EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars

Re:EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars by seg_lol on Saturday October 18, 2025 @12:05PM (#45628378)

My favorite aspect of biofuels is that allows for the machine-energy economy to compete with the human-energy economy. It allows for first world folks to use their buying power to compete with food in the 2nd and 3rd world.

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Re:EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars by jobs_throwaway on Saturday October 18, 2025 @12:11PM (#45628416)

markets are good

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Re:EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars by undersuit on Saturday October 18, 2025 @12:25PM (#45628495)

Yep that's why the US had slave markets instead of central planning. /s

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Re:EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars by danny_codes on Saturday October 18, 2025 @01:04PM (#45628777)

What’s extra great about it is that we use fertilizer to grow the biomass to be converted to fuel. And by some measures the energy cost of doing so is higher than just burning the fertilizer (which I’m sure everyone knows is a petroleum product) directly.

Kind of the worst of all worlds sort of technology

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Re:EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars by ellenhp on Saturday October 18, 2025 @01:35PM (#45629021)

> some measures

EROI for biodiesel is well above 1:1 from what I can tell. Please elaborate on your sources.

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