What I don't like, being a USA citizen, is how EV's are being shoved down our throat by world powers. I truly despise mandating into this technology.
Fire them. In the USA they are not dictators. Of if one likes it, hire them. It's the consumer's choice.
Just as LED bulbs have become mainstream and no one disputes the lower energy consumption and higher longevity compared to incadescent and flourescent, it took some time. The original price point of the LED bulbs and the lighting color made early production unpalatable to the masses.
LEDs are the case study on how NOT to mandate something, done via regulations, and quickly reversed via regulation, and then re-reversed via regulation, not via law but by strokes of a pen. When the admin changes, and they always change, its just a matter of when, I would suspect another re-re-reversal of the regulation. It should have been via consumers choosing.
First, it was CFLs, a total disaster, containing mercury. Don't break them, hazardous, you can't vacuum them, leave the room, and take them to hazardous waste disposal, not the trash. A total disaster. Then LEDs were far to expensive, and then "not suitable for enclosed spaces". You know how many light fixtures are closed? I still have closed fixtures. And they do burn out.
Now this leads back to
One saving grace is LED lights, which diminish the lighting load but thats a pittance compared to dishwasher sucking up 12 AMPs. How many lights can you have on at one time?
The very first line of the load calculation is "lighting" and from what I've read, that is obsolete in that its for incandescents. This might be why it still exists:
www.eia.gov
Thats a LONG way to go before LEDs are accepted. Its accepted by the well off, not by the poor.
We are seeing a similar path with inverter appliances, the price of inverter technology is coming down and the products are improving and are substantially more efficent than non-inverter ones and they definitely perform better. The lessons being learned with electric cars will eventually lead to superior technology for transportation.
No argument there, its like Why to go to Moon? Better tech. But I'm still waiting for the flying car. Elon Musk did a interview on that and we will never have flying cars. You can't trust people to drive in two dimensions, imagine them driving in three dimensions.
