It's amazing how successful he is at being a failure while being a failure at everything and anything. It really is amazing. He's a top tier example of people born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Not poon though, that came later and it wasn't as precious as silver.
What is the environmental impact of riding around for one's pleasure in your old sports car with high emission engine?
I don't have Tesla, but I guess that most of the mechanical parts can be fixed just like in other cars. What is problematic is their fancy electronic stuff, which would require more expertise, probably access to a firmware, etc. But again it is pretty much industry standard for like last decade or even longer.
I guess that the godsend engineer John could fix everything with an Arduino if only he had access to the documentation...
The arguement the guy is making is stupid. Of course electric vehicles use fuel. Electricity comes from somewhere and its almost always fossil fuels. The batteries that power it wear out like any other battery and just have to be chucked and are completely unservicable mostly by nature. You can water a battery a few times which is literally sticking a garden hose in it and it expands the life of it a bit and you can also replace the separate cells if ones going bad.
Still the point is is that an electric car contributes pretty much as much to pollution as a combustion engine when you do the math, Brianna wu thinks energy just falls from the sky. And dont get me started on how harmful and wasteful solar power is.
But John uses Apple products
(I think that's why John threw in the "enough infractucture" thing, but then John says 'eventually other people are going to need to repair them'...which is still the case, esp for a global brand...esp with a brand that's all latest and greatest and we do downcycling reuse. John's doing that every time he gets the new iThisnthat right!?! he sends his old one to Liberia -- oh never mind only niggers in liberia)
You can pretty much tell what John has been youtubing...it's lke he just discovered right-to-repair. John's probably watching Louis RossMann
The Funny part is John is a walking advertisement for one of the big anti-RTR arguments. The one about unqualified repair people working on these systems
John expects to work on a regenerative braking system on a car (from snowcrash, John's fave) "enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt" when he gets stumped after replacing a fuse doesn't fix everything!?!
You can water a battery a few times which is literally sticking a garden hose in it and it expands the life of it a bit and you can also replace the separate cells if ones going bad.
Just look at the mines and the refineries needed to make batteries. These areas are putting toxic heavy and reactive metals into the area. Your "green car" creates tons of toxic metals and future superfund sites. But they are all in china and ecuador so who gives a fuck.
However, I do care to point out: internal combustion is so incredibly inefficient that even with all these draw backs, electrics are roughly equal to an ICE car in environmental impact per mile.
Just look at the mines and the refineries needed to make batteries. These areas are putting toxic heavy and reactive metals into the area. Your "green car" creates tons of toxic metals and future superfund sites. But they are all in china and ecuador so who gives a fuck.