated...
GM kills the Chevy Volt, shuts down factories, but accelerates EV investment - Electrek
They now say that they will prioritize “investments in its next-generation battery-electric architectures”:
“GM now intends to prioritize future vehicle investments in its next-generation battery-electric architectures. As the current vehicle portfolio is optimized, it is expected that more than 75 percent of GM’s global sales volume will come from five vehicle architectures by early next decade.”
CEO Mary Barra said that it would result in doubling the company’s investment in electric vehicles and self-driving technology.
Last year, the company announced several new electric vehicles to launch in the next few years, including 5 crossovers, 2 minivans, 7 SUVs, and more.
Considering that it continued through April, which was the 2nd hottest April on record, eventually these trends become significant. Consider that it is occurring year-after-year is even more significant.
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His question still stands. Why has such a short duration record have any significance whatsoever in the great scheme of things ?
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Oct 15, 2018 - "They only make money on pickup trucks and SUVs. ... For example, one of the options consumers can select on the 2019 model of GM's best-selling Silverado pickup truck is a smaller turbocharged engine, which at 20 mpg city fuel economy is 13 percent more efficient than the larger engine it is replacing.
In 15 years, you won't be able to give away a used gas vehicle. Meanwhile folks will be charging their EVs from the sun...
I doubt that very much.
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