Subj : Re: EVs
To   : Spectre
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Oct 17 2023 07:40:00

-=> Spectre wrote to esc <=-

 es> The reason I think things like this are destined to fail are mostly
 es> because the big benefit of EV is that the car is completely agnostic to
 es> the fuel source.

 Sp> They're pretty inefficient in that you're converting to
 Sp> electrickery, storing or transmitting it.  You jam it into
 Sp> another storage medium and then you convert it back into kinetic
 Sp> energy.

Absolutely.

 Sp> I don't know what, but an alternative clean high density energy
 Sp> source is required.

It's available.  Nuclear.  We just need to build more plants.

 es> In other words, an EV can plug into really any power source - solar, wind,
 es> traditional electrical grid, alternative fuel, etc., and the vehicle

 Sp> If we suddenly switched everyone to EV... the grid would
 Sp> collapse.. there's not enough capacity to have everyone trying to
 Sp> charge their thing over night. That's probably not going to
 Sp> change if you try to take fossil fuels out of power generation
 Sp> also.  Then you need to find not only more power, but some
 Sp> alternative high level baseline power that's there all the time.

Agreed, and again, it's nuclear.  It's the only answer that makes sense.



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