We Don’t Need No Frozen Sparky Cars
January 13, 2024
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dave Ward
Welcome to the renewable freeze ups in Canada!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Here in Houston Texas, we are looking at a first freeze in over a year.
The forecasts keep changing so who knows.
In our Kansas City suburb, we are now at -1 after hitting a high of 6 in the morning. Tomorrow’s high is currently predicted to be -1.
Go, Chieves!
Watch out for Cam Smith and Melvin Ingram . . . former Gamecocks.
In Canada people with proper cars would remotely start the engine and deice them and warm the onside for ten or twenty minutes before going out into minus ten or worse.
Dare they do that with their electric car?
EVs can be programmed to preheat themselves – car interior and battery – while connected to a home charger, ready for use on cold mornings. That does, of course, depend on power being available.
Do ICE cars in very cold places still have block heaters which are plugged in when the car is left outside? They used to be pretty standard when I visited Scandinavia years ago.
I fitted a radiator flow heater into my Renault 4 almost 50 years ago when I lived in Norway. Just plug it in and leave it on all night. Instant warm car in the morning.
I recall the sparking plugs being unscrewed from the engine, and then heated in the kitchen stove gas burner flame before being screwed back in to help start the engine in Moscow – made trickier by being in a 9th floor flat. Diesel trucks often were warmed by lighting a wood fire under the sump to preheat the engine and get the oil viscosity down.
I remember using a paraffin greenhouse heater under the sump of my Minis. About 75mm high by about 200mm diameter. Just enough heat to make starting easier. As the heaters were useless it was still an uncomfortable drive anywhere.
As expected in the UK: extreme cold, low wind, hope to import electricity and rolling blackouts. Who would be stupid enough to buy an EV under these circumstances?
The rich, the famous and the woke
And companies because they receive a tax break for doing so. Although Hertz may have signalled the problem of massive depreciation that lease companies will face on their battery cars.
King Charles. He has at least two.
Extreme cold – fake news.
Oh and i see London Transport has withdrawn a battery bus fleet due to the fact they catch fire – umm not heard that one before
Calgary’s problem made worse by the load on the grid from increase frequency for car charging.
Bon chance comme nous disons en Quebec.
Well, they can’t say they haven’t been warned. Go down the same path and it will only get worse.
Can’t believe anybody would buy an EV in Alberta where the temperatures regularly get well in to minus territory. The danger of running out of charge in a snowstorm and needing heat in the car would be too great for me.
” Can’t believe anybody would buy an EV in Alberta . . .”
As an only car for year-round use, it makes no sense. Can we assume those now driving them have done that?
See: Darwin Award
ITV Documentary this week.
The Year The Thames Flooded
Exploring one of the most devastating but little-known disasters in London’s history, this documentary reveals the shocking events that unfolded during the fateful Thames Flood of 1928.
https://tv24.co.uk/b/s7kx20-134t
Saturday January 20, 9:30pm
on Channel 5 HD
Sorry to be OT, but there is a thread here that I think people here might be interested in.
https://www.timworstall.com/2024/01/the-climate-counsellor/
Climate Counsellor! “Donate to Tim”. Scandalous what is being done to children and young adults.
“…but the good news is that the sun is shining…”
—and this, dependence on the vagaries of the weather, in a 21st-century ‘advanced’ economy!
I only sent Paul the story yesterday, and this morning I spot this:
or:
https://nitter.poast.org/Josh_Young_1/status/1746353003240595805#m
^^ Is this potentially the first time that a widespread deliberate powercut occurs in a 1st world country, where the primary cause is the actions of the believers?
Hum –
No, I would go with New Zealand for that
https://wattclarity.com.au/articles/2021/08/09aug-power-system-stress-with-record-demand-and-insufficient-supply-in-new-zealand-on-monday/
I can’t see a rational reason other than political as to why there was both a cold coal (250 MW) & CCGT unit on a day with predicted record high demand which by the sound of it would have being available if they were given more than a hour notice. As in those sort of conditions cold and windy I would have expected generation to be run on the North Island for grid security reasons due to the risk of the HVDC Inter-Island tripping and freak events like hydro units getting blocked by sediment.
The other examples have other factors:
Texas – the renewable built out is clearly a subsidy farming racket but the believers can be blamed for the electric natural gas compressors. The farce that is an electricity market that sound like something out of the Soviet union were no one seem responsible for making sure the lights say on.
California – long history of importing electricity but solar advocates forgetting about September’s heat waves with reduced day length with it being dark for much of the evening peak + the renewable advocates can be blamed for the closure of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station via their lawfare.
South Australia (who’s grid had to blackstart) – was too dependant on it AC grid link to Victoria.
In Texas the gas compressors used to have an independent power supply but then along came Obummer and they were grid powered which is not great when the grid must be shutdown to avoid a black start. Oh for a pile of coal and a front loader.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/pipe-bursting-cold-snow-and-ice-threat-to-reach-into-the-south/1611476
“AccuWeather meteorologists are warning that a blast of bitterly cold Arctic air will surge southward through the Plains into Sunday and toward the Gulf Coast during the coming week, threatening lives, property and the power grid due to a prolonged period of subfreezing temperatures. The frigid air can also contribute to the season’s first chance of wintry precipitation in the region.
The same blast of bitter cold will also invade the northern and eastern United States, bringing record-low subzero temperatures for some and lake-effect snow for others.
AccuWeather meteorologists say that in the wake of a winter storm that will blossom into a bona-fide blizzard in the Midwest and behind a trailing cold front, Arctic air amassing in the Northwest will be unleashed south and east from late this weekend into Tuesday and beyond.
In Dallas, high temperatures in the low-60s seen on Saturday will be replaced by low-20s on Sunday and on Monday, close to a whopping 40-45 degrees below the historical average for the middle of January. The mercury could dip into the single digits at night, challenging long-standing record lows.”
Meanwhile John Kerry is to leave his position as US “special climate envoy”, his job is obviously done, climate heating has stopped.
In Morgantown, WV at 7:15 am it is 28 degrees F and about an inch of snow on the ground and neighborhood streets.
Did not walk this morning. Although a former downhill skier, I have had no broken bones and do not plan to start now.
Broken chargers and abandoned Teslas in a very cold Chicago: