“”Tesla is going to integrate Elon Musk’s newly launched Grok AI assistant in its electric vehicles, according to the CEO.”” We could surmise that Tesla would have to keep up with the Alexas and Siris, and come out with their own version of a voice response system. This will help remove the distraction of fiddling
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Where I live, in Orange County, California, I see a lot of EVs, mostly Teslas, on the roads and in parking lots. I would guesstimate by the amount I see and by the map that it’s 25% or more. Which makes me very happy because the EVs are helping to save us from death and
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This video is a corrected version of the one about EVs from a few weeks earlier. Sabine said, “According to estimates by the non-profit organization American Action Network, by 2035 the costs for the upgrade [of the grid] in the US will reach approximately 2.5 Trillion dollars.” She also talks about overloading transformers and blowing
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Sabine takes us through a 22 minute YouTube video.
YouTube video “Why Electric Cars Won’t Save Us”, channel is Our Changing Climate. Graph shows that in 2021, 6.6 million, or 8.5% of global car sales were electric. It didn’t say if this included plug-in hybrids. Graphic shows that life cycle emissions of EVs in Europe are 66 to 69% lower than gas cars; in
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Short answer: YES. He didn’t address the decrease in production, transportation and distribution of fossil fuels which will decrease the load on the grid. This could compensate for a substantial amount of the increase from EVs. https://youtu.be/7dfyG6FXsUU
There are several ‘drawbacks’ that are false or only partly true. I especially disagree with #16. https://motor-junkie.com/20-drawback-of-electric-vehicles-drivers-commonly-overlook/31416/13/
