Audi E Tron Business Lease - time to go electric!

[mattster]

I'd say possibly 2nd (maybe 3rd) best is to keep the car you've got until its functional life comes to an end. Why people feel the need to change cars every few years is beyond me.

This really depends on what sort of car you have and how many miles you drive. It could be true for some situations though.

[_V_]

I'd say possibly 2nd (maybe 3rd) best is to keep the car you've got until its functional life comes to an end. Why people feel the need to change cars every few years is beyond me.

Also, don't have kids.

There needs to be a huge tax on having children. The climate catastrophe is man made. Having children is eco terrorism.

[Paddy]

There needs to be a huge tax on having children. The climate catastrophe is man made. Having children is eco terrorism.

The natural indigenous population of Europe and Russia is shrinking. The population explosion is with the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

[d000hg]

There needs to be a huge tax on having children. The climate catastrophe is man made. Having children is eco terrorism.

There is, it's called paying for them for 18 years.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

There will be surplus of energy in a decade due to the financial viability of renewable energy.

In the near future we will have a good problem - where to store the excess energy. Plenty of articles about this online:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...argest-battery

This means manufacturing and recycling will consume renewable energy and so the world will quickly shift away from fossil fuels. Could all happen within 10 years.

Technolgies will emerge to recycle batteries using, you guessed it, green energy from the grid.

Imagine how quickly mobile phone and internet technologies changed in 20 years.... same thing will happen with energy. Just like the coal mines were shut down, we can finally stop sending $Billions to pay for Saudi fuel and the world can move to a more sustainable future.

Back to the car - 20% CO2 saving is very pessimistic. The move to EV will take a bit of cost initially (financial and CO2) but as the whole country shifts the savings will be much more significant and economies of scale will kick in. Also imagine in 10 year you will have cars with solar panels that when stationary will put energy back into the grid. In the medium term I can see EVs becoming carbon neautral.

[Paddy]

[BlueSharp]

There will be surplus of energy in a decade due to the financial viability of renewable energy.

In the near future we will have a good problem - where to store the excess energy. Plenty of articles about this online:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...argest-battery

This means manufacturing and recycling will consume renewable energy and so the world will quickly shift away from fossil fuels. Could all happen within 10 years.

Technolgies will emerge to recycle batteries using, you guessed it, green energy from the grid.

Imagine how quickly mobile phone and internet technologies changed in 20 years.... same thing will happen with energy. Just like the coal mines were shut down, we can finally stop sending $Billions to pay for Saudi fuel and the world can move to a more sustainable future.

Back to the car - 20% CO2 saving is very pessimistic. The move to EV will take a bit of cost initially (financial and CO2) but as the whole country shifts the savings will be much more significant and economies of scale will kick in. Also imagine in 10 year you will have cars with solar panels that when stationary will put energy back into the grid. In the medium term I can see EVs becoming carbon neautral.

A friend of mine is already in the battery recycling business with propriety processes for EV batteries. What's lacking at the moment is the supply chain and volume.
The tech already exists.

[minestrone]

There will be surplus of energy in a decade due to the financial viability of renewable energy.

In the near future we will have a good problem - where to store the excess energy. Plenty of articles about this online:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...argest-battery

This is nonsense. About 10% of our energy is 'renewable' and like half of that is burning trees we bring in from the US.

[minestrone]

I got mail from by electricity provider last week, "what to do in the event of a power cut". I was like WTF. even had a fridge magnet with a number to call if the power went out. Never seen that.

The local nuclear power station is on it's last legs. it must do the bulk of the energy for the city. There are clearly no plans to replace it,

I took me a day before I realised the mail was very probably the start of a conditioning process to get us to accept black outs as normal. I dont see any way we are avoiding them now we have wasted 20 years with fantasy turbine electricity schemes.

[d000hg]

This is nonsense. About 10% of our energy is 'renewable'

Not even close.