I meant in categories, where Tesla has models obviously, e.g. Tesla Model 3 vs. BMW 3. Tesla doesn't sell pickup trucks, yet. Last year's data might not be relevant for too long though as electric car sales are booming.
I'm not talking about right now, I'm talking that they have free cards for pollution because they're developing countries. Nigeria, india etc have huge amounts of population and are rapidly growing both pop wise and economic. In 25 to 50 years they're the ones that will have the big footprints.
And those green cars are produced and ran on non-green energy. It's useless, only looks good on paper. And storing co² in rocks? How's that gonna make anyone profit? And if it doesn't make profit scratch it cuz it ain't happening.
Hydro Electricity is of most greenest form and even solar..
We should always try to protect mother earth as much as possible, but this whole Global warming diatribe is a very well propagated get rich scheme. 48-54 million years ago the earth was warmer for a period of time than what it is now (see here: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/global-warming/early-eocene-period ). Climate does in fact change, but these are natural processes that happen regardless of human interaction or not. It has fluctuated for millions and millions of years.
What can we consider green energy? Is nuclear energy green? Switching to green energy is not enough in itself, the power grid in its present state can't supply many electric cars (nowhere close to the number of regular cars), it simply couldn't take the load. This will be a longer process, nothing will happen from one day to another. We are in an early stage of this whole electric car thing, batteries are still pretty primitive, Li-ion battery is not something we will see in the electric cars of the future, hopefully close future. Solid-state battery technology will replace the liquid/polymer electrolyte technology found in Li-ion batteries now. Solid-state batteries can be charged more faster, have a higher energy density and are not flammable. The only downside is that they're expensive to produce, at least for now.
Wake up fella it's always about the money. Hydrogen is much better than electric cars, you don't have these battery issues and waste. But it's less profitable at this point, simple as that.
Germany is still building coal factories and government money is still invested worldwide into fossil fuels. And that's in Europe where we're on top of the "green" game.
Of course, how else would the technology exist if nobody tried it. That's what companies do, they invest in technologies! Who would've thought. But why is electric being marketed so damn hard? Cuz it's the most profitable!
There is something called as energy debt period. Say the energy used to produce, transport and install a solar panel will be retrieved back in 2 years by the energy produced by the solar panel. So, rest 20+ years the energy produced by the solar panel is greener..
It's sad in the world if people decide to not have children out of fear of the future. Might as well end it now, because not having kids isn't going to help the world "heal", it's going to make people forget about selflessness and the world will be a scary place without innocents.
And then the solar panel is at its end of life. So then we take our trucks and ships and dump it on a 3rd world country and can start the next marketing trick to tax all the waste.
We are in lounge. Also, average life of solar panels are more than 25 years now..
My brother in law owns a solar company, I'm well aware of it. They use new metal components they dig out in 3rd world countries destroying the eco systems, it's put between glass plates and it's not recyclable. Worse than the previous generation in terms of getting rid of the waste.
