Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream

Re:Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream by schiffern on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:10AM (#36723461)

  >10%, yes, just 10%

8.9/67.2 = 13%, not 10%

Also you forgot to include "Gazole" (untaxed diesel fuel for off-road use), which makes up a whopping 46% of all petroleum use in France.

As for the "scam," there is none. Nobody's claiming EVs can solve the entire sustainability problem all by themselves. That would be oversimplified, "Silver Bullet" thinking.

EVs are just one part of a complete sustainable economy. 'Necessary, but not sufficient.'

[edited to remove a faulty statistic from a tangent]

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Re:Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream by JeanMarcS on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:21AM (#36723623)

I don't understand where you get those number from.

In the first paragraph of your link :

> In 2020, nuclear power made up the largest portion of electricity generation, at around 78%.[2] Renewables accounted for 19.1% of energy consumption.

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Re:Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream by orwin on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:17AM (#36723564)

19% from renewables and 78% from nuclear from what i read, so you're off by an order of magnitude here.

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Re:Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream by JackSlateur on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:25AM (#36725350)

So it is far more interesting to focus on bus, trucks and tractors (the "gazole" line) than cars (the "automobile" line)

As far as I know, those are not concerned by the great EV replacement

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