Dream on pal.In a state where my brother lives, there was a battery plant that poisoned the environment badly, and it was shut down years ago. Nothing has been built or opened up on the land since he says. Cancer was rampant in the area he also said.Another fantastic reminder of the lengths virtue signaling goes.Where will all the power to charge these EV's come form?
Add in the mining for rare-earth minerals which is very environmentally unfriendly.
Plus the massive problem of used-up batteries.
...But Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota Motors, the world’s largest (or second largest, depending on the year). and grandson of the automaker’s founder, has spoken out and called out fallacy of thinking that this is possible or desirable. [I must here disclose that I was a consultant for a Toyota company for several years, but that all my comments on the company here are based on publicly available information.]According to this account in CarBuzz:As the grandson of Toyota founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, the scion was raised surrounded by all aspects of the auto industry and his business acumen is second to none. So when he had some harsh words for electric vehicles at the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association end-of-year press conference last week, people took notice.
The Wall Street Journal was in attendance and noted the CEO's disdain for EVs boils down to his belief they'll ruin businesses, require massive investments, and even emit more carbon dioxide than combustion-engined vehicles. "The current business model of the car industry is going to collapse," he said. "The more EVs we build, the worse carbon dioxide gets… When politicians are out there saying, 'Let's get rid of all cars using gasoline,' do they understand this?"
Studies detailing the carbon emissions necessary to manufacture an electric vehicle reveal that on a net basis, there are more emissions for vehicle bought and used for its expected lifetime, than would be generated by buying and using a conventional gasoline-powered vehicle....
The ‘battery fairy’ and other delusions in the demand to replace gasoline powered vehicles with electric cars and trucks
I continue to be amazed that serious people think that gasoline powered vehicles can be completely replaced by electric vehicles in a decade-and-a-half, and that this would be a good thing, even if possible. Under threat of government action, however...www.americanthinker.com
On one hand, replacing the internal combustion engine with something else is past it's time. Granted.
But replacing it with a caustic, environmental destroying wall of batteries is not it.
The science is obvious. But of course, reality never once stood in the way of the left's devoted need to virtue signal.
The only way that I can imagine an electric system being a reality without the extensive contamination, is to produce a rechargable on board battery that can be recharged by the on board system as the motion of the vehicle allows for this process to happen. Otherwise the battery wouldn't have to be changed out for years, and all due to it's durability to withstand recharging up until the vehicle has past it's lifespan expectancy.
Would still have to have the plants that produce such a thing, but the volume or quantity of production would be limited or low in production because of the high quality, longevity, and value of the battery to be used in such a vehicle.
You're talking about 'perpetual motion' suggesting the energy created by a moving car could recharge a battery to provide energy enough to move the car.
Sir Isaac Newton might have something to tell you on that subject.
"Let's get rid of vehicles with fossil fuel engines and replace them with batteries which must use even more fossil fuel to manufacture electric batteries". Batteries which must be regularly replaced with other batteries.
It's no uncommon from long-haul big rigs to have diesel engines that power trucks for millions of miles. After a couple of million miles press out the liners and replace with new ones. Replace the bearings and put in a set of rebuilt injectors and you're good to go for another couple of million miles.
Try calculating the size and weight and cost to the environment of the batteries which would be needed to power a long-haul big rig moving 40 tons!
"Yeah but we can use trains instead!"
Really? What do you need to put the containers from China on when they need to be moved two hundred miles from where the last train stops, to get to your local Walmart?
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