Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream
A dozen U.S. states, from California to New York, have joined dozens of countries, from Ireland to Spain, with plans to ban the sale of new cars with an internal combustion engine (ICE), many prohibitions taking effect within a decade. Meanwhile, the U.S. ...
This is one of the best (albeit long) articles on EV practicality I've ever read.
Really goes into the weeds but shows how most of the "happy talk" about EVs is just blowing smoke.
If the PTB insist on the EV mandates they threaten, then I'd suggest investment in mining stock might be a wise move. No way they get even halfway to their goals without serious widespread mining.
Well Ford is all in, no doubt. About an hour away from me in Tennessee, they are building Blue Oval City. A massive complex that will build electric vehicles. And literally employ over 27,000 people. It’s going to be a city. With houses, restaurants, everything. Billions and billions to complete. It’s crazy.
Rise in theft of power charging cables. Apparently they fetch a hefty price.
They used to say the same things about electric power and gasoline vehicles. How many ways can you make gasoline? How many ways can you generate electricity? How many moving parts in a ICE and transmission? How many in an EV? EV are in their infancy, there have been more battery innovations in the last 15 years than in the last 200 years It may not happen tomorrow; but it’s coming
The rare earth elements are still rare, junior. Slavery to support it is still slavery.
And "fossil fuels" actually come from algae and replenish on their own. Oil companies return to old oil fields.
Lithium isn’t a rare earth material
Cobalt is used rarely in electronics; it’s used primarily as an alloy in medical implants or magnetic materials
You lost her argument the second you went personal. Kind of a liberal tactic. Stick to the faces