The grid is not there.
When your gas powered vehicle runs out of fuel, you grab the gas can and start walking, or somebody delivers a gas can to you, or you get a tow.
When your battery powered vehicle runs out of “gas,” you get a tow.
Depending where you run out of gas, or “gas,” you may be stuck.
With gas, instead of “gas,” you are less . . . stuck.
Calling Captain Obvious.
Ethanol costs about $1.50 worth of gasoline to produce and transport a $1.00 worth of ethanol fuel. What's the point?
Windmills can only be run in moderate speed winds. They rust and have to be dismantled and replaced every so often. There is no battery big enough to store much of their energy. The distribution system from windmills to a point of use is cost prohibitive. They are eyesores, bird killers and there is no place to dispose of them when they get too old to operate. Not very sustainable.
Solar only works with taxpayer subsidies and credits. The cost to supply full power to a commercial building or residence can be so expensive that just using regular electricity and natural gas can power a house for 50 years before the cost of the solar is recovered. Who lives in a house for 50 years? And the systems have to be replaced and repaired over time, raising the initial costs significantly. Not very sustainable.
Fossil fuels are the most inexpensive and efficient fuels to run our economy. Don't try to fix what is not broke.
l8r
How is electricity generated?
Well, DUH!
Elon, did it take you all this time to figure that out?......................
Now he tells us!
Watch “Planet of the Humans” on youtube. This is a Michael Moore documentary which does a good job of debunking the alt energy crap.
I can’t help but think that outlawing ICE cars and then not having enough juice to charge your EV is all part of the plan.
And Central Africa is going to run out of child slaves to do the digging.
But, but, but... I thought if no exhaust was coming out of a tailpipe that it was unicorn free energy...How can this be? How can this be? /s
In a rare moment of honesty...
In a rare moment of honesty...
Any one seeing what is happening with the power in Texas and other places now that it got cold?
With EV’s then everyone will freeze to death in their own homes. EV’s kill.
The Polar Vortex Is Proving Exactly Why Green Energy Is a Disaster for America’s Power Grid
China has huge coal reserves. Coal to burn for their Electric Cars (EVs) which are what most cars sold in China are. Lots of hydro-power in China too for their EVs. Very little oil reserves, they must buy oil abroad and mostly buy from Iran
The US has huge oil reserves to make cheap gasoline for our automobiles which are overwhelmingly powered by internal combustion engines. Which make more sense here plus I vastly prefer them.
HYBRIDS make sense in Japan and large congested cities with lots of stop and go traffic. They do not plug in, take no electricity from the grid. The braking from the stop and go traffic creates electricity which is stored to use in the onboard electric motor
Chevy Volt and a few other HYBRIDS do have a plug in option. My cuz has a Prius and get great mileage on the highways. 40MPG but this 100% running on the Prius gasoline engine which is 121 horsepower
The shrimpy Honda Fit has a 130HP engine and get 40MPG on highways
Prius
180” length
3000 lbs weight
Honda Fit
160” length
2540 lbs weight