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Yoots. Great movie!

I didn't know you were from Brooklyn.

Distribution efficiency of electricity is on around 35%, right? So factor that in, and cost it takes to get fuel to the gas/diesel station for IC engines. I still think my 38 MPG Passat TDI (36.5-43 MPG records) is pretty good. And at 210k miles I'm not replacing a giant battery pack. May need a turbo and injector freshening soon, less than $2k, and should go another 100k or more without enriching China or enslaving anyone.

So happy that I'm 64, not 24. Electric will be fine for probably most of the yoots today. They don't travel or just go for a drive out in the country. If it's not in their phone, they have little interest.

Until the technology is much much better and reliability issues sorted along with all the problems involved with the production of EV's I will stick with what I know, the internal combustion engine. Whether it be diesel or gasoline its tried and true. Gas milage has come a long way in the past 20+ years with both. Reliability and power have increased as well. I realize that one day in the future the IC engine will most likely be obsolete but in my lifetime I don't see that being the case. As they introduce and improve new EV's and other alternatives along with them they will become more common place with the upcoming generations and gain more of a following I'm sure. We have seem this with other advancements through our lifetime. From encyclopedias to Google, carbs to fuel injection, land lines to mobile phones and so on. As for me, my old school, non politically correct, set in my ways, stubborn, unwilling to accept radical change generation X ***, I will keep my oil/gas burners. I'm still salty that we never got the jetpack to fly around town like they said we'd have by now.

There’s no question EV when adjusted for KhW to gasoline consumption can go further…I Tesla get like 112 miles to the gallon when KWH are converted to fuel. The issue is how the batteries are being manufactured. It’s an extreme environmental looting. 10,000s of gallons of fresh water used just to make one battery. By the time the forced child labor gets the battery buildt and a Tesla lands on the dealer lot, just the manufacturing involved in producing that car has created the carbon equivalent of a modern gas engine that’s has driven 22,500 worth of co2 emmisioms. Not to mention all the cobalt and silver need in these batteries…China holds the world largest strategic reserves of those precious metals , so we are now emboldening out greatest modern threats by giving them even more money. The whole thing is an abomination.’ None of it makes sense until they’re a real a few elites who are wanting to take more and more freedom and more and more control,. Fight back in this guys.