Uh huh. Sure nissan. You, the same company that cant figure out for the love of all that is holy that lithium that is air cooled in cars are horrible and fail REALLLY fast. Both of your leafs have suffered from this, whereas ford, VW, et al figured it out pretty quickly.
If you had such an "amazing tech" you'd be trademarking the tech and rolling in bank from every other car company on the planet, not teasing it as a release *years* away.
Again, 2028 is good but this is already 6 years too late we would need an immediate switch to all electric, both cars and grid generation IMMEDIATELY just to have a chance at not condemning us all.
I mean come on, you've got scientists chaining themselves to the doors of banks desperately tying to make everyone STOP INVESTING ON FOSSILS IMMEDIATELY and the best news we see is "Car company X will roll out a lot of electric cars 4 to 6 years from today"
Honestly my only advise right now it's don't have children and if you already do, please don't have any more: might be the less cruel way than bringing more people into the world that will have to live during the collapse of civilization and mass extinction.
CLIMATE ALRMISM!!!11!! WERE ALL GONNA DIE DONT HAVE KIDS AAAAHHHHREDDITMOMENT!!!
Here's a hint for you, cars in the west make up a tiny percentage of CO2 emissions worldwide, switching to all EV here means jack shite in the grand scheme of things, and you'll have to burn lots of coal to make the electricity since the sun doesnt shine at night. And that wont save the world, or end it. Calm down. Of if you really feel that strongly, you can help fix the issue right now, you create CO2 every day.
Agreed, but the transition from horses to the automobile took 50 years +\-
And in my opinion this change is far less drastic.
There are significant issues with EVs that didnt hurt gas vehicles. For one thing gas vehicles required less maintenance then horses, could run on fuel that at the time you could grow and ferment yourself, and offered significant advantages in range and usability.
By comparison, EVs may have less maintenance but what maintenance does need to be done is so high tech that at home repairs will be near impossible E.G. battery replacement. Their useful range is notably smaller then gas vehicles, and refueling them takes WAY longer. And as the weight of vehicles increase the sense they make decreases, check out TFL truck's reviews of electric trucks, anything remotely truck like and the batteries cant make it 100 miles without a 3 hour recharge.
Then there's the infrastructure issue, our grid simply cannot handle the load. The numbers are hard to find but effectively just switching consumer road traffic to all electric would increase electric demand by over 50%. We dont have the generational capacity built, we can't handle AC load as is. Building out that new infrastructure, and all the transmission lines to handle it, is enormous, effectively you will need to fully rebuild the electric grid. Now the grid is long overdue for an upgrade, but this kind of thing takes decades to do. And what will you build? Solar? Great, doesnt work in winter or at night. Coal and oil? Well we cant do that, fossils are evil. Nuclear? MUH CHERNOBYL.
Then we have to address the lack of lithium on earth, the lack of battery manufacture, and the pollution such systems create. And the cost, dont forget the cost, with car companies like ford, chevy, and mercedes all signaling that EVS will be notably more expensive and that they are repositioning to margin over volume, signaling that EVS will likely be out of reach for most middle class and lower class people for likely decades to come. And dont forget the charging infrastructure which, despite 15 years of heavy investment, is a drop in the pool compared to gas infrastructure and will likely take another 50+ years to fully build out.
EVs are a neat idea but far from ideal, there's been renewed interest in the likes of hydrogen and natural gas for that very reason. Physics ultimately wins over party ideology, something the communists figured out the hard way.
