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dale74 to make a lithium ion battery pack for an electric car cost more than the cost of the fuel a small car of comparable size would ever burn
No longer true. Most batteries now currently cost around $3000 and are guaranteed for at least 8 years. By then most people have probably changed their regular cars. Also, if you think fuel prices are going down any time soon, think again. Nowadays you will spend FAR more than that fuelling a regular car and prices will only go higher. EV batteries by contrast, are only going one way in price...⏬
Why don't you look up how many gallons of oil go into a windmill and what the average life expectancy of a windmill is and how often that oil needs to be changed also look at the energy production of that windmill
Lots of things need oil to keep them going including wind turbines. That won't change for a while. However, you're conveniently forgetting one crucial fact: oil may be
extracted to make windmills, but it will not be
burned...
Windmills and solar panels don't work very well when the wind's not blowing and the sun's not shining.
That's what batteries are there for, just like gas reserves, etc. And battery storage is getting cheaper all the time.
Dirty Little secret you are electricity comes from cole most likely.
My electricity supplier is 100% renewable.
nuclear power is the cleanest most efficient less byproduct energy producer ever created and until they can come out with cold fusion it will remain The top energy producer.
Nope. Nuclear power is the only source of energy that has actually become more
expensive over the last few years. Nuclear power stations cost BILLIONS to build, and years, sometimes even a decade or more, before they come online. Also, they are not "clean". They produce nuclear waste.
Unfortunately, cold fusion is probably impossible, or decades away at best.
Right now, renewables such as onshore wind and solar power are
cheaper per kWh than any fossil fuel in most countries, and offshore wind is rapidly catching up. The trouble is, governments are in thrall to the fossil fuel companies and are paying handsome subsidies to keep their businesses going. Once governments withdraw subsidies to fossil fuel companies they are done. Renewable energy doesn't need handouts.
They're also ignoring the fact that thousands of onshore wind turbines and PV panels can be built quickly and cheaply .They are ignoring this because a few people in their political heartlands don't want them in their backyards.
I'm sorry but the internal combustion engine is done for. Increasing numbers of countries, including the US, have now passed the 5% per year mark in EV sales where extremely rapid uptake becomes inevitable, rather like the smartphone. The classic S-shaped curve.
Within 10 years, EVs will be in the majority in most countries. Embrace it :)
