Is Canada ready for the coming electric vehicle revolution?

[JamesBondo]

exagerate much lately?

 

[petros]

No shit.

 

[Hoid]

IC engines are temporally congruent to the telegraph and the phonograph and the camera.

They are a living relic

 

[petros]

They aren't going anywhere. CNG is the future as gasoline and diesel are phased out.

 

[JLM]

Do we need to be? The cause of these problems are people crowding into Megatropolises like a bunch of f**king sheep. Spread out- there's more than enough room in this country for every person to be able to swing the cat!

IC engines are temporally congruent to the telegraph and the phonograph and the camera.

They are a living relic

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

 

[Hoid]

I don't think horses are bad.

I don;t think we should be riding them to work any more.

Or sending telegraphs

or taking photograph with wet film

or driving ancient technology because it happens to consume copious amounts of energy (being ridiculously inefficient) and that mountain of money are made selling the energy to the consumers.

 

[petros]

Horse and oxen pulled plows are still feeding hundreds of millions of people.

 

[Danbones]

But those cowfarts!!!

We are the ones they are trying to feed the beans to!

 

[Hoid]

Gas engines are way more efficient than they were years ago.

From an engineering standpoint they remain an embarrassment.

 

[petros]

CNG can come straight from the ground and into a vehicle. No refining, storing and an established infrastructure tied to most businesses and homes.

 

[Hoid]

No they aren't.

Ever watch F1?

Yes they are.

Ever heard of thermodynamics?

 

[petros]

From an engineering standpoint they remain an embarrassment.

They do? Why are Ford EcoBoost engines so popular? Easy on the pocket day to day and more balls than a canal horse when you need it.

 

[Hoid]

Are what?

An embarrassment?

How can you lose track in a written conversation.

Here's a tip - you don;t need to answer every question immediately. You might consider a 5 minute rule whereby you consider what you are going to say prior to saying it.

 

[petros]

An embarrassment?

How can you lose track in a written conversation.

Here's a tip - you don;t need to answer every question immediately. You might consider a 5 minute rule whereby you consider what you are going to say prior to saying it.

How can you be such a ludite? Electric cars still have catching up to do with internal combustion engines.

How can you be such a ludite? Electric cars still have catching up to do with internal combustion engines.

For Peckerhoid.

 

[taxslave]

So what do you do with your electric car when it runs out of electrons 100 miles from the nearest plug in? DO you carry spares in a can?

 

[captain morgan]

Taxslave's question is perfectly valid

 

[taxslave]

You're the opposite of Hoid and just as dogmatic.

Nope. I see great potential for electric cars in certain applications. They are not going to make gas and diesel extinct in the next decade though. The people pushing them (sometimes literally) think the world ends at the city limits.

 

[captain morgan]

The people pushing them (sometimes literally) think the world ends at the city limits.

Bingo.

 

[DaSleeper]

Diesel electric motors are very strong on railroad, but the steepest grade on tracks without loosing too much power is what 5 degrees?

 

[petros]

1% is steep by rail standards.