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I don't really trust utibers saying such things. 

The guy is a car expert if there is one,he gives out volumes of repair advice. As a guy who has been wrenching on vehicles for over 5 decades - he's not a fraud. He used to be on CBS years ago for weekly car advice.

It could be possible the dude plugged in an EV at nearly full charge for 8 days, and then found his range had only increased 56 miles, because that put him at 100% charge.

Well, duh.  I think we all know EVs are not remotely like charging 8 miles in a day.  I think we'd have heard this from owners by now considering how many are out there.

His earlier video about gasoline being cheaper is also highly misleading.

Sure, I saw that "study", and it indeed is ridiculous.  It's pretty easy to calculate how expensive it is to charge your car at home of course, it gets more expensive at charging stations.

Certainly, if EVs are more expensive to operate, I doubt many folks would buy them at all.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company has now sold nearly 95 million of its original 225 million shares of Chinese electric carmaker BYD’s stock, but it remains a significant shareholder.

Berkshire Hathaway said in a filing with the Hong Kong stock market Thursday that it had sold another 4.235 million BYD shares since last month. Disclosure rules only require Berkshire to reveal when its ownership stake decreases into another percentage point.

After the most-recent sales, Berkshire still held 130.3 million BYD shares or about 12% of the stock. At its last report late last month, Berkshire, which is based in Omaha, Nebraska, controlled 13% of the stock.

Until last August, Berkshire had never sold any of the BYD shares it bought in 2008. The stake Berkshire paid $232 million for had ballooned in value to be worth billions of dollars.


BYD, based in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, is one of the biggest electric vehicle makers in the world, having sold nearly 1.9 million cars in 2022 including pure electrics, plug-ins and hybrids.

Ford will develop the LFP batteries alongside China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL), a global producer of EV batteries — though the automaker stressed that it will own and operate the plant outright through its wholly owned subsidiary and that the Chinese company will only provide “knowledge and services.” The construction project will generate 2,500 jobs for the region, with initial production expected to commence in 2026.

Ford claims it is the first automaker to commit to developing two separate battery chemistries for its EVs at the same time: lithium iron phosphate (LFP) and nickel cobalt manganese (NCM). (Tesla is also producing vehicles with LFP batteries.)


Most of today’s EVs use lithium-ion batteries whose cathodes use NCM chemistries. But NCM also has a lot of baggage, due mostly to cobalt, which has been called the “blood diamond of batteries” because it’s been mined in a way that’s endangered child workers and wrecked the environment in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In contrast, LFP batteries tend to be cheaper and longer lasting but aren’t as energy dense as NCM batteries. LFP batteries are also less complex to produce. The new factory with CATL will add approximately 35 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of LFP battery capacity, the company adds.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/ford-s-evs-are-getting-faster-charging-and-more-affordable-batteries-thanks-to-new-chemistry/ar-AA17rg2s?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=66bd8a1dcedc46528f0c8c6bee3ff848


https://youtu.be/Uwv8jega9NY

Ford Motor has paused production and shipments of its electric F-150 Lightning pickup due to a potential battery issue.
The EV truck is being closely watched by investors, as it's the first mainstream electric pickup on the market and a major launch for Ford.
The production halt adds to ongoing "execution issues" detailed to investors earlier this month by Ford CEO Jim Farley.

NEW YORK (AP) — Lithium ion batteries used to power electric bicycles and scooters have already sparked 22 fires that caused 36 injuries and two deaths in New York City this year, four times the number of fires linked to the batteries by this time last year, officials said Friday.

Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is “coming at this problem from every single angle,” including working with the City Council and the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission on additional regulations for the batteries and educating the public on their proper use and storage.

“These are incredibly dangerous devices, and we must make sure that members of the community are handling them properly and using them safely,” Kavanagh said at a briefing on public safety.

Many of the fires blamed on the batteries have been caused by malfunctioning devices left to charge overnight and placed in a hallway or near a door where they can trap people inside a burning apartment.


Three children and an adult were injured this month when a charging battery started a fire in their upper Manhattan apartment at 1:30 a.m., officials said.

Fire Department Chief of Operations John Esposito said after the Feb. 5 blaze that when the battery overheated and sparked a fire, “it blocked the egress out of the apartment, trapping the family.”


Kavanagh said the e-bike batteries “present often an immediate inability to exit one’s room or one’s apartment or one’s home. So it’s really critical that we work with all our partners up here in government around enforcement, around education, around combating the hazards that these present to citizens and first responders.”