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As someone that works on software that includes functions to try to figure out where you can place electric car chargers - it absolutely is very hard. The grid

• adrianN 6y ago
  It is a lot easier than the alternatives: unmitigated climate change or building the infrastructure for e-fuels.
  • terryf 6y ago
    Of course, unmitigated climate change will be catastrophic. No argument there. I do however think that we would be better off funding and building massive amounts of solar that gives us enough energy surplus to do large-scale carbon capture, instead of forcing everyone to move to electric vehicles. If you think about it, we right now have an open loop transportation system - dig stuff up from the ground, burn it and forget about it in the atmosphere. Basically, extracting easy to use energy that was captured over a long period. But we now have the tech to extend that to a closed loop system - capture enough energy from solar to recycle the burned fuel back into burnable fuel. This will also mitigate all the co2 created when producing electric cars btw.
    • PJDK 6y ago
      Electric vehicles solve several problems at once though. They don't emit any of the other unpleasant gases, particularly NO2. And they massively reduce other particulates (no clutch, regenerative brakes). Plus, having that much battery capacity plugged into the grid should be exploitable to help manage the vagaries of solar and wind power.