On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 15:27:04 -0400, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 12:51:27 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 10/20/2019 11:30 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 08:11:19 -0500, Dean Hoffman
wrote:


On 10/16/19 10:15 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Stolen from another newsgroup

For those who think that EV's will "save" the "environment":

https://www.city-journal.org/electric-vehicle-batteries

Battery Derangement

Electric vehicles wont save the planet and wont survive without
subsidies.

Mark P. Mills
October 10, 2019

Cut article.

Supposedly, there is an alternative that will get a vehicle 1500 miles.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592485/Father-eight-invents-electric-car-battery-drivers-1-500-miles-without-charging-it.html

Yeah I remember the "Fish" carburetor was going to get 100 MPG and it
was always "about a year" from production. That was 50 years ago and
we are still waiting.


I remember my father and uncle talking about all those great inventions
that were being suppressed by the automotive or electric industries --
as they worked their way through a case of Genesee. Those were 12 quart
cases, not those wimpy cases of 12 ounce cans.

The "fish" carburetor may have worked on 1930's era vehicles with
1930's era gasoline - there is adequate evidence that it did - but the
change in gasoline composition rendered it impractical, at best - and
the change in automotive technology doomed it completely. It was NOT
a "supermileage" carb - and it DID go into production (several times)
and WAS used in nascar and powerboat racing, and supplied for VW
performance use. It was a simple carb - but suffered driveability
problems

That was the reality, not the urban legend.