From the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN December 12, 2021/ Francis Menton In our wacky world where almost nothing makes sense any more, there is no shortage of examples of politicians, let alone self-important…
Category: Electric Vehicles
Business Insider: ‘Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us — We Need to Get Rid of Cars Completely’
Reposted from Climate Depot Paris Marx writing in Business Insider: “Making transit available within a 10-minute walk of people’s homes would not only encourage its use and create tens of…
E-Vehicle Woes: German Cities Remove E-Buses From Service After Bursting In Flames: “Fire Hazard”
Even after years of fine-tuning, electric vehicle manufacturers still seem unable to get e-vehicle technology to work as safely as it needs to for personal and public transportation.
EV buyer’s beware – fires, scarce charging times, and parking restrictions
The many items for potential EV buyer’s to be aware of such as potential fires, reductions in available changing times, and parking restrictions, may not bode well for the optimistic…
GM Warns Chevy Bolt Owners Not to Park Within 50ft of Anything You Care About
In the wake of a series of severe battery fires, General Motors has just issued a safety recommendation not to park your Chevy Bolt within 50ft of other vehicles, in…
UK: E-car chargers will turn off to prevent blackouts
This new regulation is a clear admission that government is now seriously concerned about grid capacity and blackouts. I suspect there will be many more measures to come designed to…
EV Battery Fires do not bode well for projected sales
Germany was the first country to go “green”, and now they, not California, are setting the trend of not allowing EV’s to park in confined spaces.
Electric vehicle fire catastrophe: It is not a matter of if, but when
We should be forward-thinking in the prevention of a looming tragedy and consider doing what two towns in Bavaria did after the horrific German bus station inferno: completely ban all-electric vehicles from…
GM recall of Chevy Bolts will cost $1.8bn
The latest recall will cost the company about $1 billion, bringing the total cost of the Bolt battery recalls to $1.8 billion.
Using Your EV Charge Card
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People keep talking about how as electric cars become cheaper, more people will use them. But what they keep ignoring is that they are totally…
UK MPs Condemn Government’s 2030 Ban on New Fossil Fueled Car Sales and The Ill-Informed Push for Us All to Drive Electric
In producing probably one of the most authoritative reports on the subject ever written, we have listened to thousands of road users, from cyclists, bikers, motorists, through to our vital…
171 Scientists: CO2 Budget Of Electric Mobility “Twice As Big As Assumed” By European Leaders
Co-signatory Thomas Koch of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology told Germany’s BILD: “We stand by the Green Deal, the CO2 reduction. But we appeal to the EU Commission to acknowledge…
Electric-Bus Inferno In Hanover-Germany…Explosive Fire Causes “Millions In Damages”
Although fires can happen anywhere, they become critical and dangerous when e-vehicles are involved. An affected battery acts as a powerful fire accelerant due to a chain reaction and must…
EV Growth Projections May Go Bust
With a simple stroke of the pen, Governor Newsom believes he has the power to change the lifestyles of all California residents, and control the supply-demand balance for societies and…
Get Ready for the Ride of Your Life – Waymo Autonomous Taxi Escapes Handlers
Citizen reporter Joel Johnson documenting some of his hair raising experiences in San Francisco robot taxicabs. Includes video.
Bitcoiner Weighs in on Electric Cars Saving the Planet
It is interesting to see views on mitigation policies from outside our community. And by community we mean both sides arguing over the topic of AGW for years.
EV’s not family workhorses, but short range second cars
In a recent Los Angeles Times article, citing Edmunds data, The number of battery-electric models available more than doubled from 2018 to 2019, but EV sales budged in the wrong…
The Dawn Of The E-Vehicle Battery Environmental Disaster …Discarded Even Sooner Than Expected
“We would never have imagined the quantities that would accumulate after such a short time,” says Schmidt. His company alone and competitor Duesenfeld, both of which specialize in recycling car…
EV subsidies, fantasies and realities
Tesla may be synonymous with electric vehicles right now. But within a few years, GM, Volvo and many other manufacturers will be making mostly or only EVs, because they’re emission-free,…
Weakest link to EV growth is the material supply chain
The worldwide plans for EV domination of the vehicle population are like having the plans to build a large house without sufficient materials being available to ever finish the house.
Battery Basics for Climate Warriors
There are basically only three non-kinetic electrical storage mechanisms: electrochemical, pseudocapacitive, and capacitive. We deliberately exclude indirectly kinetic pumped hydro, for which there are two big expansion problems: insufficient remaining…
Electric vehicle shock treatment
Joe Biden, his fellow Democrats, and apparently big U.S. automakers, have joined the rush to transform America’s transportation to 100% electric vehicles (EV) whether We the People want it or…
Reality Check On The Electric Car
Believe me, I and most other cooperative managers in the country would love to see an abundance of electric cars. If every member of our cooperative were to go out…
Mandating electric vehicles without a plan will be devastating to California’s economy
Ramifications of California Governor Newsom’s ban on sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035 Guest essay by Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California Before sky diving, you need to…
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