Unlocking The Market For Electric Vehicles [in Europe]

Manufacturing dot Net ^ | Wed, 10/01/2014 - 9:28am | European Commission, CORDIS

[palmer]

Our fuel-based economy must be radically overhauled if Europe is to achieve its ambitious emission reduction targets.

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In practice, this means that the car is intelligent, and provides the driver with braking tips based on traffic flows and advice on the best route to limit energy use.

Up to 30 % of energy can be saved this way, without losing much time along the way.

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[palmer]

Just another example of the soft tyranny coming to a country near you. The feds will require a 22 foot gap between you and the car in front of you and force automakers to program it in. Furthermore the complexity induced by adding lots of sensors and computers will make cars more vulnerable to hackers, more expensive and actually less safe due to catastrophic failure of complex systems. I have this problem already with so-called "Traction control" which actually does nothing but brake tires based on noisy input from an unreliable wheel slip sensor. But it is required by federal law.

All this is above and beyond the pretend problem of catastrophic global warming which they are pretending to prevent. The fact is they care about nothing but power and control.

[rdcbn]

Europeans destroyed their electric power generation when the de commissioned nuclear and fossil fuel plants and tried to replace them with solar and wind power.

Europe faces major problems with it's electrical power grid.

This is a big reason Europe has gravitated to very efficient turbo diesel power for their automobiles and have pretty much avoided electric cars.

Europe simply does not enough power generation to power automobiles and we are headed in the same direction.

Think of the disaster that would have occurred in California if their 1990’s pie in the sky green mandate to convert 30% of their cars to full electric power would have actually happened.

California's power grid almost collapsed in the days Grey -out Davis days of rolling brownouts and blackouts even without the load demands from charging electric cars.

Add a million electric plus electric cars to the mix and a lot of people would have been without lights and air-conditioning

[palmer]

Europe simply does not enough power generation to power automobiles and we are headed in the same direction.

You are absolutely right. In fact the new EPA CO2 powerplant mandates that are being shoved down our throats having nothing to do with efficient power generation, but require an absolute reduction in emissions and therefore in power generated. There is simply no way to achieve what they require (30% below 2005 levels by 2030 and it starts to kick in within a year or two) without producing less power.

That means the morons who we subsidize to buy their electric cars are going to cost us even more in higher electricity prices as we are forced to used sources that cost 2-3 times as much as conventional.

[Ben Ficklin]

"California's power grid almost collapsed in the days Grey -out Davis"

That's because they were getting enronned.