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Volvo Plans to Go Electric, to Abandon Conventional Car Engine by 2019 | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 72822801  United States07/05/2017 04:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the big picture they are of course very wrong. Quoting: Vicious Deplorable dollop Urban commuters using electric motors will be fine, but rural, agriculture, transport, and highway shipping will still be using the internal combustion engine for centuries to come. Electrics are not practical even in urban environments due to recharge logistics & time to charge issue. Most people in cities worldwide live in apartments and where would they charge their vehicles?... snobs in silicon valley that live in houses live in a bubble which does not represent the the rest of the world therefore Volvo must have a delusional greentard as CEO. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 54234422 United States07/05/2017 04:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the big picture they are of course very wrong. Quoting: Vicious Deplorable dollop Urban commuters using electric motors will be fine, but rural, agriculture, transport, and highway shipping will still be using the internal combustion engine for centuries to come. Electrics are not practical even in urban environments due to recharge logistics & time to charge issue. Most people in cities worldwide live in apartments and where would they charge their vehicles?... snobs in silicon valley that live in houses live in a bubble which does not represent the the rest of the world therefore Volvo must have a delusional greentard as CEO. Read the OP: "In the face of competition from upstarts like Tesla Inc., which begins production this week of its new mass-market Model 3 electric battery-powered family car, the Chinese-owned automotive group on Wednesday said all new Volvo models from 2019 would be either fully electric or a hybrid." |
The Årtist
 User ID: 44124412 United States07/05/2017 04:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I drive MAX 200 miles a month. With current technology I would only have to charge my car once per month. And even though I'm extremely pro electric car... I'm still suspect of lithium batteries. I mean just look up videos of people's phones or vapes exploding... Fuck having that happen with a car load of them in my garage. RAGE |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 73706304  Netherlands07/05/2017 05:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1 - electric cars are also a powersource for your house whenever you may need it. 2 - lithium powerbanks are now very stable on these industrial powerpacks 3 - musk may lead the way but China will make the same quality soon for 1/3 of the price 4 - people are fed up inhaling exhaust fumes, even those who drive there is no future in clinging to your combustion engines for normal transportation in cars or busses or trucks. A few weirdos will keep driving them but the sane majority will switch to electric sooner than most think. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 54234422 United States07/05/2017 05:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1 - electric cars are also a powersource for your house whenever you may need it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73706304 2 - lithium powerbanks are now very stable on these industrial powerpacks 3 - musk may lead the way but China will make the same quality soon for 1/3 of the price 4 - people are fed up inhaling exhaust fumes, even those who drive there is no future in clinging to your combustion engines for normal transportation in cars or busses or trucks. A few weirdos will keep driving them but the sane majority will switch to electric sooner than most think. #1 is a classic example of doing something that no one needs for the sake of marketing. Why add that complexity to the electric car? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 72822801 United States07/05/2017 05:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1 - electric cars are also a powersource for your house whenever you may need it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73706304 2 - lithium powerbanks are now very stable on these industrial powerpacks 3 - musk may lead the way but China will make the same quality soon for 1/3 of the price 4 - people are fed up inhaling exhaust fumes, even those who drive there is no future in clinging to your combustion engines for normal transportation in cars or busses or trucks. A few weirdos will keep driving them but the sane majority will switch to electric sooner than most think. dream on |
| LastOneSitting
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 75163451 United States07/05/2017 05:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With micro-turbine range extenders, a hybrid vehicle could possibly get 800 miles on one tank of fuel. Micro-turbines are multi-fuel so you can go alcohol, CNG, diesel (bio), gasoline, kerosene and propane. From a maintenance POV, turbines have only 1 moving part. Precision part but the rest of a hybrid system is modular and very efficient. |
| Deplorable Billxam
User ID: 64581773 United States07/05/2017 05:57 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah, wait'll people buy a used one and "the new batteries are $5,000." Batteries have a life people and need to be replaced. At 10 years or about 144,000 miles. But Volvo is all like  Last Edited by Billxam, MAGA+, ABATE, AWHA on 07/05/2017 05:58 PM Proud to be UnV'd There is one constant in life: If you build something worth having, someone will try to take it or destroy it. Proud member of A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments, Americans Who Hate Aging, proud supporter of attractive women. |
| Vicious Deplorable dollop
You ain't seen nothing yet! User ID: 75169458 United States07/05/2017 06:04 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |   Kamala Harris is not a Natural Born Citizen. She's illegally running. Used by the Founders... Book I of The Law of Nations, Chapter XIX, § 212 (Joseph Chitty numbering) – “Citizens and natives” reads: 'The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.' 1758 Emerich de Vattel Oh' What the Hell, do I look like I want to die in some nursing home one day... America must have 4 new Constitutional Amendments... 1. Drug Tests and Mental Evaluations on all politicians and judges randomly five times per year. 2. Term Limits for Federal politicians and judges. 3. Mental and health standards for Supreme Court Justices and retirement age set. 4. A 'Star Chamber' of elected Natural Born Citizens (no attorney's) to ivestigate, try, and prosecute the politicians and government employee's as they see fit. Mandatory death penalty by public hanging is the merciful sentence for pedos and their associates. Democrats are a WMD, literally. Let Justice Be Done Though The Heavens Fall. |
| X1811
User ID: 74892059 United States07/05/2017 06:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Which have their own environmental issues. I love my Volvo, bought it off lease, paid it off, low miles, no need to be enslaved by car payment. All characters and events in this forum --even those based on real people-- are entirely fictional. All celebrity comments are impersonated...poorly. The above post contains coarse language and due to the content it should not be viewed by anyone. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 75163451 United States07/05/2017 06:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Which have their own environmental issues. I love my Volvo, bought it off lease, paid it off, low miles, no need to be enslaved by car payment. I'm an optimist, I believe there are solutions, people just need to be inspired. The talent is out there. We just need an environment to foster those outcomes. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 73706304 Netherlands07/05/2017 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah, wait'll people buy a used one and "the new batteries are $5,000." Batteries have a life people and need to be replaced. At 10 years or about 144,000 miles. But Volvo is all like that will be around 7 years down the road for most people owning a car. by that time the cost of batteries will have dropped like a rock and never mind 7 years later again because in 7 years battery tech will be so good you will just need one set for the life of a car. Sorry but i can see most people not understanding the exponential developments that are starting right now. Solar used to be 3usd/w 7 years ago, now its 0.3usd/w so thats 10x less EXCLUDING inflation Same will happen with batteries once mass production is cranked up 100x compared to now which is exactly what is happening at the moment. |
| The Rickest Rick Sanchez
User ID: 73168454 United States07/05/2017 07:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Planned obsolescence. The universe is basically an animal. It grazes on the ordinary. It creates infinite idiots just to eat them. The Rickest Rick Sanchez comments are meant for entertainment purposes only and should not be construed to reflect the feelings and opinions, implied or expressed, of the author. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 47678081 United States07/06/2017 03:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I recently bought a 2014 Volvo S60 Polestar....it is the last of the in-line V6's (and fucking fast as hell!)....which is exactly why I bought it. All their new cars are 4 cylinders and they are okay but I felt like I was driving a car with a turbo charged lawnmower engine in it and there is no way on earth I will ever buy one. I'm sure as hell not driving an electric car, so this news sorta hurts because I really like this car and Vovlo's. I guess this will be the last Volvo I will ever own because again, there's no fucking way I'm ever buying a 4 cylinder car or an electric car that isn't a Tesla. Sorry Volvo but you lose.....my business. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68797102  Good gasoline engines are becoming more scarce. Mercedes Benz is famous partly for its naturally aspirated V-8 engines. You can no longer buy a new MB with a naturally aspirated V-8, at least not in the USA. All little turbo units. Or at the top of the line, big turbocharged or supercharged units. So, might as well go with electric. Gasoline engines are getting worse, electric power is getting better. |
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