Ah, FFS. First the Jag F-type, now this:
Rolls-Royce has finally taken the wraps off its first fully electric car as the sleek and silent Spectre goes on sale from today to super-rich customers who want to be greener.
The new Spectre – which has undergone thousands of miles of testing under a camouflage skin disguise – has a mighty 577 horsepower (430kW) with two electric motors – one driving each axle – propelling the near 3 tonne vehicle from 0 to 60mph in just 4.4 seconds and up to a top speed expected to be limited to 155mph.
But it also has a significant full-charge range of up to 320 miles – enough to drive from London to just north of Newcastle, with zero-emissions from the tailpipe…
Wait for it…
…although it will use plenty of energy potentially created with fossil fuels elsewhere to do that journey.
Okay, so let the Ultra-Rich Wokistas (e.g. David Fucking Beckham) and Watermelon politicos (like Nancy Bitch Pelosi) drive these stupid things, while the rest of us can be left alone to drive cars and trucks powered by internal combustion engines.
Although if there’s anything of which we can be absolutely certain, it’s that they won’t be satisfied until we’re all lumbered with fucking Duracell cars.
No, If we can’t afford or won’t buy the Duracell car, we can all bloody well take mass transit. We are, after all, the Lumpenproetariat. If we don’t have the money, maybe we don’t DESERVE to drive an individual transportation device, unlike our fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers.
The only way these electric cars are “green”, let alone “Emissions Free” is by cooking the books. Every fart, exhalation, or emission of carbon, Dioxide or Monoxide, is counted when it is the dreaded Internal Combustion Engine, but when it’s the saintly electric car, the ecological disaster that is required to mine lithium is omitted from every discussion. The coal necessary to create the “Clean” electricity to charge these miracle cars is also not included.
Somehow, I just do not see some future “Lawrence” racing across the Arabian sands in one of these.
When we gave up whale oil for electricity, the market drove that. Some municipalities built municipal power plants but those are mostly gone. The free market drove that change.
The watermelons don’t like free markets so they want more government decrees.
Our ancestors dumped tea to show their displeasure with the Crown’s antics. How do we express our displeasure with these glorified golf carts?
JQ
Drive theirs down the street dragging their heads “can behind the wedding car” style.
Give me a moment to take that scenario in, and savor it…
Is this a variation on a Texas sleigh ride where the rider’s foot gets stuck in a stirrup as seen in Wayne’s great film “The Cowboys?”
JQ
Wouldn’t have to pick them up and lug them to the rail like tea cases – just roll them into the harbor and enjoy the salt water-lithium fireworks.
That purported “range” of 320 miles is also absolute BS…that’s on a warm day, on a road with no significant hills, with nothing in the car but the driver. It’ll drop to less than half of that if the weather is cold and he’s got some hills to climb, and has a couple of passengers.
This spring a guy tried to drive his electric car out here in the Big Wonderful (aka, “Wyoming”) from Cheyenne to Casper, a distance of only 178 miles. It took 15 hours, most of which was spent looking for a place to charge the thing:
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/10/13/wyoming-ev-road-trip-15-hours-from-cheyenne-to-casper/
Less than half the nominally advertised “range” at full charge, and they blamed it on “hilly country”.
You have to love these nuclear-and-coal-fueled vehicles.
Way back when miles per gallon and range became something to advertise, one popular trip was from Phoenix to San Diego, which someone pointed out was almost all downhill.
“There are Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” is as true as ever. That and
“Torture numbers and they will admit to anything. “
A couple of passengers will make very little difference to the weight – about 10%. And that range will be motorway miles. Motorways have limited gradients in the UK. And EV chargers aren’t rare in the UK. Don’t know about the USA.
But there are lots of vehicles that will stay with diesel or petrol engines. Anything that goes off road, for instance. And, unless they invent a really rapid charging technology, emergency vehicles.
Well, “we” won’t be happy until every green pol and brainwashed (some redundancy) karen and soy boy is placed in re-education camps, I am sure they won’t mind, seeing they have been beating the drum for this same treatment of the sane 80% of the planet.
Unless there is some absolutely fantastic breakthrough in physics and chemistry, there will never be an electric vehicle that can compete with 150 years of refinement on the IC engine. There are no zero point energy extraction devices in this part of the cosmos (so far).
It is very sad really, to see so many great companies buying in to the insane agenda of a mentally ill minority.
Well, I am a little embarrassed to say that – in spite of my profound lack of interest in electric cars – I like it.
I do note that the journotroll writing that piece violated the media’s embargo on mentioning that electric cars depend on fossil-fueled power (seriously, there are miles of column-inches tongue-bathing the electric car mania, with nary a mention that the juice to move them comes from coal-fired boilers).
But here, since we’re talking about a car for the 1%, electric is suddenly not good enough.
Always amusing that the EV proponents NEVER want to admit that they’re advocating Stanley Steamers in drag.