Red is going to need that electric facility for her next Cadillac as Gov Motors (GM) is forcing the fleet to go all-electric. But the dealers said fuck that and over one third have sold out to corporate; more than half of Buick dealers too.
Nothing like having the gubbermint forcing people to buy things they don’t want/need/desire.
Kinda like Social Security. (It’s voluntary! No, wait! It’s ‘recommended’! No, wait! It’s mandatory! And you will get no ROI or even all of your money back….)
The official story is that they’ve been junked due to being replaced by the “next generation” of EVs.
The real story is that they have a service life measured in months or even weeks before the batteries “brick”. And even after that, if any moisture enters the battery and contacts the lithium, it ignites.
But here in the U.S. the government has a solution to that. Sodium batteries.
I guess nobody told them that sodium and water ignite about as fast as lithium and water, and burn even hotter. (The driving reaction is the formation of sodium hydroxide.)
Speaking as a retired lab geek, IMPO at our present SOTA, it is pretty much impractical to build an EV that is even halfway “affordable” that will not end up as a rolling incendiary munition waiting to initiate.
“……that will not end up as a rolling incendiary munition waiting to initiate.”
Hmmmm……A little reverse psychology here? Next time the Goobermint Goons and their fan club start singing the virtues of the EV, maybe we could thank them for making such “rolling incendiary munitions” so readily available. My EV is protected by the Second Amendment!
December 28, 2023 at 1:27 pm
ULTRA-MAGA TOP DAWG JTC
All true; power storage and distribution is the limitation regardless of source.
Musk has always said Tesla is not a car company but a battery research platform to serve a much broader base. He also knows that while dead dinosaurs and solar (but not the fraught disaster of wind gen) have a place in that for decades to come, that compact nukes are the future of power generation (and of course nuclear always has been, but for the stupidity of earth worshippers). Whether the new package plants planned for adjacent to full size nukes to share infrastructure, or units tiny enough to be the onboard power system for various transportation platforms, the Tesla/Edison/Bell of our time is on it, and symbiotic with his space activities, is already talking about orbiting nuke generators that will produce enough power for all of earth’s needs. As always, problems and limitations to the alarmists and people haters are opportunities and challenges to genii like these men.
Interestingly enough, Glock made his first fortune making camper’s dinnerware (knives, forks, spoons, plates and cups) and then army mess kits from the same polymer that was later used for the frames of his pistols.
Glock had the intuitive leap that a polymer tough enough for a soldier’s mess kit and heat-resistant enough to boil water in was probably strong enough to make a pistol’s receiver from.
His wasn’t the first polymer-framed handgun (that was the Heckler & Koch VP70), but his was the first one to be a commercial success. Unlike H&K, he didn’t lose money on every one that went out the factory door.
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“We talked turkey”.
ROFLOL!!
That might involve more testing failure though…
Flaming Ballistic Busses.
OMG even Musk cannot control the fury of the Red Hot ballistic gobbler!
Red is going to need that electric facility for her next Cadillac as Gov Motors (GM) is forcing the fleet to go all-electric. But the dealers said fuck that and over one third have sold out to corporate; more than half of Buick dealers too.
Nothing like having the gubbermint forcing people to buy things they don’t want/need/desire.
Kinda like Social Security. (It’s voluntary! No, wait! It’s ‘recommended’! No, wait! It’s mandatory! And you will get no ROI or even all of your money back….)
China now leads the world in…junked EV vehicles.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-china-ev-graveyards/
The official story is that they’ve been junked due to being replaced by the “next generation” of EVs.
The real story is that they have a service life measured in months or even weeks before the batteries “brick”. And even after that, if any moisture enters the battery and contacts the lithium, it ignites.
But here in the U.S. the government has a solution to that. Sodium batteries.
I guess nobody told them that sodium and water ignite about as fast as lithium and water, and burn even hotter. (The driving reaction is the formation of sodium hydroxide.)
Speaking as a retired lab geek, IMPO at our present SOTA, it is pretty much impractical to build an EV that is even halfway “affordable” that will not end up as a rolling incendiary munition waiting to initiate.
clear ether
eon
“……that will not end up as a rolling incendiary munition waiting to initiate.”
Hmmmm……A little reverse psychology here? Next time the Goobermint Goons and their fan club start singing the virtues of the EV, maybe we could thank them for making such “rolling incendiary munitions” so readily available. My EV is protected by the Second Amendment!
All true; power storage and distribution is the limitation regardless of source.
Musk has always said Tesla is not a car company but a battery research platform to serve a much broader base. He also knows that while dead dinosaurs and solar (but not the fraught disaster of wind gen) have a place in that for decades to come, that compact nukes are the future of power generation (and of course nuclear always has been, but for the stupidity of earth worshippers). Whether the new package plants planned for adjacent to full size nukes to share infrastructure, or units tiny enough to be the onboard power system for various transportation platforms, the Tesla/Edison/Bell of our time is on it, and symbiotic with his space activities, is already talking about orbiting nuke generators that will produce enough power for all of earth’s needs. As always, problems and limitations to the alarmists and people haters are opportunities and challenges to genii like these men.
A turkey knocked out power to several thousand homes and businesses over xmas…no word on airspeed or trajectory.
I suppose Sam can account for her whereabouts during that time.
Wherever it was, she was NEVER there!
Zar Belk!
Ah, enginerds!! If only more of them thought and looked like Sam…
“Enginerds” – I am so stealing that! Thanks Wayne M!
The g forces on Sam’s flaming turkeys must be, well, astronomical.
As an aside on G forces; famous for the G-Lock, Gaston Glock passed away.
Love them or hate them, his plastic guns had as much impact on the production and function of handheld firearms as John Moses Browning himself.
Interestingly enough, Glock made his first fortune making camper’s dinnerware (knives, forks, spoons, plates and cups) and then army mess kits from the same polymer that was later used for the frames of his pistols.
Glock had the intuitive leap that a polymer tough enough for a soldier’s mess kit and heat-resistant enough to boil water in was probably strong enough to make a pistol’s receiver from.
His wasn’t the first polymer-framed handgun (that was the Heckler & Koch VP70), but his was the first one to be a commercial success. Unlike H&K, he didn’t lose money on every one that went out the factory door.
clear ether
eon