winniman wrote:
No one is against research. When they are mandating that fossil fuels be seriously reduced without providing the replacement, how is that going to work. Pie in the sky solar and wind only work with a standard generator running full on in the background to account for spikes in the grid, wind slowing or clouds. If you have to run a back up generator, how is that helping anything. If the wind stops, and it gets dark, I guess we just shut everything down until morning. Get ready for lots more nuclear plants is all I can say.
Mandating a switch to EVs is not going to be what drives that switch. When EVs become truly superior in every way to owning an ICE vehicle, cheaper, more reliable, and most importantly, more practical, than they will dominate the market and slowly ICE vehicles will become obsolete. And this will happen as sure as the ICE replaced the steam engine, although it's still years away.