Why the EV Revolution May Finally Be Here

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Жыл бұрын

In this segment from Getting Warmer, Kal Penn explains why the US may have reached a tipping point in its transition to electric vehicles, and why it took so long. He also shows how your new EV could be an “Airbnb for utility companies.”
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@nandodepaula7308 Жыл бұрын

This is like watching Shaq do a Dollar General commercial. Kumar, "I should have put my money in an index fund."

@adamselene9264 Жыл бұрын

Suppose you drove a vehicle around all day holding your horn down, forcing everybody in their homes and everywhere else to hear noise you are making. How would that be any worse than the constant loud exhaust pipes that is currently actually happening?

@joskabouw Жыл бұрын

Solar Solar Solar Every roof and parking lot is a solar capture surface

@chrisrew7853 Жыл бұрын

Worried about your trips to Home Depot? Most EVs can do 200+ miles! Then you plug it in back at home at 10% the price of gas. That's many millions of "charging stations" in USA alone.

@DemPilafian Жыл бұрын

@@rungunninja1289 Who wants to worry about a car that needs the inconvenience of oil changes, replacement timing belts, engine light warnings, smog checks, transmission repairs, and slow acceleration? ICE cars are rolling maintenance headache.

@davidbowl9650 Жыл бұрын

@@rungunninja1289 Maintenance is much, much lower on an electric car. I have spoken to taxi drivers in the uk that use electric cars. The maintenance costs are so much lower and electric cars last much longer than ice. a taxi driver said his car lasted 210 000 miles after so much maintenance vs his electric car which is currently on 240 000 miles and he has only had to change tires.

@davidbowl9650 8 ай бұрын

@@DemPilafianfor real I watched a video of a taxi driver who does about 100k miles a year. He enjoys driving cars till they wear out he owned a Tesla for 9 months and drove 100k miles. He only had one thing to replace on his shock absorber or damper because he hit a bump otherwise no other maintenance needed. He also charges on a fast charger one a day otherwise he charges at home. Costs him virtually nothing in comparison to an ice

@alouachachraf Жыл бұрын

Didn't expect Kumar to come back this strong

@ZZ-vl5nd Жыл бұрын

I watched just because of him 😁

@viranjith Жыл бұрын

I like Kal for these videos!

@KENZOkm Жыл бұрын

really enjoying this series!

@chillout1109 Жыл бұрын

1:49 Europe is not one country. "Other countries" are not one country either. So, to bundle all the chargers in these countries and compare them to the US which is a single country is a bit disingenuous if you ask me. If we present the figures fairly, as they are, then the US actually has the second largest charging infrastructure after China.

@Sal3600 Жыл бұрын

Thank musk.

@japrogramer Жыл бұрын

Cool, should my next car be electric?

@nintendokings Жыл бұрын

Go for it

@TheYah00netstar Жыл бұрын

Hydrogen

@johnfritchey6233 5 ай бұрын

That depends on your needs. I know mine will be.

@DeeP_BosE Жыл бұрын

And its strange that now US is digging for more OIL in the Alaska. Revolution ?

@TheYah00netstar Жыл бұрын

*Oil will be with us for a very long time still...but they will be repurposed to some byproduct non/less pollutant for different applications...*

@richard_robert Жыл бұрын

Hi Kumar.

@technoidic_ash Жыл бұрын

is he trying to enact Hasan Minhaj from patriot act?

@paulmee6099 Жыл бұрын

12 a year for the Hummer

@vicmorrison8128 Жыл бұрын

Small steps to complete independence. That is the goal. Keep moving forward.

@SoCalFreelance Жыл бұрын

0:44 Kal, what's Elon doing in this photo? Can you explain it to me? 😁

@ds_7 Жыл бұрын

America behind the rest of the world in terms of EV charging points? Are you joking?

@huckleberryfinn6578 Жыл бұрын

Only behind China and Europe.

@soulshinobi Жыл бұрын

Incredibly obnoxious how you break the 4th wall.

@joskabouw Жыл бұрын

So what is that MORE????

@David-gp3fd Жыл бұрын

Talk about the cobalt mining for EVs

@Greg29 Жыл бұрын

Why

@OutOfNameIdeas2 Жыл бұрын

@@Greg29environmental disaster

@Greg29 Жыл бұрын

@@OutOfNameIdeas2 Battery chemistries are constantly changing, LFP batteries don't use any cobalt.

@OutOfNameIdeas2 Жыл бұрын

@@Greg29 lithium isn't much better

@Greg29 Жыл бұрын

@@OutOfNameIdeas2 I don't know what you mean there, there's abundant lithium, Nevada alone has enough to meet the entire US market, it's not an environmental disaster to mine it. Also some batteries don't even use lithium. Battery chemistry is very much in flux, there's even one that substitutes sodium for lithium. It always strikes me that some people are just grasping at straws to find *something* negative to say about EVs when they think they've found an Achilles heel with batteries. ICE cars will always be worse for the environment c/w EVs no matter how you look at it.

@asterisxamos7860 Жыл бұрын

Just a reminder ev's historically is older than the otgers especially in ford

@dhirajgawande007 Жыл бұрын

People don't care about the pollution that the cars are causing. They care about the money they save on oil.

@5bJuggla Жыл бұрын

well done Bloomie... you know why

@seekingtruth3054 9 ай бұрын

Not only is there a bigger initial cost to own an EV. Be advised that states are not just going to sit back and give up their gasoline tax revenue. EV owners will be forced to subsidize gasoline usage. From InsideEVs, Jun 07, 2023 Some states are requiring electric vehicle owners to pay extra registration fees as part of a move to recoup lost revenue on gas taxes. In one state, a new senate bill requiring added costs for EV registration is set to become effective on September 1, and 32 other states feature similar fees.

@nintendokings Жыл бұрын

EV Revolution? We can do better guys. Should be called EVolution, or eeveelution..

@kevinbarnes5250 Жыл бұрын

what's Kumar doing here

@TheRustyLM Жыл бұрын

🧚‍♂️🌈🦄

@hellotp2959 Жыл бұрын

Die like late 1800 bet yall didnt know we had electric car-way back than

@chrismv102 Жыл бұрын

We need to make them affordable. They are not close to the cost of ICE vehicles. Plus they don't have the range. Hybrids are the way to go for now.

@Greg29 Жыл бұрын

You don't mention practically zero lifetime maintenance for EVs c/w ICE cars and how much cheaper it is to charge vs. filling tank with gas. Gas prices can also fluctuate wildly depending on world events. Range is several hundred miles, how many road trips do you need to take? Otherwise you'll be charging at home when you get home from work and not stopping to buy gas. Hybrids are overly complicated half measures and still need gas, why bother with them?

@BigTone999 Жыл бұрын

@Greg29 Electricity ain't cheap now, bout the same as petrol. I own an Ioniq 5.

@littmann2100 Жыл бұрын

You're funny

@user-in1rg8dc4o Жыл бұрын

GO EV! GO CANOO!! They will electrify America and be an industry leader!

@logicae4096 Жыл бұрын

Seriously is this a political ad? 1. EV battery chemical composition versus driving electrical vehicle - environmental damage might not offset the carbon emission reduction. Jury is out 2. The generation of electricity while getting greener … it is far from green so far. So the carbon offset is not totally mitigated. 3. If people really want to make an impact… seriously, look at the environmental catastrophes in South East Asian countries, Bangladesh, India, etc. Talk about low hanging fruit that will have a huge impact.

@MimsicalRenegade Жыл бұрын

EV = Exploding Vehicles

@sean640 Жыл бұрын

I hate this show kinda. Why would you just name drop redwood? Also, that recycling vid was doomer af

@CaptainObvio Жыл бұрын

We also have to make it easy to make them where the issue is. Lithium production is nowhere near where we need and isn’t projected to keep up with demand. Peter Zeihan talks about this regularly.

@DemPilafian Жыл бұрын

Bullocks. Lithium prices crashed as recently as late 2020. Australia just surpassed China in lithium production. Like many commodities, prices can be volatile for a variety of reasons. We always need to be careful to extract resources responsibly, but there's no danger of running out of lithium.

@CaptainObvio Жыл бұрын

@@DemPilafian unfortunately it’s not bs… I’d love to work on EVs myself but battery production won’t keep up with demand because of lithium production. In 2021 global production was less than 110K tonnes (WEF data). We’ll need 3M tonnes by 2030 to hit it the ambitious targets we’d require to electrify the transportation system. Believe I want to be part of the solution but this is unfortunately media fluff.

@DemPilafian Жыл бұрын

@@CaptainObvio Yeah, you're right. Capitalism is in capable of building out new lithium capacity and battery factories. Everything must remain the same as yesterday. Whatever. Go back into your cave _Lazo,_ you clearly do not want to be part of the solution.

@davidbowl9650 Жыл бұрын

no, most ev companies have deals with mining companies where the production of evs is set to risat the same rate as lithium production. Any over production in lithium is compensated by the ev manufacturer.

@jermaineferdinand9358 Жыл бұрын

Very bad idea a battery can only be charged X amount of times

@Luka_3D 5 ай бұрын

Yes but with modern battery management systems, manufacturers are putting warranties upwards of 10 years on them. Also if you take care of your battery by getting into a habit of not charging to 100 percent and keeping it between 20 and 80 percent most of the time and around 40% when the car is gonna stand still for long periods, this lifetime can easily reach 20 years. Which is about on par with what ice cars manage before a major engine rebuild.

@nickscarter9609 9 ай бұрын

The first Tesla electric car failed in 1884-87. Will fail again…

@hellotp2959 Жыл бұрын

How much they pay u ???

@InderjitSingh12 Жыл бұрын

Hummer EV is litteraly opposite of what EV revolution should be. Hummer EV has emissions similair light pick up truck.

@DemPilafian Жыл бұрын

Once the grid is fully powered with wind, solar, and other clean sustainable power sources, it won't really matter much if you're driving a Hummer as long as it's an EV. _(By the way, on April 30, 2022 California for the first time ran on 100% clean energy with solar making up the largest slice.)_

@tomvallee1768 Жыл бұрын

Electric vehicles are suitable for some people and some driving patterns. Pretending they will replace all gas and diesel cars soon is avoiding realities. Pretending EVs are non-polluting is avoiding facts. The waste is dumped into the ocean in some countries that produce batteries. Battery life is 10 to 15 years (not much longer than a typical car loan). Gas and diesel fuel cars have a much longer life. The grid losses around 60% to 70% of the energy produced at the source plant. And even if we outlaw all gas cars in 15 or 20 years, where do we get the money to buy new EVs? The deposal of all the gas cars would be an ecological and economic disaster. Touting these silly timelines and usage numbers hurts the cause.

@TheYah00netstar Жыл бұрын

*Like golf players at the Golf Club...just saying...by the way...think hydrogen...please.*

@tomvallee1768 Жыл бұрын

@@TheYah00netstar And think hydrogen mini power plants local to the user around homes and businesses.

@DemPilafian Жыл бұрын

Pretending that rural Americans have gas stations at home is avoiding realities. Rural Americans have electricity and can easily charge up their cars at home. Gas stations are far away in the towns. What reality are you in that you think ICE vehicles are workable for rural Americans? Just sayin'!

@tomvallee1768 Жыл бұрын

@@DemPilafian In rural communities of farm and ranchers, they have onsite fuel storage. No one is driving the combine down to the gas station. I have relatives running farms in remote areas of the Texas panhandle. I checked. They know no one with electric tractors or harvesting equipment, And no one with an EV.

@DemPilafian Жыл бұрын

@@tomvallee1768 I said *"cars"* not *"combines"* you lier. Hauling fuel around is obviously possible, but it's a hassle. Only a minority of rural Americans have their own fuel storage facilities. Not everyone in rural areas own a big farm.

@123blakes8 Жыл бұрын

The whole interior of the cars are made of plastic….

@djp1234 Жыл бұрын

EVs are great if you only drive short distances and you own a house and have a place to charge it. As a millenial, I'll be burning fossil fuels until I die.

@davidbowl9650 Жыл бұрын

nah, some evs goup to as much as 500 miles. thats not a short distance. Also battery tech is still in its infancy, it will get much, much cheaper and larger.

@Luka_3D 5 ай бұрын

I second that opinion. Also, don't rule out the chance that we might be able to plug in in most parking lots. The necessary infrastructure is already there. All we need is the utility companies to see the demand and cooperate.

@macberry4048 Жыл бұрын

People underestimate how hard it will be to keep an electric car on the road.

@DemPilafian Жыл бұрын

A horse and buggy system has much better autopilot so you stay on the road.

@Luka_3D 5 ай бұрын

Not much different than keeping an ice car on the road to be honest. Throw in some basic battery management education and we can probably look forward to battries lasting well over 20 years

@macberry4048 5 ай бұрын

@@Luka_3D My point about keeping the car on the road related to setting up a home charger.

@Luka_3D 5 ай бұрын

@@macberry4048 Ah that. Yeah I completely agree with you on that. As an apparent dweller myself who owns an ev, I sincerely hope utility companies and local governments get pushed to allow us to install our own charging stations on streets. Or just install more stations around places like gyms and the like.