BirdsWithBeefyArms

@BirdsWithBeefyArms@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shrug, I’m not a metrologist to be able to explain everything that goes into why it’s normal to have -25C days in the winter here. Our cold snaps are down to -35-40C, not -25C.

  I didn’t respond to your other point for a reason. I only responded to your ‘I assume this is a thing in the US’ to correct your assumption. Do with that what you will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not a thing in the US - there would be too much cancelled school in many of the northern states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cadillac reveals the 2025 Escalade IQ - Electric version of the Escalade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re stating a different point that I’m making. I’m consistently saying “I’m not talking about price”, then you go back to price. The initial OP stated that the care obsession is showing it’s wasteful, because it consumes a ton of resources. Someone corrected the OPs understanding of the average efficiency of electric cars. I provided the EPA agreed-upon conversion of MPG -> MPGe. You then decided that efficiency = cost. It’s not.

  Yes, for most use-cases an electric car will be cheaper; you can read about that here. There are some use-cases today where it won’t be. But it wasn’t the point of my post. Whether or not it’s always cheaper, using an EV Escalade vs a gas Escalade will always be more efficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cadillac reveals the 2025 Escalade IQ - Electric version of the Escalade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My comment wasn’t necessarily addressing cost as opposed to how to calculate efficiency. Cost gets much weirder. Nobody can accurately determine the price that anyone else pays for electricity unlike gas, because solar and time of usage exists not to mention the percentage of time home charging comes into play. Washington Post ran a pretty good article on this recently.

  Either way ignoring chat, the EV will always be more efficient. That doesn’t mean it will always be cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cadillac reveals the 2025 Escalade IQ - Electric version of the Escalade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For comparison, 1 gallon of gas is 33.7 kwh of energy, so 3m/kwh is 3*33.7 = 101.1 mpge

  So the numbers look low, but they’re certainly not low in comparison.