Electric Vehicles for the EV Curious (book)

@merkle_eric @Teslarati ☝️

@Teslarati Longer range. You get the benefits from the longer range and charging curve.

Would you rather have: Faster Charging ⚡️ 🔌 OR Longer Range 🔋 🚗

@MrGoElectric @Teslarati Glad to see Producer Tim coming in with the correct answer 👍

@Teslarati Range.

@solarsunshine77 @Teslarati ^ boom. This guy gets it.

@Teslarati If you had longer range, you wouldn’t need fast charging as often.

@Brownie545 @Teslarati Phrased another way, would you rather have a car that goes 50 miles and vharges in 1 minute, or a car that goes 1000 miles and charges to full in 24 hours.

@Teslarati Faster charging. Not even close.

@_BRCooper @Teslarati Automakers don't advertise range because most every gas vehicle can do 400+ mikes on a tank in any weather even when the car is 15 years old. The range people need has become standardized. EVs still need to bring up the range to that point.

Faster charging. Automakers don't advertise how far their gas cars go on a single tank because nobody cares when they can fill it up in 5 min. Current ranges would be more than enough if cars charged in under 10 min. And the towing/range loss problem for trucks will be solved with faster charging, not 300 kWh packs. EV owners have done a great job convincing ourselves that current charging speeds are good enough, but the average car buyer remains unconvinced. Faster charging speeds (even if you think they're unnecessary) would do a lot of convincing.

@Teslarati Range comes first. Fast charging must increase to support longer ranges (bigger batteries).

@Coconutdog1960 @Clarsonimus The point ----------- You

@CuriousAboutEVs @Clarsonimus Why would you want to do that, dickhead.

#ClimateCrisis Fun Facts: The maximum power density of a solar farm is 50 watts per square meter. Natural gas plants have a power density of 2,000 watts per square meter. Nuclear plants have a power density of 6,000 watts per square meter.

@NoahWhey @Clarsonimus Yes rotating generators heat up water, make steam, spin a turbine. 19th century tech. But now there are grid following and grid forming inverters powered by solar and batteries, much more capable and reactive to the grid's needs.

"Rotating machinery" is a term used in the utility industry to describe any form of generation that uses mechanical means to convert one form of energy into electricity. Doesn't really matter how you think it sounds, the bottom line for PV solar is the efficiency hasn't changed much in the last few decades and the majority of the cost is hidden in the US due to subsidies and capital offsets (tax credits for construction.) Without these projects sucking up billions of taxpayer dollars, the true cost of solar is still higher than any form of fossil fuel generation, even including additional regulatory and taxes on fossil fuels.

@NoahWhey @Clarsonimus Batteries are recyclable, as are solar panels. Fossil fuels are mined to be literally set on fire. Fossil fuels are mined 500x more than the projected peak mining necessary. Whatever argument you think you're making just doesn't hold up.

@CuriousAboutEVs @Clarsonimus And utility-scale batteries for solar are SO good for the environment about which solar activists claim to care. Who needs to worry about carbon when you've got rare-earth and heavy metal contaminents to deal with at the end of a battery's life-cycle.

@NoahWhey @Clarsonimus It's 2026, batteries are a thing. "Rotating machinery" sounds so 1900's.

@CuriousAboutEVs @Clarsonimus Which still is less time spent not generating electricity than a PV solar farm. Also, every Megawatt of solar capacity requires an equal capacity of rotating machinery (i.e. LNG, Coal, etc.) in a utility's generation portfolio.

@NoahWhey @Clarsonimus Except the month / year they need to be offline for maintenance.

@Clarsonimus And the latter two can run 24/7.

@davidallenwest Who would want to drive a car that's noisier, smelly, isn't as smooth, is slower, has to "start" and "stop" and "idle" and "warm up", can't precondition inside your garage, is more prone to failure, and more expensive to maintain? While poisoning your air and water. No thanks.

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@GHeckler67 @superflo @ChrisMartzWX "Windmills" 😂 my man is living in 1850. If you think that is bad, you should look into the fossil fuel ecosystem from mining, transport, refining, etc. It will blow your mind. E.g. refineries and associated infrastructure cause significantly more bird deaths than wind turbines.

@superflo @CuriousAboutEVs @ChrisMartzWX Yeah, just like your windmills that kill birds, bats, insects in the billions ever year, cause warming and spread their toxic coating everywhere and then end up in a landfill after a few years. Not to mention the huge concrete base that will NEVER EVER go away again.

Da fuq you mean new technology? Wind-powered sailing ships have been around for thousands of years.

@mquintos @illegalimigrent @wholemars @DirtyTesLa @SawyerMerritt @RealDanODowd @aelluswamy @AIDRIVR @edgecase411 Front camera isn't used for FSD.

@illegalimigrent @wholemars @DirtyTesLa @SawyerMerritt @RealDanODowd @aelluswamy @AIDRIVR @edgecase411 It’s shows your front camera can’t see.

Accident on #FSD. Sure I am responsible as I was looking at the screen. But how is FSD driving with almost no visibility, remember human visibility has been fine without any issues. I don't even think I had a camera visibility alert or the system was asking to pay attention.

"being Ferrari" means winning races. Gotta win races to keep being Ferrari. This is a pretty basic concept. "We don't race to sell cars; we sell cars to race." - Enzo Ferrari "I don't sell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has to hold the engines in." - Enzo Ferrari

@CuriousAboutEVs These days Ferrari’s heritage is based on being Ferrari.

Your regular reminder that no Ferrari owner cares that a Tesla is faster. Impressive achievement? Yes. Going to change anything? No.

@AntiEVidiots Wind turbines are generally white, and solar panels are mostly blue or black, so he does have a point...

Wow, we have got a really intelligent one here. How can you defend against such well researched and cogent arguments?