You just have to be shielded from the plasma bubble it creates to achieve anti-grav.
Posted on 05/23/2023 8:47:23 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
My truck wheel weighs 75lb...so I use the tire lever to lift it up the last inch onto the mounting studs.
“Considering that EVs are lucky to make 20,000 miles on a set of tires, it does make sense to me that the rubber is going somewhere”
The dirty little secret that EV owners and the climate cultists pitching them don’t tell you is that it is $1500 for Tesla model 3 tires and they last 20k miles. Maybe less miles for those that can’t help themselves showing off the torque they have at every stoplight.
Add in higher insurance rates and it offsets a lot of the “but but but” EV’s have lower operating costs vs. ICE Cars argument. Add in the significantly higher weigh of the cars tearing up the roads and high electricity cost of a state like California. Higher purchase cost to buy = more in yearly registration fees. Sheesh, just how much are you saving over a $32,000 ICE hybrid getting 40mpg?
“Goodyear is barely a shadow of what they once were.”
As financial executives and attorneys, along with top tier B school MBA’s took over leadership of US companies in the 1980’s and 1990’s, R&D budgets were slashed as the strategic focus shifted from product innovation and generic sales growth to cost reduction and financial engineering. Large corporations, led by executives who managed spreadsheets, not people, factories, and customer relationships, bought new products and businesses through acquisition of smaller entrepreneurial companies.
Meanwhile by expoerting jobs and manufacturing to other countries they stripped companies of physical assets and human capital. The funds generated from these savings were used to buy back stock, thereby increasing the stock price and value of tens of thousands of executive stock options. Private equity companies also made fortunes for their partners by using debt to take companies private, strip out the valuable assets and leave behind a shell.
Goodyear was once a great company with strong marketing behind superior products. Many CEO’s, CFO’s and other executives passing through made personal fortunes while the company lost its industry leadership position. GM, US Steel, ATT, Sears, IBM, GE, and many other American corporations declined under leaders who enriched themselves while slowly destroying the company. Not unlike what the political leaders in the White House and Congress are doing to the once great republic.
Solution: Steel Wheels.
You knew they would come after electric cars next. What about sitting on a 1000 lb battery all day? Any cancer risk in that?
You just have to be shielded from the plasma bubble it creates to achieve anti-grav.
Electric cars now remind me of those giant bag phones people carried around when cell phones became available.
Clunky, heavy, and not ready for prime time.
Not yet, but that is forthcoming.
Wow, that just shows how clean the car companies have made IC engines and how pointless the whole EV movement really is! I can’t believe somebody finally wrote the truth.
And every one of the cycles through different fad “solutions” costs us hundreds of billions of dollars. All to wind up back where we started.
“…the regenerative breaking eats em up.”
Nope. It doesn’t matter one bit to the tires how you are reducing your kinetic energy. The tires experience the same forces whether you are dumping that kinetic energy into potential energy in a battery or dumping it as heat to the atmosphere.
We did the same as you.
You can’t retrofit safety devices to protect your car from crazy drivers, but you can by much safer tires. My wife and I have noticed a lot more of these idiots, in recent years. I bought those high end tires specifically for breaking and handling, based on Tire Rack and Consumer Reports reviews, and haven’t looked back. They don’t last quite as long, but they stop on a dime and hold on curves even when wet.
They have already saved us from a wreck multiple times. The prior tires were Energy Savers, which got you better MPG, but squealed whenever accelerating and couldn’t stop worth a darn—especially in wet conditions.
1-2 MPG or a longer tread life is not worth the wrecks.
I remember the early 1970s when suddenly people started looking for things polluting!
One woman was worried about road salts in winter poisoning the ground.
Another was worried about tire residue from worn tires poisoning the ground.
Another was worried about used Christmas Tree bonfires polluting the atmosphere.
Everyone was looking for something to scream about! After all such pollution was causing the sun’s heat rays to bounce off the polluted atmosphere causing THE COMING ICE AGE!
I would think they’d have traction control, but you might be able to turn it off.
I saw this phenomenon several times during my career. With very rare exceptions, most CEOs just can’t leave well enough alone when an organization they have just been given charge of is functioning well. Almost every one just had to put their own stamp on the organization by changing things up, whether the organization needed it or not. These types of people are just passing through, entirely focused on doing something they can personally take credit for, throwing it on their resume, and then moving on to the next target.
Dilbert called this “management by shaking the box.” These people don’t really know what they’re doing, so rather than listen to those below them (who they often see as a threat because their institutional knowledge might reveal these CEOs to be the frauds many of them are), they instead just make random changes to everything. In that regard, they’re exactly like liberals (and most of them ARE liberals) in that they believe that nothing that came before they arrived on the scene could possibly be any good, and they must therefore save the world by sweeping aside every decision that predates them and replace them with their own, often counterproductive, initiatives. They can’t take credit for what was done before their tenure, so their default setting is to change everything.
The longtime employees of course see this nonsense coming a mile away, because they’ve usually seen it and the futility of it many times before, so they just keep their heads down and ride it out. Worse for the “shaking the box” CEO is that some of these employees won’t be content to just ride it out and will instead become stealthily subversive. None of this is good for the company or its customers, of course.
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