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Charles Wemyss, Jr.'s avatar

At the moment it is a moot point, EV density as proposed is not possible, technically or on the basis of logistical support in terms of servicing the EV vehicles or charging stations; even if those hurdles were somehow over come, the current electrical transmission and distribution grid can not support the effort in any fashion. A cynic would say they know this, and as it is with shrinking major city main thoroughfare’s from four lone way lanes to two, in an effort to aid people using bicycle transport, a failing grid which cannot support the density of EV’a envisioned accomplishes the goal of making it A. Harder to use a vehicle of any sort, especially in a city, B. Make the vehicles so expensive as to be unaffordable to the masses. Thus unwinding Henry Ford’s vision of lower cost accessibility for the many verses high cost accessibility for the wealthy few.

Even if there were violent agreement on the transition to EV’s (and there is clearly not, see local dealer lots loaded with the inventory) the cost of grid stability coupled with the increased use of wind and solar are a witches brew of electrical production and transportation failure. Cold and dark for the masses, EV’s for the few. Yep that is the All American Way of economic progress!

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garret seinen's avatar

When fear of carbon overwhelms a mind, energy poverty is the next bus stop.

I’m delighted to see that you are focused on the essential root of our problem. When seen as a moral issue, no economic argument will sway a society and affluence collapse becomes inevitable. When we see kids still in school, glue themselves to roads and cry “end carbon pollution” the scale of the problem is obvious. A life form that is 20% carbon, using a carbon based glue, protest against a carbon molecule you know that education is not what’s being done in school.

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