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Are Electric Cars Good for the Environment?
Are Electric Cars Good for the Environment? This article is Part 5 of an 11-part series analysis of Tesla, Elon Musk and EV Revolution. You can read other parts here. My wife loves driving the Model 3, not for all the selfish reasons I like to drive it (it is fast and quite the iPad on […]
Carmakers Face Supply Bottleneck Of This Crucial Metal
Carmakers Face Supply Bottleneck Of This Crucial Metal For Tesla and its chief competitors in the race for global domination of electric vehicle sales, it ain’t all about lithium ion. There are other valuable metals needed to make the battery packs do what’s asked of them, with nickel being essential. Tesla and its battery producer […]
Electric Car-Owners Shocked: New Study Confirms EVs Considerably Worse For Climate Than Diesel Cars
Electric Car-Owners Shocked: New Study Confirms EVs Considerably Worse For Climate Than Diesel Cars The Brussel Times reports that a new German study exposes how electric vehicles will hardly decrease CO2 emissions in Europe over the coming years, as the introduction of electric vehicles won’t lead to a reduction in CO2 emissions from highway traffic. According […]
The $70 Million “Investment”
The $70 Million “Investment” Electric cars continue to cost lots of money – contrary to the now-forgotten original point of the exercise, which was once upon a time to find a lower-cost alternative to gas-powered cars. That’s gone away because gas is so cheap that – even with all the add-on taxes (about a fourth of the […]
The Next Pillar Of Oil Demand Growth
The Next Pillar Of Oil Demand Growth The debate about peak oil demand always tends to focus on how quickly electric vehicles will replace the internal-combustion engine, especially as EV sales are accelerating. However, the petrochemical sector will be much more difficult to dislodge, and with alternatives far behind, petrochemicals will account for an increasing […]
Inconvenient Bill: Electric cars may lower your fuel bill, but make electricity, jobs, lifestyle, unaffordable
Inconvenient Bill: Electric cars may lower your fuel bill, but make electricity, jobs, lifestyle, unaffordable The electric car push is on. Sadly, what people save on petrol bills looks like it’s going to be spent on electricity or tax. Steve Goreham outlines the international push to get our cars and heaters electrified. But the dark […]
King Dollar is Dead? Biggest Paradigm Shift in 100 Years: China and Electric Cars at Forefront
King Dollar is Dead? Biggest Paradigm Shift in 100 Years: China and Electric Cars at Forefront Steen Jakobsen, Saxo Bank Chief Economist and CIO, says the biggest change in 100 years is underway. He points to events in China and with electrification of cars. This is a guest post by Jakobsen. Macro Digest: The 19th […]
A Perspective on Electric Vehicles
A Perspective on Electric Vehicles An electric auto will convert 5-10% of the energy in natural gas into motion. A normal vehicle will convert 20-30% of the energy in gasoline into motion. That’s 3 or 4 times more energy recovered with an internal combustion vehicle than an electric vehicle. Electricity is a specialty product. It’s […]
Musktopia Here We Come!
Musktopia Here We Come! It ought to be sign of just how delusional the nation is these days that Elon Musk of Tesla and Space X is taken seriously. Musk continues to dangle his fantasy of travel to Mars before a country that can barely get its shit together on Planet Earth, and the Tesla […]
“Environmentalism” and Rabies
“Environmentalism” and Rabies When an animal catches rabies, in the end stages, it manifest bizarre, aggressive behavior. A normally shy raccoon will charge a human, growling and frothing at the mouth. There is only one treatment for a rabid raccoon. How about humans afflicted with the disease called “environmentalism”? It is a form of rabies […]
Can the world go all-electric?
Can the world go all-electric? Recently, word leaked out that Norway may ban the sale of diesel- and gasoline-powered vehicles by 2025. The move toward electric vehicles is part of a dream shared by those concerned about climate change and about fossil fuel depletion (especially oil depletion), namely, to turn the world into one big all-electric […]
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe Part of the global warming/climate change deals, many people do not realize that in Europe there will be no more gasoline and diesel cars on the streets come 2020. From Norway to India the year 2020 will mark the end of petrol or […]
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Who Killed the Electric Car? [ Who cares about electric CARS? Civilization ends when trucks stop running, and trucks can’t run on batteries because they’re too heavy (93% of the cargo weight, 25% of the cargo space), and an all-electric truck fleet would require thousands of new power plants, mostly running on finite fossil fuels. Although Wall […]
The stuff problem
The stuff problem ‘Yes to renewables!’ Hundreds rallied outside the Victorian Parliament House, Melbourne, 10 December 2013. Takver under a Creative Commons Licence How much mined material will we need to build a 100-per-cent renewable world? Danny Chivers works it out. The problem with wind turbines, solar panels, ground-source heat pumps and electric cars is that they’re all made of […]
