When you ponder the future of transportation, can you imagine most of it taking place above the ground? These folks say that passenger cars will soon be replaced by passenger drones, each flown by someone without so much as a …
Category: Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles
Charging Your EV: Where Does the Energy Comes From?
A reader answers the question above, followed by my comments in italics: This is a function of your utility’s grid mix. There will likely be a lot of gas, possibly some coal, hydro is common, nukes, and of course solar …
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Tagged with: Charging electric vehicles means adding a predictable incremental load onto the grid, grid operators are already integrating as much renewable energy as possible, more energy storage and better transmission, overbuilding a solar array for charging EVs is a great plan, your utility's grid mix
Are EVs Environmentally Viable?
An EV skeptic writes as follows, with my comments in italics: What do they think will happen if they succeed in making the entirety of the US transition to electric cars?
Tagged with: average efficiency of internal combustion engines is ~20%, electrification of everything, environmental damage caused by producing the batteries, extreme weather events have made grid failures more frequent over recent years, proponents of clean energy and transportation are more beholden to moneyed interests than the congresspeople who perpetuate the consumption of fossil fuels, Stakeholders include automakers power utilities world government agencies NGOs and consumer groups, technology economics and politics, transition to electric cars, United States has among the most reliable grids on Earth
Do You Really Want Louder, Slower, and More Expensive Transportation? Hell Yes.
On a discussion of the merits of EVs, Reader A notes: I’ll keep my V8s gas hogs over electric, to which Reader B replies: Have you driven an EV yet? I could never go back to louder, slower, more expensive …
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Why Electric Vehicles?
Here’s a motor of the BMW’s 10-cylinder M5; compare to photo of Tesla’s below. When EVs first came on the scene, many people believed that the sheer simplicity of the concept, and the extremely high efficiency that it gave birth …
Some Conspiracy Theories Require Serious Levels of Stupidity
Look, I love a good QAnon-style conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but even I’m not so sure about this one. The liberal environmentalists convinced Putin to invade Ukraine and manipulated global oil production levels?
Tagged with: liberal environmentalists
QAnon and Electric Vehicles
EV World’s Bill Moore writes, ” It was inevitable, I suppose, but the Q-Anon crowd is now spreading the latest wacko conspiracy that the reason the Biden Administration is pushing for the shift to electric cars is so the government …
Calling All Idiots
Have these people at LIFT Aircraft really raised $3.2 million?? From what class of moron? Of all their outrageous claims, here’s my favorite: “No pilot training/license or previous experience required, just a 30-minute virtual reality session.”
Tagged with: deathmobiles
Solar-Powered EVs
We often see claims that a certain EV is equipped with solar panels and thus never needs to be charged from external sources. Yet when we do the math we can see instantly that such a car would be extremely …
Tagged with: solar powered EVs
The Right Wing and Electric Vehicles
A reader notes: What confuses me is why right wing media so hates electric vehicles. EVs are a part of the environmental movement. As we electrify our transportation and energy sectors, and replace fossil fuels with low-carbon sources of energy, …
Tagged with: climate change and ocean acidification, Climate science is flawed, Climate scientists are corrupt, electrify our transportation and energy sectors, EVs environmental movement, Only the continued use of fossil fuels will enable the U.S. to maintain its energy independence, Phasing out fossil fuels will damage the economy, replace fossil fuels with low-carbon sources of energy, Right Wing and Electric Vehicles, stem environmental collapse
