This is great. He doesn't touch much on the energy used to make the batteries, but it's a good look at the actual CO2 behind electic cars. Well worth watching.
This is great. He doesn't touch much on the energy used to make the batteries, but it's a good look at the actual CO2 behind electic cars. Well worth watching.
He is my favorite automotive content creator on Youtube.
I watched that the other day, it was good.
Has anyone checked out his other channel, Harry's Farm? I've watched a few of those episodes and they're pretty interesting too.
I really enjoyed his recent video on the Jeep Cherokee.
In reply to stuart in mn :
I haven't watched HArry's farm yet, but based on this vid I will add it.
I assume every one has seen his vid driving his Testarossa to Africa?
I was watching this episode in the garage and my wife walked out. After a bit, I asked her if she noticed that it wasnt one of the guys from (old) Top Gear. She said she though that it was about golf and for a bit was convinced he was a golf announcer. I said no. I dont ever watch golf.
Lol.
I miss the old evo staff.
In reply to Carbon (Forum Supporter) :
Yup, I gave up on it a few years ago, it's just not the same standard of writing anymore. Do you know how Harry started it? It's inspiration was a similar mag called Performance car that was a very similar feel and layout. It went under and Harry wanted to start an new updated version. Various banks turned him down for a business loan to start a magazine. Solution? Go to the bank for a loan to build a new barn/silo on his farm. No problem. Thus EVO was founded!
Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to stuart in mn :
I haven't watched HArry's farm yet, but based on this vid I will add it.
I assume every one has seen his vid driving his Testarossa to Africa?
The Testarossa video was a good one, another was when he drove his old Rolls-Royce to the Arctic circle. If nothing else, the video tours of the cars and motorcycles in his garage are worth watching - he has a pretty amazing collection. Also, he's having the engine in his Lamborghini rebuilt by Tyrell's Classic Workshop, which lead me to start watching their videos as well.
In reply to stuart in mn :
Basically yup, yup and yup to everything you just said!
1) Harry brings up some great points about area and type of power for your EV, but missed out on another good point for him- time of day and programs like Acadia power. Obviously, if you're charging a battery during high winds in a state that really uses windmills it'll be better than others (and help your state with the surge in power) and the same goes for solar cells- on top of that, Acadia power (and other things like it) allow you to try and earmark specific plants for you to draw your power from which can alter it too. No matter what, it's a HUGE topic to address that I'm not even sure if anyone is currently looking at, long-term over decades of use.
2) I like his views using his Fiat Panda- EV is still very expensive barring the used market (some sink real bad in costs, others like Tesla don't) and the mid-90s - mid 2000s vehicles really are the apex of efficiency before crash testing weighed them down. His view is, essentially to reduce and reuse so you're not increasing CO2 by buying new cars before you have to. His later points about the lack of public infastructure are correct, though obviously it matters towards Britian which lacks the space us yanks have.
3) Not to be political, but his viewpoints against China are spot-on. China doesn't care about CO2, It only cares about the pollution affects on it's populace. The nation started something like 5-10 coal plants over the last 20 years, and undoing the damage they cause would practically require every vehicle to be replaced by an EV.
4) 18:00 And he discusses hydrogen. I don't mean to be an ass, but hydrogen fuel cells aren't the future. The Toyota Mirai requires 15,000PSI connections to ferry H2 to the stack, have lifespans of about 150,000 miles per this Department of Energy paper, and are still electric cars underneath asking the question of "Why have the middleman?" before even getting into the problems of making and storing that hydrogen for a "range extender" or the total lifespans of battery packs. Now, a Methanol fuel cell would be a bit of a different story (already made in the millions of tons for things like wiper fluid, be stored in plastic jugs ect.) but that's probably outside of this conversation.
5) 19:38 he calls for a global reduction in consumption- absolutely.
6) Ebike conversation around 21:00, which I'm a huge proponent for.
Either way, Harry is looking at it from a total efficiency and impact standpoint which I absolutely agree with.
I happened to find his channel somehow a few weeks ago, and after going down the rabbit hole of all of his videos, it led me to Tyrrell's Workshop. I just realized that his Countach is on James May's Cars of the People too.
He sure has some amazing stuff in his collection!
In reply to XLR99 (Forum Supporter) :
Both his Countach and Testarossa were the ones in the studio of Top Gear when the original trio were still on it.
Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to XLR99 (Forum Supporter) :
Both his Countach and Testarossa were the ones in the studio of Top Gear when the original trio were still on it.
And were the ones tested on the Grand Tour.
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