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#evs

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Having driven both electric cars and motorbikes, my attitude about hearing the loud VRROOOOM! of a large internal combustion engine has changed.

That is not any longer the sound of going as fast as possible, merely the play, narrative & advertisement of doing so.

The true sound of going fast is the high-pitched whine of coils & the silence of computer control, with the occasional screech of wheels in corners of course.

The true killer is silent, like in nature.
#evs #power #speed

#Toyota #EVs #SolidStateBatteries
"Imagine an electric vehicle, powered by a new solid-state battery, that could travel nearly 750 miles on one charge, last 30 years and fully recharge in under 10 minutes. Could this be the Holy Grail of EV proliferation?"

New Record-Breaking EV In Pipeline With 745 Miles Of Range

"Imagine an EV that could travel nearly 750 miles on one charge, last 30 years and fully recharge in under 10 minutes. Toyota says it'll arrive by 2027."
forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/202

ForbesThe EV Holy Grail? A Battery That Can Travel 745 Miles On One ChargeImagine an EV that could travel nearly 750 miles on one charge, last 30 years, and fully recharge in under 10 minutes. Toyota says it'll arrive by 2027.

"An area of forest the size of 18 football fields will be destroyed every day for the next 25 years to meet EU demand for Electric Vehicles under current scenarios, new study finds".

The report, commissioned by Fern to @negawatt, also identifies pathways for a much cleaner transition. A #sufficiency approach, coupled with the right choice of #battery technology (avoiding #nickel and #cobalt in particular), could reduce #deforestation by as much as 82%.

#EVs #forests

fern.org/publications-insight/

@thedarkener @fixatedpersonsunit

I'm a huge fan of #EVs. Own one & widely recommend them. I hope Tesla survives as an EV manufacturer, but reckon they need to completely split from Musk & his ketamine(?) fever dreams to do so.

I'm not anti most Tesla owners, especially those buying before the insanities.

Reasons I won't buy/recommend a Tesla:
*Musk
*[vapourware] no really, it's coming soon, we promise (again)
*Musk
*No model that suits my needs
*Musk

One change could fix 4 of those 😉