Electric vehicles are not ready to replace combustion engines: https://www.bitchute.com/video/upZCaVWDtQlt/
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ICYMI - Electric cars setting themselves on fire in a row:
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/so-you-want-a-electric-car-do-you_Jh5emjR2IBsktLq.html
Gasoline powered vehicles catch on fire too.
Look, all electric vehicles are coming. You can't stop it by gaslighting and being upset about it.
You can bluster at me about it, but it won't change anything.
I think the battery tech needs to be improved, but it will. When I was young batteries were carbon-zinc. The tech is always improving and there is no reason to believe that the lithium batteries are final incarnation.
Electric vehicles are going to be the norm fairly soon I think.
Note to self: By 2030, according to one study, the nation will need to invest as much as $125 billion in the grid to allow it to handle electric vehicles. The current infrastructure bill before Congress puts about $5 billion toward transmission line construction and upgrades According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, most of the nation's electricity was generated by natural gas, nuclear energy, and coal in 2020.
Note to others.
As demand for power increases, prices for kilowatt-hours go up, increasing the incentive to build more power plants to make money.
How much power did we need in my grandfathers house when he was a kid? How much in 1962? How much now? We don't live in a static world. We are building stuff and destroying stuff all the time.
I consider the power argument just silly. We have many ways to generate power. We aren't against any hard limits.
I'm not gaslighting or blustering you pede. "Just stating the facts, ma'am".
Ok I apologize if I came across as antagonistic.
We all have our pet peeves. One of mine is people posting tee-hee pictures of electric cars being charged with gas generators.
I don't dispute any of the facts you stated.
But things will change. The Internal Combustion Engine is on its way out.
And I personally will be very happy.
Not because I am a sandal-wearing tree-hugger.
I'm more like an old man who hates it when his lawn mower won't start.
Battery tech will improve.
More power will be generated. The amount of power generated and consumed has been rising continuously since our grandparents were born.
So in a more polite way, I would reiterate that I'm right. Electric vehicles are coming and nothing is going to stop them.
We don't know if there will be improved batteries, the only way I can think of is if someone makes graphene lattices made from hemp. It is possible.
As for electric cars themselves, the insurance companies will have the last word on this.
You don't think battery technology will improve? Really?
I didn't say that, I said "we don't know"
"Replacing hydrocarbons with green machines under current plans—never mind aspirations for far greater expansion—will vastly increase the mining of various critical minerals around the world. For example, a single electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. Averaged over a battery’s life, each mile of driving an electric car “consumes” five pounds of earth. Using an internal combustion engine consumes about 0.2 pounds of liquids per mile."
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/mines-minerals-and-green-energy-reality-check
There's nothing "green" about an electric car. Where does the electricity come from to charge them? Mostly from gas and coal. What's digging the raw materials for batteries out of the earth? Gas-run machinery. Where's the infrastructure for charging them? It's practically non-existent.
What happens when cars on the freeways get in a traffic jam due to an accident? In the cold of winter, the heaters are on. In the heat of summer the AC is on. Imagine even a handful of cars running out of juice. How are you going to move them out of the way? You can't just run over with a can of gas to get them going again. You will need a tow truck for each dead car. How long will it take to clear the road? What happens if you need to get an emergency vehicle through, like an ambulance or fire truck? Too bad, you won't.
Electric cars are not ready for prime time. There are still too many problems to overcome.