I think the calculations that matter is energy density.
I dunno' my friend, I suspect you and your family's transportation needs are quite different than mine. But if it works for you, I'm envious.
I bet it's got good towing, all that torque combined with the weight of all those batteries!!!!!
[/h][h=4]Labor’s electric car plan means higher emissions, more pollution, more coal use, and threatens the grid but it’s great for socialists.[/h]Fantasy-land: Labor wants half of all new cars sales to be EV’s by 2030. That’s a radical change in a big country that loves its cars and drives great distances. Last year only 0.2% of new car purchases were EV’s. Our grid is already struggling, and extra charging cars would push it over the edge and may add something like $20b a year in extra network and generation costs.
[h=2]Electric cars are perfect for socialists: Labor plan boosts Big-Gov, but worse for CO2, pollution, coal use, and grid[/h]
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This makes no sense on so many levels: in Australia EV’s are 80% fossil fuel powered and over their lifetime they cause more pollution than internal combustion engines.
[h=4]Electric Vehicles produce more carbon emissions if the grid that charges them is powered by fossil fuels.[/h]The results reveal that the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of a battery electric vehicle production range from 92.4 to 94.3 GJ and 15.0 to 15.2 t CO[SUB]2[/SUB]eq, which are about 50% higher than those of an internal combustion engine vehicle, 63.5 GJ and 10.0 t CO[SUB]2[/SUB]eq. This substantial change can be mainly attributed to the production of traction batteries, the essential components for battery electric vehicles. (Qiao, 2017)
“… an electric car recharged by a coal-fired plant produces as much CO2 as a gasoline-powered car that gets 29 miles per gallon (12.3 km/L).” (Sivak, 2017)
In a coal fired country, EV’s achieve nothing for carbon emissions, but over their lifecycle, they’re worse for human toxicity, freshwater eco-toxicity, freshwater eutrophication, and mineral resource depletion. (Hawkins, 2012).
EV’s are so useless for the environment you might wonder why Labor and the Greens love them. Take your pick:
With our coal fired grid and long distances the only place on Earth less suited to EV’s is Antarctica, where it is too cold for the batteries to work and where people die when they run out of “fuel”. Although at least Antarcticans won’t have to worry about extreme heat setting their batteries on fire. . . .
- Labor Green policitians are honest but stupid.
- Labor Green politicans don’t care less about the environment but want a great socialist car.