A few years back, VW, the company that built the car many of us learned to drive a stick shift in, got caught big time with their pants down defrauding the world about the cleanliness and fuel efficiency of their diesel cars...they got huge fines,...and i think contributed to diesel cars pretty much going away....a good thing. They are highly polluting...and not much can be done about it.

The upside is that they have made a huge corporate commitment to electric cars...only one of which at this point is being marketed in the US, but i suspect more in the UK and in Europe.

Questions were raised yesterday regarding issues about EVs. So...batteries...this is a real question. I would suspect and hope that there are plans for recycling the lithium and cobalt in batteries as they wear out. The good news is that electric storage is probably the hottest R&D place in the renewables world right now...and stronger and cleaner batteries are in the works...Electrification This is a big issue here, as well as the rest of the world. Right now in the US, transmission needs to increase much faster than it is...and permitting along with it. Some of us politically are working on that. Charging Stations--yup..these need to multiply also. And will with demand as EV sales go up.

The reality is nothing is perfect...it is a question of what is better. We have to stop using fossil fuels.

Peter

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