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When it comes to personal transport Germans aren’t exactly rushing to play along with the infantile mythology of climate neutrality, contrary to the wishes of their supposedly ‘green’ leaders. Sales targets look increasingly like wishful thinking.
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Germany wants to have 10 million electric cars on the road by 2030 in a bid to meet its climate targets, says DW.com.
But it’s not just the cost and limited range that’s deterring drivers to go along with this ambitious plan.
Germany’s long-established car industry is embarking on a historic transformation to try to shrink its carbon footprint.
As part of its plan to reach climate neutrality by 2045, the government wants to phase out combustion engine vehicles — a major emitter of greenhouse gases — and replace them with lower-emission alternatives, like electric cars.
Its goal is to have 7 to 10 million electric battery-powered cars on the road by 2030. That’s going to require a twentyfold increase in the number of e-cars around today.
Electric vehicles make up just 1.2% of the 48.2 million passenger cars registered in Germany. According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority, about two-thirds run on petrol, and around 30% on diesel.
Berlin-based environmental think tank Agora Verkehrswende said Germany would need to be even more ambitious, with 14 million electric cars on the road by 2030, in order to achieve its climate neutrality goal.
“This is a huge increase and it also needs a huge increase in charging stations,” Kerstin Meyer, head of the think tank’s transportation team, told DW.
What are the main obstacles for car drivers?
The lack of charging infrastructure is just one reason Germans are reluctant to ditch their diesel or petrol car for an electric one.
A YouGov survey conducted among of 2,036 people from February found that 50% named range as the main deterrent, followed by inadequate charging stations (38%) and questionable environmental benefit (35%). Over 54% of respondents were put off by the high price of e-cars.
Even if the issues with price, range and charging infrastructure were addressed, one-third of respondents still said they would not buy an electric car.
In a separate survey of 10,000 drivers, also published in February and commissioned by Germany’s VKU local utilities association, 39% said they would not buy an electric car as their next vehicle under any circumstances.
The most important prerequisites for making such a purchase? Improved range (38%), lower prices (36%) and more public charging stations (31.5%).
Full article here.
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Those Germans aren’t as dumb as I thought.
These pseudo-scare articles all do a one-for-one IC to EV replacement. It’s undoable and admittedly unaffordable. Even with draconian governmental forced removal of all IC automobiles. A more realistic IC-EV replacement quantity would be 25%-50% of existing automobiles.
Present battery requirement require energy extracting raw materials and producing the product.
Charging that reduced number of vehicles averaged over 24 hours (not realistic).
THEN run the TOTAL energy required – achievable?
Somehow the claims about the wonders of EVs never mention that they are available only part of the time, as they aren’t usable while being recharged.
Yes, conventional vehicles spend a few minutes filling up with fuel but how often?
Then there is the fantasy of using the residual energy in those batteries to supply the grid. More downtime followed by recharging (if electricity is available).
Reblogged this on Utopia, you are standing in it!.
Germans need more public charging stations. They’ll stop at a station for 30 minutes on average. No beer – unless the Autopilot really works (even then, would beer be allowed)?
IONITI charges 0.69 euros a KWh. Work it out!!!
Electric vehicle fire catastrophe: It is not a matter of if, but when
August 24, 2021 | Gregory Wrightstone
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/08/24/electric-vehicle-fire-catastrophe-it-is-not-a-matter-of-if-but-when-1123774/
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Two towns in Bavaria have banned EVs from their underground car parks due to fire risk.
Japan: High Number Of EV Chargers Did Not Jump Start The Market
Aug 31, 2021
Already three years ago, it was clear that the charging infrastructure’s utilization was low, because the EV sales are low.
And here we are in mid-2021, reading Bloomberg’s report that “Japan doesn’t have enough EVs for its EV chargers.” The number of charging points actually decreased from 30,300 in 2020 to 29,200 now (including about 7,700 CHAdeMO chargers).
“After offering subsidies to the tune of 100 billion yen ($911 million) in fiscal 2012 to build charging stations and spur EV adoption, charging poles mushroomed.
Now, with EV penetration only at around 1 percent, the country has hundreds of aging charging poles that aren’t being used while others (they have an average lifespan of about eight years) are being taken out of service altogether.”
https://insideevs.com/news/529949/japan-charging-infrastructure-ev-sales/amp/