SPA Modeler

BlackSheep214 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 3:51 pm

Medicman71 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 1:29 pm I'll let the tree huggers have their EV car models when I start getting real modern day ambulances and fire trucks.

Preach it, brother! Can I have an AMEN!?

You can have extra pie!

Gary Brantley wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 11:20 am I have a good friend who owns and operates a large auto repair business. He told me about driving a Tesla for an inspection and was just astonished by the performance. And he's a man with a new Shelby Mustang or two. They are, in a word, very brief.

When my daughter worked at Tesla, she made top sales person of the quarter several times in a row. Each quarter that she did, she got to bring home one of their cars for the next quarter to drive to and from work. I had the chance to drive one thru that. When I did, I gave it an Elwood Blues “cop evaluation”. I have driven the old and new police package Caprice Classics, Crown Victoria’s, Tahoes, and Explorers over my 31 years as a cop. All pale compare to the Tesla for performance. Acceleration was superb, cornering incredible due to the low center of gravity (batteries are the flooring), braking was fantastic, and the only noise you hear is the wind and the tires on the roadway. In other words, the perfect cop car for sneaking up on or chasing bad guys. As Clint said about the Firefox, “is this a machine…”

I don't care what anyone drives,it's a personal preference,personally I'm not ready for an EV yet,maybe someday
However I feel there shouldn't be mandates phasing out gas vehicles,and there shouldn't be tax payer funded credits or incentives.Just let the market decide the outcome.

And definitely no one should be damaging EV's or charging stations because they are not your choice.

Just my 2-cents

Tojo72 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 8:44 pm I don't care what anyone drives,it's a personal preference,personally I'm not ready for an EV yet,maybe someday
However I feel there shouldn't be mandates phasing out gas vehicles,and there shouldn't be tax payer funded credits or incentives.Just let the market decide the outcome.

And definitely no one should be damaging EV's or charging stations because they are not your choice.

Just my 2-cents

I agree. These mandates turn off a lot of folk… except for those tree hugging environmentalist. I refuse to buy an EV. Batteries in those things cost more than what the EV is worth when comes a time to replace them. Where and how will they discard EV batteries? I’d be even more wary of buying a used EV vehicle.

No thanks, I’d rather keep my gas powered vehicle over any EV.

Tojo72 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 8:44 pm I don't care what anyone drives,it's a personal preference,personally I'm not ready for an EV yet,maybe someday
However I feel there shouldn't be mandates phasing out gas vehicles,and there shouldn't be tax payer funded credits or incentives.Just let the market decide the outcome.

And definitely no one should be damaging EV's or charging stations because they are not your choice.

Just my 2-cents

Exactly! For some roles, EVs are ideal, and for others they are not. It is not the job of our government to decide.

There's certain vehicles that could never be EV until the technology advances a TON. Vehicles like fire trucks, ambulances, and other big commercial trucks.

Plus the fact that EV's are much more dangerous that gas vehicles. If they catch fire, run. Just run.

Medicman71 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 07, 2025 1:58 pm There's certain vehicles that could never be EV until the technology advances a TON. Vehicles like fire trucks, ambulances, and other big commercial trucks.

Plus the fact that EV's are much more dangerous that gas vehicles. If they catch fire, run. Just run.

Oh yeah... definitely run...far away. Water does not put out EV fires. Only foam. By the time it's put out, it's a total loss.

BlackSheep214 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 10:17 pm except for those tree hugging environmentalist. I refuse to buy an EV.

LOL! Well I AM a tree hugging environmentalist and I refuse to buy one as well - I hate the bloody things. They're by no means a solution to any environmental issue (they just move the power generation downstream to the power stations) and the damage we're doing to the earth to mine the precious metals for the batteries doesn't bare thinking about - give me my old knackered diesel any day.

Performance wise they are indeed nuts, I can see they'd make a superb cop car - certainly my local police force has a few now.

As far as a model goes, I can see the internals being more interesting than the external.

Stuart wrote: ↑Thu Dec 11, 2025 6:31 pm
LOL! Well I AM a tree hugging environmentalist and I refuse to buy one as well - I hate the bloody things. They're by no means a solution to any environmental issue (they just move the power generation downstream to the power stations) and the damage we're doing to the earth to mine the precious metals for the batteries doesn't bare thinking about - give me my old knackered diesel any day.

Performance wise they are indeed nuts, I can see they'd make a superb cop car - certainly my local police force has a few now.

As far as a model goes, I can see the internals being more interesting than the external.

I don’t hate the idea, but I agree with you on the major point of battery production: the single most damaging and destructive environmental hazard that has not been resolved in any way. Sure the tech is there; in some cases the original electric tech might be better even but the batteries are the serious environmental threat.