Trouble In Paradise For Future Electric Cars

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
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The issue is range. Show me an electric car that has a 384 mile range. Long enough distance to fuel up outside the blackout envelope. I can cheaply store 240 miles in 2 5 gallon cans.

There are Electric vehicles with a range in excess of 300 miles. NOt sure what the maximum range is.. There are several ways to recharge yes that includes a gasoline driven portable generator (or other fossil fuel).

Solar.. Someone said Solar and wind are not practical in much of the US.. DTE Energy has a solar farm (Trying to think of the name of the the farm.. THinking of its name. (WHo was the human with Alvin and the Chipmunks. that may be it) But article about it and this is lower Michigan. (Just off I-69 between Flint and Port Huron)

We have lots of breeze (Wind) too.

That said. I do agree that there are issues with emissions beyond the vehicle. One of the thing though. Power plant emissions tend to NOT be in the middle of say Los Angle or NYC... So to some extend they are simply moving the problem to somewhere else.

NOTE: I can also argue against EV's..

The argument I use againt them is very close to the argument I use in favor of cooking with gas.

Cooking with electric: We start by using fuel to boil water turning it into high pressure steam which spins a turbine which spins a generator the power is then sent down miles of wires and through multiple transformers and eventually ends up in your kitchen heating a resistor (The burner element on your range) with the exception of the Resistor none of these are 100% efficient. ENergy is lost (As Heat) at every step. Heat from the hot resistor cooks your meal.

Cooking with Gas. We burn fuel to cook.

Wait. we had burning fuel at the start of the long paragraph.