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Wife works for a new england electrical provider, on their team tasked with making MA's carbon zero by 2050 law happen. There are SO MANY things that need to be done to do this, structurally, that they're still finding new barriers. It will be a process.
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Just returned from the Netherlands, where we saw so many Opel electrics and other teeny cars snuggled into small spots along the canals. That is an environment where an electric car makes a ton of sense to me. Better electric infrastructure, for one reason …
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Those laws are going to get repealed once reality sets in. It simply ain't gonna happen absent a massive and wholesale adoption of nuclear power, and the appetite for that is not there.
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Gee, the tech from 3 mile Island or Chernobyl 'might' have changed and improved..a 'bit'...Gonna have to do something instead of just changing one 'source' to another. With a mostly all electric infrastructure, the amount of energy produced will have to expand hugely. 'drill baby drill' is pablum for a certain segment of the now wealthy, soon poor, political segment.
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The fact that anyone, (like new drivers and teenage boys) can be behind the wheel of a car with performance formerly relegated to supercars on all season tires and "comfort" suspension scares the hell out of me.
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The US is still the world’s leading nuclear power producer. France is Nr. 2. |
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I just went through some of my receipts from the trip this morning. Just before returning the Volkswagen Arteon Shooting Brake I filled it up (16.4 gallons)......US$150. I thought, wouldn't it be great if fuel prices were that high in the US. Bet a lot Suburbans , etc. would disappear from American roads. jwalther, that is a sharp looking Mach E. |
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2. was that gas or diesel? I know there used to be more diesel vehicles in Europe vs gas as gas was much more expensive.. not sure what the landscape is like now.. but, to your point.. I imagine EVs would be a lot bigger in Europe based on fuel prices and the fact that, I think, trips are often more local compared to trips/commutes in the US (plus if there is a longer commute, public transit seems eons better than what we have here)..
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I was in Italy for a couple weeks this past month.
I saw very, very few EVs. Liquid fuel was very expensive, but I think power is even more limited there. I stayed at three seperate airbnbs. I was told by each host that we have an air conditioner, a dish washer and a washing machine. Do not try and run more than one at a time or you will blow the main breaker. Not much excess power to charge cars it seems, especially in the rural areas.
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hmm, interesting..
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