Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) Electric Cars

Looking at the above is sobering viewing... transport uses nearly 3x the currently available energy from electricity... Even accounting for higher efficiency from EVs there's a massive shortfall in generating capacity..... Adding in that, concurrent with migrating the overwhelming transport energy needs from oil to electric, there's also the massive input from natural gas, a large part of which is domestic and due to be phased out from new housing.

Numbers don't add up.... Whatever the power source moving from A to B (assuming EVs are twice as efficient as ICE) will need another one and a half-ish amount of electricity on top of what we're already generating (not even considering the amount needed for domestic heating etc currently covered by phased out natural gas and due to also be replaced by electricity.)

Whether you move about in your private car or some autonomous uber-thing it still takes that energy to move mass from A to B.... Efficiencies only get you so far.... Looks like private transport will be a rarity and we'll all be moving about a fraction of the amount we do now... And most of that by cycle and foot if you live in town.

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