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Hello and welcome to Fully Charged, my name is Robert Llewellyn and this show is about cars, but it's not about cars that accelerate and swerve sideways on airfields burning rubber, it's about cars that don't use gasoline or diesel like this one or Yeah. they use a lot less gasoline and diesel like this battery electric hydrogen electric hybrid electric There's a ton going on with cars right now, but there's even more misinformation about these technological developments, so,

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, I intend to find out the truth about electricity. automobiles, we have such complicated emotional entanglements with these four-wheeled metal boxes for the last 100 years that have transformed the world we live in for the last 90 years or so they have been powered exclusively by one form of fuel, one source of energy Incredibly compact that comes in liquid form that energy source is gasoline, the main product of the oil industry, we have built a massive global industry in the last 100 years that makes fossil fuels or relatively cheap and easy to use, of course, it has there have been problems associated with the supply of this now vital product, problems that have caused some inconvenience, the occasional small international disagreement, okay, it has erupted into this corruption, mass murder and perpetual total war and yet we continue happily paying for it day after day, but no.

No matter how you argue it, how you slice it, how you try to bury your head in the sand, how you try to deny it all, there are two things that are completely certain: it will get much more expensive and it will sell out. About 25 years ago, some very smart people started making these mobile phones. What you might be wondering: does the mobile phone have anything to do with cars? When cell phones first came out, they were garbage. I had a few minutes of battery life, literally a few minutes of talk time. Imagine what people said: fines like these will never affect the batteries they just won't last long enough.

People have to speak very quickly. You know they will get anxious when speaking. There is no infrastructure to support them. Mobile phones are simply too expensive for the public. Average Joe, those complaints sound vaguely familiar because of course what happened was that batteries got smaller, cheaper, lighter, and lasted much longer. Battery-powered devices became much more common: portable phones, toothbrushes, cordless drills, we just got used to them and then some very shiny ones. Sparks in America discovered that if you put together a lot of these very common batteries, you could use them to power things, and they did that now.

This, as you can imagine, is the Tesla Roadster sport and it runs on exactly the same batteries as You only have your laptop, while your laptop has four or maybe six, this car has six thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. Established critics were very impressed with the Tesla Matisse in the afternoon, faster than a Porsche 911 turbo GT and also costs around 35,000. pounds cheaper, although very few people have pointed this out, but then they went on to point out the numerous problems they saw with the car, so let's quickly go over point one: they only go 55 miles on a charge quite simply and easy to check, no it's true.

Taser will easily go about 200 miles on a single charge and a very, very patient man in Australia recently managed 314 miles on a single charge, which is the current record but of course they were driving it at full speed down a track, in which case will do. less than 200 miles, but here's a little known balance fact: the legendary Ferrari f40, fantastic car, very fast, not as fast as this one, if you drive it normally on the highway it will get about 11 miles per gallon if you hit it on a track. Ladies and gentlemen, it will get one mile per gallon, but a certain popular light entertainment show shows the crew pushing the Tesla off the track.

A visitor is left without that, except if there were no Tesla representatives there that day and they got in the car and drove it right away, the batteries weren't dead, so why would they do that? The producers later had to admit in an article in The Guardian that they had prepared an entire sequence to show the viewer What would happen if an electric car ran out of power? But here's my question: What happens when you're driving a gas car and it runs out of gas and you're miles from anywhere where the nearest garage is 20 miles up the road?

What are you going to do? You're going to force it, no, you're going to feel very, very embarrassed and of course we all know what that feels like because we've all done it and yet there are popular TV shows that often show very powerful petrol cars sliding around. . sideways around a disused airfield, you're never actually shown what happens when those cars run out of gas, you never see them run off the runway. One or two popular car critics have tried to point out that if you take this car off the national grid in the UK, the coal it burns to produce electricity means it's no cleaner than a petrol-guzzling Italian sports car.

Even if you charge this car with electricity that is made exclusively from burning coal, it will only release 40 grams of CO2 per kilometer. includes the carbon produced by extracting the coal by transporting it by train to the docks, shipping it to our shores, transporting it by train to the power station, then burning it at the power station and disposing of the waste because there is no exhaust pipe in a car Electric cars are said to be zero emission vehicles, but that makes some people very angry, they scream, rant and stomp and say that electric cars pollute even more than fossil fuel cars.

Okay, fair enough, like I said, if you use an electric car. In this country driven by the National Grid, around 40 grams of CO2 per kilometer are produced. If you compare that to the average fossil fuel burning car in this country, which is about one hundred and twenty grams per kilometer, it doesn't look so good, but if we're going to be fair, then let's do the same process for fossil fuel burning cars. fossils when you consider how much carbon the oil industry produces before gasoline and diesel even reach the tanks here in the old world. wheel argument if you add the whole process drilling pumping storage shipping storage refining that uses large amounts of fuel pumping storage transporting storage pumping storage and finally delivery at the gas station it is a very story different So these cars, these normal cars that we drive every day, produce between 450 and 500 grams of CO2 per kilometer, but these are just petty arguments, because here, ladies and gentlemen, is the really crucial point: you can charge this electric car with electricity from any wind source. solar tide dare I say it's nuclear and when you do that this car produces zero carbon but the petrol or diesel car doesn't have that option for them it's fossil fuel or die in the same popular light entertainment show they also hinted that if you plug your electric car into a small wind turbine, the kind of thing you would use to turn on the lights on a yacht, a small thing, then it would take you about six weeks to charge your car, very funny and absurd propaganda, it's a bit like saying if you grew your own corn in your window box and then transformed it into biofuel in your kitchen, it would take you about a year and a half to fill your gas tank, which it probably would;

However, if we connected our electric car to this, it would charge in about 20 minutes. Of course, there is another very important role that Tesla has played in our recent history: it is proven without a doubt that electric cars can be really fun to drive. drive.