Project Tron

The Austrian police tested electric vehicles and came to the conclusion that EVs might be an evolutionary dead end.

And in my post on evolutionary death of the electromobile, I only focused on how it performs in cold weather, and apparently EVs suck big time in cold weather.

The performance issues do not end there. It seems that EVs are totally useless as a police car. The problems center on the battery. The weight is a major problem. And this is why I think EVs will never fully take over. They aren’t good for the police, they aren’t good for the military. The conflict in Ukraine has shown that you need fast moving, manœuvrable, and light vehicles to move troops. You could probably have a hybrid with a small battery because I heard that releases less heat, and would hide the vehicle from thermovision.

Trucks my friends might never be electric, the batteries are already heavy and on top of it you have a heavy load. Delivery services might switch to electric small vehicles. It might even be economically profitable if they set up their own source of electricity. But honestly, a functioning world will have EVs and combustion engines together, and non-fossil production of fuel. There would be hybrids, evs, combustion engines all competing with each other. There is still a place for combustion restrictions in cities and filters in diesel vehicles.

New Detroit

In Eastern Europe:

Read the whole article here.

The news outlet also points out that Czechia has the second-highest car production rates globally. Car manufacturers and suppliers of car parts in Czechia also employ around half a million people. Bloomberg estimates that up to 85,000 jobs could disappear in Slovakia as a result of the electric-car transition. As Slovakia’s automotive-based workforce is roughly half of Czechia’s, this implies that up to about 250,000 people could lose their jobs in Czechia with the shift to electric cars.

I really hope the EV craze is gonna be a failure in the end.

EVs Seem Like An Evolutionary Dead End

And if they did not have the support of corrupt governments subsidizing them, and enacting favorable laws, they wouldn’t be very successful…

The things don’t seem to have the oomph to deal with severe conditions.

Maybe the Russians will come up with an EV that works in winter?

Or maybe not. The EU bureaucrats have been saying that this Green revolution, and their policy will make Europe an economic powerhouse. Meanwhile, most EVs around here seem to come from China, and the EU is quickly deindustrializing due to high energy prices. But then again, this comes from the same people that said Russia guts washing machines for semi-conductors.