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Response to Stossel's Inconvenient Facts about EVs

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This is also a good rebuttal.




Yes, absolutly Sam Alexander made very appropriate comments:

1:05 - John Stosse:
"if you cover the entire continent of the United States with solar panels"
"you wouldn't supply half of America's electricity"

1:07 - Sam Alexander:
"the U.S office of Energy Efficiency and renewable energy saying that solar's abundance and potential
throughout the United States is staggering PV photovoltaic panels on just 22 000 square miles of the
nation's total land area about the size of Lake Michigan could supply enough electricity to power the
entire United States."

"Lake Michigan's size is in context that 22 000 square miles would be about 20 percent of Nevada
or in other terms to provide all the electricity for the United States via solar panels
we would need less than one percent of the land in the continental U.S"

This exactly what Elon Musk mentioned already ten years ago:


 
The following video is also a very honest and very neutral review of the last Stossel video:


Again referencing Elon Musk from many years ago:


Elon: “you have enough electricity to power all the cars in the country if you stop refining gasoline."
"it takes about 5 kWh to refine one gallon gasoline"
"something like the Model S can go 20 miles on 5 kilowatt hours."
"You basically have the energy needed to power electric vehicles if you stop refining.”

So basically, ICE cars use as much electricity than EVs !!!