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Originally Posted by Seahawk

Thank you.

Without a massive, and I mean massive, upgrade to power grids around the globe, in production, transmission and reliability, EVs will be a niche player.

Logistics is everything: Where is the power coming from?

Then there is pollution, and not just in the massive increase in power generation and transmission, but in the mining of the elements that make EV possible. NIMBY is going to play a role.

BTW, I would own an EV if it made sense where I live. I have no antipathy towards EV, but I am a realist when it comes to large scale transportation realities.

All of this ^^. The power for the EVs has to come from somewhere. I used to work for a power generation company. That particular company didn't have any coal fired generators. I think there may have been a few fuel oil that were basically back-ups, but almost all of them were natural gas (they did also have a geothermal in Cali and a very small solar over in NJ somewhere). So they were a pretty clean power company.

Like you said, the power's also got to get to the cars.

Then there's the raw materials to make the cars. The tree huggers are all in on EVs being the savior of the world, but that's just because they don't have a pit mine that's changed the environment for them in their back yard.

I haven't kept up with all of the advancements and technical bits for EVs. I can't help but think that, at least for now, hybrids being a more practical alternative to full electric. But maybe the technology has advanced enough that hybrid doesn't really offer much advantage.