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Regulators Overlooked This Crucial Detail About Electric Cars and It Could Have Lethal Results

Fossil fuels being the recharged fuel for electric vehicles is a dirty secret, but another deadly peculiarity exists. They’re more deadly on the roads. The batteries that give these cars the 300 or so mile range before recharge are understandably massive and quite heavy, adding a fatality factor should a crash occur. It’s something that regulators glossed over during the research and development stages. When you increase the weight of these vehicles due to the battery traveling at highway speed, how do you think things will end if there’s a crash? Rotational inertia spells death in so many ways with this situation (via TechDirt):
 
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Canadian Tesla owner says automaker Locked Him Out of his Car Until He Pays $26,000 for New Battery

Some Tesla owners have voiced frustration about the electric vehicles, including a group in Norway that went on a hunger strike last month

A Tesla owner in Canada said the battery on his $140,000 vehicle died and that the electric automaker told him a replacement would cost him $26,000 and has locked him out of the vehicle until he gets a new one.

Mario Zelaya posted a video on TikTok saying his "piece of trash" car died and that the car is locked, preventing him from being able to get in. The caption on the video reads: "$26K for a new battery. Locked out of car. Recalls are needed."

Mario Zelaya posted a video on TikTok saying his "piece of trash" car died and that the car is locked, preventing him from being able to get in. The caption on the video reads: "$26K for a new battery. Locked out of car. Recalls are needed."

He said he reached out to another Tesla owner who also said they had the same issues with the car battery. Zelaya said Tesla canceled that owner's Uber credits while the vehicle was being serviced.


Canadian Tesla owner says automaker locked him out of his car until he pays $26,000 for new battery
 
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Lithium Prices Hit New Record As EV Affordability Concerns Mount

Bloomberg reported lithium carbonate, a key metal in EV batteries, hit a new record high in China this week. Per ton, prices jumped to 500,500 yuan ($71,315), more than triple the price versus last year.
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There is no way to build storage to get anywhere near the goals, let alone power them.

- no ability to obtain or afford the raw metals to build the energy storage
- no ability to charge said storage even if built in mass
- no ability to distribute the energy even if procured in the short to medium term
 
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Steve Sisolak Is Backing a Massive Lithium Mine in Nevada. So Is a Chinese Company With Communist Leaders.

Democratic governor Steve Sisolak is backing a foreign company's plan to deliver America's green energy future through a massive Nevada lithium mine. That company's largest shareholder is a Chinese enterprise led by known Chinese Communist Party members, prompting concern that the project could ultimately benefit America's top adversary.

Sisolak in September 2020 approved $8.5 million in tax abatements for Lithium Americas, a Canadian company that intends to mine tens of thousands of tons of lithium—the key component in electric vehicle batteries—from a site in northern Nevada. Another top Nevada Democrat, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, in 2019 met with the company's executives and two years later persuaded her colleagues on the Hill to scrap legislation that would have imposed costly royalties on Lithium Americas and other hardrock miners.

China already controls roughly 60 percent of the world's lithium resources thanks in part to Ganfeng. With the support of China's state-owned banks, the company has acquired sizable stakes in lithium mining projects in Chile, Argentina, and Australia. Now, Ganfeng could extend its footprint into the United States for the first time, causing former secretary of state Mike Pompeo to express extreme alarm over the Chinese company's significant stake in Lithium Americas and ties to China's government. Should the project move forward, Pompeo argued, China would "get a foothold in America on lithium mining."

Steve Sisolak is Backing a Massive Lithium Mine in Nevada. So is a Chinese Company With Communist Leaders.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Steve Sisolak Is Backing a Massive Lithium Mine in Nevada. So Is a Chinese Company With Communist Leaders.

Democratic governor Steve Sisolak is backing a foreign company's plan to deliver America's green energy future through a massive Nevada lithium mine. That company's largest shareholder is a Chinese enterprise led by known Chinese Communist Party members, prompting concern that the project could ultimately benefit America's top adversary.

Sisolak in September 2020 approved $8.5 million in tax abatements for Lithium Americas, a Canadian company that intends to mine tens of thousands of tons of lithium—the key component in electric vehicle batteries—from a site in northern Nevada. Another top Nevada Democrat, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, in 2019 met with the company's executives and two years later persuaded her colleagues on the Hill to scrap legislation that would have imposed costly royalties on Lithium Americas and other hardrock miners.

China already controls roughly 60 percent of the world's lithium resources thanks in part to Ganfeng. With the support of China's state-owned banks, the company has acquired sizable stakes in lithium mining projects in Chile, Argentina, and Australia. Now, Ganfeng could extend its footprint into the United States for the first time, causing former secretary of state Mike Pompeo to express extreme alarm over the Chinese company's significant stake in Lithium Americas and ties to China's government. Should the project move forward, Pompeo argued, China would "get a foothold in America on lithium mining."

Steve Sisolak is Backing a Massive Lithium Mine in Nevada. So is a Chinese Company With Communist Leaders.
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Another clown that needs voted out Idiots better worry about where their water is going to come from in the future
 
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I Told You So: Aramco CEO Slams Unrealistic Energy Policies

Years of underinvestment in oil and gas production is the leading cause of today’s energy crisis, and when the global economy rebounds from the current slowdown, the little spare oil production capacity that’s left will be wiped out, Saudi Aramco’s chief executive Amin Nasser said on Tuesday.

“Many of us have been insisting for years that if investments in oil and gas continued to fall, global supply growth would lag behind demand, impacting markets, the global economy, and people’s lives,” the CEO of the world’s largest oil company and top oil exporter said at the Schlumberger Digital Forum 2022 in Switzerland today.​

Investment in oil and gas more than halved between 2014 and 2021, Nasser said, adding that “The increases this year are too little, too late, too short-term.”
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This will most probably not end well for the people on the globe.

If started today, you are probably looking at decades to get back to where it needs to be to just sustain the current population.
 
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Tesla sends out software patch fix to ONE MILLION cars to fix fault with electric windows that has left some owners with Crushed Hands

Elon Musk's Tesla has recalled more than one million US vehicles whose automatic windows may not know when an obstacle - such as a finger - is in its way, and could try to close on the unlucky digit.

'A closing window may exert excessive force by pinching a driver or passenger before retracting, increasing the risk of injury,' Tesla said in a notice sent to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday.

The defect prompts an official recall of over 1,096,762 cars - but thanks to Tesla's technology, that only means that a run-of-the-mill software update will be sent to the affected vehicles.

Tesla recalls more than ONE MILLION vehicles because a fault with window automatic reversal system | Daily Mail Online
 
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Wonder how folks would feel if we reinstituted the EV tax breaks from back in 2000's? Not looking for a political debate about EV's.
 
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Wireless1 said:
ANd they won't be leaving the "pump" every 3 minutes like gasoline.
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Eventually they'll have to stop power to all the chargers because people won't have lights on at home. LoL

(even if we ignore all the nonsense like lack of materials, environment, climate change bs, etc.)

If they really wanted to go to all evs.... they needed to start to work on electricity production 20-25 years ago.
 
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LSU-SIU said:
I Told You So: Aramco CEO Slams Unrealistic Energy Policies



This will most probably not end well for the people on the globe.

If started today, you are probably looking at decades to get back to where it needs to be to just sustain the current population.
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Short term profitability in the investment markets and short term profits over sustained growth in the corporate bibles push all the wrong buttons. We are screwed; the only hope is that there is some return to a world of rationality where people understand cause and effect and systemic relationships - system dynamics, feedback and control ... My guess is we are just screwed, and rational thought is dead.
 
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