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I was reminded of this by the recent warning from the Environment Secretary, George Eustice, on the ‘polluting particles’ produced by battery-powered vehicles. Not from exhaust emissions, but from brake linings, tyres and road surfaces, because such vehicles are much heavier owing to the presence of the battery.

TESLA Model S Specs - (Tesla se grootste en luukse motor wat hulle vervaardig) -
Model S Plaid / Model S
• Range (EPA est.)
396 mi
• 1/4 Mile
9.23@155 mph trap speed
• Peak Power
1,020 hp
• Wheels
19" or 21"
• Cargo
28 cu ft
• Weight
4,766 lbs (2162kg)
• Acceleration
1.99 s 0-60 mph*
*with rollout subtracted
• Top Speed
200 mph†
†when equipped with paid hardware upgrades
• Drag Coefficient
0.208 Cd
• Powertrain
Tri Motor (3 groot elektriese motors in voertuig wat saam 1020 perdekrag lewer, ingesluit in gewig van net 2162kg.)
• Supercharging Max
250 kW


Ford Everest TREND (4WD) Details
Rear track 1564mm (61.6 inches)
Ground clearance 225mm (8.9 inches)
Unladen weight 2433kg (5363.8 lbs)
Gross Vehicle Mass 3100kg (6834.3 lbs)

And what of the huge increase in power production needed to charge millions of electric cars? Climate policy is already adding more than £10 billion annually to Britain’s electricity costs, as inefficient renewables continue to need support. If the extra power required for charging the cars is generated from fossil fuels to keep electricity costs down, much of the environmental gain would be lost.

TFDADD wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 10:31 am Het diesel en petrol aangdrewe voertuie nie "brake linings, tyres", ens. nie en, ry hulle nie ook op "road surfaces" nie?

".... there is a massive additional cost to getting passenger vehicles off fossil fuels that tax payers of the world are going to have to fund - and no one is talking much about this cost and how it's going to be paid."

The big knock on new technology like electric cars and solar panels is that they are not recyclable. People haven’t cared a flying fig leaf about recycling stuff for the past 100 years. If they did, citizens would be at the gates of the corporate headquarters of Nestlé, Coca Cola, and Pepsi with flaming torches and pitchforks demanding they stop inundating the Earth with their endless profusion of waste products.

But suddenly, people are all atwitter about what will happen to the batteries of electric cars. Fearmongers on the internet are telling people they will have to drive their old electric cars into lakes and rivers when they stop working. The amazing thing is, people believe that codswallop and repeat it to their friends as if it were carved on the stone tablets Moses brought down with him when he descended the mountain. So much for public education making people smarter.

Another cry you hear from the anti-technology crowd is that millions of old solar panels will be dumped into landfills to fester for centuries. Horse-puckey! Do we need a way to recycle solar panels? Yes, we do. And are responsible adults working on such systems as we speak? Yes, they are. Calm down, people. Everything you read on Twitter or Facebook is not gospel. And let’s not get started on the deliberate misinformation spewed by the talking heads on Faux News 24 hours a day.

The EV revolution is rolling forward and it’s not waiting for stragglers. Yesterday, we featured a report from Fraunhofer ISI that explains why those waiting for hydrogen to become a fuel source for cars and trucks are bound to be disappointed. That report did admit there could be some justification for hydrogen in heavy trucks that travel long distances or haul especially heavy loads, but today comes word that battery-electric trucks are beginning to infiltrate those parts of the transportation spectrum as well.

Verwagting is 'n R 4.00 tot R 5.00 styging per liter vroeg April 2022. (Hoop dit kan verhoed word.)
Dit is totaal belaglik.