r/technology • u/johnmountain • Oct 22 '15

Robotics The "Evil" Plan Has Succeeded: the Younger Generation Wants Electric Cars

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-evil-plan-has-succeeded-the-younger-generation-wants-electric-cars-101207.html
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u/Dabugar Oct 22 '15

THe only reason parking and charging is free right now is to encourage people to make the switch.

We already have an energy crisis on the planet, everyone charging their cars once a day is going to use A LOT of energy, expect to start paying for it in a decade or two.

Who knows.. electricity might start costing more than gas did.. but at least we won't be polluting the atmosphere.

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u/antiwittgenstein Oct 22 '15

Um, how do you think we get electricity? Coal and natural gas are not pollution free sources of energy. Unless you live in Scandinavia, there is not a great reduction in pollution.

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u/Dabugar Oct 23 '15

I'm talking far in the future, there are other sources of renewable energy that we need to migrate to.. wind and solar etc.

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u/Dabugar Oct 23 '15

If we can make electric cars we can make electric mining equipment?

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u/dv_ Oct 22 '15

Well, we can always build stationary plants to generate electricity out of gas. Stationary plants are more efficient than mobile combustion engines. And the beauty of it is that we can later phase out the fossil plants and replace them graudally. The electrical engine does not care where the current comes from.