Depressing to consider that, even in Germany with all its solar and wind power and now the VW diesel mess...even *that* isn't enough to launch EVs into the mainstream.
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-vw-dieselgate-spotlight-electric-cars.html "The government's goal 'is quite simply not achievable,' said Stefan Bratzel, director of the Center of Automotive Research in Bergisch Gladbach. "There was 'a lot of euphoria, but no vision for a feasible economic model' for the electric car in Germany, he complained." Sorry, but that's just bullshit. The Nissan Leaf makes plain that low-cost high-quality EVs are possible. Teslas prove that EVs are the future for no-holds-barred luxury sedans. And PIHs like the Volt and Germany's own BMW i3 demonstrate that an "80/20" solution is practical for all the edge cases people like to latch onto. It's not rocket surgery. Slap a 50% tax surcharge on all passenger diesel fuel in light of the scandal and distribute the money equally to every registered owner of an EV in monthly payments. Problem solved. ...of course, that would harm the quarterly profit projections of the people who buy the politicians, so it ain't gonna happen...but we need to stop pretending that the problems are technological and realize that they are 100% political at this point. The technology is solved. Yes, it's going to get better, and significantly so -- but we're already at "good enough," by any reasonable measure. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20151023/d7b76de4/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
