Comments on: Electrification/2024/08/28/electrification/The goal of this blog is to create a long list of facts that are important, not trivia, and that are known to be true yet are either disputed by large segments of the public or highly surprising or misunderstood by many.Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:12:16 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: EV Cars Indeed Emit Less Carbon Pollution – Super Facts/2024/08/28/electrification/comment-page-1/#comment-2344Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:12:16 +0000/?p=342#comment-2344[…] There are other EV myths that you may want to have debunked, such as Electric vehicle batteries are unreliable and need to be replaced every few years. In 2011 battery failures were common, 7.5%, but in 2023 battery failures were 0.1%. See this article for details and other myth debunking. A related post is my post on electrification. […]

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2024/08/28/electrification/comment-page-1/#comment-339Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:17:27 +0000/?p=342#comment-339In reply to dgkaye.

Yes you are right

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2024/08/28/electrification/comment-page-1/#comment-338Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:06:12 +0000/?p=342#comment-338In reply to Pooja G.

Yes I agree. They are difficult people.

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]]>By: dgkaye/2024/08/28/electrification/comment-page-1/#comment-334Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:06:43 +0000/?p=342#comment-334In reply to thomasstigwikman.

Time – the operative word. In the meantime, people struggle with stations. I know that many in Canada aren’t ready for EV yet. There are plenty of hybrids on the road though. 🙂

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]]>By: Pooja G/2024/08/28/electrification/comment-page-1/#comment-333Tue, 03 Sep 2024 11:41:02 +0000/?p=342#comment-333In reply to thomasstigwikman.

Oh wow, that’s really aggressive. It’s nice to know that the bigger companies are more reasonable though. Very unprofessional of the Texas Public Policy Foundation members to go after the CCL volunteers like that.

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2024/08/28/electrification/comment-page-1/#comment-332Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:14:06 +0000/?p=342#comment-332In reply to Pooja G.

The interesting part is that the big oil and gas companies are often reasonable and have even partially supported CCL. They want to promote their products of course, but they also want to look good in the public eye and many of them are investing in renewables as well to make more money. But the smaller oil and gas companies here in Texas, especially those represented by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, are quite aggressive and they hold a lot of sway over politicians here in Texas. They are at war with renewables and want to stop renewables. On one occasion CCL and the Texas Public Policy Foundation had a conference with lobbying in Washington DC at the same time and at the same hotel. That got ugly because some of the Texas Public Policy Foundation members went after the CCL volunteers and it was pretty close to becoming violent. I was not there that time.

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2024/08/28/electrification/comment-page-1/#comment-331Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:54:18 +0000/?p=342#comment-331In reply to dgkaye.

Yes you are right. That is why we have a hybrid ourselves. And Hybrids are much more environmentally friendly than regular ICE as well. However, in some countries in Europe the lack of charging stations is much less of a problem. It will take some time before there are enough charging stations here in US/Canada. Also charging still takes too long as well. But I read somewhere that it is only a matter of time before those issues are solved.

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]]>By: dgkaye/2024/08/28/electrification/comment-page-1/#comment-330Tue, 03 Sep 2024 01:39:16 +0000/?p=342#comment-330Amazing share of great ideas for our planet. The only thing that I know about electric cars is that the people I know who have them are limited to where and how far they drive because of a serious lack of charging stations available. Obviously nobody is prepared enough yet to accommodate. I should think hybrids are much better. 🙂

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]]>By: Pooja G/2024/08/28/electrification/comment-page-1/#comment-329Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:33:59 +0000/?p=342#comment-329In reply to thomasstigwikman.

I really hope it sinks in and Texas is able to take capitalise on that since wind and solar power are both great alternatives. I do understand them being wary though, I think many governments are since oil and gas companies hold a lot of power.

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2024/08/28/electrification/comment-page-1/#comment-321Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:07:10 +0000/?p=342#comment-321In reply to Pooja G.

It is changing in Texas but slowly. A third of the electrical power in Texas comes from wind and solar but the politicians are afraid of the renewables and the oil and gas companies are complaining that the renewables are stealing their business, and they have a lot of power here. The world is decarbomizing and we don’t want Texas to be the last ones with an industry that no one wants anymore. It seems like it is beginning to sink in, with CCL’s help (my volunteer organization). Texas has a lot opportunities for wind power and solar power as well minerals for EVs, which are all under utilized.

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