Electric cars are inevitable. However there’s no infrastructure to handle them. None. Novelty charge points. It will be expensive to charge. It has to be. Why? Well there’s no way the consumer will get energy for nothing.
Now, many car parks have token charge points. What’s it like when everyone has an electric car? Well we either fight for the token charge point or the reality is that car parks will be converted to electric networks. Rebuild every car park so the land owner can charge for you to park and consume their energy. There’s the clincher.
I dread to think of the resources required to convert and rebuild carparks across the country. Then if the shitty shopping centre can’t afford it, a bigger company comes in and rebuilds and converts the whole carpark for them and the shopping centre is seemingly forever in debt to that company for the work.
Fk. Our country can’t even supply electricity to east coast grid. It’s all lots of companies fighting over their energy source dominance and not a free flowing, well managed, integrated network. Australians are kidding themselves. (Note WA kept its state owned power grid and has no supply issues even with incorporating solar, wind, coal and gas to supply electricity)
Throw in the bullshit stunt BMW recently pulled with subscription features. Imagine how gripped by the goolies we are going to be “owning”these cars. All the data about us and how we use them will be sold to who ever wants it.
I usually say if something is free, we are the actual product being sold (shopping rewards etc) but more and more we are paying for something and selling our selves at the same time.
If only we were in control of that info and how it is sold. Not someone else.
Overall the shift is not about environment, but increasing corporate profit and creating a product to sell out of thin air.
We should absolutely look to having more environmentally sensitive transport. Absolutely. Don’t view this as we shouldn’t change our lives because we are not the problem or represent a certain percentage. Every change has to start somewhere. The cars we drive are not going to be a silver bullet. It’s about silver buckshot. Lots of little things make a bigger change.
What does not sit comfortably with me is that we increase energy use in order to decrease energy use. WTF.
Let’s keep our older cars on the road. Let’s keep our clothing longer. Let’s upcycle where possible.
That’s a bit ranty. Sorry.
