They never tell you where all that Electricity will come from or how thru the roof cost it will be
Well with more NOX in the air we can laugh about it.
When the communist parties in Europe were wringing their hands at the downfall o’f the Soviet Union, the leaders told them, ‘Join the Environmentalist movement.’
The enviro-nazis have always ignored the fact that somewhere there is an electric plant chugging out pollution to charge these electric cars.
Wow. I actually agree with something written in Politico.
Just ask a Tesla owner if they support building new Nuclear Power Plants that emit zero Carbon Emissions.
As is, the majority of the energy our automobiles consume is delivered to the retail distribution points (i.e., gas stations) in tanker trucks that themselves run on dead dinosaurs. If we all drove electric cars, the equivalent load that those tanker trucks have been carrying would have to be delivered over electrical power lines instead. Industry aside, America burns about as much energy in her homes as in her automobiles, so we can't all drive electric cars without the risk of overloading the grid (brownouts/blackouts) without the grid gets a major overhaul first.
And unless you're driving a duallie with an aux tank, you probably can refuel your dinosaur-powered vehicle in about five minutes. With pay-at-the-pump, that means a dozen customers can refuel per pump head in an hour. So what happens to your wait time at the "recharging" station if each car needs (let's be Pollyannish and say) 60 minutes to refuel?
"Their" concept of electric cars is that we'll recharge them at home or at work, so the commercial charging stations won't need the added capacity. But what about holidays?
Unless charging stations expect you to accept waiting four hours for your turn at their charger so you can make the annual Thanksgiving pilgrimage upstate to Aunt Edna's, they're going to have to invest in quite a bit more real estate than they have now to accommodate several times more charging "islands" than they currently use for the distribution of liquid dinosaurs.
Not only that, an electric charging station costs several times as much as a bog-standard Slumberger pump head. So you'd be asking them to invest big capital in a sale item that's only going to generate significant revenue on weekends and holidays when people are traveling in large numbers. So don't hold your breath.
So unless Elon Musk can poop free real estate and cheap rapid-charge charging stations, widespread adoption of battery-only electric cars would mean America would have to abandon both the traditions of the drive-to-Grandma's holidays and the summer family vacation by car.
You don't often hear it mentioned but one of the reasons America was so eager to embrace the gasoline automobile is because it was a huge boon to democracy, effectively a guarantor of freedom of association. And for more than a century we've had automobiles that could be refueled in minutes and then driven for hours. I don't think America will ever accept their wholesale replacement with something that takes longer to fuel than to run it dry.
If I were conspiratorially-minded (tinfoil hats ON!), I could see this as a clandestine attempt to make it difficult at best for Americans ever to travel more than half their car's charge from home.
Nothing better than riding up on a pedal bike and stopping next to an electric vehicle. Then looking over and down at them. Lol.