W205C43PFL

Sorry about that I just happened to read this post as I worked my way to catch up with all the missed post.

W205C43PFL

Thanks for the update, let's hope MB makes it Right.

crabman

I fully support others buying EVs; that it means more gas guzzling V8s available for me has nothing to do with it. No really. I care about the climate; my V8 makes more power when it's cooler.

Honestly, no one wants old stupid people like me trying to go EV; here's a mental image for you: Old person holding the cord up trying to drain the electricity out after a fill up.

No, you don't want that. Best to leave us to our V8s and let nature take its course. We'll get picked off soon enough, and you young people can set everything to rights. Carbon: Solved. World hunger; thing of the past. Entitled snots who think they should be able to work part time as Taco Bell and earn 150k a year; they''ll get it. Yep, I'm practically holding my breath already.

W205C43PFL

What baffles me is some of these four cylinders has more emissions with their turbos and having to constantly rev super high to achieve the same power/performance lets say a V6 at low RPMs which by the way yields less emissions and uses less fuel than the overworked four cylinders as the V6 let alone a V8 (then V8 also has cylinder deactivation) can achieve all of that with no sweat at low RPMs. The four cylinders in this particular case is just a number to sound more efficient and economical on paper.

docsout

Crab, you made me snort my coffee thru my nose. Too funny. I love the imagery you posed. Yep, that's me alright.

MBNUT1

The solution to address the concern for the environment and the desire to drive a V8 is to pay for the removal of the C02 generated. That would also apply to EV's including the cost of the manufacturing of the battery.

Caveno

Thats exactly right. A 4 cylinder at high rpm uses more fuel than an 8 cylinder at low rpm to produce the same horse power.

The auto manufacturers build cars to the epa test not to real life driving conditions. Remember when VW cheated on emissions…it wasn’t just VW, this was practiced by all automakers, somehow just VW got roasted for it.

Thank Obama for this - when he bailed out the automakers he forced them to agree to 54.5 mpg by 2025. Automakers must buy carbon credits to produce “gas guzzling” cars hence they are incentivized to increase fuel economy. The biggest seller of these credits is Tesla - in a way we are subsidizing Tesla when buying our v8.

I understand the desire to reduce emissions but this system is silly to me. Electricity mostly comes from gas or coal and producing a lithium battery isn’t exactly environmentally friendly. But somehow burning gas at a power plant and transferring it over many many miles into your battery is more efficient than just burning fuel in your engine. It doesn’t make much sense but this system was set up by politicians not engineers.

Now they’re shoving EVs down our throats and not many people really want them. I still can’t get over the auto start stop crap. They are heavily discounting the eqs here in palm beach. Tesla has been successful but everyone I know who has a Tesla either doesn’t drive a lot or has another gas car.

Wolfman

Time to close this thread as many of these posts are not related to the thread topic. Please start new threads in the W223 or other forums to discuss these other topics. Thanks