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Originally Posted by JDął
The biggest hindrance to the EV utopia fantasy is that electricity doesn't materialize out of thin air. EV/hybrid represent only 1.9% of the vehicles on the road in BC. I can't find the article now but BC Hydro came out against the legislation that all cars sold by 2040 in BC will be pure EV by saying the power grid cannot and will not support it. They stated that if the number of electric vehicles rose to only 15% the hydro grid would be tapped out. Unless a whole new form of energy production is created it's flat out impossible. If BC wants to only have gas-free vehicles on the roads in 20 years they better start building nuclear power plants as of yesterday. And this is just for the small province of BC that has 3.3 million vehicles on the road, imagine the global scale and energy required. And where do you think all the plastic, rubber, electrical components, etc needed to make these vehicles will come from? Petroleum.
It's a totally different ball game when you want to convert aircraft and marine vessels to EV - this is a lifetime away from being mainstream. Add in the idea that people are going to sit and charge all their individual vehicles for even 15-20 minutes at a time let alone the hour+ it can take right now.... the world doesn't have time for that kind of traffic jam and inefficiency of mobility. Gas burning vehicles are likely to be around for the duration of our lifetimes and beyond.
Some stats: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-...doption-in-b-c |
BC ferries actually uses electric engines and Harbour Air is switching over to electric for there planes.
https://www.harbourair.com/harbour-a...ctric-airline/
If you drive less than 400 KM a day you can just charge your car when sleeping. So you would be actually saving time.
The reason why their are not more electrics cars on the road is because they can't produce enough and need more models in the 30 to 50k range. The Hyundai Kona EV is sold out everywhere.
Even gas companies know electric is the future. Petrocan is setting up 50 charging locations. The corporate Petrocan in Nanaimo just installed 2 400kw charging stations.