I keep mentioning it, but most people apparently don't get it: The biggest problem is there simply isn't enough battery production capacity to convert the whole fleet to 100% electric yet.
It's a classic chicken and egg problem; battery production has a long tail requiring more mining and refining capacity, which nobody will build overnight. Even Tesla says despite their best planning; they are production constrained because of battery cells. This is why a true hybrid (plug in) can help bridge the gap. I advocate for 100% EV adoption, and have been doing so for over 30 years before there were any production EVs, but sadly this problem still exists. On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 11:46 AM EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 Apr 2021 at 14:23, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > > > During my EV eganguelising I am forever correcting people who think a > > hybrid is an EV. It is not. But a plugin hybrid is. We have to > > correct those mistakes wherever they occur. > > I've been fighting this battle since the Piius came out in 1997. It's > futile, and by now I'm sure that most of you are rolling your eyes, but I > just can't seem to let it go. > > IMO if all of a vehicle's motive energy comes from fuel burned in an ICE, > it's not a hybrid, period. Vehicles such as the Prius are essentially > somewhat feeble ICEVs made more powerful with electric superchargers. > > I had a long argu - uh, discussion with a mechanic a while back. He > declared that the quasi-hybrids like the Prius were pointless because "by > the time I work on them they're all running totally on their gas engines." > Well, duh! I tried to explain that that's the way they're SUPPOSED to > run, > but he wasn't having it. > > Twenty+ years ago, some of us thought that the quasi-hybrids (then just > the > Toyota Prius and Honda Insight) might be useful for getting "normal" > vehicle > buyers accustomed to the idea of EVs. You may disagree, but I don't think > that they did much. What DID get real world ICE-heads thinking that EVs > might be OK was the Tesla S. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > One of the problems with modern society is that it places > more importance on things that have a price than on things > that have a value. > > -- Pablo Fajardo > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210404/346e9bc4/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
