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Are Plug In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) The Way To Go?

posted 2 years ago by sparrow (+4 / -1 )

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So, the ranges on these can be limited on the electrical side, maybe 50 miles, so this can allow people to drive a short distance (like commute to errands or work) on electric, but then if you go further you can rely on gas or if you want to go on a long road trip you can make use of the gas engine. And the "plug in" part allows you to plug in at home (to the grid or solar panels, etc.).

Sounds like the best of both worlds, is there a catch?

What do you think of the debate on gas powered vehicles versus electric or what are good use cases for each?

Just like eating bugs, I see some conservatives are against EVs for various reasons but I'm not sure I agree with them. Bugs are just food, and EVs are just vehicles. For me, I like the idea of having some solar panels and being energy independent. I'm ok with burning gas (not worried about the environment particularly) but it makes you dependent on countries that you may not want to do business with, and hypothetically could run out at some point (so we don't know how long we could rely on gas). EVs run quieter and even if they rely on burning coal at power plants, can't those power plants have good filters on them so there are less emissions than gas exhaust being expelled by cars everywhere?

So don't EVs have distinct benefits, or do you think this is just a ruse for some kind of reason?

spengler

2 years ago 3 points (+3 / -0 ) 1 child

flow batteries have a lot of potential for usage in the grid.

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Blergaderg

2 years ago 1 point (+1 / -0 ) 1 child

It would probably still require a large infrastructure change, probably in the amount of $100B. That's not including the cost of flow batteries. Which, makes me wonder why we weren't already doing something like this.

2 years ago 2 points (+2 / -0 ) 1 child

Before flow batteries required vanadium and some other difficult to get/unsavory materials. Now researchers found better materials that perform just as well, so it has been getting a lot of interest as of late. Its true that completely shifting the whole grid would cost a lot, but flow batteries are relatively cheap and it wouldnt be that crazy to setup some flow battery banks. At least it could be set up in a town/city by the municipal electricity provider and it could certainly be used in an off grid community

You would also need to set them up in probably every town in the country if you wanted extra redundancy in case the electric grid goes down in a local area. If they really want to force everyone to go from gasoline to electric, it'll definitely be a shock to the whole system.

Something else I just thought of is it would probably require a massive increase in power production to keep up. So adding that, it would probably cost in the trillions of $ to keep up with demand if every car was electric. This would honestly be such a massive project. And they would probably use shitskins in every category to build it so it would probably fail after a few years. I just don't think it's currently feasible with the ethnic makeup of the country.

America is dead and i dont expect it to undertake grandiose projects like this. Im mainly interested in this as a solution to the parallelsociety's electricity needs

2 years ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )

>America is dead and i dont expect it to undertake grandiose projects like this

That's exactly why I expect it to happen. All the more money to siphon into kike hands.