Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles

[stevebrooks]

Another day another solid state battery announcement, I mean seriously there's no point in following these videos much anymore until they are actually being used in EV's. It seems every car maker and every country now has their own version, and you have to wonder how many of them are just me-to'ing to keep the investors on their toes and discourage them from taking the money away. So this will be the last solid state battery video I post until there's actually cars out there driving around with them.

We know it's coming, the amount of research and money being invested is staggering, the number of different technologies is equally as staggering, it's the old VHS/Beta wars all over again, one, maybe even a couple, will take the market by storm, I doubt if there will be dozens, this particular sudden announcement from the US is to, well, convenient. With Trump ready to take office and slap on tariffs, with the current bans on CATL, the worlds largest battery maker, with China being the outright winner in the Lithium wars it just seems timed to opportunistically, expect investors to start throwing money at them, but there's a good chance it's more hype than substance!

EV's are coming, maybe slower to Australia than the rest of the world, and that's a damning indictment on our political landscape, but they are coming no matter what Dutton seems to think.

[stevebrooks]

Hydrogen fuel cell cars, the cars of the future......ok stop laughing, people are hurting. Hydrogen fuel for these cars cost $12 per kilogram in 2021, so with all the new cars and infrastructure using hydrogen that's surely dropped right? Well, it now costs $36 a kilogram, and there are fewer hydrogen filling stations around because Shell found it was making a huge loss on the pumps and just shut all their pumps down.

[stevebrooks]

Batteries, no not solid state batteries I am not posting on that subject anymore until they actually come out and people can buy cars with them, the regular non-solid state ones in EV's at the moment, turns out they are actually lasting far longer and losing less efficiency thant early lab results predicted, basically because, well lab results simply don't and never will exactly equate to actual real data from ten years of battery usage on the road!

[stylofone]

I'm impatient to stop burning petrol and get an EV, but my car (Corolla hybrid) is too new to replace. I need to hang on to it for at least two more years, maybe four or five. I thought about getting an ebike as a more cost-effective and low emissions way to go electric. Then I looked at the roads I'd be riding on and i realised that human-powered is actually better for my purposes than an electric bike. The hills aren't too bad, and the exertion required is more pleasurable than having an electric motor do it for me. So after a test ride I bought one of these. I've kind of fallen in love with it. I'm collecting it on Friday.

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[nibble]

Nice bike. If you can pedal then better for you. I ride to work a few days a week and love it. Keeps me fit.

[stevebrooks]

Toyota for the last 20 years, "hydrogen, Hydrogen, HYDROGEN....."

Toyota now, "new copper flouride EV battery will double driving range"

You've gotta laugh sometimes right?

[stevebrooks]

Now here's an interesting one, Australian as well, EV trucks with fast swap batteries.

[stevebrooks]

Thought some of you might find this video amusing, Cybetruck fails, I can't imagine, after seeing this, why anyone would actually buy one. I mean one in the video was hit by an Escooter, yes an Escooter and was written off by the insurance company. They would only cover fair market value, $70,000, he paid over $200,000 to buy it and have it delivered!

[stylofone]

Thought some of you might find this video amusing, Cybetruck fails, I can't imagine, after seeing this, why anyone would actually buy one. I mean one in the video was hit by an Escooter, yes an Escooter and was written off by the insurance company. They would only cover fair market value, $70,000, he paid over $200,000 to buy it and have it delivered!

I hope they all end up as scrap, ASAP. I don't even care if there are none left to put in a museum. They can just show a video like this instead.

[stevebrooks]

Thought some of you might find this video amusing, Cybetruck fails, I can't imagine, after seeing this, why anyone would actually buy one. I mean one in the video was hit by an Escooter, yes an Escooter and was written off by the insurance company. They would only cover fair market value, $70,000, he paid over $200,000 to buy it and have it delivered!

I hope they all end up as scrap, ASAP. I don't even care if there are none left to put in a museum. They can just show a video like this instead.

Only in the US would such and obviously unsafe car be allowed on the roads. The problem of course is this;

Tesla vehicles, especially those with Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities, are subject to a process of self-certification, meaning Tesla, as the manufacturer, declares that its vehicles meet safety and regulatory standards, rather than relying on external agencies

Large car manufacturers in the US are allowed to self certify, we can see what a huge failure this is, with no third party review of whether or not they actually comply with safety standards you get the Cybertruck, a vehicle that in the case of an accident and fire locks the passengers in the car. There are of course emergency release handles, but you have to actually remove panels to access them in the rear, when you are surrounded by flames and choking black smoke.

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They wonder why Cybertrucks are not allowed on roads in other countries, this guy in the video says you should tell children this easy method of opening the rear door in and emergency, well that's fucking stupid. You've crashed into a tree, the fucking things on fire, you're half stunned and struggling to remember how to open the door, and you're a kid? Because door handles are so universal it's not a struggle to remember how to use them, the fact that there's no way to open the doors from the outside in an emergency is stupid, the entire things is a fucking disaster, it should be banned everywhere, but of course the US authorities are to fucking chicken shit to face down Musk! They should remove Tesla's right to self certify because it isn't fucking working!