{"id":154101,"date":"2024-03-09T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=154101"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T23:53:44","slug":"saturday-weather-or-climate-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=154101","title":{"rendered":"Saturday weather, or climate, or something"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

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 of the vehicles, and how hard they can be driven. It is common knowledge by now that EVs are HEAVY – a small one can weigh as much as a porker Dodge Charger, and the EV version of a Hummer hits the scales at a reputed 9,000+ pounds. Call it three F100s from the old days. They are seriously fast, too, with 0-60 times as low as the sub-3-second bracket. Note one intrepid Cyber truck driver who just parked his truck on the front lawn of a Hollywood hotel – Elon Musk’s explanation is that people just aren’t used to handling that level of power. I hear echoes of “hold my beer” in the distance…<\/p>\n

Get used to more potholes with all those heavy vehicles, more idiots showing them off, and possibly more tire wear more pollution. Probably not the “1000X” that a recent study suggests, but when the lifespan of an EV tire is quoted at around 15,000 miles for a premium tire vs. 45-50,000 for an equivalent car tire…yer gonna buy tires. Of course, they could just make them from a really hard compound, which would minimize rolling resistance (as well as handling grip – oops.)\u00a0 It ain’t an easy subject. We will ignore the sky-high insurance caused by excessive repair costs, especially if you break the battery.<\/p>\n

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Moving on, my second favorite story of the day is the Jaguar EV that suddenly decided it had a mind of its own and carried its owner at speed of almost 100 miles an hour on the motorway. No brakes, unable to shut it off, had to wait for its charge to deplete (per the Telegraph).<\/p>\n

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Police cars swarmed the M62 to save a driver after their electric car suffered an ‘electrical fault’ stopping it from being able to brake.<\/p>\n

Officers from Merseyside Police and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) used specialist tactics to ram the Jaguar car and block it between a number of police vehicles, to eventually bring the car to a stop.<\/p>\n

All lanes were closed for a short while and traffic was stopped as police responded to the incident. itv<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like a thriller where the bad guy takes over your car, eh? (That day will comes, I am sure.)<\/p>\n

The great part: The Telegraph says this happened to his car BEFORE! Jaguar checked the car over and aid nothing was wrong. The Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0 The driver seems to have lost his faith, though, and says he will not be a repeat customer of Jaguar or the dealership. Wonder why.<\/p>\n

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And let’s close out with a quote from our erstwhile beloved (okay, a little sarcasm maybe) Climate Czar John Kerry. Seems the Ukraine war is a POLLUTION issue.<\/p>\n

Outgoing Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry claimed that people would “feel better” about the ongoing war in Ukraine if Russia would “make a greater effort to reduce emissions.”<\/p>\n

“If Russia wanted to show good faith, they could go out and announce what their reductions are going to be and make a greater effort to reduce emissions now,” …”Maybe that would open up the door for people to feel better about what Russia is choosing to do at this point in time,” he said.\u00a0\u00a0 Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure that would make everything all better, like kissing the owie of an severed torso. What a maroon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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