This article perpetuates one of the most maddening misperceptions about Electric Vehicles.
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To be fair, they were using math that didn’t work in the real world - they were using CAFE numbers, which are still using the 1978 fuel economy standards.
It is easy to spot a person that does not know what they are talking about if they think hydrogen fuel cell will prevail over battery electric vehicles.
It appeals to people that are comfortable with the idea of a gas station and don’t want change.
In reality, BEVs are much easier to live with. Every building in the…
Imagine being such a partisan hack that you think clean air, better fuel economy, and working for a sustainable future are liberal ideas.
I live in Ann Arbor; this road is twisty, has very little room on either side of the road (hill going up on one side, down to a river on the other), and has LOTS of bicyclists on it. It’s a 35mph road, and he was doing 125mph. On a Saturday morning, where cyclist traffic is the highest.
I’ve had two EVs - BMW i3 and Tesla Model X. I charge both at home normally but when I plan a trip, I have to use public charging infrastructure. With the Tesla, charging works. Every. Time. With the BMW, I have to roll the dice and about 75% of the time, I come up craps. What network is the charger (Chargepoint,…
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SomethingBrewing, While I am totally for expanding the charging network (particularly level 3 DC fast charging stations), the fact is that 99% of EV charging is done at home.
I drive an EV. The times I have needed public stations are nearly zero. For everyday driving the infrastructure is just fine; i just charge at…
Didn’t some of those studies conclude that even with the extra energy required to build an EV, the “Break-even” in terms of environmental impact was something like 15,000 miles, then it’s all pro-EV after that?
That concept has been proven, regardless of if you are aware or not.
A large capacity BEV, like a Tesla, has about 60kg of lithium in it. That lithium is NOT extracted using stip mining. Rather, it is pumped out in brine and left to evaporate.
Yes, there are some environmental costs in building an EV, but as a whole…
Lithium is a salt; it’s rarely “mined” like many people believe. Most of it is refined out of lithium-rich salt water. And by “refined” I mean pumped into huge holding pools and letting the sun evaporate the water part. Hardly an environmental disaster when compared to oil spills, etc.
Good. It’s good to set impossible goals especially when everyone says it can’t be done. Think of it this way- in the timeframe this sets (22 years) computers have gone from having massive 8GB hard drives to being able to transfer an 8gb file with your freaking phone. We went from not having airplanes to the first…
No one has yet to convince me that these vehicles are any better for the environment that ICE vehicles.
It seems like you think your experience with an electric car battery will be like your experience with cell phone batteries, that is simply not accurate.
First Gear: The EV tax credit HAS worked, and must continue.
In 2010, battery prices were hovering around $1000 per kWh. Economies of scale, driven by the tax incentive, have brought that down to nearly $200 per kWh. That would not have been possible without the tax credit making these cars affordable.
Still, we have a…