China is so far ahead of us in terms of electric vehicles and we fall further behind because millions of us still believe climate change is a hoax. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/c...
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Here’s why: substack.com/inbox/post/1...
aug 21, 2025, 5:25 am • 0 0 • view
The only part of China Trump and the GOP was o emulate is their surveillance and this
aug 21, 2025, 1:07 am • 1 0 • view
Just wow auto fuck - just wow
aug 21, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
Two things the US has too much of- confident idiots and oil lobbyists. Too little funding going to education for far too long and way too much funneled to big oil. The Dems have to get off our collective asses and make some real and lasting changes if we win in 26 or we might as well give up now.
aug 21, 2025, 7:02 am • 1 0 • view
And almost worse, millions more think that Elon Musk is super-intelligent, a great engineer, and that he or an actual scientist / engineer will swoop-in at the last second, and save us with some gizmo that lets us burn fossil fuels forever without harm.
aug 21, 2025, 2:54 am • 0 0 • view
Well, because oil companies own our politicians.
aug 21, 2025, 1:04 am • 2 0 • view
To be fair though, climate effects battery efficiency, batteries like it warm to prime excitation of cell conduction, cold weather drains batteries plus the salt that is used in winter to keep roads ice free builds up on the undercarriage of the chassis and metal is conductive speeding up discharge
aug 20, 2025, 12:25 pm • 0 0 • view
The road salt isn't a problem if you just rinse it off after the season. You should for a gas car too. A garden hose is just fine. Easier for EV since it's all flat. The batteries are sealed well enough, either way. Going into our 5th winter with ours and no issues.
aug 21, 2025, 10:42 am • 0 0 • view
Do you have the manufacturers engineers report of optimal performance in ideal conditions for the battery...then how do you know your within tolerance of absolute functionality, as compared and contrasted to consumer requirements
aug 22, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh I misread your post. No the road salt doesn't cause a faster discharge of the battery. There's nothing conductive with the bottom of the battery shell. The cells themselves are further insulated inside a fire-resistant foam.
aug 21, 2025, 10:44 am • 0 0 • view
If what you claim is true, how do wireless cellphone chargers work? Lol, next. To fully understand, you have to fully resolve Nickolai Tesla's Paradigm of the Frequency of Alternated Currents. Point of reference his 3x1/3 over area and length.
aug 22, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
There's a coil inside the phone to accept the induction field that the charger puts out. An EV does not have a coil on the base of the battery. Yet. I say yet because apparently Tesla bought a company that makes this for EVs, but hasn't put a product into the market yet. Yes. Next indeed.
aug 22, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
This is true for all ssd capacitors and batteries no matter the type, the solution is a different way of capacitance, and you can take concrete and any battery at any temperature and recreate the results of ionic exchange, it literally does not have to do with anything of the battery.
aug 22, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
It's an ELECTRICAL property called flow by potential. ELECTRICITY is three things amps, volts, watts, what do the watts represent in electricity, no need for ohms that's an insulator or property of resistance.
aug 22, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Or is the circuit now completed via coil induction from bare metal core through the insulator with increased pressure (electrical) by ionic exchange through a differential in potential between solid conductive wire to the conductive solution just on the other side of the insulator?
aug 22, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not. Because of the gap due to the EV's battery being ~7" of the ground prevents this from happening. Notice how a phone's inductive charging needs to be extremely close to work. There is also no "bare metal core" because at least on mine, there's a coating on top of the base plate.
aug 22, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Again I am sorry, I don't want you to think I'm berating you or anything. Thank you for the stimulating conversation though, I don't get many like you, but I appreciate your back and forth and clearly you are NOT an idiot, thank you for that. You're a super cool dude.
aug 22, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol, I'm not trying to argue, sorry, for that, but if you have a wire that's insulated all the way to the terminal ends, which are not insulated, that connect to terminals which are conductive, and then spray the entire wire with a conductive solution, is there still an insulator resistance factor?
aug 22, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
And to be clear, road salt is sprayed in a liquid which contains sodium chlorite, magnesium, and copper, it's not just sodium chloride. But all three compounds are metal and conductive, when you look under the hood or at your battery in a vehicle is it always clean or does it get dirty?
aug 22, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It gets dirty. Hey, I've been through 4 winters already with road salt spray coated onto the underside of my EV battery. Wash it off right when it gets warmer. Never experienced any draining due to the road salt. Maybe a fraction of a % due to the added aero drag from the layer...
aug 22, 2025, 9:25 pm • 0 0 • view
The point I'm trying to relate is how frequently the "pressure" of electricity goes non calculated, by everyone. Nikolai Tesla's works later in his life revolved defining if and what ac electricity pressure is. It was never fully realized in his paperwork, you have to finish the work. Electricity is
aug 22, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Nearly identical to water in terms of the way it flows and what is required to make it flow and keep it flowing, whether stored or not stored via capacitance. Water requires volts, amps, and watts to be made into a "workable" Alternating Current or River temperature affects capacitance
aug 22, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Not electricity it has nothing to do with the materials used in construction of a battery or SSD capacitance device, this is a property of electricity AC or DC or Phasing, phasing by the way is a way to mitigate what we're talking about, ask the airforce, ask the navy, ask any AC-DC 3 Phase.
aug 22, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
How does a battery discharge by just ground only?
aug 22, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Explain car battery discharge when placed on concrete no coil no capacitance. Like I said NEXT.
aug 22, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I did. It's the electrolyte getting colder so it loses capacitance. Not because or some sort of wireless phenomenon. Yes. NEXT!
aug 22, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
That is absolutely not true. Here's the proof, take a fully charged car battery and lay it on the concrete for 2 days, multimeter test it, is it still at full capacity...nope, but how can this be if a plastic battery case is nonconductive. It's called coil inductuctance or ionic transfer.
aug 22, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
You're...comparing a lead-acid battery to a lithium-ion one. The lead-acid has its electrolyte fluid in the container and that bit of plastic isn't enough to keep it from getting cold. Lithium-ion batteries don't have that much electrolyte fluid. Nor does it ever touch the ground...
aug 22, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I looked it up. An EV produces a static EMF of .2 mT max at 2 cm away. Compared to the phone charger you mentioned, is max .3 mT. To have charging happen you need the phone to be <4 cm away. And that's intended charging. So no, looks like the 7 in of gap to the road surface won't induce discharge.
aug 28, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
It doesn't even go that deep: they outright refuse to understand that electric vehicles would mean a massive boost in independence from foreign fuel sources. Then again, that would also mean the irrelevance of Big Oil, which are the ones pushing climate change denial.
aug 20, 2025, 1:59 pm • 6 0 • view
Yep. We have to take charge after they're gone and do better. Business as usual is as good as losing to these racist cretins.
aug 21, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
Same reason they can't elect decent leaders
aug 21, 2025, 12:34 am • 0 0 • view
Conservatives have given the future to China for the promise of living like Wild West cowboys.
aug 21, 2025, 5:39 am • 0 0 • view
We are doomed to drive cars that belong in the last century because oil companies want to sell gas. China will leave us in the dust.
aug 21, 2025, 12:31 am • 2 0 • view
China is eating our lunch on so much technology of the future.
aug 21, 2025, 1:52 am • 3 0 • view
We can also point out China's HUGE lead in electric trains too.
aug 21, 2025, 6:56 am • 0 0 • view
the magats in power demanding the U.S. fall farther & farther behind the rest of the world while draining our supply of talent in order to ensure we cannot keep up - to keep U.S. in the smoggy, polluted, overly expensive oil & coal era
aug 21, 2025, 12:43 am • 1 0 • view
Short-sighted jackasses handing the future of humanity to another authoritarian regime while they dream about 'the good old days' while burning us all alongside them.
aug 21, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
Uhhh: www.wired.com/story/byd-5-...
aug 21, 2025, 6:20 am • 0 0 • view
Also, the idiots are in charge
aug 20, 2025, 1:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Because we are the dumbest smartest nation in Earth
aug 21, 2025, 1:44 am • 2 0 • view
Our country's population is the epitome of Dunning Krueger.
aug 21, 2025, 5:24 am • 0 0 • view
Because Capitalism is a backwards way to distribute resources.
aug 21, 2025, 6:36 am • 0 0 • view
Religion and Republicans hold back all progress.
aug 20, 2025, 11:11 am • 5 0 • view
SAY IT AGAIN
aug 21, 2025, 6:36 am • 0 0 • view
EV is just greenwashing. But since it's being forced down our throats, China invested 600B the US didn't that's why. And, Biden blocked China Ev sales leaving the us with crap EVs to boot. Basically who cares. The US miltary is the biggest polluter in the world anyway.
aug 21, 2025, 5:18 am • 0 0 • view
There seriously is no shortage of stupid in this country. It’s pathetic. And deplorable.
aug 21, 2025, 1:34 am • 2 0 • view
Education and science are not valued in the U.S. as much as in other countries. I remember a business owner saying, "You don't want people to know you went to college because well, you know." For reasons I don't understand many Americans will brag about their ignorance rather than their knowledge.
aug 20, 2025, 11:00 am • 1 0 • view
It's not even bragging one way or another: the average USA rando actively hates knowledge.
aug 20, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Indeed some amplify their ignorance with the spoken word.
aug 20, 2025, 2:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Superchargers like this are kind of a moot point. The average EV owner is using 12% of its range per day, a figure skewed by usage for things like Uber. You aren't ever going to have or need a supercharger at home, where you do most of your charging.
aug 21, 2025, 8:56 am • 1 0 • view
They are only useful on motorways when travelling in excess of the range (less than 1% of journeys) And then what's the real difference between the 8 minute superchargers and this 5 minute charger? It's taking a minimum of 15 minutes at the services to use the loo and grab a drink 🤷🏼♂️
aug 21, 2025, 8:56 am • 0 0 • view
Cause musk had to raid every government agency this year instead of doing his job
aug 21, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
Electric is not the answer, Hydrogen is the way forward, but the battery making billionaires won’t like that.
aug 21, 2025, 7:10 am • 1 0 • view
Hydrogen is a bust. That's why most car companies have now dropped it. Expensive to make, inefficient, the pumps don't work (see hydrogen highway) and after 8 years the power cell is dead and costs a bomb to replace. Mirai owners are suing Toyota in a class action because of the lies about it
aug 21, 2025, 8:50 am • 1 0 • view
The docu I saw on Hydrogen cars 2yrs ago told a different story, batteries for electric cost a fortune which is why they are hired. Plus if you live above the ground floor in a block good luck with finding a charging point, it will need millions of points.
aug 21, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view
And in 2 years, 1/4 of all H2 filling stations in the U.S. have closed, and they were only in a single state, so yeah, everything @msparks28.bsky.social is correct and up to date. H2 is horrible, all the disadvantages of EV (cost, infrastructure, etc) many times worse. It's dead for consumers.
aug 21, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Batteries for a car have come down from £20k to just £6k Hydrogen however requires 25% more electricity than first thought, converting electric to hydrogen, then back to electric (which is what the car does) loses 44% of the initial power investment compared to directly putting it in an EV
aug 21, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
You can also go look at the car manufacturers, it's only still being pursued in heavy industry due to Hydrogen embrittlement (hydrogen punches holes in all metal) It's also 50x more explosive than dynamite, and all the fuel pumps on the "hydrogen highway" have broken, it's a complete bust
aug 21, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
maga karz run on koal. 🤣
aug 21, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
I think the biggest problem is the way we fund grid upgrades. Regular overnight EV charging isn't a problem at all, especially with time of use pricing. But, we struggle to build DC fast charging infrastructure because demand charges for the fastest chargers are insane.
aug 21, 2025, 7:46 am • 0 0 • view
I live in Thailand and there are at least 10-12 Chinese brands of EVs. Tesla seems to be the only American EV here, and it costs more than a comparable BYD (which sells about twice the number of Teslas alone).
aug 21, 2025, 6:59 am • 0 0 • view