Electric Vehicles
A friend sent me this piece from the Wall Street Journal on the environmental benefits of electric transportation, called Are Electric Cars Really Better for the Environment? While it’s very good, the situation is actually a bit more complicated than …
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Here’s a recent edition of the PBS News Hour, covering the part of U.S. President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan that promotes electric transportation. According to the piece, the path to getting the replacement of internal combustion engines is not …
Further discussion on this ridiculous call for investment into EV batteries: (Sarcastic) Reader A: I am sure all of the used up batteries will provide an awesome effect on our environment after they are discarded. Me: You may not be …
Here’s a question: How many people with money to invest in electric transportation don’t know that EVs run on batteries? I thought this was a joke initially, but no, these morons are actually trying to attract investors.
There are probably enough people poking jabs at the youthful climate activist Greta Thunberg without my jumping on the bandwagon, but this is all in good fun, and it’s far too clever to ignore.
Here’s a subject we haven’t covered in a while: the net eco-benefit of electric transportation. It seems so straightforward at first glace: add up all the environmental footprint associated with putting an EV on the ground, add in that of …
Here’s an article presenting some of the drawbacks of electric vehicles. This doesn’t explain too well why Tesla’s market cap is $806 billion. Seriously, some of these were true 10 years ago.
Please note that this is a conversation we’ve been having more or less continuously for almost 50 years, and the fundamental issues aren’t improving for hydrogen. It’s still inefficient, it still has a very limited delivery infrastructure, and batteries keep …
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Anyone who believes that tiny, robotically driven, electrically powered mowers are the future of lawn care can plunk down $100K and buy a franchise. On the other hand, anyone who, like me, sees this as preposterous, would do well to …
From the MIT Technology Review: Then earlier this year Jagdeep Singh, the chief executive of QuantumScape, claimed in an interview with The Mobilist that the heavily funded, stealth Silicon Valley company had cracked the key technical challenges. He added that VW …
