The electric car premise has been poorly planned and poorly researched from the start. You can fully fill up a gas-powered car in 10 to 15 minutes. It’s takes hours to fully charge your electric car’s battery in a “super-charge station” with long lines waiting to charge, or anywhere else it takes much longer a period of time.
If you get into a minor car crash in an electric car, there is a good chance the car will erupt in an electrical fire.
A car with a gas-powered engine will only burst if the car rolls over too much, slams into a wall or exposed to other fire source, and that’s at the chance it will. Let’s not forget that you still need fossil fuels to produce electricity. In effect, it will be very expensive once you commit. The US government subsidy incentives being handed out is only temporary unless they are on a contractual or government binding basis.
Without doing the proper planning and research, Americans are being pushed with promotional info, being told that 1st, Fossil fuels are not the only way to generate electricity. What’s more, a generator is inherently ‘cleaner’ in the burn of such fuels for a variety of reasons starting with the fact that unlike an automotive engine, a generator operates at a constant speed so, there is less wear and tear on the valve train that leads to carbon buildup and loss of efficiency. Finally, if enough cars were electric, the demand for electricity would provide the impetus to create more robust, clean infrastructure. It really is a win-win for everyone whom doesn’t have a vested interest in our oil dependency.
In order to produce mass electricity, you need oil. Any other ways don’t produce enough to power homes and other facilities. These “other” sources are very limited. Having enough cars is not the issue. To charge one electric car, you need the same amount of electricity that you would need to power a twelve-room house for three days.
They are called turbines, not windmills, and the ones like what you see in Atlantic City, NJ, have not been generating any steady MW, but are advertised for the potential, which turbines never reach. That is a selling point for the “Green New Deal” What the Dutch used them for in the14th century, does not match the needs of a population in the 21st Century. Windmills powering textile Mills and draining water out of wetlands was a very lengthy process, not equipped for today’s needs. I can assure you that old windmill technology has not improved since then. Let’s give this some thought.
The worst part of changing power sources before their time is the many people who will have to needlessly suffer for the sake of the rush for political change.
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