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2 years ago

March 23, 2024

Alice Rush

Is the creator of the meme at left serious? From this piece:

Electric Vehicle Drivetrains Only Have 20 Moving Parts Compared to Over 200 in Conventional Automobiles

This means lower maintenance costs and a radical shift in auto industry job skills.

While most of the media attention focuses on the big picture issues of how green-energy EVs are destined to help mitigate climate change by eliminating use of fossil fuels and will ultimately lower the costs of driving for consumers, there is another significant impact that deserves more attention too. That is the relative simplicity of EV powertrains and implications for lower maintenance costs.

Many EVs don’t even need a transmission. Those that do use a much simpler, single-speed system as opposed to the multi-speed gearboxes in gas-burning vehicles. For example, Tesla’s electric motors only have two moving parts and use single-speed “transmissions” with no gears. The company says its drivetrain has about 20 moving parts compared with 200 in conventional drivetrains. Similarly, the all-electric Chevrolet Bolt has 80% fewer moving parts than a comparable car with a gasoline engine.

And absent the power train, think about other entire systems that do not even exist in EVs, e.g., fuel delivery, pollution control, and exhaust.

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Here, Donald Trump claims that mail-in voting automatically means fraud, and that Colorado has a particular problem in that the state has gone to 100% mail-in voting.

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1) Like every other state in the nation, Colorado has in-person polling places. Here are their FAQs.

2) As explained in this piece by PBS, there are dozens of countries that allow mail-in voting.

Do you think the Australians or the Japanese are raising hell, claiming that their elections are rigged, that they are experiencing massive voter fraud? No. That’s because they don’t have major candidates who are pathological liars, and electorates that are composed of about 50% gullible fools.

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The words at left are 100% correct.

Yet, Trump has one capability that’s rarely if ever seen: He can invent stories that have no basis in fact–and convince tens of millions of Americans that they’re true.