Electric Vehicles: Update
Go to the link to read more about each topic, too much to post here.
*It’s impossible to build all the EVs EV cheerleaders want; there simply aren’t enough materials to be mined, and those that exist are under the near-exclusive control of China. China is not our friend; they’re not nice.
*Even if it were possible, EV cheerleaders are simultaneously shutting down the fossil fuel power plants necessary to charge them. We don’t have enough capacity to charge the EVs currently on the road. Without a crash buildout of nuclear and/or natural gas plants, the millions of EVs they want would be four wheeled paperweights. Golly, that couldn’t be their plan, could it? Go here for an article using California–a leader in green insanity–as an example of why EV pipe dreams are unachievable.
*Charging EVs is not cheaper than fueling with gas. When electricity is more expensive due to rarity, it will be ruinously expensive to charge an EV.
*There aren’t enough materials necessary to build all the “green” energy sources—windmills, solar, etc.—necessary, and they’re always going to be unreliable, intermittent sources of power requiring fossil fuel backup. You know, the fossil fuel backup greenies are destroying?
*EVs are always going to be far more costly than conventionally fueled vehicles, and have far less capability. Manufacturers have always lost piles of money on every EV they’ve made.
*In large portions of the country, EVs will always been wildly impractical—next to useless.
*Green products like batteries, solar panels, windmill components are toxic. When they fail, and they regularly do, they can’t be recycled and are environmental disasters.
*EVs are no better for the environment. They produce no exhaust, but it takes far more energy to produce and charge them, energy provided by fossil fuels, than it does to produce conventional vehicles.
And more awesome news about California and the ability of the grid to suck the juice back out of your charging EV.
Motor Trend gives an example of giddy, lunatic EV cheerleading:
Electric vehicles offer many benefits: no more expensive gas to pump, reduced greenhouse emissions, priority parking, and HOV-lane access. Another one EV makers and advocates are touting is the promise of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging, the ability to have an EV’s battery to send power to utilities, which has advantages ranging from financial incentives for EV owners to helping fortify the electric grid.
last year the governor of California requested that EV owners reduce charging during a heatwave to keep from straining the state’s power grid. But if you think of EVs as large batteries with motors and wheels—essentially energy storage devices—tapping their power to bolster the electric grid makes sense. It could also create cash for EV owners by sending—and getting paid for—power stored in their batteries back to the grid when utilities need it.”
There’s much more at the link and OH YEAH, you might not want to park your EV in your garage …
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