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The stupid meme comparing production of batteries to production of oil from tar sands was exactly that, stupid. Whenever one of the infographics comes out on social media, you must always understand. It was heavily skewed against the battery manufacturing industry using fake photos and biased text.
What prompted me to decide to write an article on my distaste of electric cars however, was somebody posting on my timeline that because they have an electric car they get to fuel up for free!
I want to make this abundantly clear:
NOTHING COMES FOR FREE
When you fuel up an electric car - me, my family and everyone else may in actual fact be paying for your “free electricity”.
When you got that handsome rebate reducing the price of your purchase of your electric car, that was not FREE MONEY - me, my family and everyone else paid for that.
So please don’t remind me.
While I am on the rant, I had a friend who posted a video last week about a new disorder - Range Anxiety. That actually is a real anxiety that electric car owners suffer - knowing whether they can get to their destination or not.
In his case, it was a little different. A dealership had delivered a new electric car to his house, parked on the drive and in error had not charged the batteries. Not a problem, pull out the charge cord and plug it in.
Sounds easy but in fact in his instance, Range Anxiety was measured in inches, not kilometres because the charge cord did not reach his house.
Frankly, most electricity grids are burdened with peak loadings at different times in the winter, and unless you live in BC or a similar jurisdiction, you are likely burning gas, coal or using nuclear power to power your electric car… is it green? Not really. Let's not kid ourselves - get a pedal bike.
The advances in fuel economy with internal combustion engines are massive and pioneered by Formula 1 teams as is hybrid vehicle technology of which I am a fan.
So save the anxiety rage, get a hybrid car and watch electric vehicles die a slow death!
This article is written by or on behalf of an outsourced columnist and does not necessarily reflect the views of Castanet.
