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> So why not smooth it out? Put another battery in the charger which slowly replenishes.

There are 1.4B vehicles one earth, the plan apparently is to replace them all with battery powered vehicles

I don't think people understand the scale of this and how many batteries we can produce and recycle given the limited resources we have.



> 1.4B vehicles one earth

Most of which spend approximately 90% of their time stationary and unoccupied.


I've never seen an empty gas station during the day in my city.

You can't have batteries to charge batteries, then you'd need batteries to charge the batteries charging the batteries. All of that because we simultaneously decided that nuclear was bad and all we need is windmills, which are like the worst thing to power a fully electric world with high demand peaks, and to move from gas to electric cars

Adding batteries won't solve any problem. Gas allowed us to live unsustainably and made it easy to do so. Wanting to replicate that with electricity/batteries is plain stupid.

If everyone needs three tonnes of steel and their own body weight in rare earth material to cover 30km per day on average we're totally fucked from the get go


Locally, the same 90%. It's no use sharing a car with someone who needs to commute somewhere else at the same time, you need to share it with non-conflicting use.




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