04-08-2014, 05:18 PM
I do not see how on earth the governments world over can possibly claim that electric cars are a "green" form of transport - absolute crap!
Go and have a look at the manufacture of Lithium Polymer batteries, electric motors, lead acid batteries etc... How they can possibly claim this is a GREEN way of making cars I don't know... Not to mention the fact that the energy has to come from somewhere - generally oil/coal and a bit of nuclear. We're not building any nuclear plants (which we should IMHO, just don't have them run by the bloody French like we do at the moment...), the renewables can't come fast enough and making that many PV panels, I've not looked into the amount of energy used to make a PV array, but I bet it's not insignificant, same goes for wind and tidal (admittedly I think tidal power is about the best we've got...)
Go and have a look at the manufacture of Lithium Polymer batteries, electric motors, lead acid batteries etc... How they can possibly claim this is a GREEN way of making cars I don't know... Not to mention the fact that the energy has to come from somewhere - generally oil/coal and a bit of nuclear. We're not building any nuclear plants (which we should IMHO, just don't have them run by the bloody French like we do at the moment...), the renewables can't come fast enough and making that many PV panels, I've not looked into the amount of energy used to make a PV array, but I bet it's not insignificant, same goes for wind and tidal (admittedly I think tidal power is about the best we've got...)
