It is one thing to have technology and infrastructure advancing hand-in-hand with each other, it is quite another to take an existing technology in its embryonic state and demand it be implemented on a wide scale absent any critical and emergent issue.
"Climate Change" as presented by the climate alarmists is not a critical and emergent issue.
Even worse, is pushing a mass migration to this technology before any kind of infrastructure is present. I have heard people say "Cars didn't have an interstate highway systems and networks of gasoline stations built before people began buying them; why do we need to have electrical infrastructure and capacity built before we have electronic vehicles?"
When the migration from horses to ICE vehicles took place, people were not being mandated to do it, and the government was not involved in forcing it. The market did it. Sure, government was involved in getting roads built, but it was the population that drove it politically, not the initiative of politicians, and the infrastructure was driven by market forces as well, not mandated by government.
When an area had enough vehicles, a market was created, and a void was filled by enterprising people looking to make a buck.
There are too many discussions on the subject of Electronic Vehicles where the obvious issues outlined in this well written article are simply ignored.
Ignoring those issues, is going to throw all of us off a cliff whether we can develop a parachute on the way down or not.
That’s the reason why I am uneasy with Elon Musk buying Twitter. He is fully invested in Tesla and battery building and I am afraid he might ban people saying that for “misinformation”.
As an EV owner I frequent EV forums. Here's how I explained the problem to the government-must-save-us cult that's pervasive among the EV community. https://www.ioniqforum.com/threads/ea-i-love-you-but.43356/#post-530582.
Acronyms: EA is Electrify America and is free for about 2 years to most new EV owners (technically because of an agreement between EA and the EV makers, but really the gubment is involved). Thus some of the service is crappy, and because it's "free" potential competitors are disincentivized from setting up good charging stations.
And that's not even getting into the obvious limitations of extra demand on the grid while Dims are simultaneously making the grid less functional.
Interestingly enough, a few of my fellow EV owners installed solar. But the ones who did just a small token system are full of the woke-ism BS. The few who have a large system tend to be more conservative like me and believe that investing in individual energy independence is worth it. The EV extends the energy independence to our mobility, at least for local driving (obviously not for on the road charging during trips).
The author doesn’t understand what is happening.
Elon Musk and his superb teams of Tesla engineers have developed manufacturing technology that obsoletes the existing. The reason is not the worship of climate change, but to make money, lots of money in unimaginable magnitude.
Twitter pissed Musk off. He is good friends with a Twitter CEO who knows all the Twitter sins and buried skeletons. The Musk run on Twitter is just plain old fun.
“Electronic Vehicles are being pushed on the public before the technology is ready.”
As if it’s ever going to be ready
There were inventors driving around in electric horseless carriages 60 years BEFORE Karl Benz "invented" the automobile. If EV 'technology' still is in its infancy after 200 years of R&D, maybe it's a bridge too far. Maybe it's the 'prequel' to Cold Fusion.
In any case, it is utterly nonsensical to be risking the future of western civilization on them.
“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...” “
That, in a nutshell.
They are spoiled, dangerous brats who want what they want come hell or high water.
And sadly we on the other side who are supposed to be the responsible adult parents, are letting the brats do whatever they want.
“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.”