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I know Safety, it is actually scandalous mate.
Safety
I agree hydrogen is the eventual way forward, electric cars and the production thereof, is at least as, if not more damaging than petrol and diesel !
Given that electric lithium battery cars are an environmental dead end and a con with 3 times the pollution just to manufacture compared to keeping a fossil fuel on the road; plus the increased particulate from the tyres due to the weight and the transmission losses in the network etc they are not the answer. However, they are something to get people to buy which will end up having to be replaced by hydrogen cell cars which people will buy to replace them. Also lots of road trench’s to be dug to cope with the extra current from distribution. So retooling galore imho.incidentally the Japanese and S Koreans are putting efforts into hydrogen cell distribution etc in their own countries.
All those charging points needs to be bashed out of metal as well, plus the drill bits etc needed to install them. That’s a lot of tungsten carbide worldwide.
Anything that brings about the demise of an Extinction Rebel is fine with me!
Electric cars...large scale and for the masses ain't going to happen. Safety is already all over this and got me looking into it (Hydrogen or alike). Show an Extiction Rebellion activist a picture of a cobalt mine, their heads explode. Then ask them how many rainforest trees were cut down to get access to the land to mine, full on melt down.
Lots of things will need to change for electric cars to become mainstream. Price is currently a barrier, that will come down with higher sales/production numbers. Charging speed and locations will have to dramatically increase. But having just gone through a costing exercise thinking about going electric my increased insurance cost alone would outweigh all saving I’d make on petrol and tax. Like for like my insurance would increase by a factor of at least 4x! Gov. Need to act to encourage uptake. 0% vat on pure electric, subsidies to companies placing charging points, common plugs across all makes, realistic trade in offers for fossil fuel cars for owners wishing to go electric, not a paltry couple of grand. My ave journey is about 30/40 miles round trip electric makes perfect sense but the costs are just prohibitive.
All the car manufacturers are retooling for electric car production which will be ramped up over the next 5 years.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/volkswagen-group-electric-cars-zwickau-production/