Who Killed the Electric Car?

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  • detritus0

    I can't be bothered digging out the articles just now, but this whole conspiracy against electric cars is pretty much bullshit - and I'm [hypocritically, admittedly] big on environmental issues. In sum though, what AndyRoss says is true - all current gen electric cars merely shift the energy generation back to central power stations, which - given that America is mostly powered by coal - isn't a great thing. Then you've got to take into account the energy loss in transmission from station to home, to vehicle.

    Another big problem is that most of the energy across a vehicle's life is consumed in the manufacture of the thing in the first place, so it's a massively false economy to change over all the vehicles - we'd be much better off finding renewable, non-food-stock-sourced means of creating fuel - like, perhaps, algae thick fuel mixed with sugar cane light fuel.

    Whatever though - do a bit of background reading before posting up things like "who killed the electric car" - it doesn't do the overall movement any good.

    • Sorry - I mean 'find renewable fuels compatible with our current infrastructure'detritus
    • the thing is you gradually move over to new technologies... like over 10-20 years...ribit

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