Evolution Show #2 Debunking Myths about Electric Cars with Tesla Club Sweden

Welcome to the Evolution Show!

In this second episode we debunk many of the most common myths about electric cars with Tesla Club Sweden founder and chief editor Tibor Blomhäll. 

Please see time codes below to jump to different sections we cover in the podcast and video which can be seen on our Evolution Show on Youtube:

youtube.com/watch?v=A_5tPWk34Mo&t

In the next episode we will talk about shared electric mobility and challenges and oppurtunities with self driving technologies with Anna Pernestål. 

Anna Pernestål is one of Sweden´s leading experts on self driving technology and Director at Integrated Transport Research Lab (ITRL) at KTH Stockholm, The Royal Institute of Technology 

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Time codes for Evolution Show Episode #2 Debunking myths about Electric cars with Tesla Club Sweden/Tibor Blomhäll:

5:03 Tibor Blomhälls price to the Swedish city with the worst charging infrastructure!

7:00 Tibors impressions of his new Tesla Model 3 and his visit to the Tesla Model Y Event in Los Angeles

-differences between the Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y

9:35: Old Myths about why the electric cars were outmatched by combustine driven cars in the early 1900´s 

11:10 Charging stations all around New York and Manhattan

24:05 Modern myth: Are electric cars more dirty if they run electricity from the average power generation in the world, which still is coal?  

32:00 Modern myth: But manufacturing the electric car is worse in terms of enviromnental footprint than making a diesel or petrol car, or?

47:00 The NASA diet- keeping your lithium ion batteries in shape!

56:40 Modern Myth: We will run out of electricity for the grid with millions of electric cars or thousands charging locally at the same time. 

69:45 Modern Myth: We will never see an electric car priced like a an average priced or cheap new combustion driven car because the batteries are so expensive to make.    

81:00 Modern Myth: The electric car is too silent, it may hurt people that won´t hear it coming! 

88:00 Perhaps the biggest challenge for electrificiation really is how we can intregrate it with self driving technology so that we share more transports in a away that doesn´t increase the number of vehicles in traffic, in other words shared electric mobility instead of personal, almost empty vehicles going everywhere to pick up/deliver stuff? 

Links to important reports mentioned in the Podcast/video: 

"State of CHARGE Electric Vehicles’ Global Warming

Emissions and Fuel-Cost Savings across the United States"  By UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS:

https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/clean_vehicles/electric-car-global-warming-emissions-report.pdf

VUB university in Brussels for NGO Transport & Environment (T&E):

https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/electric-cars-emit-less-co2-over-their-lifetime-diesels-even-when-powered-dirtiest-electricity

https://www.transportenvironment.org/sites/te/files/publications/TE%20-%20draft%20report%20v04.pdf

Lifecyle analysis Study by Mercedes comparing fully electric B-klasse with combustion version:

http://teslaclubsweden.se/B-klasse.pdf

 Best/Evolution Show Team