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I don’t think electric cars are about saving money. I never heard that as a selling point. And aren’t electric cars all about large scale infrastructure change
by ugh 16y ago
I don’t think electric cars are about saving money. I never heard that as a selling point.
And aren’t electric cars all about large scale infrastructure change anyway, not individuals curbing CO2 emissions? Say we find a way to satisfy our electric energy needs mostly without producing any CO2 within the next, say, thirty years. If our streets at that point are still full with gasoline cars we will be unable to reduce their CO2 emissions quickly. We consequently need to change the cars we are driving. As far as I know all proposed ways of doing that – whether hydrogen or electric – require large scale infrastructure changes and development of the right technology. Things like that take time.
If we don’t want to have only gasoline cars on the streets I guess we should start rolling out the first alternatives, well, probably right about now.
- ax0n 16y agoIf they're not about saving money, why do people get concerned about their effective miles-per-gallon? If people were concerned about the environment, we'd be rallying the EPA to talk about the amount of greenhouse gases being laid out by the car's production and use. We'd also see people riding bicycles or walking to their offices that are a mile away instead of letting their car warm up for 15 minutes and driving. There's noting wrong with wanting a car because it looks cool, because it has some hot new piece of tech, or because the amount of dollars you spend on your car somehow makes you feel better about yourself. And to those people, fuel economy makes little difference.
- pohl 16y agoIf they're not about saving money, why do people get concerned about their effective miles-per-gallon? Reducing dependence on foreign oil?
- ck2 16y agoSure they are about saving money. At least it should be. It gives you options about power source and an electric motor in itself is much more efficient than a mechanical "explosion" based motor. We're just not quite there yet on a good, cheap, source of power. Unfortunately cannot plug in to a solar array for a week or two!