Pros & Cons of Electric vehicles v Petrol/Diesel vehicles.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Electric vehicles are fine in an urban area. Not so good in rural areas. My average trip when visiting another of our offices here stateside is 800 miles. These rural areas are where much of the food in the country is grown and processed. The cold reality is that electric does not work well when you factor in distances and weather . Bitter cold or extreme heat are brutal on a battery and shorten the range markedly.

Couple of other matters sometimes overlooked.

-Battery manufacturing along with electric generation is an extremely toxic process. Nuclear is waning (true zero carbon) and wind and solar account for less that 10% of the power generation. Battery Manufacturing is one of the most toxic mfg processes in the world. Of course, it's done in china by slave labor or people making $10 dollars a week so its the old NIMBY protocol.

-Placement of charging stations pretty much determines what the effective radius of the people you are ruling can travel.

Electric does appear to be the future in many areas but it's not all peaches and cream.

Yup cost to make an EV in carbon terms huge and outweighs the reduced emission during the vehicles lifecycle and that is not counting what you do with the millions of batteries once they no longer work!

The only benefit is they don’t emit pollution but then neither do hydrogen vehicles either.

[Billyni]

Burning lots of coal and oil in the power stations should definitely make the electricity more plentiful.

[ozleeds]

Burning lots of coal and oil in the power stations should definitely make the electricity more plentiful.

Nah we will have solar panels on our heads and a plug on our arses no need for coal and oil lol

[Billyni]

Nah we will have solar panels on our heads and a plug on our arses no need for coal and oil lol

Andy and the Rev. are way in front on that one