Electric vehicles are imagined to be easy. It’s just a bunch of batteries, a couple electric motors, and Basta! Easy car. Plug it in at night, unplug it by day for a drive. Why were we all so collectively stupid before, making complicated engines with lots and lots of fiddly gears and flywheels and stuff?
Except that battery cars aren’t that easy after all. For this morning’s discussion, the core of this Mark Mills presentation begins around the 28-minute mark. He delves into the details of how e-vehicles are “differently complicated” rather than simpler. After that there follows a discussion of how the electric grid has to be rebuilt from scratch in order for everyone to switch to electric cars, which is the apple of the environmental movement’s eye—and official government policy.
At around 36 minutes, he describes the problems of “super-chargers” at fueling stations. Watch it and weep.
Why don’t we mandate hybrids rather than full on EV’s? My hybrid Toyota Sienna has a range of 538 mi on 14 gal. My hybrid Corolla has a range of 500 mi on 9 gallons! The performance on both is great.
Good morning. Another rainy morning here.
The mothership is reporting n early reports of an Israeli counterstrike against a military base in Iran. There is also a report o the state of the economy, a mixture of low unemployment and (relatively) high interest rates. (Personal note: Any interest rate in single digits which is still the case, is not “high” for those of us who remember the ‘80s).