Are you actually ready to buy an Electric Vehicle?

Only a few which make the news. Any battery operated car will have that danger.

 

I expect the heavy equipment burns diesel fuels. Cranes burn diesel fuels.

 

They certainly aren't solar powered.

 

Yet you claim to know the solution, use renewables. That is your idea so take a bow.

When I studied physics and Chemistry in college none of the professors told us water is a pollutant.

 

I have yet to see a huge crane with a windmill powering it either.

 

Why would you? At least, not regularly.

 

You suggested:
It is transporting two or three people, or only one, that takes up the major part of human transportation, and that could be done with various small, light means, starting with bicycles.
Why would I ever consider using a bicycle for the "major part" of my transportation?

 

Several bicycles are available, almost all of which I've modified to my specs (including an ebike). It's a rare day one isn't out of the paddock. Most of the grocery shopping gets done that way and a lot of cruising on parkland trails.

 

Taking it that personally, your comment is understandable. Of course, the post meant people in general, the total population, not every person. The post spoke of smaller and lighter vehicle, of which bicycles are one category. Taking the post as you did makes you seem a bit allergic to the entire topic.

 

OK... scale my question up:
Why would the population as a whole ever consider using a bicycle for the "major part" of their transportation?

 

That was not the suggestion. Your reading of the post is so narrow that it reveals antagonism.
A "major part" of current traffic could be replaced with much smaller; lighter, greatly more efficient vehicles. One type of vehicle that is light and highly efficient is the bicycle. This post is not suggesting that you use anything.

 

Smaller, lighter:

 

YOU suggested bicycles, did you not? As an example of a "smaller, lighter, more efficient" vehicle?
Under what circumstance do you believe the population as a whole will use bicycles in place of their current vehicle?

 

Smaller, lighter:

 

I am aware that they exist and what the claims are. I also know that yard car trucks can compete driving around town, but that is not the same thing as pulling heavy loads. In fact one of the complaints about the EV semi is that its tare weight is way too high.

 

So where do you get the energy to extract hydrogen from sea water ? You’d better use sunlight or another renewable. Unless you think it’s magically going to happen by itself.

 

I’ve never heard Biden take soul credit for doing anything. Now republican lead trump....he brags all the time.

 

You just admitted something I responded to. What a strange post.

 

Now even more boring.

 

It must be boring being for righties being on the wrong side all the time.

 

Goodbye.

 

Compared to gasoline powered cars ?
A FACT from firefighter.
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• Although the chief ( of fire department) acknowledges EV fires require different tactics by firefighters, Tesla and government safety data asserts that traditional internal-combustion vehicles experience one fire for every 19 million miles traveled; for Teslas EVs, it's one fire for 205 million miles traveled.

 

It is not practical to make the current batch of unnecessarily huge and overweight vehicles electric. Thinking has to be much more audacious and adventurous, or another alternative energy has to be integrated. Hydrogen burns in present engines with relatively no pollution (despite propaganda to the contrary). The so-called energy inefficiencies related to this ignore the energy inefficiencies of what we have now. It also ignores the advantages in pollution reduction and energy dependence.
If comparisons are to how people traveled about for most of human history, sustainable, non-polluting and rapid transportation is within reach. If the comparison is to sitting in traffic in a two ton behemoth (also capable of accelerating to 100 kph in ten seconds or less) with the stereo and a.c. blasting, hope can be forsaken.

 

Next to the sea? Abundant power! Tidal, wave, wind, sun. There's lots of energy available for many uses. Making do with what's there would lead to many solutions. Trying to bend everything into doing things as they are presently assures frustration and failure.

 

Gee, wasn’t that the point we made from the beginning ? Unless hydrogen is extracted using renewables, which it hasn’t been, it’s not there. Batteries are the person transportation solution. Hydrogen will replace diesel and fuel oil used in long haul and aviation.....not there for years.

seriously, hydrogen packs more energy density then batteries but it’s a liquid fuel Needing more complicated infrastructure. Electricity for batteries is on every utility pole. Why does the right support big oil so much ?