[Lekooks] Hybrid vs EV

[Gerald Flakas]

An interesting perspective, focusing on incremental gasoline savings rather than the big picture. Of course you get the biggest incremental savings of gasoline going from an internal combustion car to a Prius, just as you get even more incremental savings going from a Huvee to a Corolla. But nobody seriously suggests stopping at the Corolla.

And the arguments about limited resources such as lithium and rare earths ignore ongoing technological developments. Already the Internet is abuzz with articles about the (lithium-free) "Jesus battery" and the (rare earth-free) "niron" permanent magnet (being developed at the Univ. of Minn.). Also, energy storage could be with "ultra capacitors" rather than batteries, and motors could be induction motors rather than permanent magnet motors. 

And finally, the article ignores the future trend toward autonomous electric vehicles that Ford and GM are betting million$ on, where a ride is just a commodity; when we want a ride, we just call it up and an autonomous vehicle will pick us up and take us there; same when we want to return. For long trips; when we have gone our 400 or so miles on a charge, we just swap vehicles (like the old Pony Express) and go on our way. Sure, there are very few charging and no car-swap stations, but there were very few gas stations back in 1915 before the demand for automobiles took off. The supply will rise to the demand.

And don't forget the maintenance savings with an EV: no oil changes, tune-ups, complicated transmission and drive trains, and on and on. Will put the car service folks out of business.

The future is coming, like it or not.



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From: bcpeske via Lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org>
To: John Kuhn <kuhnjohnb at gmail.com>; lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org>
Sent: Thu, Jun 20, 2019 6:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Lekooks] Hybrid vs EV

Compelling argument, but doesn't take into consideration the evolution of battery technology.  He also shorts tesla stock which means he has a vested interest in seeing the electric car, and in particular Tesla, fail. Although I have vested interest in seeing them succeed, since I own a tesla and some tesla stock.My 2 cents
Chris



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-------- Original message --------From: John Kuhn via Lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org> Date: 6/20/19 5:29 PM (GMT-06:00) To: 'LCUUC GroupEmail' <lekooks at lekook.org> Subject: [Lekooks] Hybrid vs EV 

Food for thought, nothing is as easy as it looks.  Long-Range EVs Are The Antithesis Of Efficiency And Sustainability 

  

Although the article is written from the standpoint of an investor, it raises a lot of valid points.  I really have to wonder about the ability of the planet to support wide scale EV conversion, at least with existing technology and material requirements.  
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