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I really don’t think they are worried considering coal usage is at an all-time high and the US president is going to dictators begging for oil, hat in hand.
by seibelj 4y ago
I really don’t think they are worried considering coal usage is at an all-time high and the US president is going to dictators begging for oil, hat in hand.
- danans 4y ago> the US president is going to dictators begging for oil, hat in hand. A big advantage of EVs is that presidents of the future shouldn't need to beg for oil as much, as road transportation energy supply market would be largely domestic. But we clearly aren't there yet.
- mxschumacher 4y agoI feel like a broken record at this point, but even if a large part of passenger cars move to electric, industrialized countries still consume incredible amounts of fuel for: all planes, ships, trucks, freight trains, plastics, most fertilizers, heating, electricity production, road building etc
- danans 4y agoThere are emerging/existing solutions for many of these use cases > planes Sustainable aviation fuel, synfuels > trucks, Hydrogen fuel cells freight trains, Batteries, renewable diesel, synfuels > heating, Heat pumps > electricity production Outside of some remote islands petroleum is hardly used for electricity production.
- reidjs 4y agoOk? What does that have to do with EVs? Those are all different problems to solve. You can’t say we shouldn’t partially focus on fixing a problem because it doesn’t fix every single problem we have.
- mxschumacher 4y agoEVs lower dependence on oil, but we'll have to keep begging Saudi Arabia and many similar countries, which was the mistaken assumption of the comment I am responding to
- nasmorn 4y agoTrains are electric in Europe for 50 years now.
- mxschumacher 4y agoFreight rail, not passenger