Brickbat: Gassed Up and Ready to Go

The European Parliament has voted to ban cars with internal combustion engines by 2035. The plan must still be approved by the European Council, which is expected to OK the law. A center-right coalition in the parliament had proposed a 90 percent ban, which would allow 10 percent of cars sold to have internal combustion engines, but that was not accepted.
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As others will say, how do they plan to charge those tens of millions of ev’s?
Solar and wind will never be able to generate enough electricity to power tens of millions of vehicles.
Germany just decommissioned all it’s nuclear plants.
It seems unlikely that The E U will get going on building lots of nuclear power plants.
So this is just a pipe dream
Who said you'd be allowed to own an EV?
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Sure , you can buy one, but nobody said anything about driving it.
All EVs will come with a fold out solar panel and a windmill for home use.
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Yea! You'll be able to drive 3 miles a day, if the weather is sunny.
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In Paris during one of their many worker revolts for another month of paid vacation you can find Citrons with external combustion.
Citroens have always had some seriously cool engineering. They pioneered front wheel drive in the 1930s. The 2CV was so simple, you could pretty much replace any part of it with no more than an adjustable wrench and a screwdriver. And the DS had a pneumatic suspension that could actually lift up a single wheel so you could change a flat tire without a jack.
Let's just ban everything except for Magic Unicorn Farts, which will make everything Perfect Forever by 2035!
That's actually in the Democrat platform.
Who doesn't want an electric car with tired batteries that can't drive for more than a couple hundred miles without having to stop for half an hour for a charge? Getting stuck in the middle of nowhere is what makes road trips fun!
Half an hour to charge an EV? More like 4-8 hours.
Wrong.
Using a standard American wall plug (limited to 12A at 120VAC), 4-8 hours charging is optimistic. Using a heavy industrial power connection, 1/2 hour is quite possible - but a single fast charging station needs more power from the grid than everything in a typical gas station draws. It's likely that to add one fast charger will require a heavier transformer, power inlet wires, meter, and breaker box than the gas station originally had. To add several fast charge stalls in each of several stations is probably also going to require upgrading the distribution lines all the way back to a new power plant.
Or you could try getting the added power from solar panels and windmills - if your customers don't mind paying more for charges that stop and leave them stranded on cloudy days and nights with low winds. But you'll still need a massive and very expensive upgrade of the distribution lines, plus new oversized service entrances everywhere that charging is available.
The unprecedented popularity of EVs in the market is purely organic!
Misleading headline. The EU is banning the sale of new internal combustion engine cars as of 2035, not banning them altogether.
The EU currently has 246 million IC cars and 2.4 million EVs. So, they're going to have to manufacture around 19 million EVs per year to meet their 2035 goal. Currently, around 4 million are made globally.
Also, the average EV uses around 2300 KWH a year. 2300 times 248 million is a lot of electrical generation, considering they're eliminating coal, gas, etc. as generation fuel.
Good luck, guys.
Picture yourself back in the early 1920’s and try to project how on earth are we ever going to supply all these cars with gasoline and tires? How will we ever make enough concrete to make roads people will need?
How will we ever make enough concrete to make roads people will need?
Easy, we'll dig a metric shit-ton of gravel pits, build thousands of cement plants that burn not just fossil fuels but smoky old rubber tires! Then we'll chase off all the indigineous rainforest tribes so we can build rubber plantations.
We should go 100% electric cars right this instant. Because of course that will somehow solve the problem of needing concrete and rubber. Also, we'll be able to stop drilling for gas and oil all over the place! (But let's not tell anyone about the massive strip mining we'll need to do to get our hands on enough lithium and other crap for the batteries. And is it more palatable that the strip mining and massive pollution is happening in places like China, or are we ok with being beholden to the ChiComs just as long as we don't have to look at dirty old oil wells in America?)
Don't forget the kids mining coltan in Africa.
And picture yourself at that time with a massive government that imposed endless regulations to inhibit exploitation of natural resources, and deliberately tried to slow business growth.
Picture yourself in the early 1920s trying to ban horses by 1935 on the certainty that ICE cars were the only way to avoid global catastrophe by 2020. Picture yourself in the early 1920s *also* trying to ban coal mining by 1935 on the certainty that it was the only way to avoid global catastrophe by 2020. Then picture yourself trying to be taken seriously when you assert that by 2020, not just horses but all livestock both labor and food, will be replaced within the next 100 yrs. That assembly, warehouse, transportation, and even in-home labor will be fully automated. The people saying, "How the fuck is all that bullshit supposed to happen without coal and horses?" wouldn't be wrong and their backwards biases towards coal and horses doesn't make you right.
That should be long enough for me to keep driving ICs until I'm too senile to drive. I'm increasingly glad I'm not young.
How's that EU solar push going?
Oh wait; wasn't it finally obsoleted by their ongoing energy crisis??
Why it's almost as if the Top-Men are purposely trying to make civilian crisis's... Well of course they are; Top-Men dictation doesn't exist without demand and nothing drives demand for dictators like a crisis.
Top Men will always be guaranteed to have a personal car (and a personal driver if they want) that’s always gassed up or charged up and ready to go. The general populace? Not so much. And the nice thing is that Top Men will no longer need to worry about ever getting stuck in traffic.
Don't worry. The EU will just ban war.
Anything to please Mother Gia and her prophet, Captain Planet.
Lee, Lifeson, and Peart were prophets. I plan to be that uncle who preserves a old machine from a better, vanished time.
Fuck the motor law.
Next, the EU bans sadness, inclement weather, and unintended consequences.
The plan must still be approved by the
European Councilthe laws of physics and scarcity economics."The European Parliament has voted to ban cars with internal combustion engines by 2035."
Which means that by 2050 the average age of a European car will be about twenty years, on their second engine overhaul.