Posted on 09/28/2022 5:58:08 AM PDT by rlmorel
Electronic Vehicles are being pushed on the public before the technology is ready. This article by Andrew Thomas addresses the folly of this approach.
These are excerpts from this excellent piece:
"...You cannot tell progressive politicians that the technology for EV’s is still in its infancy. You cannot convince them that the current state of technology makes them completely impractical and unworkable on a national scale. We are at the same point in technological history as we were in 1896, when we transitioned from “horseless carriages” powered by steam and electric motors to gasoline engines. What we see on the EV road today will in no way resemble what the technology ultimately comes up with..."
"...The current electric grid will need to be strengthened by the development of hundreds of new nuclear power plants. There is no political will in this country to do that, especially among those promoting EVs the hardest. Hundreds of new windmill and solar farms aren’t going to cut it and will negatively impact the environment and wildlife much more than nuclear..."
"...Up to 17 states are geared to follow California down the rabbit hole and ban the sales of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, just twelve and-a-quarter years from now. Have they thought ahead to all of the potential costs and ramifications of this decision? No, of course not. This is tantamount to throwing everyone off a high cliff and expecting someone to develop a parachute on the way down. You cannot force technology advancements by political edict..."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I admit, I am one who thinks that it is possible we will solve the issue of room temperature superconductors someday, and that we will develop real, working batteries, or affordable and safe fuel cells...but for all I know, it might take 100 years or more. Or could happen in a few years.
But I know none of this is ready now, and until it is, anything we do with EVs is a HUGE step backwards.
“Create a need and a solution will follow” is a social tenet, not a scientific or engineering one. It amounts to “make them suffer and somebody will do something about it.”
Yes. I understand the dynamic quite well when something is occurring where there is no ready solution, and resources and money must be brought to bear, people must sacrifice, and solutions must be found.
This is NOT one of those situations.
This is a political problem with a forced and unnecessary solution.
I am all for production of electric cars, and I don’t judge anyone if an EV suits their need and they wish to purchase one.
But it steams me to have this forced on us. I live in one of those 17 brain-dead states that are going to outlaw the sale of ICE vehicles.
No big deal, I will probably be dead by then, but if I weren’t, I would go out of state and buy a car.
But I know what they are going to do. They will impose some kind of excise tax on it, or...they will simply make it impossible to register the car in the state.
Or both.
Damn, I DESPISE these Leftist tyrants.
And that “political problem” is government control and money for government scum.
"...Who invented the very first EV is uncertain, as several inventors have been given credit. In 1828, Hungarian Ányos Jedlik invented a small-scale model car powered by an electric motor that he designed. Between 1832 and 1839 (the exact year is uncertain), Robert Anderson of Scotland invented a crude electric-powered carriage. In 1835, another small-scale electric car was designed by Professor Stratingh of Groningen, Holland, and built by his assistant Christopher Becker. In 1835, Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith from Brandon, Vermont, built a small-scale electric car. Davenport was also the inventor of the first American-built DC electric motor...."
* More precisely, it was 1828.
Benz built his "Patent-Motorwagen" in 1885. So there were several electric auto-builders who beat him to the punch by 50-ish years.
Depending which version of history you believe, the first manned, powered, heavier-than-air aircraft flew in 1902-1903. 66-67 years later, man walked on the moon.
Battery-only EVs have been around well more than 180 years and they still can't produce one that takes less time to fuel than to exhaust that fuel, or that won't spontaneously combust from time to time.
BEVs clearly are honor graduates of the Bart Simpson School of Under-Achieving.
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