Germany requests a ban combustion engine cars in 2030
German Bundesrat calls for the end of the internal combustion engine powered cars in 2030.
In Germany, the Bundestrat, or upper house, passed a resolution to ban the internal combustion engine ICE engine car in 2030. It Sá nice gesture of a body that is almost powerless and composed of unelected delegates to compare Canadian Senate or the House of Lords, but it is influential Dutch and Norwegian governments have similar plans, and the EU could follow.
Currently, electric vehicles are not very popular in Germany; even with a large subsidy, people do not buy a lot of them that maybe because the Germans like to drive and drive fast; I had to take a photo of the speedometer of a taxi on the highway, go 160 km h, 100MPH the fastest I've never been in a car The German automotive industry is one of the largest employers the country and the third in the world; can they do in so little time, and will they let Tesla showed that the production of electric cars can go fast and be fun to drive, and BMW has shown that they can build a sexy electric car but ceux- one roll in a very small number Volkswagen and Mercedes are both more electric cars and thus introduce as noted Sami, electric vehicles will transform everything.
But a problem is that for electric cars to change everything, change everything else and Germany still gets more than half of its electricity from fossil fuels and nuclear phase out as fast as possible even in what they call their renewable resources, more than a quarter of it comes from biomass and waste combustion.
The fourteen years until 2030 is not much time to ramp up power and storage required for all electric cars It is true that the batteries in these cars offer a huge amount of storage, so that they can be charged off-peak hours, but it is always going to create a lot of demand for electricity, and it is useless if it is not clean electricity.
On Copenhagenize Jason Henderson examines this issue and noted that this is a big deal, much more than just making electric cars.
The pace of electric cars is that they'll run entirely on renewable energy such as solar and wind power, if not now, at some point in the future That's proclamations as green cars, carbon neutral and zero emissions comes from deconstructing But when the energy situation as we know, only shows how that assumption for example adds up if we scan the horizon for renewable energy, there are already legitimate claims on this renewable energy for homes environmental and transport anyone, especially fans of electric cars seem to be accounting for these competing demands.
Before the world is investing trillions of dollars and euros, and the unfathomable amounts of natural resources in the transition to mass electric drive, we need to ask critical and more pointedly where will the energy from and what look like -he.
Henderson is correct in pointing out that there are competing interests that make the growing demand for renewable energy alongside the cars, and get this power is really expensive.
In California, where the air conditioning spread Mc Mansions through deserts, the new utility-scale solar plant can power 140,000 homes optimum day It cost over $ 2 billion federal grant with a 80 Now to back-calculate Of- envelope build 87 more those 12-13 million homes provide existing California and an additional $ 40-50 or more for 20 million more Californians in 2050.
But it is also true, as Joe Romm notes in Think Progress, the price of renewable energy is falling rapidly and will continue to do so is the price of the storage battery and lighting with low consumption side demand, it could pencil by 2030 and it is the date that manufacturers stop producing ICE powered cars that will still probably on the road for ten years after, so there may be some more time.
But the essential point that Henderson ends with is that I have also said, because Copenhagenize and this writer have the same ax to grind a car is a car and go just doesn t power in the final change everything many electric car, as a thing in itself, may not be a bad thing in isolation, but we must also do much more, and look at the human-powered bikes and compact cities, walkable, while using wind and solar panels for our homes more efficient.
Any move to ban cars with ICE and replace them with electric cars must be done simultaneously with other measures that reduce the need for cars, including changing the planning rules to promote favorable cities walking, changing building codes to significantly reduce the demand for electricity for air conditioning, changing priorities in transport to encourage cycling and walking, and make a massive deployment of new renewable energy.
Otherwise, it might not be enough power to turn the Henderson concludes here's a challenge for the electric car industry and to all those who dream of a future of electric car Show us the numbers Where energy will come from, and what really looks like.
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