Call me oldschool but I still like powerful normal gas engine cars. The roar, the energy. Evs seem hipster treehugger stuff. Imagine Fast & Furious race movies with evs, lol. Woo an electric toy car #epicfail
Have you watched any eF-1 races? It's just odd. Especially when they have to strategize those two "boost" chances they get for a temporary power increase. It's like watching a video game, heh.
Most of the time you trade one problem for another with their own environmental damages and challenges and a net gain in energy consumption overall. I still remember my freshman physics: If you burn more energy, no matter the source you heat things up, and freshman thermodynamics: Every step in converting energy from one form to another you lose efficiency due to conversion. So, from crude to gasoline to ICE, 2 steps. From crude (hydro...) to oil to electricity, to charging the battery to running the electric motor, 3-4 steps. Anyway, I didn't mean to argue or defend either sides. So, my last post here. @KCalhoun I give you back your thread. Regards,
OMG, someone finally gets it! ironchef, where have you been for the last 4 years on the forum as I am whining about EV? Frak!
You're talking energy efficiency, but there is more to coal, oil and gas, starting with atmospheric pollution which you conveniently remove from your 2+2 equation. Furthermore, crude to processing to gasoline to ICE to run an engine is multiple steps froth with health dangers along the way. Oil spills at oil extraction, spills at transportation, explosions at processing, fumes at filling ICE engine and smoke from inefficient burning. Certainly, holding on to oil in order to create electricity is inefficient, but the goal is to remove oil and coal as soon as possible.