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Originally Posted by out2kayak
3. What new power plants are being created to provide the energy for these vehicles? There are no new nuclear, coal, etc, As far as I can tell, we are looking at more natural gas and solar PV (ref: https://www.technology.org/2019/03/1...-and-solar-pv/).
Given the US uses a daily average of about 391.40 million gallons and there is approximately 35.3 KWH per gallon, we need to generate approximately 13,816.42 GWh (if my calculations are correct).
Given the entire landmass of the US receives about 10GWh from the Sun, I don't think solar is going to get there.
So, how are we going to fuel these vehicles?
4. How are we going to get the metals necessary for the batteries? Consider:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2...attery-future/
Are we willing to do more mining and open more mines?
So, where does that leave us? All riding the bus? Hard to hang a corner in that.
Sorry, not to be the grumpy guy nor be political. I just don't see this as a real long-term viable solution without the elimination of cars for the vast majority of the population.
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I agree with # 3! I remember not long ago when E85 was the "next big thing" and the big debate was how were "we the people" supposed to decide between food on the table or E85 in our fuel tanks. When we all convert to E vehicles we will have to decide not to run our home AC units and big screen TV's so we can get to work the next day.