[quote=AN]You guys are also concentrating solely on cars. While completely ignoring planes, tractors, big rigs, busses, work trucks, etc. EV is not suitable for any of that. To truly solve this problem, we need to find the next fuel source that can completely replace oil and coal in all applications, not just cars. Unless you can prove to me that BEV can be applied to all of those usage, I would say it’s a stop gap solution. I want a real solution, not a stop gap solution. Especially when my tax $ is being spent to subsidize it.
Not to mention China is producing about 1/3 of the world pollution. Mainly because of their coal burning power plants. This is with their current growth of demand for electricity (their cars are still powered by gas). If they don’t drastically change their energy source but replace their gas powered car with EV, I can see the world’s total CO2 emission will be much worse than it is today without EV in China. This is why I’m pushing for a holistic and long term solution.[/quote]
As EVs gain traction, gasoline prices will fall due to reduced demands, you’ll actually see cheaper fuels for airplanes and other large transport vehicles.
Battery density is increasing at dramatic speed. At the same time, $/kWh is dropping on yearly basis. Eventually, we will see a much wider variety of BEV vehicles, including trucks.
As for China, as their population move into middle class status, demand for cleaner environment is already forcing changes.
You complaint about the coal produced electricity, but you don’t complaint about the multi-step pollution from gasoline, especially the mere fact that just refining that gallon of gasoline uses 6 kWh of electricity. instead of using that 6 kWh to refine gasoline, just use that 6 kWh to power cars directly and eliminate the middle man.
The real problem here is there’s a lot of middle men within the current gasoline dominated status quo and they will do everything possible to maintain that status quo.
