"Forced Financing"?

[dewline]

From CBC News:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kia-canada-car-sales-1.7063216

Considering that we need to pick up the pace of EV adoption across multiple countries, who else is doing this, and in how many countries?

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[arlie]

"Considering that we need to pick up the pace of EV adoption across multiple countries"

Why? The local power mix where I am is heavy on generating emissions at the power plant. The price of electricity from the local monopoly has a surcharge added ostensibly to enable them to install renewable capacity; the result is that doing *anything* with electricity costs the end user from 1.5 to 3 times as much burning the fossil fuels themselves, rather than having the utility do the fuel burning for them, then send them electricity via a lossy power line. And PG&E's history is such that I expect the surcharge is being used to fund executive compensation, or pay off wrongful death lawsuits, rather than actually instal significant renewable capacity. Also, their power is unreliable - lots of outages. That's not so bad for EV charging, most of the time, but very bad for heating, cooking, and similar, all of which can be done using gas, which the local PTB are proposing to ban.

Maybe the sociopaths running PG&E will eventually figure out how to supply enough renewable electricity to make driving an electric car cause less emissions to be generated than driving a gas car - and then actually implement it. (Yes, I'm including emissions - and other environmental damage - generated by their manufacture.) But I'm not holding my breath; nor am I willing to contribute more than I have to to their personal wealth.)

Yes, this is a sore spot. And to be fair, I don't have definite numbers on the total emissions or environmental damage generated by creating and then driving either type of car, specific to our local power mix. Maybe they've turned a corner without me noticing.