Electric cars are going to disappear before long. The concept is deeply flawed and the environmental impact of them is a sham and a fraud.
I did a presentation of this at work, extracted some segments of this, I thought worth sharing.
EVs cause pollution and e-waste - Electric cars may not produce tailpipe emissions but they still contribute to emissions. EVs emit harmful gases when they are manufactured. They also use unsustainable materials and methods of extraction to access these materials.
EVs may also source energy from a grid that uses fossil fuels which again contributes to greenhouse emissions.
Another source of emissions is the batteries – Electric cars are fitted with lithium-ion batteries that use a lot of energy and raw materials. Finally, there’s no fully sustainable way of recycling these batteries yet, although, there are ways to re-purpose these batteries for other uses once they become inefficient for electric cars.
I was rooting for Hydrogen because it holds onto to the concept of a vehicle with an engine, fuels up quickly but it does seem that Hydrogen have gone the way of Plasma TVs as EV’s have become sought after.
Hydrogen defined as green is the only sustainable hydrogen because it is obtained through electrolysis of water powered by electricity produced from renewable sources.
Other technologies in the pipeline?
We've heard engines running on water, methanol (Big in shipping) etc. but none has intrigued me more than thorium-engine cars.
A thorium car is the term categorized for a vehicle that utilizes thorium as the fuel and burns it within the internal combustion engine. Thorium is a radiometric radioactive element with the capability to support nuclear reaction and hence produce power.
The most notable advantage of using thorium, a powerful fuel source, is its ability to provide high energy density. If you would weigh just a few grams of thorium it can sustain a powering of a car a million miles without any need to refuel the mass of the thorium.
It is incomparable with conventional fuels (but 20 million times more powerful), and goes far beyond efficiency. An emission-free engine and fuel system design is another key feature of new thorium car as it produces neither greenhouse gases nor indoor air pollutants.
- Laser-Based technology is the prime motto of the thorium power engine. Thorium is anostradic chemical which can be applied to maerootically drive laser beams. While a thorium bomb in an auto engine receives high energy electrons from a channeler, it emits energy.
- The laser light is focused into a chamber where nitrogen and hydrogen gas exist which results in plasma reaction that leads to a heated channel. This heat turns an extremely powerful engine, which in convert heat energy to mechanical motion that power of car wheels and its drivetrain.
- It does not use air, fuel, and spark plugs as their methods of operation. Thorium is a material with the half-life between 5-10 years, so instead of the regular refuelling it is used the full-time. Therefore, thorium cars are unique with the longest range and efficiency among existing cars.
Imagine how mobility could change thanks to the first thorium-engine, which has an extremely higher potential than hydrogen and EVs combined. In fact, carmakers have considered the possibility of producing it without nuclear reactions, which is the only drawback we could find to this proposal (no one would want to drive with a radioactive power plant under the engine).
Also. methanol is gaining traction especially in the Far East. Methanol isn't exactly 100% green but much better for the environment than traditional fossil fuel engines.
China and Malaysia are developing this new fuel: it’s not hydrogen, and it’s better than Evs
Geely is a major Chinese auto manufacturer that has been promoting the utilization of methanol-fueled vehicles for some time now. The first methanol-fueled model from the company was Emgrand EV300 produced by Geely in 2016. This was followed by Geely Borui GE 2018 methanol MPV – China’s MPV that runs on methanol.
By 2021 the China market Geely had 100 thousand methanol vehicles on the road. The company has created an entire system on the basis of methanol – enabled cars: the stations for refuelling the cars by the methanol, the technological support, the support of the governmental structures.
The methanol fuel for vehicles has been increasingly used in China due to its lower prices and higher octane number as compared to the gasoline. Geely touts several advantages of methanol over traditional fuels:
•There are numerous feasible feedstocks for production of methanol ranging from coal to natural gas and agricultural waste.
•It is noted that methanol fuel is more efficient than gasoline and causes less air pollution. This is convenient because China has targets for lowering emissions especially in its metropolitan centres.
•It has shown to be less flammable than gasoline and can be safer in accidents, (here, meanwhile, insurers remain unhappy with EVs).
Apologies for the wordiness, it was a small project of mine when we had these workshops at work.
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