{"id":61755,"date":"2022-02-03T08:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61755"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:19:37","slug":"are-electric-cars-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61755","title":{"rendered":"Are Electric Cars the Solution?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Are Electric Cars the Solution?<\/a><\/h3>\n

Or do visions of \u2018clean\u2019 robots supplying mobile freedom steer us down the wrong road?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Makers of EVs also push ahead on self-augmenting automation. In other words, a car capable of driving itself while you doze. Is that truly \u2018freedom\u2019?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Fifty years ago, the French political ecologist\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Gorz<\/a> explained that cars masquerade as solutions to the very problems they create. \u201cSince cars have killed the city, we need faster cars to escape on superhighways to suburbs that are even farther away. What an impeccable circular argument: give us more cars so that we can escape the destruction caused by cars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, cars powered by electricity rather than petroleum have become the promised solution to climate change.<\/p>\n

According to Bloomberg, about half of the world\u2019s transportation vehicle sales by 2035 will be electric. Many now assume this switchover is already ushering in a \u201cgreen transition\u201d to a better world. \u201cElectric vehicles are not just the wave of the future, they are saving lives today,\u201d\u00a0gushes<\/a>\u00a0one environmentally-focused non-profit.<\/p>\n

Now, for the record, I own a 22-year-old Toyota 4Runner designed after a Japanese military jeep. My car-savvy wife purchased the vehicle for $3,000 nearly eight years ago. I have never been fond of cars or their associated expenses, but I do appreciate a machine that can last more than 400,000 kilometres. Yet, as my\u00a0books<\/a>\u00a0attest, I am no fan of internal combustion engines, or ICEs, let alone petro states.<\/p>\n

However, neither am I an enthusiast for wishful thinking. People who regard the electric car as a significant solution for climate change don\u2019t seem to understand the incredible scale of the problem. Nor do they see that the electric car \u201csolution\u201d accelerates other problematic trends in our technological society.<\/p>\n

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Are Electric Cars the Solution? Or do visions of \u2018clean\u2019 robots supplying mobile freedom steer us down the wrong road? Makers of EVs also push ahead on self-augmenting automation. In other words, a car capable of driving itself while you doze. Is that truly \u2018freedom\u2019? Fifty years ago, the French political ecologist\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Gorz explained that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5549,27351,13275,17972,16000,5499],"class_list":["post-61755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-andrew-nikiforuk","tag-clean-energy-2","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-electrification","tag-evs","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61756,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61755\/revisions\/61756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}