Those who have followed this newsletter for a while perhaps already know that I have a very special appreciation of the EU’s talents in long-term planning. In fact, if I was in a position to hand out award, I’d hand one out to Brussels. I’d call it the Act Before You Think Excellence Award. But now I’ve found that the EU has a serious challenger to this award.
Besides the obvious problems of minerals needed to build batteries and high tech motors, I really can't imagine that anyone has done a calculation to see how much electricity would be required if a large percentage of vehicles turned to EV.
The energy density of oil based fuels is huge.
How do they hope to generate enough power to keep all the EV cars moving?
And more to the point, using oil based electricity to drive EV cars is really really silly, but that's probably what will happen!
Aside from the needs of the vehicles themselves, moving to wind/solar-based generation would require VAST quantities of grid-scale battery storage and THAT would compete simultaneously with the vehicles' batteries for material. (Never mind that no environmentalist will countenance the mining necessary to provide the materials.)
The Metals Company has an interesting model of collecting these materials from the seafloor. https://metals.co/
I suppose this makes Honda and Toyota's focus on hybrids and plug in Hybrids stand out much more... They need much less battery mass per vehicle that way.
I really wish you would submit these wonderful articles to ZeroHedge. This is better than almost everything I read there and certainly in line with the type of articles they host.
Always saving the most vicious sarcasm for Fridays!
:D End of the week and all... It builds up.
Besides the obvious problems of minerals needed to build batteries and high tech motors, I really can't imagine that anyone has done a calculation to see how much electricity would be required if a large percentage of vehicles turned to EV.
The energy density of oil based fuels is huge.
How do they hope to generate enough power to keep all the EV cars moving?
And more to the point, using oil based electricity to drive EV cars is really really silly, but that's probably what will happen!
Energy density is something, I'm beginning to feel, gets carefully overlooked in the renewable energy narrative.
Aside from the needs of the vehicles themselves, moving to wind/solar-based generation would require VAST quantities of grid-scale battery storage and THAT would compete simultaneously with the vehicles' batteries for material. (Never mind that no environmentalist will countenance the mining necessary to provide the materials.)
The Metals Company has an interesting model of collecting these materials from the seafloor. https://metals.co/
I suppose this makes Honda and Toyota's focus on hybrids and plug in Hybrids stand out much more... They need much less battery mass per vehicle that way.
Yes, I think Honda and Toyota are being smarter than the rest.
I really wish you would submit these wonderful articles to ZeroHedge. This is better than almost everything I read there and certainly in line with the type of articles they host.
Hah, thanks. I hadn't really thought about submitting them anywhere but ZeroHedge would be an appropriate outlet, I agree.