GM to go totally electric in 2035. Thoughts?

LDM · February 16, 2021

On 1/28/2021 at 10:14 PM, KARNUT said:

They’ll probably be OK with all the new ROWs they’ll need to put transmission lines in for all the new electric power they’ll need. Opposed to buried pipelines that all you see is grass. Talk about an eyesore. Instead of refinery’s generation plants that run on fossil fuel. Ever see a wind farm or solar farm? Lots of space. And then there’s the batteries. The brilliant people are back, hang on.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not to mention where are all these people who live in cities in apartments planning on plugging in to charge their vehicles? Lots of people in large cities park on the street, having a car charger for every parking spot is going to cost a massive amount of money and time to build such infrastructure to support this.

This all reminds me of back in the 80/90s when California was going to mandate emissions free cars for the entire state and GM came out with the EV1. It didn't work then and it isn't going to work now or 15 years in the future. GM ended up forcing every EV1 driver to return the cars and crushed them so they wouldn't have to support them.

There are some people that an EV car will work for but for most people they just don't. Until you can charge the car up in the same time as an ICE vehicle anywhere and get the same range, most people won't be making an EV car purchase. Those that buy them now are generally very wealthy people who have multiple vehicles. Not to mention where all the power is going to come from to charge these things, as more than a few others in this threat have pointed out.

Transient · February 17, 2021

Last night electricity rolling on for an hour off for on one. Everything rapped and dripping. First night only the cold line to washer froze. Unhook from washer turn on 1/2 hour going again. Last night up every 3 hours run washer. 3 to 6 cold water frozen again. On the very informative news says just drip one and good. Don’t believe it especially at 10 degrees. Funny growing up in New Jersey. I have no recall of dripping or freezing problems.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Homes in New Jersey are built for the cold. Homes in Texas are not. I've lived in Philly, and have family in Texas. The difference are real.

Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

Colossus · February 17, 2021

Very true.

Gagliano7 · February 17, 2021

I wonder down the road when the batteries go bad and the cars corrode in the rust belt where will all the waste go? They will never be able to recycle it all. Batteries destroyed the hudson river many years ago. When they cleaned the batteries out of the Hudson River in the 90's the blue fish finally started coming up the hudson. We might go 0 emissions but China will still be burning coal and using gas and for people that don't understand we live in the same atmosphere as them.I am not against cleaning up the environment. It would be nice if we could stop all the littering and clean up all the garbage. Everytime i go fishing there is always garbage everywhere.

Colossus · February 18, 2021

I'm betting they'll have the technology figured out by then on how to recycle/reuse the stuff. The big issue will be if they can increase the mining needed to procure the stuff for the batteries. They claim that there is enough lithium reserves throughout the world but we'll see.