Never is heard a discouraging word in EV la la land, but in the real world quite a few are. From Duggan Flanakin at realclearwire.com:
When auto (even EV driving) enthusiast Rowan Atkinson – Mr. Bean to his fans – last June wrote in The Guardian that there are “sound environmental reasons” why “keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV,” he was vilified as a eco-traitor.
Atkinson had added, “We’re realizing that a wider range of options need to be explored if we’re going to properly address the very serious environmental problems that our use of the motor car has created.” These include, he said, hydrogen fuel cells and synthetic fuels that would extend the lives of older vehicles long after governments are demanding they be scrapped.
Atkinson, who has a bachelor’s in electrical and electronic engineering and a master’s in control systems, urged Britons to “look at a bigger picture” to include greenhouse gas emissions during the manufacture of electric vehicles and to evaluate the whole life cycle of motor vehicles.
Relying on a dash of common sense, Atkinson noted that pushing so heavily so soon for EVs that have major flaws will result in “millions of overweight electric cars with rapidly obsolescing batteries.” Technologic developments with hydrogen and synthetic fuels, which can power existing internal combustion engines, may prove a better long-term solution. For one reason, the owners of the world’s 1.5 billion ICE vehicles could continue enjoying them.
I like the Mr. Bean meme where is standing in the weeds waiting for everyone who wants to hear about the truth.
He takes a nap in the last panel and sometimes you have to go off in the weeds for the truth.
I’ve only known one who owned an EV (Prius) with a range of 44 miles (!) and they were proto virtue signaller born and raised in Marxist EDU college campus section of town.
A local has one (Tesla) but it is on hiatus as we are having a real winter…it does look sporty sitting there and always honks at me! (honk honk)
Hopefully it is a real mofo of a winter that scares off the replacements who get more with their EBT cards here.
Time to go play in the snow with improvised flattened box sled for the hill behind the church!