That is precisely why I think the entire concept of EVs has lived WAY beyond its prime. In the beginning, maybe 30 or 40 years ago, internal combustion engines were much dirtier than they are today and it may have made sense to generate and transmit electric power at night to charge EV batteries, thus relocating the emissions to some far-away place. But today ICE are much cleaner, eliminating that need. Plus you’ve got the highly evolved infrastructure to deliver liquid hydrocarbon fuels and it only take you a few minutes to pump 20 gallons into your tank. With EVs, you can drive maybe 50 minutes at freeway speed and then need to spend the next hour charging your battery. Try that on a long family trip.
The only logical justification in this century is to stop importing oil from middle east tyrants. But we could easily accomplish the same goal by opening up our own domestic resources.
On top of that, the green kooks are shutting down every conventional source of power and now they are even going after natural gas. There simply won’t be enough economical electricity available to charge your EVs.
Lastly, you’ve got the huge environmental problem of EV batteries loaded with toxic compounds and elements. This needs to be included with the emissions from power generation for a complete environmental analysis of EVs. What becomes of the mountains and mountains of these if EVs ever really take off? I don’t know that anybody has addressed that looming problem.
On balance, from a systems perspective, it’s hard to beat liquid hydrocarbons for speed, convenience, high energy density, low overall emissions, and simple manufacturing.
The only logical justification in this century is to stop importing oil from middle east tyrants.
Saw in the news in the past few days that Gulf Coast refineries will no longer import light sweet crude oil. We are supporting our own needs domestically for fuel.If the Gov will back off, we may not need to import any oil