haven't read all posts but want to ask about the charging of these vehicles. Has the engineers and intellihencia thought this thru? I haven't seen anywhere that this is being posed. I have a big problem wondering what will really happen once millions of electric vehicles are on the road. How will there ever be enough power for all these vehicles once that happens? The demand for electricity will exponentially increase(we will not only have to continue our necessary increased supply of power for the masses plus now the new added electricity needed to power these millions of vehicles). Where is this ominous increase of demand going to come from? Maybe we will not only curtail the decrease of energy from fossil fuel, we will have to vastly increase fossil fuel energy to try to keep up with the new geometrically affected need for energy an electric flotilla of vehicles will demand? Wouldn't that defeat the simple reason of the whole concept of what the experts are designing these electric vehicles for?.......decreasing the dependence on fossil fuel? Not to mention the myriad new demands for electricity and those other cause and effect problems that might arise that will make this whole concept far worse than our current '''''problem''''' as viewed by the ''''''''''experts''''''''''!!!!!
Electric vehicles are more efficient than combustion motors, using less power resources in general to run. The electricity provided by the electric grid is much more diverse than the singular petrol fuel, is less subject to impediment and is less centrally controlled. This diversity reduces the likelihood of crazy surges in price and actual (or perceived) reduction of supply.
There is no doubt the petroleum spigot cannot just be turned off, we are in a transition, one that has been projected and understood since electric vehicles have become viable. Similarly, the availability and demand for electric vehicles and other non-petroleum fuel vehicles will also not switch overnight. You don’t need to worry, we will still be dependent on oil for quite a while longer. In fact, 2021 saw more demand for petroleum than before the pandemic (not because of a higher number of electric vehicles on the road). However, with alternative, clean, renewable fuels like solar, wind, hydro, etc. becoming much cheaper (solar is the cheapest energy/kWh), shortages of energy from diverse and local sources will be much less of a challenge than maintaining our dependence on global oil and the few who control it. There is A LOT less that can go wrong when energy is locally sourced and clean than when it has to be extracted from the earth, transported (possibly spilled), refined, transported again (possibly spilled), delivered (possibly spilled), burned and mitigated.
There is still infrastructure to be put in place and you are seeing that happening as we speak. Production and demand for electric/alternative fuel vehicles will not outpace the available infrastructure to support them. I have a plug-in hybrid car that gets more than 950 miles per 9.5 gal. tank of gas, my electric bill has hardly increased over a noticeable variance. Petroleum and carbon fuels will not be a major factor when the majority of vehicles on the road are electric or non-petroleum, clean fuel vehicles.
Electric vehicles will not cause for more energy problems, pollution or increased dependence on fossil fuels. Electric vehicles will solve many of the geopolitical and economic challenges central to our addiction to petroleum and other carbon fuels.There is plenty of information on the subject which can be found on the interwebs. I am happy to help with resources, if you care to read about the subject.