Are you actually ready to buy an Electric Vehicle?

Of course life is change. We will change to Ev eventually. Think - much quieter on the streets - buildings will no longer have a patina of muck. Less smog.

 

Must have pissed you off in Australia.

 

Give them 50 years and you may be right.

 

Oh! I doubt it will take that long. Places like China and India are looking long and hard at EVs.

 

Why are you guys farting around in Afghanistan?

 

I do not care. Sorry Australia cares.

 

Your don’t have to. Your generation prefers to hold back other generations, it wont be long before you can no longer do that.
The people that don’t have one foot in the grave care

 

I'm not interested in leading the world. I want government out of it.

 

Good for you, the majority of America disagrees with you.

 

China does whatever makes them money. They are building coal power plants like crazy right now. We can't make enough batteries to power all cars unless we come up with more types of batteries with more resources available to make them. China belches smog to make batteries. Everybody switching to batteries can't happen in an environmentally friendly way just yet. It will take a generation or two. We will need to let the pioneers lead the way and test the technology so that costs can come down to attract the rest. It will take time.

 

Gee wouldn’t it be nice if we could get all the countries in the world to sign an agreement to reduce CO2 emissions? We could name it after the city that hosted the meeting - somewhere like Paris for example......

 

Good - slide back into a third world country - India and China will happily take your place

 

Except china never agrees to anything and we are left being taken advantage of for decades before china agrees to participate. If China owns us all, they won't do anything for the environment and we will all suffer anyway. I think all of our lead smelters have left the country in the US. All of our batteries are made in china and Taiwan as far as I know. Most other types of batteries are made in china also. We are almost to the point of depending on china to make parts for our military platforms. They already hold medicines in pharmaceutical plants hostage when problems happen. There are problems bigger than the environment that need to be sorted out so that we can make our own batteries. We aren't there anymore.

 

It was - Before 2016 it was pulling back on the coal fired power stations

https://theconversation.com/china-f...m-and-why-us-china-talks-are-essential-161332

We lost FOUR YEARS a thanks to Trump

 

Total BS

China Becomes “Clean Energy Powerhouse”
For the first time ever, China topped all nations last year in investments in low-carbon energy like wind and solar power. ... Along with ambitious targets for wind, biomass and solar energy, China aims to spend 34 percent of its $586 billion stimulus package on green projects.
https://www.wsj.com/ad/article/chinaenergy-powerhouse

 

It is government working to make us a third world country.

 

It almost always does.

 

When the charge to rent a scooter is minimal or free, it generates a ton of problems for the provider of them.

 

This has to be a new claim about incandescents. That they are responsible for the earth warming.

 

That link is copyrighted 2011. Meanwhile:

1. China’s carbon reduction target looks elusive as banks keep throwing cash at coal mines and power plants, undercutting Xi Jinping’s plan to slash fossil fuels
   2021 › 04 › 05 › chinas-carbon-reduction-target-looks-elusive-as-banks-keep-throwing-cash-at-coal-mines-and-power-plants-undercutting-xi-jinpings-plan-to-slash-fossil-fuels
   half of China’s coal-fired electricity – State Energy Investment Group, China Huaneng Group, China Datang ... From The South China Morning Post ... China commissioned 38.4 gigawatts (GW) of coal plants in 2020,
   enough steaming coal resources and have to import it along with coking coal for steel and coal for cement
   
2. China’s strange endorsement of ‘net zero’
   2021 › 04 › 24 › chinas-strange-endorsement-of-net-zero
   reported in March that China’s latest five-year plan increases investment in coal and omits any cap on ... emissions, China goes on a coal spree,” a Yale Environment360 headline proclaimed. In the article, China-based
   in 2019 China slashed Green Tech investment by 40%. Green tech is for export. ... It's in China's interest

 

Read a couple of articles over the weekend about using ammonia as the source for the hydrogen and new technology to get the hydrogen atoms onsite at a filling station. Ammonia being the most common commercial organic chemical. We already transport HUGE quantities of ammonia through pipelines and truck. Easily transported, easily stored and easy to refill. Ammonia has 3 hydrogen atoms and 1 nitrogen so any emissions totally safe.

If successful that would be the end of EV's.

 

Worth following.

 

Electric vehicles are popular here in California because the price of gasoline has been jacked up, plus EV’s get car pool privileges without passengers, and there are a lot of mostly free charging stations partially funded by tax payers.
In economics this is referred to as “economic distortion to acheive a goal”. Buying gasoline incurs road taxes. After the Newsom recall, the legislature is expected to go after high mileage hybrids and EV’s for road taxes. At .82 cents a gallon, you will be getting billed with your already outrageous registration. I have a bill for $625 on my desk for my gasoline SUV.
The envio’s have a fit if I throw a flashlight battery away in the wrong can, yet EV batteries are a huge disposal mess that is completely ignored.
Regarding power, you don’t see too many Tesla’s going over the Sierras (sea level to ~ 7000ft) in the snow, with chains and heaters running, stuck in traffic because some idiot spun out. There is no emergency “gas” for Tesla handed out by road services. You have to be towed on your dime to a charging station somewhere.
So be realistic.
on the positive side, I would suspect the running gear will outlast the body, so I could see a market in “Glider kits” for rotted out EV’s, and aftermarket and wrecking yard (or stolen), battery packs.

 

How about this:

 

Is today “April Fools” day... again?

(spoiler)
https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-chec...oogle-self-driving-bicycle-1757445-2021-01-09