Wyantry wrote:
So do you include all those Chevrolet Bolts (battery recalls, cannot park in garage, cannot charge near structures), or the Tesla’s with their crashes tied to non-recognition of emergency-lights (police, ambulance, fire vehicles) and “non-participating” driver inputs? Those vehicles?
Or what about the fact fuel-savings of $1000.oo per year (or so) is in NO MANNER going to offset the additional $20,000 or more that an electrical vehicle (EV) costs?
Or what about the lack of charging-stations in many locations?
Or the additional TIME required for charging while on trips?
Or what about the additional load upon already polluting grid-tied power systems and generating plants?
Or what about the fact that wind and solar generation IS NOT AVAILABLE when charging is derired?
Or the costs (and pollution aftermaths) of mining and refining necessary battery materials?
Or the control of “essential materials” by chiefly a hostile foreign power (China)?
Or what about potential recycling or disposal of used vehicles/parts like batteries?
Or what about potential fire or pollution damage caused by used components?
Or . . . ?
There appears to be an entire series of unsatisfactorily-answered questions.
The entire rush to electrifucation has not been thought out in advance, nor the downsides thoroughly balanced against the against the benefits longterm (a standard cost-benefit analysis).
So do you include all those Chevrolet Bolts (batte... (
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There is plenty of substantiated info out there where solar powered vehicles will not save anybody any money so why does Biden and many Senators and Representatives keep pushing it. I believe many of them are heavily invested in solar power and so to ensure their investment pays off in a big way they will try and force solar on everyone. I think bottom line, it's all about the money? No solar powered vehicles for me.