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Aug 20·edited Aug 20Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

EV or not, the screenification of modern automobiles is a mega turn off for me.

For a navigation system? Sure, a screen is okay. Android Auto and Apple Car Play are decent but that's because they essentially mirror smartphone interfaces.

Radio/audio? Meh.

But for speed and other technical information, please give me analog dials.

And for climate control, volume, etc, give me physical buttons and knobs.

I also tend to keep my cars for the long run and want easy to replace components.

I get the feeling that if a car with all these touch screens fail, it might be difficult and expensive to replace them, especially out of warranty.

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This article is poor persuasion. When stupid points such as touch screens are listed, the author's credibility is shot. Take a page from the courtroom and hammer on the fatal flaws of EVs and don't dilute your argument with minor points. On second thought, there are still so many fatal flaws to EVs, just hammer on the top 3:

1) EVs are very poor transportation for anything other than short commutes. Most consumer vehicles are multi purpose and must do more than commute.

2) For the next few decades, EVs will be prisoners of their Chinese supply chain. Which, by the way is supplied by actual prisoners. It will literally take decades to fix this if it is even possible.

3) EVs will not have a perceptible influence on climate change. Except possibly for the worse.

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Aug 13Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

When an article is this long I have a tendency to not read it all...so I skipped over most of this post...

As near as I can tell the article failed to mention ONE HUGE PROBLEM with EVs:

They are dang near WORTHLESS in wintertime!

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I'm sure some author wrote a similar article about cars and horses in 1900. Cars are evolving including EVs and some of these points are well understood. It's early days and there is a lot of research in the EV/battery area. Look how much change in weight and range and charge time compared to the first EVs. 80% to 90% of the driving we do is no more than 100 miles and we are lucky we can charge in our garage and are full every time we leave the house. So many people don't have that convenience though.

I took a very quick shot at some of the top 10 items:

#2: Touch screen -- I see many new non-Tesla EVs are moving back to physical buttons for common functions (lights, HVAC, entertainment). The engineers and geeks got ahead of themselves vs human factors for sure.

#3: Stress -- I believe this comment is in the context of long distance travel and recharging at DCFC. I do wonder how apartment dwellers and other dense housing dwellers deal with charging. It will get better but certainly not there yet.

#4: Public chargers not manned - This is a big concern and I would worry about my wife and daughters in these situations. Also I don't understand why these DCFC are not covered. Snow, rain, brutal hot summers. It just doesn't make sense. Gas stations have had covered pumps for decades. It's not like we don't understand this.

#6: Acceleration -- Cracks me up when so many EV enthusiast websites and YT vids rant on about the 0-60 times of their EVs. And large % of EVs sold are cross-over/SUV models not sports cars. I saw one European EV has a 'turbo' type button on steering wheel to allow for burst of power (passing) but normally the car just behaves.

#8: Weight -- When do these people making this comment talk about the massive pickups and giant SUVs on the road. Yes an EV is 25% to 30% heavier for the same class vehicle (EV6 vs RAV4). You have the same problem with a Suburban vs a Corolla.

#9: Tech can solve this. I saw where some jurisdictions require sound generators for EVs at low speeds. Or develop a vehicle detector and give it to the blind. How many people does this impact?

Can blind people step out in front of bike or many other obstructions?

#10: Guard Rails -- see comment for #8. Suburbans and F-150s/Ram pickups are everywhere and heavy.

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Aug 13·edited Aug 13Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

Regarding the weight issue, the range issue and the price issue.

In Japan there is the Nissan Sakura/Mitsubishi ek X EV which has identical exterior dimensions etc to the Mitsubishi ek X and its Nissan equivalent.

The 2WD EK-X weighs 830kg. The 2WD EK-X-EV weighs 1070kg. That’s roughly 30% more. The EV has a range of 180km officially. The gasoline one appears to have a range of slightly over double that - possibly more, it is hard to figure out the tank size, I think it is 20l but it could be larger. The official fuel consumption is over 20km/l (23.3km/l - but I assume that’s optimistic). But 20l at 20km/l is 400km or 2.222x the 180km range of the EV

The gasoline car comes in at around two thirds of the price of the EV (JPY 1,664,520 list vs JPY 2,568,500). Perhaps that difference can be made up in operational cost? Given the use cases of these cars are short commute/local errand running for the most part, the likely monthly driving distance is probably going to be around 1000km. At the current JPY 175/l and generously saying 20km/l fuel consumption, 1000km is 50l or JPY8,750. Which works out as an annual cost (for 12,000 km) of JPY105,000.

So it would take 9 years of such use for the gasoline car to match the cost of the EV ignoring all the other maintenance costs and the price of the electricity to charge the EV

FYI relevant links

EV - https://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/lineup/ek_x_ev/

Gasoline - https://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/lineup/ek_x/

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Aug 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

One thing I did not see are the requests made by government ( i.e. CA) not to charge your car when the grid is stressed. They speak out of both sides of their mouth. Buy an EV … but don’t expect to be able to charge it when you need to.

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Yup, it sort of defeats the purpose of a personal automobile, doesn't it?

One of the perks that's made the personal automobile so darned successful is for the owner to be able to travel wherever they need to go at whatever time.

The central planner anointed types who rules places such as California think they know what's best for other people though and demand the control of personal automobile use be left up to them.

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Simply put, EVs on a mass scale will be an absolute disaster economically and environmentally. The people pushing EVs are either ignorant or have an economic or political incentive to push them.

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Aug 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

"Well Mrs. Lincoln, aside from those little annoyances, how did you enjoy the play?"

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Aug 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

This is a great piece of simple math and logic: "The slowness of a recharge process means that to get the same throughput as a service station (petrol & diesel) a recharge station will need approximate 8 times the number of charge points as petrol pumps because refuelling petrol takes about 5 minutes, not 40. Petrol stations typically have about 10 points, so this suggests 80 recharge points. Having even 20 recharge points all active at the same time would put a huge load on the cabling for the electricity grid.

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These e-vehicles are so horrific how anyone even doing the slightest bit of research could possibly want one makes one's mind explode. Any large object requiring lithium/ion batteries should not be allowed to exist, period!

The 'CLIMATE CHAOS' fraud is the excuse and propaganda misdirection justifying attacks on farming and food, concealing a profoundly inimical globalist genocidal enslavement scheme.

Do you want to live in the squalor and drudgery and misery of the pre-industrial age? HELL NO!

HANDS OFF MY GAS STOVE! I LOVE MY GAS STOVE! Ever try to cook on an electric stove - absolute nightmare!

Anyone with 2 brain cells would know that 'NET ZERO' is an utterly insane off the charts idiocy, an absolute mathematical, physical, statistical and practical impossibility that can never be achieved or exist in reality!

Can't say this often enough! CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED GREEN GRIFT AGENDA! https://climateviewer.com

It's always since the dawn of history, been about using knowledge for power and control by the psycho portion of the human population that learned how to manipulate 'normies' to obey them in their power-mad power trips.

In these modern times, this evil has become TECHNOCRACY, the vilest threat to the existence of all life on earth since forever!

EW! GROSS! HELL NO! https://www.technocracy.news

NOT MY BRAIN/MIND! NOT MY BODY! NO WAY, NO HOW, NOT PLAYING YOUR AI QUANTUM STUPID-ASS VIDEO GAMES! I AM LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD CREATING ART AND PERFORMANCES!

The more I learn about this stuff, the more sickened, nauseated and horrified I get, and I wonder what kind of inhuman psychopath loonies make this crap and want to use it!?

THIS IS PURE SATANIC EVIL! IT IS MEANT TO DESTROY BILLIONS OF YEARS OF CREATION IN THE ATTEMPT OF TOTAL SLAVERY CONTROL BY POWER-MAD PSYCHOS!

I DO NOT COMPLY! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL! May more and more wake up and resist and cultivate their health.

There is a fate worse than death - I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!

I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.

My loathing of AI and all things NANO and digital knows no bounds!

SCREW THE FEAR FAKERY! NO TRUSTING THE WEF RULING CLASS EVER!

Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.

I have no fear of 'germs' or 'viruses'. One of the best places to go for reality: https://virustruth.net

I try to live without fear! Fear is the mind-killer!

PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS BY POWERFUL, WEALTHY CRIMINALS WITH EVIL INTENT CAN CAUSE ALL KINDS OF HAVOC! QUESTION EVERYTHING!

And these, the criminals behind the NAC and all the other schemes will use hypochondria hysteria and 'climate' hysteria to propagandize the gullible 'sheeple' into complying with TOTAL ENSLAVEMENT which is what this is really about!

A vast majority of so-called leaders and Public 'Serpents' around the world have been bribed, blackmailed/coerced into serving the interests of their technocratic New World Ordure parasite masters and not We the People.

GREED is behind every evil assailing us in the world!

The demonic despots of Davos at it again! They are behind everything bad! At it for decades and cronies like The Rothschilds and the Black Nobility and The Khazarian Mafia have been plotting planetary domination for centuries! ALL BECAUSE OF AVARICE!

We the People must try harder to live by The Golden Rule, doing so would solve most problems!

THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough! Mistakes were not made, it was always malice aforethought.

AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.

Migrant/Entrant Invasion/Infrastructure Attacks - all part of the destructive plot to achieve total slavery!

Apoplectic livid rage hardly describes the intensity of emotions I have had and am having over what these malignant globalists are perpetrating!

There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!

Creative performing arts, fine arts and literary arts are the best part of being human and the thing the globalist predator technocrat megalomaniac total slavery control freaks most want to destroy.

Too many 'sheeple' are brainwashed to blindly obey authority figures on the media or in daily life in corrupt system ruled by control freak psychopaths who use propaganda lies to enslave their subjects and they are dumbed down to be obedient by 'education' institutions. Fortunately I was raised to question everything. This transcends party lines. We need a system that punishes psychopaths and rewards compassion and sharing, we need a system that actually follows The Constitution in reality.

Kudos to Thomas J Shepstone's and Vijay Jayaraj's heroic efforts and success in the struggle. We the People must always be aware of the existential threats lurking behind this fight!

How I stick my thumb in the eyes of the grotesque billionaire bastards pushing their enslavement agenda and how I embrace being fully human.

Fighting the globalist predator technocrat psychopath megalomaniac TOTAL SLAVERY AGENDA one performance at a time!

Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!

As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (69) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!

https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer

I try and live and embody the creative performing artistic world and life I so fervently want existence to be about.

They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!

All manner of lies and propaganda spew forth from the upper echelons in governments worldwide who are completely intertwined with the global criminal ruling class that wants to commit the worst atrocities imaginable and suffer no consequences. And their corruption slithers down the chain of command creating petty tyrants everywhere.

We the People are facing HORRIFYING TECHNOCRATIC PSYCHOPATHY TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND ALL NATURAL LIFE!

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back!

We must never lose sight of the larger picture of the vile malignance we are fighting against.

There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.

How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!

RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!

Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.

There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!

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APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!

MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!

NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT MONKEYSHINES! WAKE UP ALREADY!

TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.

NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.

STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!

NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.

Links to reinforce my comment.

https://wrenchinthegears.com

https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com

https://pandemicfacts.info

https://wearehumanwearefree.org/7-days-campaign/

https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/covid-19-roadmap-12-step-plan-to-create-a-totalitarian-new-world-order-were-on-number-8-headed-towards-number-9/

https://questioningcovid.com

https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/

http://www.stopcp.com/GlobalResetPSYOP/GlobalResetPSYOPMindMap.html

https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/

Pam Popper: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com

Del Bigtree: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/highwire

Naomi Wolf: https://dailyclout.io

www.nojabforme.info

https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-must-awaken-from-corona-coma-reject-great-reset-robotic-technocracy-assert-common-humanity/5745213

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Aug 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

excellent summary, great reference. thank you!

Here's another potential issue for EV's: What about EMF's when driving an EV? Are they potentially hazardous to human health? Are the EMF's that humans are exposed to while driving an EV stronger and therefore more hazardous than the EMF's while driving an ICE car?

Does anyone know the answer to these questions, or where I might look to find answers. Thanks!

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100% - these monstrosities are microwave ovens on wheels and people with EMF sensitivity cannot go anywhere near them when they are operating.

See Edward Firstenberg of Invisible Rainbow and Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International.

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thanks!

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Do you happen to have links to their info?

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Aug 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

I just scanned the titles of all the articles, Patricia has very many!--but did not see any title that references EV's. Do you know of a specific articles that discusses EMF's produced by EV's and also by hybrids just as the Toyota Prius that uses both an ICE and Electric Motor (sometimes at the same time) to drive the car?

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Since I do not drive, I have not researched this as much as would a car buyer, but if you use PRESEARCH search engine and try searching the topic, I sure hope you will find the info you need. Ellen Brown, a well-known expert on finance and local/community banking is EMF sensitive and cannot stand e-vehicles, just one anecdotal report.

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thanks again!

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Aug 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

Great summary. Don't forget how much income governments receive from petrol taxes. They would probably be forced to levy similar taxes on the electricity for EVs. I still think the biggest issue is the power draw for a station with dozens of fast chargers, which you alluded to. It will overwhelm the local grid.

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Aug 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

Useless.

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Aug 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

The Martin Luther 95 Theses for EV's.

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Aug 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

Thanks for sharing, David. It’s a must read for all policy makers; however, of course they’ll all ignore it and all of the points raised and just respond: “climate change, climate change,” and “science denier,” just like they shout “racist,” to end any conversation challenging their policy positions.

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Aug 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

I have yet to hear from anyone who outchadia bev that it was an economical decision. Since I I fuel once a week the range being 525 miles, I would add significant time to my schedule to recharge. And those I know with home chargers have higher electricity bills than the neighbors, and that increase is more than the cost of gasoline.

Based on economic analysis of just acquisyand daily fuel the bev is more cost. And for what purpose? To say you’re an environmentalist?

Add all of the other considerations and the bev is just a bad choice for transportation,

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