Whatever is happening with "electric" transportation in the governemt-regulating halls has yet to land at our door.
Whatever is roiling the headlines to do with "electric" transportation is wholly without importance to us.
Whatever is going on in terms of marketing competition between brands and whole nations is not coming to us, yet.
I personally suspect that the whole "green" theme as regards electric vehicles will run its course long before the local constabulary comes knocking to confiscate our HVs. Hydrocarbon-fueled vehicles.
There is not enough infrastructure to power a nation of EVs in any nation. But there is MARKETING enough to make some people think there is. Rather like "blue hydrogen" which is acquired by burning other energy to capture it.
Everyone's got a breakthrough, selling venture capital on a "this" and especially a breakthrough "that." I think we'll top up the sedan at Costco this afternoon. And not read the Financial Times.
—”There is not enough infrastructure to power a nation of EVs in any nation. “
And we didn’t have sufficient power generation when air conditioning came along in the 60’s.
Yet, it worked out.
Today and for a few years we have more than sufficient capacity, but not daytime in some areas.
The current peak capacity is twice the mean daytime load and the evening load is half daytime.
Yes, some big bumps in the road for the East and West coasts.
With networked EV charging systems, the load and your charge rate can be moderated and adjusted for time of use.
The biggest problem was just in the news.
Clearly displayed with a short road trip, like the famous one-car funeral.
“I’m from the government, and here to help”
I assume by “us” you mean you and your family.
If it is “wholly without importance” to you, why are you commenting? :)
I strongly doubt anyone is going to confiscate your or other people’s ICE vehicles. However what could happen is the infrastructure will go - just as looking for Betamax videos is getting more difficult.
I personally see a good need for electric vehicles in specific cases — densely populated cities: the Boston-DC corridor and the LA megapolis among others, while outside the USA, definitely Toronto, Vancouver, most of Western and Central Europe, the Indian megapolises (Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, Bangalore, Madras) and the Chinese east coast.
ICE has its purpose in rural areas