One of the cons of the electric car is the ghastly chemicals going into the manufacture of the cars - the use of heavy metals in the batteries. The big wind farms have the same problems.
In the great rush to make electric cars there are going to be huge stockpiles of dead batteries - how are these going to be disposed? When and where? These are toxic.
The other thing that I have not seen anywhere, is the efficiency of the batteries - i.e. the loss of power down the power line from the source of the power to the car. How efficient?
I have not seen any analysis of the embodied energy of the new technology and the old technology.
The view is you get immensely more bang from the internal combustion engine - I have not seen the efficiency compared - I think it would be embarrassing.
How far do the batteries allow a car to go - Telsa 480km, so on a drive from Sydney to Brisbane I will have to charge it 3 times.
But this on a new battery - they degrade - maybe 5 recharges on an older battery.
And the big one is - how are you going to replace diesel engines for large trucks and excavators.
I am not against the change in technology, but the face of global warming is still up in the air.
One simple question - why was it 2 degs warmer in middle ages? Such that Greenland was called "Green" Land when discovered.
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