[lmr]

Let’s know something... The EV pushers obviously think their tech is superior to EVERY OTHER ALTERNATIVE to require 75 percent market saturation in 30 years, right?

Does anyone but myself realize the arrogance and intolerance of some advocates of ‘Alternative Energy’, especially in regards to other so-called ‘Environmentally-Friendly’ options?

These guys have not only an agenda to push, but a buck to make. Pure and simple. Yet, they will damn the ‘evil oil companies’ for doing the same damn thing.

[4rcane]

well, they will need 75% nuclear power to achieve the goal

[saganite]

There are at least 2 much better answers to better fuel mileage out there right now. Hydraulic hybrids and fuel cells that burn pretty much anything. Hopefully, they get to market and the public’s attention before some politician shuts down competition with an idiotic mandate.

[Erik Latranyi]

Nobody mandated the internal combustion engine achieve a certain market saturation over the horse and buggy.

There were no “coalitions” to advocate for the internal combustion engine.

Yet somehow, things worked out.

[BBell]

I'm all for electric, diesel electric.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Just having turned 66, thank God, I'll be long gone by 2040.

And to my dying breath, I'll always have fond memories of growing up in the era of "REAL" autos, especially, "muscle" cars and when men were "men" (and not metro sexual girly-guys) and cars were called "irons," cuz that is what they were made of and the rest of the tiny "sh*t boxes"--such as these proposed "golf carts with pseudo-engines--were referred to as "sleds!"

[Caipirabob]

Our national policy does not lend itself to ever increasing demands on the power grid. From what I'm seeing, we are reducing potential capacity rather than increasing it. I don't see how the nation could sustain the level of demand necessary for the number of EV’s they are talking about. I don't see any means, with the realms of reality, that this could be feasible.

[RayChuang88]

It may sound totally ridiculous but we're forgetting that by 2040, we'll likely have:

1) Every home will have its own solar panel array on the roof, backed up by a powerful battery pack somewhere in the house. This will provide the power source to charge automotive batteries on a home charger.

2) Automotive battery technology will be either high-density ultracapacitors made with carbon nanotubes or using a high-ion density liquid between the battery elements. As such, by 2040 the average automobile could go as far as 1,000 km (621 miles) between charges--and the battery back will be recharged in a few hours at home or under 15 minutes at a commercial charging station.

[sig226]

And of course, these mo-mos have not given one second’s thought to where they will get the electricity to power the electric cars.

[dennisw]

You would need to beef up the power grid tremendously to handle that overload from all those electric cars. My wild guess would be we would have to double what we have now and new power plants too are in order

Unless part of this eco-wacko scheme is a huge reduction in usage of all personal vehicales.... Personal transportation conflicts with their socialist utopianism. We should all be on trains and busses like in YOU-ROPE

[element92]

your car can be ...

grid free
raghead/oil-company free

pick one