heatz

I'd say it theother way around. We have a 997.2 6mt and a Tesla. Fun driving and my short commute to work = 997. Commuting to work on i95 in stop/go traffic, trun on the Tesla autopilot and relax. The Tesla is smooth, quiet and 'refined'. The 997 is loud, bumpy (h&R springs) and 'raw'. Road trips in the Tesla are easy to do with supercahrgers and the nav computer calculating where to stop and how long to stop for shortest trip.

loungin

SpeedyD

THIS.

rickdogg82

Some might say the same about Porsche when they started making water-cooled 911s and SUVs.

gulshan

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2. If everyone charged their cars at night the US power grid would collapse unless an enormous amount of money is spent to substantially upgrade the system.

Is that a fact ?[/QUOTE]

Yes. Just like it is a fact that if everyone in India and China jumped up at the same time our earth will change orbit..

flgfish

I'm always amused by the environmental impact statements of people arguing over ICE vs electric cars. If you want to be environmentally friendly, don't buy a new car. Buy used or drive what you have.

There's a guy here in north Houston with a "No CO2" license plate on his Model S. I laugh at every time I see it because the guy is deluding himself. I'm sure the same guy laughs at me for having a small pecker, or something. LOL.

FZP

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There is some value in power draw. I'll give 2 examples. In the UK, there is a tv program that a large portion of the country watches. At the end of the show, the theme song comes on which kicks off with a set of drums. Once those drums start, there is a bloke who is responsible for balancing the power draw which requires drawing power from France to account for all the people getting up and turning on the kettle.

Secondly in Sydney, Australia, when the weather us extremely hot we get brown outs due to everyone having the aircon on to combat the heat.

As the population moves towards electric cars, there are real possibilities of electric shortages unless infrastructure keeps up.

But kidding yourself that you're saving the planet by buying a new electric car is scandalous.

Balr14

I think the main contention is that it reduces your carbon footprint, for which your only viable basis for comparison is the environmental impact of creating the batteries.

Austin997.2

Don't forget they also burn a lot of coal to get electricity

Balr14

Which is a practice that should have ended years ago. There are many metropolitan areas around the world that rely on renewable and sustainable energy sources to create electricity and have more than adequate capacity. Yes, there are many metropolitan areas that couldn't handle electric cars. But they already struggle to meet current needs due to poor planning and inadequate investment.

Nova997

Per the U.S. Energy Information Administration (for the year 2017), the percentage of electricity generated by coal was 29.9% (and hopefully that percentage will continue to drop).

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

ADias

Try this on one of these golf-carts, Tesla and similar:

Austin997.2

In the USA fossil fuels (natural gas and coal) are around 60%, nuclear 20%, and renewable about 17%. Nothing is wrong with fossil fuels, it's energy on tap, if it's so bad for the environment we should suck it out of the environment and burn that stuff!!!!

Austin997.2

Fossil fuels (coal and natural gas) are the bulk 60% and the rest about evenly split between nuclear and renewables. I bet those renewables are even worse from an efficiency standpoint if you dig into all of the energy expended to get it.

ADias

And in addition... they are not a product of fossil remnants. The stuff is currently produced under the earth's crust in areas where animals/plants never treaded.

It's all a false religion and bad/fraudulent science, but it's very difficult to argue about religions, especially fake ones.