Comment by jeffbee
1 day ago
Everything about the push to convert the whole fleet to EVs falls apart under even the slightest rational scrutiny.
1 day ago
Everything about the push to convert the whole fleet to EVs falls apart under even the slightest rational scrutiny.
"the push to convert the whole fleet"
Is that anything like the "_ agenda being pushed" I keep hearing about, but can't seem to see anywhere?
Well, to me the EV conversion push, which undeniably exists and has many government policies supporting it, does represent an agenda, and that agenda is "Cars Über Alles". The obviously more practical approach to the problem is to support the conversion of transportation demand to less energy-intensive modes such as trains, buses, bicycles, and feet. It isn't very practical to say we're all going to have an EV and we'll have plenty of megawatt-scale chargers for everyone.
Why not?
We extract, refine, transport, store and pump billions of litres of toxic chemicals everyday to power our cars now.
We could do the same with electricity if we wanted to, and use a fraction of the energy.
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Is it falling apart right now? It seems the poster has forgotten that EVs can be charged at home but also away from home. They mention that in the last paragraph, but it kind of seems to undermine the whole premise that this is a problem.
Yes, it is in the process of disintegrating. The main symptom is the transformer shortage.