Here is a post by Instapundit about an announcement by Ford that it has decided that 40% of its vehicles will be all-electric by 2030. Instapundit links to someone who thinks that Ford will be forced to make even more than 40% because of popular demand, but Instapundit’s take is that we won’t be able to keep up in terms of generating electricity.
This is what I am inclined to think, too. We need to generate all this electricity to charge up these cars, and it is supposed to be from green sources, and I suspect we won’t be able to do it. If we had put more effort into nuclear over the past fifty years, this probably wouldn’t be a problem, but the greens didn’t like, and still don’t like, the nuclear option.
However, let me say that this skepticism sounds like the talk about “peak oil” which has never really hit, so maybe Ford is right. Maybe the electricity won’t be a problem. Still, we need to be cautious about pushing for anything green because we really don’t know what the future holds. The green future seems to require a lot of obscure metals that may experience shortages for political or other reasons, while we are reasonably certain of being able to drill for more oil.
Unless everyone moves to an urban area, where driving is less than twenty miles a day, there'll be an overabundance of electric cars, and if everyone moves to an urban area, the government with this Sovietization will outlaw personal cars for all but the elite and force public transportation. There are few places to stop in the middle of beyond and wait the severals hours it'll take to recharge. Then there is the problem of overwhelming the grid and needing overhead wires leading to nowhere.
Posted by: J. Reed Anderson | 05/28/2021 at 07:08 AM