Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread
Reply #699 –
There is always the "over the lifetime", "lifetime" or "anticipated lifetime" clause in those EV arguments.
The remaining lifetime of the car the EV replaced, the remaining lifetime of the EV when it is replaced, the replacement interval, how many vehicles make it to the anticipated lifetime or if the anticipated lifetime is realistic at all (It seems some are unnaturally shortened while others are unrealistically long)!
EVs are piling up in California unrepaired, so much so a whole industry has grown that guts and converts the system components for retrofit into classic car bodies. The problem is the insurers won't risk repairs to them even from relatively minor collisions, so relatively trivial damage is a write-off. Like the ever growing pile of redundant SolarPV panels filling warehouses around our capital cities. Anticipated life!
That is where the claims all unravel, it's another "Don't mention the war!" moment!
The same frauds and charlatans that run oil and energy also run the bulk of EV, the cars are built by the same conglomerates, using the same manufacturing technologies, in factories built by largely the same group of engineers.
Then you add average weight to the vehicle, and yet apparently tyres last longer, and the roads don't wear out faster, roads paid for by fuel taxes they don't have to pay for anyway, everybody else is subsidising them! "Don't mention the war!"
Until the industries that fed society fess up to the problems, nothing is really going to change as we are just putting a new wrapper on the same old problems.