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Yes ban electric vehicles, we need the power for our snow-cannons, business and tourism first.
by nix23 4y ago
Yes ban electric vehicles, we need the power for our snow-cannons, business and tourism first.
- timbit42 4y agoWe should ban EVs and produce PHEVs instead. We don't have the battery production yet to build all the EVs people want. Instead of making people wait for their EVs, we should build PHEVs with 50 km electric range. They use 1/10th the batteries (of a 500 km range EV) so you can build 10 times more PHEVs than EVs and still reduce fuel usage by 90% because most trips are less than 50 kms. Also, PHEVs have no range anxiety because you can switch to gas seamlessly if necessary. It would also teach people that their range anxiety is overblown. So with PHEVs, 10 times more drivers can cut their fuel usage by 90% instead of 1/10th the drivers cutting their fuel usage by 100%. Seems like a better plan to me. Eventually battery production will increase and people will be ready to get an EV because they already understand them from driving their PHEV in EV mode.