you you wrote:TheMaverick wrote:homie wrote:The story tells itself but don't look to electric vehicles to save us from the disposable engines and air pollution. To charge up millions of vehicles a day? It's not possible to deliver this kind of electricity grid on this planet... ever
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California thinks they will be the first to go full electric in 20 years by law
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this will not happen.
Finally - someone else gets it!
Nothing against electric personally - I'd love an LS218 or a Tesla P100D - but I don't think many realise just how much electricity is needed to charge a country full of them.
Or how much petrol is needed to fill country full of petrol cars. Gosh I Hadn't thought of that.
At least electricity can be renewable. In pretty sure fossil hydrocarbons can't. You'll know best for us all though.
Righto - now that I've got the time, lets talk about the elephant in the room.
Interesting that Homie raised the topic - I agreed with him - and yet (once again) it was me whom you chose to attack. This suggests to me that you're not interested in a rational conversation - only interested in continued personal attacks on me. Interesting.
Not that you'll be interested in anything factual, but:
- Proven oil reserves on earth are at 1,700,000,000,000 barrels.
- Humans consume around 95,000,000 barrels per day
- At the current rate - assuming that no more reserves were found (highly unlikely) - then we'd run out in ... around another 49 years.
- There are currently 1.2 billion cars in the world - and that's climbed from 1,000,000,000 in 2010 to 1,200,000,000 in 2014. Electric vehicles in contrast are currently at around 0.1%.
- Renewable energy is only 2.8% of global energy consumed (up from 0.8% 10 years ago) - so the renewable energy you speak of is hardly likely to replace conventional energy any time soon.
- One report has estimated the charging infrastructure to support 500,000,000 electric vehicles at 2.7 TRILLION dollars - and (to the best of my knowledge) that doesn't even include the funds needed to increase electricity generation (many countries are already struggling).