GOOD Transparency: Electric Vehicles Video

Electric cars are coming. But how much do you really know about them? How much money will you save on gas? Where and when can you charge them? What happens if you want to charge your car at a friends house? GOOD's latest video answers all these questions and more.

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Odd responses for this? video once again.

@leyuzzzz? wind and ...
@leyuzzzz? wind and solar are free!

going from ...
going from overpriced? petrol to overpriced electricity, great choice!!! Let's do this!!!

@rstevewarmorycom ...
@rstevewarmorycom huh??

@mrdojob And ...
@mrdojob And remember to? show your work! ;->

@mrdojob Hint: ...
@mrdojob Hint: Compare taxi's to number of people needing rides. "They also made? use of wood gas to power almost every single home on the country not long ago" - where the hell was this supposed to be? Sounds like you invented a statistic. If it's Britain that would be ridiculous, they have very few trees left on the whole island, cutting? trees without govt permission is a crime! Listen: My math includes the best biofuel crops. This has been worked out by better heads than ours, YOU try it.

@rstevewarmorycom ...
@rstevewarmorycom They have the ability to run all the taxi's in london just off the chip pan crap from fast food shops. They also made use of wood? gas to power almost every single home on the country not long ago and it can also power cars. Pretty much anything that grows can be used in cars. I would also like you to look at one of the top comments about the tesla s and still say that electric cars are useful.

@mrdojob And that's ...
@mrdojob And that's true even IF we have NO rain forests or wild lands! it wouldn't work even if we tore up all the highways and planted biofuel crops on that land TOO! Solar and wind electricity gives us 50 times as much for the available land area we can afford to devote to it and still have a planet we want to live on.? Buddy, solar electric cars had BETTER work, or You're SCREWED!

@mrdojob Add to ...
@mrdojob Add to that the mathematics of land vs food in a world just this week topping 7 Billion people, with only about 100 Million square miles of arable land on the planet, coming out to about 70 people per 640 acres (1 sq mile), or 9 acres per person, and you CANNOT grow enough biofuel for even HALF of us to drive around like you wish to? even if we DON'T EAT!

@mrdojob The ...
@mrdojob The problem with biofuels: If you do the math, and many have, like Amory Lovins of the very well respected Rocky Mountain Institute, then you will know that photosynthesis is only about 0.5% efficient at? converting sunlight to available energy. People would like to think Mother Nature sure must be better at these sorts of things than we are, but it's simply not so. Modern photovoltaics are now headed for 30+% efficiency, which means it takes 70 times less land for solar vs biofuels.

@rstevewarmorycom ...
@rstevewarmorycom We all know oil will run out soon I'm not stupid. Do you know why nobody really buys electric cars? Cos they don't work. I would love an electric car really but? I know that the the batteries are far from up to the job and will remain like that for years to come. Biofuels are a better option cos engines have been advancing far faster than electric which advances at a painfully slow rate. The 100mpg car will prob come along in 10 years which is twice as good as in 2005.

@mrdojob 1) ...
@mrdojob 1) Electric motorbike and bicycle. About $3.5K. 2) Enough to get by, by no means a fortune. 3)So you want to silence people like me. What will you do when the truth catches up to you and people like me have not been able to warn you in advance so that you can prepare? You forget, I'm? merely the bearer of bad news, it will all happen even without me anyway. To silence people like me is to blind yourself. If you can't tell yourself the truth, then who else can tell you?

@rstevewarmorycom ...
@rstevewarmorycom how much have you spent on your electric car? What job do you have and exactly how much do you earn every? year? Your the type of people we need to put effort into silencing the opinions of.

@CeaserNoah I've ...
@CeaserNoah I've had a battery chemist explain how simple it is to recycle lithium. I was surprised.Those batteries are? so simple and tolerant in their manufacture that they can be made by mere HOBBYISTS!

@CeaserNoah No. Try ...
@CeaserNoah No. Try 7% or LESS! Usually a? lot less.

@jamesmcneil69 ...
@jamesmcneil69 Battery? swapping by automated equipment. Also, have you considered a bus/train/maglev? Vote for energy decency, vote mass transit.

@mrdojob I can't ...
@mrdojob I can't help it if you don't? like the truth, want to cruise the strip for fun, and drive a 4 ton car everywhere. If you're willing to settle for the do-able, then it won't cost anywhere near that much. You're a spoiled blind little petrol-brat. Your kind won't make it through the next decade without throwing a hissy about what you can't get and making a complete ass of yourself, while the rest of us are having a nice time adapting and enjoying seeing you choke on your stupidity.

@rudolfskampe 1. ...
@rudolfskampe 1. Blowing it out? your ass with a total lack of evidence or math. 2. You won't be able to afford that very shortly, THEN what will you do? Hmmm? 3. Live closer to work - adapt or die!

@rstevewarmorycom ...
@rstevewarmorycom It is much cheaper to produce another battery, the traditional method of recollection involves using a smelter to melt out the components. The problem is lithium doesn't react well to elements that it gets burned with. You would ruin any facility that you would try to collect it in, and to produce another? system which would cost hundreds of millions to build and maintain requires more capital investment than just producing new units.

@RandomNameName ...
@RandomNameName Untrue, high powered rifle fired at gasoline canister, BOOOMB, at a hydrogen tank, slow invisible leak or? a small tongue of nearly invisible flame. Hindenburg was a pyrotechnic due to its skin paint.

@heyyyynoowww Don't ...
@heyyyynoowww Don't need huge heavy electric motorcycles. That's a paradigm that will shift now. A slightly more sturdy electric bicycle styled like a motorcycle that weighs about 100 lbs, travels 55 mph and gets 100 miles per 4 hour charge would be sufficient, and that's do-able with the solar we have now quite cheaply, around $3K for solar panels and bike, mass? manufactured.

@finnsia Not? for ...
@finnsia Not? for long...

@CeaserNoah ...
@CeaserNoah Nonsense, Li is? sufficiently hard to find to justify reprocessing and it's not difficult either. And the rest of it is non-toxic.

@ad1785? Hydrogen ...
@ad1785? Hydrogen is three times more wasteful as electric.

@Legboy1129? And ...
@Legboy1129? And dropping all the time.

@peptopro17 Now ...
@peptopro17 Now compare it fairly to petroleum drilling, gasoline refining and transport to? your gas station. After that the gasoline conversion to motion is around 7%. Electricity is 3 to 4 times better, looked at fairly.

@MethanolCH3OH But ...
@MethanolCH3OH But it's far less carbon than by gasoline. In fact 5 TIMES less. Mass production of power is much more efficient than the internal combustion engine.Electric motors converting electricity into motion can have efficiencies as high as 90%. Why is this so? The auto engine is both poorly designed to be cheap and runs at a huge? range of changing loads and rpm, whereas a diesel or natural gas power plant engine runs at constant optimal rpm and load.

@stevenslough The ...
@stevenslough The Leaf has either? 120VAC single phase or 240VAC twin phase charging inputs.

@rstevewarmorycom ...
@rstevewarmorycom lol i would lovee to see the day when Mr average? has to spend £50.000 on transport for 5 years because he owns an electric car. You got such stupid views on the future.

@mrdojob? In a ...
@mrdojob? In a world with mass extraction of renewable sources of energy, batteries can be swapped out by automated equipment in less time than it takes to fill your tank. Electric cars work fine, we just haven't done the work on our sources and that infrastructure so that we deserve them, and while morons like you jabber and whine and bargain with your fate, the gasoline is going away.

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