Gas taxes may not work long term, but they are an important first step

Not “virtually the same model”:

Look at what people are paying to replace the batteries in their Priuses nowadays.

It costs about $50 to $100 to replace a laptop’s battery

The reason the laptops are scrapped is because they’ve become relatively slow by the time you need to replace the battery.

I still have old laptops in regular use.

The EV landscape has changed more than you realise

It’s an exponential growth thing, coupled with the fact that any given year’s sales are less tan 10% of the vehicle fleet anyway.

EV sales are doubling roughly every 2 years. We’re 4 doublings in.

It only takes 8 doublings to change the sales mix almost entirely.

Once…

Except that they waste from turbine blades is a lot less than the waste from burning coal in generating plants and burning gas in generating plants.

It’s a very localised issue too, and we can sequester the waste easily.

All things that are teh opposite of fossil fuels which have enormous quantities of waste product,…

This is where the high-temperature superconductors come in.

Very expensive - but you can shunt power a long distance with relatively low loss.

Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

The person who solves it will be supermarket chains.

Charge when you shop.  Fairly slowly.  25kW will do you.

Over time, each grid gets greener.  Mainly because the cheapest way to build new generating capacity is to build renewable generation.

Over time, each grid gets greener. Mainly because the cheapest way to build new generating capacity is to build renewable generation. So over time, an exiting EV gets greener. Whereas, over time, an ICEV gets less efficient, as the various parts of the engine and cooling system soot up and fur up.

And, even if an EV is…

Plus they dumped Vauxhall and Opel.

Which immediately became money spinners.

If you’ve eaten mussels or oysters, then snails are not much different.

Mind you, I’ve never bothered to have them again, after my first time.

You seem to be mistaking what 3 degC warmer means. You seem to think that 3degC warmer on a whole-year, whole-globe basis means that every place will simply be at all times 3degC warmer than it used to be at any given month of the year.

But it doesn’t work like that.

Yes, things change. But for longer than humanity has existed, temperature and climate have changed slowly - 1degC every 2,000 to 20,000 years. As opposed to what is appening now - 1degC every 100 years, and accelerating. And the rate of acceleration is itself accelerating.

That’s like sayin its ppointless to move from horses to cars, because you can only buy petroleum, in small bottles, from pharmacies.

It turns out, that was not a problem for people - they adopted cars anyway.

Nuclear doesn;t get mentioned because it is *muc* cheaper to put wind turbines out in the North Sea. It’s even ceaper to build solar farms. And it’s even cheaper to build onshore wind farms.

This is why Scotland has gone from mainly coal-fired electricity to zero coal, almost entirely wind-gnerated electricity. (It…

One average American emits as much as 8 or 9 average Indians.

It’s not the number of children you have. It’s how much each of you (and your children) consumes.

The implications of Brexit for the motor industry ar quite simple.

Profit margins of 0%-8% + tariff levels of 10%-22% = devastation for the automotive industry.

The problem for Jag is that their heritage DNA is twice having the world’s fastest production car, and a bunch of Le Mans wins in two different eras.

It’s hard to walk away from the sporting aspect of sports luxury when you’ve always been the sporty brand. (In the UK, their Daimler brand was their luxury offering)