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electric vehicles

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I noticed this article title "the potential looming auto industry fiasco", and thought it got everything just about right. I find it crazy that we think that we're going to deliver ourselves from the climate crisis with more cars but this time extra flammable and unaffordable. The author cites some smart moves by Toyota - chief among them that we could build 90 hybrid cars with the minerals that go into the battery required for a single battery-electric vehicle. Instead of mandating that all sales must be electric, governments should be setting fuel economy standards that actually work (and don't unintentionally create massive pickups). The author also ponders the question of what happens to today's EV's with their primitive batteries when a new battery technology is expected in just a few years.