EVs
Good Idea Fairy in action
Electric cars… I’m not going to start a discussion on ’em – think we have beaten them to death by now. But an incident this week makes me wonder whether the Navy should start using them. As weapons. A cargo ship that had been delivering new vehicles to Mexico sank in the North Pacific Ocean, […]
The irony of lithium
Well, we know that one of the great needs of the grand and glorious EV revolution is lithium. Can’t have an electric car without either a bloody long extension cord or a pretty sizable battery, right? Old-style lead-acid batteries don’t hold enough of a charge for their weight – so the current front running […]
Saturday weather, or climate, or something
Well, let’s start by beating up on EVs a little. Almost too easy. But we’re going to look at a different aspect first – tire pollution. Not disposing of used tires, but the particular stuff that gets ground off tires. This is directly proportional to softness of the compounds used in the tires, the weights […]
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