Die-hard Corvette owners are not "fooled", or amused . . . My neighbor is one of them and he looks at the E-Ray as the "death of the Corvette".
In terms of looks and excitement, people are eagerly waiting for the Tesla Roadster, but the Rimac Nevara seeems to be filling that gap for now. As for handling, here's one answer:
I think you mean this one:
The McMurty is absolutely wild. It destroyed the ID.R's time at the Goodwood Hill Climb last year. It looks like they may give it a go at Pike's Peak this year, I'm really excited for that.
Interesting the article pulls a number 8kwh to produce a gallon of gasoline out of thin air without attribution but does not say how many kwh of electricity is required to produce a kwh of electricity. This article suggest the true number is around 0.8kwh of electricity to produce a gallon of gasoline, worst case.
https://greentransportation.info/energy-transportation/gasoline-costs-6kwh.html
Yes that's an important report. I saw it when it was released but might not have posted it. On page 24:
The 8 kWh number is not out of thin air, the article references:
According to this source, about 5% of the total energy losses in generating electricity is the electric power used in generating electricity. If that's reasonably accurate (and feel free to propose another source if you don't like this one), the power plant generates 1.05 kWh of electricity to produce 1 kWh of electricity out the wires of the power plant.
Speaking of pulling numbers out of thin air, your guy pulls out of thin air that 15% of the energy used in a refinery is from electricity. That doesn't appear to have a supported data source.
I can't imagine how any power distribution can be more energy efficient than wires straight from the power plant, so I'm not sure it's even worth arguing this. I mean, it might be fun, but I don't think you have to.
I don't think I've never seen any "completely green" claims myself. I'd say EV's are undoutedly "greener" than ICEs, but when I want to really go "green", I walk or bicycle.
Yeah. And I think that's why most people say "green" instead of "greener" (or better yet "more sustainable"). They just want to gossip at Wednesday night's bowling so they don't have to think about grids and kWh's.
Lets do some math. Boatgeek can check my math. Here is top down calculation
This is Burlington, VT in a nutshell. They constantly parrot talking points, and care more about the appearance than the substance. The types that drive a Tesla but fly down to their second home every weekend.
Edit: did you even read past the title? This isn’t Reddit.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/21/...greenhouse-gas-emissions-lifecycle-assessment
A good generator may reach an efficiency of 95%, looking at shaft input to power output, but it isn't the whole story. If you are driving it with steam or gas or some other thermal generation then there are losses associated with that. Add in any mechanical losses (gearboxes, mechanical power transmission) and you could easily lose another third I would think. So quoting "generators are 95% efficient" is disregarding a major portion of the entire energy cycle.
Yeah, I don’t disagree, but when you have one side that doesn’t believe we need to change anything and the other that believes it has to happen yesterday… we get this.
I agree that electricity out / total energy in is far, far lower than 95%. As you say, there's a lot of thermodynamic losses in there, probably minimum 40% for a thermal turbine plant.
A coal plant powering 100 EVs emits less GHGs than 100 ICEs, so if reducing GHG is the goal, an EV still wins (again, not "green", but "greener than a similar ICE", not counting the silence, torque, safety, and home charging convenience).
I have toured our local coal-fired generation system, Loy Yang. They mine the brown coal directly from next to the power generation hardware. Large mechanised wheels gouge out the coal and feed it directly onto large conveyors. Conveyor belts snake across the pit to a large storage building that can only store about 18 hours worth of generation. All mining is effectively driven by electricity demand and delivered using a just-in-time process. The conveyors and buckets are driven with electricity directly from the generators. A large diameter 6kV extension-lead runs from the generators, snaking across the pit to where it is needed, typically on the ground, but occasionally buried under "roads" where necessary. Electricity runs all necessary process equipment, including things like the coal grinders and other ancillary equipment.
I am simultaneously fascinated and appalled by the concept of a 6kV extension cord lying across the figurative yard.
https://avt.inl.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/vehiclebatteries/FastChargeEffects.pdf
I've seen that in a few places, but here's the first source I found again (Page 5 of the "full report"):
