Peter Zeihan

But for transport, no.

It's less dense than what we had.

Where does the net dirty come from?

What is the dirty?

Well, people always forget that the electricity comes from somewhere.

And if, let's say, I've got an 11 kilowatt system on my house.

If I had a Tesla...

And the sun shone for 24 hours a day at my high-altitude noon peak.

It took me two and a half days to charge the car.

So you're not using solar and wind to charge your car.

You're using fossil fuels.

And so the only potential gain that you're getting is that an EV engine is more energy efficient than a gas engine on a mile-per-mile basis.

But the carbon cost of generating the vehicle, especially the battery in the front end, is just so much more.

And if you're living in a place that's predominantly coal and you're driving an American-style sedan, you're over the long term –

generating a lot more carbon than anything before.

Now, those are some very broad statements and there are a thousand exceptions to them based on local situations.

So, for example, the Chinese vehicles from a weight basis are less than half that of the American vehicles.

They would never pass our safety tests, but they're smaller and they

kill a lot of people but because there's so much lighter a lot of what i just said does not apply to the chinese situation so a chinese chinese ev can break even on a carbon cost basis within 10 years maybe but at the price of a few pedestrians

Um, it's disgusting in every sense of the word.