Electric Vehicles

@HiramHolliday said in #1:
> Looking for an expert for advice. I have recently bought an electric car, but am restricted to a range of 10 metres from the house, as that is as far as my extension cable will stretch from my living room plug. Any advice would be helpful.
homie, what car you be drivin’ that ya need an extension cord to have it work?

Oh, you plugged the extension to charge your car in the living room. Well unplug it when your battery is fully charged and you will be able to go farther than leaving your extension cord plugged in.

@weplaychess90 said in #10:
> The guys trying to save the world alone...
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> CO2 reduction can be only made by organized governments, never by individuals alone, it's too much!
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> You need to gradually apply carbon taxes, and increase it slowly, globally, and everyone will start to change gasoline cars for electric ones, cause the costs of carbon removal would be added to the value of the fuel, and it would become expensive.
> Then, and only then, people will start to buy electrical cars.
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> To buy alone, by yourself, happens that. You're alone, and no one has electrical cars, so there is no Stations to fuel, you can't talk to your neighbor, asking for hints, nobody knows it. It's unproductive, generates frustration and it's extremely hard.
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> To keep CO2 in a natural level, the effort will have to be organized and global. Or it will never happen.

you do know that the production of a single battery for an electric car produces more CO2 than the average gas powered car does in it's lifetime, right? If we truly want to lower CO2 emissions, electric cars are not the way to go, Nuclear cars are!

@dstne said in #13:
> you do know that the production of a single battery for an electric car produces more CO2 than the average gas powered car does in it's lifetime, right? If we truly want to lower CO2 emissions, electric cars are not the way to go, Nuclear cars are!

You do know that producing a car using fossil fuel or an hybrid is producing CO2 emissions.

You do know that batteries have a 2nd and 3rd life?

You do know that repeating those alternatives facts is not good for your credibility?

Nah, never mind , debating with you is useless.

P.S. How much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?

>It depends exactly where and how the battery is made—but when it comes to clean technologies like electric cars and solar power, even the dirtiest batteries emit less CO2 than using no battery at all.

@dstne said in #13:
> for an electric car produces more CO2 than the average gas powered car does in it's lifetime, right? If we truly want to lower CO2 emission

Only if the battery is made in China, which is 80% coal on energy sources. If you use Hydroelectric Power, for example, the emissions could be lower.

But an estimation was 15 metric tons of CO2 to create a pack of battery of a Tesla, which is equivalent of burning around 6.000 liters of Gasoline.

@bfchessguy said in #14:
> You do know that producing a car using fossil fuel or an hybrid is producing CO2 emissions.
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> You do know that batteries have a 2nd and 3rd life?
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> You do know that repeating those alternatives facts is not good for your credibility?
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> Nah, never mind , debating with you is useless.

@weplaychess90 said in #15:
> Only if the battery is made in China, which is 80% coal on energy sources.

lol my comment was more of a joke than anything. Ig for me, I'm not really worried about CO2 emissions, so like I don't really think buying an electric car is actually helpful. The only reason I might consider it is if gas prices get even higher. for me, the real problem is the coming under population and economic instability, along with the very likely WW3.

@weplaychess90 said in #15:
> Only if the battery is made in China, which is 80% coal on energy sources.

IT's funny how those guys are cherry picking what they take in account. Some of them told me that the bike I am using is emitting CO2 for it's production. When I asked how much is car is emitting CO2 for production there was no answer.

@dstne your country Antarctica could melt if you don't watch out for CO2!

@dstne said in #16:
> lol my comment was more of a joke than anything. Ig for me, I'm not really worried about CO2 emissions, so like I don't really think buying an electric car is actually helpful. The only reason I might consider it is if gas prices get even higher. for me, the real problem is the coming under population and economic instability, along with the very likely WW3.

Thanks for proving debating with you is useless. Lmao

@weplaychess90 said in #18:
> @dstne your country Antarctica could melt if you don't watch out for CO2!
lol
@bfchessguy said in #19:
> Thanks for proving debating with you is useless. Lmao
debating is always useless ;) well, at least on the forums of a chess site. I'm not sure what part of my comment clued you into that tho.