Maybe maybe not. During Sandy, there were gas stations that had generators to power the pumps. Not all had them, but there were enough. The lines were long, but you could still get gas somewhere. Where I live it was out only 18hrs, but some places were out a week or more. No electricity, no charging. That will be another hurdle to overcome.
It doesn't matter. Current market trends show that the vast majority of consumers will spend zero extra dollars to protect the planet from CO2 emissions.
I agree. However, most of the general populace does what they're told and will change if options are taken away. When only EV's are available, we'll all own one to get to work and pay our taxes. Yeah we'll be pissed about it but we all gotta eat. I travel a lot for work. Seats on planes are getting smaller and smaller but there isn't anything I can do about it. My options are to deal with it or get another job that doesn't put me on a plane. My dog eats what I put in his bowl. He doesn't know what coke or pizza is. As time goes by and generations die off, people will forget what we used to do to get around. I mean, I hear stories about how people used to pay attention to their surroundings while doing that archaic thing called walking...
Those who buy a Mustang are expecting a Sports car. If you want an e-car, call it a "Mustcharge"
The added cost is more than offset by the reduction in fuel and maintenance costs. My current daily driver costs me over $250 a month in gas. The electric cost for those same trips is just over $30.
This where your entire argument is thrown out the window. What percentage of people have a daily commute over 250 miles......?
So in my mind (again no actual research done here) if everyone went to electric today, your $30 estimate turns into much more, maybe even more than your gas cost now. And that's only if the current power grid can hold? Again, no research so I have no idea what our power grids look like, I just know my work building is lit up right now lol. But seeds of doubt have been planted from other people's concerns. Really though, if I'm an average guy (I like to think I am) working a warehouse job, how do I even begin to speculate what the effects of 100% EV will look like? I do know very well how supply/demand works though. If everything was now reliant on unicorn farts to power our transportation, the price of those farts would have a death grip of control over them by whoever can grab the supply fastest and then price it as high as they can to make the most out of it. But....like the EV trend now, if only a small percentage of people need those unicorn farts, they will remain pretty cheap because the puppet masters don't see a big net gain there yet. I mean, gas was crazy cheaper when less people used it. I don't know what our reserves look like or if anything anyone says about them is true because I don't work there. I believe every chance the government has, they push, misdirect, lie, and cheat every cent they can get out of every one of us and it's been engineered for us to not even be able to fight back against it. I'll stop here because I think my rant is going in a direction that belongs on a different forum lol.
I doubt electricity will get as high as gas.
Exactly. Not to mention during that time frame the technology will improve drastically. In the mean time we need to focus more on nuclear. Forget solar and wind at current technology levels relative to those fields. Maybe in the future but the main power grid increases should currently be nuclear.
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Unfortunately gas is one of those things that has proven to stay expensive now matter how our usage fluctuates. I dare say that the prices would go up as we get more EV's because they'll need to maintain their billion dollar bonuses every year. I'm also willing to bet electricity will go up in the same way gas has over the years simply because "they" will have a reason for it to. I wont be surprised at all if the near future looks like more expensive gas AND more expensive electricity. Those of us without an EV will simply be priced out of the ICE market due to powering our homes and trying to afford dinosaur juice.
Exactly, nothing happens overnight. I think I just wanted to sound like I knew what I was talking about for a sec...and to type "unicorn farts" a few times. Ultimately, I just hope to be able to afford and enjoy driving whatever my next vehicle might be when the time comes. Like @Bikeman315 solar sounds cool to me but mainly because sci fi movies/shows.
