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Phil Schiller Reflects on iPod, Timeless Design, Electric Cars, and More in Interview With Lamborghini
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He is getting that accelerated old look.
Why is Phil in Apple's campus promoting Lambourghini?
From the biggest explosion to us... the sun!(if that is possible)
hydrogen power, I just saw Chain Reaction. I would be happy if we can use electricity over fuel, I imagine the air and earth will be much less polluted and the world would much green and improved weather. But one thing that fuel cars beat electric is refill time, couple of minutes a fuel car versus like an hour maybe for a car. Imagine the waiting lines.
My other issues, this liquid chemical that stores electric charge-the battery-how much do we have of it and what happens to it once its dead and needed to dispose of it? Isn't that too harming to the environment?
Why is Phil in Apple's campus promoting Lambourghini?
From the biggest explosion to us... the sun!(if that is possible)
This is nonsense from the oil companies, who would much rather you continue to depend on them rather than just buy solar panels and an EV and never pay another cent for power again.
You wouldn't consider using a hydrogen fuel cell to power your phone or laptop. You wouldn't use a gas generator to power your TV. So why do you think it's a good idea for your car to be powered that way (it's not. Oil companies today are the same as cigarette companies from decades past. They have nothing left other than to lie and distort, telling you that you shouldn't or can't switch.)
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hydrogen power, I just saw Chain Reaction. I would be happy if we can use electricity over fuel, I imagine the air and earth will be much less polluted and the world would much green and improved weather. But one thing that fuel cars beat electric is refill time, couple of minutes a fuel car versus like an hour maybe for a car. Imagine the waiting lines.
My other issues, this liquid chemical that stores electric charge-the battery-how much do we have of it and what happens to it once its dead and needed to dispose of it? Isn't that too harming to the environment?
This one is a paradigm shift. EV chargers don't need underground tanks and pumps and whatnot the way gas stations do, which means you can put EV chargers everywhere.
Put one in your house, at work, at a hotel, at a store, at a restaurant, etc - anyplace that people park a car for 30 minutes or longer. Suddenly it doesn't matter that they take an hour to charge. It's not an extra stop like at a gas station - just wherever you're going, plug in.
It doesn't need to be at all those places - you don't need it both at your home and work, one or the other works great. Or at the grocery store you go to once a week.
Then the other side of this is you need the battery to go 300 miles or so for roadtrips. You stop every 5 hours or so to go pee and get some food at a rest stop or mall or whatever, and while you do that, just plug into the supercharger and you're good to go another 300 miles/5 hours to get to your hotel, where they'll have another charger that will have your car fully recharged before you are.
I've owned a Model 3 for 3 years and I've gone on dozens of roadtrips that are 1000-2000 miles each. The car is always recharged and ready to go before I am.
But Phil should be actively promoting electric cars and hyping up the atmosphere to prepare for the electric Apple Car! Big mistake publicly stating that you like combustion engines there, Apple Fella.
When you look at the 10's of millions of ICE vehicles sold in the same period of time and you realize that's nothing but an extremely tiny blip, it's easy to ignore the sale of 100k cars.
I was one.
Good luck getting one of those 6 or 7 chargers in any parking lot. It's going to be one long pee stop to get you another 300 miles, and that's without having to wait for a charger. I would rather spend the 10-15 minutes tops to get back out on the road.
I am kinda shocked how conservative the MR forum is when it comes to EV's. Supercharging on a road trip is awesome. I'm glad of a 25min break after driving for 2-3hrs.
If one needs to get "another 300 miles", that means they were just driving for at least 4 hours, and will be driving for at least another 4 hours. Which means it's time for more than just peeing - time for a meal (at least a snack) and a stretch. It's nice to get out of the car for a bit.
Not really, no. I've done Boston to DC and back on multiple occasions. It takes ~10 hours, the same as in any other vehicle.
I take two breaks during the trip, each about 30 minutes, to charge, stretch, eat, use the bathroom, whatever.
Sorry, you're right. I picked city names that would be more familiar, but in doing so, I shortened the distance quite a bit. It was actually Portsmouth, NH to Virginia Beach.