5% tipping point
Hi all, "In 2022, electric vehicles’ share of new car sales in the U.S. surpassed 5 percent, which has been described as a “tipping point” for mass-market adoption." This link takes you to a pla...
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JKJavelin wrote:
They were probably having this same discussion (or similar) with horse and buggy vs. the new fangled gasoline automobiles.
JK
Probably. The ironic thing is the naysayers were right. Mining fossil fuels, the manufacture of ICE's and vehicles and their by-products, dependence on foreign nations, ecological impact etc etc but but were sold as the greatest invention ever. And yet here we are now, all with ICE's - scrambling to undo everything that was done had we not just stuck with the horse and buggy. The answer - build another version of the same thing with similar if not worse impacts and call it an improvement. Rinse and repeat.
I think EV's are amazing but they aren't green, by any stretch and I don't think they are any better than newly engineered ICE's. I could totally get on board for a vehicle that actually solved some problem. EV's don't. They don't really solve a single problem. They are creating problems and have the potential for dramatic impacts to the environment that exceed the issues with ICE's they were promised to solve. If you are going do invent something as a replacement, shouldn't the replacement be better? Just trading one set of problems for another bundled in a fancy sparkly package with with lies on the wrapping paper and asking me to pay for it.
