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Originally Posted by wwiiavfan
Said it before, with electric vehicles, unless the charging power is coming from a renewable source, all you are doing is moving the tailpipe from the back of the car to the top of the smokestack at the power plant.
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Even then, that is an improvement. It's more effective to control the emission from fewer larger sources than many smaller sources. Power plants rely on machines that more or less run at steady state, something we can't say with our cars that revs up and down all the time. Steady state = more efficiency.
As I have said in other threads, I have nothing against the concept of EV itself. If I have the money, I'd buy a short range one just to do the grocery shopping so I can keep the fun car just for weekend shenanigans. And why not? If you could buy one cheaply, you pay close to nothing on electricity compared to gas, there is almost no maintenance other than tires, and you could set the car to preheat so it's already warm/cool as you hop in without wasting gas. You could just use it and forget about it. These are just from running cost and convenience perspective, I am not an environmentalist hippy
The problem is how the governments are forcing it whether or not it's practical, and none of them have a plan. It's just "we will ban ICE car sales in 20XX", never "we will help create the infrastructure for EV" or anything like that. I mean, it's not practical for everyone at this stage, and unless there is some major breakthrough that becomes cost-effective, I doubt anything will change. Even Toyota CEO says it's BS against the Japanese government that intends to ban ICE vehicle sales in 2035.
https://carbuzz.com/news/toyota-ceo-...ctric-vehicles
GM is just following the government's game. Gotta play the cards you are dealt. That's just how it is.
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Originally Posted by Fraxum
I am sorry but electric cars are a silly comparison to the undermining of our government. Get used to it. Electric power is part of the plan to save our world from us. 
I am not a fan either of electric cars. But I know we need to go there. |
Car emissions are not much compared to what airplanes or cruise ships put out, and good luck electrifying those.
Environmentalism argumrnts probably won't work for people who drive big V8s around, just saying.
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