GM 400-mile battery
Tesla killer -- not really, Tesla is at 390 miles and semis are 500-mile batteries. But good news for those who don't like the looks of Cybertruck. Or, the GM fateful -- except they will probabl...
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travelnutz wrote:There you go spouting facts instead of uninformed opinion.
Why is it people do not understand the factual dynamics of providing electrical power in the USA???
Presently the nation's electrical power comes from these sources:
38% from natural gas
24% from coal
20% from nuclear
7% from hydro dams
6.5% from wind turbines
1.8% from solar
Scratch all fossil fuel use for generating electrical power? Lets see what that means?
Natural gas is from fossils and nuclear is slated to be gone too within 10 years, thus 38% plus 20% will be gone.
24% from coal and of course that will be gone too.
All diesel power generation will be gone too.
38 + 24 + 20 + diesel plants too = more than 82% of the USA power generation will not happen anymore.
Now the USA is just left with:
Hydro dams 7%
wind 6.5%
solar 1.8%
Just 15.3% of present power generation is left!
DREAM ON!!!
No reasonable solar energy is even capable within 40 degrees latitude from either Earth's pole towards the equator, under trees, limbs, and leaves, other than the max 8-10 hours of the daytime when the sun is not behind any clouds, fog, falling rain or snow or snow accumulation on the solar panels.
The wind must be blowing to turn the windmills or no power is generated. Add in that most areas have very low wind or calm winds during the nighttime hours so that sure doesn't help.
Maybe somebody has magic pills that create untold electrical power to save the day???
Tell me again where all the electrical power required today for the entire USA and then the 50+ million added vehicles that only can run on electricity are going to get all that electricity from??? I'm patiently waiting!!!
I would like to see how many hydrocarbon based products proponents of electric vehicles can identify that are used in the manufacturing of a electric vehicle ?
That's not even counting the asphalt roads they drive on. Use concrete you say, guess what cement companies use to heat in the manufacturing process, natural gas another hydrocarbon.
