Why the Insistence For Battery Pack/Non Hybrid EVs?

 The GM EV-1 was a battery pack, plug in, without any on board gasoline/ethanol internal combustion engine.

The Toyota Prius was an EV that was a parallel hybrid, whereas the on board liquid fuel internal combustion engine served as both for electrical generation AND direct propulsion, with its "parallel" system of engine, transmission and differential mechanically connected to the drive wheels.

So was the Fisker Karma.

And so was the GM Volt.

Parallel Hybrids have way more components than necessary.

Far simpler are serial hybrids.  These can be purely electrical propulsion, with the liquid fueled engine soley for electrical generation (as well as heat), avoiding the extra parts of a parallel ICE.

Hybrids make perfect sense given the matters relating to energy storage and conversion.  Gasoline derived from petroleum, as well as Ethanol, are efficient.  Fuel tanks of gasoline mixed with ethanol are considerably safer than enormous battery packs.  We have an established huge infrastructure in marketing and selling liquid motor vehicle fuels.  And we can now have the choice instead for simple hybrid EVs, with tremendously reduced batter dependence, as well as considerably reduced size on-board liquid fueled ICE designed for electrical generation rather than larger for direct propulsion.

Regardless of any sloganeering over being pro-choice, the car manufacturers are overwhelmingly promoting non hybrid EVs, with their infinitely greater dependence upon batteries.

 First was Tesla.  A pure EV, initially seen as the competition to the Fisker Kharma.

The Karma had difficulties, most spectacularly a lot of them erupting in fire with the brief flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy.  Though hybrids, they still had on board battery packs for about a 30 mile range.

We have seen new fabrications for converting traditional ICE automobiles into EVs, with the ICE swapped out for an electric motor to drive the existing drivetrain, and powered by a battery in the trunk.

GM has selected to abandon hybrids as part of the idea of eliminating ICEs, with their new ULTIUM platform, with its enormous floor pan battery (great for resistance to roll overs), situated between front and rear electric motors respectively driving the front and rear wheels.

This is despite:

costs of mining for the minerals needed for EV battery production

infinitely greater difficult of extinguishing battery fires.

and the sheer dependency upon a plug.

Hybrids eventually added a plug in capability for charging its relatively small 30 or so mile range battery.  We all know those who seek out some plug in place, in order to avoid or minimize the use of the onboard ICE.  And it is such a type of thinking that has been used to push non hybrids, eliminating the on-board ICE generator, in exchange for the enormous floor-pan battery packs.

But how does this serve to reduce the CO2 load upon the planet's atmosphere?

Making EVs NON hybrid means infinitely larger battery packs in each and every vehicle.

Why the refusal of small ICE hybrids with their considerable advantages.

Eliminate batteries except for a 12 or 24 bolt battery with a hot swappable twin.

Utilize existing liquid fuel infrastructure.

Establish a plug in capability for such ICE hybrids to provide electrical power to residences as during an emergency.

 

So called "Value Capture" in Media & Internet Sites

"Value capture" - a friendly sounding term encountered in high finance and planning circles.

 What it really means is value denial, value transfer or simply value theft.

 In practice this means charging the same or more while giving less, even without any cost savings!

Local syndicated newspapers, like the Gannet newspapers of a few decades back that replaced its local editorial board and columnists with simply reprinting the editorials from U.S.A. Today.  And such newspapers that stopped printing "letters to the editor".

Web sites that discontinue their comments sections.  Sadly an increasingly all to common occurrence.  Typically done with lame excuses (given that comments are moderated and can be individually altered or deleted) typified by such concerns that some comments are "vitriol", "sexist", "racist", personal attacks, or best of all, "toxic" - a phrase signifying conversations that spotlight the absurdity of some prevailing, mass media crafted fallacy.  Such reasons seem more as the product of some central direction, rather than the true opinions of those being ordered to repeat such nonsense being falsely attributed to them.

Internet newspaper sites that insist upon a paid subscription, even to read the one article they allowed you to fetch on your internet browser for maybe 3 seconds before blocking you reading it with a pop up window.

Cable television services that use some sort of flash rom that must be reloaded after any sort of power loss, while failing to use a basic bios chip.  And worse, such service that bombard viewers with repetitious commercials, particularly those advertising their own service which one is already subscribing to!  And these idiot companies don't even give us commercials suited to a viewers' interests which they could already know about from web browsing histories.  And interestingly, cable boxes that must take 10 to 15 minutes to reload after a power outage.  Supposedly for software. But is it also for loading a group of commercials, explain why we get the same few commercials so extra repeatedly, while saving them on bandwidth?

Cable television services that fail to provide basic citizen access to government proceedings, such as U.S. Senate and House of Representative Hearings and floor debates- which all should be mandated by a Constitutional amendment, including a channel that reports upon the daily emissions from the Federal Register.

Cable television portals that trick people into unwittingly subscribing to channels via deliberately confusing interfaces designed to induce people to subscribe unwittingly.  Be sure to not send a confirmation mail or email regarding such subscriptions.  Be sure to charge the "subscribers" monthly, despite not watching such channels. 

Cable television documentary that present false information to suit an established economic scheme status quo.  Such as History Channel specials upon "cocaine" that fail to set apart what ought to be made clear, that "cocaine" means things as diverse as "caffeine means drinking Coffee, Tea, soft drinks, or taking refined caffeine powder, let along Tobacco chewing versus Black Tar 400 nicotine insecticide.

Television news channels that are ALL designed to fit a given pre selected political narrative.  Such is how the minds of many people are manipulated to be reactive-one dimensional in their though process.  Such as conditioning people.  Such as to ASSUME that just FOX or CNN/MSNBC are guilty of misrepresentation, particularly and especially devotes of the Democrat Party who condemn FOX while giving the others a near or total free pass, or say hate Donald Trump while pretending that Joseph Biden is the man to trust.

More on "Value Capture" - see: https://cos-mobile.blogspot.com/2023/08/how-value-capture-high-finance-dictated.html