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Electric Vehicles.
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Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
There will be some years to adapt to the new way of living with electric cars, but when fossil fuel cars are gone there will be no need for extra tax or higher road payments.
Yes there are still some issues about the batteries in the electric cars that must be solved to lessen the pollution it takes to make them. But within 15-20 years all fossil cars should be obsolete and the result will be a better more healthy earth. But there are many other issues with oil and gas production that must be fixed too.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
We need to protect the buggy whip makers!
Just think of all the methane produced by ox transport
I voted <yes>, but didn't watch the video.
I doubt it would raise any issues I'm not already familiar with.
I doubt it would raise any issues I'm not already familiar with.
Oh woe. Alas and alack. Progress brings new problems so let's stop progress.
And in yet another example of weird world, like @Revoltingest I voted yes without watching the video and for the same reason.
After all, anything that a libertarian and a democratic socialist agree on must make much too much sense.
And in yet another example of weird world, like @Revoltingest I voted yes without watching the video and for the same reason.
After all, anything that a libertarian and a democratic socialist agree on must make much too much sense.
I watched part of the video, found it to be negative.
My daughter drives a Lincoln hybrid, not all electric, but in her daily 4 hour commute she uses 1/4 of the gas a week and logically emits the same reduced amount of pollutants. However, if her battery should have to be replaced its thousands of dollars to do so.
Interestingly, MIT is working on an electric car powered by solar. MIT Solar Car - Massachusetts Institute of Technology solar car shines
My daughter drives a Lincoln hybrid, not all electric, but in her daily 4 hour commute she uses 1/4 of the gas a week and logically emits the same reduced amount of pollutants. However, if her battery should have to be replaced its thousands of dollars to do so.
Interestingly, MIT is working on an electric car powered by solar. MIT Solar Car - Massachusetts Institute of Technology solar car shines
Notanumber
A Free Man
I know this is from a leftwing newspaper but it does make you think about the environmental and health costs.
Nickel mining: the hidden environmental cost of electric cars
Nickel mining: the hidden environmental cost of electric cars
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Yes to be environmental good, will cost because first one must clean up the mess done from past generations and our own and we must end the oil production and get rid of all the cars running on fossil fuel. Then we must in the same time find a better way to produce batteries that do not pollute as much as today when they are produced.
Going from one way of living to a new one does take time.
Solar assist is practical, but not as a primary power source.
I use solar powered battery maintainers on Mr Van & his
trailers.
Video points:
Cobalt mines in Congo look pretty bad and so do the nickel mines in the Philippines.
The video has good points about workers in NZ who rely heavily on their petrol vehicles. The New Zealand tax scheme seems to punish them.
Video overlooked:
I'm pretty sure the goal is to have cars and machines running on sunlight, wind, hydro, geothermal and nuclear sources. To do that requires getting elements into place: the cars, the batteries, the distribution, the public awareness. Maybe right now its not perfectly clear how to accomplish this, but you can't ever accomplish it if you don't start trying.
You want wealthy people driving the cars. You want them to be desirable and a sign of success. You need to distribute the technology and start getting electric auto sources in place -- all those electric plugs, letting the public know that its a viable technology not just some idea. The Tesla was influential in letting people know that electric cars could work.
Cobalt mines in Congo look pretty bad and so do the nickel mines in the Philippines.
The video has good points about workers in NZ who rely heavily on their petrol vehicles. The New Zealand tax scheme seems to punish them.
Video overlooked:
I'm pretty sure the goal is to have cars and machines running on sunlight, wind, hydro, geothermal and nuclear sources. To do that requires getting elements into place: the cars, the batteries, the distribution, the public awareness. Maybe right now its not perfectly clear how to accomplish this, but you can't ever accomplish it if you don't start trying.
You want wealthy people driving the cars. You want them to be desirable and a sign of success. You need to distribute the technology and start getting electric auto sources in place -- all those electric plugs, letting the public know that its a viable technology not just some idea. The Tesla was influential in letting people know that electric cars could work.
I can't help thinking that it will become a reality only when and if the big oil companies find a way to monopolize it.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Oil companies should keep away from production of electric cars
Stockholders like to diversify to hedge their bets. They can shift from oil to other forms of energy, and there are portfolios which hold stocks in both fossil fuels and clean energy.
See post #15.Oil companies should keep away from production of electric cars
Anyway, lots of companies are interested in them.
Even Domino's Pizza had an electric vehicle program some decades ago.