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Did anyone do the math for when gasoline car sales will be banned? How many more power plants to we need? How much more Lithium do we need? I don‘t want to be

Did anyone do the math for when gasoline car sales will be banned? How many more power plants to we need? How much more Lithium do we need? I don‘t want to be a luddite, but the ev revolution seems to be unfeasible.

sidewndr46 4y ago
As long as the internal combustion engine is banned the EV revolution is entirely feasible. No one said everyone would be able to afford to drive an EV. Just that people would stop driving internal combustion engine vehicles.
- Test0129 4y ago
  No one has answered how people intend to do things that require transportable fuel. I can't buy a Tesla (or whatever) and hot-swap batteries. If I travel 200 miles to go camping and the nearest charging station is 150 miles away I am hosed. No electric vehicle to date (nor planned for release) has the towing capacity needed to haul a week or two of gear, solar panels, deep cycle batteries, alternators, etc needed to set up a system. Even if you could, the risk of starting a forest fire due to reflections and/or sudden spontaneous battery deconstruction is non-negligible. The torque of an electric truck makes it attractive as an off road vehicle, however it's entirely infeasible in practice. So the government rules by fiat that ICE vehicles are to be banned. I guess someone better tell people that they won't be able to travel as far, or for as long, until the 22nd century when battery technology catches up and you can charge it with a single lightweight panel where ever you are. The energy density of a can of gasoline is so much higher than a towable array of solar panels the EV solution may as well be horse and buggy. It will be decades before remote gas stations in the middle of no where have a charging station available. The government can "ban" things all they want. If the alternative isn't acceptable to people who don't want to live a life of being a metropolitan worker drone who owns nothing they will find a way.

sidewndr46 4y ago

As long as the internal combustion engine is banned the EV revolution is entirely feasible. No one said everyone would be able to afford to drive an EV. Just that people would stop driving internal combustion engine vehicles.

Test0129 4y ago
No one has answered how people intend to do things that require transportable fuel. I can't buy a Tesla (or whatever) and hot-swap batteries. If I travel 200 miles to go camping and the nearest charging station is 150 miles away I am hosed. No electric vehicle to date (nor planned for release) has the towing capacity needed to haul a week or two of gear, solar panels, deep cycle batteries, alternators, etc needed to set up a system. Even if you could, the risk of starting a forest fire due to reflections and/or sudden spontaneous battery deconstruction is non-negligible. The torque of an electric truck makes it attractive as an off road vehicle, however it's entirely infeasible in practice. So the government rules by fiat that ICE vehicles are to be banned. I guess someone better tell people that they won't be able to travel as far, or for as long, until the 22nd century when battery technology catches up and you can charge it with a single lightweight panel where ever you are. The energy density of a can of gasoline is so much higher than a towable array of solar panels the EV solution may as well be horse and buggy. It will be decades before remote gas stations in the middle of no where have a charging station available. The government can "ban" things all they want. If the alternative isn't acceptable to people who don't want to live a life of being a metropolitan worker drone who owns nothing they will find a way.