Electric Vehicles on Techcrunch
Earlier today, a friend sent me a link to this discussion of electric vehicles on Techcrunch, one of the great blogsite successes of the past few years.
The article features the way-cool work of Plug-In America in its ongoing advocacy position for EVs. The discussion beneath, however, was rather alarming. Either the site is full of shills from the oil companies, or there actually are well-educated young people who believe that EVs offer little or no ecological advantage over internal combustion engines.
It seems they needed me – a guy old enough to be most of these commentors’ father – to point out:
A point worth mentioning here is that we could 90 million EVs on the road this afternoon, charge them with off-peak (overnight) power, and not put ANY additional load on the grid; most of that power is thrown away, as it’s too expensive to store. More on this at: http://2greenenergy.com/category/electric-vehicles/.
There are several parallel developments taking place with regard to electric vehicles.
Of most importance is the solar charging canopy and the swappable lithium battery.
http://solarchargeddriving.com/news/solar-carports/427-solar-carport-revolution-is-underway-in-us.html
http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/11-charging-stations-designed-to-refuel-evs-with-renewable-energy/
Company using solar to power robotics for electric vehicle…
http://www.cleanfleetreport.com/renewables/ford-focus-electric-car-plugin-hybrid/
The swappable lithium eliminates waiting and takes advantage of the sun during the day, so no significant impact is made on the electrical grid.