I think EVs are the future, yes. There's already several governments and companies with EV/Hybrid and EV only production by 2030, and most people would buy an EV for daily use if they were affordable and had infrastructure to support it.
The arguments against EVs are lessening (though recycling batteries and unethical mining practices are still major concerns), like "what about cold weather/charging stations" and so on.
That said, I think the real future is in well-designed cities with walkable/bikable areas being the norm, cars reglated to further and less populated areas of cities, and heavy public transportation like trains and electric buses.
Between less fossil fuel intensive infrastructure, reclaiming unused urban spaces (rooftops etc) for solar design, and deep energy retrofitting oldee buildings and communities, I think that stands as the best possible solution for future city infrastructure.
Cars are just one small part of the problem for the future. Sustainable design and practice in the real world needs to become more mainstream, or we won't have to worry about a future.
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Not yet, technology needs to come a lot further and prices need to come down.
As of today I am not aware of any electric pickup truck that can compete in the diesel power/range class of existing diesel pickup trucks.
Such as towing up to 27,000 pounds (5th wheel or gooseneck trailer) and travelling for 500 without stopping. I know electric is extremely powerful, but it needs to last that long too... no one is going to use or buy them if they have to stop and charge every hundred or so miles for a hour or more.
We are kind of getting technology there for little things, like scooters, maybe motorbikes and such... but even the electric cars that are on the market are too pricy.
We need lots more innovation and less regulation to get there. If electric vehicles are so much better, the free market will take over.
Batteries though are a problem, so I'll jokingly say maybe they should forget batteries and just build tesla towers every so often along every roadway... sarcasm right.
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No. At least not at our current level of technology.
1. The electricity for these cars has to be produced. Where does it come from? Mainly gas and coal. This means the very products being offered to reduce the use of coal and gas are being powered by coal and gas.
2. You are not saving money by using electric cars over gas ones. You have to charge the car. That electricity costs money. Even without the burden of charging a car, most U. S. families face astronomical electric bills. This will only get worse when adding a car to be charged. Even if you use a charging station in public, that will still cost around the same as filling a tank of gas.
3. You cannot drive as far on a full charge of electricity as you can on a full tank of gas. That means you need to recharge more often. This costs precious travel time and therefore is not sustainable for vehicles that transport goods.
4. Electricity can be controlled by the government easier than gas. For example, ANYTHING electronic can be hacked. If someone is driving an electric car, governments can hack the electrical charge stations and therefore block you from refueling. The U. S. is currently dealing with a government that loves to punish those who dare so much as to speak a different opinion than the government. Do you really want a government like that to be able to control your ability to move freely? When gasoline is in a tank, you have to physically empty or alter the tank.Electric public transportation and cars - yes, bc they have big batteries and places to be recharged after the work day. But trucks, ships and even planes - I don't think so. These travel long distances, often within the thousands of miles and with the near future capabilities of traveling 300-400 miles with a single recharge, that's not gonna be economically reliable enough for anyone, let alone for the companies that run them. Not to mention that if you wanna travel farther, you need a bigger battery. Eventually the space for the battery will run out and you won't be able to put a bigger battery, thus you'll be stuck with a vehicle that can travel only so far.
The only thing that's gonna be reliable enough for these types of transportation (trucks, ships and planes) in my opinion is nuclear power bc it's endless and doesn't need recharging. I know some of you will think that's science fiction but it's not. Russia has nuclear powered ships (ice breakers), so it's doable. I know for sure about "Russia" bc I watched a video about it a few years ago but there might be more ships than just that one. So if the Russians can have a nuclear powered ship, that means it's perfectly doable for smaller transport vehicles.
But I'm pretty sure no manufacturer will ever make a nuclear powered vehicle because they don't want you to have an eternal vehicle that will outlive the human civilization. They want you to keep paying for maintenance - for a short life battery that reaches its end of life in 2 years tops and for other short living components of your vehicle, which includes even the firmware of the onboard computer (preprogrammed old age).Highly unlikely. My father who is very good at science said, almost all electric energy is generated with fossile fuels and that is considerabley less than 100% so electrical energy would cost more. Also, there is no known way to cheaply store large amounts of electrical energy and batteries are very expensive and don't last decades like inexpensive gas tanks do. Furthermore, it take 5 or 10 minutes to fill up with gas but at least 2 hours to fully charge an electric car. No one want to wait that long plus, because it takes a dozen times as long, it would require a dozen times as many charging outlets as gal pumps. Electric motors may cost less than gasoline engines but that may be the only cost advantage.
I learned that from my father because I am home schooled. According to my parents, that is not taught to public school students because public school have an agenda and the primary agenda is not education.Electric cars are very expensive, and the materials to make the batteries are getting harder to come by and more expensive. Also, recycling the batteries is not easy nor completely effective. But many are buying electric cars and shopping malls are often providing free charging stations. However, the battery will only take them so far, and you may be in the middle of nowhere with no charging stations. Plus, fast transportation are needed for many trips and that is normally airplanes. Hard to run jets on electricity, And there are not many air charging stations for prop jobs.
On the ground it is the future, yes. In the air? Who knows. Currently batteries just dont have the energy density to fly a plane of any useful size. But if we electrify the bulk of our ground transportation it's probably fine if all of our fossil fuels are dedicated to aviation. Or maybe we'll come up with better batteries? Who knows. Biofuels are a possible option but again our current options just aren't there yet - especially with the ethanol scam occupying so mich of our efforts. Just because corn was already in most of our fields some dumb politicians got it in their heads to pay farmers for it and sell it as fuel. But corn ethanol is among the biofuels with the worst energy overhead to produce. Not to suggest that can't be improved but there are better options were just not doing because rural Americans control like half the senate and want the quick money instead of doing the responsible thing that would earn them the respect they pretend to shun..
If we cared less about pollution then it would be possible. This whole push to save on resources, consume less oil, and produce electric vehicles makes it all doomed to failure.
It will create more stress for people to move to cities, and push in three directions, the one we're on for logistics to cities, more public transportation within city districts, and possibly your electric bikes, but at the extent of capacitors/dynamos and not batteries. More pedaling as we'll be broke and lacking an industrial sector.
I could see China pushing electric cars, doubly so if Elon Musk gets pissed enough with US red tape and moves literally anywhere else.Ok so think about this gas prices are up and they will stay there because there has been a bill passed that all car companies have to come up with an electric version of a car within three to five years so the gas companies say we have three to five years to make as much money as we can on the public even though any kind of industrial or manufacturing Place uses oils and fuel to build whatever it is they make so yes everything will go Electric
But here's the thing will you be able to drive them because just think when NATO starts taking over America and all countries and all people are welcome here and there is no more America we don't have rights anymore cuz we are now under the law of NATO that's why I pretty soon you'll be hearing about people trying to get rid of your policemen in your city because they don't want them there they want their own people there so we might not even be able to drive we might be under a communist ruling who knowsits a stepping stone.
The maln problems are how the electricity is created to charge the cars battery, how good the infrastructure is for charging your car and how well the battery is built.
Currently there isn't enough green electricity generated.
The li-Ion batteries are good enough and create lots of polution in the building process.
And you can't charge your car in many areas.
And as a long term solution we must go away from using many personal cars to public or shared vehicles a long with reducing the amount of km traveled.the future is the present... and the future is past, that's what I think...
vehicles running on "water" and electricity had been here before, around the 50's or so... so yeah, most of the energies we're aiming for the future, they were actually developed and present in our past
and when I say the future is the present is because those who could lead us into the future technologies, very much rather to keep us here stuck, in the present... so they can make a lot of profit out of our consumerism addictionsFor gar scooters motorbikes it makes sense for long-haul heavy duty capacity cars like semi trucks no semi trucks will always need some sort of carbon emission. Electricity isn’t powerful enough to power huge vehicles especially up hills and mountains like the Rockies or of the cascades lava legends are fine because the appellations are tiny Electricity isn’t powerful enough to power huge vehicles especially up hills and mountains like the Rockies or the Cascades the Appalachians are fine because the Appalachians are tiny compared to what we have on the West Coast
It’s already here and should of been a long time ago. I think by like 2050 or something like that all car manufacturers are supposed to either of cut their emissions big time or be all electric or something like that. I agree with it but I don’t know when or how they’re going to ban gas engines. I know automotive makers are doing away with v8 engines and are supposedly coming out with v6 engines that are going to produce like 400 horsepower. It’s a good thing but I already miss my 2stroke dirt bike I had when I was younger and I’m not giving up my hemi as a matter of fact I’m wanting to buy a Honda 250cr like a 1995 give or take a year or two if anyone has one for sale
Not in the US. The National power grid and electrical generating capacity are not robust enough to handle the full load. This can be fixed, but it would take YEARS and cost trillions of $$$$$. Most of these monies will come from increased power bills to pay for all this new construction. It is also going to force an increase in carbon-based generating. Then we have to solve the problem of what to do with old batteries. I might also add you can expect all the states to start sending bills for miles driven because all of the nation's roads will become in fact toll roads. If we stop buying gas and diesel where do you think the road construction money will come from? I make my living as a systems engineer. You can't make changes in one area and not have those changes to affect things in other areas. We can do this. But it will take a long time and a lot of money to get it done. This is why I am not too keen on electric cars, at least not in 2022.
absolutely no. i find it crazy that after realizing "oil isn't sustainable", we somehow believe that rare earths, lithium, kobalt, copper and so on are "sustainable... specially considerig that most car manufacturers don't even give a shit about recycling the batteries at some point. tesla in particular makes batteries impossible to service and to economically recycle.
and that doesn't even scratch the surface of the entire issue with the generation of electricity and the infrastructure of the grid being far from ready for a large scale transition into electric mobility, not to mention "sustainability" in that field. because as far as we know, nuclear is far more sustainable than everything else, yet people ideologiocally want wind and solar of course, even though those things have their own very individual sustainability issues on top of their base load capacity problems.
so another very short sighted solution for a long term issue.Not in their current iteration. Too expensive, too many trade offs, not enough infrastructure. We’ll probably see a lot of people swapping to them over the next couple of years, but I don’t think it will last. Gasoline is definitely on the decline, but it’s going to be a much slower decline than people think. Once people realize EV’s are basically going to become the new disposable appliance, you’ll have a lot of holdouts. Especially thsoe who like to work on their own vehicles and people who tow.
For the people that can afford it it's very expensive too buy I own a Toyota Camry hybrid gas and electric thats way more money than just electric it cost too much to make gas powered cars will always be around if someone can afford electric car I guess it's there future transportation the price will probably drop down in the future so everyone will be able to afford it who knows tho all I know everything expensive now or days food, cloth, homes, just everything is sky rocketing in prices it's crazy.
Given that we can't even keep the lights on now with the power generation we have, adding a million or more electric vehicles to the grid will just outright collapse it. Solar polar is unreliable. Wind power is unreliable. Hydro-dams only work for large rivers, of which we have few of. Activists bitch and moan about nuclear power, so we end up with coal instead which is far worse for the environment. All of that leads to a severe lack in electricity generation. You won't be able to charge your vehicle.
Maybe in the future, when you can charge one in approximately 5 minutes. Right now you have to plan your trip so you can stop every 350 miles and charge for an hour or so. The batteries are horrible for the environment. The list goes on and on. Right now we are depending upon fossil fuels to charge them
It is, untill from Nuclear power, Trapps and Bombs wi'll end up in EMP's then you'll see fun, or in winter time batteries go flat, or you can't warm u car more than 30min, couse drains the battery... so.. i see the future an IT WAR! Not a IT evolution, will be like phones/android/apple, soon as the memory is "full" of "updates" that it receives, then you're forced to buy a new one, same withe the Electric cars...
I have been thinking about this for a while. I do not think electric vehicles are the future of transportation. I think that the manufacturing and disposal of the batteries will cause more harm to the environment than burning fossil fuel which you have to do anyway to make electricity.
If everyone had electric vehicles the power grid could not handle them all and would collapse. With droughts and dams not being able to make electricity, it leaves fossil fuel to pick up the slack. But the point of electric cars is so you don't have to rely on fossil fuels. So it becomes a catch 22. Plus where are you going to fill up on a trip?
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