What's a person to do?    

   Imagine Florida with a hurricane coming toward Miami.  The Governor orders an evacuation.  All cars head north.  They all need to be charged in Jacksonville.  How does that work? Has anyone thought about this?    If all cars were electric, and were caught up in a three-hour traffic jam with dead batteries, then what?  Not to mention that there is virtually no heating or air conditioning in an electric vehicle because of high battery consumption. 

     If you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no heating, no windshield wipers, no radio, no GPS (all these drain the batteries), all you can do is try calling 911 to take women and children to safety.  But they cannot come to help you because all roads are blocked, and they will probably require all police cars will be electric also.  When the roads become unblocked no one can move!  Their batteries are dead. 

     How do you charge the thousands of cars in the traffic jam?  Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of traffic jams. There would be virtually no air conditioning in an electric vehicle.  It would drain the batteries quickly.  Where is this electricity going to come from? Today's grid barely handles users' needs. Can't use nuclear, natural gas is quickly running out. Oil fired is out of the question, then where? 

     What will be done with billions of dead batteries, can’t bury them in the soil, can’t go to landfills.

     The cart is way ahead of the horse. No thought whatsoever to handle any of the problems that batteries can cause. 

     The liberal press doesn't want to talk or report on any of this.

      In France, thousands of taxis are now stored as inoperable because the batteries are dead and to replace them would cost more than the value of the vehicle itself!

You won't like my answer JUSTA....

For a technological perspective - the answer is obvious but complicated and expensive as hell. Inductive charging of the roads and highways. Essentially electrifying the roads much like a cordless recharger works today by placing your cell phone on a plate to recharge it. So as the car drives along the road, it is continuously being recharged. So, in theory, that could work. Mind you, it would be expensive as all hell to do that to virtually every state and federal highway and expensive for the car companies to develop a standard road inductive recharging technology), let alone county and rural roads. The power grid expansion would be horrendous. But we would be green, wouldn't we?

Until the power goes out once the hurricane comes ashore.

The issue regarding what to do with obsolete / depleted lithium-ion or old nickel-cad car batteries is valid. They are a huge environmental and recycling nightmare at the moment. Currently it is cheaper for battery makers to get fresh battery materials (e.g. mined raw material) than it is to get/use any recycled battery material.

Edited December 3, 20214 yr by Frosty

That is most interesting. I have no knowledge of the recyclability of lithium but if it's mandated that every car from a certain date has to be electric, then somebody better think of something. Hydrogen is an alternative but it has to be manufactured. Now, if you could source enough energy from the wind & sun in order to manufacture hydrogen, it might work. But as we all know, one of the fundamentals of thermodynamics is that energy cannot be created nor depleted: it can only ever be transferred to another state. Global warming is the current end part of our cycle of burning fossil fuels. You'd need a requisite amount of energy to come from the burning of hydrogen to compensate for the amount of energy it took to create it in the first place. Personally, I'm more than happy to do my bit to give us clean air but it's gotta be a long term solution where everyone can access it.

I've often wondered about the earth's rotation and it's magnetic lines of force - it's halfway to being a huge generator already. Just need a way to harvest any potentially generated electricity! This is where we need the Illuminati and Bilderbergers to get together and do something nice for a change!

Wow! There is so much to say here but there is just not enough room or time! The short of it is JustA you won’t have to worry about recharging! Things will stay somewhat as they are right now, while getting increasingly more expensive to fill the tank & possible shortages. As this is occurring they, and you know who they are, will be steadily working behind the scenes to completely remove your personal transportation and move you into mass transportation! Fact! They are already working on it, read the whole 6 trillion proposal they want to pass and even if it doesn’t pass it’s one of those things they will keep pecking away at it!

 

Frosty’s proposal is quite valid, but a century away because the cost of logistics is beyond the US current scope & as stated above you won’t need it because you won’t have personal transportation! Plus, humanity will not make it that long as we currently are. Take that as you will!

 

Fitzy, sorry, but there is no global warming nor climate change! The first clue to you should be that they had to change it from global warming to climate change! Why because every study showed that there’s was no warming of the planet! By calling it climate change you can arbitrarily point to anything you want on any given day and say; “there that’s caused by climate change”. Think about this for a while. We are 21 years into this century and major weather catastrophes are far below all of the 20 century! Fact you can research it for yourself. There is the same amount of water on this plant as there was when it formed. It is in different states from age to age, but still the same amount. There is the same amount of carbon, whether dioxide, disulfide, coal, diamonds, crude oil and the list goes on for a long time. Yet again it’s form changes, which includes how it is sequestered and still none of this is the cause of the earths current woos. This is history they ignore because to admit it to the public would cause them to lose control of you! In the 10th century the Vikings were farming and raising cattle on Greenland 500 years later those settlements were abandon because of relentless winters! This was long before any mass petroleum use! Again if you do the research you will find tons of evidence that CO2 plays no role in global temperatures or weather. Through Arctic core samples they know CO2 levels have been as high a 9000 ppm in past centuries. Yet those same samples show that at those levels the global temperature actually decreased!

Especially today people have little interest and even less knowledge of history or actually proven facts! If you tell someone something often enough and long enough it actually becomes part of their psyche. This is actually the oldest form of brainwashing.