Lots of people don't understand this, the law of thermal dynamics. You can't cheat nature, you can't cheat the laws of the universe. Electric vehicles won't save an iota of the Earth. They don't produce smoke but they sure will produce millions of tons of spent batteries that are going to fill up the world and it will take the same energy to dispose of them then simply deal with smoke. How much energy is going to be created to build these batteries, how much smoke will their factories produce?That's it!! I'm done. Headed off to the garage and going to invent a steam/coal powered motorcycle. As per the first law of heat and thermal dynamics, I should get about 3km per ton of coal lol.
See how silly this is? You can't get more energy out of said unit of energy (see first law of thermal dynamics).
Batteries are not going to save the planet and electric is no more efficient than the coal plant that produces the hydro to charge said battery.... Actually it's worse because the coal (or nuclear) plant looses about 30% power because it needs to condense it's steam to return it to the boilers (can't pump steam). This waste heat goes straight into the lake as the lake water is used to condense said steam.
Please spare me the feeble argument of solar and wind for recharging (we are 30 billion into Samsung for McGuiny's failed green policy).
ICE are going nowhere. The opposite is true. ICE are getting more and more efficient and cleaner.
I suppose electric is fine for city folks but not for us rural pick-up truck driving rednecks.
Nope, not buying electric, not going to happen until I have no choice (and what a sad day that will be).
Happy apexes.
Same thing with a bulldozer. People think it saves 100 people from using shovels at a job site. No it doesn't. You still need 100 people working to build the parts, work the oil fields to get the diesel for it, to make its battery, people to service it, etc,etc. No human work is saved. it is only concentrated into an object.