Your new "Green" electric car.

The premium price on hybrid/electric/Hydrogen vehicles is merely a guilt tax. "Green" vehicles use as much (or more) fossil energy to manufacture as any other vehicle and the used batteries are going to become toxic waste. They will never save the amount of fuel it took to build them...but there is some perverse psychology at work which makes people think they are helping. Whether I put the pollutant into the atmosphere, or my electric company does so I can charge your 'clean, green' car every hundred miles, it's still going into the atmosphere - just somewhere else.

But electric vehicles serve another purpose. They restrict the owners to a specific area. You aren't going to drive to Phoenix from LA in an electric car. You would have to stop every hour for a lengthy recharge - but there is nowhere to recharge. And if there is a problem with the grid, you own a nice, green boat anchor. Or, if you spend an additional $30k on a huge solar array, you can have a driving radius of thirty or forty miles. Unless you turn on your air conditioner or stereo.

Are 'they' going to put recharging stations all over the country?  No.  Maybe in urban areas, but not one for every car.  So someone won't get a charge and the ones who do won't get it free.  Energy is expensive. A solar charging station at your house will cost the equivalent of a second car. Running 220v off the grid to charge a thousand pound battery every day will blow your electric bill out the roof.

So...trading a gasoline-powered vehicle for an electric car simply means the energy company has to burn more coal to keep you going. The cost of electricity will go up. And you aren't going to go very far at that.  Except now you are tethered to a special plug at a special place. If you get caught in traffic...at an accident scene, perhaps...and the temperature is over a hundred, you have maybe 45 minutes of air conditioning before your battery dies.

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