“The Economics and Future of Electric Vehicles”
Mark P. Mills
Author, The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s
This speech was given on November 12, 2024, during a Hillsdale College CCA seminar on “Economic Issues and Controversies.”
This talk will be archived in WUWT Climate TV, a collection of over six hundred videos, featuring new interviews and analysis, and covering dozens of media sources discussing, debating and analyzing the latest in climate science, climate politics, and energy policy, including topics concerning temperature, sea level, polar bears, ocean acidification, extreme weather, censorship, wild fires, and more.
Listen to this man. He is observant, a physicist, and misses very little in the overall scam. His usual 5 minute spots are excellent in general.
Plz, Mr Smith, do turn off the bold type. It’s doing my head in. 😉
I’ve asked several times without success
Now I just don’t read his/her comments which is a shame
It’s not painful to me but it’s unnecessary. You’d think an academic would know better assuming that’s what he/she is.
A bit shouty
The biggest issue is the bold, no paragraph, writing that goes on and on
Difficult to read and unnecessary
From Washington University – St Louis
You can always tell an academic –
but you can’t tell ’em much.
It’s a cry for attention.
Unfortunately, this is not an excellent 5 minute spot. It is one hour.
Save the Bold for specific points you want to emphasize. (Throw in italics at times.)
But using Bold all for the whole comment defeats you purpose.
Golf carts.
Gilded Golf Carts!
A youtuber who focuses on debunking EVs: MGUY Australia
He’s a British engineer in Australia. His videos are very entertaining.
His latest video is:
This should be mandatory viewing for everyone considering an EV.
EVs tend to be vehicles for rich or well to do people who often have a second or even third ICE vehicle so that the limitations imposed by EVs are overcome, and they are able to take advantage of tax credits, solar panels, etc.
It’s been shown that EV owners tend to have a larger than average “carbon footprint” due to their wealth.
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-ev-owners-bigger-carbon-footprint.html#google_vignette
This fellow follows EV related fires, knows what he is talking about
StacheD Training – YouTube
A few years ago I did a deep dive into EV’s, and the amount of renewable energy that would be required to meet the transition goals. The conclusion was that the only way the lights didn’t go out was through a reduction in the quality of life (e.g. few miles driven). This is the real goal as Mills describes about half way through the video.
For a sense of scale:
• Average number of miles driven (US) 14,263 miles/year (KBB)
• EV average energy consumption: 0.35 kWh/mile (ecosavings.com based on EPA estimates, not actual)
• Multiplying we predict that the “average EV” will consume 4,935 kWh/year
(or close to half of the average home consumption of 11,000 kWh/year)
• Grand Coulee Dam could supply power to ~11 million EV’s or only about 4% of the 280 million light-duty vehicles, if it didn’t supply power for any other application.
And at the same time, we are expected to convert heating, air conditioning, cooking, water heating, etc. to all electric.
Much bigger $ number for the additional costs to expand/control the electric distribution network in order to provide for the added, new high metered demand for charging EVs (kW not kWh’s)
Holy cow, I’m impressed with this guy.
A very good presentation. Mr. Mills mentioned the “Elephant in the Room”: CO2, and I was rubbing my hands together thinking, “finally someone is going to say it” – that CO2 is a non-problem, and all the concerns about mankind’s generation of it is surely being used for nefarious political purposes, another topic! If the world will stop believing in the lie that CO2 is doing anything but growing more food for humans, then the reason for the presentation evaporates.
I finally made time to watch this whole video. Very well done. Mills is a national treasure.
Fantastic, interesting, GREAT survey data for comparisons.
…EVs in future about what horses were in 1900. Comparing owners cost in current $ cost/income needed for horse vs cost /income current income for ICE car now—10 years vs 10 weeks (recall right?)— PRICELESS!
A truth teller vs the mental magic used for “inducements” by bureaucrats, politicians, regulators and other self-serving sycophants.
Thank you Mr. Mills.