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I think what you’re discounting is the effort it would take to increase energy output in Europe (my original statement) by 50%. It’s not happening. Energy produ

I think what you’re discounting is the effort it would take to increase energy output in Europe (my original statement) by 50%. It’s not happening. Energy production is flat or down for the past 30 years. Flat or down. Europe will not build nuclear power plants so there is no hope of meeting the energy needs of a fully electric car population.

Robotbeat 4y ago
If Europe refuses to build anything, then yeah, I agree with you. But that’s true in general. Their old stuff will eventually collapse if they lose entirely the ability to build new, and this is irrespective of electric cars. But there’s tons of historical precedent for scaling up electricity production. Nuclear, of course, but solar and wind are new additional options that are even faster to install (with large scale battery helping back nuclear, wind, and solar, due to the scale up of battery manufacturing capacity for electric cars). (Solar is a challenge for Northern Europe, which is worse than 90% of the world’s population when it comes to solar power.)
Timon3 4y ago
> Energy production is flat or down for the past 30 years. Flat or down. This is a lie. Energy production in the past fifteen years has been flat or down (makes sense given the war), but the previous fifteen years had been a steady climb: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_production,_consumption_and_market_overview https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...