RE: The future17 Jun 2021 00:17
The world of electric vehicles is a catch 22 situation. Its like the old conundrum of what came first, the chicken or the egg? In this instance we use rationality to recognise what must come first and deduce the following conjecture: the chicken must have come first and through a gradual evolutionary process in response to a predatory environment, evolved to incubate it's young outside of its body and the shell developed to protect the egg from predators and the harsh environment. In the the case of electrification, one must argue and rationally reason that full electrification cannot first come into being through cars alone but through the process of eliminating fossil fuel dependency in the key supply chain mechanisms such as large ships that deliver the parts, replacing coal mines that power the grid for cargo trains to run and deliver parts, replace haulage vehicles that run on fossil fuels, eliminate toxic and heavy metal pollution from coltan mining, create more efficient less polluting aeroplanes, make lithium mining more clean and the length of the process goes on..... We can't just jump to the egg before taking care of the chicken. The problem is not necessarily the electric car, it's the way an electric car comes into being from the very start. The output of pollution in manufacturing, sourcing and supplying the various components is much the same as legacy automakers and thus defeats the purpose of pollution cut back. Then there is the charging that relies on electricity from a grid that is not 100 percent clean energy. It's not as clean as you think. The electric car is the egg and the production process is the chicken. The chicken must always come first or the cars produced will just be worthless as far as carbon footprint reduction is concerned. What is the point in having a non polluting car that was produced through heavy pollution?
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